/r/CrazyIdeas

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Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect.

Create super hobos? Elaborate. Invisible spiders? Why not? There are no wrong ideas!

Rules
  1. Don't be a dick

  2. Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.

  3. Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.

  4. No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.

  5. No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.

  6. No done-to-death ideas. If you can find a version of your idea by searching /r/CrazyIdeas, then you aren't being creative enough.

  7. Tag NSFW posts.

NOTE:

Awesome ideas are just as welcome here.

Don't comment saying "This belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!"

/r/CrazyIdeas

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2

Homes should come with trial periods.

When purchasing a house, I’m not sure how the logistics of it would work and all but just imagine being able to try the house out for like a week to see if you could imagine living there for the rest of your life. It would be helpful for trying to find flaws with the house you didn’t see during open houses, see how hard it is to clean, if you like the neighborhood, etc.

2 Comments
2024/11/10
01:54 UTC

8

A random number of plastic traffic bollards should have concealed steel pole inside them

Title

0 Comments
2024/11/10
01:41 UTC

2

Introduce into world mythology a French grim reaper called the Croak Monsieur

2 Comments
2024/11/10
00:52 UTC

7

In the true horror spirit of Halloween we should give kids candy and an insult.

What are you a little lamb? That's so cute! By the way everyone thinks your haircut is stupid. Here's a Kit Kat.

1 Comment
2024/11/09
23:44 UTC

8

We should legalize methamphetamine until we solve the human aging problem

We're all going to die.

3 Comments
2024/11/09
23:34 UTC

23

Cher should start her own amusement park like Dolly Parton's Dollyworld and call it Chernobyl

3 Comments
2024/11/09
23:24 UTC

139

We should stop pretending that R isn't a vowel.

Let's be real, it always has been a vowel. T, d, g, p, f, n, m, those are real consonants. R can flow right off of those (unlike real consonants) because it's a vowel. You can't pronounce "Bgtd" without adding vowel sounds between each letter, but you can easily pronounce "Brgrtrd", because r is a vowel.

Wake up, people!

45 Comments
2024/11/09
22:12 UTC

5

Marriage certificates should require a pre-nup, to prevent messy divorces

1 Comment
2024/11/09
21:45 UTC

1

Switch the meaning of the colors of traffic lights for one day each week just to keep people alert and attentive.

E.g. every Wednesday green means stop and red means go.

1 Comment
2024/11/09
21:33 UTC

4

To help children understand why wild animals aren't sedated the same way human patients are, Disney should add a new scene to The Lion King (1994) where a wildlife veterinarian tries to sedate Scar without using a dart gun, but gets killed and eaten.

0 Comments
2024/11/09
21:21 UTC

2

A Quiet Place but people keep dying because they have the giggles

2 Comments
2024/11/09
21:06 UTC

0

A MHA spinoff with just Uravity, Froppy and Mina fighting crime as a team, without the male cast constantly sexualizing them.

1 Comment
2024/11/09
19:37 UTC

15

Release a live, full grown, starved rhinoceros in the middle of Times Square

13 Comments
2024/11/09
18:52 UTC

13

Bee Larvae should be called Baybees.

0 Comments
2024/11/09
17:50 UTC

0

All Americans should work night and day to make more Gay Porn for future Generations.

19 Comments
2024/11/09
14:46 UTC

0

Have taxes pay for access to Starlink and give everyone access to high speed internet that way.

4 Comments
2024/11/09
14:06 UTC

31

A national holiday dedicated to reading literally any book. Read a Fucking Book Day!

15 Comments
2024/11/09
13:53 UTC

2

Fox News and MSNBC news shows that broadcast live on opposing channels simultaneously, with a news cast composed entirely of identical twins where each twin is on the opposing network.

0 Comments
2024/11/09
11:10 UTC

42

Make Tuesday officially green shirt day. So if you have a green shirt, wear it on a Tuesday because that's when everyone else will be wearing one and that's the day you're supposed fo wear it.

I'm open to pivoting to other days of the weeks and colors, or even 7 full days/colors, but I don't want to push to hard to early. Let's start off with one day and one color for now.

17 Comments
2024/11/09
11:03 UTC

9

Start going to courthouses and demanding an x-ray because you can't afford a doctor.

If they refuse, tell them "i may or may not be armed, but I WILL be seeing my local elected judge today", and they won't have a choice but to x-ray you.

