/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. Sense, rationality, possibility and ethics are for sissies.

  3. If the entire purpose of the idea is the setup for a pun, it doesn't belong here.

3.1. As a rule of thumb, if your idea ends in "call it ___", it's probably a bad idea.

3.2. If an idea stands on its own as an interesting, crazy idea without the pun, submit it. Add the pun in the comments or maybe in the description if you really want to.

  • Posts shouldn't be for the sole purpose of complaining about a certain thing rather than add an alternative.

  • 4.1. Examples are "vote for Donald Trump" or "shut down Fox News". It's not a crazy idea, it's just being annoying.

    4.2. This goes for everything of the sort. No political bias here (we hope).

  • Please keep the circle jerk politics post to a minimum.

  • Some ideas are definitely more common than others. Use the search bar to see if it's been done before.

  • 6.1. "Hold a special Olympics where everyone takes drugs!"

    6.2. "Put all prisoners/politicians in an arena and make them fight to the death!"

    6.3. Literally anything to do with April Fools Day. If it involves April 1st, chances are you can remove the April 1st bit and it'd be just as valid.

    6.4. "For just one day, swap these two subreddits!"

  • Tag NSFW posts.

  • NOTE:

    Awesome ideas are just as welcome here as well. Anything is possible, anything you think about can work in your imagination. So don't comment saying "this belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!", we love you and accept you.

    /r/CrazyIdeas

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    1

    Different length weeks every year

    Every year should be different and have different length weeks,, some weeks should be 10 day long with a break of 3 days (weekend), some weeks should be 2 days working and one day weekend, other weeks should be 5 day long and 2 days of weekend, others should be 12 day long with a 4 day weekend, and so on, this would make life not so boring.

    1 Comment
    2024/04/25
    11:07 UTC

    3

    Mousetard

    You know, like mustard, but...

    5 Comments
    2024/04/25
    09:13 UTC

    5

    Change the definition of a planet to (Whatever the current definition is) + Pluto

    1 Comment
    2024/04/25
    08:14 UTC

    0

    A theory of funerals and ghosts

    When you die, you stay around as a ghost until your funeral. You can communicate with the living, although it's extremely difficult to get them to hear or understand what you're saying. This is unfortunate because once your funeral is over, you lose your connection to the living and can no longer communicate with them at all. (All ghosts that people have seen after the person's funeral has already happened are imaginary). Then you have to move on to the afterlife, which overcrowded and tedious so nobody wants you there. So the world at any one time is filled with ghosts desparely trying to persuade their loved ones not to hold a funeral for them, which never works.

    6 Comments
    2024/04/25
    06:41 UTC

    0

    Peanut butter and jelly, pre-mixed, in a jar

    6 Comments
    2024/04/25
    06:12 UTC

    0

    Bring your diggity to a backstreet boys show despite them being very clear on their stance towards it

    Do they even tour anymore?

    1 Comment
    2024/04/25
    05:06 UTC

    375

    Elon Mush should buy TikTok and rename it to XVideos.

    23 Comments
    2024/04/25
    04:46 UTC

    8

    There should be a chanel on TV (not cable but free) that focus on explaining 1 single policy that will be voted on each month at the state level, 2 weeks for those at the state, and 1 month for those in the national. The network (channel) will allow regular people to call for questions.

    This could work better if we make a 4 day work week and the 3rd day off is considered national voting day where everyone votes.

    1 Comment
    2024/04/25
    03:57 UTC

    10

    A sitcom, with 10 seasons, where every episode is a different length (below some limit) so nobody knows which plotline is the resolution or if there will even be one

    0 Comments
    2024/04/25
    00:16 UTC

    8

    Taxi Cab Therapy: you and your therapist just ride around town randomly while you pour your heart out to them and they counsel you.

    This approach will probably need to involve vehicles that are driverr-assisted or full automated self-driving, so it may not be practical yet unless you get a third person to serve as valet.

    But you the client pay for gas and the therapy session, and the therapist decides where to go and the route to take. And you just go.

    One session might be going to a public park to sit and talk in privacy in the therapy car.

