/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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1

Livestream a conversation with someone about a topic that you totally disagree on until one of you changes your mind

The strategy should be that you're trying to figure out why you disagree, in the deepest way possible. Maybe there can be an "out" where you both agree that it actually makes sense to disagree. Not "agree to disagree", but more like, you each agree that the other person's logic totally makes sense and that your differing situations dictate that you are stuck on your current path. In that case you're not really disagreeing on the truth of something but on "what should be done". In other words, if you were in the other person's situation you'd do the same thing. But I suppose it could also be that you find that there is some core belief that one or both of you have that you both agree isn't based on something explainable, and therefore can't be changed by just talking about it.

0 Comments
2024/11/03
16:32 UTC

1

We all have phones now. Every day 5 minutes should be taken from the clock and every 12 days we can have an extra hour of sleep.

Nobody would notice except those working night shift.

0 Comments
2024/11/03
16:19 UTC

6

Change the word Constipated to Istapated

The Turks did it, why can't we?

9 Comments
2024/11/03
14:15 UTC

2

Film ads in movie sets to get high-end scenes at a fraction of the cost

The production would also make nice supplementary income off of sets they have to build anyway.

I mean, why not?

3 Comments
2024/11/03
13:26 UTC

6

Renaming other people's usernames on Reddit

Ok so we've all come across plenty of people we don't like on Reddit. What if the Reddit app let you change their username, and the change would appear to you only? For example you can rename someone "fat moron", and all their posts, comments, etc would appear to you (and you only) as if that was really their username from now on. So they wouldn't know, but you'd at least get a laugh out of it

3 Comments
2024/11/03
10:11 UTC

9

An anime where one of the protagonists is sealed in a block of ice and their friends have to use said block of ice to win a snowboarding competition to free them

8 Comments
2024/11/03
08:33 UTC

31

Rename Newark, so it isn't misheard as "New York"

21 Comments
2024/11/03
07:57 UTC

9

Move everything a little bit to the left. Now there's more room to the right

2 Comments
2024/11/03
06:05 UTC

0

Are humans experiencing mandela effect because there are people traveling back in time causing alterations which is causing the effect.

3 Comments
2024/11/03
05:59 UTC

3

An app like a dictionary but for etymology.

3 Comments
2024/11/03
05:46 UTC

7

Door to Door Salesmen Idea

So heres the business idea.... you create a business that does door to door sales and you sell 'No Soliciting' signs. If they refuse you come back day after day.

1 Comment
2024/11/03
04:11 UTC

2

Movie Prjector Screen For Car Hood

Want to go to a drive-in movie, but also live in a century where they rarely exist anymore? This is a projector screen that suction vups to the hood of your car and a projector that sits on top of your car. You listen to the audio through your car speakers. Now you can go to the drive-in anywhere you can drive TO!

0 Comments
2024/11/03
02:30 UTC

58

2Hot4Me: a dating app where people who are too attractive have to leave

Build an enormous, kind of murky, lukewarm pool that's reserved for the rest of us uggos. An attempt to lower the median curve as an antidote to the loneliness epidemic hitting across all demographics.

10 Comments
2024/11/02
23:39 UTC

22

(USA) Keep pharmaceutical commercials legal but they're now also Public Service Announcements.

You want to market a new blood pressure pill? The commercial has to include the actors eating unhealthy food and or smoking with a voiceover that states "Obesity is a major factor in 74% of cases of hypertension."

How about a drug to prevent HIV transmission? That's right - show the characters buying condoms and exchanging used needles for clean ones.

A pill for arthritis? Uhm... ok... show a bunch of kids riding bikes with a cartoon character telling us that helmets significantly reduce the risk of serious injury.

Seriously if we're going to let these commercials flood our airways at least do something for the public good instead of just benefiting the drug companies.

3 Comments
2024/11/02
21:22 UTC

1

Wireless sensors in the brain that detect seizures.

2 Comments
2024/11/02
20:45 UTC

14

starting a diary as soon as you learn how to write

Get this. As soon as you learn how to write you write a diary entry everyday/every week. Then this can carry on till you’re older or till you wanna stop. Then you’ve get everyday/every week of your whole life and you’ll never forget anything ever and it’ll just be really fun and effortless.

4 Comments
2024/11/02
20:14 UTC

12

Make all clock tower bells bong in 24 hour clock

3 Comments
2024/11/02
20:01 UTC

15

r/balkans_irl, but East Asian

We are the most racist group of people in the world. How come we don't have our own ironic ultranationalist subreddit?

4 Comments
2024/11/02
12:11 UTC

3

A central European gymnastics team called Czechs and Balance Beams

0 Comments
2024/11/02
10:29 UTC

0

A way to make up for what would ordinarily have been Good Omens S3 now being one 90-minute special

(this is crazy not just because it's unlikely but because I'm not sure if even the necessary approval needed from Neil Gaiman or w/e to pull this off would make people feel this still taints this idea with his accusations)

If wherever the special leaves the story/our heroes provides room for more story and doesn't tie everything up in some rushed little bow at the end, even if this is the end of Good Omens nothing says that (with the proper permissions of course it's just Neil Gaiman wouldn't have to be actively involved) they couldn't make a sequel series (as continuation-sequel-reboot-y-things seem to be trendy) so this isn't the end of Crowley, Aziraphale and all those other beloved characters

0 Comments
2024/11/02
04:46 UTC

0

[ Removed by Reddit ]

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

34 Comments
2024/11/02
03:21 UTC

49

Women's sanitary pads that have camel toes

Just one camel toe per pad, to be clear

28 Comments
2024/11/01
22:33 UTC

87

Halloween candy bowl with false bottom that dumps nacho cheese sauce if someone flips it over to take all the candy.

It provides a treat if someone takes some candy, but if someone tries to take all the candy it provides a trick. When someone flips it over to dump all the candy into a trick-or-treat container the false bottom swings open dumping all the nacho cheese sauce that was underneath it.

18 Comments
2024/11/01
21:39 UTC

15

Office buildings should be converted to company dormitories.

14 Comments
2024/11/01
19:22 UTC

0

Send all inmates to a very remote island.

13 Comments
2024/11/01
18:46 UTC

1

Short story idea

A vampire has a podcast or some thing and complains and answers questions from someone complains about blood sucking being fake or turning in animals not just bat or all of them being Italian/Romman

1 Comment
2024/11/01
18:35 UTC

143

Instead of having an actual death penalty, just make a prison in Alaska where the inmates are 110% responsible for their own survival.

Its like having your cake, and eating it too. You get to put the prisoners somewhere they will be absolutely zero burden on society, but you don't have to involve actual executions at all.

Also they can't really escape because the land is harsher than the prison.

160 Comments
2024/11/01
18:32 UTC

50

A mandatory "fake" or "staged" tag for every video or photo that is proven fake, with an IP permaban on repeat offenders.

Because I'm sick of always trying to be fooled. I'd enjoy the videos even knowing they're fake, but it really irks me to find out in the comments. This could be automated.

18 Comments
2024/11/01
15:56 UTC

23

Ketchup separates, shampoo doesn't. Make ketchup more like shampoo

I've never had to deal with shampoo pre-cum so that industry seems to have it figured out. Get it together, ketchup.

20 Comments
2024/11/01
15:42 UTC

94

Mandate that all college football players get a degree before they are eligible to enter the NFL draft.

This way, if the player suffers an injury which ends their career as a football player, they can still use their degree to get another job.

63 Comments
2024/11/01
13:32 UTC

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