Daily Discussion Thread: 🐣☕🫗 Friday, 3 January, 2025
Daily Discussion Thread: 🐣☕🫗 Friday, 3 January, 2025
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Wallace and Gromit for me thinking about how there's a tradition of British men inventing something in their shed that's a specific answer to a problem no one had before.
Things that come to mind are the Brompton folding bicycle, that 3 wheeled car from Mr Bean, and the L96A1 sniper rifle.
Does anyone know of any others?
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The patron saint of the tinkerer
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He came up in some articles I was reading. I'll need to look into him more
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Not British, but my late grandfather tinkered in his Melbourne shed and invented a Golf Thing. Some kind of magic device to fix a particular swing issue.
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This is the sort of thing I was thinking. Especially if it's overly elaborate and complicated to fix a specific problem
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Thomas Midgely. The inventor of both leaded petrol and ozone destroying CFCs subsequently invented a rope system to help himself get out of bed because he had issues from past polio. The ropes killed him by strangling him.
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