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I wouldn't be surprised if the Self Surgery fad was down to people imitating stunts on TV shows and movies (like Arrow) where a character will just dig a bullet out of their shoulder with a knife and stitch it with a piece of bent wire, trying (and failing) to look bad-rear end.
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BioEnchanted posted:I wouldn't be surprised if the Self Surgery fad was down to people imitating stunts on TV shows and movies (like Arrow) where a character will just dig a bullet out of their shoulder with a knife and stitch it with a piece of bent wire, trying (and failing) to look bad-rear end. I think it's more that the body-mod community is insane and self destructive
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Feb 15, 2016 16:57
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Choco1980 posted:Oh boy! Cracked's run another Life Hack Photoplasty today! Who the gently caress has a working refrigerator from the 1980s?
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Feb 15, 2016 17:03
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My grandparents.
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Aphrodite posted:My grandparents. That's kinda impressive. Is it their main fridge or is it in the basement or garage as a spare for beer and nightcrawlers, etc.?
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Feb 15, 2016 17:09
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lmao at the collections one. that was probably true until about 2010 at the latest. I spend literally all of my work day preparing documents to take collections accounts to court. This includes the entire account history, from the application to chargeoff notice.
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BioEnchanted posted:I wouldn't be surprised if the Self Surgery fad was down to people imitating stunts on TV shows and movies (like Arrow) where a character will just dig a bullet out of their shoulder with a knife and stitch it with a piece of bent wire, trying (and failing) to look bad-rear end. Turns out you need pliers or a scalpel!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leiOab1d0hw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE7dSySjOwY
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Feb 15, 2016 17:16
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Karma Monkey posted:That's kinda impressive. Is it their main fridge or is it in the basement or garage as a spare for beer and nightcrawlers, etc.? They keep it in the garage as a spare for pickles. (My grandfather loves pickles, he buys restaurant supply barrels and keeps them in there.)
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Choco1980 posted:Oh boy! Cracked's run another Life Hack Photoplasty today! lol just use one credit card to pay off the other in an endless ouroboros of bad credit until you die! Nothing could possibly go wrong from idiots taking financial advice from a 20-word jpeg provided by an anonymous rear end in a top hat on a "comedy" website. Life HACK'd
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Feb 15, 2016 17:19
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Choco1980 posted:Oh boy! Cracked's run another Life Hack Photoplasty today! Almost all of those are just "Hey, this advertised service? Use it!" Except for that Freeman-on-the-Land style collection agency advice, lol. bradzilla posted:lmao at the collections one. that was probably true until about 2010 at the latest. I spend literally all of my work day preparing documents to take collections accounts to court. This includes the entire account history, from the application to chargeoff notice. But do those accounts have a gold fringed flag?
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Aphrodite posted:They keep it in the garage as a spare for pickles. Daaawwww, my grampa did the same thing. Old people sure love their pickles.  (He also kept RC Cola and fishing bait in it.)
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Feb 15, 2016 17:23
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speshl guy posted:lol just use one credit card to pay off the other in an endless ouroboros of bad credit until you die! Nothing could possibly go wrong from idiots taking financial advice from a 20-word jpeg provided by an anonymous rear end in a top hat on a "comedy" website. Life HACK'd A balance transfer is a little different than that.
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Feb 15, 2016 17:25
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Aphrodite posted:A balance transfer is a little different than that. Right, I'm questioning who the intended target of this life hack was. If you have a ton of credit card debt and are just now learning about balance transfers from a photoshop life hack article, chances are you're not going to do it right, or even be capable of qualifying for a low-interest card.
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Feb 15, 2016 17:39
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Wow, this whole time I've been having Amazon deliver poo poo to my house for free when I could have been driving across town and paying sales tax to get it from Walmart.
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Choco1980 posted:Oh boy! Cracked's run another Life Hack Photoplasty today!
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Karma Monkey posted:Daaawwww, my grampa did the same thing. Old people sure love their pickles. That's because pickles are the poo poo.
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Feb 15, 2016 17:58
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Save on groceries by buying food and then eating it!
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Found a few great ones on Cracked that might get someone killed.  South. Halfway between the hour hand and the 12 is south, Cracked. (amid falling debris, abandons the doorway in a load-bearing wall to dive under a card table)   What does that even MEAN?
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What I want to know is how they even theoretically qualify as humourous and/or photoshops. Are they supposed to be intentionally bad, and that's the humour?
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AlphaKretin posted:What I want to know is how they even theoretically qualify as humourous and/or photoshops. Are they supposed to be intentionally bad, and that's the humour? yes
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Feb 15, 2016 19:06
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Karma Monkey posted:Who the gently caress has a working refrigerator from the 1980s? People who rent ChickenOfTomorrow has a new favorite as of 22:48 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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bradzilla posted:lmao at the collections one. that was probably true until about 2010 at the latest. I spend literally all of my work day preparing documents to take collections accounts to court. This includes the entire account history, from the application to chargeoff notice. Yeah, I used to work for a collections agency, and while some of our accounts did just come over as a spreadsheet, that was just for the initial contact and requesting payment. If there was even the slightest hint of court, we'd be demanding the invoices from the client before moving on with it.
