Ideas you think are great but most people probably think are rubbish.

Nolanger · 04-06-2010 9:05pm

All pet cat owners should pay for a licence.

bonerm · 04-06-2010 9:08pm

Michellenman wrote: »

He woke up the next morning and he'd scribbled down 'two storey tent'

Pity it wasn't "Trent Story II"

Truley · 04-06-2010 9:10pm

Politicians shouldn't be paid. Or at most be paid minimam wage. There are plenty of people who will do their work for free, and do it better.

thetonynator · 04-06-2010 9:16pm

Most important one yet:

STERILISE SCUMBAGS

That way, in the not too distant future there'll be none left!!!

jiltloop · 04-06-2010 9:46pm

People who get 6 penalty points should have to redo their driving test.

Oh and they should give 6 penalty points for not indicating properly on a roundabout.

yeah? · 04-06-2010 9:47pm

Sofaspud wrote: »

yeah?

Yeah!
Cheese rocks.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 04-06-2010 9:48pm

SUNGOD wrote: »

lol and then we can reveiw gamer and running man etc
lol i like the cut of your gib

Damn, man. i was gonna say that

I think a good idea would be some sort of device that could very accurately determine how much alcohol someone has consumed/how much is in their blood, and could do that very quickly and painlessly (no big **** off needles thankyou). Just a little strip on your wrist, like a watch.

If you want to buy a drink, you have to have flash the barman/maid your little device that shows your blood/alc. levels (or to make it even easier and quicker for when the place is mobbed, a light which went between green for ok and red for not ok).

The government could set a clear limit on how much you could have in your blood before a bar has to stop serving you. Obviously it would need to be fairly high because otherwise you wouldn't be able to drink that much. I mean make the limit at a level a little below the point where most people just cannot function/think straight. Would cut down on the number of people drinking themselves to death / hurting themselves from being way too drunk.

The current way of doing things (if you think they're too drunk, don't serve them) is a little too fuzzy and doesn't really do much.

If the bar or whatever broke the law and sold to someone over the limit they would be fined/whatever, same as it is now.

Will probably be waiting a good while for that to even be possible though.

Michellenman · 04-06-2010 9:50pm

Simeon Defeated Hijacker wrote: »

Damn, man. i was gonna say that

I think a good idea would be some sort of device that could very accurately determine how much alcohol someone has consumed/how much is in their blood, and could do that very quickly and painlessly (no big **** off needles thankyou). Just a little strip on your wrist, like a watch.

If you want to buy a drink, you have to have flash the barman/maid your little device that shows your blood/alc. levels (or to make it even easier and quicker for when the place is mobbed, a light which went between green for ok and red for not ok).

The government could set a clear limit on how much you could have in your blood before a bar has to stop serving you. Obviously it would need to be fairly high because otherwise you wouldn't be able to drink that much. I mean make the limit at a level a little below the point where most people just cannot function/think straight. Would cut down on the number of people drinking themselves to death / hurting themselves from being way too drunk.

The current way of doing things (if you think they're too drunk, don't serve them) is a little too fuzzy and doesn't really do much.

If the bar or whatever broke the law and sold to someone over the limit they would be fined/whatever, same as it is now.

Will probably be waiting a good while for that to even be possible though.

That is ridiculous. It's up to you how much you drink and what state you get in to, it's not the responsibility of the bartender.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 04-06-2010 10:03pm

Michellenman wrote: »

That is ridiculous. It's up to you how much you drink and what state you get in to, it's not the responsibility of the bartender.

It's illegal to serve someone that's completely slaughtered, as far as I'm aware... It definitely is in the UK anyway

It's all too often proved that drunk people are not responsible. This is a way to stop them killing themselves/taking up hospital beds etc. All it is is a quick look at the little device. And I'd say most publicans would be happy to make sure no-one dies of alcohol poisoning after being in their pub, and there's no fella out the back taking swings left right and centre because he's so out of it.

I'd say it would save money and time for the taxpayer too... medical expenses, Gardai can be doing other things 'cause they don't have to investigate any deaths or whatever, probably a little less alcohol related crime in the small hours too. However this might cost a lot too...

Din Taylor · 04-06-2010 10:04pm

Boneless chicken.

karlog · 04-06-2010 10:06pm

Din Taylor wrote: »

Boneless chicken.

That's ridiculous, a time machine would be more realistic.

ldxo15wus6fpgm · 04-06-2010 10:09pm

Din Taylor wrote: »

Boneless chicken.

My man, that's already been done!
Get your ass down to KFC

Din Taylor · 04-06-2010 10:09pm

karlog wrote: »

That's ridiculous, a time machine would be more realistic.

