I was reading through one of the clickbait articles titled “Brilliant but Unethical Life Hacks”. It was supposedly giving you ways you could cleverly cheat your way through various situations.
It included this gem:
“If a site asks you if you’re over 18, click yes even if you aren’t, you’ll totally get in anyway.”
I’m trying to imagine the person who considers himself to be “brilliant” because he figured this out. In his favor, he seems like a good person because he’s passing his wisdom on, so other people aren’t blocked by age checks the way he presumably was.
Don’t throw away your dirty dishes after you eat, wash them and use them again!
In the olden days this kind of stuff appeared in newspaper feature Hints from Heloise and similar sorts. Most of them were rather useful but occasionally as empty as a reminder that some items can be washed and reused.
Most people don’t know this, but writing the “Hints from Heloise” column was a side-gig for McGyver, earned him some pin money. Also, if every time someone starts yammering about “Life Hacks” you mentally swap it for “Hints from Heloise”, they’re a lot less annoying.
Some sites (liquor and cannabis sales, for example) try to turn this into a skill-testing question: instead of just having you click “yes”, they ask for your birth date. This requires a six-year-old wishing to purchase a bottle of hooch or a couple of pre-rolls to do some arithmetic, or else have a memorized fictitious birth date.
And speaking of brilliance, a while ago I was stringing along a telemarketing scammer just for yuks, and when they thought they had me hooked they asked for my birth date so they could run a quick credit check. I said I didn’t know, but I might be able to ask someone. They seemed surprised but were remarkably persistent, and it just got more fun from there.
Long form:
I use a generic multi-blade razor to shave my face. So far so ordinary. Typically it clogs with hair & soap & gunk long before the blades get dull. So I wanted to search the internet for wisdom on how to clean the gunk out from between the blades. My efforts with little brushes, or a high pressure water-pik have come to nothing. I was hoping there was miracle advice to just soak them in [whatever] and it dissolves the gunk.
YouTube is replete w vids on how to preserve the sharp lifetime of disposable or cartridge-based disposable razors. But nothing on cleaning the gunk out of them.
I sat through several of them to see what wisdom they offered. My “favorite” was 8 minutes to say “store the head of the razor in a small bottle with enough baby oil to cover the blades to prevent corrosion.” That takes 3 seconds to read, 5 seconds to type, and 8 minutes of vid for this moron trying to explain and exhort and generally bloviate on his trivial point.
I still don’t know how to clean gunk out from between multi-razor blades, but I am 20 minutes older and 20 IQ points stupider for trying to learn.
I had a great uncle who, when he was a young man in the 60s, worked at a factory that made tableware. The factory went under, and he was able to walk away with dozens and dozens of boxes of unsold dishes, enough to basically fill the extra bedroom in his house.
He didn’t do the dishes for about ten years. When he was done eating, he’d just take the plates out to his front porch, and huck them into the yard.
Like a lot of people in my family, his life style was very alcohol-focused.
I can recall as an underage college kid the first time I was asked that in person by the clerk behind the counter and did not have a canned answer ready. Despite being a math whiz the results were not pretty and I ended up boozeless.
It goes against the spirit of the thread to offer genuine non-obvious advice but here goes.
Buy Schick disposable razors. They have a little plastic strip between the blades. You push a button on the back of the razor head, which pushes the plastic strip forward and that also push all the hair out from between the blades.
