21 Ideas That Only Worked Because Humanity Is the Weirdest

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21 Ideas That Only Worked Because Humanity Is the Weirdest

Humans are a pretty weird species. We sit around staring at little glowing boxes all day, our primary method of trade is via taps of plastic squares and we’ve built entire systems of agriculture, design and manufacturing for the sole purpose of covering our nudity. If any other animal did that, we’d put them in a cage and study them, because that’s another thing we do.

And those are just the elements of human life that we regard as normal. There are so many revolutionary ideas in the realm of business, psychology, medicine, war, music and even piss technology that would have fizzled out immediately if we were logical creatures. Fortunately, according to Reddit, we aren’t.

LAKAG 8y ago Clicker games.
wezatron4000 8y ago Porn comments
ColoursRock 8y ago Child beauty pageants.
Contraryy 8y ago Sending potatoes with messages to people.
Ash7778 8y ago Fundraising money to make potato salad
ozelegend 8y ago The turbo frog ring tone from the early 2000s
AccountNo43 8y ago That Goat Simulator game took off, didn't see that one coming.
mackinoncougars 8y ago Selling products by ending the price with $.99 instead of clean whole numbers.
howNotToDrone 8y ago A million pixel web page.... That dude is a genius... But people who put ads there...weird
 8y ago Tomagachi. Here is a toy that is basically a baby. You have to feed it and stuff or else it'll be annoying and beep at you.
Nofux2giv 8y ago Chia pets (ch-ch-ch-chia). These are terracotta figurines used to sprout chia. Originally introduced in the late 1970s in California, USA, they are still available to this day.
JoePragmatist 8y ago Putting a little fly sticker inside urinals. Accuracy and cleanliness both go way up as soon as they get placed.
DeadPrateRoberts 8y ago There's a store here in Seattle (on Aurora Avenue) called the Purple Store. Everything they sell is purple. It's been there for years.
Thisishugh 8y ago The retreating NAZI officers had to abandon their quarters at the end of WWII. While they were retreating and evacuating their barracks, the officers would booby-trap pictures by hanging them crooked on the wall. The conquering officers would come in and take over the best offices... notice a crooked picture on the wall... straighten it and BANG!
ILikeLenexa 8y ago Houston Airport got a lot of complaints that it took baggage too long to get to the baggage claim and people had to wait a long time. They moved the baggage claim farther away from where you get off the airplane and even though it took just as long, because people had to walk there, they didn't complain.
LostGundyr 8y ago Grey Goose vodka wasn't selling well, so they just tripled the price and sales went through the roof. Everybody thought, It's more expensive it must be better and really fancy!
WorldNeedsSaddam 8y ago Captain Cook noticed one day at port that sailors debarking from Spanish vessels weren't suffering from scurvy like sailors on British ships were. Не couldn't figure it out, until one day he noticed the food rations being loaded onto the Spanish ships, and saw that sauerkraut were a part of their mealplans while at sea, whereas they were completely absent from British mealplans and diets in general. How do you get someone to eat sauerkraut while at sea if it is not part of their diet? You introduce it into the officers meals only of course. And
justreadthecomment 8y ago When I first started writing Android apps, I asked myself, what do people really want? Nudes, is the obvious answer. But they already have lots of ways to send nudes. I'm not going to do better than any of a hundred messaging apps on my own. They want to send nudes, and for there to be no trace of them to later end up on a shitty web site. So I started working out an app where you could send pictures, on the basis that they could only be seen by the intended receiver(s). But the more
nephelokokkygia 8y ago Edited 8y ago That guy who, fed up with littering in his neighborhood, put up a statue of Buddha on a traffic median as deterrence. Beyond reducing the litter, crime as a whole diminished, and local residents eventually built a whole shrine around the statue.
 8y ago Making cake mixes require more work increased sales. Betty Crocker cake mixes weren't selling well when they were first introduced. Women felt that because they weren't doing anything other than adding water that they weren't working hard enough. The company then made it so you had to add eggs as well and they started flying off the shelves.
FrankBurlyPI 8y ago Howard Stern made a fortune talking to strippers ON THE RADIO WHERE YOU CANT SEE THEM!!!

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