And the assault
Rifle

the assault rifle- add nuclear weapons.
Guess I was thinking about simple annoyances, but there are way more deadly inventions than the blower.
That said I could see the blower making someone snap.

It's a mind bender.

Plastic is deadly

anti-social or both?

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Sole purchase was to attach to the string of your tampon to pull it out so your fingers didn’t touch your naughty bits.

That, my friends, is wholly useless.

😂😂 - that is effin useless.
In hindsight I should have said annoying and/or
useless because the blower is mostly annoying.
One of my close friends bought a blower.
Her 92 year old mother was so angry because she loved raking the yard as morning exercise and the noise pissed her off big time. She gave it away after three days.

You clarified before I could give a lawyer-like response of it depends on your definition of "worst". But from your example I assumed as mundanely annoying.

There are several "worst" types:
useless --- ugh! the variations on the countertop small griddle appliance. Don't get me wrong. A countertop appliance that has applies direct heat from the bottom and the top at the same time is very useful. But the myriads of variations. . .ugh! There's the one to de-crust sandwiches, another to seal pierogi. Maybe that's a class of useless variations on useful things.

annoying --- intentionally irritating ringtones.

evil --- torture devices including iron maiden, the rack, various versions of pillory meant not only to humiliate but to make the person being punished extra uncomfortable.

wasteful --

(In the meantime: I've sat here for 10 minutes trying to clean up this post to make it less pedantically annoying. To post or not to post, that is the question.)

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Nice response

pulling weeds............................moments of ZEN

How would you insert them? Even the ones with applicators require a certain amount of finger proximity.

The inventor of this device must not have used diaphragms or cervical caps.

I suppose it was common in the Fifties.

I seem to remember that those were to keep one's fingers from getting all bloody.

that it was invented by a man?

…to get in contact with our nether regions.

Who knew?

and, boy, won't that be fun in the extraction!!!!

…very likely.

The so bad even the inventor agreed and apologized.

Leaded gasoline and CFCs (Freon).

Yup, both invented by the same guy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.

t is often reported that he had been accidentally killed by his own invention,

Some would call this karma

My mother loved hers
No red meat here to roast and turkey is rare so I never owned one

for upholstery projects. It works really well, make a nice straight cut. Can even shape and mold to round edges, etc.
I did originally buy it for meat carving, but I have never used it on any type of meat.

Infernal contraption, that

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but friggin’ aggravating!

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had wheels. So when the alarm went off it would roll off your night stand. You had to get up and retrieve it to shut it off.
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Guessing the theory being - that would wake you up enough!

Reducing the value of damned near everything to a single one dimensional number is utterly insane.

This one invention will ultimately be the end of us.

If we want to survive as a species we need to figure out how to implement a Star Trek sort of economy now.

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You can't escape grifters anywhere in the universe.

It's best not to encourage them.

But the yard blower is definitely a contender

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When I’ve said as much in the past, it’s gotten me lectures and a hidden post!

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I had the same thought.

Never ever bought it

Though I detest leaf blowers.

Made to kill

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Nothing else even comes close.

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Edwin Starr

evil

Not good coffee, trashes the planet.

What a waste

It’s way above my pay grade

There have been lots of machines made that make the claim, but they all turn out to frauds. Thermodynamics rule.

Has been both incredibly useful for doing work, and awesomely destructive in many ways.

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I hate "smart phones!"

I liked the cell phones we had 15 years ago. They worked fine for me.

I like the cameras on the phones today too.

but I discovered that one of his own inventions took him out.

Drink mixers ..Hamilton Beech and such..used to have 3 speeds Low, medium, High.
Now they have 14 speeds. Who the F*ck came up with that idea?
"You asshole, I told you to mix it on speed 11 but Nooooo..you screwed it all up by mixing it at speed 10!"
"My God-damn drink's ruined!"

It’s called how to raise the price.

Now the AI Titans have foisted off AI voicemail, which is even more stupid and useless.

an absolute violation of our space

I can tell you for a fact that some of our customers (mid to big companies) used that equipment to hide from their customers, not provide for them.

They can pretend they have customer service without actually providing it.

Pocket fisherman.
Spray paint hair.
Mr. Microphone.
Veg-o-matic.

But wait, that's not all!...

I don't want to waste time posing the plate and taking photos while my dinner gets cold.

so I flipped a coin.

Which means the meal is even colder when finally eaten.

Will read overnight
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I really don't understand the hate for Crocs. I don't own a pair and never have but I have seen people wearing much uglier footwear. Like these for example:



And I have seen more people wearing these than I have seen wearing Crocs. Maybe it's just a thing where I live.

the abominations you posted, and I live in a major city. No accounting for taste.

...and these ugly things are all over the place. I'd take Crocs over these any day.

When we were first married, I saved up a small fortune and ordered one. Totally useless. It did not get rid of a single roach! I had my heart set on that thing. I was crushed.

Hubby was teaching science at the time and took the thing to school, so kids could test to see if it reduced pill bug populations. It became part of the science curriculum...LOL

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For nearly one hundred years we didn't look for an alternative.

It has led to so much suffering and abuse and currently it is destroying civilization and all forms of life on this planet.

Profound

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...the new generation of battery driven yard blowers are WAY quieter.
That little motor & tiny muffler on the gas operated ones are a recipe to loud.
Everything I have for the yard is electric now. Mower, snow blower, blower, hedge trimmer.
They all runat a third the loudness of the old gas stuff, maybe better than that.
I'd never go back to gas operated.
As to your original question, I'll toss in the plastic milk bottle. Never should have switched from paper cartons.

Someone should tell that one neighbor and yeah for plastic milk bottles, plastic bags, etc.

When they went from glass bottles to paper cartons he thought it was heaven.
Every stack of cases weighed 35# less, and there were no empties to put back into the truck.
Paper cartons were a very fine innovation and never should have gone away.
I think they should return for milk, juices, detergent, fabric softener, even pop. Get rid of all that plastic!

But the plastic bottles are still a serious problem

It's unconscionably loud, and the way it is mostly used, all it does is take your problem and make it someone else's problem.

However, I'm going to go with Thalidomide.

Annoying versus deadly

Gross

I should thank the noisy neighbor

They are super stale hard marshmallow candies. They are also overly sweet. They've been around since the 19th Century.

Will ask a friend

I’ve hated it since I was a kid. That why I’ve never been a sitcom watcher.

Don’t tell me what’s funny and when to laugh. 👎

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Windows volume display on computer. Volume display on car radio. Some software people just make irritating crap because they are bored or hate people. IMHO. Also my GE stove has one display for 3 functions . It's horrible. Don't even get me going on what a horrible car my Buick lacrosse is.

... the Electoral College
... the "Lip Poof" (or whatever they call the fuller lips injections
... the Tesla brand
... the "self checkout" machines

“Alcohol*, the cause of, and solution to, all of our problems.” -Homer J. Simpson

* Humans making it. I know it occurs naturally.

from our chimpanzee relatives who rather like fermented fruit.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-alcohol-cocktails-fruit-research/

Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds

One jerk can destroy the tranquility of a lake for everyone.

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But I agree with you on the others

the speculum.

Cold creepy hard metal tire jack torture device I have no doubt was invented by men.

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They are huge in NYC.

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But they are helpful

Here in Staten Island, there's one service road that leads to a highway with a speed limit of just 20 mph (highway is 50). The speed camera is right before you enter the highway. It's very easy to get a ticket there, because it's just when you're building up speed.

to generate income by any means necessary

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