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We go through our lives with a wide variety of tools and devices at our disposal to make our fat, decadent, western imperialist lives easier. Even in the Frozen North of Canada, where health care and all other things are rationed by a brutal (but extremely polite) totalitarian state such things exist to make life better. (or just less hellish in the case of Canuckistan). What program, tool, device or appliance do you use regularly that makes your life a hell of a lot simpler that you don't appreciate nearly enough?

Personally I have to say that automated bill pay is fething brilliant in every possible way. At least if you know exactly when and how it's going to hit, being able to just set it up so it's handled without any interference from you at all is pretty darn nice.

Paypal, cause my wallet with my credit card is still in my pants two flights of stairs down.

I offer one that makes many people way too complacent... where it gets to the level of hopping in for what would be a 5 minute walk just to pick up some milk... the motor vehicle.
Seriously people. I get that it makes it possible to go places you couldn't at the drop of a hat, but if you can't leave the house to go *anywhere* without turning on the engine, you've either gotten lazy over the years, or you need to move closer to other stuff.

My own personal vice has got to be convenience meals. Things like jars of pasta sauce, microwave meals, etc... I *CAN* cook, but I can't remember the last time I went to the trouble of putting a proper meal together.

In b4 someone says "fleshlight" and gets the thread locked:


For me, I'd have to say my Dremmel rotary tool. That thing is awesome.

I'm too freaked out by modern conveniences to not appreciate them.

HEAR THAT FUTURE SKYNET ROBOTZ?! I HEART U!!!!

 azazel the cat wrote:
In b4 someone says "fleshlight" and gets the thread locked:


For me, I'd have to say my Dremmel rotary tool. That thing is awesome.

Given a fancy enough attachment to the Dremmel, you've just repeated yourself.

I try to maintain a healthy appreciation of running (hot) water and electricity.

Not a device per se, nor even strictly modern, but our food market infrastructure.

I like my bacon, but killing and butchering pigs is hard work.

Flush Toilets.

 Kovnik Obama wrote:
Not a device per se, nor even strictly modern, but our food market infrastructure.

I like my bacon, but killing and butchering pigs is hard work.

And the mess. Entrails, everywhere!

 LordofHats wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:
Not a device per se, nor even strictly modern, but our food market infrastructure.

I like my bacon, but killing and butchering pigs is hard work.

And the mess. Entrails, everywhere!

Surprisingly colourful, tho.

Thank god for soft toilet paper

1. Flush Toilets.
2. Modern Markets (meat, produce, milk, etc) All in one place, clean, hygienic, etc.
3. Internet. You know, for the warhams. Not for why Alf uses it.

You're not a real man until you've wiped with sandpaper, various leaves you found on the bush growing next to you, and stinging nettles you thought were harmless leaves on the bush growing next to you.

At both ends.

I prefer Thistles and rose bush limbs.

daedalus wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
In b4 someone says "fleshlight" and gets the thread locked:


For me, I'd have to say my Dremmel rotary tool. That thing is awesome.

Given a fancy enough attachment to the Dremmel, you've just repeated yourself.

You frighten me sometimes.

My computer and my smartphone.

Makes life suck a little less. And sometimes a little more. But mostly less.

i like refrigeration

Food from all around the globe. I'm so glad that I live now and not in 1950's Australia where the average dinner was lamb forequarter chops and boiled 3 veg and the height of cooking was a roast. Then bring on the 70's where aspic salads were the go

Bullockist wrote:
Food from all around the globe. I'm so glad that I live now and not in 1950's Australia where the average dinner was lamb forequarter chops and boiled 3 veg and the height of cooking was a roast. Then bring on the 70's where aspic salads were the go

I'm grateful for this too... but I'm also aware that, back then, most people didn't know any better. You know the saying, ignorance is bliss - much as I love what we have now, I can't wait to see what foods people have invented or made popular in 30 or 40 years' time.

 azazel the cat wrote:

daedalus wrote:

 azazel the cat wrote:
In b4 someone says "fleshlight" and gets the thread locked:


For me, I'd have to say my Dremmel rotary tool. That thing is awesome.

Given a fancy enough attachment to the Dremmel, you've just repeated yourself.

You frighten me sometimes.

I aim to please.

 Avatar 720 wrote:
You're not a real man until you've wiped with sandpaper, various leaves you found on the bush growing next to you, and stinging nettles you thought were harmless leaves on the bush growing next to you.

At both ends.

Reminded me of this.


Thanks for that Avatar!

 kronk wrote:
1. Flush Toilets.
2. Modern Markets (meat, produce, milk, etc) All in one place, clean, hygienic, etc.
3. Internet. You know, for the warhams. Not for why Alf uses it.

I haven't even posted in this thread and I'm already getting flak

I'm a big fan of pretty much Kronk's list, though I do have to make 1 change...

3. Intenet. You know, for the reasons David Cameron wants to regulate it. Not for why Kronk uses it

 LordofHats wrote:

 Kovnik Obama wrote:
Not a device per se, nor even strictly modern, but our food market infrastructure.

I like my bacon, but killing and butchering pigs is hard work.

And the mess. Entrails, everywhere!

but how else are we to divine our futures without the entrails? DOWN WITH THE SUPERMARKET INFRASTRUCTURE!!!