People's Brilliant Ideas That Were Dumb Upon Review

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Eric Lund
Feb 21, 2022 3:00 PM EST

If it was unclear already, we are stupid. We are stupid people with bad ideas. Most of the concepts that run through our heads are not functional in the real world. And the only thing that makes us even sound a little bit less-than-stupid is our ability to not say the stupid things we think at exactly the moment that we think them. So you're welcome, world. You're welcome that the amount of stupid things uttered isn't far larger thanks to our impressive ability to keep our mouths shut sometimes. We expect a deposit into our accounts on the morrow.

It could be caused by inebriation, tiredness or just our own lack of mental faculties, but everyone gets bad ideas. Sometimes our ideas are phenomenal, but that's only because we've just "invented" something that already exists. As stupid as our brilliant thoughts are, we can all have faith that even a stupid thing we invent could be used for something other than its intended purpose.

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    Eye - guerrierojt · 1d 9 95 3 6 & 14 More Turn signals on grocery carts
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    Rectangle - clockworkear - 1d 2 e 39 & 9 More King Kong but with a giraffe. 1 22.3k Q Reply Share Report Save moo100times · 1d 2 10 e13 3 5 8 King Long
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    Font - Sparkling_Hedgehog - 1d - edited 4h 3 2 S I thought it would be practical if you would have a tag with your address written on it attached to your keys, so if you ever lost them they can be sent back. Seemed brilliant to me, thieves might enjoy this idea as well.
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    Font - kor_hookmaster 2d e4 S Once, while thoroughly drunk, I ordered a pizza and it arrived overcooked. Crust was like dried asphalt and the toppings blackened and singed. So I pitched the idea to my other drunk buddies that pizza places should let their customers control the pizza ovens through the internet, so we can decide when it's done. Which then lead to an entire design- your-own-pizza machine/website combo, where one could control exactly how much of each ingredient to add using robotic
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    Mammal - ClaraReed · 1d Glitter Champagne. It's extra fancy champagne that has sparkles in it. Biscuit Silencer. So you don't get scared at the popping sound when you open a can of biscuits.
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    Smile - F :ThatFu. ... · 2d 2 .2 When a football match goes into extra time, they should add a second ball. If it gets to half time without anyone scoring they add a third ball. I'm actually not sure this idea is a bad one.
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    Font - narwhal-narwhal - 2d 2 2 a Beer rocks. When drinking at an outdoor place, using plastic cups, you put fancy rocks in your beer so the cups don't blow over. Genius. 18.6k Reply Share Report Save lovesmasher - 1d O 2 2 3 Mine was similar. The theory was: the top half of the cup of beer tastes better than the bottom half, so we make cups that have the bottom half already full of something else. We invented smaller cups.
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    Font - dacandymano - 2d 2 S I was thinking that kids these days need more time on the road to be better drivers - so maybe Uber should partner with driving education groups and like subsidize them or pay the kids in college bonds or whatever. yeah maybe hiring a bunch of terrible drivers for your taxi services isn't such a great idea
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    Rectangle - zeshtorm · 2d 2 2 5 e3 & 7 More I thought of something that I thought was the funniest sh't. A video or comic where one guy takes a pepper packet, opens it, and pours it into his eyes. When his friend starts freaking out, he goes "haha, tricked you, it's actually salt".
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    Font - LoneSky110 - 2d 3 2 S & & 27 More 0 · 2d 3 2 I got really high once and went to record my thoughts in my voice recording app like I usually do. It wasn't until I went to save and title it did I realize that that I had actually called a local pizza joint after hours and left them a voicemail.
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    Font - Empty-Refrigerator - 1d - edited 1d O 2 3 yep... Pre-melted cheese
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    Rectangle - RavensMilk_ · 1d 2 9 & 20 More Ok hear me out. Go to your local bar and get plastered. Then go to lense crafters and get your eyes checked. They will fix your double and blurry vision and give you a pair of glasses. So when you get drunk again you can put on your... wait for it... Drunk GogglesTM.
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    Font - TheSilverCube · 1d 2 2 e 3 2 ,2 Sugar bags. Like tea bags but for sugar. Tea and two sugars? One tea bag, two sugar bags. As we were stoned as fl. ', my cousin holding up an emptied tea bag filled with sugar and me trying to carefully tie it back up with a piece of cotton, my cousin disappointingly says 'Sugar cubes'.
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    Font - shanex1 - 1d 55 S 4 3 & 3 More I made a soup sandwich while really high before. The soup obviously just destroyed the breads integrity, and just fell out the sandwich. That was the first time in my life I realised just how dumb I am
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    Font - likeistoleyourbike · 2d e S 3 Usually I make big plans that cost a lot of money and then promise sober people that we will do them. So they start to look forward to the plans, I sober up, and regret all of my decisions yet still have to follow through. Most recent was that I promised my sister that I'd bring my daughter to visit her in Florida. $2000 later, I have a sunburn.
