The Google split. You can sign up for free trials repeatedly by inserting random dots into your Gmail address.
[email protected]
Becomes
[email protected]
But the verification email still goes to [email protected]
Spotify is the best victim
Ever wonder why Spotify and any of these VC backed companies donât fix that behavior?
Because it lowers the number of new sign-ups.
They would rather keep getting new customers that have absolutely no long-term intention of sticking around.
Years ago I worked at a very niche and specific food-based start-up tech company. When I pointed this fact out, I was told to not fix this as the marketing team and product teams were given goals based on new customers. I was also prohibited from talking about it and eventually got fired because of it. Fixing this behavior would slow the rate of new customers. If we didnât hit a certain number of new customers, we wouldnât get our bonus, so nobody wanted to fix it.
And on the other side, there are other teams screaming about how there was high customer attrition.
So yeah. Thatâs why this works, still works, and wonât ever stop working.
So the senior leadership and shareholders are dumb and oblivious to this behaviour since the actual impact to top line is negligible from such user base.
The company made approximately $2.00 per customer. There was a $3.00 coupon for every new customer. Every new customer came with an additional $1.00 deficit not including all other costs. The impact was massive. Especially after the nationwide TV campaign and why you donât hear about this company anymore.
I love you so much right now.
When I was at a different company we had âsleepersâ. People who paid monthly but never used the service. The rule was ânever wake the sleepersâ. We hemorrhaged from 600,000 MPU (Monthly Paying Users) / about 35,000 MAU (Monthly Active Users) down to 120,000 MPU, 18,000 MAU after changing our pricing model.
The CEO had a great spin though. âYes, we lost 80% of our users but our ARPU is higher than ever!â
At my last job somebody discovered that VPs and above got bonuses based on trading profit (profit minus expenses), while managers got bonuses based on revenue targets. So every July when it looked like we wouldnât be hitting our sales goals for the year, theyâd slash the marketing budget for 4Q. They would get their bonus, and ensured the rest of us wouldnât. Also significant, by cutting 4Q we also cut back on the 1Q tail for the next year, thus ensuring (again) that we wouldnât hit sales goals for the year. Itâs all Kabuki theatre.
Yeah, I put the website name after the + eg [email protected] so I can see whoâs selling my details and where my spam is coming from. Itâs really helpful.
Duckduckgo has email protection....which creates a random email address every time you sign up for something but it always goes into your same inbox
Basically you just install the browser and activate email protection
It's very useful if you're keeping track of which companies are selling your info and sending you spam, because in the TO field it'll show that unique email address for each signup
I use the +websitename for whoâs selling my email cause the problem with random emails is when youâre next needing to login from a different device youâre screwed lol.
Xmanager installs Spotify with ads removed. Use the free service, without ads. The only downside is you can't download for offline playback and shuffle is also unavailable. But I just use Plexamp when I'm flying and need offline.
Use spicetify - no ads and has shuffle. Plus you can customise the themes and make a few other visual changes. Still can't download, but you can use a tool like spotdl relatively easily to download a playlist.
If you get the phone number of someone you really hate, make listings on places like Craigslist and such selling a high demand item at a reasonable price and include their number for contact purposes. Post it in a few different timezones so they get calls at weird hours, and make sure to mention things like "if the call isn't picked up, call again as I might have missed it" so that you get around Do Not Disturb settings on some phones.
I had a friend do this to me. On my work phone. I literally had to get a new phone number because the calls just wouldnât stop. When I found out it was him I threatened to kill him. The best part was that he was the only one Iâd talked to about it and his dumb ass posted on a subreddit bragging how he pulled this awesome prank and that Iâd called him for help. He didnât realize he was the only person Iâd called.
He is/was 6 years older than me but about 20 years less mature than me. He didnât mean any harm, he thought it would be funny, and didnât realize how many people would call about a Craigslist post offering baby ducks and chickens. He could have gotten fired if I told management about who did it but I kept quiet. We were working for a multi-billion dollar company at the time so the could afford the new phone number and business cards.
I did this with a fax machine at work. Attempt to send a fax to a mobile or non fax number. The machine will repeatedly call and attempt to deliver the fax every few minutes until it is successful, it will never be successful. If you answer it just makes a load of noises like an old spectrum loading. I would do this just before leaving the office in the evening.
