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The chopsticks thing is really common in parts of Japan and Korea (and probably Taiwan too). In Japan at least they also like to open chip bags in the middle of the spine on the back and lay them flat in the middle of the table while people sit around and grab chips out of it with chopsticks. It's pretty dorky but I have to say I have done it before at my old job when I wanted to eat some chips or something and not get the computer/phone greasy with Dorrito dust or Lays oil. I also have done it while painting and playing board games since there are times when you don't want to get a $100+ board game covered in gross stuff.
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Trip Daddy X posted:Lol whut Board games are serious business these days. It might shock you if your definition of board game falls into the category of things like Risk and Monopoly, but a good game like Dominion or Game of Thrones will run you 30-60 dollars new and then 25-40 for additional expansions. Dominion is a great game but I think a copy of the game plus all the expansions would be several hundred dollars which is a bit goofy (all things considered it was worth it, my Dominion set has probably seen several thousand games). Generally older games tend to be cheaper, although decent Mah Jong sets will easily set you back 100-300 dollars but that's sort of an extreme example.
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Jul 11, 2014 18:10
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Quad posted:Is Chizzy two people, or do they not use the word "says" in England? I believe it is a combo name, probably Chelsea and Lizzy.
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Jul 26, 2014 08:40
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Leper Residue posted:I don't know why they chose meth as the drug as choice, which is a freaking chemistry process as anyone who's even heard of Breaking Bad knows. If they had said something like ketamine, maybe that'd be a bit more believable. The method they use in Breaking Bad (the "biker meth" method) is rather complex and difficult to do, however there are a number of ways that are much simpler and less time intensive. While the BB method is still used by large criminal syndicates, your average tweaker probably uses the "shake and bake" method which is dead simple and basically involves throwing all the poo poo into a single container and then hoping it doesn't explode (this is very common).
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Aug 10, 2014 22:01
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Len posted:My Freshman year of college they tore my dorm down and moved us into a hotel that the University had bought and was converting into a dorm. We were the first bunch of kids that lived there and the hotel coffee pot was still in the room. My roommate made ramen in the pot regularly. Yeah I've done that when I've been travelling and stuff when you don't really have options for nearby food (Some of the hotels near the airport in Pheonix and San Fran have this issue IIRC). But its the kind of thing you do because you have to not the kind of thing you make infographics for.
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Aug 11, 2014 00:41
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Gorilla Salad posted:poo poo, I have to confess I did something like this once. I had moved into a new rental place and it smelled like dead old people so I decided that no mere can of spray would be good enough and bought half a dozen bottles of lavender essential oil and dumped a full bottle into a bowl of water in each room of the house. My girlfriend has a thing she got from her mom's work that basically does this. You pour essential oils or hydrosol into a little glass bulb and it pumps out some good smelling steam. It's basically a vaporizer for smellgoods.
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Aug 12, 2014 08:59
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Also most six sided dice you get in games like Monopoly or whatever are already weighted towards 6's. This is why Casino dice are specially drilled or printed flat. The one side has the least material drilled from it ergo it is the heaviest.
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Aug 12, 2014 19:14
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Memento posted:So does buying a case not net you any sort of discount? Even the cheapest wines at Dan Murphys are cheaper if you buy six, and even more so if you buy twelve. Speaking as a person who has done so, yes, yes they do. Saves you a chunk of change too (about ten bucks). It's not actually 2 dollars anymore in most places (it's been 3 for a few years). Usually they have a massive stack of 12 bottle cases behind the registers. A lot of local cheapo restaurants around here buy it by the case as their house wine.
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Aug 16, 2014 09:17
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I'm shocked no one has mentioned Subway yet. I know this because I love Tomatoes not because I'm some kind of shifty shyster. Tomatoes are the only thing Subway will just keep giving you if you ask for more politely. I routinely ask for "triple tomatoes" on my sub because gently caress you its awesome. Someone once told me they do the same for Spinach as well. This seems like the kind of lifehack thing people would talk about because you gots to maximize your 5 dollar footlong profits. Then again I had a friend in college who would check the price of everything against the price per pound of the salad bar. This single handedly led to them raising the price of said salad bar once he made a habit of filling two salad bar containers, one with feta cheese and one with kalamata olives on a weekly basis. So yeah, people do this poo poo in real life and its annoying as gently caress and they deserve to be shamed.
