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Geoj posted:Sounds like you have a special snowflake situation and this isn't really a case of "nobody accepts Amex." I've had an Amex card for work expenses on and off for the past 10 years and it's fairly rare to find a retailer that doesn't take it. I currently have a corporate card that allows cash withdrawals from ATMs in the event that someone doesn't accept it. Our joke in the DOD was always "Visa, it's everywhere you want to be, but American Express is where the government sends you."
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http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher who the hell has a dishwasher and not an oven?
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Phosphine posted:http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher Jesus Christ, that has to be a joke.
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Jan 13, 2015 00:16
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Very convenient for those hording various garbage in their ovens.
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Jan 13, 2015 00:17
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Phosphine posted:http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher Cited: http://www.partselect.com/JustForFun/Dishwasher-Lasagna.aspx In the Facebook comments for that, cited: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/dishwasher-salmon-with-a-piquant-dill-sauce-recipe.html Dishwasher salmon. EDIT: Sweet christ, there's so many of these. Just search for "dishwasher recipe" (and share your favourites??). Here's a Huffington Post article. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-stir/dishwasher-cooking_b_3605859.html Cirrial has a new favorite as of 00:20 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 13, 2015 00:18
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Phosphine posted:http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher "Shock your dinner guest with this fun and unique way to prepare everyone's favorite Italian dish." This way it's "fun". Why do you hate "fun"?
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Abroad almost nobody took Amex in France when I was there a couple months back. I don't run into a lot of places in the states that don't but it happens on occasion, mostly at small locally owned businesses who don't want to pay the fees for it.
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13Pandora13 posted:Abroad almost nobody took Amex in France when I was there a couple months back. When does it stop being a lifehack and start being a recipe (toothpaste mints excluded)? 
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Phosphine posted:http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher I poached an egg in the dishwasher once (top rack, wrapped in foil, no soap) just to see if it would work. It did, but was pretty wasteful compared to a mall pan of water on the stove. It's stupid as hell and the only reason I can think of to do it is to go "huh, how about that." Maybe if you have a gas stove but somehow an electric water heater and the gas is out? Cooking things on the intake manifold of your car's engine is slightly more useful -- wedge a potato under the air cleaner of the Jeep, have a snack on the trail -- but still, a Coleman stove or campfire and some beers when you're done for the day is much more satisfying. Edit: actual useful thing: learn how to fold tinfoil like (is poorly explained) in the lasagna article. That's a useful skill for cooking in a campfire/fireplace, or even with certain things in the oven or on the grill. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 01:59 on Jan 13, 2015 |
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Jan 13, 2015 01:54
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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I think it's more of thing where you're going to run the dishwasher anyway but have like, half a rack with nothing in it so you poach some eggs for a snack. Definitely not the stupidest thing to do. e: tinfoil foldup hobo stew is a fond camping memory indeed
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I'm not sure I'd trust even my Boy Scout foil-crimping skills with soap, though. If it breaks in the campfire, that's just extra seasoning/you can brush off the ashes, but dishwasher soap is bad poo poo. Also if you're going to run the dishwasher anyway, just wait until you create enough dirty dishes to fill it. The lasagna or salmon ... maybe. Poaching an egg doesn't even dirty a pan, though! It's just a pan of water!
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Phosphine posted:http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Lasagna-in-Your-Dishwasher Myth Confirmed! http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/dishwasher-lasagna-minimyth/
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You'd be more likely to successfully waffle iron lasagna so that you can eat it off the floor like a animal with your credit card knife.
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Tunicate posted:Myth Confirmed! Wouldn't eat that, but I would deal with the noise to have a glass front dishwasher.
