Comments on: 99 useful hints and tips for everyday life

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:07:00 +0000

A website would hardly be the best place to put “Tips for starving war refugees,” just as a Red Cross tent wouldn’t be the place for “How to make your iPhone’s speaker resonate with somewhat more authority.”

By: Graham Fawcett

Graham Fawcett — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:09:00 +0000

Don’t clean your sensitive electronics with a shop-vac! A ketchup bottle cap won’t stop the vacuum’s static charge from zapping your precious gadget.

By: B. Peasant

B. Peasant — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:31:00 +0000

No, it doesn’t. The pump handle pictogram is irrelevant – or is so in the cars I’ve got. Pump handle to the right on the symbol, filler cap on the left. I think the pump handle is always to the right, actually.

Most cars _designed_ in countries that drive on the right have the filler cap on the right – though there are exceptions. The other way round for cars designed in countries that drive on the left.

By: Evan Nix

Evan Nix — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:29:00 +0000

The game box worked, thank you.

By: Michelle Taing

Michelle Taing — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:10:00 +0000

i know california and new york city do

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:21:00 +0000

was pleasantly surprised that I intuited about five of these on my own, and from a young age.

here’s one: instead of velcro-ing your remotes to the coffee table, zip-tie them to each-other into a tower (add foam rubber or some-such as filler to the center for configs of more than two.) The remotes can A) now stand upright, making them easier to see B) are impossible to fall between the couch cushions and C) they’re always together, effectively one remote that you spin around to get the volumes from your TV thru your receiver done right etc.

I call mine the Tri-clops.

By: Roland Dorau

Roland Dorau — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:00:00 +0000

And cats like polystyrene-foam boards.
And much more boxes with it inside > warm!

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:09:00 +0000

Classier hints and tips than in the UK magazine Love It!.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 07:06:00 +0000

Tell it to Steve Wozniak, that lunatic...

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:59:00 +0000

Viz' Top Tips is fantastic. The collection at Hero of Switzerland is amazingly depressing.

By: Paul Gann

Paul Gann — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:48:00 +0000

brazil nuts burn like candles

By: Robert Venne

Robert Venne — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:20:00 +0000

look at the pump handle on the gas symbol.. the location of the pump handle determines the side of the car ur gas cap is on!

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:59:00 +0000

Possibly, but the problem I’m describing seems to be worse in Sydney (according to other Australians). I’ve seen offramp signs perched on the island of a fork. If you take the freeway over the harbour bridge, for instance, the lane layout is like some kind of non-Euclidean nightmare and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you can end up looking at your exit sign over two guidance curbs.

By: felonmarmer

felonmarmer — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:53:00 +0000

People whose surname is Toblerone should always take along an empty ‘Toblerone’ chocolate box when attending interviews for office jobs. This would save your potential employer the expense of having to make a name plaque for your desk, and therefore increase your chances of getting the job.

By: Itsumishi

Itsumishi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:26:00 +0000

Most freeways have exit signs at least at the 1km and 500m marks.

By: solitaire

solitaire — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:19:00 +0000

Tip #100: Copy and paste the top tips from reddit.com/r/LifeProTips onto your blog for some quality blogspam.

By: solitaire

solitaire — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:14:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s a Firefox thing

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:09:00 +0000

The lower maintenance cat allows the owner/human increased oportunity to catch said furball doing something derpy for the ‘net to lampoon.

By: IanM_66

IanM_66 — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:01:00 +0000

Why, in all of these internet memes that involve white block letters written over images, are cats an inevitable presence? Are there no internet dorks who like dogs?

By: awjt

awjt — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Good addition, thanks.

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Ah yes! Central Expressway. With the utterly useless ‘go’ lights to ‘help’ you use those ramps which are approximately the length of maybe two normal driveways…..

By: Aaron Swain

Aaron Swain — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:33:00 +0000

The on and off ramps in Dallas are also ludicrously short.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:15:00 +0000

That box tip would so NOT work with my cat. He LOVES to watch the cursor move around the page. It’s like a little cat toy for him.

By: Tim Drage

Tim Drage — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:14:00 +0000

”this man” :D

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:13:00 +0000

Dropbox too, so if you don’t have your phone you can still pull it up from anywhere.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:08:00 +0000

As if having warning signs in advance would ever convince drivers here in Chicago to get out of the furthest lane any sooner than 15 feet before the V separating the off-ramp from the rest of the highway….often with something quite permanent such as concrete or metal crash barriers making the slalom quite hazardous if done too late.

By: huskerdont

huskerdont — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:01:00 +0000

I’m no genius, and was on vacation with no charger at all for my iPod and figured this out. It really can be a great help.

By: awjt

awjt — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Here’s one. Take a hi-res picture of your driver’s license, passport, AND international entry/exit Visas inside it, before traveling. Leave the pics on your camera, email them to yourself and to your friends and relatives. Also, keep a local copy of all of it on your phone in case you don’t have access to your email. That way, if someone steals your passport or you lose it, you have something to present to immigration to prove who you are so you can minimize any delays getting home. Some people make copies – but I always found those black-and white papers annoying, and those can get lost too. This tip is a more distributed way to preserve that info in as close to original as possible.

By: awjt

awjt — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Children.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:18:00 +0000

Ahhh, this is when I love knowing that I can open the developer console on Chrome and fuck with a site’s CSS.

Stupid tiny cursor? Gone. Stupid tiny font? Gone. 6px-wide scrollbar? Make it normal.

Ahhh… Now get off mah lawn, tumblr kids!