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@Nintenboy01: You guys haven't tried it yet, but the media has. Guess that's enough. *shrug* Lists are just fun navel gazing, anywayz. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kaiser-Machead: For the Japanese, though, that's just part of their work code. Only they can pull something like that off.
Then again, they could've required all Tokyo subway workers - male or female - to wear item number 4 if it had existed in 1995. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kaiser-Machead: Also, wouldn't it be a little creepy to ride the rail surrounded by fake looking smiles, knowing they're all just thin veneers over a train wreck of anger and frustration? #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kyonko: I suppose it isn't much different from the venomous saccharine mannequins that work at TGI Friday's, forced to be unrealistically chipper, which I may have to explain to management one day gives me awful indigestion. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Gann: I can only assume it's because upper management don't have to do this kind of shit (anymore) and don't stop to think that maybe people respond better to quality professional service and courtesy than they do to big stupid grins. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
@Kaiser-Machead: "I suppose it isn't much different from the venomous saccharine mannequins that work at TGI Friday's, forced to be unrealistically chipper"
@tande04: Eh... a list by Time Magazine journalists? Probably just a bunch of pissed off English majors who feel like their world is being raped by popular culture. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
How did the Tesla Roadster make it to the list? It was "invented" in 2006. If they're going for release date which was indeed 2008, then the Volt can't be on the list. Mmmmm nitpicking.
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Did that image remind anyone else of this?
(Sorry, it got cropped)
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Oh dear. It's Ig NOBEL - as in Nobel Prize, and punning on ignoble - geddit...? #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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@Danny Allen: Well maybe not too close: #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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Then again, they could've required all Tokyo subway workers - male or female - to wear item number 4 if it had existed in 1995. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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And they're forced to wear those stupid pieces of flair. #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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How is a book an invention for that matter? #bestandworstinventionsof2009
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