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#lifehack: go on the internet and aggressively defend awful poo poo you hate and admit is terrible to chase away those holiday blues preemptively!
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I know American cheese is terrible, but a grilled cheese sandwich with American cheese and white bread is such a guilty pleasure for me. Actual life hack: Read cheese labels. In decreasing order of quality, they go: cheese, process cheese, process cheese food, process cheese product, and then things that don't even say cheese on the labels.
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Nov 19, 2014 21:46
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I used to work in a deli in a supermarket, and Boars Head was our most popular brand for meat and cheese. When people got any American cheese that wasn't Boars Head I hated them for wasting my time slicing them up garbage they could have gotten down the dairy isle we were located next to. #LIFEHACK Waste time and money by standing in line to get Kraft American singles sliced at the deli!
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Nov 19, 2014 21:48
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Lifehack: Eat Kraft Singles cold out of the wrapper like a animal you piece of poo poo
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Nov 20, 2014 00:11
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wipeout posted:Couldn't find one in Green Brook This guy gets the American Dream. 
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Nov 20, 2014 00:27
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I would be so unspeakably vast if I lived in the US.
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Am I too late to defend the honor of American cheese???!?
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Nov 20, 2014 00:44
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Deli American is different than Kraft singles type, it's actual cheese. Like a salty, easy melting Colby.
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Nov 20, 2014 00:50
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Am I too late to defend the honor of American cheese???!? it would seem not.
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Nov 20, 2014 01:04
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pienipple posted:Deli American is different than Kraft singles type, it's actual cheese. Like a salty, easy melting Colby. Everything that American Cheese does, Muenster does better 
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Nov 20, 2014 01:09
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Gouda supremacy
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Nov 20, 2014 01:18
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Lifehack: If you're a britgoon lord the presence of HFCS in bread and peanut butter over Amerigoons even though the slurry of milk and sugar that you call tea and drink on a daily basis more than makes up for the difference. Lifehack: If you're an Amerigoon assuage yourself of all responsibility of being a fat piece of poo poo by blaming the literal spoonful of sugar in bread and peanut better because having a 5% difference in sucrose and fructose makes it a magic potion that breaks all known laws of thermodynamics.
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Nov 20, 2014 03:17
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EXAKT Science posted:Everything that American Cheese does, Muenster does better Boar's Head White American Cheese makes the best queso.
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Nov 20, 2014 03:43
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I skipped the last page of bullshit to link some content: http://www.offthemeathook.com/2014/11/17/hacks-13-amazing-food-and-life-hacks-you-need-to-know-right-now/
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Nov 20, 2014 04:16
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My Lovely Horse posted:Speaking as a European, I went to a Walgreen's once, and I'm convinced it is conceptually a store for stoners. Entire large supermarkets over here don't have that much goddamn snacks and soda. Walgreens is a drug store, which in American terms means an honest to God pharmacy that fills prescriptions attached to a retail store that tends to be a jack of all trades but a master of none. If it's three in the morning and you find yourself in need of a dozen eggs, a half gallon of milk and a loaf of the aforementioned HFCS-laden commercial bakery bread (or lovely off-brand gifts on Christmas day because they're the only place open) they have you covered. Otherwise you wouldn't want to do your regular grocery shopping at Walgreens unless you live in a food desert. Same thing goes for 7/11 (don't you have convenience stores in Europe?) - good in a pinch but not where you'd do your day to day shopping. Lifehack: don't routinely shop at drug and/or convenience stores because aside from sales the prices tend to be higher and the variety/quality of products is lower than a regular grocery store.
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Nov 20, 2014 04:47
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Sure is a huge derail over lovely cheese  But I've had worse. There's an "imitation cheese product" that my stepfather used to buy because it was the very cheapest poo poo available. It was made with vegetable oil, and no matter how much heat you subjected it to, it just would NOT MELT like a proper cheese. No, it'd leave some yellow, sweet-tasting grease on the bread and break apart like a slippery iceberg  Needless to say, after a few months I managed to convince him to stop buying it because it's a bigger waste of money to get something extremely cheap that nobody will eat, than to get something a little more costly that won't come inflict trauma on children. I'm sure there's a lifehack in there somewhere. Oh yeah: #lifehack: don't want to spend a respectable amount of money getting food that tastes good? The cheapest stuff tastes just as good—most people can't tell the difference!
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Nov 20, 2014 05:42
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My Lovely Horse posted:Speaking as a European, I went to a Walgreen's once, and I'm convinced it is conceptually a store for stoners. Entire large supermarkets over here don't have that much goddamn snacks and soda. Walgreens is basically a pharmacy at the back of the store and then every possible thing one could impulse buy in between you and the pharmacy.
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Nov 20, 2014 05:50
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PhotoKirk posted:Boar's Head White American Cheese makes the best queso. The best American cheese is Monterey. And maybe next to a Vermont white cheddar. My fav is muenster or fontina. Of course blue cheese has it's place.
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Nov 20, 2014 06:21
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"Parallel Parking Hack (Taught to me by a bus driver)" comments 60% "not a hack" 40% "turning the wheels while stationary will cause your car to wear out in an explosion of friction" no one mentions the one thing that might pass for a parallel parking hack if you don't look too closely, using your reflection in a shopfront to see how much space you've got. Jaguars! has a new favorite as of 12:26 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 12:14
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Jaguars! posted:"Parallel Parking Hack (Taught to me by a bus driver)" Your parked!
