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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?
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.
This is the sort of thing I was thinking. Especially if it's overly elaborate and complicated to fix a specific problem
Heath Robinson https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Heath+Robinson&iax=images&ia=images
The patron saint of the tinkerer
He came up in some articles I was reading. I'll need to look into him more
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.
Aside from that unfortunate end this sounds very Wallace and Gromit