No special ranking, but definitively placed into the Top 10
- (Especially monotheist) religion(s)
- To divide something in black and white only and forget about different shades of the grey in between.

- To divide something in black and white only and forget about different shades of the grey in between.

Poor Floyd and Steinberg.

Colonialism and all derivatives.

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Finding the fiancée with someone else. Oh, and OS 9.

That mindless, ubiquitous phrase: “it’s all good.”

•Political Correctness.
•State Run Liquor Stores
•Electronic Customer Service, or really any Customer Service, it should be Customer Dis-Service.
•Taxes and Audits
• content edited out
•Reality Television

I’m sure I could think of a few more, if pressed.

Reality TV - yup. How about the relatively new category: “celebrity”?

Compiling things into lists.

Wow, how about: “intolerance”?

I’m not intolerant, and I’m sorry I brought it up.

I beg to differ with Aziz on Condoms, they save lives, and prevent disease and unwanted pregnancies.

(Of course if you are someone who would put sex on this list rather than on the Best Discoveries list, then I guess you’d have to include condoms too.)

Multinational corporate hegemony.
Breast implants (and, ahem, by extension, Hooters Restaurants). ;-)

A sense of the past and future.

peace

Paris Hilton and everything she represents.

Pretty much all aboce except sex shops! Whats wrong with them mate?

Muzz

I don’t think any invention related to facilitating consensual sex is all that bad...I mean, it’s just sex, yeah? Anyway, my votes (edited to contain only less inflammatory subjects):

- celebrity gossip rags
- the double space after a period
- agribusiness
- the musical ringtone

Puns

ChrisL

Globalisation
Lifestyle of faster-higher-bigger
Fast food

Georg

> Pretty much all aboce except sex shops!
> Whats wrong with them mate?

Muzzer reminds me of a friend who used to say:
” I am still clean because I use condoms?!”
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> I beg to differ with Aziz on Condoms, they save lives, and prevent disease and unwanted pregnancies.

Pattyfab, Answers in brackets
... they save lives (by preventing pregnancies?)
and prevent disease, (with healthy spouses?)
and unwanted pregnancies (No Alternatives?!)
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One apple (pear) a day keeps the doctor away?!

Aziz, condoms save lives by preventing AIDS. And here in the west one doesn’t only have sex with a spouse. In fact half of Americans are unmarried according to a new study and you bet we’re having sex. That’s why we take care to use condoms. And thank god for them!

I suspect our political and religious differences on birth control, sex, population control, the role of women in society, etc. are probably irreconcilable and I’d rather not go into it here except that you brought it up...

proselytizing

the Republican Party

“light” beer

pride

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Forced indoctrination.

So what about one night stands? They sure help out then.

What about them?

I might be leaning a little too far out the window here, but I think that the idea that sex should only take place within marriage, and only for the purpose of procreation, may rank up there with the worst “inventions” ever ;-)

>In fact half of Americans are unmarried according to a new study and you bet we’re having sex. That’s why we take care to use condoms.

Pattyfab, I can’t resist responding, but I just want to point out that it’s possible that you’ve reversed the cause & effect here.

>And thank god for them!

I agree entirely when they’re saving lives in africa, but when they’re replacing loving commitments, that’s another thing IMHO.

I don’t think I’d put condoms on the list of “best” inventions ever. But they certainly do not belong on this page’s list. Patty is correct.

>but when they’re replacing loving commitment

How to they replace loving commitment?

The idea that the very existence of birth control automatically leads to promiscuity is a bit far-fetched.

So you don’t think the stat pattyfab cited about marriages is at all related to the availability of birth control?

I’m not saying they’re in lockstep with each other, but it’s not very “far fetched” to posit a fairly strong relation between them IMHO.

I’m not even against birth control; I’m just saying that its had fairly strong social consequences. And I can see why non-westerners, for example, would be a bit leery about introducing it.

ah well, he obviously doesnt live in perth where everyone **** everyone else!!

Muzz

Muzz, sounds like a lovely place. :)

its called the real world

More praise for condoms:

Condoms reduce the risk of infections, even in monogamous relationships.

Condoms are the most effective method of family planning. Family planning reduces the drudgery of parents, and increases the life expectancy of women, many of whom would otherwise die of complications from pregnancy or childbirth.

Large families were worth that risk in the past when infant mortality was higher, but not now.

Contraception in marriage reduces the danger to mothers of childbirth, and is also more humane than the rhythm method. Even if carefully practised, the rhythm method fails 20% of the time, as ovulation is too variable to predict accurately. Most dangerous, eggs fertilized at the extremities of the fertile period of the menstrual cycle — which is most likely when the method fails — are more prone to non-viable pregnancies, resulting in natural abortion of the foetus. So using condoms is less dangerous. In fact, surgically aborting “condom failures” results in less aborted foetuses than the rhythm method.

Condoms are also safer than the birth control pill, which has significant side effects.

Of course, these are statistical arguments based on human behaviour as it mostly is, rather than the way fundamentalists would like us to be.

BTW, nice font...

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