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Nov 20, 2014 13:15
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Bumbers paralell, bumpers parrale.
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Nov 20, 2014 13:26
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I was gonna say, that's almost literally what my driving instructor taught me. Lifehack: learn how to do a thing so you can do it! walla
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Nov 20, 2014 13:41
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That's pretty much how I was taught to do it too.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:24
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On the level of stupid life hacks, I present 43folders. It's now a mere shadow of it's former self, since the author Merlin Mann woke up to what was happening. But at peak hackery, 43F was the home for geeks who were prepared to spend all week reading about, arguing about and crafting absurd productivity porn solutions that would save them a buck or two / a few minutes / a phone call or some simple task. The one that stuck in my mind was the Hipster PDA: using a bunch of index cards clipped together as a portable notepad / todo list / etc. Wikipedia maintains it started as a joke, but my recollection is that it was deadly serious: What an awesome idea! People starting making templates for cards, writing them on a computer and printing them out until finally, incredibly, several suggested ways you could bind and put a cover on them. (Also.) Instead of, you know, buying an actual PDA or notebook. With a cover. Bonus points for this suggestion on the wiki: quote:Keep losing your HPDA? Attach it to your Moleskine using a paperclip.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:36
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Jaguars! posted:"Parallel Parking Hack (Taught to me by a bus driver)" bumbers
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Nov 20, 2014 14:48
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ChaosArgate posted:That's pretty much how I was taught to do it too. Having taken the driving test a few years back, they no longer teach parallel parking
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Nov 20, 2014 15:29
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Boneitis posted:Having taken the driving test a few years back, they no longer teach parallel parking Not sure about anyother states but Ohio does maneuverability now instead of parallel parking so I was never formally taught how to do that.
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Nov 20, 2014 15:38
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I took driver's ed through a summer course my school district provided. It was two gym coaches teaching a class of 50-70 people over 2 weeks. They said day 1 they were going to teach parallel parking because it's not on the test for our state. I've been driving for like 12 years and I still don't know how to do it. #lifehack: never park on the street, even if it means walking several blocks further, because you were never taught a basic driving skill.
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Nov 20, 2014 18:06
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Boneitis posted:Having taken the driving test a few years back, they no longer teach parallel parking Depends on where you are. In Massachusetts, I was tested on it last year. I didn't go to driving school though, my Dad taught me how to drive.
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Nov 20, 2014 18:07
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In the UK parallel parking is on the test. The last time I parallel parked was on my test. My version of it now is "drive around a bit more there's probably another space."
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Nov 20, 2014 18:11
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Boneitis posted:Having taken the driving test a few years back, they no longer teach parallel parking Is this what's causing idiots to not realize what I'm doing with a blinker on and in reverse when they pull up right behind me and get angry? Oh wait I live in Mass no one here can drive for poo poo.
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Nov 20, 2014 18:40
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cobalt impurity posted:I took driver's ed through a summer course my school district provided. It was two gym coaches teaching a class of 50-70 people over 2 weeks. They said day 1 they were going to teach parallel parking because it's not on the test for our state. I've been driving for like 12 years and I still don't know how to do it. Same  
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Nov 20, 2014 18:41
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I failed the driving test enough that I became amazing at parallel parking and in fact it was somehow pretty much the only way I was any good at parking. Still hated it though and would look for other spots.
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Nov 20, 2014 18:42
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I worked for a summer as a valet and now am The Best at reverse parking and parallel parking. So much so that friends comment on it. #lifehack: be a valet so your friends will like you
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Nov 20, 2014 18:50
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booshi posted:Is this what's causing idiots to not realize what I'm doing with a blinker on and in reverse when they pull up right behind me and get angry? I've been told that Mass drivers see blinkers as a challenge. So far this is basically true, with 90% of drivers moving right behind me when I try to parallel park or move up next to me when I want to switch lanes.
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Nov 20, 2014 19:00
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I was tested on parallel parking for my NJ license a couple years back. That said their test was in a closed lot with orange cones denoting the parking spot, and the instructor told me, step by step, to line up the cones in my mirror, turn the tires, back up until I no longer see the cones, etc etc. Or something like that. Basically it was set up in a really weird way that will never actually occur in the real world.  ChaosArgate posted:I've been told that Mass drivers see blinkers as a challenge. As a former Masshole yes this is definitely true
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Nov 20, 2014 19:10
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ChaosArgate posted:I've been told that Mass drivers see blinkers as a challenge. 
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Nov 20, 2014 19:18
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ChaosArgate posted:I've been told that Mass drivers see blinkers as a challenge. So far this is basically true, with 90% of drivers moving right behind me when I try to parallel park or move up next to me when I want to switch lanes. As someone who lives in Mass, blinkers apparently mean "pull up right behind me and then honk until you can shift over a lane!"
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Nov 20, 2014 19:50
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Big Grunty Secret posted:As someone who lives in Mass, blinkers apparently mean "pull up right behind me and then honk until you can shift over a lane!" My favorite is when you're in slow moving traffic and you wanna switch lanes, the line of people in the lane you wanna switch to all keep moving and you're just given the dirtiest glares like you just murdered someone's firstborn child.
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Nov 20, 2014 19:53
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Agree that we Massholes are horrendous drivers, but I have never feared for my life the way I did in Phoenix.
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Hate parallel parking? Ride a motorcycle. Wheeeeeeeeeehacks
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