Life Tricks - Page 51

On July 29 2011 14:14 MaestroSC wrote:How to avoid getting a speeding ticket while speeding on a highway:
This is one i learned from a buddy who works for California highway patrol:
If you are ever flying down the highway, try to stay close to another car also speeding, in case of patrol car, hit brakes and pull directly behind the other car that was also speeding. Highway Patrol will always pull over the lead car in a string of speeders. (my brother did this after friend told him, and got out of a ticket doing 120 down the highway by pulling behind an infiniti same color that was doing about 90) Moral of the story: when you wanna haul ass, find someone else who feels the same way and follow closely behind them.

On July 29 2011 15:00 misclick wrote:


that really doesn't work. i was kinda road raging at this guy that cut me off and was following him (he was speeding.. maybe about 90 in a 65), and a cop only pulled me over despite me being behind the guy (not close enough to be considered tailgating...). when i said something along the lines of i was just following the flow of traffic, the police officer said that i should ignore other people speeding and just focus on following the speed limit.
this was in california and i was pulled over by the california highway patrol.

edit: the cop pulled up next to me. looked at me. then got behind me and put his lights on. so it's not like he started flashing his lights behind both of us and i was the only one that stopped.

On July 29 2011 14:47 Rinrun wrote:

My trick is the use of a memory.

The year was 1928, one day my teacher noticed I had the hiccups and asked me what I ate yesterday for lunch. Puzzled, I answered a sandwich. With a confused look on my face I asked my teacher why- then I noticed that my hiccups were gone...

On July 29 2011 06:25 sorrowptoss wrote:
Don't go to buy groceries when you just ate a lot and/or are full. It makes you buy less and you have difficulty knowing what type of produce you want because in your brain, you don't want to eat anymore anyways.

On July 30 2011 01:11 ThePhan2m wrote:
There are two main types of people: feelers and thinkers.
Women often tend to "feel" things more than Men. So their arguments are based on their feelings rather than thoughts. Trick to make them understand you and win many discussions, is to use "I feel" more rather than "I think".

On August 04 2011 11:01 Moldwood wrote:
In reference to the whole Q-tip thing: My ears seem to produce a LOT of wax. Though i have no proof, im pretty sure its more than your average person. At points it will build up to the point of preventing some of my hearing, so i used to grab a Q tip and clean em out real good. Apparently when you do this you remove SOME of the wax, but knock back a nearly equal amount FURTHER back into the ear canal. One year we went to the beach and, the night after a long swim i noticed some pain in one of my ears. by the next day i was in some REALLY horrendous pain in both ears due to something called Swimmers Ear which is a type of ear infection. the fact that i had used Q tips recently made it a LOT worse.

Let me tell you fellow TLer...... YOU .... do NOT... Want to get swimmers ear. You are literally bedridden from the pain and general grogginess / dizzyness / horrendousness which it occurs. all you want to do the whole time is repeatedly flush your ears with wax removal fluid. you become a slave to this process and it can last for 2 weeks. HORRIBLE.

If your wax builds up to the point of near deafness, the amount that can be removed with a fingernail should be enough to clear it. The human ear has its own means of naturally removing wax (it takes a long time but it all eventually gets pushed out... naturally... i promise...)

Aaaand just to contribute my life cheat is... Adderall. might be a repost but this is not difficult to get a prescription for, and it makes any long, arduous task go by much smoother and easier. keeps you focused and moving forward. great for SC2 practice sessions (if you know how it affects you)

On August 04 2011 10:48 RANDOMCL wrote:


While this is true, such over-generalization and simplification hurt your stance more than help it.

You jump from women "often tend" to do something to "their arguments are based on feelings rather than thoughts". That's terribly incorrect. The thoughts of all people are based on both thought and feeling. However, sex DOES play a role in how big of an effect each has (hint: they aren't completely separate things, and do not work independently from one another).

There is a huge failure of logic to go from:

Women often tend to "feel" things more than Men.

to

So their arguments are based on their feelings rather than thoughts.


That's like saying "Native Americans are more likely to become alcoholics than those of European descent" (which is a true, verifiable and accepted fact) and then saying "So, all Native Americans are alcoholics".

The logic jump doesn't make sense and doesn't work.

On August 04 2011 11:01 Moldwood wrote:
In reference to the whole Q-tip thing: My ears seem to produce a LOT of wax. Though i have no proof, im pretty sure its more than your average person. At points it will build up to the point of preventing some of my hearing, so i used to grab a Q tip and clean em out real good. Apparently when you do this you remove SOME of the wax, but knock back a nearly equal amount FURTHER back into the ear canal. One year we went to the beach and, the night after a long swim i noticed some pain in one of my ears. by the next day i was in some REALLY horrendous pain in both ears due to something called Swimmers Ear which is a type of ear infection. the fact that i had used Q tips recently made it a LOT worse.

Let me tell you fellow TLer...... YOU .... do NOT... Want to get swimmers ear. You are literally bedridden from the pain and general grogginess / dizzyness / horrendousness which it occurs. all you want to do the whole time is repeatedly flush your ears with wax removal fluid. you become a slave to this process and it can last for 2 weeks. HORRIBLE.

If your wax builds up to the point of near deafness, the amount that can be removed with a fingernail should be enough to clear it. The human ear has its own means of naturally removing wax (it takes a long time but it all eventually gets pushed out... naturally... i promise...)

Aaaand just to contribute my life cheat is... Adderall. might be a repost but this is not difficult to get a prescription for, and it makes any long, arduous task go by much smoother and easier. keeps you focused and moving forward. great for SC2 practice sessions (if you know how it affects you)