When you're cleaning up after a wank, hot water changes the protein structure of the semen so that it is impossible to get off. COLD WATER washes off semen amazingly well.
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Double click selects the word. Triple click selects the paragraph. Double click the word + drag = selects word by word instead of letter by letter. Triple click the word + drag = selects paragraph by paragraph. (You're trying it right now, don't deny it!) Ctrl+Backspace deletes the last word. Swap backspace with capslock using sharpkeys. The last two combined is awesome.
You provided no paragraphs to practice with.
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Haha, I love the message you slipped in there.
Oh, you are the worst kind of person.
I wish there was a way to upvote this while simultaneously hiding it from future viewers.
I was about to read it all when I thought, "waiiiit a minute; I better check the replies. Thanks for saving me a couple seconds that I just wasted by writing this reply.
I reread it 3 times and couldn't find anything. Instead of giving up, I copied it into word thinking "any English won't come up underlined!" and still got nothing. So I decided to try reading the first letter of every line. Nope. Then I realised..
I love you and hate you at the same time.
Damn you. I reread it 3 times even after i read ninepound's post to make sure.
What message?
You...clever bastard.
you sick bastard.
also, well played.
goddamnit.
Monty; you terrible cunt!
I DON'T UNDERSTAND!
There went 30 minutes of my life. Damnit.
Most upvoted block of Lorem ipsum ever.
Most clicked, too...
TIL!
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I started absently practicing on this wall of text before even realizing what it was. Kudos!
Yep. I wonder what was going through my head at the time. "Oh boy, somebody sure had a lot to say about that comment - lucky me! <select, select>"
I do that constantly, it's my little vice :-)
Yeah, I did that for a while, then I read the next comment, and THEN I saw it was lorem ipsum.
then I started reading.
TL;DR
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris eu. :)
I don't get it. Am I stupid or just slow?
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I have this horrible feeling you have just summoned a demon horde with this. You should probably do something about that.
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Using this, I also learnt that triple click+drag selects by paragraph. Try it!
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Lipsum exists because repeating the same sentence results in a river.
As a compulsive text-clicker we have known this for awhile. Enjoy your last bits of sanity, because this will consume you for the rest of your life.
I have a friend that HAS to select text as he's reading it and keeps selecting and deselecting as he reads along, it's impossible to read along on his screen if he is showing you something. Drives me nuts sitting next to him when he's reading the news as well, sounds like he's playing StarCraft or something :P
I can't read if I am not clicking.
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I do this.
You're not making any sense.
How can you read the text if you're not selecting/deselecting it all the time?
You know, like reading a book? Those rectangular things things made of paper, you might have seen one in a movie.
I actually think I started doing this after playing StarCraft competitively with friends. More APM...
So.. you hate the new york times website, as well?
With a passion
Who needs a thesaurus when reading a newspaper?
I think we need to start a sub-reddit or something.
Oh god, it's torture!
My touchpad mouse button makes a loud clicking noise, like one of those kid clicker toys. That quickly killed the habit for me.
Tap on the touchpad instead. 1 tap = 1 click
I shut that off. My touchpad is super sensitive, and it would repeatedly click as I dragged my finger across the screen. But more to the point, it's not necessary to click text as I read it.
In Microsoft Word (winword), type "=rand()" (without the quotes) and press ENTER. A good way to get a body of paragraphs/text to test printing or whatever.
I didn't read this on reddit, I just wanted to share it as it seemed an appropriate place. :)
It also works in Outlook 2007. Great for those test emails you want to send.
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While writing text in windows (notepad, office, firefox...):
Ctrl + (arrow, del, backspace, shift+arrow, etc...) Affects a whole word (Arrow move 1 word, del deletes 1 word, shift+arrow selects 1 word... etc..).
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dude, whoa.
Swap backspace with capslock using sharpkeys.
Sorry, could you clarify what you're saying here?
Sharpkeys is the name of a windows program that allows you to remap your keyboard as you see fit. I find that swapping the backspace and caps lock keys to be awesome for a number of reasons and it's one of the first things I change when I reformat.
There are two types of people in the world: those who have switched backspace and capslock and those who haven't thought of it before.
additionally ctrl+del deletes whole words in front as well. ctrl + left or right arrow in text moves the cursor forward or backward whole words. ctrl + home or end moves to the topmost or bottommost page in a document. you can drag highlighted text in between other parts of text. im trying to think of all the other tricks i use for editing.
and to think im too lazy to use proper grammar on the internet...
Ok got one for you. Try using Shift. Select some text. Hold down shift and then use the arrow keys to 'grab' more characters into the selection. If you do Ctrl+Shift, you 'grab' by words. This also works in excel (useful), and the explorer. Try it!
For some terrible reason this does not work in Opera. It makes me sad.
You are King.
That would be a much better place for backspace!
mind = blown
DAMN i did try it as soon as i read it!
Ctrl+left/right moves the cursor by the word, rather then the letter. Ctrl+home moves to the beginning of a document, ctrl+end to the end. These can be used with shift to select large chunks as well.
And selecting a word, then clicking and dragging it will allow you to move it to another position (does a cut and paste).
Double click the word + drag = selects word by word instead of letter by letter.
mind = blown
Thanks for the tip. One thing that happens a lot to me is I forget capslock is on and notice too late I've been writing in allcaps. Then I have to delete everything and start again. Is there a simple way to change selected text from caps to lowercase?
In Emacs, select the region, then C-x C-l
Or, if you don't like Emacs -- because you're sick, or something -- there's http://www.convertcase.net/.
That's a neat website, thanks.
in word it's shift F3 on selected text
Shift + Tab leads to the previous widget.
mind blown
... that a clean towel on your pillow every night is extremely effective in eradicating acne.
May I also recommend washing your hair every night before bed.
What does this do, Iama Morning shower-er and what is this.
If you shower in the morning, you go all day collecting grime and whatnot on your skin and in your hair. Additionally, your scalp produces oils. So now you have oily crap on you hair and face. You go to bed, your hair rubs on the pillow, spreading the crap. Your face rolls around in it. Your pores clog up, and you get zits.
I use morning showers as an easy way to get rid of bed head though :(
So that's why i get zits everytime i sleep on my stomache. Because my face is on my dirty pillow. What about other parts of the body? I have terrible acne on the back of my shoulders.
thats hot
When you sleep, the scalp will produce oil regardless. As well, if you shower at night, the sweat from sleeping and a whole day's worth of grime will have built up on your skin and in your hair. By showering in the morning, you ensure that anything that is on your pillow is removed from your face. Stopping oil production during sleep is impossible, so you may as well shower in the morning to remove it.
So before showers, everyone was just acne covered and gross? Everyone?
No, there's another factor to acne besides cleaning your hair and showering at the right time. I can go a while without washing my hair and have nice face skin. I can shampoo every day and break out.
A common cause of acne is over active grease glands. This means greasy hair as well as face. If you don't wash your hair as well as your face then your pillow will get greasy from your hair and it will make your face dirty as you roll around. This is even worse if you wear hair gel.
I don't get acne any more but I still shower every morning and wash my hair again every night before bed. You would think this would make my hair dry and coarse, but it is actually really soft.
Another tip: When you come out of the shower use one side of your towel to dry your hair and the other side to dry your face and body. In order to ensure that you use the same side all the time look for the small tag. Use the tag side to dry your hair and the other side for the rest!
Honest question: why would you need to do this?
to ensure that the product residues in your hair (like oil from conditioner) do not get put onto your skin where they can cause irritation/acne. This is also the main cause of back-ne (aka back acne). If you wash and condition your hair first, then wash your whole body to remove any hair product residues, your back-ne and chest-ne should clear up. If you suddenly get back-ne, you've probably changed products and aren't washing away all the residues.
That explains my sack-ne.
