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Tiggum posted:
Want to get rid of morning breath? Toothpaste isn't just a silver polish, it can also be used to cleanse the filth from your teeth!
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Mikl posted:"Put charcoal in your fridge to eliminate odours." I'm dying at the suggestion that somehow charcoal, something we literally put down poisoned people's throats is not safe. Like, can you not Google this stuff? Do you need a librarians help to look this up?
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Sep 15, 2015 06:12
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El_Elegante posted:I'm dying at the suggestion that somehow charcoal, something we literally put down poisoned people's throats is not safe. Like, can you not Google this stuff? Do you need a librarians help to look this up? This kills me. Like, they literally have you drink a charcoal suspension at the hospital/in the ambulance if you've overdosed on certain things. Goons 
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Sep 15, 2015 09:49
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Mikl posted:Or, you know, use something that's food-safe and found in all kitchens, like baking soda. I thought the baking soda thing was a myth.
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Sep 15, 2015 09:57
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El_Elegante posted:I'm dying at the suggestion that somehow charcoal, something we literally put down poisoned people's throats is not safe. Like, can you not Google this stuff? Do you need a librarians help to look this up? Charcoal by itself is totally fine but charcoal briquettes are not pure charcoal and also usually contain stuff like borax, saltpeter, and coal. Like, nothing that will kill on contact but also nothing I'd particularly want to eat, and that's not even getting into the worse brands that soak the bricks in petrol-based starter fluids.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:27
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I'm dumb ignore this post.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:54
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The medical charcoal/carbon is called 'Activated Carbon/Charcoal' and is heat treated to increase absorbtion. Still, literally the thing used to to treat poisoning, overdose etc.
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Sep 15, 2015 13:16
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Also great for heartburn.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:36
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Subjunctive posted:I thought the baking soda thing was a myth. No, it really is found in a lot of kitchens.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:43
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Subjunctive posted:I thought the baking soda thing was a myth. It's the sodium bicarbonate. It will react with things that are strongly acidic (like bad food odors). But it will also react to water and crust over, so it's not terribly effective. So, it works to an extent, but not as well as activated charcoal. But it's much cheaper and easier to find in a store.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:53
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flosofl posted:It's the sodium bicarbonate. It will react with things that are strongly acidic (like bad food odors). Yeah, I know what baking soda is, I just thought it had been shown to be ineffective in actually absorbing odors. Baking soda should neutralize both acid and base, IIRC, but having that's not the same as it meaningfully affecting the air in the fridge. Maybe I'll care enough to look when I'm not phoneposting.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:15
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EZipperelli posted:This kills me. Happened to a friend of mine. Took too many caffeine pills pulling all-nighters studying for finals. Said initially that drinking the suspension was the most horrible thing ever but changed her tune the next day when she went through an entire 24-pack of toilet paper 
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Sep 15, 2015 15:15
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Subjunctive posted:Yeah, I know what baking soda is, I just thought it had been shown to be ineffective in actually absorbing odors. Baking soda should neutralize both acid and base, IIRC, but having that's not the same as it meaningfully affecting the air in the fridge. Maybe I'll care enough to look when I'm not phoneposting. This is the best I could find in my 5 second google: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/2566/does-baking-soda-remove-odors He ends up citing an article I can't find anymore, but the quote is familiar so I want to think I read the same article at some point: quote:The popular "open box of Arm & HammerŪ in the refrigerator" simply provides an adsorbent material that can soak up odors -- but not very effectively. For example, if some of the odoriferous materials floating around in the refrigerator are acidic, the alkaline baking soda can absorb and neutralize the acid. Even in that regard, it is not all that effective because, as the powder in the box contacts water vapor, it tends to crust over an lose a great deal of its already limited surface activity. So, I guess the answer is "technically yes", but it's really not near as good as people think.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:41
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El_Elegante posted:I'm dying at the suggestion that somehow charcoal, something we literally put down poisoned people's throats is not safe. Like, can you not Google this stuff? Do you need a librarians help to look this up? But you can light charcoal on fire! What if you get it in you and somebody lights it on fire????!?!!!?  Well pure charcoal is just carbon but other charcoals can have crap added to it. Self-starting charcoal is not something you should be eating.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:27
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Happened to a friend of mine. Took too many caffeine pills pulling all-nighters studying for finals. Said initially that drinking the suspension was the most horrible thing ever but changed her tune the next day when she went through an entire 24-pack of toilet paper My dog ate some chocolate, so the vet gave him activated charcoal after purging his stomach. The next day, dog does the butt scoot across the carpet and draws a line with his butthole. ONE WEIRD TRICK to turn your dog's rear end in a top hat into a pencil! #walla
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Sep 15, 2015 16:27
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flosofl posted:So, it works to an extent, but not as well as activated charcoal. But it's much cheaper and easier to find in a store. You can get activated charcoal at pet stores for use in fish tank filtration - I wouldn't eat the stuff but keeping an open carton in the fridge is basically magical.