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Aug 23, 2014 11:21
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Namarrgon posted:Now I'm no expert on this but I'm pretty certain there is no such thing as an universal key for handcuffs. I know you're probably not super serious asking this question, but its one of my degree fields soooooo: Most companies that make handcuffs use a universal key, sometimes there will be two or three patterns but this is rare. Many if not all companies are extremely paranoid about people getting their hands on these keys although certain patterns are much harder to get than others. The type used by most US law enforcement is not difficult to get, although many areas have moved away from any kind of standard in order to purchase newer and more high tech cuffs. A lot of departments still use cuffs that can be "shimmed" where the detained person uses a concealed strip of metal to trick the cuffs into thinking they have been unlocked. If you are in Germany or Scandinavia you are probably hosed however, they use a very obscure type of cuff that is very difficult to break, even with standard picking techniques. Not much was known about them until very recently when a member of a European picking group pickpocketed one of the keys, made a quick impression of it in clay and then returned it (later they 3D printed a key which was tested to work on the actual cuffs). But yeah, if you are preparing to be handcuffed, with some very minor research you can easily find out what kind of cuffs they will use and if/how you can get the tools to break them.
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Aug 29, 2014 23:16
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:This is extremely cool to know. What's your degree in? Spy novels? Security. Basically we have reached a point where physical security is starting to be really important in respect to computer security because many networks are so well protected that its much easier to figure out how to get into a building and plug a thumbdrive into a computer than it is to actually break into a network. It can be hard to explain to people who are running some big computer operation that handles lots of sensitive data that they really need to buy better locks and to train their security guards to not just let in guys in Comcast uniforms at 3AM (this works all the time). This isn't a great quality video, but this is some guys from Toool (a lockpicking group) talking at Defcon about the specific cuffs I mentioned earlier and also about the history of picking handcuffs. Most people think of Defcon as being very computer focused but their physical security stuff is also very extensive and interesting. http://youtu.be/9nHJ7F4gVFY
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Aug 30, 2014 01:39
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Memento posted:So how effective is it to drop a thumb drive in a company car park with a file on it called "October_2014_Redundancies.PDF" that is actually a trojan? This is literally what one of the Toool guys in that video does as his day job. Another good one is to Google the name of one of the companies higher up management guys, get a USB drive that you scuff up a little bit and then drop it in the parking lot with a little masking tape or label maker label that says "[BOSSES NAME]'S TRIP PICS PRIVATE DO NOT OPEN" on it and watch some random lower level guy rush to jam that stuff in his computer thinking he has a secret porn stash. This also works with leaving thumbdrives that have the companies main competitors logo on it with a label that says something like "[Insert whatever month it is here] Potential Buyout Proposal and Slideshow" on it. People, especially people in lower level positions who feel overworked and underpaid can get extremely petty and the best way to trick them is to play to their petty and greedy natures. Everyone is curious, and if they have a chance to see something they think that the 1%ers or whoever are hiding from them (fake budget meetings and salary/payroll also works well for this reason) they will often turn off the part of their brain that governs rational decisions. jonsicoli posted:Or Kevin Mitnick, often considered one of the most famous hackers of all time, did most of his hacks this way. Although he had a sort of ace in his sleeve, he would use phone company networks to make his number appear to be coming from inside the company or from one of the companies other offices. If people think you are from their company they often don't even bother to use internal security measures that are supposed to get around these hacks (like passwords that aren't entered into any computer).
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When my friends got married I gave them an amazing velvet portrait of Elvis crying as a joke. I had ordered them a different thing but it was back ordered on Amazon. Let's just say they use that 200 dollar mixer like once a year to make Christmas cookies and the loving Elvis is the first thing you see when you walk into their home, proudly displayed above a fireplace next to a collection of Pillsbury Doughboy memorabilia. People have weird friends is what I'm saying I guess.
