karaoke is the most annoying invention ever

[Emancipation 2]

I once did karaoke in a biker bar in SC... an hour after we left the bar someone was shot & killed there..

'nough said

sounds like your voice might be an accessory to murder

I can neither confirm nor deny that accusation

[panamania79 2]

The karaoke machine has been named in a government survey as the most irritating invention.

A poll of more than 2,500 adults found that that nearly 25% of Brits wish it had never been invented.

Other annoying creations included 24-hour sports channels, computer games consoles, mobile phones and alarm clocks.

Invented in 1971 by a Japanese musician called Inoue Daisuke, karaoke, which means "empty orchestra", became popular in Asia before being introduced to the rest of the world in the 1980s.

Daisuke never patented his invention, which he made by combining a car stereo, a coin box and an amplifier, a mistake which has cost him an estimated £100 million.

Kane Kramer, a director of the British Inventors Society, said: "Seeing the karaoke machine at the top of that list made me smile.

"When people are singing karaoke they are enjoying themselves, but as a member of the audience you are just watching somebody who can't perform, and isn't particularly pleasant to listen to, for as long as you can bear it."

The karaoke machine was brought to Britain by Ivor Arbiter, who died in 2005, and his daughter Joanne, after they visited a Japanese trade show in 1987.

Joanne said: "It might be irritating in the pub, but it's also given millions of people who didn't know they could sing the opportunity to discover they can."

But inventor Rob Law said: "If you've created a product that has become so popular that it's become annoying, then you're going to be put down as pretty great inventor."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_3150924.html?menu=

While I do agree that karaoke is annoying.It is really fun to go to a club and see your friends make total fools of themselves trying to sing drunk.

[Jasman0717 9]

We love karaoke We used to have karaoke parties at our house, they were hiliarious....pub karaokes were fun too as the singing was mostly really really bad

We found a place about two miles from our home that does karaoke on Friday and Saturday nights. Claudeth loves it. Besides, she is the best singer there

[Ellie-and-David 38]

Ummmm Okay.

This is wear I chime in and tell everybody I ummm....

Okay.

I met my SO on an online karaoke site! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH!!!!

Have a look here...

www.singsnap.com

I have to say.....some very talented people on there! I know of at least one other visajourney couple who also met on that site and have recieved their K1 visa :-)

[almaty 19]

karaoke is a sign of the decline and fall of western civilization

[Jasman0717 9]

karaoke is a sign of the decline and fall of western civilization

Don't tell that to a Filipino