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'Solutions' that don't work still tried in everyday life

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  • 18-03-2017 1:29pm
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    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭


    I'm talking about trying to revive dead non rechargeable batteries by putting them on the radiator. The same batteries are beyond their expired date.
    Or rubbing cigarette ash into the carpet to clean it, all the time.
    What's your favourite silly solution?


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    bluewizard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭bluewizard


    Going to work to earn money instead of peanuts.


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    #3
    stimpson
    Registered Users Posts: 7,817 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Praying


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    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Breaking red lights.


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    #5
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users Posts: 6,484 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Homeopathy


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    #6
    80s Child
    Registered Users Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭80s Child


    Roundabouts


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    #7
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    80s Child wrote: »
    Roundabouts

    They are a very efficient way in getting traffic through junctions. Once they don't have lights.


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    Fred Swanson
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    #9
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Democracy. People are idiots


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    #10
    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,891 ✭✭✭gifted


    The G spot....what a rumour huh???......lol lol


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    #11
    JackTaylorFan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭JackTaylorFan


    Telling anybody to "calm down"


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    #12
    JackTaylorFan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭JackTaylorFan


    Shaking the cola bottle to try and get the fizz back :(


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    #13
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Turning it off and back on again.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Turning it off and back on again.

    In fairness, this does solve 99% of computer issues. However doesn't work as handily with life support machines.. as it turns out ..


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    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Turning it off and back on again.

    That worked for my kettle.


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    Samuel T. Cogley
    Registered Users Posts: 10,684 ✭✭✭✭Samuel T. Cogley


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    Turning it off and back on again.

    Have you tired interrupting the power to force a system restart?


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    Del2005
    Registered Users Posts: 18,946 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    Looking for something you lost and repeatedly checking the same places.


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    #18
    GMSA
    Registered Users Posts: 281 ✭✭GMSA


    Praying when in trouble.
    Voting for FF because FG didn't improve things.


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    #19
    BBDBB
    Registered Users Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    Using the 'force'


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    #20
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    Uncontrolled immigration.


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    #21
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Loosing something then Looking where you last had it.


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    #22
    evolving_doors
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    Antibiotics for a cold or cough.


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    #23
    longshanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Low fat diets.


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    #24
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,350 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    They are a very efficient way in getting traffic through junctions. Once they don't have lights.

    Actually, traffic lights are more efficient for high volumes of traffic.


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    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Putting a spoon in an open bottle of champagne to keep the fiz. It does not work and looks stupid.

    http://www.decanter.com/learn/advice/putting-spoon-in-champagne-work-ask-decanter-349914/


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    #26
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Vinegar and newspaper for cleaning windows. All that happens is I get covered in newsprint and the flat smells like a chipper.


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    #27
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,970 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Open Plan offices.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #28
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    Electric razors. They just dont cut all the stuble down to the level of the skin. And they just pluck the hair if you leave it a few days. Wet shave all the way.....


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,365 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Candie wrote: »
    Vinegar and newspaper for cleaning windows. All that happens is I get covered in newsprint and the flat smells like a chipper.

    Mmmm chipper smell.


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    #30
    [Deleted User]
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Mmmm chipper smell.

    I lived above a chipper as a student. That smell eventually gets old. :)


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    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Sending CVs. You're just not going to get the job. :)


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