The quasi Official Stupid Ideas that have actually been done thread
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Living.
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How much did you read? Somebody stick their fingers down his eyes...
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I... what?!
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OK the idea of something that is good for moving around in and hopefully good at resisting tears and such for toddlers would make sense, though they grow fast enough that needing something other than generic shirt+pants seems silly.
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Sure, but.... "performance" activewear? The ad for the adult stuff was touting how it has mesh panels and wicks sweat...
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Performance activewear for little 'uns just needs to be able to survive being washed several times a day. Like that you can keep up with the sticky-mess generation.
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Active kids sweat a lot, too. And they like wearing the same stuff their mom / dad wear.
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"performance" activewear?
Not that kind of performance, tsk tsk.
And on a serious note, I honestly don't see a problem here. It's not like it actually boosts performance (directly at least), it makes you comfortable while you're running around being active. Which is exactly what kids do.
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cement, gravel and straw? No? Gravel, water and wood pulp? Water, potatoes and lard?
Wood pulp and ice FTW
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On November 15, 2015 Théo Sanson walked nearly 500 meters on a slackline rigged from The Rectory to Castleton Tower in Castle Valley, Utah - likely a new world record. Rigging the line is perhaps as significant a feat as walking it...
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Does he say these things for effect or because he genuinely thinks them? And which is scarier?
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And which is scarier?
The fact that 50% of people surveyed agree with Trump is pretty scary.
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I gotta say, if someone asked me that question about Agraba, I don't think I could have resisted saying yes.
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Not a fan of Aladdin's hometown?
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Would you be in favor of bombing Koganusân?
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Well if it were that or the actual boatmurdered outcome...
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What difference, at this point does it make?
Just a fan of trolling.
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Need more info.
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Your one box doesn't really answer anything and I've never understood the draw that people have to that site. I guess I'd probably say, "Don't know," if a pollster asked me about it.
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But this is being all inclusive and respectful of a child's psychosexual development. Or something.
I wonder what a certain vulpine leaning person would make of it.
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Fortunately, they are radio buttons but you can choose as many as you want.
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I wonder what a certain vulpine leaning person would make of it.
What about feline?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3419631/Woman-says-s-CAT-trapped-human-body.html
A woman who believes she was born a cat has opened up about her life as a feline, describing how she has a superior sense sense of hearing and sight which allows her to hunt mice in the dark.
Nano, 20, from Oslo, Norway, makes the revelation in an interview published on the NRK P3 Verdens Rikeste Land YouTube channel, and it's been viewed 122,000 times.
And she claims to possess many feline characteristics including a hatred of water and the ability to communicate simply by meowing.
That last bit is bollocks by the way. (Well ok - not just the last bit, but you know what I mean):
Cat meowing is not exclusively how cats vocalize. Meowing is a special kitten behavior meant to catch the attention of their mother, and *not* the language that they normally speak while out and about with other cats
Emph mine.
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“By focusing on children's bedrooms we want to stop the problem of asthma and allergies before it even starts to develop. This campaign addresses how dangerous stuffed animals can be if they are not washed regularly,” Kitchen copywriter Bendik Romstad told The Local.
"For children, stuffed animals can be just as dangerous as the world´s worst despots," she added.
Emphasis added.
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I bet many kids will just pick the funniest-sounding one, making the collected information totally useless for anything.
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Remember the good old days when kids actually went out and played on lawns, so their immune system could figure out which dust wasn't really all that harmful?
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Remember the good old days when kids actually went out and played on lawns, so their immune system could figure out which dust wasn't really all that harmful?
Nope.
@Idiots said:
Kids of all ages think of summer as an amazing time to stay up late, sleep in and spend their days playing outside or laying on the beach or the couch; however, these actions can truly disrupt sleep schedules and lead to long-term health effects.
@Talking about idiots said:
My daughter is now 6 and I try to encourage her to walk on her own in our neighborhood, to the park, to the store, and EVERY time she is stopped by a well-meaning adult saying she should not be by herself, and one guy calling me (she knows my cell phone number) and then threatening to call 911!
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Fortunately, they are radio buttons but you can choose as many as you want.
Look closer. The "No" and "Yes" answers from question 12 have radio buttons. They are completely round.
The checkboxes from the answers to question 13 are squares with rounded corners.
It would have been clearer if the visual distinction had been bigger, but there is a difference.
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Huh. Maybe I'll start using 'demi-girl' instead of 'tomboy' :)
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It would have been clearer if the visual distinction had been bigger, but there is a difference.
It does say "Choose as many as you want". That's a bit of a clue.
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A woman who believes she was born a cat
And instead of being put in a padded room, she becomes a YouTube celebrity.
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I keep reading "Tomboy" as "Trombone" Confused the hell outta me when looking at the form @PJH posted...
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And instead of being put in a padded room, she
becomes a YouTube celebrity.gets 15 minutes of fame.Tough for her when she eventually applies for a job with RentoKill and they google her however...
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It does say "Choose as many as you want". That's a bit of a clue.
I picked up on that (and @dkf did too, otherwise he wouldn't have complained). It's the cognitive dissonance between the text saying "Choose as many as you want" and the widgets to do so appear more like radio buttons than checkboxes that's bullshit.
