Everyday inventions you are grateful for (apart from bicycles)

[Electric_Andy]

Bluetooth

 

[MontyVeda]

When I bought my first place a washing machine and a sofa were my first purchases - place came with a cooker. It was a year or two before I bought a telly or fridge, or even a proper bed.

aye... it was top of my list too when i split with the ex in 2002. A TV was at the bottom of the list and I learned i could live without a telly.

 

[Gwylan]

When we married (1975) we had no money.

We had an inflatable lilo type double bed mattress. It had a slow leak so it was a race to get to sleep before you were on the floor. The leak defied attempts to repair them.
We had 2 large floor cushions someone gave us.

First real purchase was a flat pack dining table and wooden garden chairs from Habitat. They were on clearance and very cheap.

Visitors got to use a single camp bed that appeared from somewhere.

Then we bought a double bed. That travelled the world with us until about 1997. Goodness knows how much the company spent moving that bed around the place.

I should end saying "we were happy" Well yes, but we were also almost perpetually skint for the first 10 years.

 

[Profpointy]

aye... it was top of my list too when i split with the ex in 2002. A TV was at the bottom of the list and I learned i could live without a telly.

I only bought a telly because a number of my pals were extras in a TV series: the Monacled Mutineer. A lot of it was filmed near Aberystwyth and some of my old university gang who were still there or bumming around after graduating got roped in as extras.

I didn't bother with a fridge but my lodger got fed up not having one so bought one whilst I was working overseas so I was guilted into telling him to take it out of the rent money!

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

The stove, the fridge, the wife…

all the major kitchen appliances really.

( holy smoke… I hope she never reads this )

 

[numbnuts]

Crucifixion - without it we would have had rocks cakes at Easter

 

[BigSid]

Cheese

What possessed someone to say "Ahh, the milks off and gone all lumpy. Let's have a taste." Glad they did though.

 

[Alex321]

What possessed someone to say "Ahh, the milks off and gone all lumpy. Let's have a taste." Glad they did though.

Probably more a matter of necessity than just "oh, lets try it and see".

 

[Dogtrousers]

Probably more a matter of necessity than just "oh, lets try it and see".

Mmm not bad. But it would be better if it tasted a bit more of sweaty feet. Just stick it in that cave for a bit. See what happens.

3 weeks later. "Hey lads! It's gone mouldy! Result!"

 

[Slick]

What possessed someone to say "Ahh, the milks off and gone all lumpy. Let's have a taste." Glad they did though.

I actually wonder about lots of things like that.

Probably says more about us though.

 

[lazybloke]

What possessed someone to say "Ahh, the milks off and gone all lumpy. Let's have a taste." Glad they did though.

Cheese good.
Off lumpy milk bad; very bad. I'd rather eat fugu.


Meanwhile in Japan
Diner: <THUD>
Chef: "Okay, the tinest sliver of Fugu liver is also fatally toxic.... Which part shall we serve next?"

 

[Dogtrousers]

In Iceland...

You know that shark I caught ...
Yes. It's poisonous. You gave some to Hagar the Gullible and he died. I don't want any.
Well bear with me, I buried it
And?
I just dug it up and it's gone rotten. Maybe it's not poisonous any more. Want some?
Mmm don't mind if I do

 

[Gwylan]

Crucifixion - without it we would have had rocks cakes at Easter

Sorry, not very nice and certainly not funny enough for the joke thread.

 

[Jameshow]

Sorry, not very nice and certainly not funny enough for the joke thread.

Crucifixion without which we wouldn't have eternal life...


Ps other religions are available.

 

[Broughtonblue]

Electricity, without which, probably 99% of things mentioned on here wouldn't work or even have been able to be made.