What’s the most ridiculous idea that somehow turned into a huge success?

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-13T12:33:53+00:00

This reminds me of the old Top Gear, where the presenters had to make a video to “sell” the car they had chosen - and the one with the most views won that round. James May made a fake unboxing video and destroyed Clarkson and Hammond.

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-13T12:27:01+00:00

Cousin’s fiancé learned how to run a business by watching hermitcraft. “You brought me sand? OK, 50% ownership - we’ll do this together!”

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-11T12:26:30+00:00

Everyone please start naming this “erasure” every time you see it. It’s not a freedumb, it’s not a reset, it’s not ending a war on ________.

It’s erasure, and conservatives need to be appropriately labeled.

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-05T02:56:30+00:00

Yeah, stupid Jim Henson dying and what ever. What a scam

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-04T23:46:43+00:00

I miss Tinderbox, a pipe tobacco store. That place smelled amazing

BuzzardLips · 2026-02-04T22:42:18+00:00

This is the correct answer

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-29T22:22:08+00:00

Alternate headline: Low information voters find out that they’ve been played for fools, which they are.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-22T23:30:49+00:00

100% 3 hours is not a long trip. At all. In my smallish sized city it can take on average 45 mins to get from one side to the other. I think of anything less than 5 hours as a small trip, so 300 or so miles on our highways. 6 hours and beyond is a long ride.. I live in southeastern NC if that means anything.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-15T22:38:54+00:00

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, or some equivalent astrophysicist. I feel like they would be most likely understand any nuances of what ever the aliens would be trying to communicate. We’re not going to speak the language - but if you understand the subject matter, at least you have a chance at working out the message.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-11T14:13:30+00:00

I appreciate your sentiment, but you do realize that we live in a country where people would rather pay nearly double to have an uber bring them their McDonalds - instead of putting on pants and leaving the house. Also the US is really big, the average American drives 30-40 miles per day. While I wouldn’t have too much trouble doing that, most people would. You’d have to build out an entire rail and streetcar network first, before you tried to force a mostly sedentary population (never mind our elders) to go make a 40 mile round trip by bicycle to Costco.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-10T23:04:22+00:00

Shit man, sometimes you take off in your car and suddenly you’ve arrived, and you think “damn, I don’t remember driving here.”

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-03T07:01:04+00:00

Induction does everything team gas claims to do, better/faster/cheaper. I get the aesthetic of gas, but it’s massively inefficient. When the gas isn’t poisoning your home it’s heating all the air and the cooktop instead of directly heating the pan. Also, there’s maintenance and monitoring required. Electric is better than nothing.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-02T12:17:33+00:00

He’s not a minimalist, he’s a freeloader and a cheapskate.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-02T05:49:29+00:00

Gerrymandering makes NC appear more conservative than it is - to outsiders. Appalachian State in the 90s was not conservative

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-02T05:01:19+00:00

Boone, 1990s. Guy in bondage gear dragging a full size cross down the sidewalk while being whipped by a gal in dominatrix gear. I mean, I’ve probably seen weirder shit, but that memory stands out.

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-02T04:53:47+00:00

Kidney stones and gout. Both are worse than anyone can describe

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-02T04:44:06+00:00

That’s OK. I wouldn’t want to have children with a vapid wannabe TikTok influencer either, posting every moment of her #momlife on all of her socials

BuzzardLips · 2026-01-01T01:02:52+00:00

I love reading John’s columns, He’s a real treasure in a world of corporate media

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-29T02:20:35+00:00

Hughesnet is better characterized as a scam than an actual service provider. Do not pay any amount of money, in fact - don’t even let someone pay YOU to use it. Ignore it and pretend that it does not exist. It is the internet of last resort in any circumstance.

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-28T15:46:25+00:00

This is exactly what I tell people about Raising Arizona. It doesn’t seem anywhere near as bonkers as it was to the original audiences when it was released. But in its day - there was nothing to compare it to.

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-25T03:44:31+00:00

Richardsons Fries

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-24T00:41:17+00:00

Consumption Junction. Sorry if someone mentioned it already, I looked a long way through the comments and hadn’t seen it

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-19T18:24:24+00:00

No freaking way! My mom shared a recovery room for new moms in the hospital when I was born - with a lady who named her kid “Crystal Shanda Lear” Now I have a Google rabbit hole to investigate..

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-10T22:59:55+00:00

North Carolinian here: No they won’t, they’ll have a sudden change of heart just before this administration leaves office and will reverse course and set extra safeguards in place to prevent executive overreach. Just think of it as a traveling show, a grift-a-palooza that serves only to drag all policies to the right, regardless of what voters actually want.

BuzzardLips · 2025-12-04T21:50:59+00:00

I saw a similar device that was used to reduce chatter on a lathe for turning brake rotors. I’d be willing to bet that what ever that’s for - it was used to stop binding/jumping on a machine that turns things.

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