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which inventor do you wish had never been born

Salad
Salad Posts: 10,189
edited July 2007 in Not Sports Related
could have done without whoever invented mobile phones, especially the ones that play music from a speaker for everyone around to suffer

And the world could certainly have done without Thomas Midgley - inventor of leaded petrol and CFCs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley

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  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,624
    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee,
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,271
    Whoever invented Sat Nav. Killed the ability of everyone under 25 to read a map. Or killed the will to be able to read a map at least.
  • Charlton Dan
    Charlton Dan Posts: 4,937
    Whoever invented Daddy Longlegs needs to be shot
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,751
    GATSO
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,655
    the person who invented marmite...
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    The prat who invented Cigarettes, then I would not be suffering trying to give up now....!
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,422
    Tango mans parents
  • AppyAddick
    AppyAddick Posts: 1,475
    Now who was it that invented Women :)
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    [cite]Posted By: Ketman[/cite]The prat who invented Cigarettes, then I would not be suffering trying to give up now....!
    blame the Turks ....

    "The Crimean War occasioned the invention of hand rolled "paper cigars" - cigarettes - by French and British troops who copied their Turkish comrades in using old newspaper for rolling when their cigar-leaf rolling tobacco ran out or dried and crumbled. "
    http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-conflicts-periods/other/crimea.htm
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,181
    Oliver Cromwell. If he had any idea how "democracy" would turn out, I think he would have grown his hair long and taken up drinking.

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