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amityville anus posted:I skipped the last page of bullshit to link some content: this made me laugh thank you for posting it. Walla.
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captainOrbital posted:Hate parallel parking? Ride a motorcycle. You're doing a wonderful service donating your organs to medicine.
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amityville anus posted:I skipped the last page of bullshit to link some content: I was about to Share this, and then I realized the kind of people who would click on it were not the kind of people that would enjoy it most. 
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DemeaninDemon posted:You're doing a wonderful service donating your organs to medicine.
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captainOrbital posted:HATE your organs? Local parent discovers on weird trick to provide fresh organs to people in need of transplants. Rabbis HATE him.
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Nov 20, 2014 22:37
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That blog also has a feature where popular, existing lifehacks were tried.
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Nov 20, 2014 23:16
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DemeaninDemon posted:You're doing a wonderful service donating your organs to medicine. #LivingHack: Don't want doctors to murder you to take your sweet, sweet organs? Don't be a donor!
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Nov 20, 2014 23:51
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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. I'm pushing 30 and I have not successfully parallel parked since somehow miraculously doing it on my driving test. #lifehack just pay for valet. gently caress parallel parking forever.
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Nov 21, 2014 00:51
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Here's one I can get behind.  It's pretty awesome.
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Noyemi K posted:That blog also has a feature where popular, existing lifehacks were tried. My favorite one of those is the bagel holder. How do you get meat, cheese, veggies and condiments to have nice, bagel shaped holes in them without realizing that a baggie or large tupperware container will be infinitely more useful and less toxic than poo poo-grade plastic spindles from 1995?
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Nov 21, 2014 03:07
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booshi posted:
Given how obviously dangerous cars are, how many people are killed or injured by them all the time, it's crazy how cavalier we are about letting people drive them. The right of the individual to drive seems to supersede everyone else's right to be safe most of the time.
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Nov 21, 2014 03:58
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Tiggum posted:Given how obviously dangerous cars are, how many people are killed or injured by them all the time, it's crazy how cavalier we are about letting people drive them. The right of the individual to drive seems to supersede everyone else's right to be safe most of the time. Seriously I can't even count the number of times I've nearly been run over when crossing the street when it's a walk signal because assholes decide to turn down the street without making sure no one's there.
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Nov 21, 2014 04:05
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ChaosArgate posted:Seriously I can't even count the number of times I've nearly been run over when crossing the street when it's a walk signal because assholes decide to turn down the street without making sure no one's there. When I lived in Mass, I couldn't believe the number of times people ran out from behind vans into the street, playing some kind of real-life Frogger, because "I have the right of way, they'll stop!" #Deathiscoming
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Nov 21, 2014 07:02
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My entire family is from northshore Mass and I can confirm that they are all the biggest assholes on the road. On the plus side I learned that if you contest a ticket there's like a 20% chance of the officer showing up.
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Nov 21, 2014 07:36
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I don't know how to parallel park or reverse but I do it. Just look for a space on the street that's like 1.5 times as long as your car and you can do it. Angle your car at the curb, back up till you hit it, go forward a little less angled, repeat 1000 times till your car is parked right.
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Nov 21, 2014 07:47
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I look upon people who can reverse into spots in a parking lot as the Ancient Greeks looked upon the Olympian Gods. Also I parallel park all the time and lived in an urban apartment that only had street parking for over 2 years.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I look upon people who can reverse into spots in a parking lot as the Ancient Greeks looked upon the Olympian Gods. kinda dumb perverts but we're stuck with them?
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Nov 21, 2014 13:03
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Every time I parallel park, it feels like I'm nailing a lady while disguised as a swan.
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Nov 21, 2014 13:46
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davidspackage posted:Every time I parallel park, it feels like I'm nailing a lady while disguised as a swan. For me its the other way around.
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Nov 21, 2014 14:10
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Shai-Hulud posted:For me its the other way around. How do you get that close to the swans?
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Nov 21, 2014 14:15
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I lived in three other states before I moved to Mass, and it's like people here learned an entirely different set of road rules than the rest of the country. It's like bizarro driving.
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Nov 21, 2014 14:32
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I heard driving in the US is so bad because it's full of HFCS.
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Arrest that rear end! posted:I heard driving in the US is so bad because it's full of HFCS. Anyone who says Americans are bad drivers has never been to France or Italy.
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Nov 21, 2014 16:25
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Vindolanda posted:kinda dumb perverts but we're stuck with them? Lmao. Seriously, why the gently caress do people reverse into spots in car parks? It makes it harder to put stuff in the trunk if you're going shopping and it can't really be worth the effort just to be able to drive nose-first out of the spot. There's one car park in the city I use sometimes and literally every car in the lot will be reverse-parked, it's some eerie Children of the Corn poo poo driving through that lot.
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Nov 21, 2014 16:47
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cyberia posted:Lmao. Seriously, why the gently caress do people reverse into spots in car parks? It makes it harder to put stuff in the trunk if you're going shopping and it can't really be worth the effort just to be able to drive nose-first out of the spot. There's one car park in the city I use sometimes and literally every car in the lot will be reverse-parked, it's some eerie Children of the Corn poo poo driving through that lot. But if you reverse in, it'll be quicker to get out in the case of WAR. 