Ok, I've got a problem. I've developed some bacne this year. It sucks. I also started using a new product, an oil-based cream that turns my frizzy mess into perfectly smooth hair (I'm a chick). Probably it's the oil in my hair rubbing on my upper back that's causing this. I also can't wash my hair more than once every two or three days, or it'll dry out and frizz up. Any ideas on how I can have good hair and clear back at the same time?
I've done this for a long time, not for any reason other then I feel cleaner cleaning top to bottom, since the water washes everything down the body. Now I have an explanation as to why I don't have back-ne and many of my friends suffer from it terribly. I also do the towel thing when drying, but to keep the stray hairs from sticking to me, guess it had an unintended but positive side-effect.
THANKS. bacne is the bane of my existence
Real men don't use conditioner.
Oh. This is why they make hair towels. I alway thought it was marketing. Ha :)
Sounds like a lot of 'bro-science'. Any legitimate sources for this information?
This explains so much. My acne was so much less when my hair was cut short, but I've let it grow out for a year and a half and it's just gotten progressively worse. I will have to try the wash from top to bottom and then a separate towel. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much. I'm going to keep that in mind.
Some people are just pussies.
Probably so the oils from your hair doesn't get on to your body.
I do that to avoid annoying wet hairs sticking to my wet body, but this is a good reason too.
I do tag side of the towel for my upper body and other side for my lower body. It keeps me from wiping my face with the part of the towel I wiped my balls with the day before.
Your sparkling clean balls though
Oh my god I thought I was the only one that did this! Everyone has always said that I was crazy for doing this, but I'm not. The body side is when the tag is in the bottom left corner, for me. You made my day!
Or get this
I have long hair that stays wet forever so I just dry from my feet up and then wrap my hair in the towel.
Or if you are a female with longish hair: wrap your hair with one towel and use another to dry off.
I have a similar but different system. I use the tagged side for my balls and ass etc., and the other side for my face and nice things.
I just use 2 different towels. One for face and one for the body/hair. I haven't had acne in years but the habit stuck.
Oh and the face towel always has to be white. I know it doesn't hold any merit, but it gives me the illusion of being cleaner than any of the colored ones.
I wait for my roommate to do his laundry, and when his towels are clean, I use them to dry my taint.
Or: Use two towels.
How about use one side of the towel to dry your face, hair body and use the other side to dry your ass.
Playaz wear robes after the shower.
This might come in handy!
This is exactly what I do. Sometimes I get this terrible feeling that I'm drying my hair with the side I use to dry my crotch and frantically check the tag.
Whew. That was a close one.
Context for those who missed this epic thread.
Wow, was that really 9 months ago??
Time passes too fast...
Said the bishop to the actress...
And yet I've still been too lazy to try it.
Why not just change your pillowcase more often.. like 3-4x a week.
Only have to change it twice a week. Front side, back side, inside out front, inside out back.
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wat.
Upboating for hilarity and hilarity only
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I'd double it to account for the number of pillow-flips per night, which in my case is pretty high. The other side is always so nice and cool.
OMG! I flip my pillow over to the cool side also! We should totally make a facebook group.
I flip my pillow because I'm laying in my own drool...
Not sure that's such a great idea, when you turn the dirty side to the inside, the oils from your skin get onto the actual pillow not just the case. How often do you wash the whole pillow?
Depends. Does soaking in drool count as washing?
who has that many pillowcases
They're like a buck a pair around here. That and a wash every week or two, you're set.
Far more economical than a daily towel change.
The thread I saw this in had the guy putting 7 pillow cases on his pillow. He took one of them off every morning until he got to the last one. Then he'd wash the pillow cases and the sheets.
Said he was acne free in no time :)
The point, here, is that you never are putting your face back onto an oily surface. If you only switch pillowcases 3 or 4 times, every other night you're not helping yourself.
Damn, whoever does this must have a heavy laundry basket.
You could just use a small hand towel that's big enough to cover a pillow, no need for a full sized bath towel.
I've been doing this for about a month, and have been using large towels folded in half. This way, I can switch the outer and inner surfaces, making a towel last two days. When it's freshness expires, I use it for showering, and the next day as a shower mat.
How about every day?
I started doubling my pillow cases up and kept changing them once a week. Noticeable difference, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be better.
The main reason was that towels are more absorbent than pillowcases, but both do work.
Funny, that was one of the first articles I read here.
just change your sheets more often.
I was doing this a while ago, when my mother found out she told me to use an old dirty towel. Turns out she assumed I was doing it (I said it helps acne or whatever) to stop getting pimple explosions on my pillowcase, even though I only ever had one or two red pimples at a time.
Dandruff too
On a similar note, if you have problems with back acne try changing shirts excessively. Buy a bunch of plain white T shirts and change when you wake up, when you get done with work/school, and right before you go to bed. This in combination with frequent showering does wonders to clear up your skin below your neck.
hasn't worked for me much :(
This helped me.
Obligatory Terry Pratchett reference.
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That middle-clicking on a link opens it in another tab
HAVE ALL THE EVERYTHING YOU WANT, SIR
Middle-clicking on a tab closes it.
You just blew my fucking mind!
Middle-clicking the reload button in Firefox duplicates the tab.
Middleclicking a bookmark folder opens all link inside in background tabs.
Is there something that middle-clicking can't do?
Middle-clicking on no tab doesn't perform any tab related activity.
So does pressing Ctrl+w in the tab. Ctrl+Shift+w closes ALL tabs.
Ctrl+Shift+T reopens previously closed tags.
Also, middle-clicking the 'forward'/'back' buttons opens new respective windows
Oh shit!
WITCHCRAFT!!!
GOD DAMN, SIR!
accidentally learned that one today
so does Ctrl + W
But only the current tab. With middle-click, you can close any tab.
I had to find your comment again cause I wanted to test your ideas...
Holy Crap!
in chrome left+right click closes a tab
Also, if you have Windows 7, middle clicking on an open program in the taskbar will create another instance of it.
HOLY SHIT AWESOME! I now have like 17 browsers open!
That's a wee bit selfish isn't it?
There are other folk on the interwebs besides yourself.
What's even more selfish is that he's not on Windows 7 and he's using IE6.
also in windows 7, middle clicking on one of the preview windows that opens when you hover over an item in the taskbar will close that instance of the program.
Also middle clicking on a tab closes said tab.
also if you have linux, all of this is free
Also if you don't give a fuck like me, everything is free
And customizable.
Thank you sir.
This is something I did not know, tabbed browsing (and not right clicking for the drop down menu to get there) is something I've known about Firefox (because I'm so damn smart :B) but this is new to me.
Can anybody think of any practical application for this?
Explorer, among other things. Lets say you have a folder open, and you want to copy some files to a different location, middle click explorer icon, you now have two explorer windows.
Also, if a chat program is minimized, and someone opens a convo with you, left clicking will activate the chat, not the chat program (buddy list). Middle click will show the buddy list.
TL;DR Windows is retarded, and again making things more confusing.
I use it for Excel so I can have 2 worksheets open, one on each monitor. Without a second instance of Excel, all your worksheets keep opening up in the same Excel window.
holy fuck! thanks!
HOLY FUCK
Let's get an Internet for this guy, over here!
Complete with fireballs!
Win+<n> will open up the nth task bar item. I.e., Win+3 will open chrome for me. Win+8 is for mspaint.
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Wow...you are just simply amazing..to think all this time I have been right clicking and selecting whatever I wanted ><
This will save a lifetime of clicks!
I present you with a hug.
Wow. Thanks for that.
Click an icon in the taskbar and slide the mouse up and click the program icon (third icon from the bottom) and it will open a second instance.
Ctrl+shit+t brings back a tab you just closed.
Alt+fuck+v also works.
I, for one, appreciated the satire.
Had to squint to see these were not the same poster.
It amused me in a bad way how your reply has more upvotes, but then I exacerbate the issue.
