Industries based on your stupidity

whisky_galore

The 'holiday' (in the US sense) and Hallmark event industry.
Manufacturing and marketing tons of themed shoddy plastic shït, decorations and cards. Generally used only once and thrown into landfill.

Halloween decorations, seriously, fűck off.

SlowBlowin

Recruitment agencies.

Years ago, you put an ad in the paper, got masses of CVs, selected a few, and filled the job. Now its just the same, but instead of the ad you have to pay a recruitment agency 2 or 3 grand...

Playboy & Playgirl

The Red Bull Home made Flying Machine Event. 98% of such "Aircraft" simply PLOP straight into the water from the end of the ramp. The "pilot" is then snapped with a goofy grin.

Ubbquittious

Insurance. People spend 1000s to ease their worries about nightmare scenarios that are extremely rare. The only problem is a lot of insurances (for business anyway) are mandatory because the insurance industry has lobbied the government to whip the non compliant sheep into place

People take out insurance now to ride their fecking bike all because some eejit down the pub retold them some yarn about how one fella crashed his bike and toppled a bunch of poorly stacked wooden crates down by a pier and crushed a cluster of innocent school children that happened to be standing at the other side of it or some other such cock and bull story.

Biodegradable

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Insurance. People spend 1000s to ease their worries about nightmare scenarios that are extremely rare. The only problem is a lot of insurances (for business anyway) are mandatory because the insurance industry has lobbied the government to whip the non compliant sheep into place

People take out insurance now to ride their fecking bike all because some eejit down the pub retold them some yarn about how one fella crashed his bike and toppled a bunch of poorly stacked wooden crates down by a pier and crushed a cluster of innocent school children that happened to be standing at the other side of it or some other such cock and bull story.

This fella tried asking how much you'd be penalised Vs how much you'd save if you went 30 years without health insurance.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=109230384#post109230384

amacca

Wait, hold on a second there

What's this gender reveal party thing?

Is it what the name might imply or is this backward culchie completely out of touch?

Are you people tell8ng me other people have an event to let even more other people know if there offspring is boy/girl/trans

If so how do you know you are correct in your labelling...what if you get it wrong? Is there terrible associated anxiety before hand and if you do get it wrong are you a social pariah forever ..hated even by your incorrectly gender revealed spawn

When do you have this party? Before child born, a set number of months after child born? How much of a gob****e do you have to be to have one?

Is there a set amount of intelligence/IQ score you have to fall below to have one?

Have I completely misinterpreted what the thing is

Has a business cleverly marketed/co opted this to make profit

Capt'n Midnight

Ubbquittious wrote: »

People paying for extra 'gold' in online games. Makes no sense at all. It can work out well for the odd youtuber with lots of subscribers for most it's money down the drain.

That created the whole industry of goldfarming meaning Chinese prisoners get to do even more work after labouring through daylight hours.

Gynoid

I thought the title meant industries based on your as in MY stupidity and I was really thinking hard about what industries I stupidly support but I couldn't think of any, but then I read the thread and its all about OTHER peoples stupidity - phew, now that I can get on board with..

Clothes. People seem to buy a scary amount of clothes. It scares me because of the amount of clothes that must be in building up in attics, warehouses and landfills. Like a global hoarding fetish that will some day have clothes bursting out of wardrobes in fabric fountains all of a sudden and smothering us all.

As for my own stupidity I did buy tooth whitening charcoal toothpaste once. It is black and nasty tasting and fills your mouth with purple foam that takes ages to rinse out and it does not do a single thing for your teeth. That was a stupid 3 pounds fifty.

bodhrandude

Buying gig tickets, sometimes there is just far too many touring at the one time or numerous festivals, still I like them therefore I'm a mug.

c.p.w.g.w

bodhrandude wrote: »

Buying gig tickets, sometimes there is just far too many touring at the one time or numerous festivals, still I like them therefore I'm a mug.

Especially in big venues, it's just like a cattle mart very hard to enjoy it and then the cost of it are beyond ridiculous

Strumms

Belladonna44 wrote: »

The weight loss industry. Join a weight loss class, lose some weight, re-gain said weight (plus a little extra), re-join class. It’s a highly profitable business model.