    Other times it may just be driving around town with no particular destination in mind. It's whatever the needs of the client are, determined by the therapist.

    3 Comments
    2024/04/24
    23:39 UTC

    11

    get rid of weekends (kind of)

    Instead of everyone having saturdays and sundays off each person is randomly assigned 2 days off throughout the week. For example Chris might have off days on Tuesdays and Fridays while Jill might have Sunday and Monday off. This way you won't run into the issue where you have to go somewhere but they are only open on weekdays when you are working

    9 Comments
    2024/04/24
    23:31 UTC

    0

    The Supreme Court justices are elected by the popular vote.

    This will help offset the overrepresentation of rural states.

    4 Comments
    2024/04/24
    23:25 UTC

    0

    If you don’t drink, you’ll die… If you drink a lot, you’ll die too.

    6 Comments
    2024/04/24
    21:08 UTC

    0

    A cartoon on Adult Swim where OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown-Simpson drive his Ford Bronco around hell together solving mysteries Scooby-Doo style. The series will heavily imply that she got what she deserved while she was on earth

    0 Comments
    2024/04/24
    20:46 UTC

    12

    Build a residential neighborhood called "Up Yours, God!" Name the streets "Earthquake Dr," "Tornado Alley," "Flooding Ln," "Volcano Blvd," etc.

    6 Comments
    2024/04/24
    20:32 UTC

    84

    Put stuff in the garage in cardboard boxes. Seal the boxes with tape. Mark each box up for $5. Hold a garage sale with buyers taking whatever is in the mystery box they buy, whether they like it or not.

    17 Comments
    2024/04/24
    20:31 UTC

    40

    If the landlord fails to collect rent 3 months in a row, you can live there forever.

    They have 3 days to give you an invoice, or else you can take them to court and have a marshal take money out of their bank account.

    They should pass this law, just for the sake of symmetry, and it'll be fine because that's something that will never, ever happen.

    22 Comments
    2024/04/24
    16:58 UTC

    44

    Fast food places should do a retro week where they sell all the items they sold in the 70s using the exact original recipe.

    No modern reproduction "throwback" recipes, just the original ingredients as prepared in the 70s.
    https://np.reddit.com/r/VintageMenus/comments/11wlz6t/taco\_bells\_menu\_in\_the\_70s\_teaching\_americans/

    15 Comments
    2024/04/24
    16:49 UTC

    4

    We can basically throw something from the moon towards earth and if it get a parachute equipped, it will land safely

    So can we make a express brand that's takes order, have a big rocket to deliver them all to space. Then have satellites carry those orders, get to the exact coordinate of your house and drop it right at your front door. And it's an order from America or Europe to the middle of no where in less than a week (if the express brand decided to launch rockets weekly) or less then a 2 days (if the express brand decided to launch rocket everyday

    12 Comments
    2024/04/24
    13:23 UTC

    16

    put a solid rocket booster under your bike seat to go super fast

    this should go without saying, but do not try this at home

    strapping an SRB to the underside of the seat and point the exhaust out the back, hit the ignition and cling on for dear life

    10 Comments
    2024/04/24
    06:36 UTC

    4

    riding a grenade (please do not try this at home)

    place a grenade on the ground and attach a string to the pin. put a blast proof helmet over it, crouch on the helmet and pull the pin via the string, you will be catapulted by the blast

    8 Comments
    2024/04/24
    06:30 UTC

    56

    Fart briefcase

    For convienient flatulence transportation

    16 Comments
    2024/04/24
    05:24 UTC

    59

    I’ve heard many hard drug users on the streets claim mushrooms cured their additions, sooo…

    Why not buy legal mushroom spores and grow your own at home, and then once a week or so, bag them up and go to a place with lots of drug addicts and give them out for free, most will not reject free drugs and you might end up saving lives.

    42 Comments
    2024/04/24
    01:38 UTC

    13

    Teach yourself how to write in Comic Sans and use in in all professional corrispondence

    2 Comments
    2024/04/24
    01:13 UTC

    24

    Coffee mixed with cream soda

    Cream soda is milk, sugar, and vanilla all in one. And maybe the carbonation will be fun.

