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Ah! gently caress! That hot glue gun 'hack' is terrifying! As someone that has had third-degree burns from hot glue, just go buy an actual glue gun for like 5$.
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pulp rag posted:Ah! gently caress! That hot glue gun 'hack' is terrifying! As someone that has had third-degree burns from hot glue, just go buy an actual glue gun for like 5$. For real. Hacks like that are only good if you're somewhere that has all those things but no stores or internet and your time is literally worth nothing because so many of these hacks take more time and effort than the thing is worth.
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Apr 11, 2016 21:46
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What makes the stupid "saw" one even worse is that it's a hack saw blade.
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Apr 11, 2016 21:50
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Karma Monkey posted:For real. Hacks like that are only good if you're somewhere that has all those things but no stores or internet and your time is literally worth nothing because so many of these hacks take more time and effort than the thing is worth. Said the man who spends his time looking at life hacks he isn't even going to use! Checkmate, athestits 
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Apr 11, 2016 21:51
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DrBouvenstein posted:What makes the stupid "saw" one even worse is that it's a hack saw blade. There's been plenty of times I wished I had a pocket hack saw. Of course I wouldn't carry around a pocket hack saw exactly as I wouldn't carry around a pocket knife so that's a moot point I guess 
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Apr 11, 2016 21:53
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I on the other hand have a sudden craving for cubic yards of curly PET strips. brb
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Apr 11, 2016 21:53
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Anyone with cats will tell you that tooth brush one is pants-on-head stupid.
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Apr 11, 2016 22:06
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Kwyndig posted:Oh come on, who doesn't carry around two new toothbrushes with them at all times in case their bike chain needs lubing or cleaning or whatever the gently caress that guy was doing?
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Apr 11, 2016 22:07
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Kwyndig posted:I like how one of these is just straight up how to break into something secured with a cheap padlock. That's not really a lifehack, more of a potential crime. Lifehack:
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Apr 11, 2016 22:37
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Improbable Lobster posted:Lifehack:
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Apr 11, 2016 23:42
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Jerry Cotton posted:Said the man who spends his time looking at life hacks he isn't even going to use! Checkmate, athestits Ha! I get paid by the government to look at life hacks I'm not going to use. As long as my boss isn't around. 
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Karate Bastard posted:I on the other hand have a sudden craving for cubic yards of curly PET strips. Boy howdy, do I have the kickstarter for you  .https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/910418035/plastic-bottle-cutter
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Jerry Cotton posted:There's been plenty of times I wished I had a pocket hack saw. Of course I wouldn't carry around a pocket hack saw exactly as I wouldn't carry around a pocket knife so that's a moot point I guess The point is that hacksaw blades don’t really work when they aren’t under tension. Tiberius Thyben posted:Boy howdy, do I have the kickstarter for you quote:for car towing 
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Apr 12, 2016 02:48
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Scathach posted:Anyone with cats will tell you that tooth brush one is pants-on-head stupid. You use your cat to clean your bike chain?
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Apr 12, 2016 03:33
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Cats eat toothbrush bristles. The ones that don't usually like to rub their heads against them or bat them with their paws.
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Jerry Cotton posted:There's been plenty of times I wished I had a pocket hack saw. Of course I wouldn't carry around a pocket hack saw exactly as I wouldn't carry around a pocket knife so that's a moot point I guess I was going to yell at you about this because how do you think "that would be really useful but I would never do it because I have already developed an opinion about people who have a pocket knife" but then I realized that I feel the same way about cell phones. E: not that there's anything wrong with having / using a phone but holy poo poo is it annoying to go out to dinner and sitting there while everyone under 35 or so looks at their phone the entire time and most of the conversation is "hey do you want to get in my snapchat picture" "oh look we made the city story" lifehack: interact with other humans in the physical space walla titties has a new favorite as of 04:37 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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Combine several lovely lifehacks into a single gif that plays too fast to really see any of them properly. Lifehack!
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Apr 12, 2016 04:42
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zedprime posted:It must have been this thread where I told the story about the kid in middle school who could open Master Locks with a shoe. Best not to pretend any padlock is doing anything protective if it is out of sight and out of earshot. Master locks are the worst. There's a guy on youtube (bosnianbill if you want to look him up) who has gotten several angry letters from Master Lock telling him to stop making fun of them for being so easy to open. And even Master locks are made of hardened steel, there is no way you'd ever pry open anything but the cheapest dollar store padlock using two wrenches. I mean I guess, if you're a teenager and you lost the key to your diary or something, but this won't work on any lock that's actually being used to secure something valuable.
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titties posted:I was going to yell at you about this because how do you think "that would be really useful but I would never do it because I have already developed an opinion about people who have a pocket knife" but then I realized that I feel the same way about cell phones. gently caress off grandpa. Sorry that there aren't as many conversations for you to listen in on while you eat your porridge or whatever.