Totally, best thing and a more value for money thing is... join a gym, be active, don’t eat too much shîte... weight watchers, hmmmm it’s not rocket science... don’t eat shît and exercise.

mickdw

Strumms wrote: »

Totally, best thing and a more value for money thing is... join a gym, be active, don’t eat too much shîte... weight watchers, hmmmm it’s not rocket science... don’t eat shît and exercise.

A lot of the weight classes are free once you reach your normal weight.
That very fact proves they don't work.

whisky_galore

Loan sharking.
Ticket touting.
Door to door scams/sales.
Homeopathy.

Aglomerado

whisky_galore wrote: »

The 'holiday' (in the US sense) and Hallmark event industry.
Manufacturing and marketing tons of themed shoddy plastic shït, decorations and cards. Generally used only once and thrown into landfill.

Halloween decorations, seriously, fűck off.

With the amount of Halloween decorations people put on their houses now, and the effort going into putting them up and taking them down, it's starting to turn into a season.
Posted from my unspooky house. Bah humbug!

Castlekeeper

Graces7 wrote: »

The dazzling array of various cleaning liquids in the shops. BUY US ALL! All you need is soap, bleach, polish .

In 90%of cases all you need is hot water and elbow grease.
The straining of the spuds will shift mist muck if your stuck.

Tired Gardener

Homeopathy,
Betting/Gambling,
Mediums/Psychics,

Industries that exist because maths and science are too hard for some folk. That being said the last two also prey upon people's distress from either poverty or bereavement, by offering them false hope.

Castlekeeper

Martina1991 wrote: »

Someone having a child is now a big money spinner.

-Gender reveal party
-Baby shower
-Birth
-Christening

We have to do anything the yanks do.

Kinda hard to avoid that one, in fairness to them.

gozunda

Fake / crap food industry - selling absolute ****e to people under the guise of the latest trendy thing / saving the planet or whatever crap the marketing department of some global multi-national corporation is flogging you.

El_Duderino 09

bfa1509 wrote: »

No offense to brides-to-be, but there is no one dumber than a bride-to-be.

All these "traditions" popping up are dumb as hell. Next thing gender reveal parties will be obligatory.

Depends. Some people think traditions have to be obeyed. I think the less you know about traditions the more likely you are to blindly follow them. If you look into them, I think you’re more likely to follow the ones you actually like the symbolism of and want to follow.

My mrs didn’t go in for any of that nonsense. She knew better than to ask me to get involved in her hen. She went for a nice sensible night away in an friends holiday home, all the women having the craic.

I feel a bit sorry for someone who spends a fortune on traditions they don’t even know about. But tradition is a strong selling point for some.

bfa1509

bfa1509 wrote: »

No offense to brides-to-be, but there is no one dumber than a bride-to-be.

All these "traditions" popping up are dumb as hell. Next thing gender reveal parties will be obligatory.

Absolutely agree with "traditions".

Defined as:
the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.

A tradition is not is something you've been doing for 2-3 years on social media.

There is some company with the tagline "create your own tradition" which really irritates me for this very reason.

Manach

Politics - buying your vote with your own money.

Black Friday for me.

It feels ironic that we have adopted wholesale the commercial b*ll**** of American Thanksgiving, but not the actual bit that has soul, the actual Thanksgiving itself.

I would much rather, if we are going down the road of imitating Amercia, for us to have a big family dinner where we articulate the things we are thankful of. I think it is fine tradition they have over there, I have to say.

Akrasia

Kevin Irving wrote: »

In fact it was a metal bolt and not the plastic manifold that cracked on my car. Overall though, I'll take a modern car every day of the week.

Electronics - I can't remember when my car has failed to start.

Cars that can predict when you're going to crash and tighten the seatbelts.

Headlights that actually allow you to see the road.

Heated electric seats and Bluetooth.

Crashes that you can walk away from that would have killed people in the past.

Way more efficient and clean than in the past, and with Electric cars increasing in popularity.

A modern car is expensive, but great value for money for what you get.