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Feb 15, 2016 21:52
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Got too many pesky keycards? Just microchip yourself! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7DxVWhFLI6E Not sure if cool or really really dumb. Probably both.
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Major retailers,especially Walmart and Target, will tell you to gently caress straight off if you ask to get something matched to a price on your phone. The only thing they match is a paper ad from another store that you have the right date/amount of items/etc. You even have to have the entire set of ads, front to back. Like, if a cashier tries that the chances of them getting in trouble are huge. I love the "family gives you gift cards instead of trusting you with cash" one. Like, hah your family knows you're a lovely druggie or drunk or something, but they can't quite justify not giving you Christmas gifts. Yet. Scathach has a new favorite as of 00:02 on Feb 16, 2016 |
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on the topic of price matching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YBTM1C70w&hd=1
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Powered Descent posted:
What about the other half way point?
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zedprime posted:That's actually the USGS guidance. Modern structures have load bearing beams or pillars and your most likely doorway in a load bearing wall is going to be the one going outside. Getting under furniture is recommended because even if it crumples you will hopefully be in an air pocket with the majority of your limbs intact. Our local public access station did a piece on this a couple years ago. Apparently standing in a doorway is 19th century advice for people living in adobe homes. If you don't live in a 19th century adobe home, you should probably duck under the table. Or just stay in bed. 
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Powered Descent posted:
Myth busted, get under the table. https://youtu.be/nO9wc1bkM5I
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CommunistPancake posted:on the topic of price matching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YBTM1C70w&hd=1 If you can buy it cheaper somewhere else, why not just buy it at the cheaper place rather than trying to get the more expensive place to price-match? 
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Scathach posted:Major retailers,especially Walmart and Target, will tell you to gently caress straight off if you ask to get something matched to a price on your phone. The only thing they match is a paper ad from another store that you have the right date/amount of items/etc. You even have to have the entire set of ads, front to back. Like, if a cashier tries that the chances of them getting in trouble are huge. You have a lovely Target, then (don't know about Walmart). Every time I've had them price match Amazon or Best Buy or whatever, I've shown them on my phone and then the person at customer service looks it up on their little iPad mini. Same with Best Buy (though usually they have a manager look it up). Edit: Karma Monkey posted:If you can buy it cheaper somewhere else, why not just buy it at the cheaper place rather than trying to get the more expensive place to price-match? Because I don't want to go to three or four stores and/or wait for Amazon to deliver something. If it's more than $5, it's worth both my time and gas money to get them to price match.
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Tax is paying for 0-day shipping and a better return policy in case something's wrong with the item (Amazon has a good policy, but the turnaround time is poo poo)
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Paying for overnight shipping from Amazon is cheaper than paying sales tax so price matching is basically always a waste.
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Magnus Praeda posted:Because I don't want to go to three or four stores and/or wait for Amazon to deliver something. If it's more than $5, it's worth both my time and gas money to get them to price match. Or you want to buy from some place that has better return policies than the low-priced store.
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Life hack: live in a state with no sales tax. On second thought, stay in your own state. Oregon sucks and is ugly.
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Best Buy price-matching Amazon has saved me a few times when I needed something right then and there and couldn't wait a day or two for Prime shipping. And it's smart for them because they know people just use them as a showroom and order it off Amazon since it's cheaper, may as well get some business out of it even it eats into that profit margin.
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BioEnchanted posted:I wouldn't be surprised if the Self Surgery fad was down to people imitating stunts on TV shows and movies (like Arrow) where a character will just dig a bullet out of their shoulder with a knife and stitch it with a piece of bent wire, trying (and failing) to look bad-rear end. I wouldn't think that while you're in horrible pain is the best time to go about the delicate business of cutting yourself open and then stitching it closed, you know, but suture self.
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Xun posted:Got too many pesky keycards? Just microchip yourself! I have one of these. Well, mine is NFC. Right now it doesn't do anything rad (I think it links to a YouTube video of the theme to Space Jam), but when my better half and I buy a home I plan on putting in one of those NFC locks so I don't need a key. So yes, both. Stupid and cool. I also didn't install it myself like a lunatic.
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Doctor_Acula posted:I have one of these. Well, mine is NFC. Right now it doesn't do anything rad (I think it links to a YouTube video of the theme to Space Jam), but when my better half and I buy a home I plan on putting in one of those NFC locks so I don't need a key. This is the stupidest possible cyberpunk future
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Zemyla posted:I wouldn't think that while you're in horrible pain is the best time to go about the delicate business of cutting yourself open and then stitching it closed, you know, but suture self. omigod
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