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This one kept coming up on the youtube sidebar and its not only ways to hack your life but things youve been doing wrong! Like, you know spending money or eatnig baloney sandwiches without baloney in every bite like a sucker. What sold me though was the preview image I couldnt bear to watch the whole thing so I don't know if the questions raised by that image are ever answered
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rydiafan posted:How the gently caress are electronics sold without the cable attached in any place except the 1960s Soviet Union? Did you people buy cars without steering wheels and axles too? It's an insane thing they did in Britain. The appliance came with the power cord, just no plug. https://youtu.be/UEfP1OKKz_Q
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Oct 1, 2016 06:02
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This must have never happened in America because I've bought plenty of 40s and 50s electrical poo poo to sell to collectors and they all had original obviously not amateur installed cords.
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Oct 1, 2016 06:43
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Because those are the only items that survived the fires
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Oct 1, 2016 07:20
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Tiggum posted:Clean your saucepans. Shut up and hack bro.
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Oct 1, 2016 07:27
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:This one kept coming up on the youtube sidebar and its not only ways to hack your life but things youve been doing wrong! Like, you know spending money or eatnig baloney sandwiches without baloney in every bite like a sucker. What sold me though was the preview image Vicious morningwood. I prefer the superman. 
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Oct 1, 2016 07:46
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AlmightyBob posted:This must have never happened in America because I've bought plenty of 40s and 50s electrical poo poo to sell to collectors and they all had original obviously not amateur installed cords. How the gently caress would anyone be able to tell?
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Oct 1, 2016 19:18
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I have a hand held blender that was made in the DDR and it has a perfectly fine plug? Is this some kind of miserable Briton inside joke?
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Oct 1, 2016 20:52
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Sentient Data posted:Sounds like you never bought a dryer. At least they have eyes instead of just raw cable now
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Oct 1, 2016 21:21
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Non Serviam posted:It's an insane thing they did in Britain. The appliance came with the power cord, just no plug. Whilst we're doing PlugChat, I remember my grandparents and parents having a bunch of appliances with two-pronged European plugs instead of the three-pronged safer plugs as demonstrated in the video. For reasons demonstrated in the video, you can't just leave the top prong empty, so from a very young age I was taught to switch off the plug socket, jam a cake fork or teaspoon handle into the third, top (i.e. earth) prong, and then put the plug in. I suspect it was because we didn't have any British plugs, and it eas easier to randomly shove cutlery into sockets than buy new appliances and fit plugs to them all.
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Oct 1, 2016 23:47
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Lady Demelza posted:Whilst we're doing PlugChat, I remember my grandparents and parents having a bunch of appliances with two-pronged European plugs instead of the three-pronged safer plugs as demonstrated in the video. For reasons demonstrated in the video, you can't just leave the top prong empty, so from a very young age I was taught to switch off the plug socket, jam a cake fork or teaspoon handle into the third, top (i.e. earth) prong, and then put the plug in. My dad had some import German sceletrix that we had to do this to use. Whenever we got it out it was "never ever do this" and then proceed to jam a screwdriver in the earth terminal before plugging in the power pack. I'm a bit perplexed why. He's the sort of man that will take a home-country multiboard and replace the plug with a a foreign country plug when he goes on holiday so he doesn't need to use 5 dodgy adapters that all drop the earth pin. (Thats a decent lifehack there)
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Oct 2, 2016 00:01
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Rysithusiku posted:Vicious morningwood. I prefer the superman. Jeremy you are going to fall off the toilet what the gently caress are you doing
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Throatwarbler posted:I have a hand held blender that was made in the DDR and it has a perfectly fine plug? Is this some kind of miserable Briton inside joke? Remember, this is what British sinks are like 
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Throatwarbler posted:I have a hand held blender that was made in the DDR and it has a perfectly fine plug? Is this some kind of miserable Briton inside joke? The DDR? Do you have to stomp on arrows to get it to work?
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Oct 2, 2016 08:23
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It's a simple pattern, though, just Up, Left, Down, Right.
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Oct 2, 2016 09:02
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I'm pretty sure you can't sell appliances in the UK without a plug anymore. Granted that law was only introduced in the early 90's, so it was fairly recent.
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:
I always presumed that the best, most unapologetic, and most intuatively satisfying part of being a dude was the convenience of pissing out of the wiener. Sure, no one has pooped correctly since we lived in caves and our diets are all wrong now and basically everything that's come after the invention of language and civilization is not ideal, but surely waving the dong around while peeing is still right, right?
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Oct 2, 2016 20:05
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You have never experienced freedom until you have peed cartwheeling.
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--Trump, 2016
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Oct 2, 2016 20:24
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Veotax posted:I'm pretty sure you can't sell appliances in the UK without a plug anymore. Granted that law was only introduced in the early 90's, so it was fairly recent. 26 years ago. Fairly recent.
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Oct 2, 2016 21:48
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sidewalk gum posted:26 years ago. Fairly recent. As you get older, years become shorter.
