/r/CrazyIdeas
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
Don't be a dick
Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.
Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.
No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.
No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.
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.
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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Cigarettes that are birth control
Just as addictive and deadly as the original, but marketers no longer downplay those aspects.
12:20 UTC
Vapeable vitamins and supplements
Need a pick me up? Vape some b12. Going to bed? Hit the melatonin cart
11:07 UTC
Incense cigarettes
08:27 UTC
Petition to rename half of USA North Mexico, and the other half South Canada
07:51 UTC
Change the value of a penny so that it is officially "Equal in value" to a Bitcoin, but don't give any actual guidance on value itself, and just let people figure out for themselves whether pennies are now "more valuable" or Bitcoins are now "less valuable".
06:45 UTC
Attend a Furry convention in a giant scrotum like costume as a naked mole rat.
06:09 UTC
Use AI to remake the Chipmunks movies with Ross Bagdasarian Sr's original character voices.
05:26 UTC
Cigarettes that are good for you
I want cigarettes but I don't want lung cancer
04:33 UTC
Deny driving privileges to fraudsters
Since driving is really a privilege and not a right, it should be denied to anybody committing accident fraud to collect money from auto insurance for a fraudulent accident. It should be taught in all 50 states that if anybody is caught doing such an act, driving privileges will be suspended for 10 year at least, and if caught driving without a license after that, will go for 2 years in prison and extend his denial of driving privileges for life!
These fraudsters not only cause financial problems to law abiding citizens, but also put them into life threatening situations and that constitutes a crime that should not be let go easily. It also affects all drivers by increasing their premiums whether they are involved in the accident or not. enough of this nonsense and it is about time to get tough on criminals. We are just sick of these crimes.
02:43 UTC
If you have more than one beef, you got beeves
I also think if a playlist is grooves, then a single song is a groof.
01:17 UTC
Viruses are making us do globalization
You know that parasite that makes ants climb trees? Or the cat poop disease which makes mice act differently (or vice versa, can’t recall)? Anyway, it’s proven that infections cause animals to alter their behavior. It’s evolutionarily in viruses best interests for us to globalize both ourselves and the animal population. So I think viruses have caused globalization.
01:13 UTC
Make several versions of a Horror or Mystery movie, and randomly select one of them during each showing
You go to an allegedly horror movie.
You see a couple Tempting Fate.
And then... nothing happens!
No maniac, no murder, just a happy camping trip!
That's because you're seeing the "not scary" variant (possibly - "just missing" the murderer by a couple moments, or him getting distracted by something, etc.).
This allows the movie to have great replayability value, letting viewers pick out minor details that led to the different outcomes.
Similar thing is with Murder Mystery movies - some minor changes to the clues can lead to a completely different person being behind the crime.
P.S. to not completely deceive the viewers, the subvariant code should be listed on the ticket.
00:49 UTC
Instead of saying "fair enough", sometimes say "fairy snuff"
23:36 UTC
Wealthy Conscience
I keep thinking of so many ideas to make my pockets full while helping others with my work ideas I have. I have free will and can do literally anything I want with my life. How do people think of an idea and run with their dream?
Sometimes I can’t tell if I think of theses ideas to achieve a dream of working hard and not stressing about money and it’ll come true if I can get a grip on something and run with it or if I’m delusional and actually mentally ill. None of my peers seem so driven by their dreams and become comfortable, I’m hungry for success. Anyone have similar experiences?
23:26 UTC
when there are disagreements between countries the rulers should have to fight it out in a Battle Royle hand to hand combat. Last person standing wins! Make it pay-per-view, winning country gets the cash.
20:21 UTC
We change ADHD to Executive Function Disorder, EFD.
This would bring a ton of awareness and recognition to what adhd actually does to a person
19:51 UTC
The Office but actual documentary
19:35 UTC
Make the right headlight brighter than the left.
We all agree that headlights are too bright, and we're constantly getting blinded by oncoming traffic. What if we made the right headlight the bright one and angled it to point to the shoulder.
(Except in U.K. Japan India and NZ Where it would be the left headlight...basically whichever one is pointed at the shoulder)
18:25 UTC
Overpasses is tornado alley should have tornado shelters in them
Just re-watched Twisters haha. Overpasses in a tornado can be a death trap but they could build a small shelter for a few people to stand in out of the wind in an emergency.
17:27 UTC
Save money on embalming by subjecting your dead loved ones to the same treatment as salami to naturally cure them.
15:11 UTC
Super-hard jigsaw puzzles where the illustration on the box is slightly different than the image on the puzzle, and some of the colors are different, too.
Bonus: one of the pieces in the box is for a completely different puzzle, so the puzzle can never be completed.
15:05 UTC
Let the Chinese electric car market obliterate the US auto market until we have super cheap, QUALITY electric cars… then put tariffs back into place.
USA PRICES
$65,000 for a 2025 Ford Lariat
$45,000 for a new truck
$28,000 for a new sedan
$36,000 for an SUV
None of them can handle extreme cold weather. All of them depreciate for the non-dealership owner.
CHINA PRICES
$10,000 to $17,000 for standard vehicle
$40,000 for high end luxury
I mean… come on, mannnn
13:59 UTC
Introducing Your Personal Flergday: How We Should Fix the Work Week
It has been well established in The Literature that the current 40-hour, 5-day-working,-2-day-rest work week is untenable. This schedule leads to stress, poor mental and physical health, and burnout, to such an extent that some companies, and some countries, have experimented with alternatives. The adjusted systems all have their flaws, however, so they have not presented much of a challenge to the status quo. What can we do?