I call that the "unshit" command, for when you accidentally close your favorite porn tab and go "shit unshit shit unshit whew"
Unfortunately it doesn't work in Chrome's Incognito mode.
DAMN YOU CHROME AND YOUR INCOGNITO MODE!
Mouse gestures obviate the need for that... best addon ever? Likely.
Really useful as i close tabs by mistake all the time! Cheers.
Ctrl+Shift+W closes all tabs, along with the browser. Found that one out by accident.
Safari 5 on a Mac: Command+Z (also known as "undo")
heh. ctrl+shitty
Can also be abbreviated to Ctrl+shitty...
How have you lived this long without knowing?! I need it to survive.
same. also, middle clicking the already opened tab in the tab bar^^^ on top closes it.
I'm the same way - and now I get super pissed when a website uses some not standard link such that it doesn't work.
It's been rough.
CTRL left click as well. I habitually keep a hand on the keyboard.
I WASD even when surfing the web... It's weird.
That's because all the good hotkeys are there.
ctrl-w closes tabs
ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab navigates through tabs
ctrl-t is new tab
ctrl-f is find
ctrl-a, s, d, x, c, v, e are all useful too
ctrl-left click as described above
e: oh yeah, and spacebar is good for page down
Really helps to reduce wrist strain from using the mouse.
I find it nearly impossible to watch someone else use the internet now that all these shortcuts are habit for me. For the love of god, why are you wasting precious seconds moving the mouse over to the New Tab button?!
Also: ctrl-k puts the focus onto the search field (in Firefox). Up/Down to search the history, and Ctrl-Up or Down changes the search engine.
I never even thought of that... I always attributed it to countless hours playing Morrowind and Oblivion. My left pinky rests on the CTRL key.
they're not hot keys, but page up and down, home and end rock,
F3 is find-next, (Shift-F3 to find previous)
my fucking head just exploded! I feel like im using a brand new device
Shift + space is good for page up.
After you use Ctrl+F, Ctrl+G goes to the next instance of the phrase.
Almost all of my "page down"-ing (particularly since I'm on a laptop which doesn't have such a button (it'd be fn+down arrow) is done using spacebar.
F3 = ctrl-f
Yea, its mainly a gaming habit for me.
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so start middle clicking, free's up a hand for.... you know
I do that but it means my hand is hovering over Command+Q (I'm on a Mac in case that wasn't clear). Means I often accidentally close windows D:
Oh god how have I never realized this before!
Allow me to blow your freakin' MIND.
Middle click on a tab to close it. Go ahead, anywhere on the tab. So much faster than homing in on that tiny ass cross, isn't it?
I was going to try this, then i realized i have a mac
Yea, kinda hard to have a middle, when you only have one.
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Really? Don't macs have function keys? Command w seems like a really odd choice to me.
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Which is my main gripe with Chrome. It's rare but it happens that I want to switch to a tab and end up clicking on the tiny cross and closing it.
Firefox, OTOH, can be set up to have only one close button to the right of the tab bar.
IE8 does a Good Thing: you have the close-cross on the current tab, but not the others.
If you're using a laptop, if you click with both the left and right click buttons simultaneously, you will emulate a middle-click, and all of the awesome that this entails.
HOLY CRAP.
You're welcome.
OH LAWD
I don't have a middle click. :(
Fortunately, ctrl+click accomplishes the same thing. Works great on my PC laptop. Unfortunately, on my Mac, I always accidentally Alt+Click, and it downloads the URL in a file of the link, and I have to go find and delete that.
My god I have spent endless hours right clicking then selecting open in new tab. I honestly will send you something of value for this knowledge. No seriously hit me up.
What, like, cookies?
Sure - if that is what you want. PM me your address.
You changed my world
Also ctrl-click/cmd-click (depending on OS) both work
Except when it doesn't for some reason. My mouse sucks.
I just used this! :O
:O
ctl-shift-t opens the tab you just closed.
...and that's my new thing I learned today.
Triple clicking on text selects whole row of text.
It selects the whole paragraph actually.
/gasp
mind.... BLOWN!
Also, if you're like me and wore out your middle button through years of opening new tabs, you can achieve the same effect by clicking the right and left buttons at the same time.
I always hated when I accidentally hit the back or forward button on the sides of my mouse, so I changed them to different things. I made one of the side buttons be a middle click, and it feels so much better then clicking the wheel.
right click + t when im on my laptop
You can just click both buttons on your touchpad instead of right-clicking and hitting T. It's the same as a middle-click.
Doesn't work for me.
You can also middle click on the open space next to your tabs and it'll bring back your most recently closed tab.
Also, Command+click on a macbook does the same.
I'm a mac, and what is this
Download Jitouch and use three finger tap as a middle mouse button.
Or alternatively, get a real computer.
ha ha good one, bro
I'm on a laptop, and have no middle click :(
Try clicking both sides of your... clicker thing that's under your scroll pad at the same time. That should be the same as a 'middle click'.
Yeah, but that requires me to take a finger off the mousing pad, which just is too much effort for me. I'd rather just have the other hand hit ctrl.
I don't even know what middle clicking is.
Le sigh.
It's clicking with the scroll wheel on a mouse. Or the middle button on those freaky three-button deals
ah.
i haven't used a mouse in a few years; that would probably explain my lack of familiarity.
So middle-clicking is pressing down on the wheel? Cuz I can only seem to manage scrolling and clicking a random link that way
Not pressing, just holding the pointer stationary over a link, then clicking it once
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Middle-clicking on the browser's back arrow opens it in a new tab.
what do I do if I have a laptop? :(
For some reason this doesn't work for me anymore. Can anybody help me enable this function again?
You can also close your current tab by pressing Ctrl+W This also works for many programs/apps like windows explorer in place of Alt+F4.
Damn laptop track with only two buttons! I want to try this out so badly!
OMG this is going to make imagefap soooo much better.
How to use the same razorblade for a very long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ADaRIqy0Dc&feature=player_embedded
It just seems to work. Also the razor companies damn well know it. They have created a bunch of useless things in order to get you to throw out perfectly good razors. Like that gel strip; so useless.
Ugh, yea, that gel strip. Its only purpose is to look ragged and worn down to make you throw out the blade that much sooner.
Actually, as I recently discovered, they now fall apart in large chunks and get stuck in the blades. I recommend removing them entirely before using if you're using the above method.
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Oh, you should probably replace your blade sooner! <rolleyes>
thats why i use three new blades per shave :D
This is similar to when a pencil sharpener is worn out. The old school ones with the single blade and you spin the pencil to sharpen it. Well what you do is wrap the pencil tip (whole surface that comes in contact with the blade) with tinfoil. go with the blade, same idea as the razor. and BAM its sharp again and you can use it like its brand new. no one uses these anymore, but hey, its cool!
use with caution: this method works, but the side effects can turn you into an overweight topless man watched by strangers on the internet...
I hate it when that happens.
He seemed pretty cool to me.
I did this once after seeing this video on my arm and I was like I'm not sure if it's working? so i went the other way, I shaved my arm hair.
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Wait til I get going. Where was I?
Australia.
Upvote for Princess Bride reference.
Well, if you shaved your arm hair, then I guess it did work after all?
Well now that it's shaved, you'll be able to see those videos on your arm much more clearly.
I have very hairy arms. Will this work for me?
use ur shoulder or something. if ur shoulders are hairy too. Why are you even bothering to shave mr. werewolf.
ಥ_ಥ
This honestly sounds like a catch 22, to shave your arms, you need a sharp razor, to sharpen your razor, you need shaved arms.
Okay, coming from Dr. Retard, how do you make the squares?
To the camps with you, Grammar Jew!
This reminds me of a joke...
Why do Italians wear gold chains around their neck? So they know where to stop shaving!