    6 Comments
    2024/04/23
    17:42 UTC

    13

    Juice and soda mixed together in the same bottle

    9 Comments
    2024/04/23
    14:37 UTC

    0

    Strawberry Tacos

    2 Comments
    2024/04/23
    07:08 UTC

    0

    A thread where everybody gets downvoted

    10 Comments
    2024/04/23
    05:35 UTC

    2

    Air Compressor Clothes Dryer

    This Crazy Idea is to remove humidity from the air inside of a clothes dryer without either adding heat or using expensive or eco-unfriendly artificial refrigerants.

    How it would work:

    • humid air is sucked out of the clothes drum, and pulled through a dust filter.
    • this humid air goes through the air compressor, which which compresses it adibadically, increasing the temperature.
    • this warm, humid, compressed air passes through a counter-current heat exchanger, which cools it, causing some of the humidity to condense into liquid water.
    • the cooled mix of water and liquid air is passed through an air/liquid separator.
    • the (cool) air, still at high pressure, passes through a turbo expander, cooling it further, and as a bonus, recovering mechanical energy.
    • now at atmospheric pressure, the air passes through a second air/liquid separator.
    • having been dewatered a second time, the cool air passes through the heat exchanger (again), warming it back up.
    • the dry, tepid air returns to the clothes drum.
    • the liquid from the two air/liquid separators passes through an oil/water separator, so that lubricant from the compressor and expander can be recovered.

    ThisCrazy Idea is basically taking the process commonly used to liquify air, using a lower power, lower pressure version of it to liquify humidity.

    It might be better to an use alternative pneumatic motor if the turbo expander is likely to be damaged by water.

    This could be considered a heat pump based device, but one which uses cheap, safe refrigerants R718 (water) and R729 (air).

    2 Comments
    2024/04/22
    23:30 UTC

    14

    Sue reddit as a shareholder to make them reign in moderators.

    So, the mods at *many* subs are downright fascist. They ban people for posting dissenting ideas to groupthink, they ban people for calling mods out when they ban other people, and they permaban for messaging the mod over a suspension.

    So, here's the lawsuit. These mods are destroying reddit communities. In addition, when a mod bans a person for something trivial, and that person makes another account to ban evade the original ban because his community was there, then reddit admins side with the mod. There is no holding mods to account and they are driving users away from the platform.

    So, what are some common sense reforms?

    1. While a user is temp banned from a sub, they cannot be perma banned from a sub. This is to prevent retaliation bans, where a reddit user questions a temp ban and gets a perma ban for annoying the mod.

    2. Perma bans need to have a jury trial. These are serious infractions, and simply saying "its my opinion that comunism sucks" on a communist subreddit, or saying that the mods are power tripping for calling a user racist when the user wasnt racist and was instead calling out political ideologies that were not in line with the mods favourite ideology, or banning everyone that participates in a thread that is calling out the mods in dissent? Yeah, that's wrong, and ban evaders in that case are in the right, and the mods are in the wrong and the admins are in the wrong for siding with the mods. Why? It breaks up communities and fractures shareholder value, lower advertising revenue which is a direct challenge to the fiduciary duty that the admins have to the shareholders. Therefore, legally speaking the shareholders have a tort against reddit admins for letting mods run amok.

    3. Temp bans need to be made the goto tools. mods should have 5 or so 3 day bans per day they can hand out before they need another mod to approve a 3 day ban. 3 hour bans are more appropriate.

    4. There needs to be an appeal system. A moderator of moderators. If a person appeals their ban, it goes to jury, and if the jury upholds it, the banned person should be able to pay an official reddit moderator which is a paid position to review their case. If the official moderator rules against the mod, the person is immune to being banned by that mod for 1 week, and the mod gets a demerit. After so many strikes, mods are required to step down, or take a mod coaching class. Which is a paid class sold by reddit. For $100. That's right. The mods who abuse their power now have to pay to keep it, and get lectured on why they shouldn't abuse their power. By a video class from the admins.

    14 Comments
    2024/04/22
    23:23 UTC

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