Flergday is the answer.
What is Flergday?
Flergday is a floating weekend day. Flergday is added in one of several possible slots in the middle of the week. Its exact placement varies from person to person, but it always lands BETWEEN Monday and Friday. For example, my Flergday could be after Wednesday, and yours could be after Tuesday. But Flergday will never give anyone a 3-day weekend. This extends the week to 8 days.
The law that implements Flergday would also make it illegal to abuse in any of several ways. Hiring discrimination based on the alignment of their Flergday would be illegal unless somehow necessary for the role (in the same way that asking citizenship status is illegal, unless the work being performed is restricted to citizens by security laws). While changing your Flergday is possible, it would be a pain in the ass and require paperwork and approval, in order to maintain a balanced workforce across the four possible Flergdays. It would also be illegal for your workplace to request you change your Flergday.
What are the benefits of Flergday?
Flergday provides a highly-necessary day for recuperation in the middle of the week, with minimal disruption to businesses. Consider some other systems:
- Current system (5 working, 2 free): Unsatisfactory for reasons already mentioned.
- 3-day weekend (4 working, 3 free): This provides adequate rest but results in only 32 working hours, which negatively impacts business to the extent that nobody is willing to switch to it, and nobody is willing to accept the reduction in pay that it would require. Proportionally, in terms of working hours per day, Flergday is much less disruptive than this.
- 4/10 work week (4 working, 3 free, 10 hours/day): Hardly more restful than a 5/8 since people are still working 40 hours in 7 days. And the 2 hours added to the end of each day are less productive due to exhaustion.
- 3-day weekend, 8 day week (5 working, 3 free): Good, but not perfect, for reasons that will be explained.
Flergday, however, still produces 40 hours of work in a week, with no single day dipping below 75% staffing, allowing businesses to stay open the whole 6-day working week with little strain. And since employees will be less exhausted, the hours they do work will be more productive.
While longer weekends are appealing, a component of fatigue is also CONSECUTIVE working days, which a 3-day weekend does nothing to address. In addition, having a floating day off allows people to do things that they can't do on the weekend. If your business, service, or office is open only from 9 to 5 on weekdays, then a person working those normal hours can never use it. In this system, however, they can use Flergday to visit the doctor, go to the DMV, or whatever else they need to do, that would normally require time off from work. These benefits make Flergday inherently superior to any 3-day-weekend scheme.
For businesses, Flergday affects operations as little as possible. As mentioned, Flergdays being staggered means no individual day will drop below 75% staffing. In addition, the extended week will result in a smaller reduction in working time as a percentage of the week than a 3-day weekend in a 7-day week would.
What are the drawbacks of Flergday?
There are none. Flergday is literally perfect.
FAQ
Q: How will we schedule anything?
A: Monday and Friday are still fixed! (As are the weekends, of course.) And smaller teams/meetings will likely still have several non-Flergdays in common. Worst case scenario, people are forced to reevaluate who is actually necessary for a meeting before sending out the invite (which isn't a very bad scenario at all). People will quickly get used to the fact that John Doe has Flergday 2. Fundamentally, it's not much different than adjusting to someone who works from home on Fridays.
Q: How will we refer to the various Flergdays?
A: Slang will evolve naturally. I'm partial to something like "Flergday 3" for a Flergday between Wednesday and Thursday, but it's possible a cleaner and snappier term will emerge. You can't force these things.
Q: Won't it be confusing? Say you have Flergday 1 and I have Flergday 4. If I say, "next Tuesday," that means different things to the two of us.
A: Days will still have numbers that work just fine. Plus, constructs such as "a week from today" or "a week from tomorrow" will be unaffected.
Q: This is stupid, 365 isn't even divisible by 8!
A: It's not divisible by 7, either.
Propaganda
I have created some pro-Flergday propaganda for your enjoyment. Feel free to spread the good word of Flergday.
12:58 UTC
Re-form Pangea with millions of rocket boosters on every continent
Point them all in the same direction and have each continents slam into each other at full speed
07:18 UTC
We should start using AI as a means of pointing out glaring systemic bigotry.
If we feed it from the library of writing from any selected target; whole industries, online communities, the press, corporate emails, etc, then make it reproduce the same, it'll immediately create something riddled with the same foibles that are harder to see the source of, but prove they're there. Affirmative action lawyers can use it as evidence to prove discrimination.
06:00 UTC
Dino, ptero, ichthyo, plesio, skip the hemorrhoids.
05:14 UTC
Everyone orders ten gallons of water from Amazon
Request a signature on delivery. Don’t be home. Return the order once they miss the delivery. The trucks to become not profitable since they will be forced to use more trucks due to weight restrictions. Being unable to deliver a $10 order to hundreds of doors.
04:24 UTC
Get a hypnotherapist to hypnotize you into believing that you are a fully qualified hypnotherapist
There's no oversight or qualification needed to become a hypnotherapist in the USA, so as long as you truly believe you are qualified, you basically are.
23:33 UTC
Instagram account but only posting Reddit memes
Instagram account but only posting Reddit meme…………………………..……,…………
23:00 UTC
Lego teeth
Want to change what shape your teeth are? Need fangs, mouth full of shark teeth or just a straight smile? Simply disconnect the tooth with the included Lego brick remover and insert what you desire. In all sorts of shapes, colors and styles to choose from. Plus it's Lego so it's not like they are easy to disconnect.
20:40 UTC