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kanathan, in What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

My wife bought me a Beard Bib as a joke gift after I found it online one day. It’s basically a smaller version of the bibs you wear when getting your hair cut, but with suction cups attached to the bathroom mirror to hold it horizontal and catch stray hairs when using an electric shaver. It looks ridiculous.

I now use it every time I trim my beard, even if my wife still laughs at me every time she sees me in it. Cleaning up all the stray hairs was always a pain in the ass, but this thing does a surprisingly good job at catching 99% of the hair, and I can just brush it all into the trash when I’m done.

elsif, in What is something really stupid you purchased that turned out far better than expected?

An oversized poncho cape from the local Goodwill. It was woven in different shades of blue and while I’d never wear it outside, I’ve used it as a wearable blanket at home for a few years now.

I found out it was actually hand made, and costs 300+ USD from the original shop. Bonus points, I feel like a wizard when I wear it

UntouchedWagons, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

Toddlerisms like danger noodle (snakes) or velvet hippos (pitbulls I think)

nutlink, in Greetings fellow Lemmings! What was the stupidest thing you ever did?

Do I have to pick only one? I wasn’t a very bright kid.

  • Willingly let someone taze my testicles in exchange for a beer
  • Chased black bears off the trail behind our house for no reason, usually with nothing more than a nearby stick
  • Skinny dipping in a river known to be filled with leeches
  • Got in a drunk argument with a raccoon, which led to my first underage drinking ticket because I refused to be spoken to in that tone
  • Became friends with said raccoon and even met its kits once over stale day old bread I brought home from my high school job at Jimmy John’s
  • Made a potato gun and accidentally fired it backwards, breaking the glass window in the garage
  • Threw M80’s into the water to go fishing Crocodile Dundee style
  • Believed a girl I barely knew when she said she was on the pill
Klicnik, in Lemmy, AITA for disliking copied content from Reddit in the AmITheAsshole community?
@Klicnik@sh.itjust.works avatar

You are not the asshole. The purpose of that community is to have communication with humans. When a bot posts a question there, there is no reason to respond. It’s not a human asking, and the human that originally asked in another forum will never see the response. I blocked that spammy bot, and have enjoyed my feed way better since.

blendedracer, in What's the best way to find instances and communities?
@blendedracer@aussie.zone avatar

Hello fellow Redditugee, I found Lemmy Explorer https://lemmyverse.net/communities to be very handy. I like the layout and the search/sort capability. The process I followed to subscribe to communities was to:

  • In Lemmy Explorer, click on the community@instance name (eg !maliciouscompliance), which automagically copies it to the clipboard.
  • Then in my home instance (aussie.zone) I clicked on the search icon (magnifying glass) and pasted the details into the search box.
  • I then click Next (not search).
  • The search will initially show “No Result” while it searched the Fediverse, but then the community will show up (I’m using dark mode so it shows up in green as a link).
  • I click on the link to open the community from my home instance and click on the subscribe button. Initially the community may be set to “Subscribe Pending” - I guess it needs to be reviewed. I’ve also managed to subscribe to Kbin magazines from Lemmy using this process. Note: this is on PC using Firefox
Whaler_Shaver, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

AskReddit topics:

“Who is a very popular and esteemed actor but actually is pretty bad at acting?”

“What’s a cheap thing that is actually expensive?”

codRL, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

“This.”

DrSanta, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

That new ugly UI.

It’s so damn cluttered.

Flaky, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

The smug, smarmy attitude Redditors are known for even when they’re obviously wrong.

CeruleanRuin, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
@CeruleanRuin@lemmy.one avatar

r/the_donald or anything like it. Kindly fuck off with all of that shit.

Midnight_Ice, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

I think megathreads are useful for things like an album release or a weekly episode release. It gives a place for conversation to occur without flooding the community with duplicate posts. I think the megathreads you’re referring to though are the ones where it’s like “New DIY-ers, ask questions here!” I agree that those should stay gone. No one reads them and they aren’t helpful.

bigmode, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
@bigmode@lemmy.ml avatar

I never really was on reddit and I am beginning to miss the lemmy that existed a few days ago, it felt a bit cozier , less hectic and friendlier overall. Now all the same old reddit posts have migrated over and it seems I see a lot more low effort mean spirited cheap ‘jokes’ everywhere

Alperto, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?

u/spez

T4V0, in What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
@T4V0@lemmy.pt avatar

I can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these!

Clearly, you’ve never been in !piracy before, have you?

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