other thread got me thinking. fuck this 20th century crap. whats the best invention EVER?

i say either the printing press, or grilled cheese sammich.

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11/26/2009 9:15:26 PM

birth control

11/26/2009 9:16:35 PM

the internet

11/26/2009 9:16:58 PM

The Back Button on my web browser

11/26/2009 9:17:14 PM

Wow. After looking at EMCE's post...I have to change. There is no better invention. Literally.

11/26/2009 9:18:10 PM

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"20TH CENTURY CARP "

11/26/2009 9:24:50 PM

Left handed spatulas


That, or soap on a rope.

11/26/2009 9:27:46 PM

Toilets

11/26/2009 9:28:26 PM

CHAPSTICK!

wrote a paper on it in 7th grade outlining why it is my favorite invention.

[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM. Reason : my lips are fucked in the winter without it]

11/26/2009 9:30:22 PM

wheel

11/26/2009 9:33:17 PM

i've heard chapstick actually makes chapped lips worse, or at least it doesn't actually help because it takes away moisture from your lips so you have to keep applying it.

11/26/2009 9:35:56 PM

currency? written language?

11/26/2009 10:00:30 PM

Women's sense of entitlement

11/26/2009 10:04:08 PM

Fire, or at least the ability to make / control fire. Without it, practically nothing else would be possible and we alone among animals possess that ability.

11/26/2009 10:07:55 PM

communisim just popped in my mind. probably a good one in about 5 years or so.

11/26/2009 10:08:19 PM

in five years, you made that post twenty years ago, plus north korea is BEST korea

11/26/2009 10:16:35 PM

donnie darko said it was antiseptics

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11/26/2009 10:23:51 PM

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"i've heard chapstick actually makes chapped lips worse, or at least it doesn't actually help because it takes away moisture from your lips so you have to keep applying it."

I used to use carmex all the time, and then found out it has salicylic acid in it! But yeah, you shouldn't use any chapstick all the time. I just use the medicated when my lips crack and bleed.

11/26/2009 10:24:51 PM

lying, says Ricky Gervais

11/26/2009 10:25:10 PM

^^^hhaha i wanted to say that, but i didnt cause i figured a female would point it out. lol

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11/26/2009 10:25:24 PM

why a female?

11/26/2009 10:26:27 PM

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"birth control"

EMCE with the headshot 1 post kill

11/26/2009 10:27:25 PM

^^i would think because of how many women died around childbirth due to lack of antiseptics

11/26/2009 10:28:02 PM

beer should be tied with itself for both best and worst inventions, wherever it is on each list

11/26/2009 10:29:50 PM

Most important is impossible to list, since there are so many that society wouldn't exist without.

11/26/2009 11:10:11 PM

^^^^^cause donnie darko is not only a good movie, but a chick flick as well.

11/26/2009 11:11:33 PM

I think a more qualitative way of looking at it is "How many more shitty inventions would exist if there were no birth control?"

11/26/2009 11:12:03 PM

craigslist personals

11/26/2009 11:12:48 PM

i don't consider donnie darko to be a chick flick. are you categorizing it as such simply because it features gyllenhall or however the fuck you spell his name?

11/26/2009 11:13:22 PM

general anesthetics for surgery

11/26/2009 11:39:52 PM

^i always pronounce your name "Shenandoah"

11/26/2009 11:41:06 PM

I don't know about the best ever, but I can think of a few things in the running:

antiseptics/antibiotics
communication/spoken language
the wheel

11/26/2009 11:44:53 PM

forgot about breast implants. Those are pretty good. Maybe not the best, but definietly up there. Think of the gene pool without breast implants....

11/26/2009 11:50:54 PM

the gene pool is pretty much unaffected by breast implants

11/26/2009 11:51:46 PM

AIDS

11/27/2009 12:04:41 AM

IM GOING TO INVENT STOVES WITH MAGNETIC STIRRING DEVICES. YOU WILL HAVE TO USE NON MAGNETIC COOKWAREZ THOUGH

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

11/27/2009 12:05:31 AM

3^no way man...people not fit for breeding get fucked cuz they have big boobies

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11/27/2009 12:05:46 AM

oic

11/27/2009 12:06:43 AM

the plow, with it mankind would never have plowed

11/27/2009 12:08:12 AM

breast implants? seriously?

and to say it doesn't affect the gene pool.... i dunno. there is a whole breed of women separate from normal humans now that are born completely hairless, orange complextion with birthmarks that look like dolphins on the small of their backs and digestive tracts that divert into the womb from the anus and who's first words are invariably "its so big"

11/27/2009 12:10:15 AM

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"the gene pool is pretty much unaffected by breast implants"

um. think of how many women with no tits would not have children without breast implants. therefore small tits stay in the gene pool. if small titted woman were not in the gene pool, we'd have a higher probability of having large breasted women in society.

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 12:12 AM. Reason : ^i somewhat agree. lol.]

11/27/2009 12:12:07 AM

Sliced Bread

11/27/2009 12:31:20 AM

lithium ion battery

11/27/2009 12:36:31 AM

^not disagreeing with you. just wondering why you say that out of any invention.

11/27/2009 12:37:30 AM

sex

11/27/2009 12:38:15 AM

^^the majority of the technology we have and use today in our everyday lives is possible because of the lithium ion battery. Without that all our mobile devices would be the size of bricks because they'd be using the old fashioned lead acid batteries (like in your car). Which are huge, really heavy, and dangerous.

lithium can hold a lot of energy and its super light.

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11/27/2009 12:43:48 AM

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"Left handed spatulas"

whaaat? ive never heard of such a thing!

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11/27/2009 1:03:03 AM

i would totally think the automobile or antibiotics.


definitely

11/27/2009 1:05:43 AM

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"they'd be using the old fashioned lead acid batteries (like in your car)"

there are other options than lead acid and lithium ion. Ni-Cd, for example.

11/27/2009 1:06:23 AM

i said penicillin in the other thread (the 20th century one)

i guess it is more of a discovery but yea. i agree w/ the antibiotics. and probably automobiles/transit and internet.

11/27/2009 1:06:57 AM