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.
2 abreast is safer. Single file and car drivers will squeeze past even when really unsafe to do so. Then swerve in when they realise not enough room.
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And they have to pull over and let other traffic past if there are more than say six cars behind them (this is actually the law for tractors in Scotland).
I assume your plan also includes increased fines for drivers parking/standing in a bike lane, mandatory minimum fines for any driver or passenger "dooring" a cyclist they didn't check for before exiting their car, and an overall increase in bike lanes and paths in all cities.
this needs to be higher up on the list. wanna act like a car? get fined like a car.
I asked a cyclist why he was taking up one full lane of traffic and ignoring the bike lane, during rush hour. Both lanes of traffic and the bike lane were full. He told me it was faster to ride down the middle of one of the traffic lanes and it was legal. I asked if next time the traffic lanes were full, if I could use the bike lane for my SUV -- it would be faster. He threw a serious fit in CVS. Bicyclists do not understand respect. If you zip through intersections against the light, hitting pedestrians, and getting much too close to cars, others will see you as the problem. Throwing your bicycle at a car, as it were a car accident to make a point is extremely upsetting to others. Who is going to vote for pro-bike rules if this is how you treat others. Running a red light may be safe for you, but what about the collisions between the cars you cut off? Based on the actions of probably just a few riders, many people dislike them. Hit people with the right of way, then blame them?
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OR - here's a radical idea: encourage drivers to cycle (when possible). It would help the environment, it would result in fewer road accidents, and fewer injuries/deaths to animals.
Better yet, you can't get car licence until you've done six months on a bike. Be exposed to the torrent of crappy drivers, then come home, hop on the internet, and witness said crappy drivers whine how it's always someone else's fault. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/drivers-to-blame-for-4-5-accidents-with-cyclists-report-finds
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Just get all the cardrivers out of their cars and let them cycle. Problem solved, welcome in the Netherlands! 🥳
Nice idea but does not work if you live outside a city. Going to make 6 x 1 hour long trips to bring the groceries home?
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I can't believe they don't already have to have insurance. Cyclists have killed people and caused accidents. They should be held to account for bad driving just like motorists are.
How many people have cyclists killed? If you cycle you are 15 times more likely to be killed than if you drive a car. Cyclists are held to account- just as car drivers are. Read this: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cycle-safety-laws-new-kim-briggs-death-warning-against-witch-hunt-a7960291.html
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Yup and distance meters so every car gets fined that passes me at less than the legal 1.5 meters
Yes and fines for cyclists who on joint pathways barrel down nearly knocking down pedestrians. This what really annoys me cyclist complain about they ways cars disregard their safety but they do the same to pedestrians.
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When I cycle, I stay to the side of the road, use proper hand signals when turning, and respect red lights and stop signs—-because I am not stupid or egotistical. I know for a fact that I will lose if I try to compete with a car.
Bloody car drivers hogging the road. A cyclist riding dangerously isnt going to kill other road users, unlike you
There was a path we used to live by that was for cyclists and walkers. One day my three year old son was walking with us when a cyclist appeared around the corner at high speed and nearly ran him down. There are many cyclists that speed where they shouldn’t.
I agree. We ride a local trail that is bikes and pedestrians. It has a speed limit of 15 MPH. I'm not in shape to go much faster, but many do. They also stay 2+ abreast when passing other bikers or pedestrians. They don't use a bell or give a verbal warning when passing. SO irritating, and gives all of us bikers a bad name.
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No thanx Mt kids love riding their bikes let’s not take that from them
They are now legally allowed to "run" red lights and stop signs in California - provided the intersection is absolutely clear of traffic!
My grandfather was a man of one-liners. On this topic it was “insurance feels like a scam, until you need it.” Meaning if you get through your whole life of it always feeling like a scam you got out lucky cuz you never needed it. I was in a car accident once and needed it to the tune of about $20k, not a fun place to be.
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If the police catch you they can demand your details and give you points and a fine if you have a driver's licence, and if you refuse to give your details they can arrest you for that... This would require enough police to be on the roads to be useful, and if they were on the roads, all the speeders, people with illegal tyres, and people with brake lights out because they don't understand what a handbrake is for, would moan about being "picked on"
well this would suck for me. in my area there are very few bike lanes, and to get where you have to go you are stuck breaking a TON of traffic laws. but really who jumps lights.
And ride with traffic not against. If the infrastructure supports this, all in favor. I wish the U.S. had something similar to the Netherlands for cycle traffic.
Cyclists should never have an id plate or should never have to pay road taxes. Where i live, cyclist used to have to buy an id every year. Luckily they banned that law a long time ago. Why paying taxes for something that actualy healthy and good for the nature while King Car gets all the benefits. That being said, the law is there for everybody and also cyclist need to follow the law.
It should be mandatory for them to wear the lightweight high viability vests. I wear one when I walk my dog and I have one for my dog as well. I really helps to be seen by drivers from a distance.
Cyclists already get fined for jumping red lights- just as cars drivers do. If caught. By this rationale pedestrians should also have an ID plate and horse riders. I think drivers of motor vehicles should have to progress onto bigger vehicles starting with a bike. We would all be safer that way.
And stop riding on sidewalks and yelling at you for almost hitting them for them not stopping.
oh... this needs to happen. Especially the tools that think they get to run a stop sign when multiple cars are waiting their turn like civilized people.
What age? Registration for all bikes? What about offroad only bikes? Kids? Too many questions to implement. Also, there isn't a rule book for cycling, you can't assume that all cyclists also drive cars and know road rules. Most drivers clearly dont know them well enough as well.
In the UK there certainly isna rule book for cycling. If you don't know the rules of the road then you shouldn't be on it, period.
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And (at least in Germany) these groups of cyclists who are thinking they train for the Tour de France or something, ride on a street with a speed limit of 70 km/h and you can't overtake these groups. So you have to drive behind them at 35 km/h. This. This should be fined a lot harder.
And pulling over on winding country roads when they are going 40 miles under the speed limit with no passing lanes. They should be licensed like cars, and the fees spent on bike lanes.
Yeah and they need to register their bikes too and pay a fee. All auto drivers have to pay a user fee to use the roads, why don't bikes.
Here in Seattle, they said it is now ok to run lights. Won't feel bad if I "ACCIDENTLY" hit one.
whatever you drive, if you feel like assaulting another person with your vehicle timothy most normal people would consider you a complete douchebag.
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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
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!
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?
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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.
