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ChaosArgate posted:Hold up. You can buy hot dogs from a hot dog stand where you live with credit??? I've bought cookies from girl scouts with credit 
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AlbieQuirky posted:All the street food here (Boston) uses Square, which sounds like what you're describing. Oh man if I ever feel the urge to get food while walking through downtown (Boston as well!). 
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The most annoying thing is places that (contrary to their merchant agreement) put up a sign saying you have to spend a certain amount to use credit or debit. I only ever really see that in like the Indian-owned convenience stores, though. Like the one across the street from my dorm has a sign saying $10 minimum to use your card.
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SLOSifl posted:Koruna or Crowns, are you German or Dutch maybe?  .Though I do know some guys who insist on calling Czech towns with German names (like Brünn for Brno) which always kinda weirds me out. Dunno if it's overly sensitive tho.
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taiyoko posted:The most annoying thing is places that (contrary to their merchant agreement) put up a sign saying you have to spend a certain amount to use credit or debit. I only ever really see that in like the Indian-owned convenience stores, though. Like the one across the street from my dorm has a sign saying $10 minimum to use your card. I was at a non-first run movie theater and they would charge an extra $.25 if you used a card to pay. Shockingly enough a couple weeks later I heard they went out of business.
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SLOSifl posted:Koruna or Crowns, are you German or Dutch maybe? This is the case across most of Southeast Asia where the official currency is the riel/kip/baht/dong/whatever but everywhere takes US dollars - you just generally get your change in local currency if it equals less than one dollar. I ended up with a cargo shorts pocket stuffed with kip last time I was in Laos and just left handfuls of it as tips at restaurants and for hotel staff. Even if I was leaving waaaaaay too much as a tip than was expected, the whole pocket full couldn't have been worth more than twelve to fifteen dollars.
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taiyoko posted:The most annoying thing is places that (contrary to their merchant agreement) put up a sign saying you have to spend a certain amount to use credit or debit. I only ever really see that in like the Indian-owned convenience stores, though. Like the one across the street from my dorm has a sign saying $10 minimum to use your card. gently caress, they have that poo poo here in Los Angeles as well, in small convenience stores. Want to buy a pack of cigarettes on credit? Well, you better buy two if you don't want to pay extra! Someday, the world will realise its mistake and just use PIN as the card of choice...
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Personally I can't wait for the world to switch over to the cliche futuristic Credits money system you see so often in sci-fi.
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CJacobs posted:Personally I can't wait for the world to switch over to the cliche futuristic Credits money system you see so often in sci-fi. trash economy, the abundance of trash what are we gonna do with it? put it on an island. No more need to cut down trees printing up dollars, we will just be paid in garbage cubes. it’s a gold rush! In 2070, most of the major cities will be replaced with vast pleasure domes exclusively for the "excelcyites" who are the neo-upperclass, while the displaced hordes of lower class "depth-grovellors" will live underground in tiered cities, endlessly toiling away in subterranean sugar caves for nuggets of sweet neoplasmin.
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twoday posted:trash economy, the abundance of trash what are we gonna do with it? put it on an island. No more need to cut down trees printing up dollars, we will just be paid in garbage cubes. it’s a gold crush! I mean, they're cubes, right?
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Life hack:
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More absorbent and neutralizes more odor than Odor Eaters and Dr Scholl's Odor-X inserts! probably not though
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cyberia posted:Life hack: that would feel pretty funny on your feet!
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I wish the person who made that image didn't pussyfoot around and just said what it's supposed to do better than a good pair of socks.
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justincredible posted:that would feel pretty funny on your feet! I hope they go on your feet...
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TVarmy posted:pussyfoot lol
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cyberia posted:Life hack: It works. Period.
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cyberia posted:Life hack: Are those wingtips?
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You padding bro? Yeah I'm padding. Sandals for those low flow days. Now you can have that clean feminine feeling all day on the hike.
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I, too, sweat blue liquid.
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Memento posted:This is the case across most of Southeast Asia where the official currency is the riel/kip/baht/dong/whatever but everywhere takes US dollars - you just generally get your change in local currency if it equals less than one dollar. I ended up with a cargo shorts pocket stuffed with kip last time I was in Laos and just left handfuls of it as tips at restaurants and for hotel staff. Even if I was leaving waaaaaay too much as a tip than was expected, the whole pocket full couldn't have been worth more than twelve to fifteen dollars.
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I still have Austrian schilling from 2001.  I don't know if it's worth converting it into euro (I don't live anywhere near the EU and don't visit much) or if I should improvise a blackjack by putting the coins in a sock that's lost its partner in the wash. #lifehack
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It won't be convertible to euros now anyway, so it'd be a bit pointless. Lifehack: when your country converts it's money to a new system, convert your money to the new system too!
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lenoon posted:It won't be convertible to euros now anyway, so it'd be a bit pointless.
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A distant relative shared this on Facebook.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A distant relative shared this on Facebook. When I lived in Japan I had a drafty as gently caress house and an inadequate heater. Bubble wrap on my windows (but branded as window insulation) prevented me from freezing to death in the winter. It didn't work very well.
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 How to keep those pesky kitchen tongs from taking up their usual obscene amount of space! http://www.thekitchn.com/smart-simple-tip-to-store-tongs-in-your-kitchen-smart-tips-from-our-readers-207850 I think the stupidity of this isn't the problem so much as the fact that it bothered someone that much.
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Why not just use a rubber band or a hair tie, that would've been much more sensible than a huge paper towel roll
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bringmyfishback posted:
The stupidity is that those tongs have a locking function. You just pull back on the ring on the back and they lock closed.
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That looks similar to the brand I have, in which case pulling back on the black knob moves a little metal shim you can see there by the pin that keeps them closed.
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Yeah, mine have the same function. I bought them at the dollar store, so I assume this is pretty much universal.
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jidohanbaiki posted:When I lived in Japan I had a drafty as gently caress house and an inadequate heater. Bubble wrap on my windows (but branded as window insulation) prevented me from freezing to death in the winter. It didn't work very well.  I'm so sorry you froze to death. Most be fun posting as a ghost.
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This thread has some good info. Thanks everyone!
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I'll admit that this thread did teach me that trying to dry washing in a tumble dryer doesn't work when part of that washing is a bath towel.
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Hydrolith posted:I'll admit that this thread did teach me that trying to dry washing in a tumble dryer doesn't work when part of that washing is a bath towel. Don't most people wash their towels separately anyway?
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Desperado Bones posted:
Shhh! You're gonna get me banned!
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Life hack, die and become a ghost...you won't have to deal with winter anymore! Real life hack, instead of bubble wrap I was told to put newspaper on the windows to keep my room warm during winter. I call it bullshit, it didn't work, I ended buying an electric heater.
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Lifehack: instead of freezing in the winter, line your room with aluminum foil, coat yourself in olive oil and rosemary, and set your space heater to 350ºF for 30 minutes!
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Pro lifehack for making delicious sandwiches: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Potato-Chip-Sandwich Yes, that is a ketchup and potato chip sandwich 
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Yes, that is a ketchup and potato chip sandwich These were the poo poo when I was five. I am not five any more, and neither is whoever made that sandwich.
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