How does one go from the appropriate use of a semi-colon to using "ur"? You're amazing.
Pretty sure that was an inappropriate use of a semi colon...
I don't know about the arm, but you can use jeans as well. Just take one of your jeans, move the razor in the non-shaving direction (i.e. don't shave the jeans) with some pressure, and ta-da! I've been using it for 4 months since I learned it in reddit and it works like a charm. I'd assume it works even better than an arm.
I've gone and shaved my jeans, just to spite you. Now I'm going to look like an IDIOT
Are you wearing the jeans while you do this, or just leaving them on a table?
I don't. Actually I just cut a part from one of my old jeans, it sits with my razor in the bathroom.
But the process does not damage the jeans, so you can use it on jeans lying on a table (with possibly you running around naked), or while wearing them on horseback. Your choice.
I will try it this week and get back to you.
I've been doing it shaving the jeans and it works great that way as well. It doesn't actually hurt the jeans and I've been using the same disposable razor cartridge for about a year now.
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Other videos suggest doing the same thing on the leg of a pair of jeans.
The underside of your arms too?
Not nearly as much.
Underside of your forearm?
I assume that the underside of your arm is not nearly as hairy as the top side. Use the underside.
Not nearly, but still.
I use my thigh.
Shave a strip with your dull blade, then sharpen it where you shaved.
oh god i know i'm going to accidentally rub it the wrong direction
Said the actress to the soldier.
Wow, I'm absolutely going to try this next time I'm about to replace my cartridge. I shave my head on a regular basis (2-3 times a week), so I have to swap them out very regularly.
can you post follow ups?
I have been doing this just to shave my face for months now, but I would love to know how this works for you, maybe you notice the difference more than me.
Absolutely! I'll let you know next time I do it. Should be next week or the week after.
For great justice!
Clue me in, too.
Hey! Just wanted to give you an update. When I made the original my razor blade was at the end of its life (I use a Mach 5), and was really starting to pull.
Fast forward to yesterday morning, used this guy's trick and it legitimately worked. I don't know if I'd say it felt brand new, but it felt much better. The hair on the side and back of my head is pretty thick, and it was a notable difference from even the previous shave.
It really is great. I bought a three pack of mach3 disposables. After 4 months, I am still using the first one.
Not disposable at all, it seems to work great. Although I must say that I used one of the new ones and it does feel different. But not so much to make me change back to the old ways.
love to hear your results. I find it works well for me, but you're going much heavier duty then I do.
Hey! Just wanted to give you an update. When I made the original my razor blade was at the end of its life (I use a Mach 5), and was really starting to pull.
Fast forward to yesterday morning, used this guy's trick and it legitimately worked. I don't know if I'd say it felt brand new, but it felt much better. The hair on the side and back of my head is pretty thick, and it was a notable difference from even the previous shave.
That's incredible, I can't believe how much these stupid things cost. I'm trying this tonight.
I think Gillette has started manufacturing flaws into the blades so that they go crooked after a certain number of uses. I've noticed the blades on my razor heads start to do this lately.
If not manufacturing flaws, they certainly have lowered their quality. I found a box of replacement blades from when they first introduced their Mach 3 line. The shave feels better and I had to replace the blades less frequently compared to replacement blades that are currently available.
rubbing sideways on an old pair of jeans works really well also.
What does it tell you to do? YouTube is blocked in work.
I've just been using the ol' razor gator.
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Just switch to wetshaving with a safety razor. My blades only cost me $0.10!
http://www.youtube.com/user/mantic59 is a great place to start
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does it work with disposable razers?
I've been doing this to remove the hairs from the blades, I never realised I was keeping it sharp at the same time, so I promptly threw out the old razors like a good little consumer.
Holy shit.
Using a good soap helps as well. I use a brush in paste.
Thanks a ton for this!
I use a straight razor. Been using the same one for 5 years :)
I am not trying this with my safety razor... Sure it would probably still work, but just no. o_o
I've had the same fusion blade for nearly a year now, thanks to this.
I saved tons of money on my razor blades by switching to Levi's 527s.
Has anyone experience using Rotoshave ?
User a safety razor. You wont have to worry about saving blades. Try a Merkur, you'll thank yourself later.
Why must that guy be shirtless for the razor-sharpening tutorial?
Just dry it out with a towel after shaving. It's the corrosion of the metal from the water that wears it down as much as anything.
Hey man, I need those 18 blades to get a decent shave, okay?
I tried this. It doesn't work very well at all.
That sounds like a good way to slit your wrists accidentally.
WHY THE FUCK IS HE NAKED
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The guy gives you a great tip, and the best you can do is insult him?
If you tilt your head back and pretend you're shaking a salt shaker into your mouth, you'll actually taste salt.
When I try this, all I taste is cock...
You're doing it wrong, you have to take the cock out first.
Gross!
You may want to get that taste out. To accomplish this just act like you're brushing your teeth with an invisible tooth brush.
I think I just jerked off a ghost into my mouth
Who ya gonna call?
Ghost- busters.
(get it? get it? like BUSTING A NUT!)
Those busty tees.
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Also great any time you're eating a meal, and find there's no salt at the table. I do it all the time, and don't have any heart problems.
This worked pretty well for my father who has hypertension. Do 7 shakes before the meal, and another 4 halfway in the meal.
It really works!
Works especially well with eating sausages!
Do you have to do it into your mouth (awkward) or can you shake it onto your food (merely confusing)?
Well, the flavor is pretty weak, so its much easier to just shake it into your mouth. Plus, you are tricking your brain so that makes it much more convincing to your subconscious.
Sometimes I find the salt gets stuck in the shaker so I have to shake it up and down violently before returning it to my mouth.
...dammit.
my brain is easily fooled. curse you!
Stop blaming your brain
Upvoted because me too. >_<
Classic.
I just did this in my office
I don't believe that.. show me first!
I can't believe I fell for this.
Can't stop giggling now.
Well played. :')
So THAT'S why she says it tastes salty.
lol, I get all of my friends with this one
It doesn't work for me. :(
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D'aww... I shake my salt shakers from side to side, so this doesn't really work...
Didn't work :(
i just about did it....... then i realistic what i was about to do
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Get up, get dressed, take bus to HMV, avoid chavs, look for DVD, DVD unavailable, pick alternative DVD, queue up, deal with rude spotty idiot cashier, purchase DVD for hugely inflated price, get bus home, insert DVD, piracy warning, you wouldn't steal a car etc, STOP>STOP>PLAY, watch DVD.
.....or
Stay in bed, Isohunt, torrent, VLC.
And they wonder why we pirate.
I'd be happy to pay for the raw video like which you get in a torrent. Especially if I could download at full pipe and be watching the movie in a matter of 15 or 20 minutes.
The itunes store has a lot of stuff, but 30 quid for a season of House is just ridiculous when it's 11 quid from Amazon on dvd. I don't mind paying, I do object to being ripped off. When the free alternative is easier than the expensive legal version, which do they expect people to choose?
Netflix.
No excuse.
Excuse: A lot of movies are not available for streaming.
golf clap
I don't understand why people don't use VLC.
Maybe it's because you can't install VLC on a home DVD player?
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Fortunately most computers come with convenient HDMI ports on them now!
You can, however, plug a computer into your TV.
Because mpc or mplayer are better alternatives?
I'd disagree. I'm not a huge fan of mplayer.
for some high res mkv's, like 1080p, yeah. VLC seems to display a lot of noise for those videos. Though for other, less HD videos, VLC seems to be good.
MPC FTW. VLC is nice but I get vsync tears in my videos using that. I also like the video & audio filters FFDshow gives me.
Edit: Before anybody makes suggestions - yes I tried different display drivers and settings. MPC just works out of the box.
i either use VLC Media Player or the KM Player
I still use Winamp a lot....
Pressing play? Like a child? Double click that motherfucker.
