Ridiculous concepts that are actually strokes of genius!

Jan 21, 2016 5:09 PM

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Isn't one of these the idea behind the show baller.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The KFC one is pointless it's not super hard to figure out the ingredients. It's the ratio of said ingredients that is the most important

10 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

In case anyone wanted to see #6 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNeToSBKcSA

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2. Nigeria was the least affected country in west Africa with the Ebola outbreak and WE actually beat it(7 deaths total)..the more you know

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

the serial killer picking up a serial killer hitch hiker was done in a movie called I SAW THE DEVIL

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Serial killer pickup up a serial killing hitch-hiker was done in Masters of Horror

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Treadmill one is actually a pretty damn good idea.

10 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 4

Nah, pushes people to go beyond their limits risking injury. Sometimes you need to stop. Hardest part of workout is getting started anyway.

10 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

I actually do a similar one for my workouts. I walk 5 miles from my house and I have to finish my workout to get back home.

10 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

the Nigerian/Ebola one is stupid cos 1. stereotypes.. (the Nigerian email scam originates mostly from Europe and Asia and not Nigeria)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Who sees a cemetery that way? I mean, planting stuff is fine but graveyards are beautiful.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I agree completely!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No comment about the chemtrail one?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The problem with the KFC one is that you still don't have the amounts, rendering the gathered information practically useless.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

When I try to slip things under plates, I generally get kicked out

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No one is going to say anything about #1?!?! That is literally not a stroke of genus.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*a sitcom about a serial killer picking up a serial killer

10 years ago | Likes 156 Dislikes 1

There's actually a short story with this exact premise called Serial

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds like Masters of Horror s01 e11 "Pick Me Up". A truck driver serial killer and a hitchhiking serial killer fight over a victim.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Wikipedia: Masters of Horror - Pick me up

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And each episode is them attempting to kill the other one and failing miserably... Almost if they rolled a 1 every time

10 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 2

They would probably form a bond tho, and make a little killer union. Serial killers have preferences that one another probs dont fit :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A horror-sitcom! Or maybe a horror-action-dramedy...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is the plot of Dexter.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It would have a Tucker and Dale vs Evil feel to it

10 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

That hitchhiking story has kinda already been done. Bradbury short story.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd pay first class seating money to see that "marry me" restaurant result.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Not many gravestones are made of cement. Most are natural stone of some sort.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Do you want haunted forests??? Cause that is how you get haunted forests!!!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There is already a story about a serial killer picking up a hitchhiking serial killer, it's called "Serial". A very interesting short story.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Last one. Mel Brook's movie Life Stinks

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The last one..how long before Bear throws in the towel and drinks his piss?

10 years ago | Likes 502 Dislikes 3

Now would he see that as throwing the towel in or merely having a refreshing beverage?

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They did make the last one- it's called "Rich, famous and homeless" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lfhhx

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Two hours. Basically once he has to piss, he's drinking it.

10 years ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 0

Mmmmmm. Sterile perfection.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Kenny Hotz from Kenny vs Spenny did this in a seperate show, in Vegas. He was surprisingly successful.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, that's how he starts

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

On the helicopter on the way in.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The question is... if he does this in Flint, is drinking his piss better or worse then drinking more local water?

10 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 0

probably better, actually. Urine is sterile, lead-water will kill you

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This situation in flint Michigan has really made me lose faith in this country, and humanity. State gov>fed gov my ass. Shame!

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

I would need that to be a 1000 dollar treadmill, I can easily see myself saying fuck it to 100 buck

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

That's an impressive level of commitment to lack of commitment.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I try.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not sure if I did the Valentine's Day one right, I am now Mormon

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

There was an episode of Masters of Horror called Pick Me Up that was pretty close to the serial killer one.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Cool, that was my favorite out of these. Going to have to check it out.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Check out the movie I Saw the Devil. Amazing movie with a similar scene, but the whole movie is worth watching.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Very few people are allergic to common herbs and spices - which is why they don't have to be specifically listed in ingredient info.

10 years ago | Likes 82 Dislikes 2

My stepfather is allergic to rosemary. Sucks, too, because it's one of my favorite herbs.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm allergic to Star Anise. It's not listed ever, but it's only really used in Chai tea, Thai food, and Vietnamese food, so it's not too bad

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm deathly allergic to onions. Garlic too. It's sucks, I have to cook agonist everything from scratch. Spaghetti especially.

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

*almost

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A friend of mine from college is VERY allergic to cinnamon. What's hilarious about it is her name is actually Cinnamon. Not a joke/lie.

10 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Make her do the cinnamon challenge. Watch her die. Then run errands and go about your day.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What wonderful/horrifically ironic naming powers her parents had.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

She's actually named after her mom. So I guess blame the grandparents?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She also hates it when people make the stripper name jokes at her.

