Sunday, April 5, 2020

"It's Not Stupid if it Works" Moments


We like to think solutions have to be as complicated as the problems themselves, but sometimes a seemingly stupid solution is exactly what you need. Where there's a will, there's a way, and sometimes resourceful DIY solutions don't look pretty, but they work. 

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Text - Xralius 248 points · 5 days ago My friend and I were roommates - single guys. We owned one or two bottle openers and could never find them to open beer bottles, so next time we were at the liquor store we bought about 30 of them for 10c each and literally just threw them all over the apartment. That way if you were looking for one, there was always one right next to you. It actually worked out so fucking perfectly I can't even describe it in words to make you understand and to this day ev

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Text - NationalMulberry3 224 points - 6 days ago Google "Toilet Seat Plate" and hit images. Makes a good tray for a TV Dinner.

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Text - ThatTallAsainKid 106 points · 5 days ago One time at a nightclub in Canada they people there were really loud so the bouncers or whatever got an idea from a club in California I think decided to hand out free lollipops in hopes that they wouldn't want them to fall out so they wouldn't yell or anything yeah so long story short it worked

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Text - Backbeatking 7.8k points · 6 days ago They just sent an order for a rover on Mars to hit itself with a shovel. It worked. Percussive maintenance.

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Text - minervassong 3.8k points · 5 days ago My dad fixing my car muffler with a soda can. I forgot about it until just now and I sold that car 5yrs ago.

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Text - heekma 3.6k points · 6 days ago We kept losing our stupid little Apple TV remote in the cushions of our living room furniture so I took a small rubber spatula and duct taped it to the remote. Haven't lost it since.

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Text - javiers 3.6k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago Many moons ago we had a server that needed to be rebooted manually because the OS was really fucked. At 20:00 daily. Couldn't reinstall or fix because it had a software with a license that could be lost if reinstalled. And couldn't be reapplied because the maker had long ago left the market and no support or contact. So our option was to be there daily at 20:00 or find out something. We set up a toy of a fighting clown with a metal bar

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Text - MeGrendel 1.5k points · 5 days ago As college student had a shitty car. Wouldn't crank and found the copper tab from the solenoid to the starter had broke, leaving a gap. Thought "copper..pennies is copper" so jammed a penny in the gap and it started right up. For months I kept a cup holder full of pennies so I could crank the car.

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Text - moeggz 2.9k points · 6 days ago Fake security cameras for a fraction of the cost of real security cameras but with a huge decrease in theft or vandalism.

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Text - Sexycornwitch 1.9k points · 5 days ago I struggled for years with anemia no one could find the cause for. Kept getting really sick, and every iron supplement caused severe side effects. (Extreme constipation and gi bleeds) After YEARS of trying to figure it out, the best solution was to take two children's Flintstones with Iron. Works perfectly. After so many attempts at medical intervention about it, it turns out the thing that fixed it was a couple cheap kids vitamins that can be found

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Text - grizzfan 1.8k points · 6 days ago - edited 5 days ago In American football, there's an offensive method/system called the "Run 'n' Shoot." It was inspired by a high school football coach watching younger kids play football at recess. He watched them as they simply ran everywhere, just trying to get open, with no set routes (the pattern or path a receiver runs to catch a pass). Normally, routes are very rigid and coached with a lot of detail. He noticed that whoever was playing QB would of

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Text - He wanted to have an offense that was fun for his players...so he built an offense based on spreading his players across the field, and having one or more players running "routes on the fly," where a player would have anywhere from one to potentially four routes they could run after the play began. On almost every snap, his QB would run to the left or the right before throwing the ball, so he could run the ball away from the defense if no one was open. It fucking worked, and it became one

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Text - Back2Bach 1.2k points · 6 days ago Placing used tires against your garage wall to cushion your front bumper from making potential impact in tight quarters. blackadder1620 767 points · 6 days ago Take a tennis ball and suspend it from the air where it hits the windshield right where you want to stop.

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Text - Psi_Star_Psi_ 1.1k points · 6 days ago Only being able to spell beautiful by saying "be a u tiful". Same with Wednesday as "Wed nes day"

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Text - iknowthisischeesy 982 points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago So one exam I gave recently there was a question about what kind of animal is Dugong and at that time I had absolutely no idea, so like the genius I am I thought of Dewgong the Pokemon and marked the answer and it was correct. So yeah, using Pokemon as animal check.

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Text - ions 521 points · 5 days ago Underhanded free throws, AKA Granny Style. The angle and arc of the ball's release/path make it more accurate but it hasn't caught on because it- you guessed it- looks stupid. Madhusudhan Venkadesan, who led the work at Yale University, said: "Our mathematical analysis shows that if the thrower is capable of controlling the release angle and speed well, the underarm throw is slightly better for a basketball free throw." However, it remains to be seen whether s

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Text - BuckSturdley 497 points · 5 days ago I once used one of those drinking bird toys to keep a motion detector from turning the office lights off.

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Text - softserve-4 419 points · 5 days ago In the florida keys, they have old cop cars on the side of the road to prevent speeding. Most of them don't have cops inside them, or engines for that matter. One of them actually had a mannequin dressed as a cop inside.

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Text - Stitchopoulis 355 points · 5 days ago I've got a sailboat, and we switched out the conventional style head (toilet) that had a holding tank to a composting head that's like a fancy bucket that makes dirt. We had removed the holding tank, and were out sailing, when I hear my dad call for help down below. It turns out that when we have heavy wind coming over the left side of the boat, the vent for our holding tank goes underwater, and it was just letting in lots of water. Dad's there pluggi

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Text - Fantastic_Relief 297 points · 5 days ago Eating Cheetos/Takis with chopsticks to avoid Cheeto fingers.

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