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This is most worthy:
TL;DR If you remove the white line traffic slows down by 8% because drivers become more attentive and do not have the sense of security lane identification brings.
The strongest argument for keeping the white line? Cars with lane crossing stuff needs them.
On the plus side, so there is some hope, there are no plans to extend the scheme
This reminds me of the joke about proving spiders hear through their legs.
What makes it worse, in poor or atrocious visibility, speed will reduce dramatically thus reducing further the risk of accident. Yet more proof that it works.
Story: I used to live in a county called Cambridgeshire and work in a county called Suffolk (the only difference between Norfolk and Suffolk is the N and the S, and house prices are higher in Suffolk - proximity to London). At the time there were very few major major "A" roads through Suffolk - you could reasonably count them on the thumbs of two hands (one if you were a native of Suffolk). Except for a large number of "C" roads and one or 2 "D", the rest were "B" roads some of which are labeled as "A" for the look of things - but that's another story.
Once you got out of the bright light [sic] of built up areas - farm, pub, post office and half a dozen houses, there were no road markings except at major junctions. Driving home in the dark was a nightmare because the roads were often the same colour as the verges. Driving home in rain, fog or snow was a 1000 times worse.
The point of the story? As soon as I crossed the County Border you got white lines. Sometimes down the middle of the road, but always at the side. The best thing about the latter was they became dashed when you approached a side junction. And yes I did speed up, soon exceeded my previous rate of progress that was slightly less than walking pace.
INB4: Headlights were not as bright then as
theysome are now and even one oncoming car was enough to wipe out whatever night vision you had. On some occasions it was easier to drive without lightswhilst waiting for the corse of knee jerk reaction to come flooding in from armchair experts...
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live in a county called Cambridgeshire
As soon as I crossed the County Border you got white lines.
I can't see this making any difference in the countryside. Lots of roads round here are without the centre line - people still drive the same speed as the roads with them.
Maybe it slows people down at night, but I can't see how it makes any difference during the day.If there's nothing coming the other way plenty of people drive down the centre of the road ignoring the line totally.
edit: by "in the countryside" I mean outside of villages.
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If there's nothing coming the other way plenty of people drive down the centre of the road ignoring the line totally.
I'm back in Cambridgeshire, but now closer to Lincolnshire. There are lots of niche straight roads without center lines where you have to drive down the center if you want to travel at any speed because of the potholes. Thinking about it, I went back to review the article to get a better flavour of the geographical region, your are right in as much as living and driving in extreme rural areas gives you expose and experience of these sort of conditions.
I can image that, for some areas, deprivation of these things can cause a bit of an anticipatory panic. My "rant" was not so much about the idea but more about the thinking (and lack of thinking) behind it. Which goes back to the joke about spiders hearing through their legs.
My concern then, and still is, knowing "where I am" when I can see neither verge or more than a few feet in front of me. "have I drifted across the median?"; "am I about to end up in a ditch?"; "is there a junction or bend ahead?" etc
Edit: Forgot to add, with respect to the relevance of Lincolnshire. To spice things up: many of those straight roads have water on one side and a not inconsiderable drop on the other.
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TL;DR If you remove the white line traffic slows down by 8% because drivers become more attentive and do not have the sense of security lane identification brings.
Ah. "Let's 'increase safety' by making it harder for the drivers". Seems legit.
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Which goes back to the joke about spiders hearing through their legs.
Ugh. Which joke is that?
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I'm back in Cambridgeshire, but now closer to Lincolnshire.
I live at one end of the county, work at the other.
Lincolnshire
I grew up in Lincolnshire - it's got some pretty decent driving roads.
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Ugh. Which joke is that?
There are many variations, and you know it is a joke, and you know the punchline, so I lifted this from the interweb which should give you a good idea of what I was getting at:
There was a scientist working away in obscurity for years with peculiar experiments on spiders. After years and years he placed an advertisement in several academic journals to let everyone know he and was to host a live show to demonstrate his findings.
At the event hundreds were there more out of curiosity than anything as the details of the findings were kept secret. The man himself wandered on stage and silenced the murmurs.
'Today I will demonstrate two things. The first being that spiders can understand and respond to basic commands.'
The crowd laughed and jeered but undeterred he opened a box on his desk and a spider crawled out. 'Spider, walk left'
The spider moved to its left. The crowd was silenced. 'Spider, move right.'
The spider moved right. The crowd gasped. Forward, backward, the spider responded again and again. The crowd applauded in awe.
The scientist then removed all of the spider's legs. The crowd, confused by this, watched in silence. 'Move left'
The spider didn't move. 'Move right'
Nothing. Forward, backward, no response. 'This is to demonstrate my second finding. Once you remove a spider's legs, it goes deaf.'from https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1e9zh5/scientists_and_spiders/
This iteration attracted more comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/12nvzi/my_dads_favourite_joke_mine_too/
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TL;DR If you remove the white line traffic slows down by 8% because drivers become more attentive and do not have the sense of security lane identification brings.
Why is slowing traffic down by 8% desirable?
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- The long answer to that is very complicated but could be summed up as because...
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Why is slowing traffic down by 8% desirable?
Because of the 2.
Also it supposedly reduces the chances that your K.E will go smashing into someone else's, because you've got more reaction time and stuff, so there's that too.