But you get all the loveliness of chicken without the hassle of having to debone it.:rolleyes:

Standard Toaster · 04-06-2010 10:10pm

A chocolate teapot would be brill. Or an ashtray on a motorbike

Din Taylor · 04-06-2010 10:11pm

Simeon Defeated Hijacker wrote: »

My man, that's already been done!
Get your ass down to KFC

I'm talking about a complete chicken without any bones not just coated chicken breast. KFC is nice though.

fingerbob · 04-06-2010 10:14pm

A kind of push pop thing with pringle tins, a bit at the bottom that you can push up from the outside, hence you can easily access the remaining pringles that are usually hard to reach at the bottom of the tin.

yeah? · 04-06-2010 10:18pm

fingerbob wrote: »

A kind of push pop thing with pringle tins, a bit at the bottom that you can push up from the outside, hence you can easily access the remaining pringles that are usually hard to reach at the bottom of the tin.

Thats not rubbish, thats brilliant!

ANXIOUS · 04-06-2010 10:23pm

yeah? wrote: »

Thats not rubbish, thats brilliant!

God forbid you have to tilt the container lol.

BBDBB · 04-06-2010 10:23pm

Ejector seats in cars and then thick mattresses on every corner to land on

yeah? · 04-06-2010 10:38pm

ANXIOUS wrote: »

God forbid you have to tilt the container lol.

And risk pringles flying all over you and the floor?
No, they're too precious! haha

fingerbob · 04-06-2010 10:46pm

yeah? wrote: »

Thats not rubbish, thats brilliant!

Might have to take a patent out on that one then.. my friends never gave it the appreciation it deserved!

Coriolanus · 04-06-2010 10:48pm

Stee wrote: »

I had the great idea of sensored street lights. Miles of motorway/Dual carriageway are lit through the night with no one about, its a waste. So the sensor on the lampost would turn on the next 4 or 5 lights and turn off any behind the car, so the only part of the road lit would be at and in front of the car for 100-150m.

Turns out these lights use a shitload of electricity warming up and turning on, so that's a no-go, and LED lights will probably replace standard streetlights in the future and use a fraction of the electricity.

It'd burn the bulbs out quicker.

My name is URL · 04-06-2010 11:04pm

I worked in a care home for the developmentally disabled up until a few years ago and one of the problems that many clients encountered was epilepsy. I used to do a lot of night shifts and you had to constantly check that people weren't having seizures in their sleep

I had the idea one night that a bed-sheet fitted with motion sensors and hooked wirelessly up to a central alarm system would be a fantastic idea. I even attempted to patent it and had it written up by a New York law firm, seriously

Never got to the prototype stage because anyone I spoke to about making it insisted that it would cause more problems than it rectifies

that was my chindōgu.. I still thinks it's a good idea though :P

Lando Griffin · 04-06-2010 11:22pm

Nappies for dogs so when they do **** on the foot path, beech or your lawn, the **** ends up a the owners home who should then dispose of in an enviromental way.

Pighead · 04-06-2010 11:38pm

Pighead yearns for the day when a bright inventor invents a pair of shoes that cut the grass as yot walk up and down the lawn. No more dragging the poxy lawnmower out of the shed knocking over tins of paint and boxes of poxy powertools. No more pulling the poxy start lead and pulling muscles in the upper right quadrant of your shoulder area. No more having to listen to the poxy "neeaeaeaeaeaeaaeeaeaeaeaea" noise as the poxy engine buzzes like a bunch of teenage girls drunk on alcopops. No more emptying bags of stinking poxy pollen ridden grass that make your hay fevered infected eyes sting and water like a poxy liquid nettle. No more of any of that poxy nonsense. Just a pair of blue and yellow shoes with silver deathly sharp rotator blades in the soles that whirr softly but slice sharply. Merciless shoes that go "slice, slice, shred, shred"

The Express · 04-06-2010 11:49pm

Getting on a boat full of lentils and cement and attempting to take on the Israeli Defence Forces.

MEGA face palm.

srfc19 · 05-06-2010 12:08am

Just had a great idea, which should keep everyone happy.....

Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.

Pure genius.

papajimsmooth · 05-06-2010 12:31am

Drug and medical experiments on convicted murderers and rapists, to speed up new treatments

Nolanger · 05-06-2010 4:35pm

Have only men in the Dáil and only women in the Seanad.

BBDBB · 05-06-2010 5:50pm

what about velcro attached to children so they dont get lost

Eve_Dublin · 05-06-2010 5:55pm

I think keeping pets of any kind is wrong. Most pets I see look bored, are made wear the clothes of human beings and are dragged around places on a piece of rope and have no say in the matter. I suggest releasing them into the wild again.

BBDBB · 05-06-2010 5:56pm

Eve_Dublin wrote: »

I think keeping pets of any kind is wrong. Most pets I see look bored, are made wear the clothes of human beings and are dragged around places on a piece of rope and have no say in the matter. I suggest releasing them into the wild again.

is that pets or emo kids and goths?

Nolanger · 05-06-2010 6:35pm

Lower the voting age to 12.

trapsagenius · 05-06-2010 7:55pm

piby wrote: »

Communism

That's a crap idea alright.

