What is the point-things we can do without

Unicycles--As its name suggests, a unicycle is similar to a bicycle but it only has one wheel. The effects of removing a wheel are all negative. Balancing on a unicycle requires much more effort and leads to a much greater likelihood of falling off. Taking away a wheel is also much slower. The maximum speed reached on a unicycle is approximately 35 km/h (22 mph), while Chris Hoy has reached speeds of 70 km/h (40 mph) on his bicycle. Capital letters-- We all know that capital letters indicate the start of each sentence. But why do we need to mark the start of a sentence when the humble full stop has already marked the end? The limited use of capital letters in text speak or in casual emails indicates that capitals are a superfluity to the language, rather than a necessity. In fact, the majority of writing systems - including Georgian, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese - do not have an upper and lower case system. Denton railway station-- As dead as a station in the Australian outback, the unstaffed railway station in Denton, Manchester has got to be Britain's most redundant railway stop. One train per week stops at Denton on Saturday mornings. But be warned: Denton is a request stop, so it may be necessary to flag the train down using your arms. To make matters worse, there are no return tickets to Denton - the weekly service runs only in one direction. You can leave, but you won't be coming back again in a hurry. The word inflammable-- The in- prefix of inflammable means 'into', rather than 'not', leaving us with two words -- flammable and inflammable -- with exactly the same meaning. But not only is the word inflammable needless, it is also dangerous. When labelling commercial and industrial products, 'flammable' is considered to be the safer choice because of the potentially disastrous consequences of misinterpreting 'inflammable'. To add to the confusion, the word most frequently used to convey the opposite meaning to flammable is nonflammable, but noninflammable also exists. Ties-- Ties once served a sociological purpose: archaeological evidence in China suggests that the ancient elite hung fabric around their necks as a means of marking their elevated status. But now that mankind has invented other ways of exhibiting wealth - the Ferrari parked in the driveway, or the penthouse in Park Lane - ties no longer serve such a function. So dangling coloured material from around the neck does what, exactly? The pointlessness of the tie is perhaps beaten only by that sixteenth-century folly: the neck ruff. At their most extreme, starched ruffs could reach a foot or more in diameter and had to be propped by specially made wires. Fortunately, they fell out of fashion as quickly as they entered it. Male nipples-- Beating off stiff competition from underarm hair and wisdom teeth, male nipples sit proudly at the top of our most useless body parts list. We know why men have nipples, but that doesn't negate the fact that they serve no practical purpose - they do not, ordinarily, produce milk. All the varieties of pasta shapes-- Various shapes of pasta have different flavours, textures, cooking times, and each must be used in the appropriate context. Obviously, it's important to get the right pasta for the right sauce. After all, lasagne wouldn't be lasagne if it weren't for those thin layers of baked pasta nestled between the sauce and cheese. However, is there really any point to lasagnette (a narrower version of lasagne) or lasagnotte (a longer version of lasagna)? Or does the average person really care whether they're eating penne rigate (penne with ridged sides), penne lisce (penne with smooth sides), penne zita (penne with a slightly wider hole), or pennette (penne that is slightly shorter and thinner)? I would hazard a guess at no. Gay And Lesbian-- Your not born gay,nor do you have a gay gene,its a choice to be gay,no matter how much the gay community debates that these genes are real or that"we do not have a choice"we DO,we know animals in the animal kingdom go gay for the fact that they want to have sex but we humans have evolved enough to think of the consequences,HIV,AIDs and other STDs,infecting others,unable to reproduce(unable to have kids)plus other factors,its natural law that we reproduce,gay people turn their backs on this basic rule plus adopting babies and kids has shown to destroy that childs choice whether to be gay or not,they grow up thinking that being gay is normal,gays SHOULD be banned from adopting Spam-- The chances of someone responding to spam is approximately one in 12.5 million. It may be extremely cheap to market a product by sending out junk e-mails, but surely such an enormous failure rate should deter even the most persistent person... Please?