Life Tricks - Page 36

On January 20 2011 13:10 holdthephone wrote:
TL, I brought up the brushing your teeth in the morning topic to my dentist during my check up.

You brush after you eat, I almost felt stupid for asking. Don't know where you guys got that information from.

On January 22 2011 08:32 Nysze wrote:
When McDonalds or any fast food demands you pay for sauce offer to pay with a debit/credit card. Most the time they will just give it to you. If they do try to accept the card I usually let them as they will lose money processing the card. (I f'ing hate when they try to charge for sauce)

On January 22 2011 08:32 Nysze wrote:
When McDonalds or any fast food demands you pay for sauce offer to pay with a debit/credit card. Most the time they will just give it to you. If they do try to accept the card I usually let them as they will lose money processing the card. (I f'ing hate when they try to charge for sauce)

On December 27 2010 02:15 Dreaming11 wrote:
For those in the UK - dont feel obliged to tip, waiters in the US are exempt from minimum wage due to some law so they NEED the tips. In the UK, its completely different because waiters get paid as much as anyone else so tips should be reserved only for when you feel the service has been exceptional. The tips are often confiscated by the restaurants in the UK anyway and used to cover 'waste'.

Be sure to set yourselves some life goals and targets for where you want your life to be headed. This is one of the biggest things most people never do, they just end up coasting along. In 5 years time do you want to be a trainee systems analyst, do you want to have a long term relationship and moved in with your partner, do you want to be living in Thailand? Once you have assessed what you want out of your life, it becomes a million times easier to work towards that. Its like in Starcraft 2, when you get cheesed and dont know how to deal with that you panic - but make a plan where you want to be in the mid game, and when the cheese comes, you know just to deal with it and get back into your mid-game plan.

I can attest to this, as soon as I started listing things I wanted I started doing things about them. E.g. 'to look good' was one of them - next day signed up at the gym, lost 8lbs in 2 months and a -lot- more muscle definition now (I didnt know what exercise to do, so I just asked at the gym for a 'general' workout plan :p - walk before you run!).

FOCUS your thinking. Your mind is incredibly powerful - your subconscious will automatically filter out information it deems not relevant to your interests. Example: you buy a red Ford Focus. All of a sudden every car on the road is a red ford focus. This is because your conscious has told your subconscious 'I have a Red Ford Focus! Yea!'. If you consciously focus on the things you want to achieve (and, these should be the things that make you feel good and get you closer towards your 'life goals'), whether its a better job or a new girlfriend - all of a sudden your subconscious will start shouting at you and you will notice every job advert in the window or every hot girl walking down the street. If you consciously focus on the things you hate about your life, they will invariably bother you more and you will notice it more. Bringing down your mood like this is only ever bad for you, there's no 'good' side to being miserable!

I took some of these tips from Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy which is a good read, I would recommend it but don't want to spam so if you can get it a library and flick through its interesting - nothing groundbreaking but just puts forward ideas in a very approachable way and forces you to ask yourself questions you might not have otherwise. Setting yourself life goals, then each day working towards those goals and focusing your subconscious on those goals will soon have you on your way!!

On December 28 2010 06:46 darmousseh wrote:




Waiters aren't exempt from minimum wage. Employers are allowed to use tips as a part of their wage though. So if someone is paid $1.25 an hour and makes $6.25 an hour in tips this is allowed. If she only gets $5.25 an hour in tips, then the employee must make up the difference in wage to $2.25.

On January 22 2011 13:14 Bonham wrote:
If you are a long-distance runner, you should seriously consider buying running shoes only when your current pair literally fall apart. As detailed by Christopher McDougall in the excellent book Born to Run, too much padding (or maybe even any padding at all) can interfere with the natural suspension of your body, which, in evolutionary terms, is used to running barefoot. This can increase the likelihood of injury.

More anecdotally, I'm a former basketball player turned LDR. I struggled with injuries for the first few years when I was running on treadmills and with comparatively new shoes. When I started running in my old Adidas Superstars (already beat up from use during my last season playing basketball for my university), the injuries stopped. I've since clocked several thousands of injury-free kilometres on them.

Edit: typo.

On January 22 2011 15:12 PJA wrote:


Heaven forbid they charge people who want ridiculous amounts of sauce money so that they can charge everyone else less.

Don't people in this thread feel dirty asking for handouts all the time? Not to mention all the people whose life tips amount to "hey, this is how to get away with being a thief!"

On December 27 2010 02:15 Dreaming11 wrote:
For those in the UK - dont feel obliged to tip, waiters in the US are exempt from minimum wage due to some law so they NEED the tips. In the UK, its completely different because waiters get paid as much as anyone else so tips should be reserved only for when you feel the service has been exceptional. The tips are often confiscated by the restaurants in the UK anyway and used to cover 'waste'.

Be sure to set yourselves some life goals and targets for where you want your life to be headed. This is one of the biggest things most people never do, they just end up coasting along. In 5 years time do you want to be a trainee systems analyst, do you want to have a long term relationship and moved in with your partner, do you want to be living in Thailand? Once you have assessed what you want out of your life, it becomes a million times easier to work towards that. Its like in Starcraft 2, when you get cheesed and dont know how to deal with that you panic - but make a plan where you want to be in the mid game, and when the cheese comes, you know just to deal with it and get back into your mid-game plan.

I can attest to this, as soon as I started listing things I wanted I started doing things about them. E.g. 'to look good' was one of them - next day signed up at the gym, lost 8lbs in 2 months and a -lot- more muscle definition now (I didnt know what exercise to do, so I just asked at the gym for a 'general' workout plan :p - walk before you run!).

FOCUS your thinking. Your mind is incredibly powerful - your subconscious will automatically filter out information it deems not relevant to your interests. Example: you buy a red Ford Focus. All of a sudden every car on the road is a red ford focus. This is because your conscious has told your subconscious 'I have a Red Ford Focus! Yea!'. If you consciously focus on the things you want to achieve (and, these should be the things that make you feel good and get you closer towards your 'life goals'), whether its a better job or a new girlfriend - all of a sudden your subconscious will start shouting at you and you will notice every job advert in the window or every hot girl walking down the street. If you consciously focus on the things you hate about your life, they will invariably bother you more and you will notice it more. Bringing down your mood like this is only ever bad for you, there's no 'good' side to being miserable!

I took some of these tips from Maximum Achievement by Brian Tracy which is a good read, I would recommend it but don't want to spam so if you can get it a library and flick through its interesting - nothing groundbreaking but just puts forward ideas in a very approachable way and forces you to ask yourself questions you might not have otherwise. Setting yourself life goals, then each day working towards those goals and focusing your subconscious on those goals will soon have you on your way!!

On January 22 2011 15:17 Acid~ wrote:


Yeah cause mickey d's gonna go bankrupt over a couple sauce packets...