The Official Good Ideas Thread™
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra Does your phone not have lock functionality, or have you registered your ear for unlocking?
It locks. But it still lets you do things like click notifications and dial emergency numbers and hang up the call because it just disabled LTE.... You know, the usual.
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Or if it's a telemarketer I just hang up.
I usually interrupt them and say "Not interested" first. In Dutch, of course, I refuse to have non-work phone calls in any language other than Dutch.
Most of the "real people" ones I get now are real estate agents. As soon as I hear "interested in b..." I interrupt with "I'm not selling<click/>"
I tell them, "Well I'm starting out at 2 million asking, how close can you get to that?"
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@Gąska said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
She also somehow misheard
This is why I (used to) automatically record every call. One day I'll get that working again...
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@Carnage said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
and my sister calls me once every decade to ask for money, and she just keeps talking for forever when she does.
Since my sister moved to a dorm for the duration of her college degree, she called me exactly three times: once to help her with computer science homework, once to help her with computer science homework, and once to help her with computer science homework.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I tell them, "Well I'm starting out at 2 million asking, how close can you get to that?"
You forget, around here the answer to that is "sounds good!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It locks. But it still lets you do things like click notifications and dial emergency numbers and hang up the call because it just disabled LTE.... You know, the usual.
No true locks man.
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I tell them, "Well I'm starting out at 2 million asking, how close can you get to that?"
You forget, around here the answer to that is "sounds good!"
Perhaps he should have gone with “Well, your opening bid had better be at least 20 million or you won't make the reserve price at auction.”
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@Zecc said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
It locks. But it still lets you do things like click notifications and dial emergency numbers and hang up the call because it just disabled LTE.... You know, the usual.
No true locks man.
SELECT ... FOR UPDATE sometimes works okay.
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I know that in relation to martial arts I used to be focused on the next competition or the next belt. Now (that I have my ) I realize that just going and training with my friends is the actual objective. The rest of that stuff (well, I don't compete any more) is fine, but it's not the objective.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
I know that in relation to martial arts I used to be focused on the next competition ... that stuff (well, I don't compete any more) is fine, but it's not the objective.
Aha! Finally, you reveal that the Warthog Dojo is unguarded! Long have I suspected this. Wharrgarbl School will rise again!
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@GOG said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Well done!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Well, maybe not all stores. I can't see any benefit for, like, Lenscrafters.
(Trying now to imagine IKEA offering "walking meatballs".)
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Raises the question of why you're entering contests that send you purple spiked dildos, but hey...
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@da-Doctah said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@loopback0 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Well, maybe not all stores. I can't see any benefit for, like, Lenscrafters.
Leaving a lenscrafter with walking bacon is clearly better than leaving one without walking bacon.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
...why would you settle for bacon strips if you have a wrapped sandwich in the other hand? Or even better. Why not put the extra bacon in the sandwich?
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@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
...why would you settle for bacon strips if you have a wrapped sandwich in the other hand?
You're not settling, you're eating bacon while walking back to wherever you're able to unwrap your sandwich.
@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Why not put the extra bacon in the sandwich?
It wouldn't be walking bacon.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
...why would you settle for bacon strips if you have a wrapped sandwich in the other hand?
You're not settling, you're eating bacon while walking back to wherever you're able to unwrap your sandwich.
Ah, it's for disabled. Got it. Super wholesome
@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Why not put the extra bacon in the sandwich?
It wouldn't be walking bacon.
Is that a problem? .....Hold on, in your country, what is a hot dog made of?
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@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Is that a problem?
Not understanding the benefits of walking bacon certainly is
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@loopback0 I'm the kind of guy who'd buy a sandwich and the walking bacon, put the walking bacon in the sandwich, buy another walking bacon, and eat the sandwich while walking to my destination while also eating the walking bacon.
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@Gustav leave some bacon for us
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@TimeBandit okay I'll trade one walking bacon for walking cheese fries. With bacon.
Edit: and then realize I can't eat cheese fries and sandwich at once with just two hands, and put the fries inside the sandwich. Or skip the whole spiel and just get a frytokebab.
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@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Hold on, in your country, what is a hot dog made of?
This is a question you do not want answered.
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@dcon said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Gustav said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Hold on, in your country, what is a hot dog made of?
This is a question you do not want answered.
Not if you like hot dogs, anyway.
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Friend of mine shared this on Facebook. Now my wife wants one:
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@Mason_Wheeler goddamn I want one for myself! Got a link?
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@Gustav No, this source post seems to imply it was something one individual made for herself rather than something that's being produced for sale, but it's pretty light on details.
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@boomzilla Better than one of my colleagues who would play a tiny invisible when I complained.
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My wife continues to be awesome. Check out what she just got me for May the 4th:
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@LaoC I'd go simply because it sounds like those who couldn't read will weed themselves out for not bringing any beer and wine, so the only ones left would have a raised bar to start with.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC I'd go simply because it sounds like those who couldn't read will weed themselves out for not bringing any beer and wine, so the only ones left would have a raised bar to start with.
"The Moonee Tavern" sounds like there might be some of the required beverages for sale.
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@LaoC said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC I'd go simply because it sounds like those who couldn't read will weed themselves out for not bringing any beer and wine, so the only ones left would have a raised bar to start with.
"The Moonee Tavern" sounds like there might be some of the required beverages for sale.
Precisely. Freeloaders need not all apply!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC I'd go simply because it sounds like those who couldn't read will weed themselves out for not bringing any beer and wine, so the only ones left would have a raised bar to start with.
"The Moonee Tavern" sounds like there might be some of the required beverages for sale.
Precisely. Freeloaders need not all apply!
It also sounds like bringing your own wouldn't be the best idea though
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@LaoC said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@LaoC I'd go simply because it sounds like those who couldn't read will weed themselves out for not bringing any beer and wine, so the only ones left would have a raised bar to start with.
"The Moonee Tavern" sounds like there might be some of the required beverages for sale.
Precisely. Freeloaders need not all apply!
It also sounds like bringing your own wouldn't be the best idea though
I suppose the post-event survey will tell all...
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@boomzilla And if the penny - or the cup for that matter - is no more there, some grabby bastard has been in your fridge.
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@boomzilla He should check in how books are. Infinite surprise!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@boomzilla He should check in how books are. Infinite surprise!
Books at least are conventionally stored upright and not stacked vertically, so the dimension where variance is most annoying (the direction controlling stacking stability) isn't affected as much. Sure, it can look irregular, but putting a short book next to a tall one doesn't cause any fundamental, non-aesthetic problems. Stacking game boxes, which are conventionally laid flat and then stacked vertically is a different matter, since you have to make sure the broad ones are on bottom, but only if their boxes are strong enough to support the weight of others.
The problem with systematizing it even in two dimensions (the dimension along the stack rarely matters for much) is that the variance is enormous. A game with a deck of cards needs a lot different storage than say Gloomhaven, which comes in a box like
and tends to weigh ~1 metric crap-load.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Stacking game boxes, which are conventionally laid flat and then stacked vertically
I think we should change the world, change the conventions!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Sure, it can look irregular, but putting a short book next to a tall one doesn't cause any fundamental, non-aesthetic problems.
A tall book among short ones may tend to fall over.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™:
Sure, it can look irregular, but putting a short book next to a tall one doesn't cause any fundamental, non-aesthetic problems.
A tall book among short ones may tend to fall over.
That's why a true collector only buys hardcovers