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Did you know there's a pickle eyeshadow palette? Or a portable toilet seat that attaches to your car tire? Neither did we. But regardless of their questionable viability, these items exist. And you can find them on the subreddit r/OfCourseThatsAthing.

Named after pretty much the only reaction people have to its content, the sub has grown to a 739K member community, and even though we at Bored Panda have already covered it before, these folks keep unearthing the most creative and weirdest products, so we have to do it again!

Scrolling through the images, it's hard to imagine someone greenlighting these ideas. David Pereira, the Head of Product Management at Virtual Identity, thinks it often happens when development gets too 'dry.'

"Products are built for people. Yet, many people lead product innovation through numbers, which means people become numbers [and] behaviors become data points," Pereira wrote. "Therefore, misunderstanding of the audience is inevitable because of too many false assumptions. Product teams that don't challenge the data become blind and build useless products."

The product manager pointed out that there's nothing wrong with being data-driven, it's just that teams need to understand when to apply numbers and when to stay away from them.

"Data will bring us insight from the past, showing details about customer behavior... However, we should not overlook the power of observation," Pereira said. "Once we observe real people using real products, insights will come to us [naturally], and [we'll be able to] understand how people use the [said] product [way better]."

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Sum Guy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is actually cool in a funny way... the party itself seems weird because of the people there.

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Otter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And how many short people fell down and hurt themselves at that party?

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Vicky Zar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hahahaha... as a quite small person I love and hate it at the same time

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Calypso poet
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a teen my best friend was about 4' 9" and I was 5'6". She was a great person to lean on... I kid! She is now about 5' 3" and I'm 5' 8" without shoes. I still have a hard time finding pants that aren't "floods" but she is always able to rock a cuffed hem when it's back in style.

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Marky Mark
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Its all fun and games until Shaquille O'Neal come and they have to cut his feet off so he's not taller than everyone.

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Calypso poet
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked at a Buick dealership when he was their ad man. We had paper floor mats with his shoe print and life size cut outs. You would need to cut him off at the knees to make him eye level with most men.

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R Carson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really? I can see a lot of trips and falls-especially if alcohol is involved.

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Randy Klefbeck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ancient Greeks used these in their theatre productions. They were called cothurneses or bushkins.

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Stephanie Keith
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Short people are fun size. But there's just something alluring about a tall tall person. I see it as us short people need tall people to reach the stuff we can't. Those tall people need us short people to remind them how great they have it being able to reach things without struggle. Ya know, it balances it all out when you think about it in that way. :)

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UpupaEpops
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm imagining a former classmate (150cm) and my former pro basketball player cousin (203cm) at this party 😂😂😂

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Siddharth Karia
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They actually measured everyone and made custom clip clops for everyone? This would not have been worth the effort.

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Mary Jaye
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would probably fall as my balance Is poor. very unusual

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H.L.Lewis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just NO. I can see myself face planting the first time I try to take a step.

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Jo Iverson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I went to a party once and everyone there was a giant. Very weird feeling.

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Holly Allen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No thanks...I'm short and would need the super tall ones. I'd break my legs. Now if taller people had to walk on their knees maybe...

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ThEboRedEsTpANdA
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's just the girl on the far right so much shorter bc I don't think she's wearing the shoes

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Friend Kelli
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad made me romper stompers for my 50th birthday out of buckets and rope. These look easier 😅

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PixxelDust
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

someone taller walks in and everyone goes 's**t better get bigger shoes'

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Joanna Werman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I suppose the other choice is going to a party with ditches. When you're a short actor you stand on a box. When you're a short movie star everyone else stands in ditches.

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Steph
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No more shoes left for the person in the very right of the picture?

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Tim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

UIowa has an association group of tall people. 6'3" males and 5'11" women or taller. They refer to the rest of us as "Squaty Bodies"

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april jenkins
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can see the disaster after like the 12th whiskey and coke...

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Storm
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if there too tall do you cut them to be the right size

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Tee Witt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What an excellent idea but may become difficult if one has a little too much alcohol

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K W
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would probably give my a panic attack. I'm used to being able to see over most people's head's since age 12 and I get a bit weirded out when the horizon closes in around me. Had a job once with 3 guys who were 6'1 to 6'5 and when they'd all stand around me at the same time and it would get overwhelming. I'm a woman though and rarely in a group where everyone is same height or taller.

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Alexandra Davis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would love to know what they'd do with me turning up in my wheelchair!!??

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Panda-riffic
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just think, you would be constantly changing out your platforms as people come and go to the party! Ha ha ha!

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Stimpy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Incidentally the same gear can be used for a "broken ankles" party...

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Lsai Aeon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can fix this real quick *rolls in, in her wheelchair* Everybody, take a seat!

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Connie Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a good illustration of Equity. Each person gets what he/she needs to look everyone else in the eye.

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Brandi VanSteenwyk
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"EMERGENCY ROOM TO THE RIGHT" Specializing in Limb X-rays and Face Plant Plastic Surgeries.

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chrissy goodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

wen someone gets drunk they become the shortest person in the room

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BleeBloo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i'm 6'3" so I would choose the tallest shoes to tower over everyone

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Ágota Csere
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

hooray, equality: high-heeled shoes and low-heeled shoes: D (and boring mediums)

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Buren
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope for me. The only good party is invisible party

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Pereira is a big fan of prototyping. "I prefer accepting that [I] don't know enough; at best, [I] have a set of assumptions, which need validation as fast as possible. That's my approach for [all] ideas."

In his opinion, the Lean Startup method created by American entrepreneur Eric Ries is an excellent way of building products that solve real problems.

However, I guess it's either we have less useless stuff or more content on r/OfCourseThatsAthing. How can we possibly make this choice?!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a walking pod PRO. when you want to professionally walk to the place where they will be laughing at you

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok...is this available in my country? need to check..for a friend, of course. Are those pages waterproof? For watercolours, of course.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not stupid at all! I've been many times to a wine festival thats held outside, where you taste 80 samples at 12 stations spread around entire village. They give you similar wine glass holders so you can walk freely enjoying the day. The holder is ussualy woven rattan or fabric.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The poor parrot gets shi*ted in the face all the time, and the lions just laugh.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be prepared to took on the floor for them, each and every time you sneeze!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll pass, thanks. I mean, I love the environment just as much as the next person, but this is too much

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