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banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Wheres the lifehack to help me find a dead dog

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razorrozar
Feb 21, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Tiggum posted:

Bury your victims in a pet cemetery.

Literally life hacking.

Frostwerks
Sep 24, 2007

by Lowtax

zVxTeflon posted:

Wheres the lifehack to help me find a dead dog

I've got a lifehack to help you make your own!

GolfHole
Feb 26, 2004

trickybiscuits posted:

I don't know if this is incredibly brilliant or incredibly stupid. It's one or the other, though, and there is no in-between.


I can't find any of my remotes, only beer cans.

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

Tiggum posted:

Bury your victims in a pet cemetery.

Bury your victimes in a person cemetary. There'll be so many corpses being dug up no one will bother to find yours. Plus, you've just saved your victim's family those costly funeral fees, and you've given the middle finger to Big Funeral! Activism.

natetimm posted:

It's more like certain places like ballparks and concerts want to charge you 47 dollars for a beer so there's a cottage industry in sneaking alcohol to get around it.

Yeah, but...don't get a beer in that case? I'm saying that if someone finds it absolutely 100% necessary to have alcohol on them to enjoy anything, then there may be a problem.

Little Blue Couch
Oct 19, 2007

WIRED FOR SOUND
AND
DOWN FOR WHATEVER

Perestroika posted:

Couldn't you just like, not dip them all the way in so your fingers stay dry?

Sure, if you can even call that living.

Sephiroth_IRA
Mar 31, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSLbpAwibg

edit: The first time I saw "Life Hack" was probably over 10 years ago. There used to be a group that would put a bunch of these out on a single flyer/page and they were actually good, most of them computer related. Now whenever you look up "Life Hacks" 99% them are complete poo poo.

razorrozar posted:



:ssh: use a napkin like a normal person

Tree Killer!

Sephiroth_IRA has a new favorite as of 14:07 on Jul 15, 2014

Ravenfood
Nov 4, 2011

Morpheus posted:

Yeah, but...don't get a beer in that case? I'm saying that if someone finds it absolutely 100% necessary to have alcohol on them to enjoy anything, then there may be a problem.
If you think anyone can watch a full game of baseball without needing a beer, you're insane.

Haruharuharuko
Mar 24, 2008

Yeah I lied; so what is the truth?

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

Ravenfood posted:

If you think anyone can watch a full game of baseball without needing a beer, you're insane.

I am a baseball fan and I agree with this 100%.

Dross
Sep 26, 2006

Every night he puts his hot dogs in the trees so the pigeons can't get them.

I took the red pill and now I can see bananas for what they truly are and break the banana rules.

JD-Smith
Apr 30, 2009

YOU WILL OBEY.

Penny Paper posted:

I would do this, but not because I'm a smug prick. It's because I have a CD/DVD spindle I don't use anymore (because I have one of those disc sleeve books) and I don't want my bagel sandwich to fall apart in a Ziploc bag and I don't have any Tupperware containers.

Not to mention your sandwich would pick up that gross smell from the spindle anyway. Nobody does this! The fact that you'd have to wash it thoroughly would negate any shortcut.

Yeah I'm a week late.. but the photo enrages me.

Greyish Orange
Apr 1, 2010

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who used to read my nan's copies of all those rubbish women's magazines. I always wondered how come people who needed to be stingy to the point of reusing trash could afford those magazines.

Top tip - save money on 'real-life stories' magazines by talking to your neighbours!

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

This actually seems like a cheap way to cool off. If you have a bucket, some foam and a fan you're set.

It's definitely a poor university student sort of thing, but if it works :shrug:


For lovely "hacks" there's this:




I've tried this in four different elevators. Never worked.

I did once get the "press your floor and the close door button simultaneously for five seconds" to put the elevator into express mode, which was cool.

Of course, maybe it was just that nobody had pressed any of the buttons on any of the floors I went past :iiam:



This. Would. Not. Work.




This one is just stupid:




Konami code*!




*Not the Konami code.

Gyro Zeppeli
Jul 19, 2012

sure hope no-one throws me off a bridge

Gorilla Salad posted:


Konami code*!




*Not the Konami code.

Just change. An indeterminate amount of change. For pushing the cheat code into the machine, it spits change at you.