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Aug 31, 2014 12:50
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Karma Monkey posted:Nice contribution; goes well with your rap sheet. A very common science class project for 7 year olds? It feels like a jello egg but is still technically raw. See also: "cooking" eggs by mixing them with everclear.
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Aug 31, 2014 20:06
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Karma Monkey posted:Ok, so no one actually eats them, right? I found this under "food life hacks," not "children's science projects," which is why I was so grossed out. It still looks nasty, but I could see kids having fun with this. People do eat pickled eggs, but in this case no this is just a science project that produces a fun thing for a kid to poke at for ten minutes.
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Aug 31, 2014 20:25
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karl fungus posted:I've never seen that, so how does it work? I know this not because I am a devious ex-sandwich artist but because I saw them training a new hire how not to do it one day.
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One time a local touristy place (that is still loved by locals because they have great hiring practices and make decent food) who's ONE THING is clam chowder ran out. It was hilarious to see this massive crowd of 100+ tourists wandering around a parking lot like decapitated chickens being like "Oh god, are there other places to eat here? Where am I? WHATS MY NAAAAAAAAAME?".
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Desperado Bones posted:All of you... I live with women in their early 20's which means I have to suffer through 25-50% of my fridge being taken up by those loving margarita buckets. 96 whole ounces of chilled tequila goodness with a dispenser spout and around here they are cheaper than actual margarita mix which is baffling but does leave me with a lot of spout buckets to dispense things from. Obviously beer is a poor choice, but I'm a simple person with simple tastes so instead I have buckets of hard liquor, Mojitos and other nonsense. One has Yukon Jack, I'm pretty sure I'm the only living human who likes Yukon Jack since the guy at my liquor store points out that I am the only person he ever sells it to. My cocktail of choice is SoCo 100, Lime and Coke so I am pretty much the opposite of a person you should listen to about alcohol.
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karl fungus posted:To be honest, the margaritas probably taste better than any cheap beer you can get at a store. Trader Joe's has that Simple Times stuff for like 4 bucks and its pretty good as far as high ABV American Lagers go. In a similar vein we can also get Hite around here since we have a huge Korean population which is a very middle of the road Lager that comes in a big resealable plastic jug. And there's always Olympia, Rainier and Session, which are more like soda than beer but they are decently cheap (and Session is actually all right).
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Nov 15, 2014 02:05
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The Door Frame posted:I recently had to explain to my sister that her mango smoothie from Dunkin Donuts was not any better than soda because it had 3/4 of a cup of sugar in the 24oz cup. Maybe I just don't like sweet stuff that much, but that is God drat disgusting. Seriously, that's about as much sugar as I eat over the course of 2 days in 1 drink. How do people even palate that poo poo? I remember when Mens Health went on the search for the least healthy thing from a mainstream fast food place. It was some sort of milkshake from Baskin Robbins. They don't make it any more but is had somewhere in the area of 2400 calories. The thing they replaced it with is 1600, which is still staggering.
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Len posted:Yeah. It's just made in a giant bucket like you would find white paint in. They brew it, dump seven pounds of sugar in, and mix it. Hopefully it gets used before all the sugar settles at the bottom and becomes like a three inch crust. I like some things about visiting my family in Florida, but having the waitress shake her head at me like I'm a lost soul when I order my Iced tea without sugar is not one of them. Also the fact that like 50% of the time when you order it without sugar you still get sweet tea, just without even MORE sugar added to it (barfbarfbarf).
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Nov 16, 2014 00:27
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My Lovely Horse posted:Speaking as a European, I went to a Walgreen's once, and I'm convinced it is conceptually a store for stoners. Entire large supermarkets over here don't have that much goddamn snacks and soda. Walgreens is basically a pharmacy at the back of the store and then every possible thing one could impulse buy in between you and the pharmacy.
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I built a grilled cheese maker out of two irons welded to a C-clamp once. But I was also 16 and smoked a lot of weed so it seemed like a great idea. It actually worked OK but it was replaced with a waffle iron quickly because that also made waffles. During this portion of my life I lived in a converted garage in which I had built a massive tent fort out of sheets that was filled with blankets and pillows. But gently caress you if you cook things with an iron as a functioning adult.
