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Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit

2013-03-01 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Everyday life · advice recommendation

Hank turns the 25 all-time top-rated Life Pro Tips on Reddit into a quick-fire video list, from a jar of good memories to calling 911 yourself in an emergency, with comic asides.

What is said

00:00:00 — 'Doing Another Weird Thing Day': turning the Reddit page of the 25 all-time top Life Pro Tips into a video

  • ★★ Hank says he is translating a Reddit page of the 25 all-time top-rated Life Pro Tips, formed by user submissions, curation and algorithms, into a video. — 00:00:08 · Reddit

00:00:25 — The 25 tips: memory jar, headlamp lantern, readable text, Alien Blue, pink pens, incognito ticket search, knots, paper CD case, dustpan, VLC, eggs, Imgur zip, keyrings, paste without formatting, ice water, cables, frozen grapes, walnuts, ramen, paint cans, Google, spam texts, calling 911

  • ★★ Tip one: write down the nice things that happen during the year, keep them in a jar, and read them at New Year's to remember the good times. — 00:00:25
  • ★★ Household tips include strapping a headlamp to a water bottle as a lantern, a dustpan to fill big containers, a staple remover for keyrings, a pen spring to protect cables, and frozen grapes to chill drinks. — 00:00:35
  • ★★ Computer tips include the Alien Blue app for Reddit, VLC for nearly any video format and its audio mixer, adding /zip to an Imgur album, and Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting. — 00:00:52
  • ★★ To stop coworkers stealing your pen, put its blue or black cartridge into a 'froofy' coloured pen, since nobody steals pink pens. (playful) — 00:00:57
  • ★★ Hank relays the tip that travel websites raise ticket prices when they see a returning visitor, so search in incognito mode; he calls the sites jerks. — 00:01:09
  • ★ Hank says the knot-twisting tip is not as useful as it sounds and passes on commenters' advice to bang on or bite a knot. — 00:01:26
  • ★ Among the tips: good eggs sink and bad eggs float. — 00:02:01
  • ★★ Forward spam texts to 7726 so carriers can track down spammers. — 00:02:59
  • ★★★ In an emergency, do not say 'somebody call 911': call yourself or tell a specific person, because otherwise everyone assumes someone already has. — 00:03:05

00:03:17 — Thanks to the original posters; check out the LifeProTips and nerdfighters subreddits; sign-off

  • ★ Hank thanks the original posters and says that with Reddit posts the comments are usually better than the original post. — 00:03:17 · Reddit
  • ★★ Hank recommends the LifeProTips subreddit and says the nerdfighters subreddit is a pretty cool way to spend time. — 00:03:24 · Reddit, Nerdfighteria

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