Namarrgon
Dec 23, 2008

Congratulations on not getting fit in 2011!
There was a washing machine at a hostel I stayed for a while where, if you toggled the power switch at just the right time it would slowly decrease the amount of coins needed up to 0, at which point it would start. I probably would not have believed it if I didn't see someone demonstrate it. That said, I'd have to be absolutely retarded to believe that worked on all washing machines.

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Konami code*!




*Not the Konami code.

This poo poo has been around since forever. I remember in middle school kids talking about how if you push in the right sequence of buttons on a soda machine, it'd let you get a free soda. Like press Coke, Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke, Root Beer, Coin Return. Or whatever. It was supposed to be some sort maintenance thing to make sure the vending was working properly.

No one ever got it to work.

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Namarrgon posted:

There was a washing machine at a hostel I stayed for a while where, if you toggled the power switch at just the right time it would slowly decrease the amount of coins needed up to 0, at which point it would start. I probably would not have believed it if I didn't see someone demonstrate it. That said, I'd have to be absolutely retarded to believe that worked on all washing machines.

When I was a starving student, the lovely laundromat I went too had machines which took two $1 coins in a big sliding tray with holes cut for the coins. But we figured out that you could use gaffer tape across the tray to keep the coins from falling into the machine and get free laundry.

They tray looked kinda like this and you just put the coin in then lay the tape over it:




Also, there was a vending machine on one of the upper floors of the chemistry labs which wasn't bolted to the wall or floor and it only took three or four hungry students to tip it over, give it a good shaking and have it rain chocolate.


Of course, these are less "life hacks" and more "crime" so are probably outside what we should be posting in the thread. Otherwise the thread'll end up all "threaten to burn down merchants' stores and they'll pay you protection money" and "Don't be afraid to cut off a finger and mail it to the family to make sure they pay up" :pseudo:

Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 18:08 on Jul 15, 2014

flavor.flv
Apr 18, 2008

I got a letter from the government the other day
opened it, read it
it said they was bitches




The soda machine trick actually does work, but you have to put a quarter in first to get the machine into input mode. I've tried it on every one I come across, and I always get at least 25 cents out of it.

razorrozar
Feb 21, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

Tree Killer!

It turns out cloth napkins are a thing. Who knew?



I'm a tree and I love this.

walkinginmysleep
Dec 2, 2013
Every once in a while I'll be waiting for the elevator in my building and it'll just completely skip my floor. Whenever that happens I remember that elevator express mode lifehack and just silently curse whatever selfish prick is inside the elevator.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Leper Residue posted:

This poo poo has been around since forever. I remember in middle school kids talking about how if you push in the right sequence of buttons on a soda machine, it'd let you get a free soda. Like press Coke, Sprite, Coke, Diet Coke, Root Beer, Coin Return. Or whatever. It was supposed to be some sort maintenance thing to make sure the vending was working properly.

No one ever got it to work.

I read about come Coke Machine Code about a decade or so ago. It worked...but the "maintenance mode" it brought you into was pointless. It couldn't dispense free soda, or give you money. All it did was give info on things like money taken in, number of sodas sold, etc...

Morpheus
Apr 18, 2008

My favourite little monsters

DrBouvenstein posted:

I read about come Coke Machine Code about a decade or so ago. It worked...but the "maintenance mode" it brought you into was pointless. It couldn't dispense free soda, or give you money. All it did was give info on things like money taken in, number of sodas sold, etc...

Yeah I have no idea why people think there'd be a mode to give you free soda, like, if the maintenance guy wanted free soda he'd take out his key, open the drat thing, and take some soda.

BerkerkLurk
Jul 22, 2001

I could never sleep my way to the top 'cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up

Brocktoon posted:

Finally! I've been looking for ways to discreetly hide my bottles of urine on the go!
If you like that then your life is about to get even more hacked: just piss in the bread.

Sardonik
Jul 1, 2005

if you like my dumb posts, you'll love my dumb youtube channel

Gorilla Salad posted:

For lovely "hacks" there's this:




I've tried this in four different elevators. Never worked.

I did once get the "press your floor and the close door button simultaneously for five seconds" to put the elevator into express mode, which was cool.

Of course, maybe it was just that nobody had pressed any of the buttons on any of the floors I went past :iiam:
I've heard that the correct version of this 'hack' is that you have to hold the button of the floor you want down, but I'm not enough of a dick to test it.

razorrozar
Feb 21, 2012

by Cyrano4747
The only elevator I ever used regularly only went to two floors so all the express stuff was and is totally irrelevant to me.

