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AlmightyBob: Sep 8, 2003

Perestroika posted:

Your state/country is weird.

nah I've been in retail for a decade and shoplifters bring in big bags

# ? Oct 26, 2016 18:02

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 03:22

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

AlmightyBob posted:

nah I've been in retail for a decade and shoplifters bring in big bags

Shoplifting hack.

# ? Oct 27, 2016 03:09

bongwizzard: May 19, 2005; Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"; Grimey Drawer

Filox posted:

Call your local stores and see if any will let you have some empty freight boxes. A lot stores are willing, you don't have to buy anything, just pick them up and corrugated cardboard makes great tinder. One shopping cart full of flattened boxes is a hell of a lot of tinder.

Due to being a man child with more money than impulse control I have a never ending supply of Amazon shipping boxes. But, I much prefer paper shopping bags to corrugated cardboard for my fire starting needs.

Here's a woodstove life hack for you; Are you lazy and hung over? Did you not get up at 5 AM to throw another log on? If you need to get that fire going quick without a lot of grief, use 2 to 3 self lighting charcoal briquettes. Probably not enough carbon monoxide to kill you, but with a hangover like this, the sweet release of death might be just what you need.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 12:32

Somfin: Oct 25, 2010; In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.; Nap Ghost

experienceBeej posted:

I only carry one-half of a tennis ball in my EDC, from when I cut a tennis ball in half to open a car door. Any idea where I can get a second half?

Manufacture half a tennis ball by melting a shoe in your typical everyday home forge and casting a new one.

Don't have a home forge? Watch this guide for how to turn your oven into a forge. It's fourteen hundred steps long and makes electricians and building inspectors FURIOUS!

# ? Oct 28, 2016 12:38

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

bongwizzard posted:

Due to being a man child with more money than impulse control I have a never ending supply of Amazon shipping boxes. But, I much prefer paper shopping bags to corrugated cardboard for my fire starting needs.

Here's a woodstove life hack for you; Are you lazy and hung over? Did you not get up at 5 AM to throw another log on? If you need to get that fire going quick without a lot of grief, use 2 to 3 self lighting charcoal briquettes. Probably not enough carbon monoxide to kill you, but with a hangover like this, the sweet release of death might be just what you need.

Life hack: have an actually functioning and properly built wood-burning apparatus so you don't need hacks to get a fire started quickly.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 12:38

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

Jerry Cotton posted:

Life hack: have an actually functioning and properly built wood-burning apparatus so you don't need hacks to get a fire started quickly.

Look man some lightly crumpled up newspaper made the best kindling but print is dead so you gotta hack yourself an alternative :colbert:

# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:27

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Shugojin posted:

Look man some lightly crumpled up newspaper made the best kindling but print is dead so you gotta hack yourself an alternative

I just use an empty milk carton. I don't know if it's the wax or what but they are great for lighting fires. If you live in a milk-comes-in-a-plastic-vessel dystopia I don't know what to tell you. Or Canada :lol:

# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:39

Dogfish: Nov 4, 2009

Do you guys all live somewhere where there's no phone books? Once a year the county drops off an enormous stack of kindling paper, and it's free!

# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:53

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Dogfish posted:

Do you guys all live somewhere where there's no phone books? Once a year the county drops off an enormous stack of kindling paper, and it's free!

I think the last printed phone book they're going to make was this year's and I never picked one up.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 13:58

incoherent light: Aug 15, 2014

I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtK6zaGSCQ
Featured:
Hand-crank your phone to charge it (I wonder how long you'd have to do it, and how easily you can damage your phone?);
Toothpick launcher (I love any lifehack that has you scraping off match heads like a meth cook);
and a very shoddy flashlight involving the chance of cutting into a aerosol can you haven't fully emptied.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 15:40

Dareon: Apr 6, 2009; by vyelkin

Out of Band II posted:

I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtK6zaGSCQ
Featured:
Hand-crank your phone to charge it (I wonder how long you'd have to do it, and how easily you can damage your phone?);
Toothpick launcher (I love any lifehack that has you scraping off match heads like a meth cook);
and a very shoddy flashlight involving the chance of cutting into a aerosol can you haven't fully emptied.

Sometimes it seems like all this lifehack poo poo is just later-life natural selection. Our overprotective parents stopped us from swallowing the tasty under-sink candy, so now we're coming up with new and inventive ways to remove ourselves from the gene pool.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:02

My Lovely Horse: Aug 21, 2010

That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen.

And the preview image has it glued to the tip of the pen and upside down so it's even more useless and makes you watch the video just to see what the deal is and I'm very upset I fell for it!

# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:12

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

My Lovely Horse posted:

That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen

Sounds like a perfect lifehack to make your own hot glue gun.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:23

incoherent light: Aug 15, 2014

My Lovely Horse posted:

That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen.

And the preview image has it glued to the tip of the pen and upside down so it's even more useless and makes you watch the video just to see what the deal is and I'm very upset I fell for it!

Yeah I don't know if there's any actual safety issues with it but I watched him glue a rocker switch to a 9-volt a couple times and each time my brain just went "NO gently caress DON'T".

There should be a rule that if it involves more than one or two solders it isn't a life hack.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:32

Hardcordion: Feb 5, 2008; BARK BARK BARK

My Lovely Horse posted:

That loving channel. Dude sure loves glueing poo poo to batteries. There's one video where the lifehack is simply to glue a gas lighter to the end of a pen, and I've been unable to work out to what purpose. The best I could come up with is that it's a lifehack for not having a lighter at the end of your pen.

And the preview image has it glued to the tip of the pen and upside down so it's even more useless and makes you watch the video just to see what the deal is and I'm very upset I fell for it!

The purpose of the lighter-pen was so that you can have a lighter while you also have a pen. That's it. Well, the REAL reason is so that the thumbnail would include something more interesting than a guy drawing circles without a compass, which the rest of the video was about.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 16:51

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

I have a compass though. It's a very nice Faber-Castell. LIFE HACK DEFEATED!

# ? Oct 28, 2016 22:23

Decrepus: May 21, 2008; In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.

Filox posted:

Call your local stores and see if any will let you have some empty freight boxes. A lot stores are willing, you don't have to buy anything, just pick them up and corrugated cardboard makes great tinder. One shopping cart full of flattened boxes is a hell of a lot of tinder.

Build a Bale.

# ? Oct 28, 2016 22:44

Filox: Oct 4, 2014; Grimey Drawer

Decrepus posted:

Build a Bale.

Or build your own fort in the backyard.

# ? Oct 29, 2016 00:47

Polyseme: Sep 6, 2009; GROUCH DIVISION

http://imgur.com/0d4MXb3

# ? Oct 29, 2016 03:25

corn in the bible: Jun 5, 2004; Oh no oh god it's all true!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodFHeYrZs&t=60s

# ? Oct 29, 2016 07:06

mostlygray: Nov 1, 2012; BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Lifehack:

Constantly tell everyone that you are a "Maker" yet refuse all help for getting your idea to production. Ask for help and when told what to do, disappear off the grid. Remember to post online that you are a "Maker" endlessly while ignoring all advise.

3 times in the last year a "Maker" has asked for my help and not a single one has taken my advice or refuted my advice. They say, how do I get this made? I say, this is how, here are my contacts, this is how production works, etc. They then disappear and never mention it again. I know manufacturers from Mexico to China to Israel to California but the "Makers" need to engage. I can't do it all for you. Lifehack, refuse to work with people that say "Maker".

Makers...

# ? Oct 29, 2016 12:30

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

mostlygray posted:

Lifehack:

Constantly tell everyone that you are a "Maker" yet refuse all help for getting your idea to production. Ask for help and when told what to do, disappear off the grid. Remember to post online that you are a "Maker" endlessly while ignoring all advise.

3 times in the last year a "Maker" has asked for my help and not a single one has taken my advice or refuted my advice. They say, how do I get this made? I say, this is how, here are my contacts, this is how production works, etc. They then disappear and never mention it again. I know manufacturers from Mexico to China to Israel to California but the "Makers" need to engage. I can't do it all for you. Lifehack, refuse to work with people that say "Maker".

Makers...

Sounds like you need to come to our Hacker Space. Located in the worst part of the city. We can sit around and stare at a picture of a 3D printer we can't afford, because we literally spent all our money on rent for our Hacker Space.

Later we'll make fixies out of broomsticks and zip-ties and ride off into the sunset.

MAKERS!

Proteus Jones has a new favorite as of 17:33 on Oct 29, 2016

# ? Oct 29, 2016 13:05

Redrum and Coke: Feb 25, 2006; wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

flosofl posted:

Sounds like you need to come to our Hacker Space. Located in the worst part of the city. We can sit around and stare at a picture of a 3D printer we can't afford, because we literally spent all our money on rent for our Hacker Space.

Later we'll make fixes out of broomsticks and zip-ties and ride off into the sunset.

MAKERS!

Better yet, come to MAKE COLLEGE
A 2 year college for startup entrepreneurs who are passionate about MAKING.
This isn't a parody. , https://youtu.be/FJ1QtII2QN0

# ? Oct 29, 2016 13:12

lord funk: Feb 16, 2004

Our local makerspace is filled with driven people who do cool projects. YMMV I guess.

# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:16

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

lord funk posted:

Our local makerspace is filled with driven people who do cool projects. YMMV I guess.

What about people who live inside the elevator shaft? And poop on the soldering irons?

# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:21

Shugojin: Sep 6, 2007; THE TAIL THAT BURNS TWICE AS BRIGHT...

mostlygray posted:

Lifehack:

Constantly tell everyone that you are a "Maker" yet refuse all help for getting your idea to production. Ask for help and when told what to do, disappear off the grid. Remember to post online that you are a "Maker" endlessly while ignoring all advise.

3 times in the last year a "Maker" has asked for my help and not a single one has taken my advice or refuted my advice. They say, how do I get this made? I say, this is how, here are my contacts, this is how production works, etc. They then disappear and never mention it again. I know manufacturers from Mexico to China to Israel to California but the "Makers" need to engage. I can't do it all for you. Lifehack, refuse to work with people that say "Maker".

Makers...

Next time someone does this just go off screaming about shai'hulud until they get scared and leave you alone

# ? Oct 29, 2016 17:23

Shai-Hulud: Jul 10, 2008; But it feels so right!; Lipstick Apathy

Shugojin posted:

Next time someone does this just go off screaming about shai'hulud until they get scared and leave you alone

Excuse me?

# ? Oct 29, 2016 18:50

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

Shai-Hulud posted:

Excuse me?

We have worm sign!

# ? Oct 29, 2016 18:57

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

Non Serviam posted:

Better yet, come to MAKE COLLEGE
A 2 year college for startup entrepreneurs who are passionate about MAKING.
This isn't a parody. , https://youtu.be/FJ1QtII2QN0

Holy poo poo. I'd love to see their contracts, because I bet they make private college student loans look like outright charity.

The whole project sounds to me like it's essentially a sweat shop where getting paid is contingent.

# ? Oct 29, 2016 21:46

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Polyseme posted:

http://imgur.com/0d4MXb3

Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.

# ? Oct 29, 2016 23:06

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

corn in the bible posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSodFHeYrZs&t=60s

It's just not the same without a British bloke narrating it.

# ? Oct 29, 2016 23:13

Haifisch: Nov 13, 2010; Objection! I object! That was... objectionable!; Taco Defender

Paladinus posted:

British bloke

You rang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJL-CUcHdO0

# ? Oct 30, 2016 00:07

Paladinus: Jan 11, 2014; heyHEYYYY!!!

Yes, that's the stuff.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 00:41

venus de lmao: Apr 30, 2007; Call me "pixeltits"

Out of Band II posted:

I feel like we found out all the useful lifehacks a couple years back and we're now scraping bedrock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXtK6zaGSCQ
Featured:
Hand-crank your phone to charge it (I wonder how long you'd have to do it, and how easily you can damage your phone?);
Toothpick launcher (I love any lifehack that has you scraping off match heads like a meth cook);
and a very shoddy flashlight involving the chance of cutting into a aerosol can you haven't fully emptied.

The whole point of a lifehack is using common items in an innovative way. All of these are neat little projects, but dude figured out that he'd get more views if he labeled his electronics projects as lifehacks instead.

The hand-cranked generator is neat, but so impractical as to be the complete opposite of a lifehack.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 12:16

Karate Bastard: Jul 31, 2007; Soiled Meat

Bertrand Hustle posted:

The ... is neat, but so impractical as to be the complete opposite of a lifehack.

Bitch I'm so triggered I'm literally making GBS threads breadtags right now Fight me.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 12:42

Polyseme: Sep 6, 2009; GROUCH DIVISION

Facebook Aunt posted:

Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.

This is never an appropriate question.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 18:01

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Facebook Aunt posted:

Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.

Ask Harry Haldeman.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 18:11

Rysithusiku: Nov 10, 2013; Witness the assless man and despair!
All futures point to a world of filled holes.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.

Obv its so you can pour out all your toothpaste, laced it with cocaine, and put it back in the tube. Really gives you that extra pep you need in the morning!

# ? Oct 30, 2016 19:59

Len: Jan 21, 2008; Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!

Facebook Aunt posted:

Okay, but why? Toothpaste is super cheap.

My guess is to test stop motion animation skills

# ? Oct 30, 2016 20:00

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 03:22

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Rysithusiku posted:

Obv its so you can pour out all your toothpaste, laced it with cocaine, and put it back in the tube. Really gives you that extra pep you need in the morning!

My shampoo has caffeine in it, which makes me think of this thread and roll my eyes every morning.

# ? Oct 30, 2016 20:08

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