30 People Post Their Dumbest Ideas That Might Just Might Make The World A Better Place
The brain is a truly fantastic thing. The same organ that’s capable of controlling a myriad of passive as well as active bodily functions, comprehending elaborately complex concepts, and providing a unique kind of sentience is also the organ that often slips us a dumb idea. Or two. OK, much more.
But, hey, not all ideas are dumb, despite you thinking so. A curious Twitter user by the name of Bijan asked the internet what’s the dumbest idea people ever had, but are nevertheless convinced it’d still make the world a better place for all.
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Bored Panda has collected some of the best responses from the viral thread and created a curated list for you to enjoy. Vote, comment, and why not tell us some of your ideas in the comment section below!
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I also think they should live on an "average" wage for a year or two so they understand what the average person/family have to go through.
Legalize weed across the states, tax it, and use that money to repair the roads. Call it Operation Pothole.
Definitely, and for crying out loud ride in single file, not 2-3+ abreast.
Well in Australia it is illegal to ask a breastfeeding mother to leave or move elsewhere etc. Doesn't matter if she is feeding in the middle of a shopping centre, a restaurant etc. From my observations, it seems that other women are the ones that complain about breastfeeding in public, a lot more than men do.
This one makes me so sad, especially because of how women and PoC are so much more routinely dismissed, leading to sometimes dire consequences.
Knowing me I would procrastinate until June, then „relax“ during the summer until I finally put together a manuscript in december.
All the money that is spent on marketing and advertising saved would make products cheaper, and if the product changes are good, it will sell itself X
Yeah but there are literally thousands of products released every single day, even though majority would be useless for you there might still be something which may certainly improve your life. So advertisement is the only way for you to know it exists.
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There goes TV, internet, magazines, newspapers, a big chunk of the printing industry, and many, many jobs. Plus, how do you learn about new products without advertising. I hate the excessive proliferation but it has some good aspects.
Instead all the money could go toward useful jobs that help society, like more teachers, doctors, artists.
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I disagree. You would never know some things existed, and you might never think of it, but if you had it it would make your life ten times easier.
Skechers Arch Fit shoes were advertised during a golf tournament. My mom and husband had a pair within 2 weeks and they love them! They both have a hard time finding comfortable walking shoes.
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Henry Ford once said, “A man who stops advertising to save money is like a man who stops a clock to save time.”
That's just bc other people are advertising. They are doing it so I have to! But if nobody was doing it, I wouldn't need to.
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I can't believe how unbelievably stupid so many of these are. A 10yr old should intuitively understand why this idea is really dumb. Also, she's saying this on social media. Social media makes its money off advertising. No advertising = no social media so maybe she doesn't get to spread her idiocy. Maybe her idea isn't so bad after all....
I resent the mindfuck to manipulate you into buying something you don’t need, can’t afford, and either will never use or will use but the damn thing falls apart almost immediately. I also don’t like being bombarded with ads I never asked to see. I wouldn’t mind it if informative advertising was on demand—-you only see it when YOU CHOOSE to ask about a specific product, or what new products have been introduced. That way, once I decide I need a new “whatever”, I can learn about what’s out there, and make an informed decision on which to purchase. Advertisers can still make commercials, but they will only be seen when requested, and will need to be as honest and informative as they can.
Boring answer: the TV companies depend on advertising revenue to fund new programmes and bid for sporting events. You could always pirate your TV and dodge the ads? Is what...um ..a friend told me.
Also websites. How else do you think your BP, Facebook, Instagram, local news site, etc etc etc is free to use? Unless you want to pay for every little service out of pocket, removing advertisements is just not feasible. Remember when texts were something like 10cents per message? Imagine that but you're paying for everything you post. More than once if it's beyond the character limit. TBH I'm glad that advertising dollars cover that.
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I dont mind a little bit of awareness raising marketing - sometimes i learn about a new product, service, or location that i desperately needed in my life but didnt know it
Ban the stupid pop up that tells you to disable your adblocker.
That's an awkward one. Websites need advertising revenue to pay for their operations. Though they would use MUCH less bandwidth if their sites weren't so bulky with scripts and HTML5 formatting. I would be perfectly satisfied to read plain text news stories.