Fucking space bar like a boss.
does what?
Skips all the commercial bullshit and plays the movie.
Shit, silver, I didn't know that!
so do torrents
You have commercials on your DVDs? None of my DVDs have commercials... Wha?
Previews, FBI warnings, etc...
Bypasses previews (and menus too, I believe.)
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Yay! I contributed to the community! My highest rated comment:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/b3opv/legal_dvd_vs_pirated_copy/c0ktj8r
Explain?
Bypasses commercials and menus and starts the movie.
I love you now
I love that trick, it works if you have no remote and you can't get past the menu screen just by pressing play too
Any parent will tell you that this is a fucking godsend. Disney DVDs are the absolute worst with that crap.
This doesnt work on any of my DVD players :/
TIL that redditors like to tell people about the useful trivia they have learned on reddit, without explaining how it fucking works or why it's interesting.
magnets
They just fucking work.
and they are interesting.
Can be fun trip toys if you get the right ones.
Definitely my favourite hobby.
They're not magic, though. I know that much.
mine are the best.
How do they work?
How do they fuck?
I've heard of those, but I've never understood...
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That annoyed the shit out of me. I was reading down through a few of the highest rated comments and noticed that most of them didn't elaborate on what the hell they were talking about.
And you find this interesting because...?
Ctrl+Shift+T brings back closed tabs
Wow. I tried this and was unpleasantly reminded that the last tab I closed was from clicking on a goatse link in another comment...thanks.
Goatse 2: Back from the Dead
Goatse 3: INCEPTION
Directed By M. Night Shyamalan.
Nah he just got ya. Ctrl+Shift+T just brings up Goatse every time.
That would be oddly awesome!
Epic.
Goatse? Are you reading the internet 5 years ago?
I just tried that right now on my Safari. I wonder how it'll work on the Firefox.
It works on the Firefox.
If you're on a Mac try command-shift-T for Firefox or Chrome instead.
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command+z or ctrl+z in Safari.
fucking safari(it might be old, but on a school computer). I can't find anyway to reopen a closed tab.
“Undo” works to reopen the last closed tab in Safari 5.
I'll try that, thanks
Command+Z works
thanks, I'll try that
This can potentially be used for evil. Thank you kind sir.
you have radically changed my fap experience
Ctrl+Z in Opera... why can't other browsers make it that simple?
Safari uses ctrl+z/command+z
Works in Chrome :-)
Holy shhiiiit
My life will never be the same.
Thanks. My closed tab was goatse also.
as does middle click on the tab bar.
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Or, in the Chrome new tab page, you can see all of the tabs you have closed, in order.
Keep doing it and it will keep bringing back closed tabs -- don't tell the ladies if you're hiding your fapping though, this is a sure fire way for them to bust you.
For Safari users it's (ugh) Ctrl/Cmd+Z.
Fuckers.
The proper way to eat a chicken wing. Also greasemonkey and grooveshark!
Explain the chicken wing eating process.
Holy shit check out this youtube comment:
70yrs of doing it wrong... my this internet is wonderful
PAW PAW?
Grandpa Wi... nevermind. :(
So there are interesting comments on youtube.
At least one, anyway.
the internet never lies
Wow, thank you. I can die happy now
My God.
holy jesus.
That man deserves a fucking medal.
Fuck me, I had no idea. Now I want some chicken wings but it is 1:30 am.
I feel like any method that uses two hands is flawed.
The best way is to learn to break the joint with your fingers and then pull the meat off the bones with your teeth. It's just as easy once you get used to it and much less messy.
*There is always room for improvement.*This is what I do now but watching this video made me go with that method.
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That was the very first time I've ever had a pre-ad on Youtube. Anyone else?
Well I'm tempted to restate the meme that's going around right now (you know the one I mean), but suffice it to say: "I had no idea!"
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Video, article?
This kind of thing should be taught in schools.
Clearly getting chicken wings for dinner now. By myself, so I can practice this.
Elated. Moving to Buffalo in a week, just in time!
This. Changes. Everything.
Or place your thumb between the two bones and your index and middle on both bones. Then place the bottom on the plate and push down. All the meat slides down the bones.
squeezing your thumb in your hand suppresses your gag reflex. My boyfriend thanks you reddit >_^
Placebo effect
Now you have to answer to her boyfriend for ruining her placebo effect.
The placebo effect still works even if you know the specific treatment is fake.
How? Why? Fuck you.
http://rosacea-support.org/placebo-treatments-work-even-if-you-know-theyre-fake.html
Upvoted for "How? Why? Fuck you.".
I think I'd kill gamemasterAS if I was the boyfriend.
Careful there Paul, I know a lot of people who'd like to kill you.
Whatever works
I was under the impression it worked like referred pain...
I thought you were just being one of those naysayers, but then I tried it just believing I had no gag reflex. It worked.
MIND = BLOWN.
That may be. A trick I recently discovered when avoiding gagging from smells: you tend to react to smells the most harshly at the beginning of a breath. Before discovering this, my reflex around bad smells was to take short breaths and avoid breathing as much as possible. After discovering this I pretty much eliminated my gag reflex by forcing myself to keep breathing in when I was tempted to gag.
Yes, this is why it was common to only bath once a year: everyone smelled, and so everyone quickly got used to the smell.
Yeah I tried it when I'm scrubbing the lichen off my tongue and I still wretch.
Not really, it's a distraction more than anything.
Why is your eye like that?
Goopy stuff right in the eyes
SOMEONE GET HER SOME COLD WATER
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Happened to my ex once. She learned to swallow the hard way. Weird pun in there.
Lazy eye
Hot.
I agree.
We’re both in love with a sexy lady
With an eye that’s lazy
The girl that’s fly with a wonky eye
She’s smokin’ with an eye that’s broken
I think it’s hot the way she looks left a lot
Side effect of suppressing gag reflex.
That is a good one! To the top with this.
You can try it with your username.
Up, up and awaaaaaay!
It seems to work!
...So what did you just practice on?
Err... My own finger. Why? What did you use?
Tried to teach this to my gf and it didn't seem to work for her. I even kept the placebo fact from her and still nothing...
Your smiley has a lazy eye. Just thought you should know.
Go on...
Thanks, I just deep throated my finger.
uh, you naughty boy ;P
Same hand? Or opposite thumb?
Opposite hand, same thumb. Or upside-down hand, reverse thumb topwise if you want.
Seriously, same hand.
Woah wait. So I put my thumb in the palm of my opposote hand and then squeeze, and my gag reflex goes away?
same hand
Indeed. I tested this out a few weeks ago with the boy to great satisfaction. Internets, you are so lovely.
So does smiling.
My wife tried this. It didn't work. :\
I've learned the hard way not to click any links posted by Reddit user: hiddengoatselink
can u explain?
Welcome to the internet!
I can't believe I just clicked on that...
Lol... I believe your face looked something like this? http://i.imgur.com/iyJth.jpg
As evidenced by the other comments, it doesn't matter how old or famous something is on the internet, there will always be fresh victims. Lol.
Or people expecting link to that reddit user or older post from his :/
Oh. My. GOD.
I know I should stop staring but I just cant turn away . . .
Tilts head
then you'll love http://www.meatspin.com
go on... you know you wanna..
About a year ago when I still played WoW, we were talking about funny websites in guild chat. Well one of those people was young, not sure how old, and someone mentioned goatse.
So of course he goes to check it out. A few minutes later he freaks out like you've never imagined and leaves the guild. Now we weren't just any guild, we were the top raiding guild on the server. We were doing the end Ulduar or whatever was the highest at the time, can't remember. He refused to rejoin for weeks.
I guess even epic loot couldn't make him unsee.
O, this looks legit.... wait a second.
Put a fucking NSFW on that. PLEASE!
No way, that defeats the purpose of goatse. How else are you going to learn to not click hiddengoatselinks!?