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    Smile - tkwl - 1d 2 2 3 3 I had this idea that the Taken films should each focus on a different "set of skills". Like Liam Neeson could be an amazing chef in Taken 2, and perhaps a postman in Taken 3.
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    Font - cyrano111 · 2d 2 S One of my philosophy professors told a joke about a philosopher having a dream in which he met Socrates, but quickly saw the proper rebuttal to his views, which Socrates conceded. Then he met Aristotle, and Descartes, and Kant, and Nietzsche, and Mill, and with each of them presented his contrary position successfully. He knew he was dreaming, but he thought "I have to wake up enough to write this down!" He managed to become conscious enough that he quickly scrawled the
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    Font - kingoftwosinks · 1d 42 3 2 3 Oh god, I did something similar. I was having a dream where I felt like the secrets of the universe were being revealed to me, and I had gained some irreplaceable piece of wisdom that would change my life forever. I woke up, in my half-asleep blurry sleepiness grabbed my phone and opened my notes app to write down this critical knowledge. In the morning I vaguely remembered the dream, convinced that there on my notes app would be the key to life and the univer
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    Font - sometimes_walruses · 2d I have a running note on my phone with my ideas I have while intoxicated. I think my best one is “What if there was a queer eye spinoff called "third eye" where hippies and conspiracy theorists try to awaken people who are already happy with their lives" Most of them are just dumb with such highlights as “future math will be cool" and "there's a lot of cute animal behavior."
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    Font - SharingSmiles - 1d 2 4 34 6 ,4 A food truck specializing in egg rolls the size of burritos
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    Font - toad_mountain · 1d 2 2 e4 32 One time I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea. A revolutionary idea. Something I needed to write down as fast as possible so I wouldn't forget. So I wrote it down and went back to sleep. I woke up, looked at the piece of paper, and all it said was "Pennzoil Mini-wheats" I've never quite figured out what I was thinking.
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    Smile - paperbackella · 1d 2 3 e 32 2 I ran upstairs and yelled at my husband "Why don't they make mittens for feet?!" And he said "You mean socks?" And I said "oh yeah, socks."
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    Font - hungry-mongoose · 1d @2 My creative writing tutor had a comedian friend who kept dreaming about telling the world's funniest joke, he'd get a standing ovation every time and he toured the world on this one joke. But when he woke up he could never remember it. One night he kept a note pad next to his bed, woke from the dream and scribbled down the joke. Got up the next morning, looked at the page and it said 'I am a hammer.'
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    Smile - 09212865 · 2d 2 I thought I invented breakfast tacos. When I shared my invention with my friends they asked me if I intended the wheel too
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    Font - WhoisAllistair - 1d - edited 1d I had this idea for a movie in a similar vain of Cabin in The Woods, where these people move into a haunted house, except the plot is from the antagonist's perspective, where the ghosts haunting the house treat it like a job, and have interviews in front of a camera, reality-show style, venting about how tedious the little aspects of the job are. The premise was this ghost had reluctantly picked up and followed this family to this new house in order to keep
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    Smile - Skukkix23 · 1d A thing you put on the laptop charger thing that gets hot which keeps your cheese dip hot
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    Smile - valleyoftheballs · 1d 2 3 2 Exacto-spoon. It is an exacto knife only a spoon.
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    Facial expression - curt_schilli - 1d I got high one time and thought of a great business idea where everyone pays money to a pot and one person wins it all. Turns out the lottery already exists
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    Font - mammoth5118 · 2d Always felt free throws in basketball slowed the game down too much. Felt instead they should have dunks instead. Where the player that was fouled has a running start from the three point line and the one who committed the foul is at the basket defending against the dunk. I suppose this could turn into an endless loop of fouling.
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    Font - Brilliant-Garden-188 - 1d S To have a fast food spot that sold frozen meals already cooked. Like you can order a heated up hot pocket, toaster strudel, chicken pot pie, etc. 4 4.7k 3 Reply Share Report Save fischestix · 1d 2 3 e 34 & 3 More That would be called Applebee's
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    Smile - diceroll123 · 1d e I don't drink or smoke, but a friend of mine was drunk and picked up a guitar, started playing, and thought he wrote the song Walk by Pantera
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    Font - TedTyro - 2d Not sure if/not I was affected at the time but when much younger I theorised a universal language. Then I found out about esperanto. Was like 100yrs too late
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    Font - RealPokesatsu - 1d A friend of mine called me around 3:00 in the morning about a fantastic, groundbreaking idea he had for getting sunburn on your feet. He wears Crocs a lot, so I was actually kinda interested. "Okay. Okay. So, like, cloth or something you can put...on your feet that would keep you from getting sunburn from the holes." Socks. He was describing socks.
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