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Len posted:You'd be more likely to successfully waffle iron lasagna so that you can eat it off the floor like a animal with your credit card knife. Hang on, I'm still assembling it. Just about got it. You'll be sorry you tried to mug me, motherfucker
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Hang on, I'm still assembling it. Just about got it. You'll be sorry you tried to mug me, motherfucker Where does the "use the credit card knife to stop muggers" come from? Because it's not advertised for that at all. The ads just talk about using it to cut every day things like packages, food, letters, string. Is that just this thread latching onto something tiny and pointless while bigger lifehacks go unmentioned like the Doritos Consomme from a few pages back?
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Len posted:Where does the "use the credit card knife to stop muggers" come from? Because it's not advertised for that at all. The ads just talk about using it to cut every day things like packages, food, letters, string. Is that just this thread latching onto something tiny and pointless while bigger lifehacks go unmentioned like the Doritos Consomme from a few pages back? Welcome to the internet!
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Lt. Chips posted:Welcome to the internet! Well I was hoping there was a funny story/youtube video where someone did just that. This thread just being goony makes it far less interesting.
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Len posted:Where does the "use the credit card knife to stop muggers" come from? Because it's not advertised for that at all. The ads just talk about using it to cut every day things like packages, food, letters, string. Is that just this thread latching onto something tiny and pointless while bigger lifehacks go unmentioned like the Doritos Consomme from a few pages back? To be fair, it's an easy mistake to make when most "knife/bludgeon/gun/brass knuckles hidden in the shape of X" products are designed to totally thwart muggers that lurk around every corner. Also it's funny.
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John Murdoch posted:To be fair, it's an easy mistake to make when most "knife/bludgeon/gun/brass knuckles hidden in the shape of X" products are designed to totally thwart muggers that lurk around every corner. Not as funny as Dorito/Shrimp soup!
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Cirrial posted:Cited: http://www.partselect.com/JustForFun/Dishwasher-Lasagna.aspx Dishwasher salmon is a really old "hack". My grandfather died in the late 70s and he tried to make dishwasher salmon at least once. Of course, he was incredibly cheap and insisted on washing dishes at the same time. Apparently the salmon came out reasonably well cooked, but very soapy.
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Hirayuki posted:Same in Japan and New Zealand. I guess they don't call it American Express for nothing! It's similar where I am - a lot of places will take it, but you're better off asking first because a lot of smaller businesses aren't willing to put up with Amex's bullshit. No one else charges the retailer for the privilege of using their card.
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No one cares what credit card you use.
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TetsuoTW posted:No one cares what credit card you use. Actually, through experimentation, I've found that one particular type of credit card is much better at scraping ice off a windshield than all the others combined. But I'm not ready to share this life hack with the world because I haven't come up with the best click bait title for my Buzzfeed article yet.
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Picnic Princess posted:Actually, through experimentation, I've found that one particular type of credit card is much better at scraping ice off a windshield than all the others combined. But I'm not ready to share this life hack with the world because I haven't come up with the best click bait title for my Buzzfeed article yet. One neat trick the lizardpeople who command the weather don't want you to know! Al Gore hates him!
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Karma Monkey posted:Jesus Christ, that has to be a joke. Mythbusters did it.
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I would be shocked if my dinner host announced that the swampy pile of horror on my plate came from his dishwasher. Maybe save that for when you're eating alone, McGyver.
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Hirayuki posted:Same in Japan and New Zealand. I guess they don't call it American Express for nothing! For a while there even Mastercard wasn't reliably accepted abroad, but that's changing. "Have a great day Anon, for it will be your last after you consume this." Knew a guy on an IRC that actually did this and got real uppity when I told him it probably wasn't a good idea to interpret "use plenty of oil" to mean literally deep fry the omelet in an inch of oil and then proceed to eat it, oil and all. Told me he didn't usually cook and that it was a fun experience.
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I've spent the better part of the last three months way the gently caress up in Swedish Lapland and I've had all of two places not accept Amex. And back in the States the only places I've run into that don't take it are two-bit restaurants in one-horse towns. They don't charge currency exchange fees (or at least they don't on my corporate card) and also you can print out detailed individual transaction records which makes expense reporting way less of a pain in the rear end. The couple of times I've had to use my Wells Fargo Visa card over here I've had to print out my entire statement and black out all the poo poo I don't want the bean counters peeking at.
