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Tiggum posted:Where are these schools? Salt Lake City? And how could they possibly know whether students are living with parents or by themselves? Most small liberal arts colleges require you to stay in dorms for the first year. My school had like three total off-campus living options and they were still within walking distance of the academic buildings. Unless you were in those or a program house (an on-campus house that does community service of some kind), you spent your whole career in dorms.
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I assume its mostly schools where the town was built around the school that require on-campus living. My college had the "no microwaves except the one we build into a fridge" thing and I assume its because they don't want to pay to wire the place so that students can microwave something while the fridge is running while cooking on a hot plate all on the same circuit. Besides, college students that just moved away from home have that sort of "there's no rules" feeling of being on vacation and do stupid poo poo so they probably shouldn't be using a hot plate to cook on top of their beer-pong table they built out of a closet door balanced on the backs of two chairs. Of course, the best way to get these rules relaxed is for your roommate to start sleeping with an RA, then they won't bust you for poo poo.
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Aug 1, 2014 22:06
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So glad I never had to stay in a dorm ever. It sounds absolutely obnoxious.
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Aug 1, 2014 22:19
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:
You know, you can clean the ketchup bottle with plenty of water and this:  LIFEHACK!!! (They sell pancake mix in a bottle FYI, and you also lose batter when you use a bowl to mix  The thing, I've been tempted of using this. It's also used by the people who make "artistic pancakes".)
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Aug 1, 2014 22:27
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The dorm I lived in had the microwave/fridge combos, but you were allowed to bring your own. People still managed to set the fire alarms off constantly with just microwaves, so allowing hot plates probably would be a bad idea. At least at the moron school I went to.
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Aug 1, 2014 22:27
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Desperado Bones posted:You know, you can clean the ketchup bottle with plenty of water and this: I understand using it for artistic pancakes, but a spatula cleans out the pancake bowl just fine. 
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Aug 1, 2014 22:39
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From the last page, but:Henchman of Santa posted:Can things on Doomsday Preppers count as life hacks? Because there's no thread in TV IV but I really need somewhere to talk about a man making a flamethrower powered by rabbit poop. Absolutely, I'd say that they also belong to the same school of "strange people doing ridiculous things and feeling smug about it" thought.
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Aug 1, 2014 22:46
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Twitch posted:The dorm I lived in had the microwave/fridge combos, but you were allowed to bring your own. People still managed to set the fire alarms off constantly with just microwaves, so allowing hot plates probably would be a bad idea. At least at the moron school I went to. True story, when I was an RA last fall someone set off the fire alarm with hairspray. Later in the semester, a fire alarm got set off by an e-cig. So dorm fire alarm systems suck sometimes.
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Aug 1, 2014 23:24
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Dr Snofeld posted:From the last page, but: Fantastic, because I cannot emphasize enough that last night's episode featured a man who plans to live almost entirely off of rabbits after a full-scale economic collapse, including defense consisting of a flamethrower powered by rabbit poop. Other post-apocalyptic lifehacks from that show: IEDs built into taxidermied animals. Gold will always be valuable! Cats will bring you food, even if they are reluctant to even catch a mouse. Need to keep kosher when you're desperate to survive? Get a fuckton of matzoh!
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Aug 1, 2014 23:31
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Henchman of Santa posted:Fantastic, because I cannot emphasize enough that last night's episode featured a man who plans to live almost entirely off of rabbits after a full-scale economic collapse, including defense consisting of a flamethrower powered by rabbit poop. Maybe he's just a big fan of Don't Starve?
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Aug 1, 2014 23:33
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I understand using it for artistic pancakes, but a spatula cleans out the pancake bowl just fine. You can always lick the bowl,as well. Then get salmonella or something nasty.
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Aug 1, 2014 23:46
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Want to have an advantage over your buddy in the post apocalyptic wasteland? Fire a rifle in a blind when he's not wearing ear protection! He'll be much easier to kill if he's deaf. I always thought the "no microwaves/hotplates" thing was to force students to get meal plans.
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Aug 1, 2014 23:52
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Desperado Bones posted:You can always lick the bowl,as well. Then get salmonella or something nasty. don't have a spatula? lick the bowl clean and build a salmonella tolerance at the same time! #lifehacks #spitula
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Aug 1, 2014 23:58
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twistedmentat posted:Want to have an advantage over your buddy in the post apocalyptic wasteland? Fire a rifle in a blind when he's not wearing ear protection! He'll be much easier to kill if he's deaf.
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Aug 2, 2014 00:17
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build a small city in your microwave in case you ever get friends and need to lose them
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Aug 2, 2014 00:20
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Rad Tad posted:build a small city in your microwave in case you ever get friends and need to lose them Lifehack: build an elaborate diorama inside your microwave to demonstrate to your RA why you should be allowed to keep it (for art projects)
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Aug 2, 2014 00:25
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Lotish posted:So glad I never had to stay in a dorm ever. It sounds absolutely obnoxious. Yep. It is. I spent a solid month arguing with the housing board about how I should be allowed to keep my hermit crabs. In the end I had to get rid of them because, and this is literally the reason they told me, "if they escape they'll burrow into the walls and destroy the wiring."
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Aug 2, 2014 00:57
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Hotplates must be one hell of a crazy fire hazard since they weren't allowed at my schools dorms either even though we had in unit kitchens with gas stoves and everything
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Aug 2, 2014 02:26
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Everything's a fire hazard if you're dumb enough
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Aug 2, 2014 03:06
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An idiot goofing around can accidentally do something way quicker than a professional really working hard at it. Taking down a fully-stocked industrial shelving unit in a warehouse is an all-day job. Backing into the supports with a forklift takes six seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thbSSuo1Z00 In this video, an outdoorsman with decades of experience makes a small fire with ice. It takes him three minutes. I am confident that a dumb enough person given the same chunk of ice could burn down New York City.
