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Tiggum posted:I don't know about you, but my house contains about a dozen battery-powered devices that make light. And that's not even including actual torches. My apartment doesn't. I can use the back-light on my cell phone to walk around without tripping on sofas and such-like but it doesn't provide enough light to actually do anything. Torches, of course, are great for finding your way but they're not really any good as lighting fixtures.
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Karate Bastard posted:We had a blackout recently, and the Internet went out. It was terrible. It was great for the forums, though.
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That's all fine and good but I'm fairly sure you can't eat your battery powered devices off the floor like an animal, you piece of poo poo. Butter candles are clearly superior. I bet you could even work a chopstick in there if you didn't have any TP.
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Sep 6, 2016 14:24
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A animal.
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Sep 6, 2016 14:30
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Over the weekend I was sitting around my friend's fire pit when I remembered an episode of Survivorman. I can personally tell you that Doritos burn very slowly and I imagine would be very effective for a match replacement.
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Sep 6, 2016 14:32
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Cheeotes burn like motherfuckers. Calories are just how good something is at heating a gram of water a degree Celsius, so a dried greasy high calorie snack will do in place of a match. I'm not sure what determines how long it will burn though.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:04
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Warbird posted:Cheeotes burn like motherfuckers. Calories are just how good something is at heating a gram of water a degree Celsius, so a dried greasy high calorie snack will do in place of a match. I'm not sure what determines how long it will burn though. Yeah, we tried a cheeto and a wheat thin too. Wheat Thins are not good snacks for emergency fire
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Sep 6, 2016 15:06
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Plenty calories in a jug of gasoline I hear.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:25
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In the event of an emergency, burn your food! Walla!
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Sep 6, 2016 15:31
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Jerry Cotton posted:No-one should appropriate chopsticks because they are objectively inferior to cutlery in every way. I'd like to see you eat cheetos with a knife and fork.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:42
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Dareon posted:I'd like to see you eat cheetos with a knife and fork. You would not like to do that.
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Sep 6, 2016 15:44
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Jerry Cotton posted:You would not like to do that. You don't know my fetishes, man. Seriously, they're out of control, please help 
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Sep 6, 2016 15:46
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Chopsticks should only be used to eat sushi, cheetos and small pickles out of a jar.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:02
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Master Twig posted:Chopsticks should only be used to eat sushi Wow, how uneducated. Here's a video to show you all the true facts about sushi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDL8yu34fz0&t=228s
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Sep 6, 2016 16:09
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CharlieWhiskey posted:In the event of an emergency, burn your food! Walla! I think the valiant sacrifice of one cheeto to start a fire is good and cool. Or you could just go back downstairs to the basement where everything is safe
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Sep 6, 2016 16:13
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Jerry Cotton posted:My apartment doesn't. I can use the back-light on my cell phone to walk around without tripping on sofas and such-like but it doesn't provide enough light to actually do anything. Torches, of course, are great for finding your way but they're not really any good as lighting fixtures. Funnily enough, last time we had a blackout I actually used a life hack that worked. Take a bottle or gallon of water, put a flashlight next to it (you can just lay it down next to the water), it reflects light and basically becomes a lantern. But then again, that's the opposite of what this thread is about. So instead I drilled a hole in the side of my water jug and put a sponge in there and tied the whole thing up with a bread clip.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:49
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:Funnily enough, last time we had a blackout I actually used a life hack that worked. Take a bottle or gallon of water, put a flashlight next to it (you can just lay it down next to the water), it reflects light and basically becomes a lantern. But then again, that's the opposite of what this thread is about. Or... just light a few candles. (Also since I never buy soft drinks* for myself, I very seldom have any empty clear bottles around the house. I supposed I could get some for just that purposes. Or I could keep some candles.) *) I do realize I'm very much in the minority here on this forum.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:56
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Dareon posted:I'd like to see you eat cheetos with a knife and fork.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:56
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zedprime posted:You can eat cheetos with a spoon. Just saying. You can eat almost anything except näkkileipä with a spoon.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Or... just light a few candles. (Also since I never buy soft drinks* for myself, I very seldom have any empty clear bottles around the house. I supposed I could get some for just that purposes. Or I could keep some candles.) A bottle of water smugass.
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Sep 6, 2016 17:01
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Jerry Cotton posted:You can eat almost anything except näkkileipä with a spoon. I've never tried eating your mom with a spoon, good to know
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Jerry Cotton posted:Or... just light a few candles. (Also since I never buy soft drinks* for myself, I very seldom have any empty clear bottles around the house. I supposed I could get some for just that purposes. Or I could keep some candles.) Doesn't have to be soda. Plastic milk jugs or a clear glass would do the same thing. It gives way more light all over the room than candles do. Jerry Cotton posted:You can eat almost anything except näkkileipä with a spoon. A spoon is just a small shovel. I eat butter with a trowel (when I'm not using it as a candle).
