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10 worst inventions - Magical Realist - Jan 9, 2015
Yes folks, there WERE some doozies. Smell-o-vision? Sure..who WOULDN'T want to tune into Animal Planet with fan-blown wafts of "sea lion" or "beaver" filling their living rooms? lol! And ofcourse there's nothing like experiencing all the odors of a serial killer's basement from shows like Criminal Minds and CSI.
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/most-shocking/the-10-worst-inventions-in-history/
RE: 10 worst inventions - C C - Jan 10, 2015
Quote:[...] In the early 1970s America hosted tens of thousands of coin-operated pay toilets. If you had a fifty dollar bill but no coins, as Ira Gessel observed, you had no relief. In a society where urinating in public is an offense that can get you arrested, Gessel felt it necessary to rid the nation of pay toilets once and for all. The Committee to End Pay Toilets in America (CEPTIA) was founded and was largely successful, with Chicago being the first city to put an end to them. The country was mostly free of these contraptions for two and a half decades. [...]
Gessel should have been given a prestigious medal or award for rescuing the masses from that particular horror of capitalism turned pathological. Should have a statue right next to the person who liberates future society from a government tax for breathing air.
Even the free public toilets aren't popular in India. Though it's probably as much to do with their utter lack of maintenance as the long-standing cultural tradition of just squatting or whizzing anyplace that's handy.