World's worst inventions

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1. Printers. Never found a good one. On my 5th in 5 years and it's just broken.

1. Those cloth hand towel contraptions in public toilets that you have to yank all the way round, and it's soggy from everyone else's hands.

Dyson Hoover cordless

Battery dies the minute the 2 year warranty ends

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Those Dyson hand dryers (and the numerous knock offs), where you have to stick your wet hands between two sides of a dryer and dip your hands up and down to dry them.

They're expensive, so minimal numbers are put in public toilets, they cut out unless your hands are 'just so' between the sides and the water simply dribbles to the bottom and then down the walls.

Many women seem to just pull out reams of toilet paper instead and, because these dryers are supposed to cut down on cloakroom waste, find there are no bins. So they leave manky balls of toilet paper all over the sinks.

Oh god yes ! They are also sodding fiddly yo clean as the grooves where the air comes out and where the water drips are very narrow you need a cocktail stick to clean them properly

And the are wildly expensive to repair.

Social media, especially photo-based wankfests. Self-selecting beauty contests that add nothing to the world, or anyone's life, and soak up time, headspace and proportionality.

Soup makers too.

I used to love mine, used it about 10 times before it died.
Bought another one, used it about 10 times before it died.

I'm back to my big pan again.