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Title: Tips
Post by: Dave on July 27, 2016, 03:31:24 PM
Anyone got any practical tips they want to pass on?

Anyone got any practical problems they are looking to solve?

Some tine ago I wrote a booklet on household tips and garden geometry as a fundraiser.

Will dig out the text file and offer an edited, abbridged, version of the tips here.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Tank on July 27, 2016, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: Gloucester on July 27, 2016, 03:31:24 PM
Anyone got any practical tips they want to pass on?

Anyone got any practical problems they are looking to solve?

Some tine ago I wrote a booklet on household tips and garden geometry as a fundraiser.

Will dig out the text file and offer an edited, abbridged, version of the tips here.

Tip: Don't tread on a used condom in bare feet.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Dave on July 27, 2016, 06:12:10 PM
Quote from: Tank on July 27, 2016, 05:51:49 PM
Quote from: Gloucester on July 27, 2016, 03:31:24 PM
Anyone got any practical tips they want to pass on?

Anyone got any practical problems they are looking to solve?

Some tine ago I wrote a booklet on household tips and garden geometry as a fundraiser.

Will dig out the text file and offer an edited, abbridged, version of the tips here.

Tip: Don't tread on a used condom in bare feet.

Personal experience speaking?
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: imaginaryfriendless on July 27, 2016, 11:04:43 PM
AH, an advice and tips section! When it comes to advice, I've been told many times that I'm full of it. Here are some handy bits of knowledge.

Never Judge a Man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.
Because by then you are a mile away...and he has no shoes.

Things are a lot more like they used to be, than they are now.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. 

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.

When in doubt, mumble.

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

You're never too old to learn something stupid.

Conserve water, pee in the shower. 

For colds : take equal parts honey,bourbon,Milk of Magnesia - won't help the cold,but makes you afraid to sneeze or cough.

The giant hole in the ozone layer is letting in too much gravity. That's why we're getting heavier as we get older.



Procrastinators Unite!
Tomorrow.

Is this what you had in mind?  ;)
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: xSilverPhinx on July 28, 2016, 12:29:45 AM
Always tip waiters/waitresses and taxi drivers when in the US. They get scary when you don't.

Culture shock.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Tom62 on July 28, 2016, 05:51:30 PM
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window (Steve Wozniak).

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss (Robert Heinlein)

Title: Re: Tips
Post by: xSilverPhinx on August 11, 2016, 12:24:40 AM
When you have insomnia, listen to an audiobook. Ones with monotonous voices are best.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Tank on August 11, 2016, 12:48:56 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on August 11, 2016, 12:24:40 AM
When you have insomnia, listen to an audiobook. Ones with monotonous voices are best.
That would be Bill Bryson. He decided to do his own audio books. They are the best advert ever created to promote voice actors in the same way that William Shatner's singing promotes ear plugs.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Dave on March 19, 2017, 10:39:56 AM
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6ymkPJq.jpg&hash=4b687c355ff1478198b7f9f41b0dbf59026b6c48)

My solution for extending a paint brush to reach those hard to get at places.

Actually using it to apply anti-mold stuff in the bathroom and kitchen.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Dave on July 16, 2017, 03:47:46 PM
Further on my arm problem and bandages: if you need a tubular arm or lower leg bandage in a hurry and have a pair of socks you can use, cut off just above the heel, works fine and no itching at all!

You could even colour co-ordinate your bandage!  :grin:
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: No one on July 16, 2017, 09:35:18 PM
Don't eat the yellow snow.

Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Dave on July 16, 2017, 09:50:08 PM
Quote from: No one on July 16, 2017, 09:35:18 PM
Don't eat the yellow snow.

You mean . . . It's not lemon flavour!?    :puke:
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: jumbojak on July 17, 2017, 03:10:42 AM
Never stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your pecker.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: hermes2015 on July 17, 2017, 05:10:13 AM
Quote from: jumbojak on July 17, 2017, 03:10:42 AM
Never stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your pecker.

That doesn't leave too much.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Arturo on July 17, 2017, 06:48:25 AM
Quote from: jumbojak on July 17, 2017, 03:10:42 AM
Never stick your finger anywhere you wouldn't stick your pecker.

Hmm so how do I drive?
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Essie Mae on August 05, 2017, 01:43:03 PM
I've said it before here, but don't keep your phone in your back pocket.
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Asmodean on August 05, 2017, 02:05:45 PM
If you see an ad online for one of those windshield wiper shaving machines and feel fascinated, talk to a male acquaintance about borrowing a used disposable razor. (Shaver, some call them, to distinguish the apparatus from the knife itself) It will do the same job for free. Got me through university on two sets of windscreen wipers.

That said, get a job. buy new wipers. That be the advice behind the tip.

Also on the subject of ads for crap you don't need, no, TV Frog is not a total scam. It WILL turn your dumb TV into a smart TV. No such thing as free cable though, that part is utter bollocks.

Moral here being, "get a job. Buy a smart TV," I guess. Heh... Sticking to some unintended subjects here. Nice... Nice.

More Gray Wisdom, you say..? Lemme see...

Barcode readers can be useful in "dialing" numbers and emails on Skype/Jabber/etc. Does require a tiny bit of effort to set it up, but The Asmo likes His complicated phone book.

When surfing the web abroad, go to whatever passes for a 7/11 there and get a local pre-paid 4G WiFi subscription. That, or STOP CALLING THE BLOODY ASMO FIVE TIMES A DAY OVER AN INTERNET BILL OF NOK 1800,- DAMN YOU! /end caps lock

Milo Yiannopoulos' book is not at all bad so far... Might even review it here later. Still, if you are the kind of person who gets outraged by a troll... Avoid.

Also, Luxembourg is evil. Avoid.  >:(
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Dave on July 29, 2018, 05:53:59 PM
It seems that baking soda and superglue catalyse to form a solid plastic (acrylic?) matrix

Fill a gap with baking soda and get the superglue into it fast. The gap will be filled and glued almost instantaneously! The matrix is quite hard and can be smoothed and painted it seems.

Time for some experiments I think . . . Well, when I have bought some baking soda!
Title: Re: Tips
Post by: Bluenose on July 30, 2018, 01:03:02 AM
Tip:  To avoid drop bear attack when walking through the Australian bush, smear some Vegemite behind your ears.  True story, no-one has ever been attacked by a drop bear while wearing Vegemite.