DAMNIT!!!!!
Wait, .fr?
What happened to .cx?
Some things you just can't un-see!!!
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That's not the only thing that's ruined.
Hooray for infixes.
It's burned on my front lobe! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
NSFW btw
For those of you who clicked the link, here's something for you to recover: http://www.eyebleach.com/
ctrl-shift-t should do the trick
HEY! Providing unrelated links is MY JOB. :(
Well. I'm not sure what I expected there.
I promise that Sabotage101's link is not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not goatse.cx
needs moar nots
I don't think it's required.
I admire your restraint, sir.
Or maybe just your unwillingness to possibly accidentally see what you could've probably forced somethingweird to see.
I haven't clicked on any links in this thread, but I honestly thought this would be another Goatse link. Heres an upvote.
can u explain?
ಠ_ಠ
Ha, you actually clicked it.
NSFL
I'm blind! I'm blind!
So... I have this firefox thingamajig, and you can make it do neat things ... add ons? Whatever. So I have this add on thingie called WOT, or Web of Trust. It puts circles next to the links! No foolin! Most circles are green. Green means go. Sometimes the circles are red. That means if I click on it, I get to see distended anuses. Or women with genitalia they shouldn't have, or sometimes just a site that looks nice but tries to install mean things on my computer. I like this thing, this WOT. Just for those off days I don't feel like scarring my soul. Thought you might think that was interesting.
The proper way to peel a banana.
I still prefer to do it the so called "wrong" way. It just feels better.
I still prefer to do it the so called "wrong" way. It just feels better.
Many say this after using their feet for masturbation.
I know a guy like that.
is this the trivia you are going to post or are you leaving us hanging?
I saw that video about the "right" way, was amazed, and then realised that I never had much trouble eating bananas the "wrong" way anyway.
That's what she said.
I do it the wrong way too, because when I did it that way the stem annoyed me sticking down like that.
I find it easier too. I don't understand how people struggle to open a banana.
But then you have that annoying black part on top that you have to hold on to or eat.
You're doing it wrong.
Explain.
The black part shouldn't come off. If you pull right under the black part it comes off with the peel, not separately.
Exactly, that is why I don't like the "right" method.
Who the fuck eats the black part?
From masturbating with your feet? I won't try it then.
I've been doing it the right way ever since. Changed my life.
I hate eating banana's in public now, because everyone looks at me like "wtf is that dude doing"
I'm not sure they're worried about how you're peeling it, but how you deepthroat the goddamn thing every time. Practice those skills at home.
Yeah it takes a while to learn how to deepthroat a banana the right way
I dated a girl who ate bananas by shoving them in and out of her mouth rapidly, scraping pulp off with her teeth as she went. She said she's always done it that way but knows how it must look.
And then you explain how awesome you are that you invented the perfect way to open a banana.
Best way: use your thumbs to cut open a slit on the outside of the bend (positioned so banana curving away from you), so you can eat it without any peels hanging, and then when it's all eaten, the peel looks like an unopened banana (since it only has 1 slit). This also allows you to eat 1/2 the banana and use the peeling as a container for the other half if you ever just need 1/2.
Bonus: letting someone in the house believe they're about to enjoy a delicious banana, only to be sadly skinanana'ed, if I may be so bold as to coin the term.
Both this picture, and this word (skinanana'ed) made my day.
And it's only 8:37am!
Wow, a redditor in the same time zone as me! Singapore?
I'm in Malaysia, just guessing Singapore cuz it seems more likely for some reason.
Edit: apparently, western Australia is in the same time zone. I was not aware of that. Now I am. And so are you if you weren't already.
Edit2: China too. That significantly slims down my chances of being right.
Better yet, pre-slice the banana.
Seems like a hell of a lot of dicking around with a banana for no true reason...
Amaze your nieces and nephews!
Novelty... it's the reason for the season.
I could never understand why you only need just 1/2 of a banana.
Thank you.....
Being told that all the bananas in Mario Kart are pealed this way was mind bottling.
Mmmm, bottled mind.
What's the "proper" way? And what's good about it?
Okay. I see what he's doing, but why is that supposed to be a better method?
It's much easier.
Sometimes it's difficult to begin the peeling process with the 'common method'. ie. banana skin is too rubbery and won't tear. Secondly, I find that those hanging thread things appear far less with the 'better method'
Don't forget this way!
I showed someone this for the first time today, it was epic.
As did I.
Are you Brian?
PAW PAW?!
Ha, no. I showed Angelique and Obie.
do it from the bottom
Please explain. I am still ignorant.
I instinctively have opened bananas from the bottom my whole life (if thats what you are referring to). It always really annoys me when people struggle opening from the top. Also, if you are careful, you can separate bananas into thirds lengthwise, for some reason I swear it makes it taste better!
Do you know the fun way? Hold it by the stem and flick the banana over your hand. It will open slightly, and you can finish peeling like normal. (Do not try with overripe bananas, you'll be left holding the stem while your snack sails across the room.)
I'm going to try this soon.
upgoat cause I read this as "I'm going to try this in prison." thank you.
I've almost lost a few friends arguing for this technique. Stubborn bastards.
That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard of. Not once have I been troubled by my banana method.
Congratulations.
Almost immediately after I started doing this I became allergic to bananas. Coincidence?
I think so.
I prefer the wrong way because you dont get that nasty black thing thats on the bottom of the banana.
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Absolutely! That is, if you meant to type the word "you", and that you meant to direct the question to a general audience. Apologies in advance if you wanted only sweet_static to reply.
Check this out, it's a good explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng&feature=related
Uncle Phil did the voice of Shredder in Turtles.
Fuck your drowning, wanking and acne nonsense.
If anyone reading this is in San Diego, you can currently see Joseph Marcellus (Geoffrey the butler) on stage as Kent in King Lear down at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. It's only $20 if you're under 30.
I about flipped when I realized that was him (while watching the play).
Uncle Phil Hendrie?
Mr. Hendrie does not get the love he so deserves.
That's because he's a total dick to his fans.
He soaks the less intelligent fans for entertainment value, yes.
How was this useful to you? Was the million dollar question "Who voiced Shredder in the Ninja Turtles cartoons?"
Also, Urkel voiced Sonic in both '90s cartoons.
Who the fuck is Uncle Phil?
Fresh Prince uncle is who I immediately thought of
Holy shit. I would frequently watch those shows consecutively as a kid and I never realized it. You, sir, blew my mind today.
You are most welcome.
WHOA. WHOA NO!
This can't be right! Someone assure me this is falsehood.
I resent that. Drowning and acne, sure... but my wanking is never nonsense.
Who is Uncle Phil?
From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Ah. I've heard of that, it's what made Will Smith famous, right?
I always thought it was interesting that the girl that voiced Penny in Inspector Gadget is the same girl to voice Foxy Love in Drawn Together.
That's exactly the show. Uncle Phil was his Uncle and major father figure throughout the show.
That is a strange bit of trivia.
^
That's... very informative. I guess.
Dr Phil???
No
my uncle phil is dead
so confused
You know what else? Artie (the strongest man in the world) did the voice for Kahn Souphanousinphone in King of the Hill.
Also, Leonard Nimoy did the voice-over for most of the quotes in Civ IV.
If you can't tell that's Leonard Nimoy, you don't deserve to be wasting countless hours of your life playing Civ IV :)
who is uncle phil?
Fresh Prince
The Fresh Prince's uncle, portrayed by actor James Avery.
Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince!
From The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
John Tyler, who was a US President way before Lincoln, has two living grandsons.
Not especially useful but something I am constantly telling people to sound smart and interesting.
Well lets hope they stay alive as long as possible for you to remain smart and interesting.
"Tippecanoe and Tyler too...."
Upvote for old W. H. Harrison slogans!
Upvote for recognizing it.
