Have you ever had a brilliant idea?

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

I haven't.

Pretzill

Me either
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harry Bailey esq

I thought I did, but it turned out to be a terrible, stupid idea. Happens quite often

Woodsie1

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I thought I did, but it turned out to be a terrible, stupid idea. Happens quite often

Always the way!
Similar to the "watch this!!" comment that inevitably goes totally ar5eways.

NIMAN

I had a great one once.

lbc2019

NO HANDS SOAP PUMP DISPENSER!!!!

4068ac1elhodqr

Sure, just sign this extensive NDA to find out, along with 1% silent investment stake of a potential trillion dolla' FMCG.

Outlaw Pete

Nail clippers with built in vacuum cleaner.

Junkyard Tom

What's d'big oidea?

Vicarious Function

Believe it or not, I've had - one. A knob for the heavy lid of a cast iron frying pan. It actually works a dream. I'm so proud of it. LOL!

Hobosan

I have an idea to sell Ned Kelly style armour to female American students, since many are convinced there's a 1/5 chance they'll be raped on campus. I'm ashamed to say that the imagery of females sporting Ned Kelly armour during lectures in Harvard is the motivation behind the business, rather than actually preventing rape.

K.Flyer

About 30 years ago I went to the local enterprise board, or whatever you called it back then, for funding to develop and patient an idea I had for cars.
I got to the second stage of discussion / interview after producing the schematics and what the benefits would be, only to be told it was an unrealistic idea that would be of no interest to the automotive industry.
Unfortunately at the time I couldn't raise the finances myself to go it alone to get it any further.
The idea..
Automatic switching on of the headlights on a vehicle once the natural light dropped below a certain level.

Deebles McBeebles

K.Flyer wrote: »

About 30 years ago I went to the local enterprise board, or whatever you called it back then, for funding to develop and patient an idea I had for cars.
I got to the second stage of discussion / interview after producing the schematics and what the benefits would be, only to be told it was an unrealistic idea that would be of no interest to the automotive industry.
Unfortunately at the time I couldn't raise the finances myself to go it alone to get it any further.
The idea..
Automatic switching on of the headlights on a vehicle once the natural light dropped below a certain level.

You think that's bad....I came up with the the ePhone and Doors 95 operating system. So close...

GLaDOS

I did, but Thomas Edison stole it.

BrokenArrows

I had this great idea that I would meet a friend for ONE drink after work.

Mr. CooL ICE

I once drew up schematics for a perpetual motion machine. I could have attempted to build a prototype in Lego but I damn well know that the laws of physics will inevitably ruin my dreams.

Day Lewin

I have. It didn't turn out well.

Boom_Bap

They laughed at me the first time I wore jeans with a sports coat. I was the first wealthy man in America to do that. Now they all do it.

Signore Fancy Pants

6 MINUTE ABS!!!!!!!!

Boom_Bap

5 minute Abs

Deebles McBeebles

4 minute kebabs.

harry Bailey esq

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

4 minute kebabs.

Hold my beer...

Boom_Bap

sounds like food poisoning, but I'm willing to take the risk.

Yeah.

Paper matches on the front of a cigarette box, and the strike on the top.

judeboy101

Waterproof teabag

Ubbquittious

Back in the day when you signed up with a dial up ISP you usually got some web hosting space I got the notion of subdividing that web space and giving everyone in school one page to fill with sh!te about themselves.

I didnt bother because I thought anyone who wanted some form of internet presence would just use their own web space instead of using my rather limited one page. Been kicking myself a while over that one

gozunda

"42"

But no one believed me ...

Doctors room ghost

I had an idea one time to develop a suit like an astronaut that you would wear outside in the rain and be fully waterproof.boots stitched onto it, helmet the works.
Got the inspiration one day outside soaking wet.
Never went anywhere with it but it was a superb idea at the time

jiltloop

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

What's d'big oidea?

With your sig it's got to be Monkey tennis!

harry Bailey esq

judeboy101 wrote: »

Waterproof teabag

That's a terrible Jo.. I mean idea. How about this one. Get a metal coat hanger and straighten out the hook. Then get a pencil eraser and stick the now straight hook about 2/3rds into the eraser. Then, if you want to read a book in bed, but would like to keep your arms under the duvet, sit up in the bed and place book securely between the dip in the duvet between your knees and then place the coat hanger on your head with the hook and eraser facing out from the forehead. This enables you to turn the page as required by having the eraser make contact with the paper and making a slight head movement to the left. Your arms stay nice and cosy under the duvet all the while.
Harry Bailey esq™

Still trying to perfect my own version of the zx spectrum Vega plus campaign:

Get a venerable brand name.
Start Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign on Facebook.
Collect deposits from early patrons.
Get a Chinese factory to make 100 of the yokes.
Take photos of it at all angles and post on Facebook crowdfunding page.
Send the 100 manufactured devices out to first 100 lucky patrons
Announce on Facebook page that manufacturing of production units will begin. In actuality do no such thing.
Keep in collecting cash in orders.
When complaints start trickling in on the Facebook page, well, just delete the and keep collecting money.
When complaints become a deluge, shutdown the Facebook page. Withdraw all money from the bank account and close it.
Get lost completely like supertramp

Sleepy

I've actually had a few in my time. But every time I've researched them, someone else had beaten me to it.

harry Bailey esq

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Still trying to perfect my own version of the zx spectrum Vega plus campaign:

Get a venerable brand name.
Start Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign on Facebook.
Collect deposits from early patrons.
Get a Chinese factory to make 100 of the yokes.
Take photos of it at all angles and post on Facebook crowdfunding page.
Send the 100 manufactured devices out to first 100 lucky patrons
Announce on Facebook page that manufacturing of production units will begin. In actuality do no such thing.
Keep in collecting cash in orders.
When complaints start trickling in on the Facebook page, well, just delete the and keep collecting money.
When complaints become a deluge, shutdown the Facebook page. Withdraw all money from the bank account and close it.
Get lost completely like supertramp

That's brilliant! You'd be off having breakfast in America laughing your head off having committed the crime of the century!

