ITT: Worst inventions. Post 'em

ITT: Worst inventions. Post 'em.
I begin.
Plastic inserts on cabinet door hinges. This fucking piece of shit doesn't do anything. It doesn't make installation any easier, nor it protects the particle board. Only thing that this piece of shit does is cracking over time.
Fuck furniture manufacturer that drill big holes for that piece of shit

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lol I only buy the cheapest furniture and yet all the screws are made of metal

The screw expands the plastic rather than screwing into the wood itself.
It allows you to remove and replace the doors many times without fucking up the anchor hole.
If you screwed straight into the wood, the hole will have nothing left for the screw thread to hold after a few replacements.
You're an idiot

It is like plastic anchor for concrete wall.
Screws are metal, but they screw in plastic insert, and you hammer that plastic insert in particle board.
Thing is, for over 60+ year people were screwing directly into particle board and everything was fine. Why do I need plastic shit there now?

Jam a take-out chopstick in the screw hole and break it off you now have made a plug for the hole. Also who the fuck replaces cabinet doors more than once. Just fucking buy good cabinets and you wont have to replace anything, or save money and learn to make them yourself like humans did for hundreds of years.

paper straws

AIRSOFT

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India

You sound like an underage fag lmao.
I have a feeling your shop probably doesnt even have a sander in it.

fake perpetual motion machines

It is not fucking needed.
Nylon is weaker than wood or even fucking particle board.
>It allows you to remove and replace the doors many times without fucking up the anchor hole.
How often do you unscrew doors? Most hinges are quick-release anyway.
>If you screwed straight into the wood, the hole will have nothing left for the screw thread to hold after a few replacements.
Simple PVA glue and couple toothpicks to the rescue. But you would need this only when hole is bigger than all your mom's holes.
If shit is really fucked up, you buy METAL inserts which screw in the wood, and allow machine screws. Not fucking nylon piece of shit, that cracks for no reason after a year or two.

comic books

Clearly they invented it for a reason, for 60 years people could screw into particle board maybe 2 or 3 times, before needing to replace the entire board, as the hole was drilled out from repeated threading, and they couldn't just reuse one that they put too big of a hole in, they were screwed.

Inb4 plastic insert that doesn't ever get bored out through threading, and can be easily removed, and replaced, without damaging the particle board.
Or, say you put too big of a hole into a particle board, and you needed to thread something smaller into it, the plastic insert is built to expand with the addition of a screw, allowing for a nice tight finish.

How is this hard to understand?
Only someone who doesnt do any handiwork wouldn't understand this.

This fucker right here. Lets put an abrasive tag on the back of the neck of every single fucking shirt. Lets also sew that mother fucker in more permanently then we sew the shirt seams, so its basically impossible to take out without ruining the shirt.

I swear to Christ I would kick the person square in the junk who did this first.

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Hell, this is not even nylon, smells more like PVC.
Fucking piece of shit.
Also this, you don't unscrew doors, until shit is completely fuckered

Does Greta Thunberg know calculus?

That's looks useless. It doesn't look like it serves much of a purpose. lol I don't see why that would be where it is. Is that an expensive appliance? I would hope not. I would laugh if it was the most expensive one at the store. Who came up with that object? lol

wrong thread

Humans didn't make their own cabinets for hundreds of years, actually since the dawn of time, we had roles assigned to jobs, and people who specialized in each job.
There was a cabinet maker, who also likely did most of the woodworking for most of the village, with people under him to learn the craft.
Just as a stone Smith was necessary to every blacksmith, as the stone Smith knew which rocks the blacksmith needed to form a grinding wheel, which would then need a horse chassis, formed by the carpenter.
Never was it "let's build our own stuff", it was always "Let's build stuff together, what are you good at?"
That being said, I'm sure this isnt even what you meant, because it's a stupid thing to say

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anime

it's nothing but trash

You must be a fucking shill. The claim is because of whiny asses like you they took out the tag on the back of T-shirts and now stamp the tag onto the back of the shirt. In reality they do it because its cheaper. It also weakens the material. With the tag the first place T-shirts wore out was the armpit, after many years, because that spot has the most mechanical wear and maybe some wear at the front. Now every damn T-shirt starts shredding in less than 6 months right were they stamp the tag.

