The Handy Tips Thread

[Analogue Boy]

Change your pin number to a preferred set of 4 digits in a sine table and always carry a log book with your card.
Thieves will give up well before they empty your account.

 

[titch]

Gentleman, if you need the loo while at Crewe station, cross over to the toilets on platform 12, you can do your business in peace and quiet.

 

[escargot]

Gentleman, if you need the loo while at Crewe station, cross over to the toilets on platform 12, you can do your business in peace and quiet.

They're lovely loos aren't they!

 

[Yithian]

 

[Dinobot]

Always carry three handkerchiefs, one to use, one for emergencies and the third to offer someone in need...

...of a normal use of a handkerchief, not for whatever smut you people might feel like suggesting! Make all the filthy jokes you like in the privacy of your own heads!

 

[Swifty]

Cut one fingernail every day.
They'll all remain respectably short but you'll always have one long enough for scratching, nose-picking or separating lego bricks.

push rice crispies into the treads of you car tyres
for that expensive gravel driveway feel

Lots of holes tied together make excellent nets.

 

[Swifty]

Recreate the excitement of playing Pac-Man by going to DFS and trying to avoid the salesman.

 

[hunck]

Save money on milk by not reporting the death of your neighbour.

 

[Swifty]

Fool your neighbours into thinking you work at SeaWorld by going to work everyday wearing a wetsuit and carrying a bucket of fish.

 

[GNC]

And sending whales insane by forcing them to live in a very enclosed space.

 

[Swifty]

A Weetabix makes an ideal short term solution life raft for a hamster.

 

[EnolaGaia]

A cautionary tip to avoid potential forgery ... (Seen just now on a morning news show ...)

The new year 2020 raises a possible issue if you're in the habit of (hand-) writing the date on a check in **/**/YY format (i.e., using only the last two digits for the year at the end of the text string).

If you leave the date inscription as **/**/20, anyone can add two digits to alter the year.

 

[ramonmercado]

A cautionary tip to avoid potential forgery ... (Seen just now on a morning news show ...)

The new year 2020 raises a possible issue if you're in the habit of (hand-) writing the date on a check in **/**/YY format (i.e., using only the last two digits for the year at the end of the text string).

If you leave the date inscription as **/**/20, anyone can add two digits to alter the year.

I rarely write cheques anymore, just a couple a year. I can see how the year could easily be changed but how would this aid a forger?

 

[gordonrutter]

I rarely write cheques anymore, just a couple a year. I can see how the year could easily be changed but how would this aid a forger?

Not so much a cheque but a legal document say a sale of something taking place in 2020 with bill of sale saying the date was /20. Said item used in a crime and the bill being changed to 2018 thus proving the item was not in the possession of someone at the time the crime took place or vice versa.

 

[EnolaGaia]

... Or perhaps adding (e.g.) "21" to postdate a document or check so as to evade being responsible for its recorded action / transaction now.

 

[Swifty]

Ladies, when waiting for a face pack to dry, pop on a Mrs Brown's Boys dvd. If you like Mrs Brown's Boys, try a Michael McIntire dvd instead.

 

[Schrodinger's Zebra]

If you have a headache, kick a table leg with your bare foot.

You'll soon forget all about your headache.

 

[Yithian]

This is quite specific, but tips on how to meet women in St. Louis.

POSSIBLY NSFW owing to attire.

 

[Mythopoeika]

This is quite specific, but tips on how to meet women in St. Louis.

POSSIBLY NSFW owing to attire.

Do all women in St. Louis sit around in their underwear for no reason?

 

[Tin]

This is quite specific, but tips on how to meet women in St. Louis.

POSSIBLY NSFW owing to attire.

It's a sign of the times that in the first segment I was looking for toilet rolls in the background.

 

[Yithian]

Do all women in St. Louis sit around in their underwear for no reason?

I've never been there, but based on the evidence from this video I'd have to say yes.

 

[Ger]

A cautionary tip to avoid potential forgery ... (Seen just now on a morning news show ...)

The new year 2020 raises a possible issue if you're in the habit of (hand-) writing the date on a check in **/**/YY format (i.e., using only the last two digits for the year at the end of the text string).

If you leave the date inscription as **/**/20, anyone can add two digits to alter the year.

Yes, having to do this on paperwork at work as they are legal documents.

 

[Bad Bungle]

If you're looking for an excuse to take a day off Work, mention incontinence - no-one not suffering from it would say that they were.

 

[Mythopoeika]

If you're looking for an excuse to take a day off Work, mention incontinence - no-one not suffering from it would say that they were.

Genius!

 

[Dinobot]

This is quite specific, but tips on how to meet women in St. Louis.

POSSIBLY NSFW owing to attire.

Do all women in St. Louis sit around in their underwear for no reason?

I've never been there, but based on the evidence from this video I'd have to say yes.

The users of this forum, regardless of gender, sit around in their underwear...

 

[Yithian]

The users of this forum, regardless of gender, sit around in their underwear...

Under... what?

 

[Dinobot]

Under... what?

Under the covers...

 

[maximus otter]

Under... what?

maximus otter

 

[escargot]

Enough with the Viz Top Tips rip-offs. Here's one that's saved me LOADS of trouble.

I've wrapped a rubber band round each of the front room room doofers. They don't slide off the sofa arms any more and they even stay put wherever we set them down. It's like a miracle.

Techy was unimpressed at first but after several beatings eventually he came round to my way of thinking.

OK, it looks a bit sad but so does pulling up the sofas and grovelling underneath them every day.

 

[hunck]

Enough with the Viz Top Tips rip-offs. Here's one that's saved me LOADS of trouble.

I've wrapped a rubber band round each of the front room room doofers. They don't slide off the sofa arms any more and they even stay put wherever we set them down. It's like a miracle.

Techy was unimpressed at first but after several beatings eventually he came round to my way of thinking.

OK, it looks a bit sad but so does pulling up the sofas and grovelling underneath them every day.

Just one question - what is a front room room doofer?