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A while back the local university got in trouble because their cafeteria was caught using their industrial dish washer to clean all the vegetables. Which seems like it was either some highdeas or lifehack logic at work.Choco1980 posted:And speaking of college, all this grilled cheese talk makes me think of the time a friend of mine back then thought he was a genius when he tried to use his george foreman grill to make one. He pulled the sandwich out, started walking away with it, and all the melted cheese just poured out the side onto his carpet. A GF is basically just a panini press so I have no idea how your friend hosed this one up. I do this at least once a week and I have never encountered any sort of molten cheese slough. El Estrago Bonito has a new favorite as of 11:38 on Dec 3, 2014 |
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Hirayuki posted:I think pretty much all of those liquid water flavors are sugar-free and zero calorie. Some may be as high as five calories! Fat fucks, indeed. If Mio and its like were sweetened with sugar, you couldn't fit it in that little container. Just go ask the Brits who are the cultural pioneers of dumping loads of flavored sugar syrup into water. When I visited the UK I was constantly baffled by the people my age there who were constantly ragging on the US for being fat fucks who eat terribly because they would sit around mixing horrendous syrup drinks and eating the fattiest saltpile of lunch foods imaginable.
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Decrepus posted:I guess that depends on where you live because they are $3.50 even at the Walmart which guarantees low prices (always). The only ones I ever had were from a Kraft salesman since the things are so expensive I'd never buy them. Around here they are usually 1.50-2 bucks for brand name ~3 for the Energy Drink ones and 1ish for store brand. I have a bunch in my cabinet I never use because one time I was in an Albertsons and they were on clearance for .50 cents each and I had a coupon for 1.50 off a purchase of three. I think they taste like poo poo TBH but they can be useful for making quick flavored shots/cocktails at parties and the like.
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My GF's grandpa would go out every year early in the morning and load all the presents from Santa into a burlap sack, then he would shoot off his shotgun several times and drag the sack into the house, look at the children and go "I missed him again this year, but he dropped these!". Sometimes he would label presents in the sack as being to not any of the kids, and they would be like "Gramps, who is Danny?" and he's just say "Some unlucky SOB who isn't getting a present this year." After he died they discovered he had cashed in his burial plot years earlier to spend the money on weed and his own personal slot machine that he filled with chocolate coins, so pretty much the greatest person who ever lived. I mean, except the part where he used to make his 11 year old daughter drive him home from the bar because he was super wasted, that was probably a bad idea but it was the 50's in rural Oregon.
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KillerEggplant posted:And fuckin' blue raspberry. Blue raspberry is nasty and bears no resemblance to actual raspberry. That's because it's a different kind of Raspberry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_leucodermis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_occidentalis I realize this is not common knowledge, but I grew up in an area that grows a vast amount of these and they are fuckin' delicious.
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Un chien andalou posted:mind=blown Yeah, I grew up in an area where I would ride by giant fields of them on my bike pretty regularly. They aren't really electric blue however, more like a darkwash denim or a blackberry I guess. Sometimes they are yellowish, those one's taste better than the other ones. They are really expensive nowadays because crazy people think that an acid in them cures cancer, but when I was a kid they were cheaper than normal raspberries and you could just buy them on the side of the road along with marionberries, thimble berries, boysenberries and other less common things. They make really good pies, and are a good sub for cranberry if you're making an apple/*berry pie. I linked both those articles because while the top ones are officially "blue raspberries" everywhere grew both of them and they are very similar to the point of me not really remembering there being a clear distinction when buying them (people referred to both as black raspberries) much like Boysenberry and Marion Berry. El Estrago Bonito has a new favorite as of 17:47 on Mar 19, 2015 |
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Luckyellow posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa8ax-zHoGo I do a lot of home casting with stuff like cool resin and epoxy and Lego are by far the preferred tool for almost all home molding stuff, from scale miniatures to action figures to jewelry. It's basically water tight when pressed together, they can be arranged into tough molds that most expanding stuff cant break, and most importantly you can build two piece molds that snap together. Also if you're doing stuff with food they are ABS plastic so you can sterilize them with tablets in water and such. Tiggum posted:If you're already OK with stealing, why not just go all the way and not pay at all? When I was really really poor (like, living in a tent in my friend's yard for an entire summer poor) I would go through the self checkout and key in massive bags of just add water bulk pancake mix as flour because it was a third of the price and I was eating waffles for most of my meals. The reason you do it is because it's much much harder to catch than shoplifting, pretty much no security guard will check you if you go through the checkout, and there were two food banks in my town but one requires you to have an address that matches your state ID and the other requires you to be a college student. El Estrago Bonito has a new favorite as of 05:37 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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You can make buttermilk that way if you need it for baking/cooking. There is a place near me where they have olive oil flavored ice cream and it's pretty good: http://saltandstraw.com/
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Boiled Water posted:But you're literally outside the definition of buttermilk. Again, not really. When you talk about buttermilk that people drink you're talking about the semi-fermented milk product, when you talk about buttermilk people use for baking many cookbooks will tell you to just do lemon juice and milk since it accomplishes the same task but you really wouldn't want to drink it on its own.