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

razorrozar posted:

The only elevator I ever used regularly only went to two floors so all the express stuff was and is totally irrelevant to me.

Much like your post.

Meatwave
Feb 21, 2014

Truest Detective - Work Crew Division.
:dong::yayclod:

razorrozar posted:

The only elevator I ever used regularly only went to two floors so all the express stuff was and is totally irrelevant to me.

You get in an elevator to go up one level? On a scale from John Candy to Jabba the Hutt, how fat are you?

razorrozar
Feb 21, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Meatwave posted:

You get in an elevator to go up one level? On a scale from John Candy to Jabba the Hutt, how fat are you?

Hey man I was in college don't judge me :arghfist::saddowns:



"Hmm yes let me protect my $100+ smartphone with 25 cents worth of duct tape"

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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DrBouvenstein posted:

I read about come Coke Machine Code about a decade or so ago. It worked...but the "maintenance mode" it brought you into was pointless. It couldn't dispense free soda, or give you money. All it did was give info on things like money taken in, number of sodas sold, etc...

The one we had at the office a while back allowed you to get in maintenance mode with only external input, but to actually change prices or anything important you had to flip a dip switch on the controller inside the machine. At that point you're looking right at the coin chute box, so if you're going to steal money you might as well just take the whole drat thing instead of loving around with the remittance options.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

razorrozar posted:

Hey man I was in college don't judge me :arghfist::saddowns:



"Hmm yes let me protect my $100+ smartphone with 25 cents worth of duct tape"

makes sense to me, ya fat weirdo

razorrozar
Feb 21, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Alouicious posted:

makes sense to me, ya fat weirdo

You can afford a smartphone but not a decent case for it?

Hobo By Design
Mar 17, 2009

Hobo By Intent or Robo Hobo?
Ramrod XTreme

quote:

Tis the season for annoying bug bites, but a surprisingly simple remedy exists that can eliminate all of the itch within minutes.

All you have to do is heat up a metal spoon under hot tap water for a minute or so, then press it directly against the bite. Hold it tight against your skin for a couple of minutes, and when you take it off, the itch should be gone for good.

When mosquitoes bite you, they inject proteins under your skin to keep your blood from clotting. It's this protein that causes you to itch, but it can't survive at the moderately high temperatures a hot spoon can create. The bump might linger for a few days, but the uncomfortable itching should be gone for good!
http://lifehacker.com/use-a-hot-spoon-to-instantly-relieve-itchy-bug-bites-615912899

It doesn't work that way. Hot spoons are only good for narcotics.

monkeytennis
Apr 26, 2007


Toilet Rascal
What if you heat it over a flame? Surely that would work better because it would be even hotter?

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012

Gorilla Salad posted:

Of course, these are less "life hacks" and more "crime" so are probably outside what we should be posting in the thread. Otherwise the thread'll end up all "threaten to burn down merchants' stores and they'll pay you protection money" and "Don't be afraid to cut off a finger and mail it to the family to make sure they pay up" :pseudo:
Avoid damaging the goods by cutting the finger off a failed dead ransom attempt instead! :pseudo:

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Re: Paper napkins, cloth napkins, forks, idiotic plastic tools. I have a better solution to them all. Don't eat Oreos at all. No dirty fingers, no diabetes, no obesity! #lifehacks #genius

Coffee And Pie
Nov 4, 2010

"Blah-sum"?
More like "Blawesome"
Yeah, but Oreos are delicious. You will live longer, but that extra life will be plagued by sadness from not eating Oreos.

Shifty gimbal
Dec 28, 2008

Hey you... I got something to tell ya
Biscuit Hider

It's a ghetto version of a Therapik. They do work pretty well at removing the itch so long as the bite's fresh enough. I'm not sure how good of a job a hot spoon would do, though..

 

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

monkeytennis posted:

What if you heat it over a flame? Surely that would work better because it would be even hotter?

Just skip the middle man and apply a torch lighter to the bite! Gain instant itch relief as you burn those pesky skin cells away!

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Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go

Coffee And Pie posted:

Yeah, but Oreos are delicious. You will live longer, but that extra life will be plagued by sadness from not eating Oreos.

Oreos are gross to me, unfortunately I can't remember how I achieved this #Lifehacks !!!

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