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When I buy an item, especially $$ or $$$ its not likely I will be buying another one in the next week yet I get bombarded for the next EON with ads for cheaper, brighter, lighter, exactly the same, free shipping items.
Imagine how it would be if companies spent as much on employee healthcare as they do on advertising.
Imagine a world where you aren't told that you need a ring to be married (or engaged), and boys and girls wear the same color clothes. All this was dreamt up and advertised to sell sell sell.
And sales people. Completely unnecessary. They make the world objectively worse.
If nobody bought anything they saw on TV or a billboard, they'd have to stop advertising. It's up to us.
You could just have advertising for really new things, not constant repetitive advertising for the same things
There's a flip side to this coin, though. Advertisements and sponsorships are a huge part of what keep the arts functioning in modern society.
I think a better thing would be if a product or company is above a certain value or age, they aren't allowed to advertise. Eliminates ads for things everyone is well aware of, and gives an opportunity to smaller and lesser known ones.
Companies would only spend this money to prevent certain stores fro, carrying competitors good or make them sell only their product.it would create more monopolies and stifle the free market.
The worst are ads letting you know how good the company is or that buying their product makes the world better. If you have to convince others you are good, you aren't. How about those great ads from BP, Exxon, Ford, and Mercedes Benz all promising to be off fossil fuels in 30 years. $100 million ad campaign from Coke letting me know they donated $200K water to hurricane victims . If they really cared, they'd use the $100 million to build the needed emergency water purification plants they mastered before the hurricane hit. Hurricane Katrina wasn't the first one to hit that place.
I remember reading about a French town that banned all public advertising, and people were overall happier after that was implemented.
How sad that people like this think so little of others. This attitude shows that they think other people are stupid, and they are contemptuous of them because of that. What point is being made by stating that they "didn't know something existed until 10 seconds ago". So? What does that have to do with anything? Nothing. Advertising doesn't "make" people want anything. Heard the old saying, "Build a better mousetrap and the world with beat a path to your door"? It's wrong. That won't happen because humans aren't telepathic. People have to know about the better mousetrap before they will come to the door. Advertising is nothing more than informing people about the better mousetrap.
It might be sad but it is true. Other people are very stupid and it works in advertising to operate on that principle. I had to make a website for my business. It looked so fuçking awesome and elegant and smart. But I hired a developer to tie up loose ends and he changed the entire thing for me, dumbed it WAYYYYYY down, and the response is so much better now. Advertising plays on our most simple instincts. Stupid people buy the most too. Stupid people are what drive markets; and advertising.
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How would you know it existed to make your life easier if it wasn't advertised? Shopping channels however, should definitely be banned, and *some* other product advertising could be banned. This would also put all the "ideas people" who get paid obscene amounts to think of stupid adverts that make NO SENSE, fragrance guys I'm looking at you
Especially political advertising! The need to pay for political ads has corrupted the democratic process.
How? Are you saying they should get free advertising? That would make things even worse unless it came with a unappealable, legally enforceable stipulation that politicians must tell the truth during election campaigns, and that being untruthful will get you removed from the election or removal from office if elected... for life. Politicians selling their influence (for whatever motivation) corrupts the democratic process... and that's been going on way before advertising existed. Rules we need for politicians (before dealing with "corrupting" advertising); Total financial transparency by candidates (and every appointed/hired government position) going back 2 decades. No elected (appointed or hired government person) can be employed by nor receive ANY form of compensation from any business entity, group, or individual affected by legislation they are involved with (this would also apply to hired and appointed government positions)... for life.
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I have the same theory with the fashion industry and all clothing. Hear me out. Get over the fact everyone will be naked 100% of the time, who cares. Think of all the money and water everyone would save. No more washer and dryer. No more dry cleaning. No more chemicals going into our water. I'm just saying it's worth thinking about.
This is very progressive. I like it. Bodyshaming would be over, because everybody looks kinda wonky and there’d be no fashion magazines to tell us that we look wrong. We’d all just look weird and be ok with it.
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Like a personal ID coin for shopping cart..if you don't return the cart you don't have your coin back and you can't get the next cart..
Well, the horn is supposed to be used only in case of emergency. If you are in an emergency, you don't need that level of stress added on top of it.
Can't remember where is was, but in a town in Europe everyone parked with their handbrake off so people could move the other cars back and forth as they parked or pulled away so they could all fit in
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I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
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The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
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I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
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The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies... #31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.