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Sep 15, 2015 17:27
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QuelleFuck posted:My dog ate some chocolate, so the vet gave him activated charcoal after purging his stomach. The next day, dog does the butt scoot across the carpet and draws a line with his butthole. It would be cruel, but I'd love to see an artist exploit this somehow
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Sep 15, 2015 17:34
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Hello I loosely read this thread and interpreted it as a recommendation to eat a big bag of charcoal because it gives you powers. Well I did and now I am very ill and suing everyone in this thread for malpractice thank you for understa
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Sep 15, 2015 17:37
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netally posted:Has anyone pointed out yet that gnocchi is made from potatoes? Reshaping a food doesn't turn it into another food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX128MzM64s He used to post on SA too and totally used SA to rig the Australia TV awards.
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Sep 15, 2015 17:45
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Yum, disgusting pasty potato balls. LifeHack##
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Sep 15, 2015 18:00
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FutonForensic posted:Hello I loosely read this thread and interpreted it as a recommendation to eat a big bag of charcoal because it gives you powers. Well I did and now I am very ill and suing everyone in this thread for malpractice thank you for understa You don't eat charcoal, you eyeball it.
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Sep 15, 2015 18:21
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Since I guess we're doing charcoal hacks: The best activated carbon for gas adsorption at cryogenic temperatures is the stuff you make yourself. Simply take coconut husks and heat to 800C in an oxygen-free environment. Walla! #cryostathacks
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Sep 15, 2015 20:01
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 LifeHack: Instead of just moving the power cables to the poo poo you take away from your kids, go buy things to put on them! Bonus points when something possibly bad happens if they try to plug it in with the lock still around it.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:17
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You're thinking about this wrong. LifeHack: One weird trick to get around your mom's mean punishment with just two carefully-placed forks!
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Sep 15, 2015 21:32
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flosofl posted:It's the sodium bicarbonate. It will react with things that are strongly acidic (like bad food odors). But it will also react to water and crust over, so it's not terribly effective. This might be really dumb but I never understood the baking soda in the fridge thing. Let's assume that it really does work. Isn't it just absorbing the odors that whatever is making the odor is putting off? Why wouldn't you just remove/clean whatever is making the odor?
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Sep 15, 2015 21:35
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MindlessHavok posted:This might be really dumb but I never understood the baking soda in the fridge thing. Let's assume that it really does work. Isn't it just absorbing the odors that whatever is making the odor is putting off? Some odors linger, but yeah removing and then cleaning would probably do the trick.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:43
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MindlessHavok posted:This might be really dumb but I never understood the baking soda in the fridge thing. Let's assume that it really does work. Isn't it just absorbing the odors that whatever is making the odor is putting off? When I worked at a ballpark we would go through ~1500 hamburgers, ~2000 Hebrew Nationals and somewhere around 500-800 pieces of chicken every week just at my buffet area. At the end of the week the grounds crew would come in and power wash everything clean, but in between then there are just odors that build up when you have that much raw meat being stored in an area. Not to mention things like 5 pound buckets of sauerkraut and onions.
