Random bits of knowledge

[TarkDower]

Thought I'd post a thread for random bits of knowledge. Please post tips that are useful in life but are fairly insignificant. Also, feel free to add ideas that look good on paper that you haven't been able to test yet.

- Paste copied text into the URL bar of your browser to strip it of unwanted formatting.

- When closing a "flip-top" shampoo bottle while showering, close your eyes. Flipping soapy water into my face is the only time in recent memory that I've felt nostalgic for Johnson's and Johnson's NO MORE TEARS® formula.

- If you don't have a properly sized wrench for a large nut/fixture (like a shower head):
1) Take two screwdrivers, point them in opposite directions
2) Place the shaft of the screwdrivers on opposite sides of the offending threaded item
3) Grasp the shaft of screwdriver a and the handle of screwdriver b in one hand, and the the shaft of screwdriver b and the handle of screwdriver a in the other hand, and turn with all your might!
I managed to remove a shower head this way, and it was surprisingly easy. The longer the screwdrivers, the better. Do you even leverage, bro?

***NEEDS TESTING***
- Remove gum from hair with chocolate sauce. I think this would work pretty well because every time I chew gum after eating chocolate the gum falls apart. Annoying for gum chewing, but it may prevent many a patchy haircut. I haven't tested this because I only want to be a test subject out of necessity; I will not intentionally try chewing gum with my hair for science.

- Open a beer bottle by hitting the cap in the center. I just thought of this, so tests are at zero. I'd like to think that smacking the middle of a bottle cap would cause the sides to bend out, adding semi-sharp poky things to the plethora of bottle-opening tools. This may be the case, but I fear the shake-factor would be much too high for it to be a viable method of getting to pop-top bottle innards. The glass-bits-in-mah-drink factor may be a problem as well

 

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[KingAHolic]

I used peanut butter to get the "sticky residue" from a price label off a cup the other day.

It actually worked!

 

[Walter Oobleck]

You get more corn outta a crooked row.

Say you got a door that wants to swing shut all by its lonesome? Fancy ghosts only worked for a time and you have a wedge under it that you have to kick aside every time you want the door closed? Take one hinge pin out and whacked it with a heavy hammer, trying to put a warp to the hinge pin...you likely won't do that, but one good hit or two is enough to put it slightly off true and the bind the two hinge butt plates put on the no longer exactly true hinge pin are enough to make the door stay put. I think there's a song about that, isn't there? You make my door stay closed! Eagles? Marvin Pontiac? Someone.

Bark side up.

 

[staropeace]

If you have a large glass jar of spaghetti sauce and cannot get the cover off....sometimes they are impossible...punch a hole in the top of the lid. It releases pressure and the lid comes off perfectly. I found this out when I ran the homeless shelter and had to use huge amounts of sauce for my spaghetti and ground beef. I did NOT have time to bother with trying to remove stubborn lids.