Mine is to to keep chocolate in the fridge. It’s a lot crunchier and has more chocolate taste.
Learn to cook. It makes you happier and probably healthier.
Fried rice is easy to make and delicious.
When a cop ask you questions, only answer what you are required to answer.
If you are still using Chrome/Edge, try Firefox.
Do not skip going to the dentist.
If you live in the United States, don’t talk to cops. You don’t know this person. You don’t know that the cop isn’t a criminal and is now looking for a patsy. Don’t discuss your day, don’t discuss your travel plans, don’t say where you’ve been. If a cop asks to search anything, don’t say yes, don’t say no, don’t say sure, no thanks. The only thing you say is ‘I do not consent to a search’, regardless of how it is asked. If a cop asks you anything, say ‘I invoke the fifth and I want to speak to a lawyer’. Burghuis v thompkins effect hobbled you miranda rights. And you must verbalize your right to remain silent. You must also verbally request a lawyer in basically eight grade english. No slang. If you say ‘I want a lawyer, dawg’ state v demesme makes it reasonable for cops to believe you would like a lawyer who is a dog.
I can’t imagine browsing the web without Firefox!
Don’t just learn to cook. Find at least one dish that you want to get down pat and perfect that dish. Having that one dish you do perfectly is great for date nights.
I’m not saying good pasta is the way to a woman’s heart, but it’s true that I’ve never seen a woman in a bad mood with good pasta in her stomach.
As someone who hates cooking, it definitely does not make me happier.
When a cop ask you questions, only answer what you are required to answer.
Yep. You have to tell them your name and ID yourself, you have to get out of the car if they tell you to, but you don’t have to say shit about what did or didn’t happen. Even if you haven’t been read your rights there are still some circumstances where the bodycam can be played and used against you in court. It only takes 2 seconds for one random thing to come out of your mouth that you can’t take back that can perfectly make the case against you, and put you away.
The cops’ job is to catch bad people and put them away. That is fine, you don’t gotta be hostile or deliberately make everyone’s day unpleasant, but if you’re in the crosshairs as a potential bad person don’t say a goddamned word until you talk to a lawyer. Anything helpful for your side about you talking to them will still be helpful after you talk to a lawyer.
For as much as I don’t agree with him stealing, this guy actually shows a great example of how it works (all sides - the manipulation of dude-just-be-honest and his correct response to it; obeying all the lawful orders but telling them to GFY whenever they ask him questions.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q59Fd5ClUc&t=980s
“I’m not admit to a god damned thing. Prove it.”
(Honestly I wouldn’t even say that much, because they can maybe play that in court and say see he knew he was guilty. Just, I don’t want to talk to you about it until I talk to a lawyer first.)
This.
Me and my partner have spent the last hour looking through recipe books because I need to figure out how to good a more… diabetes friendly selection of foods.
I can cook a roast dinner no problem, but cooking beans and pulses? No idea.
Get an Instant Pot, put in some pinto beans, ads Chile, cumin, and chopped jalapenos, as well as veggie broth, enjoy your life. Instant Pot or any pressure cooker is really worth it.
Don’t cheap out on anything that connects you to the ground.
- shoes
- tyres
- chairs
- bed (mattress specifically)
At first I read “chains” and had some questions.
You should definitely spend good money on the bed the chains connect you to.
A bed frame to get your mattress off the floor makes a bigger difference than you’d think. And having one that won’t break and drop you is even better!
That said, I love IKEA bed frames.
If you’re not using a center support you’re wrecking your mattress as it sags in the centre. Please keep this in mind!
Mine is don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t take advice from
Hey that’s good
Wear hearing protection. Often. I work and talk to a lot of handyman type people and almost all of them have somewhat poor hearing. Even some close to my age (20’s). The one thing in common? No hearing protection.
Even though hand tool woodwork is much quieter I still always wear earplugs. Even when running the vacuum I wear hearing protection. I also take it easy with the music, with a great pair of headphones you don’t need to crank it up.
Also wear respirators often when dealing with almost any particulate. If you are working on something that produces a lot of dust, you probably want to wear a respirator. Doesn’t matter if it’s natural, even wood dust can mess you up. Especially during grinding or sanding.
A lot of shitty people will give you flak, but NEVER let people dictate your safety, specifically when they tell you to use less.