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Apr 12, 2016 04:51
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as someone who loving loves eavesdropping, todays youth bores and angers me
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Improbable Lobster posted:gently caress off grandpa. Sorry that there aren't as many conversations for you to listen in on while you eat your porridge or whatever. Are you even capable of looking another person in the eye
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titties posted:I was going to yell at you about this because how do you think "that would be really useful but I would never do it because I have already developed an opinion about people who have a pocket knife" but then I realized that I feel the same way about cell phones. If you want someone to interact with you, try being interesting enough that they don't look for entertainment elsewhere.
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Apr 12, 2016 06:54
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What a lifehack! 
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LIFEHACK: If Screaming Idiot is having a meltdown challenge him to a competition. You will attempt to tie him up with increasingly powerful chains and if he fails to break out of one he loses. You may need to allow him to have one of Literally a Bird's wings in his mouth as insurance however.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Boy howdy, do I have the kickstarter for you That's so hot 
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Rysithusiku posted:You use your cat to clean your bike chain? Occasionally. Don't judge me 
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zedprime posted:It must have been this thread where I told the story about the kid in middle school who could open Master Locks with a shoe. Best not to pretend any padlock is doing anything protective if it is out of sight and out of earshot. There are plenty of padlocks widely available at a reasonable* price good enough to make people rather go through a wall than try to break or bypass them in any manner. (We had a lot of break-ins at a previous job due to storing a lot of machinery and gas in semi-secluded locations.) *) Assuming you have something actually worth protecting with it. I wouldn't pay forty euros to lock up my wood shed.
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Platystemon posted:The point is that hacksaw blades don’t really work when they aren’t under tension. Yes they do. If you've never had to saw through a bolt or hasp or something with just a broken blade and some jesus tape to protect your hand I don't know what to tell you except it works just fine. It's not very pleasant or fast but it'll do the job.
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Jerry Cotton posted:There are plenty of padlocks widely available at a reasonable* price good enough to make people rather go through a wall than try to break or bypass them in any manner. (We had a lot of break-ins at a previous job due to storing a lot of machinery and gas in semi-secluded locations.) Of course the wall might be more expensive to repair than replacing the lock
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Apr 12, 2016 08:06
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Lock all the manure in the shed, hide the machinery behind a rock.
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Apr 12, 2016 08:09
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Karate Bastard posted:Lock all the manure in the shed, hide the machinery behind a rock. The junkies were injecting weed behind those rocks before trying to steal the machinery. We'd often find discarded DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, empty canisters (that had most likely previously contained sugar wine), and emptied-out wallets in the wooded areas.
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titties posted:I was going to yell at you about this because how do you think "that would be really useful but I would never do it because I have already developed an opinion about people who have a pocket knife" but then I realized that I feel the same way about cell phones. 
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Apr 12, 2016 08:25
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Another old-timey lifehack to do with social interactions: 
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Build a shed out of padlocks.
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Kuiperdolin posted:Build a shed out of padlocks. Lock it with wood.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Another old-timey lifehack to do with social interactions: Is that nigga cutting off he own fingats? What in God's name for?
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Kuiperdolin posted:Build a shed out of padlocks. And the really lovely ones. It'll take forever for them to brake all of them.
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Jerry Cotton posted:There are plenty of padlocks widely available at a reasonable* price good enough to make people rather go through a wall than try to break or bypass them in any manner. (We had a lot of break-ins at a previous job due to storing a lot of machinery and gas in semi-secluded locations.) The system worked well enough against regular thieves but one day came a crew that did not gently caress around. Those guys had to have some heavy machinery with them because they cut through the crazy padlocks, they destroyed the lock in the door...but they couldn't figure out the rope which was just hanging there by the door so the metal bar stopped them. Upon further inspection my dad found a place where they managed to cut through the metal wall of the shed but they had the bad luck of doing that in a spot where some metal sheets were standing against the wall on the inside so it looked as if there was a second metal wall to cut through so they gave up. With all that a simple metal lever stopped them because it's just something that nobody expects.
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Apr 12, 2016 09:33
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Palpek posted:My dad owned a storage shed with some valuable machines in it that had some hardcore Belarusian padlocks on it (they were the most sturdy things I have seen in my entire life) in addition to a good lock and a metal bar on a hinge that would block the door from the inside. In order to lift the metal bar you had to pull a piece of rope that went through a hole in the wall and hanged outside by the door. Heh, until now 
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Actual life hack: don't have an open electric outlet conveniently placed near your [locked-up thing]. Nothing like paying for the electricity someone uses up to break into your poo poo with an angle grinder.
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