Spray your snow shovel with some PAM before shoveling.

Seconded.

It's fun like junk food, but good for you like carrots. Best site on the net by far, imo.

This sounds like fun, but I will never have a chance to use this trick.

I don't want to derail the thread to be all tech/computer tips, but here are a few that I find incredibly useful:

1. If you run windows, you should run most of the time in normal user mode, not administrator mode. This will greatly reduce your chance of getting spyware.
Control panel > Users > Create User > Limited User

2. If you only have one hard drive, partition it into 2 drives: one for the operating system and installed programs, and the other for static data.

Example:
C: - Windows XP/Vista/7, MS office, im clients, web browsers, etc
D: - Map your My Documents here - keep all files like docs, resumes, mp3's, pictures, etc here.

3. Buy an external hard drive and regularly backup your D: drive

4. Create a disk image (ghost/etc) of your C: drive after a fresh install. Keep a copy of this on both your D: drive and the external drive. Now, the next time windows crashes hard or you get infected by spyware you can do a full system restore in 5 minutes rather than 5 hours.

There are obviously tons more usability tricks and other shortcuts, but I felt these were worth mentioning because they are more best-practice type advice than anything and can save you lots of headaches.

You can get rid of them within a couple hours if you lick your finger and press salt on it, then apply that directly to the sore. Repeat several times. It hurts like hell, but worth it in the long run.

That sounds like a way to cause pain and suffering, not healing. The pain means it's working!

Wrong. Every insurance company will pay unless you have a specific exclusion, and I've never seen one for drunk driving, although they do exist. And even that exclusion would apply only to coverage on his own vehicle.

The whole point of mandated liability insurance is to protect the innocent guy who gets plowed into by someone. The guy's property damage will be covered (up to the policy limits that is.)

The drunk driver may subsequently be dropped and it obviously won't help him insurance-wise in the future, but the fact that he is drunk does not change the current claim.

Another way of eating the chicken wings, put them in your cheek and strip off one side then flip and strip off other side. Note of caution did this in a restaurant and heard waiter to waitress "look at how that guy's eating his wings" I look over and see he looked offended that I would dare eat in this manner, she seemed unimpressed.

If you button your shirt from the bottom up it buttons faster. But same as opening a banana upside down I don't actually do this.

If you ever get a late fee over limit fee or any kind of BS fee, you can get it waved. Just call and ask, if the operator won't do it ask for a supervisor and make up any crummy excuse. This will always work for first offense and depending on how persistent you are can work a whole lot more. In the past 5 years alone I must have gotten well over 1k waved like this.

Seems to work for me. Several other people have suggested similar sol'ns, so I think there's probably something to it.

just have to shime in and say that canker sores or cold sores are the worst thing ever, if you get them in a bad location in the mouth eating or even speaking properly is impossible, the pain is just out of the world

Seriously try this. Other than sports I don't miss a thing. (Hulu FTW) All the hours spent sitting and eating in front of that bitch add up. Go to a friends house/bar to watch sports. The cable bill you save will pay for it anyway.

meh

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[QUOTE=hustlethis;15525818]If you button your shirt from the bottom up it buttons faster. But same as opening a banana upside down I don't actually do this.
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seems like it would actually be slower. if you went top down, the anchor of your shoulders would keep each sid of the shirt level with each other.

I have eaten my bananas "upside down" for years and every time I do, I wonder how people eat them "right side up".

I had the same reaction when I first heard this.

Try it.

i guess i was looking for an explanation as to why it is faster

OOT Life Trick: If you touch something hot (usually a plate after a few minutes from the microwave) and need to get rid of the heat on your finger, hold your ear lobe, like you're on timeout. Yes, hold your ear lobe. For some reason, the heat is gone. GO TRY IT!

is that some kind of fundamentalist mormon punishment?

Wow that couldn't be farther from the truth. My right to remain silent and right to have an attorney present applies in any and every situation when dealing with law enforcement. I don't know what constitution you live by but it sure isn't the same one I do.

If I am being questioned by law enforcement for ANY reason, whether I'm arrested at the time or not, I have the right to have an attorney present and have the right to remain silent. Ask any attorney that. Especially any criminal defense attorney. That's why any half brained attorney will tell you NEVER talk to the police without an attorney present.

Wait, you mean everyone doesn't already button up their shirts from the bottom up? My mind is blown.

^^ I was thinking the same thing.

if you have to go no. 2 in a public bathroom/work light a couple of matches after you are done and let them burn down. the fire smell is moreprevalent because we fear it.

Protip - live within your means and not have to do this.

When using unsliced bread, apply your butter / spread before cutting a slice. Most people look at me like I'm a freak doing it this way, but it's easier especially with cold butter.

Thanks for the ted.com tip