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

That serial killer one though... Two people's separate twisted, murderous paths cross by chance, each thinks the other is their next victim

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Not the same, but would-be victims killing rapists/killers has been explored in movies like Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It sounded awesome to me too

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not usually a big horror fan, but I would watch the shit out of that movie.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I know, right!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a movie called I Saw the Devil where a scene like this happens. Serial killer gets in the car with two other killers. Genuinely 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah! Is this the movie with the guy that slices that dude's Achilles tendon with a scalpel?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2/2 all around good movie, honestly. About a man whose wife is murdered and he makes the killer's life hell. Would recommend.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That scene was super intense, I was trying to recall the name the other day.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Or. OR. INSTEAD OF BURYING BODIES PUT THEM TO GOOD USE IN MEDICAL RESEARCH AND SHIT. Seriously. God DAMN.

10 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 2

I'll agree

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

You probably don't need to be convinced, but you should check this out anyway. It's amazing. http://www.radiolab.org/story/grays-donation/

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

I don't think we need THAT many bodies

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Lol could you imagine

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

We do. We absolutely do. We could do so much amazing shit if there were cheaper, more accessible human remains.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

At a camp I attended at a university there was an opportunity to sketch cadavers. Only artists were allowed due to the shortage. (1/2)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The students studying med don't get to see a body until 3rd or 4th year, if they passed the correct hurdles, above achieving that year. 2/2

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I worked with cadavers my first year of college in anatomy

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Your people are more generous with their corpses, I envy you :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can anyone explain why we don't do the gravestones orchid one? Seems like a pretty good idea.

10 years ago | Likes 165 Dislikes 7

voodoo spells where your soul gets stuck in a tree for eternity

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Because nobody wants fruit from a tree fertilized by a human corpse

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago (deleted Jan 22, 2016 6:03 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I feel like this is a big fat lie, but don't have any motivation to look it up myself.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know some places that do. My father-in-law is in a "memorial forest" where the ashes of the person are used to help a tree grow.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

There's a company in Sweden that's working on a way to do it w/o disease/contamination risks.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wanna be shot out into space.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My grandma has a tree instead. She was buried in a biodegradable coffin too. They've had to replace the tree twice because it keeps dying :/

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Some graves get dug up to bury other family members beneath them. Some whole cemetery lots get dug up and moved.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So, no one else is concerned about a forest full of trees with bones randomly creeping out of them? Just me?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol that's not how trees work.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Some cemeteries were meant to be like public parks. When young, my grandparents' family would pay their respects, then go have a picnic.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Roots could wrap around the coffin and drag the body up as it grows

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That would be awesome

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*brutal gif

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Vandalism. Heedstones can be replaced, but it takes about 5 years for a tree to grow to where its hard to destroy.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Orchids are creepy enough without having the dead buried under them.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All well and good until one of those trees falls/gets knocked over. Then you've got a bunch of roots/rotting remains to clean up

10 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 3

Cremation... or biodegradable coffins and no embalming... by the time a tree is knocked, if it's knocked over, just some bones.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good point. On the other hand: SKELETON TREES

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sounds awesome! Where do I sign up?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There would only be some bones left. Everything else would have been decomposed and absorbed by the trees roots.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's cool and all until the symbolic tree of your dead family member gets termites and rots from the inside out. Explain that to the kids.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

My father and grandmother had a long running joke about my grandpa's casket warranty. Different strokes.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, headstones get knocked over by fuck heads all the time so no real difference there.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Thats what I want to do... At least with my Ashes or something... It's a nice idea

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

1) Headstones identify bodies. Hard to do that with a tree. 2) Invasive species. 3) need way more space for roots. 4) Much harder to 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 146 Dislikes 1

2/2 have sex with corpses 5) Trees eat people

10 years ago | Likes 47 Dislikes 3

Thanks for clearing that up. Informative.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cant argue with that +1

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

exhume/move the body if necessary. 5) Would fuck up the graves of people who don't want a tree marking them. There's probably more. 2/2

10 years ago | Likes 103 Dislikes 4

These are all fantastic. Kudos to your great list of reasons.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

I have to disagree with everything that isn't the point about the roots. I'd rather there not be space wasted preserving bodies >>

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

>> now that cremation is such an accessible technology

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

They do here in the UK. I've seen several when hiking, but there are rules. Such as you can't have one within a certain distance of a river.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

My grandpa is buried in one, we weren't allowed anything metal in the grave so had to have a special woven coffin for him!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's by no means widespread but it is a thing.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago (deleted Jun 17, 2018 9:16 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

I always assumed it was just the rotting biological material that you become. Diseases and whatnot.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What if you exclusively listened to country.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

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10 years ago (deleted Nov 2, 2016 1:31 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Ouch

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Bravo +1 (but I'm still gonna listen to it)

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