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Sep 15, 2015 23:22
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Danyull posted:
That's also kinda pointless since most electronics have power cables you can switch out apart from like a TV?
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Sep 15, 2015 23:44
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Also, why not just take away the device in question instead of taking away the charging cord? Or is this meant to be some stealth punishment when the kid goes to charge their stuff and realizes it's, uh, "locked up"?
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Sep 16, 2015 00:45
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oopsie rock posted:Also, why not just take away the device in question instead of taking away the charging cord? Or is this meant to be some stealth punishment when the kid goes to charge their stuff and realizes it's, uh, "locked up"? If you try to take their iphone they might argue, so this way they can avoid confrontation.
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oopsie rock posted:Also, why not just take away the device in question instead of taking away the charging cord? Or is this meant to be some stealth punishment when the kid goes to charge their stuff and realizes it's, uh, "locked up"? That looks like it's actually the power cord to something like a TV or game console. Except for laptops, most device chargers seem to have a separate USB cord and wall plug. Though if that really is a laptop charger, good luck loving your kid over if their computer dies when they need internet access for school.
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Danyull posted:
My parents did this kind of non-confrontantional bullshit all the time and I grew to genuinely hate them so much that I haven't visited them in around a decade. Now that I think about it, that was probably their plan all along. I got lifehacked.
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Sep 16, 2015 03:40
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http://youtu.be/_RtS2m48DdU
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:My parents did this kind of non-confrontantional bullshit all the time and I grew to genuinely hate them so much that I haven't visited them in around a decade. Now that I think about it, that was probably their plan all along. I got lifehacked. That kind of punishment is one of the quintessential stupid punishments that doesn't help but every parent or wannabe parent thinks it's a great loving idea. How many kids with lovely parents use the Internet or their games as a coping mechanism to deal with having lovely parents and just get more upset when it's taken away from them? poo poo, how many kids are actually slacking or misbehaving because they have entertainment to distract them? Chances are taking away their stuff isn't going to do anything to make them a harder worker because they have some other underlying reason why they're behaving in a way that you don't want.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:My parents did this kind of non-confrontantional bullshit all the time and I grew to genuinely hate them so much that I haven't visited them in around a decade. Now that I think about it, that was probably their plan all along. I got lifehacked. Your parents took away your toys so you shunned them? Wow.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:When I worked at a ballpark we would go through ~1500 hamburgers, ~2000 Hebrew Nationals and somewhere around 500-800 pieces of chicken every week just at my buffet area. I just want to mention how strange this sentence looked until I googled it and found out that "Hebrew Nationals" is a type of kosher hot dog.
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Sep 16, 2015 17:48
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SiKboy posted:I just want to mention how strange this sentence looked until I googled it and found out that "Hebrew Nationals" is a type of kosher hot dog. And they're delicious, too.
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Sep 16, 2015 18:12
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SiKboy posted:I just want to mention how strange this sentence looked until I googled it and found out that "Hebrew Nationals" is a type of kosher hot dog. Is it skinless?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:Is it skinless? Just the tip.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:When I worked at a ballpark we would go through ~1500 hamburgers, ~2000 Hebrew Nationals and somewhere around 500-800 pieces of chicken every week just at my buffet area. At the end of the week the grounds crew would come in and power wash everything clean, but in between then there are just odors that build up when you have that much raw meat being stored in an area. Not to mention things like 5 pound buckets of sauerkraut and onions. Well okay fine yeah for a ballpark fridge but I'm talking about a normal household fridge. I guess I've just never had a problem with fridge odors and I've been living on my own for 14 years. If something smelled in the fridge it was identified and thrown away. I guess maybe because I've always lived in apartments with new/newer appliances so I never really had to deal with lingering smells from an older fridge.
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