From wikipedia:
"As of 2009, Tyler has two living grandsons through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935). Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928.[30]"
Lyon Tyler had kids at 70?
He ain't Lyon
To be clear, I upvoted for the username, not the pun. Carry on.
To be clear, I upvoted for the pun. I could care less about the username.
A neighbor of mine is 83 years old and just knocked up his 37 year old wife. Why would you do that?
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He probably didn't know he still could.
1928-1853=75.
Well, there's one family that doesn't need Viagra.
Makes you wonder if they are his biological grandsons. 70+ year old guy with I'm sure much younger wife? I bet she was fond of the gardener.
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According to Wikipedia, he did have 15 (possibly 16) children. That's a lot of grandchildren possibilities. I'm not surprised 2 are still around.
[That almonds aren't nuts and that frenchphrasebook is a stupid fucking cunt](http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/b6etw/today_i_learned_almonds_are_not_nuts_and_that_i/"and also how to make text show up when you hover the cursor over the link")
Clever on that 2nd one, have an upvote.
Also I think you figured your link thing out.
lol
Please explain!
Teach me the text hovering part.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Make this text into a bookmarklet, then click it, then click any comment you want to reveal the "code" (markup) for.
Bookmarklet code:
javascript:void($('.comment').bind('click.z',function(){$.getJSON($('.bylink',c=this).attr('href')+'.json',function(data){$('.md:eq(0)',c).replaceWith('<div%20class="usertext-edit"><textarea>'+data[1].data.children[0].data.body+'</textarea></div>')});$('.comment').unbind('.z')}));
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My bad...I found it in another thread a while ago...also without attribution. Thanks for the bookmarklet!! I use this one all the time.
Post script...RedditHax makes my eyes bleed...
Build a man a fire, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.
what you want the link to say
[yeah!](http://www.justinbiebermusic.com/l"Justin Bieber > Digg")
[You'd better not be lying](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ctib5/what_is_the_most_useful_trivia_youve_ever_learned/"hot damn it worked")
[This is awesome!](http://www.oglaf.com"like Oglaf but without the tits and cum!")
Upvoted for [concision](http://www.wordreference.com/definition/concision"WordReference.com defines as terseness and economy in writing and speaking").
goatse
[That doesn't work!](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ctib5/what_is_the_most_useful_trivia_youve_ever_learned/"EDIT: OMFG, it does!")
The comments syntax are based on Markdown. Here's a page on the syntax: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
The term "nut" has a botanical definition, according to which almonds are indeed not nuts, but in the context of food the term is much less restrictive. So almonds can be nuts, depending on whether you're making food or attending a scientific conference.
i read that lots of nuts aren't nuts.
Are you a wizard?
"The fruit of the almond is not a true nut, but a drupe, which consists of an outer hull and a hard shell with the seed ('nut') inside"
wtf... then what about walnuts, pecans, pestachios, peanuts, etc...?
He's a stupid fucking poser.
Anytime I read about almonds I have to read up on Cyanide again... The fucking things make it in your mouth!
What the silver ball things are called.
Dance sphere?
Stop.
Hammertime!
Collaborate and listen.
Drop and roll.
Continue!
Don't, don't, don't let's start.
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Happy Reddit Birthday!!
Thanks for the wishes! :)
In the name of love.
Disco ball.
Disco ball.
Disco ball.
Disco Ball
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Drums, rock 'n roll...
Goose!
You win the upboat here.
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Disco Ball
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Disco Ball
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Disco ball.
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what?
Disco Stu's balls?
Stu
Whoops, thanks.
yes
Specular sphere
disco ball
Specular sphere?
This is not acceptable |:
Disco ball
Disco Ball
Disco ball.
Don't leave me hanging - what are they called?!
BOOGIE GLOBES!
Disco ball
Disco ball.
Disco ball
Disco ball
Disco ball.
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Disco ball.
The Newton's cradle?
Disco ball.
Dragonball
Disco ball.
Mirror ball
Dragees! So tasty and illegal in California.
Not to hijack this or anything, but since someone mentioned silver balls, that reminds me.
(insert joke here)
Okay, but it reminds me that for the past 10 years I've had a word on the tip of my tounge, that word being a synonym for what is fired from a musket. A musket ball.
I'm positive there is another word for this type of ammunition. Aside from musket ball.
Mini-ball?
Maybe this? (Wild guess)
...the fuck? What did I miss?
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Testicles.
Ball bearings?
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Nabisco doll.
It's a schooner!
Bearings, Baoding balls?
Edit: what? there are more silver ball thingies than disco balls.
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Disco ball
Maybe someone can help me with this term because I forget the name.
There's a psychology term where you know so little about something that you don't even understand that you're not understanding it.
I showed this article to my husband. Despite that I have forgotten the name, I always tell him he suffers from this. ;)
I never knew there was a real name for this. I just called it "the Pocahontas Problem" after the line "you'll learn things you never knew you never knew."
Hehe do you call Stockholm Syndrome, "Beauty and the Beast Complex" too?
I call Rohyphnol "sleeping beauty serum" and I just refer to young arabs with genies as "Aladdin"
You know, that never occurred to me before, but I'm not sure I can get it out of my head now. Touche.
Trying to follow this line of logic has made my head explode.
Ohhhhh....I always thought she was just repeating that line because sometimes lines are repeated in songs. It makes a lot more sense now.
Hehe, but is it the most useful trivia you've ever learned on reddit?
Yes, thanks!!!
I tried to explain this to a totally incompetent coworker, who of course didn't understand it. Later that night I read the wikipedia article in its entirety, and I realized it's just a thinly veiled way of saying "you're a dumbass" to someone.
Don't worry though, anyone who falls in to this category won't get it
Category? The whole point is that it applies to everybody!
Also known as Tea-bagism.
Named for Debbe Dunning and Diane Kruger.
I referenced it about a million times in my thesis, THANKS REDDIT!
I believe the layman term is Frustrating Moron.
I had a science teacher who would always remind us that: "You don't know what you don't know" great advice
Inspector Gadget
Is this the same thing when someone is so dumb they can't even recognize that their lack of intelligence, mistaking their own ignorance for intellect?
"In the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." -Bertrand Russell
This is like the most simple remedial concept in philosophy I am shocked that it is taught in psychology as an 'effect', and even more shocked that two whole people got their names famous for "thinking" of it.
oh, the irony!
I literally just sent this wikipedia article to a bitch that was being a bitch and saying how smart she was. I felt like it was a great success.
you must be an expert
I found this article very interesting: what the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn't
Essentially it says that it's possible the Dunning-Kruger effect is vastly overstated and is nothing more than what you would expect to see in these instances.
That Old Spice is the only way to smell like the man I could smell like.
I learned this by accident in highschool. Started using Old Spice deodorant, suddenly girls who never talked to me started telling me I spell nice.
Not that any of them would go out with me. I wish I'd learned the towel-on-the-pillow thing back then, too.
Edit: Obviously, that was supposed to say "smell nice", but I'm not gonna fix it because it made me laugh.
started telling me I spell nice.
Quite ironic isn't it?
Not really. Its more of a typo than a misspelling...sorry to ruin the joke.
I have Alanis Morissetteitis. It has destroyed my sense of irony.
I've heard so many people misuse "irony" that I refuse to accept that it's a valid concept anymore.
Ironic indeed. In fairness, it was much more of a typing mistake than a spelling one. I know how to spell smell, I just think faster than I type, and my fingers kinda take over. Given that I'm something of a grammar nazi, I'm sure I've typed spell much more often than smell, and my fingers figured this is what I wanted.
This was probably much more of a reply than was necessary, but it's late and I get kinda wired on sleep deprivation by the time the sun starts coming up.
thinking
Uh... no.
I don't think so at least.
Fucking irony, how dos it work?
I wore Old Spice through middle and high school and got made fun of because it was "for old men".
