The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
blank bullets
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Commonly known as "blanks". You know, we in "shooting blanks"?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
shooting blanks
Having trouble with your swimmers?
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
blank bullets
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Um, actually, they're shotgun shells with no shot. It's the freaking out the package thieves that's important, though.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It's the freaking out the package thieves that's important, though
No, it's always the that's important
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
blank bullets
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Commonly known as "blanks". You know, we in "shooting blanks"?
Yes. What makes them "blanks" is that they don't have bullets. "Blank bullets" is oxymoron.
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Um, actually, they're shotgun shells with no shot.
So, even if they weren't blanks, there would still be no bullets involved. Well done!
Oh, well. It's the Daily Fail. Expecting intelligent reporting would be inconsistent with reality. Also, British, so they've probably never seen a bullet.
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@accalia said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Pizzaception.
.... we need to go deeper.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
blank bullets
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Um, actually, they're shotgun shells with no shot. It's the freaking out the package thieves that's important, though.
I initially thought he was disappointed that they're not real bullets.
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@anotherusername I might not be disappointed if they were.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Sadly a small scare like that probably won't scare them enough to make them reconsider their life choices. It protects your package but it won't stop them from stealing your neighbor's.
A better trap should deliver a proportional punishment. Cover them with some hard to wash substance or drop some cold water on them.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Sadly a small scare like that probably won't scare them enough to make them reconsider their life choices.
I don't think the punishment of getting some goop on my hand outweights the benefit of getting some shiny new laptop/game/electronic/headphones for free
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@bb36e Maybe not if you consider the tradeoffs ahead of time. If it comes as a surprise when you were expecting to make a silent getaway it might hopefully ruin your afternoon.
Plus you can't use any stronger stuff like hot sauce or falling anvils because if you actually hurt the other person you'll be in legal shit.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
actually hurt
So, generating a high-voltage EM field is probably out of the question?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@bb36e Maybe not if you consider the tradeoffs ahead of time. If it comes as a surprise when you were expecting to make a silent getaway it might hopefully ruin your afternoon.
Plus you can't use any stronger stuff like hot sauce or falling anvils because if you actually hurt the other person you'll be in legal shit.
I always thought some harmless but indelible fluorescent dye would be a suitable indicator of one's having made poor life choices.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
blank bullets
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Um, actually, they're shotgun shells with no shot. It's the freaking out the package thieves that's important, though.
I initially thought he was disappointed that they're not real bullets.
I think I remember South Africa actually allowing stuff like that as anti-theft measures. It also backfired (in an all too real sense) several times.
For example, there was the guy who rigged a sawed off shotgun to go off under his driver's seat in case of theft (basically a poor man's Claymore). Well, he promptly suffered from a case of "false positive".
Another guy put an actual flame thrower under his car so it would spout flames up the sides. Didn't end too well either.
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@rhywden said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Another guy put an actual flame thrower under his car so it would spout flames up the sides.
Was he called Colin Furze by any chance?
Also, this is relevant…
AK47 door bell system. – 05:28
— colinfurze
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@rhywden Natural selection.
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@boomzilla
Probably plays hell on the blades for the snowblower though...
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@boomzilla not sure how rewarding it'd be to find a bunch of cans of frozen beer.
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Police cars sound different from civilian cars, so why don't police guns sound different than civilian guns? There would be a lot fewer cases where police heard shots fired and tried to return fire against someone without a gun if their guns sounded like ducks.
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@ben_lubar it's a lot easier to notice somebody driving a fake police car around town than it is to notice somebody carrying a duck-gun concealed in his pocket. You're a lot more likely to get caught before you do anything very criminally useful with the car. It gets used all the time; a gun gets used in rare circumstances which will almost always result in police investigation.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@ben_lubar it's a lot easier to notice somebody driving a fake police car around town than it is to notice somebody carrying a duck-gun concealed in his pocket. You're a lot more likely to get caught before you do anything very criminally useful with the car. It gets used all the time; a gun gets used in rare circumstances which will almost always result in police investigation.
Ok, how about plan B: make all guns sound like ducks.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
not sure how rewarding it'd be to find a bunch of cans of frozen beer.
bud light should be the punishment, not the reward
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
guns sounded like ducks.
Youtube:
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
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@pjh said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
guns sounded like ducks.
Youtube:
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
The usual method of working around that isn't working: https://www.youtube.com/user/ComedyCentralUK/search?query=A+Suspicious+Police+Shooting+in+Chicago%3A+The+Daily+Show
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It's from the 2016-08-11 episode. If someone wants to battle the infiniscroll on http://www.comedycentral.co.uk/the-daily-show/videos to try to find what they renamed the video to, be my guest.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Ok, how about plan B: make all guns sound like
duckswitches.MontyPython'dTFY
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@r10pez10 That's pretty cool. Not sure it would work too well here... An empty road? LOL!
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@dcon
Maybe the lights could just auto-dim when the wildfires get close enough to provide ambient light
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
That's pretty cool. Not sure it would work too well here... An empty road? LOL!
How busy are the side streets at 3am?
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This thing RuneScape does:
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@anonymous234 ...is that during a quest or something?
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@anotherusername It is indeed during a quest. A Tail of Two Cats, to be precise.
I don't think it's a "general" feature of Runescape, sadly, but still a good idea.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@anotherusername It is indeed during a quest. A Tail of Two Cats, to be precise.
I don't think it's a "general" feature of Runescape, sadly, but still a good idea.
I'm pretty sure that's a meta-joke that got edited at some point by a dev who didn't understand it was a joke and was trying to improve the UI.
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Important life advice
The half assed amerian approach to chores – 01:36
— alex b
Phineas and Ferb-Give Up Lyrics – [00:05..02:05] 02:05
— PhineasFan11
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@boner said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I am disappointed...here I thought it would be a full bath towel that had special part so I can wrap the towel around me and the tatas and it not fall off.
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@anonymous234 As featured on Last Week Tonight's episode about military translators:
"Let It Go" from Frozen according to Google Translate (PARODY) – 04:30
— Twisted Translations
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I'm not sure that liquid helium is all that nice to drink.
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Copied from another thread:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Fake Low Battery is a small app that is trick to convince your kids that your phone has a low battery state
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@jbert said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Copied from another thread:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Fake Low Battery is a small app that is trick to convince your kids that your phone has a low battery state
Ah, but it doesn't spoof the battery icon itself...
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I want this alarm
The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper - Swing States Are in Danger – [01:05..01:16] 05:13
— Comedy Central
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
When he asks for an iPad
Is @Polygeekery son?
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@boomzilla
You had me right up until the bagpipe music.
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@izzion Would you prefer an Irish jig?
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