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As I'm sure most of you know, goons are full of little pearls of wisdom. The pearls offered might be wrong, misguided, or just malevolent, but they're shiny and alluring nonetheless. Maybe you might like to inform the masses know that women do, in fact, have a separate hole they urinate out of, or explain why majoring in film at your local liberal arts college is probably not the best of ideas. Whatever it is, I implore you to share any of the useful tidbits of info you've accumulated throughout your existence. I'll start.
Well, that should be enough to get started. GO!
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| # ? Nov 21, 2009 11:24 |
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Aturaten posted:I implore you to share any of the useful tidbits of info you've accumulated throughout your existence. This was not a good idea for a thread. You're welcome. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:12 |
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When you bake a pie, you need to partially bake the crust first! This is called blind baking. Don't just put the filling on top of a raw crust and whack it in the oven then expect your pie to work out, cuz it won't. edit: Aturaten I think this is a lovely idea for thread. 
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:15 |
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You know those incredibly delicious, incredibly expensive frosted sugar cookies they sell at specialty shops? You can make them yourself pretty easily at a fraction of the cost, and they taste way better fresh. This information changed my life.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:19 |
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Carry with you at all times a handkerchief, a pocket knife and a lighter. If you confronted by someone/something you can't strangle, stab, or catch on fire, you are in some serious poo poo and should hightail it out of there.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:23 |
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GnatKingCoal posted:This was not a good idea for a thread. Don't firstpost threadshit like a smug douchebag. Makes you look... like a douchebag. Also, don't use ellipses incorrectly.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:32 |
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When I run a bath, I just run the hot tap. The hot water runs out and the cold water balances out the bath. If its too hot, its a lot easier to make cooler than try to warm it up. Maybe everyone does that, I don't know.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:35 |
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Smoke marijuana at least twice. The first time might not be so good. But the second time kicks rear end. Give pot a fair chance.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:36 |
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choosymothers posted:Smoke marijuana at least twice. The first time might not be so good. But the second time kicks rear end. Give pot a fair chance. If you don't cough like crazy, you are not inhaling it into your lungs. Best way for a first timer is to suck it into your mouth/throat, then take a really deep breath.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:39 |
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You have more to regret from not doing something than doing it (unless it's something REALLY stupid, in which case you should get a friend to do it instead).
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 08:43 |
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There are forces at work in society that press towards the common ownership of property organized in a free association of producers oriented towards the meeting of human needs. There are also flows that constantly reproduce the centrality of the commodity form and push towards the accumulation of capital. Try to be aware of these forces and flows, study your place in the structures they generate, think through the possibilities for action and organize yourself and others for radical social change.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 09:26 |
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It is incredibly easy to make great tasting beef jerky at home, particularly if you have a convection oven. It takes half a hour of work and a day of waiting for a batch, but the process is absolutely foolproof; even if you can't boil an egg, it'd still be basically impossible to screw it up. Read GWS or look it up on the net. Obviously, the result is cheaper as well.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 09:49 |
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Aturaten posted:Don't firstpost threadshit like a smug douchebag. Makes you look... like a douchebag. Don't listen to people who think common sense things like "don't make enemies" and "keep learning" are "pearls of wisdom" because they're probably idiots.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 09:58 |
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Don't shrug off people giving you advice, especially old people. When someone who has been alive for three times longer than you wants to make your life easier, you sit your rear end down and listen. Learn. Always strive to learn more, be it in school, books or even the internet. It's never too late to start over. Don't let yourself get stuck into a life you don't want to live, just because you don't want to make an extra effort. Within reason obviously, if you drop your 200k a year job to finally see if you can be the next picasso you are an idiot and deserve nothing.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:03 |
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There is always something behind the waterfall.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:06 |
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Kehveli posted:if you drop your 200k a year job to finally see if you can be the next picasso you are an idiot and deserve nothing. No you're not. At all.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:15 |
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Charles Bukowski posted:No you're not. At all. To be fair I'm imagining a very average artist with little to no prospect of ever breaking even financially. If someone actually has the needed talent and dedication they should go for it, but let's be honest - 99% of the people who do something like that will crash and burn.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:21 |
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Don't do anything sexual to your anus while intoxicated.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:37 |
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Kehveli posted:To be fair I'm imagining a very average artist with little to no prospect of ever breaking even financially. If someone actually has the needed talent and dedication they should go for it, but let's be honest - 99% of the people who do something like that will crash and burn. If it makes you happy, who gives a gently caress if you're monetarily successful?
