What you mean like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyRk-Lt9E3E
― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Sunday, 31 October 2010 10:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah but aimed at the general public. People could say things like "hey I saw your shit on YouTube".
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 31 October 2010 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a tv show about a boy and his pet calculator called "cal, c u l8er"
― dayo, Monday, 1 November 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
again, this belongs on "awesome ideas" thread. or is "terrible" internet slang for "awesome" now?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 1 November 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
An update of Karel Fialka's 'Hey Matthew', except featuring Jedward instead of Matthew, and titled 'Hey Jedward'.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ayovember.
Oh wait, that terrible idea isn't mine. Sorry, my bad!!
― Introducing the Hardline According to King Boy Pato (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ya wasn't it "terrible" when KBP got his antipodean ass banned from 1p3 at the peak of the festivities? excuse me while I break out the Systane and cry a puddle of chemically-augmented tears in Mr. P@terson's honor.
― lonely is as lonely does, lonely is an eeyore (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Dodecahedron December. We talk about nothing but dodecahedrons for an entire month. ESPECIALLY on Christmas
― Z S, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
It makes perfect sense, it's the 12th month of the year!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I could make a stellated dodecahedron Dodecahedron December Tree topper, too.
http://www.knittingdaily.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/tuned_5F00_in/4885.204_5F00_2-Celestine-by-Norah-Gaughan.jpg
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
"On the 12th Day of Christmas,my true love gave to me...12 stellated dodecahedrons"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is going to be responsible for me making a stellated dodecahedron. I have to do December right.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
shit, how do you make one? is there a template online somewhere?
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
write a concept album, triple lp, about the history of texas, from cabeza de vaca's explorations up through rick perry
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ZS, if you knit, here are some instructions. Otherwise, I am of little help.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the link, but no, I don't knit...I would probably be awful at knitting, as I can barely even iron my shirt without fucking up big time. Origami, though...if there was a origami dodecahedron I bet I could sorta make it!
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's a paper one you cut out and glue together
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like an idiot, but I can't really figure out how to do it (I haven't printed it yet, but I can't figure out what "cut the lines between the long and the short sides of the triangle" means)
*FACEPALM*
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
keep saying "GREAT STELLATED DODECAHEDRON!" in perry white voice girlfriend not finding this amusing
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Abbott is!
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
somehow I get the feeling that the girlfriend will not find that amusing, either!
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
While the gf and I were dining along the NJ Turnpike this evening at an especially crowded rest stop, I realized that there's a critical point at which rest stop efficiency starts to drop off especially drastically. There are a limited number of parking lot spaces, and the place also only has so much capacity to serve people (and for people to use the bathroom) without long lines forming. But around when the parking lot reaches capacity or overcapacity, the facilities inside also do.
What happens at this point is that the average time spent inside the rest stop grows considerably (from waiting in line for both food and the bathroom), meaning the average amount of time spent in the parking lot also increases, which further compounds the delays for all those people still waiting for a space.
[ Hurting ]'s Curve, we dubbed it.
The only thing mitigating this potential catastrophe, we realized, is that some families, feeling that their stay has already been too long due to waits for parking, food, and restrooms, may choose to eat their food in the car.
However, if the family merely eats their food in the car in the parking lot, they're not really saving anyone any time. So we propose that each family have a "designated driver," as it were, in these peak times, who will not eat, but drive while everyone else eats.
In order to encourage this efficient behavior, we have devised a slogan to be posted in rest stops:
"If [ Hurting ]'s Curve is in effect, don't eat and drive, and don't eat, drive, but don't not eat and not drive(the last part meaning that if you are not the designated driver, you should eat now, because you may need to be the designated driver at the next rest stop). However, if you're under driving age, you might as well eat while you're driving, because you're not supposed to be driving anyway.
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Saturday, November 26, 2005 9:07 PM Bookmark
fwiw I don't think my then gf now wife would want any credit for contributing to this unless you consider rolling your eyes a contribution
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
loooooooool
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i56.tinypic.com/2wfsa3s.gif
― Kerm, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
xposthey, when jerry democracy invented democracy everyone thought he was crazy too!
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
what if they applied congestion pricing to these rest stops? Like, once Hurting's curve is reached, the food costs incrementally more.
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost to Kerm
OOOOOOOOOOOH. thank you! that's above and beyond the call of duty!
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I was *this* close to animating a pair of scissors into it just because.
― Kerm, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
The thing is the more I think about it I don't even think that's a curve, it's just like a linear increase in wait time.
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
nope, because according to the Hurting's Curve Theorem the waiting time in the bathroom compounds the crowdedness of the parking lot, so the wait time should grow curvilinearly.
― Z S, Thursday, 4 November 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
plus you have all the guys with shy bladders who take longer to pee when the restroom is crowded, exacerbating wait times.
then again you've yet to factor in the "ah, fuck it" feedback mechanism.
― Kerm, Thursday, 4 November 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a terrible idea in here somewhere relating a large flat-screen weight-sensitive digital sign advertising a variable price hanging over a buffet table.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
heart-congestion pricing
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh you meant the weight of the food
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I was actually thinking of sensors in the seats, but the food thing might make more sense. Or less.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, so we WERE on the level then
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 November 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, November 4, 2010 11:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
a simpler terrible idea would be to just hang flatscreens at each table displaying pictures of food photoshopped to look really succulent. of course it couldn't be at a buffet since the idea is to make people eat less at a buffet not more.
― dayo, Thursday, 4 November 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrible idea based on a terrible idea: congestion pricing for rest stop rest rooms. The more solid your waste, the more you pay. There could even be TV commercials:
Ticket to ride, shite line highwayTell all your friends, they can go my wayPay your toll, sell your soulPound for pound costs more than goldThe longer you stay, the more you payMy shite lines go a long wayEither up your nose or through your veinWith nothing to gain except killin’ your brain
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 5 November 2010 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
With nothing to gain except killin’ your brain and it's killin’ the drain
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 5 November 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
That Jay-Z should do a couplet along the lines of:
Beyonce is my fiancebut business is my mistress
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
or "mad about hugh" - paul reiser has a layabout brother, hugh, who's always forgetting to take out the trash
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, November 8, 2010 5:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 November 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
PAUL REISER is about the closest this thread comes to proposing a genuinely terrible idea but 'mad about hugh' is still awesome.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 8 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
87-88 style Bay Area thrash band....with horn section
― skreet walking cheeduh widda head fulla facepalm (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 8 November 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
a tv show called MAID MEN about former mafia bigshots fallen on hard times who need to work as domestic helpers
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny cuz it's true
― Adrian Roosevelt "Adie" Mike (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
1. An adaptation of Blood Meridian scored by Def Leppard
i'm having trouble with the premise of this thread as the original post is one of the greatest ideas i've ever heard of
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I can kind of hear the theme song in my head:
"Blood muhRIIIIIdianmuhRIIIIIIDianThere's so much blood on the meridiAN!"
― Kinect: The Body Is Good Business™ (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
a whole thread of bad idea Jay z lyrics sounds promising
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
bong and olufsen: upmarket head shop
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^^ this motherfuckeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer
― HOOS tremendo...steen ridically (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link