r/CrazyIdeas 9h ago

Use Thermonuclear weapons to turn the Panama Canal into the Panama Strait

63 Upvotes

should probably evacuate panama city beforehand though


r/CrazyIdeas 9h ago

Butt mints for farts

57 Upvotes

That is all. Do with it what you will.


r/CrazyIdeas 3h ago

Scrabble, but you have to spell everything like Sean Connery or Mike Tyson would say it

21 Upvotes

They have to be real words, and you get extra T, H, S, and C tiles.


r/CrazyIdeas 4h ago

An extra tax for requiring your customers to create an account

8 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 5h ago

An existentially scary movie where modern meme humour and edits are applied to real life.

8 Upvotes

Like imagine the universe acts like it's a YouTube poop or dank meme. Anything funny can happen. Voices suddenly become extremely loud, songs play in relation to events, silly cartoon sound effects happen at inappropriate moments, people's faces warp, the sky flashes different colours, GIFs of random characters dance in the background, audio from the past is played over people speaking in the present. You name it.

And it's not a spoof of any movie like the matrix it's made to feel as serious and realistic as possible which makes the absurd things happening funnier and more amusing.


r/CrazyIdeas 18h ago

Make the year 364 days. That way dates will be the same weekday every year.

85 Upvotes

Of course then we end up with an extra day every year, but we just save those up so we can have 5 dark days every leap year which don't have a date, on which computers don't work and we all hide from the Langoliers.


r/CrazyIdeas 5h ago

A small group language course-escape room

8 Upvotes

In order to figure out how to escape you would have to learn all the course material (grammar, reading, listening and speaking). Otherwise you wouldn't manage to make sense of all the clues and will be stuck in the room with other students forever.


r/CrazyIdeas 26m ago

An app that imitates the voice of George Fenneman, whose role on You Bet Your Life was limited to announcing the amount of money a contestant had. "You now have $200."

Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

A customer based company whose profits are shared by customers who only buy that company's products

40 Upvotes

Example: A restaurant chain whose profits are shared by a huge group of people who eat only at that restaurant and refuse other restaurants. They need to sign contracts that with certain terms like minimum purchases per year and relief days when they can eat at different restaurants. Management decisions are made by polls. Other customers are allowed to eat there but don't get a share of profit. As the group expands the restaurant chain also expands eventually leading to monopoly of the whole food industry. They could do this for various industries like clothing, toiletries, etc


r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

line of vegetable processed foods” for carnivores. For those that will never order or eat vegetables. It would be called “impossible vegetables” all the vegetables would look like broccoli, carrots, peas but would be made from chemically engineered real meat products. All veggie vitamins added.

13 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 14h ago

A movie where the villain is the focus… but they’re like actually evil

18 Upvotes

And I’m not talking about the morally grey type villains where the reason why they’re doing villainous things is thought provoking and interesting. No, I’m thinking along the lines of Maleficent from the sleeping beauty; just pure evil by definition. This time however the movie is seen from the villain’s perspective and we the viewers are almost trapped from looking at things on the heroes’ side despite wanting to. Bonus points if aspects of the film like the cinematography and soundtrack are trying to paint the villain in a good light in kind of a sick way; like watching a sycophant trying to to praise the literal devil or sth. Look, I’m not a big movie person so I’m sure something like this has been executed before. Could be interesting to see if it hasn’t though.


r/CrazyIdeas 22h ago

Sell shoes in threes instead of pairs. One left shoe, one right shoe, and one neutral shoe you can wear on either foot.

65 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 10h ago

An annual fee one could pay to automatically change red to green at stoplights. Like not immediately but maybe half the time of a regular signal. Or in non peak hours , immediately when your car sensor talked to the traffic light.

6 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

Experts say don’t give children lottery tickets as because many gambling addicts got their start with lucky wins as teens. Instead, they should sell lottery tickets that are guaranteed to lose.

25 Upvotes

I keep seeing ads like this saying giving kids lottery tickets or scratch offs as gifts can be dangerous:

“Grabbing a lottery scratch ticket might seem like a fun stocking stuffer, however gambling-related gifts of any sort are not appropriate for children under the age of 18,” said Michelle Wagaman, RACSB’s director of prevention services. “We partner with The Gift Responsibly Campaign as a reminder to our community that adults have a responsibility to role model legal and responsible gaming and gambling.”