To add onto this - always wear gloves when painting / don’t get paint on your hands. Stuff is mostly toxic - even acrylic paint. Boat paint is incredibly bad for you (polyurethane 2 part for instance). Wear a mask when painting
This. I worked with polyurethane glue a couple of weeks ago. The tube says to use gloves. I thought “meh, I’ll just be careful not to get it on my hands”. Hello tiny itchy blisters. The fumes are an irritant too.
I spoke with a guy that has a small boat and painted boats a lot. He said he met so many people that don’t use gloves, respirators, etc, and they all feel like they lost intelligence over the years and have huge respiratory issues. Getting 2 part paint on your skin builds up in the system and caused long time illnesses.
Doesn’t matter if it’s natural, even wood dust can mess you up.
Decades back there was a letter to the editor in Fine Woodworking complaining about a similar thing, writer had been sanding some lacquerware furniture and got a monstrous rash – lacquer comes from the lacquer tree and contains urishiol (poison sumac, poison oak, poison ivy) …
Uh, disagree. Chocolate tastes MUCH better at room temperature.
Well, good quality chocolate tastes much better at room temperature. Shit quality ‘chocolate’ like some of the big brands here in America does taste better cold. But only because it dulls the horrible taste.
Which brings me to my own little life pro-tip: spend a bit more on decent quality chocolate. It’s worth the cost.
Agree, I will not eat Hershey’s. It tastes like vomit. No thanks.
Iirc a lot of American chocolate has a preservative in it which was originally used to keep it good during long journeys in transit to stores. Americans got used to the taste of this preservative, so it remains
Said preservative has a similar taste to what gives parmesan and vomit a distinct bite in its taste.
I’m going off memory here so if I’m wrong please correct me.
As a European, I’d read about this phenomenon and assumed it was just a sort of vaguely reminiscent hint of a taste. Because surely nobody would be eating it if it tasted strongly of vomit.
Was given a free sample of Hershey’s in Chicago once. Didn’t taste of anything at all it was just weird and waxy. So much for that!
Yeah I made it maybe halfway down the street before the taste kicked in. For any other non-US folks who think it’s an exaggeration, it is not. Literally tasted like I’d thrown up in my mouth, not just a bit like it but literally like vomit.
My minor life advice is do not accept handouts of Hershey’s chocolate!
Butyric acid. Also the compound that gives rancid butter its smell.
YES thank you.
Just like low tier beer, the colder the better!
Agree! Also, I agree with the other comment as well. Sometimes, and I mean sometimes, I can go for a frozen milky way or Twix but that’s way different and even then that’s like a once every 2 years thing for me.
I got all the life advice I needed from the coach in Teen Wolf in 1985:
- Never get less than 12 hours sleep
- Never play poker with a guy whose first name is a city
- Never get involved with a woman whose got a tattoo of a dagger on her body
never get caught up in a land war in southeast asia
Only less well known as… never go up against a Sicilian, when DEATH is on the line!
Clean the lent trap on the clothes dryer everytime.
Test your smoke detectors at least once a year.
*lint 😜
Our father, who fart in heaven.
I feel there’s a story behind this ^^
I hope not yikes.
Drier lint also can be used as kindling, in a pinch.
Thats why i take my drier hiking with me
ultralight gang
And wear sunglasses.
If you have to force it, you’re going to break it.
The thing is, you never know for sure until you try it.
If it can’t work, it gets replaced. If it can but won’t, it gets abused until it does… or can’t.
“Your best” looks different every day.
Read the entire error message, then look it up, before asking for help.
Don’t forget to bring a towel.
You must be a hoopy frood.
Never buy food when you’re hungry. You’ll end up wasting money buying more food than you need, and after all is said and done, you’ll feel really fat and be ashamed at yourself.
I keep a granola bar in my bag specifically to save money when grocery shopping
When having a conversation someone, try paying attention to the other person’s body language, tone and the way things are said.
You can pick up a lot of things that way, possibly mood and others.
Another tip is if somebody says something, do not necessarily come back with a topical response, sometimes just repeat exactly what they just said flatly and wait for them.
This shows you are listening and creates a nanosecond of validation. And instead of filling the gap in conversation with your response, you give them a chance to expand their thoughts.
Wonderfully put, this is an excellent tip.
