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PostPosted: 09:26 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

I recently purchased one of these:

https://www.petsathome.com/Assets/PetsAtHome/products/2/1/5/21570_p.jpg

Basically, it's a stick for throwing tennis balls for dogs to fetch. It's such a simple 'invention' (the idea itself is hardly new), but i think it's a quality piece of innovation and ergonomics.
Plus, my dog just loves to fetch, so he's happy too.

What's your favourite simple, yet brilliant, invention?
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PostPosted: 09:33 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Simple yet pure genius.

https://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu281/wizzzard2009/wheel01.jpg

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PostPosted: 09:33 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

has to be the condom lol i hate kids and stds...lool
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PostPosted: 09:54 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well the ball launcher is a good one till my dog got a hold of it and chewed it but its such a handy and cheap investion.

I bought some crap ones in my time, Anything from kleeneze is rubbish and I recently got them magnetic window cleaners, you put one bit on outside and the other on inside , the magnet holds it while you clean and it has this bit of string incase it falls. It dasnt work it falls off Crying or Very sad I got me money back for it and all it was that crap.

I cant think of anting I have about the house thats not obvious like knives and tin openers. The wheel is the best one, where would we be without the wheel Shocked
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PostPosted: 09:59 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

dragonfly wrote:
where would we be without the wheel Shocked


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PostPosted: 11:21 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 11:35 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Re: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

mistergixer wrote:
I recently purchased one of these:

https://www.petsathome.com/Assets/PetsAtHome/products/2/1/5/21570_p.jpg

Basically, it's a stick for throwing tennis balls for dogs to fetch. It's such a simple 'invention' (the idea itself is hardly new), but i think it's a quality piece of innovation and ergonomics.
Plus, my dog just loves to fetch, so he's happy too.

What's your favourite simple, yet brilliant, invention?

I was going to say...why not just pick the ball up and throw it..however, if you have a dog that slobbers all over the ball, one of thse is an excellent idea!
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PostPosted: 17:18 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

but having a slobering dog is funny. like when your eating and there watching.. seeing the drool fall from the side of thier mouth is so amusing Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:10 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Blackwolf wrote:
but having a slobering dog is funny. like when your eating and there watching.. seeing the drool fall from the side of thier mouth is so amusing Laughing


Watching someone stand and fall on their arse after slipping in slobber is even more amusing.

My favourite "simple" invention of recent times has to be a one way valve for brake bleeding.
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PostPosted: 18:20 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Re: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

asharin wrote:
...why not just pick the ball up and throw it..however, if you have a dog that slobbers all over the ball, one of thse is an excellent idea!


It's not really that clever...it doesn't make a person who throws like a girl, throw any better at all... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 19:32 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 20:01 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

dragonfly wrote:
Anything from kleeneze is rubbish

maybe so, but their catalogue is brilliant.

because the catalogues are reused, what you do is make various additions to it; improve the pictures, write witty comments and add sick jokes. then you leave it out on the correct day to be collected.

the catalogue hopefully then goes to some OAP whose day is made better by seeing my drawings and jokes. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 20:44 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Today I actually invented something that is worthy of Dragon's Den. I was running at the Wroughton Speed Trials and to say it was a bad day is a bit like saying that Howard Shipman was a bad doctor.
I do not blame the organisers in anyway for the total farce that emerged as the day went on as it was not their fault. The chimps engaged to do the timing failed to do the job that they were paid for ( not 200mph Straightliners of course, those guys are ace) and eventually they were thrown off site after five hours of poking wires into the wrong socket and an additional set of staring lights and timers were installed. We started to sprint at 3.00 ( I had been on site since 7.30 this morning) On my first run my bike died on the 200 yard mark. I pusher her the 440 yards back to the start and discovered a cam follower had snapped.
Back to my invention..... there was little to do in the way of amusement during the long wait for the timing gear to get going but I discovered that if I drank vast amounts of water it at least gave me a reason to go to the toilet and play with my lucky nob whilst I ran urine through it. The only way to open the porta-loo doors was to dig your nails into the vacant/engaged indicator and drag the door open ( I broke a nail doing this but compared to the other f**k ups of the day is was just a annoyance). So my invention, a sort of handle that fits on doors so that you can pull it open. I want to sell 20% of my company for an investment of £20000000.
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PostPosted: 20:45 - 16 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/524666/3358733/0/1174028132/ratchet_buckle.jpg

Ok, so they aren't at the lowest level of simple, as a lot of people haven't a clue how they work, but I find them useful and clever. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 01:23 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Re: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

Clanger wrote:
It's not really that clever...it doesn't make a person who throws like a girl, throw any better at all... Rolling Eyes


It should do, it stays straight whereas cripple throws happen because people can't control their arms, if they stuff up using one of them they shouldn't be allowed outside. Their main purpose is it involves a lot less effort to throw and it goes a damn sight further (and it means you don't get slobber all over your hands as mentioned).
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PostPosted: 02:19 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Chairs.
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PostPosted: 07:19 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: 08:41 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

1930 Ariel wrote:
...Howard Shipman...


Who the fuck is he? Laughing
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PostPosted: 09:14 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Re: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

asharin wrote:

I was going to say...why not just pick the ball up and throw it..however, if you have a dog that slobbers all over the ball, one of thse is an excellent idea!


Clanger wrote:

It's not really that clever...it doesn't make a person who throws like a girl, throw any better at all...


Phoenix wrote:


It should do, it stays straight whereas cripple throws happen because people can't control their arms, if they stuff up using one of them they shouldn't be allowed outside. Their main purpose is it involves a lot less effort to throw and it goes a damn sight further (and it means you don't get slobber all over your hands as mentioned).


The fact that it picks the ball up is great*, but as Phoenix observes, it's the fact that it removes so much of the effort from throwing - or, using the same effort as a normal throw gives enormous distance, thanks to the principles of leverage.

*I've got a Stafford, after half a dozen throw/retrieves a tennis ball is just a soggy, shapeless lump of cloth covered in puncture wounds. The mighty stick won't pick the 'ball' up anymore, but will still throw it.
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PostPosted: 09:48 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Re: Simple Inventions Reply with quote

mistergixer wrote:
I recently purchased one of these:

https://www.petsathome.com/Assets/PetsAtHome/products/2/1/5/21570_p.jpg

Basically, it's a stick for throwing tennis balls for dogs to fetch. It's such a simple 'invention' (the idea itself is hardly new), but i think it's a quality piece of innovation and ergonomics.
Plus, my dog just loves to fetch, so he's happy too.

What's your favourite simple, yet brilliant, invention?


Instead of posting 'Labour Saving Devices' why do you not just take your dog for a proper walk you lazy bitch? I bet he/she would love that much more.
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PostPosted: 09:54 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a simple invention for some of the utter shite that's been posted on here lately..... Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 10:06 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Velcro. Thumbs Up

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PostPosted: 10:28 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Walloper wrote:
This is a simple invention for some of the utter shite that's been posted on here lately..... Rolling Eyes


This coming from the man who heartily posted on the 'what Subway should I have?' thread.
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PostPosted: 11:13 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Those ball throwers are very good for old folks who can't easily bend down to pick up the ball.

My favourite invention is the red phosphorous matchstick. You carry it in your pocket and it makes fire.
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 17 Aug 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wireless headphones! Though I'm not sure that counts as simple. But they are fantastic.
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