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Sentient Data posted:And if the power is out for an extended period of time, it's the perfect opportunity to start freezing something I mean, that's not the stupid part. non-stupid lifehack: keep butter (especially unsalted) in the freezer so it never goes rancid
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Sep 6, 2016 17:18
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I was trying to find other people who shared my view on spoons when I found this diagnosis hack instead. Truly a spoon is the greatest modern invention.
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Sep 6, 2016 17:23
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:Doesn't have to be soda. Plastic milk jugs or a clear glass would do the same thing. It gives way more light all over the room than candles do. The only thing sold in clear bottles here are soft drinks. Or water, of course, but since I use the ultimate LIFE HACK of paying proper taxes (i.e. tap water is potable) and living in an area actually fit for human habitation* (i.e. there's plenty of water to pump through said tap) I never have to buy bottled water. * This life hack of course was used by my ancestors.
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FFT posted:I've kept any unopened sticks of butter in the freezer for my entire adult life, though? That's almost weirder than when I opened my friend's fridge to grab a drink and found a plastic tub full of batteries. Lifehack, put things places they don't need to go so they'll last longer, probably?!
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Sep 6, 2016 17:24
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Life hack: keep your batteries in the freezer so they hurt more when you whip them at someone's head.
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Crust First posted:That's almost weirder than when I opened my friend's fridge to grab a drink and found a plastic tub full of batteries. Its kind of more useful for lithium batteries unless you buy those big box store batteries and have to use 200 in 10 years.
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zedprime posted:I was trying to find other people who shared my view on spoons when I found this diagnosis hack instead. Truly a spoon is the greatest modern invention. Hahaha, that test just tells whether you've been using mouthwash and brushing your teeth properly. There's no correlation between mouth bacteria and anything other than the rest of your mouth. Not to mention that 60 seconds isn't long enough to culture anything. On a related note, you can eat näkkileipä with a spoon, it's just crackers man. Sure it's a little awkward, but anything that can be cut or broken into bite size pieces can be eaten with a spoon... So, anything that humans eat and more than a few things they don't.
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Butter goes rancid but it doesn't really go off big time stylee because it doesn't have much water, so mold can't really grow on it. I forgot a stick (why isn't it a bar by the way?) of butter on top of the fridge for four days in Summer and under the discoloured and nasty layer, which was about a centimeter thick, it was fine. Didn't taste or smell the nasty-looking bit so it being rancid was just an educated guess. I was mostly surprised the whole thing hadn't melted 
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Iron Crowned posted:I think the valiant sacrifice of one cheeto to start a fire is good and cool. Or you could just go back downstairs to the basement where everything is safe Yes, I'm afraid to go outside and burn snacks, you're so brave 
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Jerry Cotton posted:The only thing sold in clear bottles here are soft drinks. Or water, of course, but since I use the ultimate LIFE HACK of paying proper taxes (i.e. tap water is potable) and living in an area actually fit for human habitation* (i.e. there's plenty of water to pump through said tap) I never have to buy bottled water. Do you ever post about anything but your desperate need to feel better than other people. Literally link me one post where you weren't just making GBS threads your insecurities on the floor and rolling around in them.
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Sep 6, 2016 17:35
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LIFE HACK: The forums have an ignore function you loving bucket.
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Jerry Cotton posted:LIFE HACK: The forums have an ignore function you loving bucket. You seem extremely triggered. Is it because you couldn't find one?
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I've used white gas to get soggy wood burning in a blizzard and it worked very well. No cheetos required.
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Jerry Cotton posted:The only thing sold in clear bottles here are soft drinks. Or water, of course, but since I use the ultimate LIFE HACK of paying proper taxes (i.e. tap water is potable) and living in an area actually fit for human habitation* (i.e. there's plenty of water to pump through said tap) I never have to buy bottled water. You don't want clear anyway, translucent works best for scattering the light. I've seen it done with a white plastic bag or bucket too. Anything that will scatter a narrow beam into a glowy blob.  
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Lifehack: Don't take poo poo so personal. Also, enjoy a light non serious comedy thread. Barring that:Jerry Cotton posted:LIFE HACK: The forums have an ignore function you loving bucket.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Butter goes rancid but it doesn't really go off big time stylee because it doesn't have much water, so mold can't really grow on it. I forgot a stick (why isn't it a bar by the way?) of butter on top of the fridge for four days in Summer and under the discoloured and nasty layer, which was about a centimeter thick, it was fine. Didn't taste or smell the nasty-looking bit so it being rancid was just an educated guess. Have you never heard of a butter dish?
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Karate Bastard posted:In my elementary cigarettes were banned so we had to make do with rolled up paper tubes. When I was a kid, smokers had to walk across the street instead of smoking behind the smoking shed. Only underage smokers got the shed privileges.
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big mean giraffe posted:Have you never heard of a butter dish? Is that, like, an ugly dish in a set of nice looking dishes?
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