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:38 |
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emjayelle posted:Don't do anything sexual to your anus while intoxicated. Always ask first. Even better if you make it seem like it was their idea.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:38 |
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Always, where possible, get back at your ex-boss by sleeping with his daughter.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:42 |
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don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:49 |
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Andraste posted:If it makes you happy, who gives a gently caress if you're monetarily successful? If it makes you happy and you can afford to do it, but not get rich - do it. If it makes you happy until you figure out you can't afford your rent and still think it's worth it, then we'll just have to disagree. Think there was a bit of a misunderstanding here though (probably due to my poor choice of words). I don't see being financially succesful as an artist to be the same as being that as a lawyer. If you can live off the money you make as an artist, you are successful in a financial sense. If someone wants to quit their well paying job to be an artist but have no idea if they can make it and have no means of supporting themselves, then I think it's not a smart move. edit: learn how to do stuff around the house, it'll be of use to you the rest of your life and will help others as well Kehveli fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 10:55 |
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If you rinse an onion in cold water before cutting it up, you won't tear up. Also, try to be a nice person in general. It makes everyone happier, including you.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 10:53 |
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Sockmuppet posted:If you rinse an onion in cold water before cutting it up, you won't tear up. And if you don't mind looking like a prat, swimming goggles work well too, but they only work if you wear them over your eyes.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:13 |
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If you are out of toilet paper and you need to wipe badly, sacrifice your handkerchief and then your socks.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:19 |
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In the end, whatever you do is pointless on a cosmic scale. Or most likely even in a 1000 year scale. So just live your life like you want to, not like you're supposed to.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:22 |
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save your game regularly. Quicksave isn't cheating if you don't feel cheated using it.break the fourth posted:There are forces at work in society that press towards the common ownership of property organized in a free association of producers oriented towards the meeting of human needs. There are also flows that constantly reproduce the centrality of the commodity form and push towards the accumulation of capital. Try to be aware of these forces and flows, study your place in the structures they generate, think through the possibilities for action and organize yourself and others for radical social change. Yeah man totally do this!!! Fearian fucked around with this message at Nov 04, 2009 around 11:26 |
| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:23 |
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When you're out late at night just stop what you're doing every once in a while and look at the night sky for a few minutes.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:31 |
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Aturaten posted:Useless advice Sorry but your advice are either empty ("learn after school"  ), come from your insecurity issues ("don't ask twice"), are terribly wrong ("don't make a passion your job") or come from some kind of teenage wisdom bullshit ("enemies gain you nothing" - very often you gain support from their enemies and let you actually gain position in a social environment). Actually they all seem to come from a young person who knows...well not too much about...stuff.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:39 |
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Coupon Wizard posted:And if you don't mind looking like a prat, swimming goggles work well too, but they only work if you wear them over your eyes. Ski goggles work great too. I discovered this on a skiing holiday. My advice: go skiing as much as you can, it's awesome and not hard at all. Just don't be a whiny bitch when you eat snow a dozen times a day
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:54 |
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GnatKingCoal posted:This was not a good idea for a thread. Thread making GBS threads without letting a thread get a few replies often makes you look like a dumbass if the thread does good. You're welcome.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:55 |
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Aturaten posted:[*]Chances are that, if you make your life's passion your job, you're going to lose that passion. That's bullshit. If you are passionate about anything, you should make that your life. Do what you love, and gently caress everybody else. The problem with this, is that most people don't "get it" until it's too late and you can no longer worry about only yourself. For instance, you have a family, a steady job, and critical obligations and one day you wake up and go, "oh poo poo, I should have just gone after stand-up comedy..." But you have a kid and a wife and a mortgage and bills and you're hosed at that point. Figure out what you love. Find out what would make you happy even if you were dirt poor and living out of a car and bathing yourself from sinks in gas station bathrooms. Figure that out, find that, and just do it. And keep doing it, and do it as much as possible right away. And keep doing it.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 11:56 |
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I remember a similar thread from a few years ago and I actually applied one of the suggestions there to myself - brush your teeth while in the shower. It saves you time.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 12:07 |
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MA$E'S OLD CAR posted:I remember a similar thread from a few years ago and I actually applied one of the suggestions there to myself - brush your teeth while in the shower. It saves you time. Stop being in such a rush!
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 12:40 |
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My mother said it best: "There are some people who, if they liked me, I'd worry."
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 12:47 |
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Everything changes, everything, the weather, people, temperature, you name it. Understand this also applies to you, and any good or bad situations you may find yourself in, and you will take the bad things less to heart, and enjoy the good things for what they are.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 12:49 |
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Delete your porn. Stop eating lovely food. Stop drinking alcohol. Go for a run, rear end in a top hat. Smile at people. Look people in the eye. Read a book. Ring people instead of SMSing them. Get coffee with someone new. Get a hobby. Get the gently caress off the computer.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 12:53 |
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Coupon Wizard posted:And if you don't mind looking like a prat, swimming goggles work well too, but they only work if you wear them over your eyes. Or you could start wearing contact lenses. Since I started wearing them, I'm only bothered by onions in very large amounts. My other pearl of vegetable wisdom is to peel them over a paper towel, that way you can just fold it together and throw the whole thing away.
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| # ? Nov 04, 2009 13:10 |
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Don't ever cyber with Australians.
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