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― 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
that is one of the best ideas
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 9 November 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm surprised that no-one seems to have thought of this already, but a quick Internet search didn't turn up anything: a bar band called The Tijuana Bible Thumpers.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 11 November 2010 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Write an encyclopedic tome about the history of "Babyjet", a series of failed films which never actually existed.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Not a bad idea - Borges pretty much made a career out of it!
― Z S, Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like we need to refocus this thread on unambiguously bad ideas. The problem is that it seems like one trait of a really bad idea is that it must be boring (because if it's exciting or interesting then it's not really a "bad" idea to at least some people). And coming up with boring ideas runs against the appeal of sharing things in a thread with each other. So we'd just have to list things like "clean the bathtub with cleaner that isn't as good as another cleaner that you could have used", or "leave one of the clocks off by an hour during daylight savings time", or something. I guess this post was a bad idea.
― Z S, Thursday, 11 November 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
GIS for terrible idea is actually pretty wonderful.
― http://tinyurl.com/koalalala (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
A bar called "The Thirteenth Step"
― I'm sure Ebay has some wicked pog collections (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe these ideas are secretly so bad they're good.
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
unlike the movies in that "kill yourself" movie thread, which are supposed to be not good, even though you expected them to be bad, but you thought they'd be fun anyway, but they weren't.
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK somebody already did the 13th step! and it's in NY!http://www.nycbestbar.com/13thstep/
― I'm sure Ebay has some wicked pog collections (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 November 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
a terrible idea:
french fries (most likely of the steak fry variety) are served standing up in a short bowl-type vessel with an inch of your favorite dipping sauce in the bottom. this eliminates the need to dip into a sauce. i think it would have to be a teak fry so it was sturdy and crispy and the outside to eliminate sog.
― Independent contractor Who manages a Road Show exclusive to Sams Club. (Nijoli), Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
steak not teak
see, the terrible version of that idea is that the fries are served upside-down, with the dipping bowl on top, so it spill all over the table.
― Z S, Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
lord, help
― Independent contractor Who manages a Road Show exclusive to Sams Club. (Nijoli), Thursday, 11 November 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Fries made from teak wood so that they don't go soggy when they're sitting in dipping sauce?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Thursday, 11 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
man I don't know if this qualifies after Z S's soul searching comment, but:
a smaller camera that you can attach to the flash shoe of your big, professional camera. so while you're taking a picture, you can take a smaller picture. plus, people won't know which camera to look at, so you might catch them either looking up out of the frame or down out of the frame.
― swagl (dayo), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
so while you're taking a picture, you can take a smaller picture
i don't know why but this is hard lolz
― xtc ep, etc (xp) (ledge), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
anything + gun seems like a good candidate:http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpwimzqJ3E1qz50ylo1_400.jpg
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
How about a camera that looks like a gun?
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 12 November 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Gun camera business that sells candid pictures to tourists trying to figure out how to buy tickets for the metro
― Z S, Friday, 12 November 2010 12:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.moviemobsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/clint-eastwood.jpg"I know what you're thinking. 'Did he take six shots or only five?' And in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But the question you're got to ask yourself is 'do I add his photoblog to my RSS reader?'"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 12 November 2010 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Stop-Or-My-Mom-Will-Shoot-500x281.jpg"Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot (and then upload ur pic to her Facebook page after adding a load of Blingee shit)"
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Friday, 12 November 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Throw momma off the train - the musical
― Z S, Friday, 12 November 2010 13:19 (thirteen years ago) link