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Aug 2, 2014 03:13
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When I was a RA, pretty much all forms of resistive heating (hair dryers, hot plates, space heaters) were banned because the wiring was old and flaky. The breakers being in a locked cabinet meant that if one was tripped, the RA on duty had to wake up and deal with it. gently caress that poo poo. The combo fridge/microwave units are designed so that they only ever pull X amps; if the microwave is in use, the fridge compressor shuts down entirely. That's why they're popular in dorms. Life hack: get a job as a RA to help pay your way through school.
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Aug 2, 2014 04:22
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twistedmentat posted:Want to have an advantage over your buddy in the post apocalyptic wasteland? Fire a rifle in a blind when he's not wearing ear protection! He'll be much easier to kill if he's deaf. Military barracks are the same way. It's because young people on their own for the first time are retarded and will find a way to start a fire with a paper plate and potato salad.
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Aug 2, 2014 04:33
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Yeah but then you have to live in a dorm.
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Aug 2, 2014 04:33
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Lifehack: Fart a lot and get messy back there? Stuff a sock between your butt cheeks right up against your rear end in a top hat, no muss no fuss.
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Aug 2, 2014 04:44
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twistedmentat posted:I always thought the "no microwaves/hotplates" thing was to force students to get meal plans. Most of the rules against cooking equipment don't have anything to do with meal plans or cooking or the wiring -- the school is just trying to keep vermin out of the dorms. Q: What's the difference between a high school senior and a college freshman? A: 3 months. These are literal children who half the time don't even know how to work a washing machine, so they certainly can't be expected to know things like "if you leave a bag of rotting food scraps sitting behind your door for two weeks, flies will lay eggs in it."
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Sagebrush posted:Most of the rules against cooking equipment don't have anything to do with meal plans or cooking or the wiring -- the school is just trying to keep vermin out of the dorms. Q: What's the difference between a high school senior and a college freshman? A: 3 months. These are literal children who half the time don't even know how to work a washing machine, so they certainly can't be expected to know things like "if you leave a bag of rotting food scraps sitting behind your door for two weeks, flies will lay eggs in it." This is the world we live in now that high schools don't make everyone take Home Ec.
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Aug 2, 2014 04:59
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Karma Monkey posted:This is the world we live in now that high schools don't make everyone take Home Ec. Home Ec. is misogynist.
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Aug 2, 2014 05:08
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Khazar-khum posted:Way back in the Olden Days, people disguised their microwaves by putting rabbit ears on them.
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MariusLecter posted:Home Ec. is misogynist. It wouldn't be if all students had to take it.
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^^ My Home Ec class had both boys and girls. So did Shop class. Guess the 80s were a Golden Age.MariusLecter posted:Home Ec. is misogynist. Uh, any class can be made misogynist, but Home Ec isn't inherently. The basic daily living skills are things everyone should learn. Lifehack: Learn stuff that's useful without applying gender stereotypes to those skills. Karma Monkey has a new favorite as of 06:41 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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Aug 2, 2014 06:38
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Per the Oreo discussion earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkRDrbzgoU
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Aug 2, 2014 10:11
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delicious Oreo cookies in or just walk to the loving dollar tree and get some chocolate wafer cookies you dumb piece of poo poo
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Henchman of Santa posted:Fantastic, because I cannot emphasize enough that last night's episode featured a man who plans to live almost entirely off of rabbits after a full-scale economic collapse, including defense consisting of a flamethrower powered by rabbit poop. Although I now have the mental image of a flamethrower that has 3 slots on top where you put the rabbits, and you carry a few more with you so you can reload. Or just carry around this giant bag of hay.
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Aug 2, 2014 10:55
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I dunno, that just seems like someones silly project. I hope.
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Aug 2, 2014 10:58
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MariusLecter posted:Home Ec. is misogynist. It would only be misogynist if they called it Women's Life Skills or something.
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Aug 2, 2014 12:06
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I tried that once, it was loving terrible. The part sticking out is supposed to be flush with bottom, if you do this, you'll have a 1/4" lump under the front of your foot. I'd rather be barefoot.
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Aug 2, 2014 13:43
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We had both Tech Ed. (learning about physics through woodworking) and FACS (Family and Consumes Sciences, basically Home Ec.) in my middle school where both boys and girls learned valuable skills. I think both programs were removed due to budget cuts, though. Shame, both would have been good to take in high school, I barely remember them now.
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Big Grunty Secret posted:We had both Tech Ed. (learning about physics through woodworking) and FACS (Family and Consumes Sciences, basically Home Ec.) in my middle school where both boys and girls learned valuable skills. I think both programs were removed due to budget cuts, though. Shame, both would have been good to take in high school, I barely remember them now. The middle school I work at has Family/Consumer Science and it's literally the most popular class at the school. Kids love cooking and eating food as well as making pillows and stuff.
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Olanphonia posted:The middle school I work at has Family/Consumer Science and it's literally the most popular class at the school. Kids love cooking and eating food as well as making pillows and stuff. Ok, who's done this one and how did it turn out?  This does not seem like a good idea... 
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Karma Monkey posted:I like that name a lot better than Home Ec. Speaking of cooking and making stuff... I don't know about you guys, but I enjoy some fine glass shards with my vodka. Delicious.
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