The Good Idea/Bad Idea Game

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea, the suspension is sooooo worth it. Wow, never would have suspected an intellectual (ok maybe not a total intellectual, but compared with several people I know, you are) of wanting to do this.


Using a cracked broken plastic laundry hamper to try your hand for the first time at plastic welding with a plastic welding kit.

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I did it and I am not unhappy with the result. May not look pretty but it's functional once again and extend the life of what would be an otherwise worthless item. My only regret is not having a respirator and forced air evacuation...so I did it out in the driveway--some fumes just couldn't be avoided even outside. I give this product a good pass. Has its problems being so cheap, but part of the charm is the value if you can make it work! Nothing some tutorials on YT couldn't help.

[Alkonium]

Good idea. That seems safe enough.

Attempting to brew mead without any of the proper equipment, and resorting to stuff you'd find in a standard kitchen.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea: bah who needs all that fancy stuff when you can just make due? And even if it turns out tasting crap-ish, you can still say you tried your best with what was available to you. *friends' faces turning green as they choke and lay on the floor dying*


Bungee jumping like so: "What is a juggalo? A F___in' lunatic. Somebody with a rope tied to his ____, and then he jumps out a 10 story window."

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. There's a reason regular ropes aren't used for bungee jumping.

Sabotaging your business's competitors, and then bragging about it to your boss.

[.:Lord Revan:.]

Depends on if you want to get a raise or not.


Starting a thread where you have to guess a song by a line in the song?

[Alkonium]

Tried that once. Didn't work out.

George R. R. Martin making Littlefinger a POV character in The Winds of Winter.

[Darth Avlectus]

Given what I could find out in a heartbeat and a couple of quick searches...Good Idea if you wish to put a twist in The Winds of Winter with some ill-equipped, (perhaps unfairly) not well-liked character. Sounds like it'd be interesting anyways.
(......forgive me but search results lead me in so many different directions at once......)


Making up your own horror villain and hiring him for protection because you're sick of fighting Jason, Freddy, Mike Myers, Chuckie, Leatherface, Hellraiser, Candyman, etc.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. You'll just end up with one more to fight.

Having sex with your dead friend's girlfriend, on top of said friend's grave.

[Totenkopf]

That one could go either way for too many reasons to mention.

Doing his mom on his grave and then telling everyone you were Dath and that they should move along b/c there was nothing to see.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. That suggests a lack of both sanity and decency.

Letting a radioactive spider bite you, in an attempt to become Spider-Man.

[Totenkopf]

Good idea, if you happen to live in a comic book.

Loudly talking to yourself while walking around any major city.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea. With everything else going on, whose going to notice?

@toten: that reminds me of this song @ ~2:47

YouTube Video

Resorting to cannibalism because the world's meat supply is dwindling due to overpopulation.

[Totenkopf]

Just have one thing to say to that:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

Juggling w/axes.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea if you're up for a choppin' good time.

Pressing Deus units into service to screw things up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7yjlP5FumY

[Alkonium]

Pointless, I just couldn't take that video seriously.

Adapting Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen into a TV series like Game of Thrones.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good Idea: I'm sure someone would try it if they seriously thought it'd make them some money.

Ridding yourself of lice and crabs (logic behind it, they're "bugs") by sticking relevant bodyparts into an electric bug zapper and jolting them away to save time, money, and hassle.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. Depending on wattage, you could damage nerves, or die.

At a job interview, offering to sell your past employer's secrets to your prospective employer.

[Darth Avlectus]

Bad Idea: Even if that information could help you get employed, your prospective employer already knows you're at least as likely to pull something like that on him.

Having tube driven electronics see you through a nuclear war blast's electromagnetic shockwave.

[Alkonium]

Good idea, but you're stick with tube-driven electronics.

Protecting your house/castle in Minecraft with autoturrets (dispenser loaded with arrows and linked via redstone to a nearby pressure plate) and landmine (pressure plate on top of TNT).

