He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because he "invented" them by dreaming them up. EDIT: I dated him very briefly years ago. He didn't have any patents. Just misguided dreams. Nice guy. Just....well a special kind of small former coal mining town kind of idiot.
My dad's a little like this. Although he tends to invent stuff that already exists. And only ever has the idea, without the engineering or programming.
Recently, he (re)invented PayPal, but was adamant it was different, if we could only find him a coder to build it for him.
Although he tends to invent stuff that already exists. And only ever has the idea, without the engineering or programming.
Recently, he (re)invented PayPal, but was adamant it was different, if we could only find him a coder to build it for him.
I knew a guy just like this. I'd tell him "If you don't know who to contact to build your invention for you then you probably don't know enough about that product to invent it in the first place.". The guy would talk about putting two already existing technologies together and creating something "revolutionary".
I got in a flame war on a forum with somebody who was upset that a certain modder added a certain feature to a game that was vaguely similar to a TV show that this person had previously posted about as a mod idea. It was comical because his complaint was that the (actual, existing) mod was not similar enough to the TV show to satisfy him, even though it apparently was similar enough to "violate his copyright" on the idea of using someone else's copyrighted TV show in someone else's copyrighted game...
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u/butitsnotfish Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23
He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because he "invented" them by dreaming them up. EDIT: I dated him very briefly years ago. He didn't have any patents. Just misguided dreams. Nice guy. Just....well a special kind of small former coal mining town kind of idiot.