Electric can openers

[Twisted Intestine 0]

Are people just lazy? Why did they ever invent an electric can opener? Hand held openers work just fine! They take about 4 seconds to open a can with... I don't get it. I could see if manual can openers gave people a hard time, inventing an electric... but as is, why do they exist, and who buys them?

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Are people just lazy? Why did they ever invent an electric can opener? Hand held openers work just fine! They take about 4 seconds to open a can with... I don't get it. I could see if manual can openers gave people a hard time, inventing an electric... but as is, why do they exist, and who buys them?

Because it is tremendously difficult for an elderly person to operate a manual can opener.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Well that's the end of that chapter!

[Twisted Intestine 0]

Thank you. I didn't think of elderly people or people with arthritis.

 

Yeah.. That about answers my question.

 

Still, any of you in good health who use an electric can opener are lazy!

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Thank you. I didn't think of elderly people or people with arthritis.

 

Yeah.. That about answers my question.

 

Still, any of you in good health who use an electric can opener are lazy!

 

 

I once came up with a list of things that showed how lazy people as a whole were. Everyone thing on that list was eventually debunked (rightfully, as I recall). The only one I can remember is paper shredder.

 

Edit: Those moving walkways at airports was a second.

[Black Lushus 0]

Thank you. I didn't think of elderly people or people with arthritis.

 

Yeah.. That about answers my question.

 

Still, any of you in good health who use an electric can opener are lazy!

 

 

I once came up with a list of things that showed how lazy people as a whole were. Everyone thing on that list was eventually debunked (rightfully, as I recall). The only one I can remember is paper shredder.

 

Edit: Those moving walkways at airports was a second.

 

Have you ever rushed through an airport with carry-ons, a stroller and two children with only 10 minutes to get to the connecting flight?

[Ripper 0]

My portable 7 Inch DVD player has a remote.

 

What the fuck is that all about? Its a goddamn 7 inch screen, so you aren't going to sit it across the room. Its a portable DVD player!

 

Almost everything else can be explained as "Old people need it".

[Gary Floyd 0]

Almost everything else can be explained as "Old people need it".

For example: The Clapper.

[Ripper 0]

I totally want a one of those. Because fuck those lights.

[Nighthawk 0]

Try electric scissors. They exist. David Cross has a bit about seeing an ad for them during the Simple Life.

 

"Oh yeah, I would love to go to the Evanescence concert with you! Wait, it's tonight? Oh no, man, I gotta cut so much shit out of the paper. Maybe in a perfect world when someone invents 'electric scissors'!"

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

Thank you. I didn't think of elderly people or people with arthritis.

 

Yeah.. That about answers my question.

 

Still, any of you in good health who use an electric can opener are lazy!

 

 

I once came up with a list of things that showed how lazy people as a whole were. Everyone thing on that list was eventually debunked (rightfully, as I recall). The only one I can remember is paper shredder.

 

Paper shredder has little to do with laziness at all, and more to do with efficiency. It's very useful, especially for Enron-types.

 

Don't make me debunk you again!

[Twisted Intestine 0]

Okay, this one you can't explain.

 

In the msn game "rock papper scissors", why is there a random choice? WTF! This fucks my whole game plan up. I like to pride myself at thinking I'm good at reading people, and knowing what they'll pick next based on what our choices were the prior time. But for all I know they can be sitting there hitting random. GRRR!

 

Is it that hard to pick one of the 3? What kind of idiot would need random? That just fucks up the whole game.

[Bruiser Chong 0]

I started a post saying I've got an electric can opener and then explained why it wasn't because I was lazy, but then I realized I couldn't really conjure up a good reason.

[Exslade ZX 0]

But, manual openers can be a pain in the ass...

 

Not that I even use one now, but, I remember as a kid, I would get pissed when occasionally trying to open cans and the opener would slide off midway through. Or it sometimes wouldn't latch on at the start, and took a few tries.

 

there's also a problem of, well I remember doing at least once, where I would open with the can, while it was set on the counter, and with the can turning, it left a scratch. (Hey, I was a kid)

 

Point is, just because you happen to be fairly efficient with a can opener, doesn't mean they're perfect.

 

Yea...I'm sure there's a way that could be said better. But I get my point.

[Slayer 0]

Why is it that black people act in a particular way, while white people act in an entirely different way?

[Slayer 0]

and furthermore, what is the deal with airline food anyway

[theintensifier 0]

Someone was watching Family Guy tonight.

[Guest Pizza Hut's Game Face]

Not really, but okay!

[Jingus 0]

My mom used to use a can opener as a Pavlonian tool to let our cats know that it was dinner time. They heard the opener whirring, they knew there was a bowl of tuna in the kitchen with their name on it.

 

Of course, it meant that we had to use a manual opener for our own food, or else we'd be swarmed by pussy every time we tried to eat, and not in a good way.

[Guest]

I don't need a fuckin' can opener. I open that shit with my bare hands.

[Guest Vitamin X]

The other advantage to an electric one is that they have that little magnet so it takes the top off. That's kinda nice. Yeah.

 

I use a manual one though, of course.

[Black Lushus 0]

My house came with an electric one, I most certainly use it.

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS! 0]

Try electric scissors. They exist. David Cross has a bit about seeing an ad for them during the Simple Life.

 

"Oh yeah, I would love to go to the Evanescence concert with you! Wait, it's tonight? Oh no, man, I gotta cut so much shit out of the paper. Maybe in a perfect world when someone invents 'electric scissors'!"

 

God damn, you beat me to it.

 

"The terrorists hate our freedom? I hate our freedom!"

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I use a manual. And I doubt old people can use these fancy contraptions.

[theintensifier 0]

Cans open themselves when Chuck Norris walks by.

[JJ Johnson 0]

Pavlonian

 

Pavlon was one of the lesser-known Transformers. You ring a bell, and he turns into a helicopter.

 

[Jingus 0]

Normally I find people who point out one-letter spelling typos which don't turn the word into a Freudian slip or something similar to be nitpicking pedants, but now THAT'S funny.

[Copper Feel 0]

My hand to eye coordination is so totally fucked (dyspraxia), that I would use an electric can opener in an instant if I could find one.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

Manual openers are a tool of the right-handed establishment to keep left-handers down.

[Kinetic 0]

My hand to eye coordination is so totally fucked (dyspraxia), that I would use an electric can opener in an instant if I could find one.

 

Smoking fake pot does that to me, too.