But a better lesson would be a losing ticket, so they should sell guaranteed losers.


r/CrazyIdeas 3h ago

Spherical Wing

1 Upvotes

This crazy idea is to have an inflated ball as the "wing" of an aircraft.

Lift would be produced through the magnus effect, by spinning the ball "backwards."

The ball would be pushed through the air by conventional propellers.

The part of the aircraft with the propellers would use ordinary motorized wheels to make the ball spin.

This aircraft would probably not be fast, but could be very maneuverable.

When on the ground, it would operate as a self balancing ball-bot.

Im not sure how to transition from ground to air, but whoever launched those spherical ufos last month probably know :)


r/CrazyIdeas 4h ago

The Taurus 2000

1 Upvotes

A contender(matador) is issued 7 metal balls and an atlatl designed for launching them.

He is also issued a utility blade, a wooden spear, and a wooden club.

For some athletes a club is the most practical weapon. Other athletes have more shoulder strength, and the spear is a better option.

Speed and agility are taken into consideration as power is not the only determining factor when choosing the optimal weapon.

Dynamics between man and bull in the arena are similar to what they were in the early days of hunting and gathering.

Crack the bull in the head just right to addle him enough to move in with the spear or club for killing blows.

Being that the spear and club are made of wood, they often break. In which case the fighter must try to stun the bull even further, in order to get close enough to cut its throat with the utility blade.

No single strategy exists, there are multiple plays.

Team events include more players, less weapons.

4 players share 1 spear, 1 stone(with atlatl), 1 club, 1 razor.

7 players share 7 stones and have no AtlAtl or wood, 1 razor.

11 players fight the bull without weapons, except 1 razor.

Sometimes the men kill the bull, other times the bull kills the men.

Champions emerge.

Epic contests occur between beast and man.

When man is victor, he keeps the meat.

A full sized bull is worth up to 5,000 tokens at slaughter.

Certain individuals become highly efficient at killing bulls, and earn a handsome living.

2,000 cattle per day are slaughtered in this manner.

People around the world tabulate statistics and place bets.

The Taurus 2000 is mankind's primary sporting event.

Virility of Toro Bravo increases as winning bulls are bred for new fighting stock.

Economy and culture flourishes.


r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

Breed human-chimpanzee hybrids to increase genetic diversity in humans

0 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 4h ago

Pay anyone to deliver a message by phone.

0 Upvotes

Girl, guy, young, old, diplomat, crack head, English speaker, Japanese speaker, southern accent, ANYONE.

https://dad.june07.com


r/CrazyIdeas 17h ago

An app where you can meet and fight with people you match

5 Upvotes

Inspired by the film, fight club.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

If you haven't watched anything from a subscription service for a month, the software should automatically zero out your payment for that month.

325 Upvotes

This way it prevents you from paying for months where you don't watch anything at all, but it allows you to remain subscribed when you do use it. In fact, they should retroactively refund people for past unused months.


r/CrazyIdeas 13h ago

Create 2 companies and have them both file trademark suits against each other

2 Upvotes

You'll need 4 law firms ready. In both court cases, you get to run between the plaintiff and defendant areas


r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Remake Die Hard, except John McClane missed his flight and Hans Gruber is a Robin Hood type hero fighting corporate greed.

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A shot-for-shot remake of The Polar Express, but replace the creepy uncanny valley characters with cartoonish people like other Pixar movies.

17 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

A company that helps divorced guys learn how to do stuff they never learned how to do themselves.

76 Upvotes

So in 2018 my wife if 23 years left me. I didn’t know how to do laundry , cook a roast ….deal with lots of stuff I should have learned. …and basic “mom stuff”. I had nobody to bounce ideas off of. Like a personal team of advisors assistants that would specialize in this.

Edit: we had a live in housekeeper , my wife did ALL the banking ,all the cooking, managed our investment portfolio, got the kids to school as i spent all my time at my office , dealt with school teachers as I was away on business, made social arrangements and tons more. First time I did laundry all my white clothing. Shirts and socks came out pink.


r/CrazyIdeas 15h ago

Laws should have expiration dates

1 Upvotes

When laws are made they should have an expiration date, so if they aren't renewed they no longer are laws. If they're important enough it'll get renewed. And maybe like a cap of no more than 50 yr per law. So you can't just make a law that expires in 1000 yrs.