Nice try, old spice guy.
Sounds like circular reasoning to me.
I love circular things.
ok! thats enough! im going to buy me some FUCKIN OLD SPICE DEODORANT .... jesus... reddit must love this guy
That links submitted in the evening (in the US) typically do very poorly whereas links submitted in the morning do very well, regardless of content.
In Europe, karma mostly comes at night. Mostly.
i hear if you say karmanauts name 3 times in a mirror at night.....
...your bathroom is going to get really crowded.
Aliens....nice.
Reddit over, man! Reddit over!
Game over, man! Game over!
How do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?
So does Trogdor...
I've figured about 5 AM PST is the optimal time for link submission.
everybody gets to work, grabs their coffee, and sits down for their dail reddit time.
Evening which time zone?
PST
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Drowning doesn't look like drowning.
What's it look like?
The article I read a few days ago
Aaaaaand that is exactly how I almost drowned when I was four years old. Thankfully, my father was in the Navy and figured out what was happening. He pulled me out, performed mouth-to-mouth, and now I get to waste my time on Reddit.
You kissed your dad on the lips.
I did the exact same thing described in the article at a pool party when I was maybe 5 years old. Completely surrounded by adults I was drowning for what seemed like minutes (but probably only a few seconds) before someone next to me non-nonchalantly turned around and grabbed me. I didn't realize until just now how close I was to dying, since I'd always assumed that the bobbing up and down would have kept me going for a while.
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Wow. I'm really glad you posted that and I checked out this thread. I'm about to start training as a scuba diver, working my way up to Dive Master. I'm sure I'll learn this kinda thing in the rescue diver course, but it's great to know for anything that happens before that. Gracias!
Edit: Am I the only one frantically sending this to everyone I can think of? My sister regularly takes her daughters out on her boyfriend's boat, and I'm practically in tears thinking about it.
Please don't train through PADI -- go with a real organization like SSI or NAUI.
Rescue Diver and Divemaster courses won't really teach you this. They're more designed for rescuing divers than swimmers, and train you to look for more diver-specific behaviours, like equipment rejection. (I am a D.M)
nope. i never send out e-mails like this, but my family's going to a lake soon and i'm e-mailing this to my parents right now
terrifying
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Shit. I almost drowned as a kid in a hotel pool that was full of people. Now all the memories have come back and it's really hard to write this reply.
The thing I remember most is the complete helplessness: one moment I was confidently swimming along, the next I just drowned. I couldn't swim, wave, shout, or do anything but try and keep my head above the water while I quickly sank deeper and deeper. Luckily a random stranger saved me that day.
To this day it's the most horrying experience in my entire life and the worst thing is, I just realised that until reading this article I would probably not have been able to recognise the signs and save my younger self.
Why did you start to drown?
I have the exact same story.
I almost drowned in a community pool when I was young. I was only a few feet from a lifeguard stand, and he never even noticed me. I barely made it to the edge of the pool, but I did and saved myself. My parents never even took me seriously when I told them about this.
I almost forgot about this happening until reading the article you posted.
edit: I forgot to mention how terrifying it was. I couldn't make a sound and it took all my bodily effort and what felt like forever to make it only a couple feet to the wall of the pool.
I can imagine being ignored while drowning but I also bet it would have made it much worse being ignored (or not taken seriously) afterwards.
Develop any trust issues?
I BET DEAF PEOPLE GET SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF BY ABOUT THE THIRD TIME SOMEONE DIVES IN AND STARTS GROPING AT THEM.
Drowning is truly a horrible experience. Just the fact that you're so vulnerable should make anyone a little scared.
That was a really interesting read. In my training in the Navy, I never heard about this. Glad I know now, even though I don't spend much time around water anymore.
Thanks for the link.
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Whoa, A guy I play squash against was telling me that he almost drowned in the bath tub while he was high.
I now know why.
Another fairly important point that TV gets all wrong: Anybody who inhales water (especially children) are at risk of dying hours later from secondary drowning. This varies depending on fresh water vs salt water, but either way it is bad. If someone inhales water, they need to go to the ER, even if they have coughed all of it up and look perfectly fine. Call an ambulance for all drowning and near drowning.
By the way: drowning is when you die, near-drowning is when you don't. For the budding medico-grammar nazis among us.
http://www.kidzworld.com/article/813-drowning-freshwater-vs-saltwater
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Motherfucking shark out of nowhere.
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Giant spider that can swim will save you.
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It looks a lot like me swimming in the break at large wave beaches.. but that's just because I swim very lazily, opting to go underwater instead of jumping or swimming over the wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbGvjqEweA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbGvjqEweA
Audio goes quiet for a few seconds, just keep watching
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dont respond like a bitch
I'm a lifeguard and luckily at my pool they teach us to look for signs of the Instinctive Drowning Response rather than waving and calling for help.
There's places where they're teaching lifeguards the complete opposite? Fuck man.
Here in Germany even the "swimming prohibited" sign itself perpetuates the myth of a drowning person waving and crying out for help.
What does that sign say? No drowning?
I read the article, but as a former competitive swimmer who's extremely comfortable in the water, I don't understand the description. If I were drowning and my mouth was dipping above and below the water, how could I not be getting enough air? The only way I could imagine myself drowning is while holding my breath and running out of air or getting knocked out underwater.
It doesn't really work that way. If someone is in choppy water a persons head goes in and out of the water but things are not ideal. They may not have time to take a full breath or they need to breathe multiple times due to the amount of energy they are exerting.
At some point the will need air when they can't get it. Holding their breath for longer periods of time, eventually when they come up they are gasping for air. Thats when things go down hill. While gasping for air they may inhale small amounts of water spraying off a wave or they may actually swallow water. Eventually the drowning swimmer starts to vomit from drinking water too fast or cough due to inhaling water droplets. Now they keep on coughing/vomiting until they REALLY need air. Now the gasps are so huge they may accidentally inhale water or gasp while starting to dunk back down into the water (earlier on the swimmer would just hold their breath but now they MUST have air). So as they gasp they eventually inhale water and pass out.
Last year I watched a friend get virtually to that point. Everything seems chill because the process isn't immediate. Shit it could take 20 or 30 minutes and they just tire out and are no longer as capable of keeping their head above water.
I think of it like this. Ever fall into water or go into water without a nice gulp of air before? Know that feeling of begging, hoping, to reach the surface to take that breath you so desperately need? When someone is struggling they slowly exhaust their energy and oxygen supply its like that feeling of needing that gulp of air but instead its filled with water.
I swum across a smallish lake about a month ago. It was the farthest I have ever swum. It took about half an hour, I am a really slow swimmer and it was most of a kilometer. Towards the end I was definitely getting water in my mouth and coughing some, due to chop. I wasn't tired and it was mostly annoying but reading this makes me think that maybe I was starting to slowly drown. I wonder if that was the case.
Just reading this made me start to panic and gasp for air. /shudder
Water in your lungs?
I'm assuming the psychology of drowning probably causes you to panic in these situations, causing even more water inhalation.
So if someone would be waving and calling for help, you'd just sit idly?
Gotta ignore the trolls man. Otherwise they win.
That's how all lifeguards are trained, at least the certifiable ones. All lifeguards should be trained to see all forms of swimming distress from distressed swimmer to a fully submerged drowning victim.
It could be a baptism
Thanks for the link. A friend of mine drowned years ago (no one was around, though) but I've been a bit paranoid ever since of being helpless or not recognizing the drowning if I was to witness it. Hopefully I'll be able to recognize it if I'm ever in that kind of situation now.
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.
It is similar to choking. People who are actually choking don't make any noise since their airway is blocked.
Disturbing! o_o
ME TOO!
That was a very insightful post. I'm glad I reddit.
And funny, too. This site is full of funny and insightful comments.
I liked your insightful posts too.
Cool story, bro'