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
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.
It's certainly not that simple and the US isn't evenly split. Also many "red states" are only red because those in power are messing with election laws so the political leaning of the masses might be different. There are also plenty of conservatives in "blue states"
Yep. We need to redraw districts to be squares or rectangles and be done with it. Don't have a majority anymore? Too bad, so sad.
Load More Replies...Here's a better idea: Get over it already and grow up and learn to get along with others even if you have different opinions.
I live in Texas. I would have to move. Hell, most of Austin would have to move too.
I live near Wimberley. Move the far right community. I'll stay with the retired hippies. In fact put them all in their own country. They deserve each other.
Load More Replies...a] there was something called a Civil War, b] it can't be called UNITED States anymore then
It'll be the Disunited States - will go quite well with the Disunited Kingdom.
Load More Replies...The states aren't divided into North/South anymore. Not like they used to be. To me, the division seems to be more Urban/Rural than anything else.
It should be written into the constitution: 1 citizen = 1 vote. With gerrymandering some votes, generally red, are given more weight and importance. Plus every person who pays their taxes should get a vote. Includes people who want to be citizens and are contributing when they don't have to. Plus it keeps selfish bad eggs out. e.g. Trump
OK, then how about creating a kind of Molokai to contain all the anti-vaxxers and COVID deniers in one inaccessible place, so the rest of us can stay healthy, cure more diseases, and keep the already eradicated ones where they belong—-in the past.
There's a reason the US swing states (outside of the stupidity of the electoral college after telegraph was invented) are swing states. Florida for example. They have large rural and anti-communist/conservative voting cuban communities as well as large groups of inner city and NY transplant democratic voters. These states are often microcosms of the nation as a whole - diverse groups that need to come together for a consensus.
But the South (red states) can't survive without the tax $$ from the north (blue states). so i say "Let them go."
The south can survive just fine without the north. We have the agriculture, military, nasa, fishing industry, oil, etc. This isn't 1865.
Load More Replies...it is rural America where both north and south are Republican and Urban which is Democrat. Only 1 of the 10 largest American cities are Republican run, and most rural are GOP as well. You cant split states, look at New York. 53 of 61 counties are GOP controlled, but those 8 counties have 60% of the population, but those 53 have 90% of New Yorks farming and agriculture, which is 35% of the states economic output, and 4th most agri of any state. I live in NY, you can divide NY into 2 states, but the GOP areas would still be north. Even one NYC county is GOP to 4 Democrat, etc.
As someone who lives in a "red" state who is constantly working to change that color to purple or blue, I can sincerely tell this person to go **** themselves. Also, I moved down here from about 25 miles away from Evanston, so I can tell you that guy doesn't even know that 90% of his own state is red, even though it votes blue. HORRIBLE IDEA that would never solve anything.
might be the best thing in the current climate , red states get ready for UNDER HIS EYE
They should just stop having massive, powerful countries. Not much good comes from them.
better, get rid if your archaic 2 party system and calculate votes for a single party, not the "winner takes all" system. There will be no need to redraw voting areas. Profit!
Unfortunately, states like Calif. and NY fund many of the states in the South. In California, we send more money back to Washington to fund those states than we get back in subsidies.
The South tried this. The North said no, you can't keep other people as slaves.
How about conservatives in land-locked states? I don't know about the specifics of dividing the geographical regions, but I do agree about seceding and people who are fundamentally different being able to have the things they want.
This won't work. Splitting a country in half to make both sides happy ends in war. This is what happens with the Israel-Palestinian conflict right now. It also caused the wars between India and Pakistan.
Or, and I'm just spit balling here, or we give the U.S. back to the UK and form the U.U.K. the uber-united kingdom
oh, please, no. Texas has more liberals that it seems, but our voting districts are carved up so we are always the minority.
Yeah, that is a really dumb idea. As a Northerner living in the warmer South, as hard as it is to stomach all the "Southern Hospitality," it is so much easier when I realize I am not alone in my beliefs and standards.
I am not moving back north b/c the people are stupid down here. I hate the cold.
We should just send all the jerks of the world into deep space on Bezos's d**k rockets
I'd have to move up north and I'm ok with that. We could do house swaps. So someone up there can swap with me and all would be good.
And east & west...how about corrupt politics and not - oh wait, that's the same...
Check with large southern cities and rural northern ones before you assume that's going to go smoothly.
Then the rednecks would get all the beaches that they don’t deserve.
I have to admit that I’m curious to see if the Democrat side would go full Jacinda with covid. And for those who don’t know, “full Jacinda” would include not allowing people onto the Democrat side unless they spend two weeks in a guarded quarantine hotel. There are some pretty serious drawbacks to this - there are nowhere near enough rooms for all the people who need to get home - but it would be hilarious to see videos of Trumpers’ reactions.
And we all know someone would be dissatisfied with that, too, because you just can't make everyone happy :(
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.
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.
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.