Covid life hack

Set custom ringtones for people you don't like. When they call you can ignore them and listen to your favourite song at the same time.

Can't find your bookmark? Use ketchup instead

If you are blind and use Braille, never mistake your cheese-grater for a book.

A small red screw on cap from a tube of tomato purée makes an ideal Fez for any tommy cooper impersonating mice

Just like that

Don't use Tippex to correct text errors when typing on your PC.

When I moved out to India to start a business it was just before the rainy season so the humidity was sky high and within a couple of days my laptop packed up. The little man at the local computer shop rocked his head from side to side, he maybe could fix it but it would take 5 days, maybe 10. I needed it for internet banking as I would have to make international money transfers when we found a business to buy, so even 5 days was too long.
On the way home we saw a couple of ex-pats we had met sat outside a bar and stopped to have a cool drink of a warm day. Across the road was the market which gave me a Baldrick moment - a cunning plan.
I went and bought two kilos of long grain rice and when we got home I put the laptop in a box, covered it in the rice and taped up the box.
Two days later I tried the laptop again and it worked perfectly. Genius, but flawed genius!
So, dry rice is a great dessicant but...
if you do the same as I did, put tape over the computer ports first - it took ages to remove the slightly swollen grains that had lodged there before I could plug anything in. Thank God for the wife's smallest pair of eyebrow tweezers. The laptop had cost about £300, the rice cost about £1.
This would probably work for mobile phones that have got wet/damp as long as you remove the battery immediately. Better option than the oven, microwave oven is a definite NO and worth trying if your life won't end because you are without your phone for a rew days.

Dental floss is strong enough to strangle people who use it in company.

comment by goadocwatson (U1016)
posted 6 hours, 53 minutes ago
If you are blind and use Braille, never mistake your cheese-grater for a book.
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Otherwise you’ll end up reading Grate Expectations.

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