[Hallucination]

Bad idea, I'm not sure having to fix your lawn because a cat walked across it and blew the whole thing to smithereens is fun.

Protecting your house/castle in Minecraft by dating in real life.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea if its fundamental save is not running in real time.



Hiring Lloyd Christmas as a PR manager at a company you're about to ditch.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. That would look really bad on a resumé.

Attempting to rustle an actual gorilla's jimmies.

[Hallucination]

Bad idea, leave that to professional zoologists, animal handlers, and other jimmy rustlers.

Feeding a gorilla Gorilla Munch.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. That'd certainly rustle his jimmies.

The UK changing its emergency number from 999 to 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.

[Hallucination]

Excellent idea, its complexity will result in people being much more careful and thus reduce the number of accidents. It might encourage crime, but that's not too important.

Allowing inmates sentenced to death to only walk sideways because they have nothing to look forward to.

[Alkonium]

Pointless, they're going to die anyway, it doesn't really matter how they feel about it.

The Hub hiring prominent bronies to work on MLP:FIM in whichever capacity they'd be good at.

[Darth Avlectus]

Bad idea: you get lots of people who come to the gig, and nobody wanting to do jack squat or having any valuable skills. I worked in amateur TV production myself so I've seen the horrors.

Finding the spammer IRL who makes your online life miserable and beating the holy F***ing $#*% out of him, and then give him the same treatment Big Baby Sweets says you could give Li'l Poot and Big Stank and still wouldn't care about.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. He'll get back at you with something even worse.

Princess Celestia being the main antagonist in the Season 3 opener of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

[Totenkopf]

Bad idea......goody-goody's don't make good bad guys.

Using a time machine to prevent the creation of the MLP franchise.

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. Then what would there be to rustle your jimmies?

Faking sick by making yourself vomit on an important piece of equipment at work.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea: the boss will be pissed off so that not only do you NOT get the day off, you'll have to clean up the mess and maybe even pay to replace the equipment. Stellar plan chief.

Investing in an oak stake even though you have cleared the 5th mansion on Castlevania 2.

[Alkonium]

Assuming the first "an" should be "in", Good idea. Who knows when you might need one?

Manipulating time so that MLP started in 2010 with the Friendship is Magic series, and none of the pre-2010 crap existed.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good idea I suppose, if nothing else you could (hopefully) be possibly saving the series from deterioration (I wouldn't know). Knock yourself out.


Using dremel or other rotary tools to smooth out the sharp insides of the sheet metal computer casing before adding to and modifying your machine.
An hour later and it's STILL bleeding under bandages... >_>

[purifier]

Smart idea. Enough said.






Killing grass with weed killer, because I hate mowing the lawn every damn week. (Stupid grass, it never stops growing!)

[Alkonium]

Bad idea. Odds are something won't fit right afterwards.

Attempting to eliminate your need for sleep in the same way you would build up immunity to a poison.

[Darth Avlectus]

Bad idea: One cannot build an immunity to sleep as to poison; It will ultimately fail and bring about many ills in the process.
I think I'm finally getting the hang of concise wording on the internet!

Buying a fixer-upper home right now while prices are low and individual job prospects are in one's personal favor atm.
Seriously.

[Alkonium]

Good idea, as long as you're careful about who you hire.

Instead of buying a car, building one out of a random assortment of parts you found at a junkyard.

[Totenkopf]

If you've got the time and talent and the means...........why not. Might even get a break on the insurance.

Giving up your US citizenship and then coming back to exploit the sytem as an illegal alien.

[Darth Avlectus]

Good Idea. You might actually get some assistance.

Making nothing in hopes someone won't rule 34 or rule 35 that. Or making your own rule 34 of it really crappily and obscure so that nobody will take an interest.

[Alkonium]

Futile idea. There are no exceptions to the Rules of the Internet.

Eating live birds in order to help the environment.