Only a problem if you can't afford it and buy a new car at €700pm PCP

Ah the good old days of motoring when cars had a choke, rusted down to dust within 10 years and wouldn’t start on a frosty day

El_Duderino 09

Akrasia wrote: »

Ah the good old days of motoring when cars had a choke, rusted down to dust within 10 years and wouldn’t start on a frosty day

I think people forget these issues. Partly because they knew why it wasn’t starting. Cars simply not starting on a cold day back then was way more common than nowadays. Rose tinted glasses and all that

storker

Wibbs wrote: »

Short for swole, which in turn is short for swollen, which is a term referring to body building types who want to grow big muscles.

Jaysus, is it really that taxing for some people to type four extra letters? How ironic this comes from the world of exercise...

FishOnABike

Martina1991 wrote: »

Someone having a child is now a big money spinner.

-Gender reveal party
-Baby shower
-Birth
-Christening

We have to do anything the yanks do.

As gender is considered a social construct, shouldn't that be a sex party?

On second thoughts, people might get the wrong idea!

storker

The Conspiracy Theory Industry. Designed for people who want to think they're clever and can bust worldwide conspiracies from their sofa, but are actually just bad at logic.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Sky King wrote: »

The leaving cert grinds industry wouldn't be doing so well without stupid people, I guess.

By that token, Gaelteacht langauge courses for teenagers.

(Yep, that chestnut again!)

The meat industry was one I'd consider after watching The Game Changer (documentary on Netflix) and I eat meat.

When it comes to stupid people, though, the hands-down winner here has to be Apple. Although every brand name that specialises in accessories or upgrades could do the job.

Oh, and religion (not that that's any different to Apple)...

storker

The Tetrarch wrote: »

Foreign holidays.

Wow. I wasn't expecting this...unless you're referring to people who go abroad to spend most of their time in a pub and most of the sunny day sleeping off their hangovers, and all they see of the foreign land is the clubs and (Irish) bars closest to the hotel.

In which case, agreed.

sbsquarepants

Pheonix10 wrote: »

Swo?

I was going to ask the same thing.

What a stupid word!

Anyone out to get swo, can actually go and get fúcked as far as i'm concerned:D

The Hollywood Mainstream movie industry
Cartoon reboots along the likes of The Adams Family.

Feisar

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

By that token, Gaelteacht langauge courses for teenagers.

(Yep, that chestnut again!)

The meat industry was one I'd consider after watching The Game Changer (documentary on Netflix) and I eat meat.

When it comes to stupid people, though, the hands-down winner here has to be Apple. Although every brand name that specialises in accessories or upgrades could do the job.

Oh, and religion (not that that's any different to Apple)...

When the iphone 10 came out a friend of mine got one and was over showing it to me, he pulls up this animated fox and sure enough the fox mirrored my head movement. I'm in my thirties... so is my mate.

gozunda

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

By that token, Gaelteacht langauge courses for teenagers.
(Yep, that chestnut again!)
The meat industry was one I'd consider after watching The Game Changer (documentary on Netflix) and I eat meat.When it comes to stupid people, though, the hands-down winner here has to be Apple. Although every brand name that specialises in accessories or upgrades could do the job. Oh, and religion (not that that's any different to Apple)...

Slick - which is why I looked that one up. Financed and backed by some big players in the nascent plant food industry promoting same

https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a29067926/the-game-changers-movie-fact-check/

https://perfectketo.com/game-changers-movie-fact-check/

ALL Smartphone TEXT COMPETITIONS

Iodine1

Black Friday nonsense. Just call it a Black Friday sale offer item and dump loads of stuff that wasn't selling, at the usual price. Great to get it going before people have their Christmas budget spent.

nthclare

Facebook, for someone ferral and wild like myself it interferes with the natural flow of life...

Year's ago people lost friends and by chance they might meet up or never see them again and you were ok and so were they.

But now some people are all caught up in each others business and life's, through the crystal screen....

Smart phones are like a magical instrument, you can see into the world but are we also missing out on the world too ?

The irony of my life

Strumms

nthclare wrote: »

Facebook, for someone ferral and wild like myself it interferes with the natural flow of life...

Year's ago people lost friends and by chance they might meet up or never see them again and you were ok and so were they.

But now some people are all caught up in each others business and life's, through the crystal screen....