Guill

I have one, I just lack the funds to get it going. :(:(:(

keano_afc

Well, mine was to move the clock change for daylight savings to Friday afternoon. 1am on a Sunday morning benefits nobody, so why not move the clocks forward at 4pm on a Friday? We all get to go home an hour early and the weekend starts sooner. Boom.

Guill

keano_afc wrote: »

Well, mine was to move the clock change for daylight savings to Friday afternoon. 1am on a Sunday morning benefits nobody, so why not move the clocks forward at 4pm on a Friday? We all get to go home an hour early and the weekend starts sooner. Boom.

And when you move it back 1 hour at 4pm six months later?

Wayne Gorsky

I basically had the idea that is now Deliveroo some 30 years ago...never did anything with it, of course...

keano_afc

Guill wrote: »

And when you move it back 1 hour at 4pm six months later?

Nah, do that one at 2am.

MrCostington

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

That's a terrible Jo.. I mean idea. How about this one. Get a metal coat hanger and straighten out the hook. Then get a pencil eraser and stick the now straight hook about 2/3rds into the eraser. Then, if you want to read a book in bed, but would like to keep your arms under the duvet, sit up in the bed and place book securely between the dip in the duvet between your knees and then place the coat hanger on your head with the hook and eraser facing out from the forehead. This enables you to turn the page as required by having the eraser make contact with the paper and making a slight head movement to the left. Your arms stay nice and cosy under the duvet all the while.
Harry Bailey esq™

Harry,

I like your idea. But your valuation is crazy.

I'll offer you the full amount, but I'm going to want 45%

Rgds
Peter Jones

MrCostington

I did have 2 ideas myself, I actually made LED xmas lights back in '81 or '82, used them for many years but never tried to sell them.

In early/mid 90's thought of a box to connect your TV to the new fangled internet.

Oh and like another poster had the Deliveroo / Just Eat idea too

harry Bailey esq

MrCostington wrote: »

Harry,

I like your idea. But your valuation is crazy.

I'll offer you the full amount, but I'm going to want 45%

Rgds
Peter Jones

I reluctantly accept, we have a deal. It'll be the best(and possibly last)15 billion you've ever spent.

MrCostington

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I reluctantly accept, we have a deal. It'll be the best(and possibly last)15 billion you've ever spent.

Do you need to go to the back of the room?

corner of hells

harry Bailey esq wrote: »

I reluctantly accept, we have a deal. It'll be the best(and possibly last)15 billion you've ever spent.

Whoa , just hold on a goddamn minute.
Supposing you get a boner in bed while wearing Harry's contraption , you haven't looked into the Health and Safety end of things , Harry.

I have amazing ideas at least two or three times a week. Then I wake up and can never retrieve them before they disappear into the ether.

kippy

I've had a few ideas but never the bravery or balls to bring any of them any further.
A friend of mine had an idea for a website for leaving cert/junior cert students circa 2003 or 2004 (may have been earlier or later, my history sucks) I rubbished it at the time. He could have been retired by now if he didn't listen to me and took it further. Well there was still a strong chance it wouldn't have gone too much further. Thankfully we are still mates though but he's not had a decent idea since.....

JupiterKid

Yep, a couple.

...putting them into practice was a different matter altoghther!

Deebles McBeebles

corner of hells wrote: »

Whoa , just hold on a goddamn minute.
Supposing you get a boner in bed while wearing Harry's contraption , you haven't looked into the Health and Safety end of things , Harry.

Or.....and hear me out...you remarket it as The Boner Buster.

corner of hells

A friend of mine came up with an early concept idea for a mobile phone however Eircom as they were known at the time wouldn't get involved.

Apparently fitting wheels to phone boxes wasn't viable in their eyes.

harry Bailey esq

corner of hells wrote: »

Whoa , just hold on a goddamn minute.
Supposing you get a boner in bed while wearing Harry's contraption , you haven't looked into the Health and Safety end of things , Harry.

Staunch Catholic meself, but plenty of my heathen friends have no qualms about putting a rubber on their boners. Come to think of it, you've just given me another brilliant idea using the same basic principle. I'll knock up a prototype later, Jonesy's helicopter is a bit cramped. I left him my own duvet and a copy of 'Coping with loss'. He'll be wanting to be keeping his arms under the duvet of a cold night underneath the doorway of Penneys....

kowloon

Candie wrote: »

I have amazing ideas at least two or three times a week. Then I wake up and can never retrieve them before they disappear into the ether.

I've solved all the world's problems several times over in my sleep onlt to forget how in the morning. I have to stop watching Schindler's List before bedtime.

DEFTLEFTHAND

I wrote a brilliant song once but I couldn't remember it when I sobered up.