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Post  Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 12:55 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: Inventions for China

What inventions does China need?

I'd like to see:

A shoe washer/disinfector
Something that causes a car horn to be as loud inside the car as it is outside
Silencers to quiet people who insist on talking all the way through performances
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a smoke detector / sprinkler system for elevators.

Very Happy

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Something that causes a car horn to be as loud inside the car as it is outside



Absolute genius.

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Something on buses, cars, trucks and bikes that prevents them crossing on a red light.

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Supermarket trolley warning system, they drive their trolleys like they do their cars.....

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Laser cannon monitored queues so that jumpers are blasted. May also work on a sound targeted system for phlem spitters.

A breath mint that also eliminates excess phlem.

Self draining and disinfecting sidewalks for crap and urine from kids and cabbies.

A mattress that isn't made of concrete.

A HEPA filter the size of Jinmao Tower.

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An umbrella with a special attachment that dislodges those irritating footpath scooter riders as they beep at you to make room for them.

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A computer chip that prevents Chinese people from asking the following questions:

Do you like China?

Do you like Chinese food?

Are you know how to use chopsticks?

Do you marry?

How much do you earn?

Do you have how many children?

You like Chinese girl?

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Or even a computer chip that has been preprogrammed to give equally non-sensical answers to all those questions...

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An electric suit that protects the wearer but issues a sharp electric shock (not fatal) to any person that barges using any unnecessary force. A pressure guage could be fitted to prevent slight 'bargees' from getting shocked. A computer operated camera could be fitted so that any person trying to get on a subway train or into a lift while the wearer is trying to get off/out would be issued with such an electric shock that they become completely disabled temporarily and lose complete control of their bowels.

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Testicle clamps fitted to driver's seats, directly linked to the car horn so that one beep equals one clench.

Auto-erecting popcorn dispensers that keep the chirpy onlookers satisfied by sensing when there are accident victims dying in the middle of the road and dispensing afore-mentioned popcorn, payed by the taxpayer for the taxpayer's ultimate pleasure knowing that they are once again better than someone else.

Aural implant that detects the incoming racket of a spit/girl-on-mobile/drill and converts the sound into more pleasing sounds.
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Devices that convert lies and bullsh1t into electricity. After that we could tear down the Three Gorges Dam, and a few others.

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This is even more fun than I thought it would be. I'm instituting the Better than Chopsticks Award for the best invention. Winners will receive a copy of "Fireworks Before Noon on Sunday: 5,000 Years of Chinese Inventions and How They've Been Used to Annoy Our Neighbors."
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Chinglish-English and English-Chinglish versions of babelfish

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SirFiddler wrote:
Chinglish-English and English-Chinglish versions of babelfish


Very Happy Very Happy

I need you over here Fidds!

hahahahahahaha...

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getting exhausted of rolling all these joints ?

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SirFiddler wrote:
getting exhausted of rolling all these joints ?


Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

But I also appreciate you for your mind, not just your hands...

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His mind? Surely that left ages ago.

A trap door at the top and bottom of escalators that if a weight is upon it for too long will open and release the offender into a huge vat of liquidised shiit.

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Post  Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 07:33 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

A laser that will execute anyone who will not spit in the right place.

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A standardized language that isn't hieroglyphic - Egypt figured it out, what's the hold up here ?

http://www.quizland.com/hiero.htm

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Large breast

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and butt

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Just one ?

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Post  Posted: Dec 21, 2007 - 09:28 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

diesel powered chopsticks
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heavy duty heater

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