Smart phones are like a magical instrument, you can see into the world but are we also missing out on the world too ?

The irony of my life

It depends on how much you get caught up in it. Some people CANT be away from it....

I check Facebook and Instagram probably on average 3-4 times a day.. tops. It’s 1.30 now I’ve been on Facebook once, I don’t feel like I’m missing out. I don’t have this massive urge to find out what other people are getting up to nor do I understand the complete fascination some have with it, seeing, liking, commenting ? Why. ? Constantly ?

nthclare

Strumms wrote: »

It depends on how much you get caught up in it. Some people CANT be away from it....

I check Facebook and Instagram probably on average 3-4 times a day.. tops. It’s 1.30 now I’ve been on Facebook once, I don’t feel like I’m missing out. I don’t have this massive urge to find out what other people are getting up to nor do I understand the complete fascination some have with it, seeing, liking, commenting ? Why. ? Constantly ?

I used to be on Facebook up until maybe 4 year's ago and it just lost its lustre.
I found it was just not fitting in well with my world view, it might be ok for people who are interested in what others are up to or have lives where they are confined to the one place a lot.
They might need it for advertising gigs, seminars etc
But as for the rest I find it ****

Greyfox

Billpay mobile phones. Theirs loads of idiots out there that buy into the I'll be due a free upgrade soon and don't seem to be able to multiply their monthly plan by 18 or 24 to get the real cost. Once you've plenty of data you don't need that many minutes and texts

MetzgerMeister

Wibbs wrote: »

Short for swole, which in turn is short for swollen, which is a term referring to body building types who want to grow big muscles.

As if "swole" wasn't short enough. Should we just skip to the end and call it "s" altogether?

amacca wrote: »

Wait, hold on a second there

What's this gender reveal party thing?

Is it what the name might imply or is this backward culchie completely out of touch?

Are you people tell8ng me other people have an event to let even more other people know if there offspring is boy/girl/trans

If so how do you know you are correct in your labelling...what if you get it wrong? Is there terrible associated anxiety before hand and if you do get it wrong are you a social pariah forever ..hated even by your incorrectly gender revealed spawn

When do you have this party? Before child born, a set number of months after child born? How much of a gob****e do you have to be to have one?

Is there a set amount of intelligence/IQ score you have to fall below to have one?

Have I completely misinterpreted what the thing is

Has a business cleverly marketed/co opted this to make profit

It's for kale-eating, avocado-on-toast having, social-justice-loving, man-bun-having, vaping, beard-wearing hipsters :pac:

Pretty much all premium rate telephone services.

Capt'n Midnight

Akrasia wrote: »

Ah the good old days of motoring when cars had a choke, rusted down to dust within 10 years and wouldn’t start on a frosty day

Not true.

My car always started on a frosty morning.




Wet mornings though were iffy. And there a lot more of them.

s7ryf3925pivug

New age stuff.

ToddyDoody

The Complete Idiots Guide book series e.g.

The complete idiots guide to writing a novel
The complete idiots guide to electrical repair
The complete idiots guide to astrology.

I think they come from The States.

Edgware

The complete idiots guide to Twelve Pubs of Christmas

BDI

Christmas jumpers were cool when only one fella had them. Now everyone has one it’s not cool anymore you instagram like monger.

There will be a million of them sold in Ireland this year though.

BDI

BDI wrote: »

Christmas jumpers were cool when only one fella had them. Now everyone has one it’s not cool anymore you instagram like monger.

There will be a million of them sold in Ireland this year though.

I don't mind them too much,but the Late Late show jumpers and pjs in Penneys..ffs.

MacDonald's Happy Meals

freshpopcorn

BDI wrote: »

Christmas jumpers were cool when only one fella had them. Now everyone has one it’s not cool anymore you instagram like monger.

There will be a million of them sold in Ireland this year though.

I don't think Christmas jumpers are Instagram friendly anymore because they are bad for the environment!

Eggs For Dinner

Ubbquittious wrote: »

Insurance. The only problem is a lot of insurances (for business anyway) are mandatory because the insurance industry has lobbied the government to whip the non compliant sheep into place
.

There is not one mandatory insurance for business. Motor insurance is the only compulsory insurance in Ireland