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!
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Cross-Legged Office Chair
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."
Katana Umbrella
Marshall Amps Key Hanger
3D Billboards In China
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]."
TV Hidden Under The Bed
When Ya Gotta Go, I Guess
Same-Height Parties
Hubby Selfie Swimsuits
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?!
The Book Of A Patron Saint
Pickle Eyeshadow Pallet
A Cowch
A Chip That Tastes Like Another Type Of Chip
Gold Uterus Lapel Pin
It's Not Just Lip Service ...
For Those Who Hate Masks, But Find Looking Like A Crashed Cable Car Cabin Acceptable
Chernobyl Snow Globe
Beard Lights
Inflatable Coffin
Fighter Jet Formation Mowing
#becausewhynot
Little Stuffed Bob Ross
Because Of Course That's A Thing
Doggie Bottle Opener
Glass Holder
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.
A Glitter Keychain Of The Adobe Photoshop Crash Window
Fine China Toilet
The poor parrot gets shi*ted in the face all the time, and the lions just laugh.
This Is Idiotic
Finger Surfboard
Nose Plug Air Filter... Don't Sneeze
An Eggplant Emoji Sauce Bottle
Oh My
3-D Printed Head Urn For Your Loved One’s Ashes
Finally Found One… Wtf
Yes A Waching Toilet Paper Does Exist
I'll pass, thanks. I mean, I love the environment just as much as the next person, but this is too much
It works better in conjunction with a bidet or bidet attachment. Rinse, do you business, then wash and towel dry. Versus smearing with toilet paper.... Ew 🤢
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this is meant to be used after washing, not like toilet paper. People who use this usually have a small water faucet installed ( i don't remember the name ...) in the w.c.
It kinda has. They make them for people who have mobility problems.
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washable, recyclable ass-wipe cloths... can also be used when working on car... be prepared for the next pandemic toilet paper shortage... these red shop towels are only $0.14 each! red-shop-t...38a6f4.jpg 
Just.....no. My mom tried to get our family to do this and we all rebelled.
Shoot, my family rebelled at just trying to get them to eat wheat bread.... I can't even imagine this.
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Just buy recycled toilet paper! (Recycled paper waste made into tp, not tp that is recycled 😁)
I prefer to scoot my nether regions across the grass like a dog with impacted a**l sacs, thanks.
Robert Maxwell (The media magnate who died under questionable circumstances and the father of Ghislaine Maxwell) used to wipe his butt with clean towels that he would drop on the floor after use.
If you want to save the environment, just use your left hand like people did in the Medieval Times
Some people seem to forget that reusable things need to be washed, wasting time and water. Like pretending electric cars are better for the environment while ignoring that so much electricity still comes from coal fueled power plants.
That is an important consideration. In this case there is less water consumed in using a bidet and washing these reusable towels then the production of toilet paper. Apparently toilet paper is ridiculously environmentally costly to make. From the vast majority using virgin wood pulp, aka our old growth trees are being chopped down to wipe our asses. To the water consumption to turn said water pulp into a man-made material. The rest of the world may use toilet paper, but it is a fraction of how much the US and Canada use. Most North Americans when faced with this "wash and dry with a reusable towel" react like it's blasphemy. If you'd like I can try and hunt down the podcast I listened to that hashed this all out. :) Thank you for asking questions and pushing for things to be better.
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Once you use cloth menstrual pads, you'll never go back. Not only are they better for the environment, and considerably cheaper, they're SO much more comfortable. Do you throw out your undies (or pants and sheets, for those heavy bleeders,) every single time you getting a little blood on them? Of course not. It's the exact same thing. You rinse them until the water runs clear, and then throw them in the washing machine. We shouldn't be THAT disgusted by our OWN period blood, come on now.
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Are we supposed to upvote if we think the thing *is* weird or *not* weird?
People I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I was wondering and afraid that it might be a widespread problem. Go to : https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/disability-activist-dies-from-sores-caused-by-united-airlines-destroying-her-wheelchair/ar-AAQst50?li=BBnbfcL and check out his horror story.
Probably better to make your own post about it. Not too many people will see it here. Actually, I think there actually was a BP post about that a while ago, though maybe this is a different story.
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Are we supposed to upvote if we think the thing *is* weird or *not* weird?
People I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but I was wondering and afraid that it might be a widespread problem. Go to : https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/disability-activist-dies-from-sores-caused-by-united-airlines-destroying-her-wheelchair/ar-AAQst50?li=BBnbfcL and check out his horror story.
Probably better to make your own post about it. Not too many people will see it here. Actually, I think there actually was a BP post about that a while ago, though maybe this is a different story.
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