Then your results are a matter of public record, and you can see if there's anything wrong with your skeleton.

If enough people do this, maybe they'll start giving a shit about health care

13 Comments
2024/11/09
06:16 UTC

20

tomorrowland at disneyland should be renamed to nostalgialand

because it's a dead husk of itself. all the good stuff is missing now and tomorrow it'll always be getting crappier by the day. spinning theater gone, people mover, gondolas, boats....gone and replaced with nothing. last time i went arcade was closed too. half of this shit is just abandoned wasted space. and the old space rockets were more gooder too

20 Comments
2024/11/09
04:30 UTC

3

Prison League Sports

I was going to post this on r/ideas because i really don't think it's that outlandish, but this sub has a lot more activity.

Think about prison. The US prison system specifically. it's pretty rough. mass incarceration, essentially slavery, horrible abuses of power and between inmates. some of these things are inherent to the concept, sure, but a lot of current prison problems can be traced back to the private companies running most prisons in America. and tell me, what do private companies love above anything else? revenue.

Sports! football, basketball, the others, it's all very popular. college football and the NFL alone make billions per year. similar figures for college basketball and the NBA. so, what if: we get a prisoners league going. think about this! prisons are like schools. they have lots of people there and each state usually has one. many prisoners spend time working out. put that athleticism to good use! it may start off slow, but give it time.

Money from merch sales, tickets, and whatever else would surely make more than current prison operations. they could improve prison conditions and give them a deserving reform, all while making a profit AND introducing a new league of entertaining sports. i for one would love to watch prison league basketball. would you?

2 Comments
2024/11/09
02:41 UTC

51

Replace all our tap water with Coke Zero

Think about it. You can drink it whenever you want. Bathe in it. Shit in it. Wash your hands with it. Water your garden with it. Wash your car with it. Endless coke zero…

51 Comments
2024/11/09
01:48 UTC

2

Apple should release a version of MacOS called Calico.

Apple has been naming its MacOS releases after locales in California for some time.

Not sure if we'll ever get MacOS Golden Gate, MacOS Humboldt, MacOS Santa Anita Canyons, MacOS Marina, MacOS Bakersfield Derricks, MacOS Vernon, or MacOS LA River, but I'd love if we could get MacOS Calico, initially named after the now-mostly-defunct mining town...

But then, when a minor update of Calico comes later, Apple can throw in a new wallpaper of a Calico cat, and they can go back to naming new MacOS versions after cats!

3 Comments
2024/11/09
01:38 UTC

6

For any ranch that experiences a disproportionate number of cattle mutilations, fit the cattle with a harnessed 360° camera to solve the mystery.

6 Comments
2024/11/08
20:17 UTC

11

A Convenience Store Counter with a hidden Mounted Shotgun

A hidden mounted shotgun is installed near the counter, to prevent robbery attempts. If someone tries to rob the cashier then they will be shot by the legs, the bullet can be non lethal, probably a syringe that paralyzes the robber's legs

the shotgun is discreetly mounted near the counter, with a small hole opening for the barrel. To shoot just simply pull the trigger. It's strategically positioned near the robber's legs for the cashier's security

7 Comments
2024/11/08
19:31 UTC

23

Buy a bunch of redwood tree seeds and drive around planting them in random locations

35 Comments
2024/11/08
17:44 UTC

27

The USA phases all of Mexico into a general travel/work area with the USA like Schengen.

Since Mexico is so much poorer than the USA, what if they USA admitted 1 Mexican state at a time and gave anyone with proof of being born in said Mexican state the ability to live, work, and travel in the USA.

Have a US Mexican border, then have a border checkpoint with the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

Overtime, the USA invests in 1 Mexican state at a time improving the standard of living until the Mexican state matches a the average us state for quality of life.

Eventually all of Mexico has a GDP per capita similar to the USA and the USA can relax about the USAs southern border problems.

Then the USA can focus on border patrolling Mexicos southern borders, their airports, and maritime borders.

60 Comments
2024/11/08
17:21 UTC

337

Create a sub that proposes a daily insane Google search. All sub members perform that exact Google search daily to create bizarre spikes in search patterns.

50 Comments
2024/11/08
13:25 UTC

3

Always write "Your welcome"

You are not welcome. You are a person, who may possibly be entitled to ownership of welcome. We should switch to the possessive here.

10 Comments
2024/11/08
12:28 UTC

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