Museum of Failure

FocusZing

We know that 80 to 90 percent of all projects fail and we never hear from them again, they simply disappear from the picture, and what we can do is learn from failure.

Green ketchup, Coca Cola Blak and Harley Davidson perfume are some of the well-intentioned products that ended up in the Museum of Failure.

More than 60 marketing ideas can be viewed here in the Swedish-based exhibition.

Museum founder Samuel West says: “We know that 80 to 90 percent of all projects fail and we never hear from them again, they simply disappear from the picture, and what we can do is learn from failure.”

http://www.euronews.com/2017/06/07/the- ... heyre-good

I would put the C5 in too and robot lawn mowers.

ugo.santalucia

I've seen a few robot lawn mowers and vacuum cleaners in Italy

FocusZing

I would put the C5 in there, but not robot mowers.

veronese68

The C5 a failure? Have you tried one? They are more than just a failure, almost everything about them is a design fault. I bought one very cheap for a laugh many moons ago. I managed to ride it to work once, what should have taken about 40 minutes took over 2 hours, the battery died 3 miles into a 6 mile trip. I ended up getting the bus home and borrowing my Mum's car to get it home the next day. Sold it for what I paid for it some time later, having laughed a lot when using it.
Having said that is was in many ways way ahead of it's time. With better battery and motor technology and not being too low, dangerously unstable and having no brakes it could have been mediocre.

FocusZing

Ha, yes a long time on though. A colleague bought a couple into work as we were joking about them. Yep, great concept but in reality.

Stevo_666

Some additions for today:

kingstongraham

Isn't there someone missing?

wallace_and_gromit

KingstonGraham wrote:

Isn't there someone missing?

There's something for everyone today - Add Salmond and May to the rogues' gallery.

FocusZing

Stevo 666 wrote:

Pics

Ha! Brilliant.

Googles Salmond...

joe2008

Veronese68 wrote:

The C5...

I know someone who brought a small fleet of these for day hire, in one of the hilliest parts of the country, didn't last long.

Later, he stood as an Independent Communist at a couple of elections.

mrfpb

This thread

veronese68

mrfpb wrote:

This thread

That did make me chuckle.

fenix

Stevo 666 wrote:

Some additions for today:

Christ someone's deluded.

capt_slog

Beefless Bovril? They thought it would increase their market share abroad if they left the beef out, but no-one here wanted it. It was soon scrapped and the original came back.

Kodak's instant camera. There were taken to court by Polaroid and had to buy back all the cameras they'd sold. Ouch!

Stevo_666

Fenix wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Some additions for today:

Christ someone's deluded.

I thought it was fair comment given that none of them are in Number 10 the day after the GE

trivial_poursuivant

Samsung Galaxy S7. Ended up a reluctant IPhone owner instead.

ben@31

Labour are now +29 seats
The tories are -12 seats and went from a healthy majority to a hung parliament.

So how is Corbyn a failure?

meanredspider

ben@31 wrote:

So how is Corbyn a failure?

Well, I know he thinks he won but he seems to have been taking maths lessons from Abbott.

ben@31

Meanredspider, did May look happy with the results? Were the Tory MPs who were interviewed sound happy with the results? See if you can watch the interview with Anna Soubry somewhere like on YouTube, she looked absolutely livid. Soubry and Amber Rudd were very very lucky not to loose their seats last night.
It was the DUP who have saved the tories and therefore now hold the tories to ransom.

edit - I've found the interview for you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0lJwuUpQ24

slowmart

total fail

sungod

well, as no one else has linked it in from b3ta, i may as well...

FocusZing

Ha! Nice work. Ah the shoes, not the distance from the ground:-/