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Oct 2, 2016 21:50
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sidewalk gum posted:26 years ago. Fairly recent. I have sweaters older than that 
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Oct 3, 2016 00:38
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Wanamingo posted:Remember, this is what British sinks are like Eh, it's pretty old fashioned for a US sink, but not something I haven't seen here in this country. Makes sense really, I like it.
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Oct 3, 2016 00:47
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Choco1980 posted:Eh, it's pretty old fashioned for a US sink, but not something I haven't seen here in this country. Makes sense really, I like it. Well I'd never seen it in the US, and I hate it. Even worse than the fact they're a thousand yards apart is the fact that they stick out like half an inch from the side of the sink. I hope you like rubbing your hands all over the back of the sink as you alternate between scalding them and freezing them. Here's a lifehack; pee is sterile, so instead of using the abomination that is the british sink, just piss on your hands like a animal!
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Oct 3, 2016 01:04
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Crust First posted:Well I'd never seen it in the US, and I hate it. Even worse than the fact they're a thousand yards apart is the fact that they stick out like half an inch from the side of the sink. I hope you like rubbing your hands all over the back of the sink as you alternate between scalding them and freezing them. You fill the bowl with water and then wash your hands in the bowl.
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Oct 3, 2016 02:19
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El Estrago Bonito posted:You fill the bowl with water and then wash your hands in the bowl. That sounds like a huge waste of water...
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Oct 3, 2016 02:42
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Trebek posted:I think you guys are missing a real gem from this video. Tired of having to constantly check the oven to see if your food is ready? Simply tape your cell phone to the front of the oven and then facetime it from your laptop. Now you can monitor your food remotely and free yourself up to do other things. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't done that to keep en eye on whether water was boiling.
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Oct 3, 2016 03:12
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El Estrago Bonito posted:You fill the bowl with water and then wash your hands in the bowl. Yeah but then people steal the plug and everything is terrible forever
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Oct 3, 2016 03:35
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Zipperelli. posted:That sounds like a huge waste of water... Yeah, but it keeps dead rats out of the cold water. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1034808366965148988 quote:Older British homes often have storage tanks in their attics that feed water heaters. Under certain conditions, those tanks could be contaminated -- for instance, by the intrusion of a rat -- and tainted hot water that flows into a mixer tap might get sucked into a cold-water pipe leading back to the public water supply, endangering the whole neighborhood.
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Oct 3, 2016 03:41
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Crust First posted:Here's a lifehack; pee is sterile, so instead of using the abomination that is the british sink, just piss on your hands like a animal! El Estrago Bonito posted:You fill the bowl with water and then wash your hands in the bowl. Piss into the sink! not only will it save water when washing your hands but the sink is at waist height making for a more ergonomic piss.
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Oct 3, 2016 04:33
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Choco1980 posted:Makes sense really, I like it. What's good about it? What's the actual advantage over a single tap?
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Oct 3, 2016 05:11
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What's the actual reason for those super short faucets that barely reach the sink? All of the sinks at work are like that and it makes it impossible to wash your hands because there's nowhere for your hands to go.
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Oct 3, 2016 05:23
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Trebek posted:I think you guys are missing a real gem from this video. Tired of having to constantly check the oven to see if your food is ready? Simply tape your cell phone to the front of the oven and then facetime it from your laptop. Now you can monitor your food remotely and free yourself up to do other things. Actual FaceTime (nice autocorrect) lifehack: one time my ex and I got back to her house when she realized she had forgotten her house key on the kitchen counter. The door from the garage into the kitchen was locked as well, but there was a cat flap. She went to the other side of the house where there was a window looking into the kitchen, and I used a mop handle to knock the keys off the counter onto the floor where I could reach them like a animal. Walla!
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Oct 3, 2016 06:39
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:What's the actual reason for those super short faucets that barely reach the sink? All of the sinks at work are like that and it makes it impossible to wash your hands because there's nowhere for your hands to go. Fake answer: safety precaution so you can't scald your entire hand. (probable) Real answer: post war rationing. If it's in England, poo poo, and has been poo poo for a while, the most likely culprit is post-war rationing.
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Oct 3, 2016 08:49
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Zipperelli. posted:That sounds like a huge waste of water... The UK is not California water conservation is not really necessary outside of the South East and that's only because of poorly maintained water infrastructure.
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Horse Clocks posted:Fake answer: safety precaution so you can't scald your entire hand. That might explain it if it was just old taps in England, but it's more recent taps in other countries as well.
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Oct 3, 2016 10:16
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It's a meme.
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Oct 3, 2016 10:18
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Karate Bastard posted:It's a meme. And not the funny kind, but the Metal Gear Solid kind you can only talk about with a voice that sounds like you had whiskey on the literal rocks for lunch.
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Oct 3, 2016 10:29
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CharlieWhiskey posted:It's been a while since the last time I did electrolysis in chemistry class, but is the water only boiling at the end? Or is O2 + H2 being released? Or is it an AC/DC thing? AC is not effective at electrolysis. It’s just boiling.
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Pee into empty water and gatorade bottles to save the time you would use walking all the way to your bathroom. Remember to keep bottles separate and labeled if possible
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