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May 9, 2015 09:05
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Fly Alaska, you get free beer, and it's not even lovely beer (it's Alaska Beer, naturally, a decent middle of the road beer).
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MindlessHavok posted:This might be really dumb but I never understood the baking soda in the fridge thing. Let's assume that it really does work. Isn't it just absorbing the odors that whatever is making the odor is putting off? When I worked at a ballpark we would go through ~1500 hamburgers, ~2000 Hebrew Nationals and somewhere around 500-800 pieces of chicken every week just at my buffet area. At the end of the week the grounds crew would come in and power wash everything clean, but in between then there are just odors that build up when you have that much raw meat being stored in an area. Not to mention things like 5 pound buckets of sauerkraut and onions.
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MindlessHavok posted:Well okay fine yeah for a ballpark fridge but I'm talking about a normal household fridge. I guess I've just never had a problem with fridge odors and I've been living on my own for 14 years. If something smelled in the fridge it was identified and thrown away. I guess maybe because I've always lived in apartments with new/newer appliances so I never really had to deal with lingering smells from an older fridge. Yeah it really depends on what you use your fridge for I guess. I grew up in a small town so it wasn't terribly uncommon to open someones fridge and find half of a deer or an entire raw turkey sitting inside and while both those things are delicious they do often produce the smell of raw meat which can be pretty overpowering. I mean, I think a lot of people are doing it just because they are lazy and don't want to clean the fridge, but there are times when reducing your fridge stank has legitimate uses. I had to, for instance, get a separate minifridge for all my meats I use to make homemade jerky because my girlfriend was tired of having several pounds of various meats hanging out in our fridge for a few days before I fired up the jerky maker.
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Mexican Deathgasm posted:This guy has created free Shapeways models of the entire 5th Edition Monster Manual with permission from Wizards of the Coast. I'm buying a Tiko as soon as they come out just to be able to print these. My issue with these is that something like Reaper Bones is a couple bucks per fig and the quality is so much higher than any 3D printed part I've ever handled and I've used a lot of 3D printed miniatures.
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Crossposting from the Imgur thread. This is the Poor Lowtax's Almanac, a collection of lifehacks compiled by the SA forums about ten years ago: http://pastebin.com/d3ezUCra
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The walnut thing is real, walnut oil dries very very fast, is food safe and will generally be pretty close to the color of most furniture. You could also just go buy a small container of walnut furniture oil and call it done, but you can get quick results by just rubbing a walnut on a desk or chair. I know it started as a trick shady antiques dealers used to use because it's very hard to detect and it often will just make a bad scratch look like small or insignificant one, which in antiques can be the difference of several hundred dollars. It also doesn't last that long so it will fade out over a few years making it seem like the buyer just made the scratch worse.
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Nov 23, 2015 06:19
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Preparation H does tighten the skin it's applied to, so I could see it helping swelling. I had a friend who used to do fitness/body building photoshoots and rubbing your abs and biceps down with Prep H was a trick they used to make you look way more jacked.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Democrats Hate This One Easy Trick To Reduce The Surplus Population! Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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