>Clearly they invented it for a reason
Yes, to piss people off and contribute to plastic pollution.
>could screw into particle board maybe 2 or 3 times, before needing to replace the entire board, as the hole was drilled out from repeated threading
No. Old glue and toothpick trick works in most cases. My dad did this, my grandfather did this. No fucking problem. Works for wood, particle board, even for Allah and sky. Strength is comparable to original.
Also you can buy pic related, if you need to remove the thing every day. Even shittiest metal is stronger than their plastic shit that cracks after a year with no apparent reason.
>Inb4 plastic insert that doesn't ever get bored out through threading, and can be easily removed, and replaced, without damaging the particle board.
Wrong. You will rip the fuck out of particle board. You have to hammer this shit in, so you need to hammer it out. When you will hammer it out, your laminate will crack.

Also, it is way easier to over tighten screw in nylon piece of shit, than in wood or particle board.

Useless shit /10

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Are you okay? It's a piece of plastic that's like an inch long, its maybe, MAYBE a cent.

Speaking of material science, you better use threaded insert, not plastic shit that will strip second time you screw in. So like particle board without any insert.
Useless waste of nylon.

Square pixels. They should be hexagons.

Why not no fucking tag at all asshat? I'm sorry if I don't like the sensation of a nail file grinding the back of my neck. Fuck you you ignoramus.

Triangle*

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>>screws are made of metal

No their made from a cheap as gook alloy that starts to shred the second you start to screw it in Back when screws were made of American steel you could reuse the same screw a dozen times. Now your lucky if you can even get the damn thing out with out the head looking like mush.

AK-47

JIS screwhead.
Two nukes weren't enough

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You don't hammer those plastic inserts in dude. They are screwed in, which is obvious by the threading process they used, instead of ribbing, which leaves little ledges to make slipping into the predrilled hole easier. Kinda like pic related.
Those inserts you show are screwed in too, the ones you hammer in look like this
Also, those brass inserts cost a dollar a piece, at manufacturing cost. plus mass production, it's not cost efficient.

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They have to put the brand & size someplace.
>>sensation of a nail file grinding the back of my neck
Wow you're a sensitive little pansy. And I thought people like you were the industry made-up reason why I had to shell out for Ts twice a year rather than once every 3 or 4 years

Inserts that go into doors and other parts of cabinets are not threaded at all, they are barbed, they are hammer in, and you can't remove them at all without making hole larger than ur mom holes, or ripping half of particle board away.
>Also, those brass inserts cost a dollar a piece, at manufacturing cost. plus mass production, it's not cost efficient.
Two bucks for 50 pcs. Plastic is probably free.
Thing is, you don't need them at all. It will work fine without those, and those inserts MUST be used ONLY for repair.

Totally agree. Thank you. I work in a building whose cabinets have been used by kids for 100 years and they're still fine.

I bought most of my clothes at walmart and I still wear tee shirts I've had for 10 years. And I work janitorial and maintenance. what the hell are you doing to your clothes?

I think airsoft is pretty cool tbh. It's like real guns but you get to blast the shit out of eachother without killing them lol

Too many cheaters. They should use steel bb's or lead pellets to discourage it.

Dragon dildos

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Screw condom

They slip into your mom's predrilled holes easily, but the fit is extremely loose

Colored T-shirts you wear as shirt or white t-shirt worn as undergarment? Do they have the tag? That's my point I have the white Ts and they used to last for years. Now with stamp they shred apart starting at the stamp location so you'll have a T that's fine everywhere else and torn to pieces between the upper shoulder blades.

There was a time before paintball and airsoft where kids would just shoot each other with BB guns. Those that were safety conscious would were goggles and have "no aiming for the head" rules. Truth be told it hurt less than getting hit with paintball rifle on bare skin

Thats wrong though.
They have ridges, and you push them into a pre drilled hole and screw a screw into the insert. The screw expands the insert which makes the ridges anchor to the wood. When you remove the screw, you can pull the insert straight out.
You don't even know what you're getting angry about

Birth control pill. Even the inventor regrets that one. Supposedly, intention was that pill would allow married women to regulate the timing of births so that they could have regular sex with husband without getting pregnant every year. It wasn't intended for sluts to have worry free sex and pill is thought to be a contributor to rapid evolution and expansion of STDs in the 60-70s