I have one! Stop Bored Panda commenters from leaving humorless pedantic replies on posts that are clearly tongue in cheek.
some pf these actually harms the earth in the long run, but they DID ASK for their dumbest ideas, soooo
Best silly idea I heard that seemed valid was by Chris Rock. He suggested bullets should cost some ridiculous amount of money each. That way if someone shot a person you know it wasn't by accident.
My dumb idea is to mount a knife blade in the steering wheel connected to the bumper so if a car driver hits a pedestrian, the driver gets stabbed. There are too many accidents from drivers who get no punishment at all when they just say "I didn't see him" -- if the driver was in just as much danger as the pedestrian, they'd actually look for pedestrians. I've had many close calls from drivers approaching a red light and rolling through to make a right turn on red and didn't even see me already in the cross walk because they were only looking for cars, not pedestrians.
Try not assuming that people were being careless, and simply legit didn't see you. Honest mistakes do happen, you know. Also, if it is happening "many times" it is very possible the problem is in fact with the commonality the incidents share...you. If the light is red, you shouldn't be crossing, dumbass.
Load More Replies... The "No Money Party". Create a political party in the United States whose sole purpose is to prove that a candidate can get elected to a federal office (Rep or Sen) with zero political contributions. It would be based purely on social media and volunteers could print out posters or post online. The candidate would be completely neutral and base all of their decisions on polling results. The party would be disbanded after achieving its goal. It would be a purely philosophical test and, if successful would weaken the power that money has over our elections.
Be a kind human being to make up for the oxygen you are sucking up in the atmosphere
Ok absolutely mad idea for here in the USA but employees are encouraged to talk about their wages to help ensure fair and equitable wages for everyone according to their experience and skills, not according to who management hangs out with on lunch.
Those who deny pandemics and are anti vaxxers should not be treated for the diseases they deny existed or refuse to be vaccinated for. Those who cannot be vaccinated due to previous health conditions are exempt.
Ok here's my idea. We already have the ability to grow ears on the backs of rats so why not make little photosynthesizers that can be tattooed onto our backs and shoulders in cool designs so that the majority of our energy could be generated directly from sunlight? Of course we would still eat occasionally for fun and take in all our essential vitamins and protein and stuff but it would make a huge impact on reducing our food-related footprint on the planet.
Ok. SO hear me out. Phone companies are seriously sleeping on a "projector mode" for phones. It could come out of the flashlight, and they can basically cast their phone screen onto any surface. It would be better for your eyes, cause you're not looking directly into the screen, and do you REALIZE how much people would rather buy a phone over a whole projector and screen so they can use it twice a year. And it would be so much more portable!
An adjustable mirror on the back of my car so I can reflect HIGH BEAM HEADLIGHTS back into the face of the vehicle behind me. Especially effective when stuck in a drive-thru food place line at night.
Every person who tells me I HAVE to become pregnant, after I have said I don’t want to, immediately becomes pregnant with no right to an abortion.
I think it was Dave Barry who said that if you forget to turn off your turn signal for more than five minutes, the car should automatically turn that direction
You just caused a horrible crash in my imagination! Stop it!
Load More Replies... I'm trying not to ridicule the USA. Articles like this make it extremely hard not to make fun of "murica! I am really, honestly trying, but come on, at this point you can't even blame me for thinking americans are uneducated, stupid and ignorant... (don't tell me about the 1 post that wasn't about americans, we all know better). The post should be titled "41 'murica solutions to 41 'murica things"
BP asked for dumb solutions to dumb problems. These people know their solutions are dumb, that's why they submitted them. Therefore, these people are smart enough to know the difference between dumb and not dumb. It's a joke. Can you tell the difference between joke and not joke?
Load More Replies... The double blinker. The double blinker would indicate a u-turn if in the left most turning lane. It would also be used to indicate a multi-lane change while moving. Basically a way of telling another driver I need to get all the way over, not just trying to get in front of you.
I make u-turns about 3-5 times a week. I have been (in my head) designing a u-turn signal and trying to figure out how I would wire it into my trailer. I would need a control on the dash and a link to my (in North America) regular left turn signal.
Load More Replies... #31 Stop posting 2 year old content from reddit on Bored Panda.