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Nov 21, 2014 16:53
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-Anders posted:But if you reverse in, it'll be quicker to get out in the case of WAR. I'll do it sometimes if I'm parking at a big event where I know the traffic will be bad afterward -- so basically yeah, WAR. Backing out into heavy traffic with people trying to cut you off is more effort than backing into the space when there's no one around.
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Nov 21, 2014 17:09
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If you drive a small car, and the only spots left are between large trucks or SUVs, then it's safer to back in, because then you don't have to back out into the traffic. Backing in also makes it easier to be perfectly lined up in the spot, whereas with pulling in forward, there's a good chance you'll end up too close to the car next to you. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/why-do-people-back-up-int_b_3194602.html
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cyberia posted:Lmao. Seriously, why the gently caress do people reverse into spots in car parks? It makes it harder to put stuff in the trunk if you're going shopping and it can't really be worth the effort just to be able to drive nose-first out of the spot. There's one car park in the city I use sometimes and literally every car in the lot will be reverse-parked, it's some eerie Children of the Corn poo poo driving through that lot. If you do any work with big oilfield companies, reverse-parking is mandatory. They will come get you out of a meeting to park you car correctly if you don't. Something about safety/insurance.
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cyberia posted:Lmao. Seriously, why the gently caress do people reverse into spots in car parks? It makes it harder to put stuff in the trunk if you're going shopping and it can't really be worth the effort just to be able to drive nose-first out of the spot. There's one car park in the city I use sometimes and literally every car in the lot will be reverse-parked, it's some eerie Children of the Corn poo poo driving through that lot. It's easier to look both ways and avoid poo poo when looking out the windshield than out the back window.
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Nov 21, 2014 18:04
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Inco posted:It's easier FTFY. Parking in reverse is way easier than parking forwards, because the car turns much more sharply when it pivots around the rear wheel on one side than when the whole front end swings round. And similarly, driving OUT of the space again is a hell of a lot easier than backing out. Lifehax: reverse park, it's easier. Of course, it helps when the rear doors of the car are sliding ones...
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Noyemi K posted:That blog also has a feature where popular, existing lifehacks were tried. That's like the platonic ideal of this thread.
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Nov 21, 2014 18:29
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When you're backing out of spots in a parking lot, just back out. You probably can't see if anyone's coming anyway. Nobody should be driving too fast in a parking lot that they can't stop in time to avoid hitting you. If they do, it's their fault. Legally.
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cheerfullydrab posted:When you're backing out of spots in a parking lot, just back out. You probably can't see if anyone's coming anyway. Nobody should be driving too fast in a parking lot that they can't stop in time to avoid hitting you. If they do, it's their fault. Legally. No it isn't. Legally. (I remember a goon being ruled at-fault in an accident where he was almost out of a space when a car hit him. At least in their state, even though courtesy says to continue backing out if already halfway out of your space, the law said they failed to yield to traffic). Besides, you can see very well when exiting a space that you've backed into. Try it sometime.
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Nov 21, 2014 21:03
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I never learned how to reverse properly.
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Nov 21, 2014 21:22
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cheerfullydrab posted:When you're backing out of spots in a parking lot, just back out. You probably can't see if anyone's coming anyway. Nobody should be driving too fast in a parking lot that they can't stop in time to avoid hitting you. If they do, it's their fault. Legally. In the UK at least the onus is on the reversing driver to ensure it is safe to do so. Best you'd get if you have a bump is a 50:50 claim.
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#lifehack: go to the movies during the morning/afternoon. The prices are cheaper and there's less people.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I never learned how to reverse properly. Go practice in an empty parking lot? Its really easy. On topic: #Lifehack: look over your shoulder when backing up instead of using your mirrors. How you've been driving wrong the whole time! How to back into a space using one simple trick. Body shops hate her!
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monkeytennis posted:In the UK at least the onus is on the reversing driver to ensure it is safe to do so. Best you'd get if you have a bump is a 50:50 claim. In most American states, you are automatically at fault if your car is in reverse during an accident. Lifehack: Get out of accidents fault-free by making sure the other guy's car is set to reverse!
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While we're on driving, most people are ignorant to how their side-mirrors should be angled. If done right, you typically have no/very little blind-spot: http://www.cartalk.com/sites/default/files/features/mirrors/CarTalkMirrors.pdf Most people align them so half of what the side mirror sees is already covered by their rear-view, so there is a large blind-spot as a car moves along side them before they are visible in the window (especially on the drive'rs side, like being overtaken on the highway.)
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DrBouvenstein posted:While we're on driving, most people are ignorant to how their side-mirrors should be angled. If done right, you typically have no/very little blind-spot: Yep, my boyfriend adjusted my mirrors like this not long ago. It was definitely weird, but he's super into cars and I trust his judgment. It took some getting used to, but I truly have no blind spot now. Of course, I drive a teensy e30, so I didn't have much of one to begin with. That said, mirror adjustments are an art, and once you get it down you'll wonder how you managed to drive so blind for so long.
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