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Noctone posted:I've spent the better part of the last three months way the gently caress up in Swedish Lapland and I've had all of two places not accept Amex. And back in the States the only places I've run into that don't take it are two-bit restaurants in one-horse towns. They don't charge currency exchange fees (or at least they don't on my corporate card) and also you can print out detailed individual transaction records which makes expense reporting way less of a pain in the rear end. The couple of times I've had to use my Wells Fargo Visa card over here I've had to print out my entire statement and black out all the poo poo I don't want the bean counters peeking at.
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Hirayuki posted:Same in Japan and New Zealand. I guess they don't call it American Express for nothing! For a while there even Mastercard wasn't reliably accepted abroad, but that's changing. I like how both the original author and the person revising it couldn't figure out how to flip an omelette without a second pan/plate. Spatulas are the next lifehack.
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pandaK posted:"Have a great day Anon, for it will be your last after you consume this." I'm all about getting more people into the kitchen and cooking, but sweet jesus what you described makes me feel ill. How does one go so very wrong?!
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Dienes posted:I like how both the original author and the person revising it couldn't figure out how to flip an omelette without a second pan/plate. Spatulas are the next lifehack. You don't flip omelettes though, I would say you probably don't nee a lifehack to do something you don't do but thinking again that does go against everything lifehacks stand for. Solving problems no one has.
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Mocking Bird posted:In case you didn't know, people suck at living within their means and it is terrible advice to give to most people to use a cash back credit card for everything. Why? Because they use it for everything, then something happens and they use their ample cash reserve because with that much cash how can they be poor, and shocker - they now have a ton of credit debt. Don't cashback cards only give you a tiny percent back anyway though? I always heard it was like MAYBE $10, if you were extremely lucky. How are they even worth it?
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Astrofig posted:Don't cashback cards only give you a tiny percent back anyway though? I always heard it was like MAYBE $10, if you were extremely lucky. How are they even worth it? It's usually either you get 1-2% on all purchases or 5-6% on certain purchases like groceries and gas, or some cards with higher cash back rates have rewards categories that change every few months. If you're responsible enough to use your credit card for day to day purchases and pay it off every month it technically is free money, even if you're only getting $1-5 back for every $100 spent .
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If you're responsible with a credit card, that 1-5% cashback can add up. Not to much, but you can buy yourself a new videogame or unban your SA account with it every couple of months. Of course, the lenders are hoping you'll be irresponsible like most people and end up paying them far more in interest than you make from the cashback. But you're getting money back! Kinda like how casinos work -- when I went to Vegas, I put a dollar in the first slot machine I saw, and won  . But then I kept playing, and spent my winnings in addition to my gambling money. But hey, I won on the first pull!Lifehack: take your gambling cash (even if it's every penny you have) out from the bank and buy your cigarettes before you go. The ATMs and vending machines inside a casino screw you over even more than the games.
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Delivery McGee posted:Lifehack: take your gambling cash (even if it's every penny you have) out from the bank and buy your cigarettes before you go. The ATMs and vending machines inside a casino screw you over even more than the games. Lifehack: just go to the lovely off-strip casinos, or the Boulder Strip. I was at East Side Cannery Sunday morning, and smokes were like $3/pack. I don't smoke, but but from what I've seen, that's not a bad price, these days. Just don't play guess-a-number.
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Centripetal Horse posted:Just don't play guess-a-number. I gotta warn ya Clark – they don’t play the same games that they do at them regular casinos
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Aramoro posted:You don't flip omelettes though, I would say you probably don't nee a lifehack to do something you don't do but thinking again that does go against everything lifehacks stand for. Solving problems no one has. It's really more of a Frittata
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