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( , Wed 29 Nov 2006, 16:33)
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When baking the pastry for your quiche, bake it with the excess pastry folded over the edges of the dish, then trim the excess off only after baking. This ensures the passtry doesn't shrink back during baking and gives you a neater edge. Also works for tarts.
( , Tue 29 Mar 2011, 12:31, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Standing in the middle of the street in the middle of rush hour in a small huddle is the perfect way to do this.
( , Mon 28 Mar 2011, 14:43, Reply)

When you detect your battery may be low, be sure to flash and vibrate every minute to ensure the already dwindling power supply lasts for a shorter period of time than it could
( , Mon 28 Mar 2011, 8:24, Reply)

Keep your partner happy by sprinkling drinking chocolate down your hogs eye for that extra special romantic cocoa-spunk treat.
( , Sun 27 Mar 2011, 19:55, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Use the water to water your houseplants. It is far more nutritious than tap water, or even water from a filter will ever be.
( , Sun 27 Mar 2011, 19:51, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

When bored, looking out of the window on to any buildings opposite, imagining it to be a level in Tomb Raider and then trying to see how you'd get about helps passes the time.
( , Sun 27 Mar 2011, 14:26, Reply)

Or she'll scream "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN HERE? RIGHT, I'M PHONING THE LANDLORD THIS TIME!"
( , Sat 26 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)

Simply ask a large person to give you a great big cuddle as it is generally less messy and much warmer.
( , Sat 26 Mar 2011, 12:39, Reply)

So if you're going to skin someone alive, make sure they're bigger than you.
( , Fri 25 Mar 2011, 17:47, Reply)

and have them play a sliding upward screech the minute anyone reaches for a door, thereby recreating the atmosphere of an 80s schlock horror film. If you have spare change, employ the piccolo section as well to squeal a trill when they open a drawer (if you are out of cash then you may have to lean on the bottom 12 notes of a concert grand piano yourself when someone opens a newspaper with a large headline on it).
( , Fri 25 Mar 2011, 9:34, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Do not mistake friendliness for attraction, nor youth for beauty. In other words, don't make a twat of yourself with that young woman who smiled at you in the cafe.
( , Fri 25 Mar 2011, 7:55, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

by talking really quietly.
Extra lols for after a few attempts at getting you to speak up a bit, you suddenly roar at the top of your voice.
( , Thu 24 Mar 2011, 16:10, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

by waxing the dolphin.
( , Thu 24 Mar 2011, 15:15, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

It will have less resistance.
( , Thu 24 Mar 2011, 15:07, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

By skipping gears on gear changes ie. 3rd straight to 5th instead of 3rd then 4th then 5th. Works on the way down as well: when leaving a motorway stay in high gear for as long as possible then drop straight to 3rd or even 2nd.
( , Thu 24 Mar 2011, 10:03, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

They have more buying power and so can drive prices right down.
( , Thu 24 Mar 2011, 9:58, Reply)

Shopping at Tesco? Buy your fresh meat from the butcher instead, as Tesco 'lean mince' is about as lean as whale blubber.
( , Wed 23 Mar 2011, 17:14, 10 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Stroke the exposed circuit board with a pp3 battery, and then sweep around the casing with one of those really powerful rare-earth magnets. This will prevent people from finding your bank details, old emails, plans for terrorist attacks and your collection of donkey-induced snuff movies.
( , Wed 23 Mar 2011, 17:08, 12 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

while whining about how victimised you are, by being right-wing.
( , Wed 23 Mar 2011, 12:57, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

By wearing glasses and spouting left-wing views.
Extra points for blaming ills on America, and making ill-informed comments about their not understanding irony.
( , Wed 23 Mar 2011, 11:08, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

in small pauses, to gloss over not knowing the word they want to express or just at the end of every sentence regardless.
Why? Because after a few days you'll, y'know, find that you're.... y'know, doing it as well y'know?
(This also applies to the the word 'yeah?' along with rising inflection. If you catch the nasty habit it's just as difficult to ditch).
( , Tue 22 Mar 2011, 22:04, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

By exhibiting left wing views.
( , Tue 22 Mar 2011, 18:49, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Feel like a paedophile by remembering about it next time you're having a wank.
( , Tue 22 Mar 2011, 12:39, 6 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Simply pop it in the oven on Gas Mark 6 for a while to warm up. Hey presto! Spreadable butter!
( , Tue 22 Mar 2011, 9:53, 5 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Make sure someone doesn't put it in the fridge otherwise the next morning when making toast for your breakfast, it will be as hard as a block of cheddar and about as spreadable.
( , Tue 22 Mar 2011, 8:59, 4 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

( , Mon 21 Mar 2011, 12:23, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

On the new car you have purchased and need to get taxed but are awating the logbook, Well give up.
( , Mon 21 Mar 2011, 11:30, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Rather than watering on a daily basis, give it seasons by soaking it for about 36 hours and then don't water it at all for 2 months. When you water it again after the dry season, it will visibly swell. Each wet season will make it grow more than just a daily watering would.
( , Mon 21 Mar 2011, 8:57, 1 reply, 14 years ago)
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