Herb Powell · 05-06-2010 8:02pm

papajimsmooth wrote: »

Drug and medical experiments on convicted murderers and rapists, to speed up new treatments

pretty horrible stuff, I hope you weren't being serious

Dardania · 05-06-2010 8:31pm

My name is URL wrote: »

I worked in a care home for the developmentally disabled up until a few years ago and one of the problems that many clients encountered was epilepsy. I used to do a lot of night shifts and you had to constantly check that people weren't having seizures in their sleep

I had the idea one night that a bed-sheet fitted with motion sensors and hooked wirelessly up to a central alarm system would be a fantastic idea. I even attempted to patent it and had it written up by a New York law firm, seriously

Never got to the prototype stage because anyone I spoke to about making it insisted that it would cause more problems than it rectifies

that was my chindōgu.. I still thinks it's a good idea though :P

not to lower the tone, but would someone having a tom hank set it off?

Would it be easier to measure their brain activity from the ceiling - i'd imagine there's a characteristic wave arrangement...

Eve_Dublin · 06-06-2010 1:36pm

BBDBB wrote: »

is that pets or emo kids and goths?

Haha...they should all be released into the wild together. Doesn´t seem fair keeping the EMOs in the confines of the grounds of the Central Bank in Dublin like that. Cruel.

dr gonzo · 06-06-2010 2:55pm

Pighead wrote: »

Just a pair of blue and yellow shoes with silver deathly sharp rotator blades in the soles that whirr softly but slice sharply. Merciless shoes that go "slice, slice, shred, shred"

Change those colours to red, white and blue and the American military might be interested in Pigheads death shoes. Understandably of course, cutting the white house grass with them might not be their primary purpose.

Nolanger · 09-06-2010 6:41pm

Bring in a law that people in pubs, internet cafés, shops must got outside to use their mobile phone.

Deise Musashi · 09-06-2010 8:18pm

Sun Cream Factor 50 shotgun cartridges!

Thought of it while trying to apply sun cream to my two kids, nearly impossible.

Load up the old shotty, yell "Pull" and a child heads for the door.

"Boom"..."Boom"...all coated in sun cream!

I fired the double cause it's really sunny out.

Nolanger · 09-06-2010 8:24pm

Instead of eagles, reintroduce wolves into Ireland.

Big Nasty · 09-06-2010 8:33pm

I've had SO many brilliant and save the world ideas while intoxicated in some form or other that I reckon I have the potential to be a multi millionare and world leader. Pity is I can never remember them the next day!

Just as well 'cause they were probably poxy ideas in the true light of day!

JuliusCaesar · 09-06-2010 8:36pm

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Nappies for dogs so when they do **** on the foot path, beech or your lawn, the **** ends up a the owners home who should then dispose of in an enviromental way.

A crappy idea but too late.

eimear1 · 09-06-2010 8:58pm

Stee wrote: »

I had the great idea of sensored street lights. Miles of motorway/Dual carriageway are lit through the night with no one about, its a waste. So the sensor on the lampost would turn on the next 4 or 5 lights and turn off any behind the car, so the only part of the road lit would be at and in front of the car for 100-150m.

Turns out these lights use a shitload of electricity warming up and turning on, so that's a no-go, and LED lights will probably replace standard streetlights in the future and use a fraction of the electricity.

Plenty of comments about how this might not really work, but how about putting the same idea to use in traffic lights? I travel a lot at night alone and sometimes get really pi**ed off or even nervous at having to wait ages for lights to change, especially when i've just missed a green and have to wait through the whole sequence, when there is absolutely no other traffic around. Putting a sensor 100-150m back from the junction would mean the light would go green for any approaching car. Does this make sense to anyone else?
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Big Nasty · 09-06-2010 9:02pm

eimear1 wrote: »

Plenty of comments about how this might not really work, but how about putting the same idea to use in traffic lights? I travel a lot at night alone and sometimes get really pi**ed off or even nervous at having to wait ages for lights to change, especially when i've just missed a green and have to wait through the whole sequence, when there is absolutely no other traffic around. Putting a sensor 100-150m back from the junction would mean the light would go green for any approaching car. Does this make sense to anyone else?
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Lots of European cities have flashing ambers at junctions after a certain hour, i.e. like a pedestrian crossing - nudge forward a little and go for it if safe to do so.

Works great but might not here?

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 09-06-2010 9:03pm

Deise Musashi wrote: »

Sun Cream Factor 50 shotgun cartridges!

Thought of it while trying to apply sun cream to my two kids, nearly impossible.

Load up the old shotty, yell "Pull" and a child heads for the door.

"Boom"..."Boom"...all coated in sun cream!

I fired the double cause it's really sunny out.

Ive been thinking of this one since it's been posted, it sounds really cool. As in refreshing like, getting shot with suncream!

I think there may be some future with this in healthspas or something where they bring you into a room and shoot you with all kinds of gunk.

Even champagne, or chocolate, or Guinness :eek:

BBDBB · 11-06-2010 5:54pm

Of course the logical extension of the suncream shotgun would be the Family Frag Grenade, dont mess about trying to shoot suncream on the kids individually, in a Catholic country we have big families, do the lot in one go, summon them into the living room, chuck in the family size sun cream fragmentation grenade and the job is done in seconds

Nolanger · 11-06-2010 8:29pm

Show different movies in our cinemas instead of the exact same films everywhere.

Ideas you think are great but most people probably think are rubbish.

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