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Last night I conceived a sort of "parking porn" blog or instagram account called "Good Parking," where people submit pictures whenever they find a really good parking space. Sometimes it would be obvious why the parking was good, e.g. you'd be able to see the strip mall storefronts in the shot just steps away from the car, but in other cases it would just be a picture of a car in a street parking spot with the caption "Two blocks from metropolitan museum of art on a Saturday" or something like that.

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Sunday, 3 December 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link

seems like it could catch on as a pointless but mildly amusing hashtag-type idea rather than a blog but maybe the instagram helps get the hashtag going. i would say #powerofpositiveparking but that just revives my frustrations from Let's help each other identify books we dimly remember reading as kids

'cause there's always been an it i can't truss (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 3 December 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link

santa-tary napkins

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link

a little harness you put on your cat that lets you manipulate all four of their limbs to make them dance

mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link

lol

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:53 (six years ago) link

um, clearly a winner product idea, not terrible

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:54 (six years ago) link

holding and waving the front paws in the air is just not enough

mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link

if doing something that causes discomfort to one being (the cat in this case) also brings joy to literally everyone else, is it worth doing? is there some sort of decision-point tradeoff line? if it only brings joy to 5 people but discomfort to 1, is it less defensible than it brought joy to 5000? just want to have my arguments ready in case i'm ever discussing this with my cat

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link

I apologized to my cat aloud after I had the idea because I felt he could sense my inner cruelty

mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link

for cats this product might find a market. suggest the same for dogs and you'd be chased out of the country. i think i have found my cause.

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Thursday, 7 December 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link

Dogs limbs not as innately dancey tbf

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link

exactly. that can be part of the argument to the cat, or the pep talk before the performance

"you were born for this"

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link

"now stretch those paws out and dance"

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link

treat cats with some respect, it's not like they're chickens

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link

chickens would dance if they had even 1% of the raw ability of cats. but they don't have it. and you do. < another talking point for the pep talk

Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link

if doing something that causes discomfort to one being (the cat in this case) also brings joy to literally everyone else, is it worth doing? is there some sort of decision-point tradeoff line? if it only brings joy to 5 people but discomfort to 1, is it less defensible than it brought joy to 5000? just want to have my arguments ready in case i'm ever discussing this with my cat

― Karl Malone, Thursday, December 7, 2017 1:56 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cat Trolley* Problems

*My cat's name is Trolley

IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link

I held off posting that for a couple weeks! Now that I know there's a market for my bad ideas I'll stop holding back

mh, Thursday, 7 December 2017 19:20 (six years ago) link

some sort of prosthetic head device for dudes who are way pumped up on hgh to use so it doesn’t look like they have tiny noggins

mh, Sunday, 10 December 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link

I think you're on to something. I've always thought that those bodybuilders who have the face of a Home Depot store manager would like the option of making that not happen.

Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 December 2017 19:34 (six years ago) link

most recently inspired by

This is possibly Lindsay Lohan’s new boyfriend and I have been staring at this photo for 5 hours straight. pic.twitter.com/JQ0MfY3TKn

— Jensen Karp (@JensenClan88) December 10, 2017

mh, Sunday, 10 December 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link

That’s viscerally upsetting

.oO (silby), Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link

never google “hgh abuse”

unless you wonder what a human ninja turtle would look like

mh, Sunday, 10 December 2017 20:20 (six years ago) link

(immediately googles 'hgh abuse', has Cronenbergian nightmares for a week)

Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Sunday, 10 December 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link

mh stop having ideas!

Jeff, Sunday, 10 December 2017 23:32 (six years ago) link

yeah it's "terrible" not "terrifying" ffs

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Monday, 11 December 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link

So much wat to unpack here: http://www.vulture.com/2017/12/lindsay-lohans-muscular-korean-boyfriend.html

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:18 (six years ago) link

Wasn't trying to derail the terrible ideas thread. Just looking for a larger version of that pic.

https://i.imgur.com/EK5u4AJ.jpg

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link

always wondered who actually drank the tennis ball water

crocus bulbotuber (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 11 December 2017 01:35 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/7hsNCPk.jpg

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link

I'm such a peon, I don't know if this is an airplane or a superlimo.

https://i.imgur.com/1qu2z3I.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OkEVsBG.jpg

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:52 (six years ago) link

Oh no. I was kinda digging this guy

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Monday, 11 December 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link

Man, dig on him. He can afford those foot-sock things from the money he makes doing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWWNQCNmlck

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link

I don’t think he can afford half that shit

El Tomboto, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link

Then where's all the shit I can't afford, I ask you

fuiud, mac (rip van wanko), Monday, 11 December 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/83mt2lI.jpg

pplains, Monday, 11 December 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link

tbh you need a good foot sock thing to coax blood flow past your bulges

mh, Monday, 11 December 2017 02:23 (six years ago) link

Dude looks like a cartoon character who used a bike pump to get swole.

Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 December 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link

my new terrible idea: someone get me some
hgh

mh, Monday, 11 December 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link

Take Big Shaq's song "Man's Not Hot" and overdub bits of Gordon Ramsey yelling at people in "Hells Kitchen".

Shaq: "smoke trees..."
Ramsey: "YOU'VE BURNT IT!!!"

(...)

Shaq: "take off your jacket"
Ramsey: "TAKE YOUR JACKET OFF!!!"

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Monday, 11 December 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link

A parody of the Tony Hawk videogames called 'Fall On Your Ass Simulator'.

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 16 December 2017 13:55 (six years ago) link

check out Stair Dismount

the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 16 December 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link

Mornington Crescent Simulator 2018

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Sunday, 17 December 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link

a lighthearted, Ocean's Eleven-esque heist movie about the 9/11 conspirators

.oO (silby), Friday, 29 December 2017 05:15 (six years ago) link

don't do that to me right before bed. I can already see the split screen star wipes on the security videos, a box cutter wobbling down a walmart conveyor belt, all set to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8YQ6sU6I4

pplains, Friday, 29 December 2017 05:32 (six years ago) link

The meta-terrible idea is this is the designated bomb in an updated version of The Producers

.oO (silby), Friday, 29 December 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link

pilot lesson montage to that music, too

mh, Friday, 29 December 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link

A tricorder attachment for mobile phones aimed at bus users. Is that just dark coloured fabric or has a previous occupant of that seat saturated it with urine? Find out with Buscorder!

Zings Can Only Get Better (snoball), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:04 (six years ago) link

rap tribute to the artist's best buddy, sampling the chorus of "hold me" by fleetwood mac but rapping on top of it so that you hear it as "homie, homie, homie"

Newb Sybok (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 30 December 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link

Silby!

remember the lmao (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link

I’m actually deeply unacceptable, it just rarely makes it to print

The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Saturday, 30 December 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link


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