FabSwingers.com forum: Useful inventions

By (user no longer on site) OP
25 weeks ago

I’m sure everyone could list a huge amount of stuff ie

The internet (if only for fab 😜)

The motor car

Aircraft

All medical advancements

Television

Phones etc…….

I’m talking about the most useful invention for everyday use. I was putting on my jeans this morning and thought to myself, Denim must be one of the most versatile and useful inventions ever.

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By *ora the explorerWoman
25 weeks ago

Paradise, Herts

The wand

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

The toaster

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By *ripfillMan
25 weeks ago

Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Havant

Cork screw …. Vital x

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

The kettle.

Condoms and lube.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
25 weeks ago

East Sussex

The wheel

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By *ildTimes.Man
25 weeks ago

Wherever I May Roam

The fab block button!

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
25 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

All these wonderful inventions and we can't find a cure for the common cold or categorise 'Fabulous'

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
25 weeks ago

Sussex

Toss up between microwave ovens and sat nav.

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

"All these wonderful inventions and we can't find a cure for the common cold or categorise 'Fabulous'"

The cold is not a single virus: it is a family of viruses.

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By *eltCuteMightDeleteWoman
25 weeks ago

Reading

Today I'm grateful for my under desk heater keeping my feet warm and my library app to let me listen to an audiobook in the background while I'm working.

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
25 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

"All these wonderful inventions and we can't find a cure for the common cold or categorise 'Fabulous'

The cold is not a single virus: it is a family of viruses."

*We have not found a cure for a family of viruses called the common cold

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

Cutlery

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By (user no longer on site) OP
25 weeks ago

"All these wonderful inventions and we can't find a cure for the common cold or categorise 'Fabulous'

The cold is not a single virus: it is a family of viruses.

*We have not found a cure for a family of viruses called the common cold "

Cold & Flu capsules 💊 aren’t a cure but they definitely make it more manageable.

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By *eoBloomsMan
25 weeks ago

Springfield

The anal plug. Will be keeping A&E departments in work when every illness and virus (*family of viruses) is cured.

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By *ai Hard 2 - Dai HarderMan
25 weeks ago

Manchester / Cardiff

GPS & SatNav. Yeah, AI, the Internet and all that it does for us is nice n'all, but Sat Nav is as big as the wheel was all those millennia ago. (IMHO)

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

Screws, nuts and bolts, the clock, 12 volt adapters, 3 pin plugs, glass and plate glass.

Biros, pencils and the computer mouse, plastic extrusion (LEGO!) wireless charging (Nikola Tesla had it first) the Tesla coil.

The keyboard and typewriter (domestic printers are a curse)

The fridge and freezer, electric pylons, water asnd air pumps.

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

"GPS & SatNav. Yeah, AI, the Internet and all that it does for us is nice n'all, but Sat Nav is as big as the wheel was all those millennia ago. (IMHO)"

Yes!

The amount of non tourist-industries that rely on this is huge. Architects, farmers and agronomists, archeologists, forest fire control, animal tracking on land and in the sea. Ordanace surveying, earthquake observing and companie like what3words, who make finding places really easy to find and publish.

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
25 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

"The anal plug. Will be keeping A&E departments in work when every illness and virus (*family of viruses) is cured."

I once used to date a nurse and in their accommodation would be clippings of the worst of A&E.

A gentleman went into their department with a set of bike handlebars inside him. So not just butt plugs old boy!

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

Writing press. Steel. TV. And tight lycra shorts....

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
25 weeks ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

The tin opener, which funnily enough was only invented some years after tinned food

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By *omeones GrumpMan
25 weeks ago

3rd rock from the sun

The bread slicer

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By *luebell888Woman
25 weeks ago

Glasgowish

Cat eyes on the road and thermos flasks.

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By *WANDTGCouple
25 weeks ago

Borough of Greenwich

Numbers , who invented them , just imagine a world without numbers ?

Mind-blowing !

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

The Aeropress.

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By *uri00620Woman
25 weeks ago

Croydon

I've a bad back today and just applied a Deep Heat roll on. No greasy fingers with application and it's really lovely and toasty warm.

Large backpacks that open all the way around like suitcases not just top and bottom where you have to get everything out!

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By *illy IdolMan
25 weeks ago

Midlands

Telescopic back scratchers

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By *2000ManMan
25 weeks ago

Worthing

"All these wonderful inventions and we can't find a cure for the common cold or categorise 'Fabulous'"

More money in treatments rather than cures.

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

Domestication of animals

Cultivation of crops

Smelting of metals

Development of writing

Makes the invention of the microwave oven look pretty insignificant?

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
25 weeks ago

IPSWICH

Some would say the discovery of how to start a fire. Others would say it would be how to put a fire out.

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By *estructionDollyWoman
25 weeks ago

Manchester

Language

Sewerage systems

WiFi

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By *allySlinkyWoman
25 weeks ago

Leeds

" I was putting on my jeans this morning and thought to myself, Denim must be one of the most versatile and useful inventions ever.

How have I survived 35 years without denim if it is one of he best inventions ever ?

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By *ig_eric_tionMan
25 weeks ago

IPSWICH

"Language

Sewerage systems

WiFi "

Did you know that the original technology that is said to form the basis of modern WiFi was developed by Hollywood actress Hedy Lamar.

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By *eoBloomsMan
25 weeks ago

Springfield

" I was putting on my jeans this morning and thought to myself, Denim must be one of the most versatile and useful inventions ever.

How have I survived 35 years without denim if it is one of he best inventions ever ?"

Not all of us look as good as you in leather and latex Sally !

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

"Numbers , who invented them , just imagine a world without numbers ?

Mind-blowing !"

Arabs1

Romans Nil as they had no zero (but they did have a Nero)

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By *estructionDollyWoman
25 weeks ago

Manchester

"Language

Sewerage systems

WiFi

Did you know that the original technology that is said to form the basis of modern WiFi was developed by Hollywood actress Hedy Lamar. "

I knew it came from someone unexpected but couldn't remember who, good fact 👍

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By *obilebottomMan
25 weeks ago

All over

Afew here:

Printing press

Electricity

Penicillin

Anesthetics

Pasteurization

Mirror

Time/clock

Battery

Universal Turing Machine

Typewriter

X-ray

and lets include the www

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

LEDs and CREE/COBS

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By *ust want fun 888Man
25 weeks ago

nearby

Being blind, artificial intelligence, my first device that talked back to me was a talking watch and now I have Alexa and googles and Siri to read my messages and to send my messages, great invention

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By *orny PTMan
25 weeks ago

Peterborough

"Being blind, artificial intelligence, my first device that talked back to me was a talking watch and now I have Alexa and googles and Siri to read my messages and to send my messages, great invention"

Talking watches are great, I've had one. Brilliant, simple, useful and cheap. £30ish.

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By (user no longer on site)
25 weeks ago

The electric blanket

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By *riar BelisseWoman
25 weeks ago

Holibobs

Plastic

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