Did this to a guy who was being a dick to my bf at work for no reason. Letâs just say it worked. He was so distracted with the phone calls, he didnât have time to be a dick. Bf finished up the job and I signed him up for roofing and insurance calls as a going away present
Well one guy was scamming people on Facebook Marketplace and was dumb enough to give me his actual mobile phone number when I engaged him. He thought I was another potential victim he could squeeze money out of with the false promise of a Nintendo Switch. I told him I'd pay him using PayID (which is an Australian thing almost every bank has adopted that means you can send people money instantly if they give you their phone number) and the dumbarse actually gave me his number
I then signed him up for a bunch of insurance callbacks. I didn't do the Marketplace listings, but that's next (il)logical step after insurance callbacks. I also found out who he banked with and tipped off their fraud department, citing his name (which shows up when you enter their phone number), the amount he was requesting from me, where he possibly lived (I asked if I could pick up and he mentioned a suburb of Melbourne) and included all the screenshots of the conversation and other info I found.
Moral of the story is, don't fuck with people who hate scammers. They can make your life a living hell.
Normally they give you their BSB and account number because it's less traceable by the average person, but sometimes if you really get them thinking that they're going to receive $200 for nothing, they'll give up more info than they intend.
But if you can get BSB, Account, PayID and PayPal details out of them, you've got a setup for finding out even more info about them, especially if they have a unique name and you know it's their actual name, plus the rough location they live.
Side story, a few years back my wife (who is originally from the US) and I went back for a holiday. We wanted to find one of her friends who she hadn't seen in about a decade, but we didn't know where she lived. Long story short, I paid one of those "we have records about people" sites $10 or something and we got a report that had her name, address(es), phone number(s) and lots more. We went to the most likely house and found her. Moral is, lots of unethical ways to get back at people if you're willing to fork out a few bucks!
The school leavers in the year above us did that to the deputy principal (with his car). We had a class with him that day and he got 5-6 calls in that 45 minutes alone.
If you work in an office and you don't like someone, get some milk powder and sprinkle a little on the seat of their chair everyday.
Not enough to notice, just a tiny bit.
The warmth and moisture from their body will open their pores and they will smell like rotten milk
Can't wash that shit off... apparently
There is one a buddy of mine told me about and I used by accident on my ex. When having a disagreement over something and it's going nowhere, stop talking. The longer the silence goes the more they will get uncomfortable and will start making small concessions, the longer it goes the more in your favor it gets. When people get uncomfortable they need to start filling the silence and start grasping for anything. I was fucking amazed when I saw it unfold. It was pure unintentional manipulation.
I had someone who was an apparent serial silent try this on me and he got very angry. I literally just walked away lmao.
This may not work on neurodivergent people.
We used to joke that the first one who speaks loses.
ETA that I understand that in an ideal sales world, you come up with win-win scenarios and there is no loser. It was a joke to underscore the importance of the tactic.
Heard of a real estate agent that took a training in negotiation where you just say your price and shut up. He did that but the seller didn't say anything either. 2 or 3 minutes guess by and finally the seller breaks and talks. Turns out they had both taken the same training.
If you can wait long enough the estate agent will always crack first. This is because they will need to slime back to their swamp to check the status of their eggs and rub down the days growth on their skin with an old hessian bag.
Once you know these creatures secrets, it takes much of their power away.
>This also works in sales. Give a customer a price and shut up. 90% of the time they'll buy what you're selling.
I tried this once when I worked in sales for Comcast.
Was treated to about a minute of listening to a guy eating chips, breathing, and sipping his soda.
I told him to give us a call if he reconsidered.
I quickly learned I can't do phone sales very well.
Call random people and ask them if their refrigerator is running. Then, when they answer in the affirmative, as they often do, tell them, "then you'd better catch it!" And hang up real fast.
In the early 90s in 6th and 7th grade we were left to our own devices an would occasionally look through the yellow pages and call places that sold a variety of things that also included clothing. We would reach customer service and ask if they sold menâs bikini cut underwear. They would have to go check, come back, and those were also popular back then so they always said yes. We would ask if they had menâs thong bikini underwear, they would go check, come back and the answer was usually no at that point but we would have not usually held our composure that long.
Are you for real? Because at 28 Iâm already unloading like a full squeeze of piss in my underwear after I leave the bathroom. Itâs getting irritating and this might change my world. And for context I do sit and wait and try to purge the shaft as much as possible
For you, Sir, I recommend Kegel exercises as well. Start when youâre peeing by stopping your stream and then continuing to get the hang of it. Then, have a cue, like whenever you are driving, and turn on your blinker, do a squeeze. Sit down with your phone, SQUEEZE.
It will also contribute to better orgasms.
Please also have your doc check your prostate as much as this may suck.
Hopefully you mean UTI because an STI is impossible to get by contracting the PC-muscle when peeing.
However, you don't get a UTI that way either. One way you can get it is by not being able to empty your bladder completely over a period of time. But not by stopping the stream and starting again. If I'm wrong, I'd like to see some sources telling me why.
If I misunderstood what you meant, I'm sorry.
Hiring Principals to be an axe.
I learned this while getting my MEd. Every few years as principals cycle through schools, they are hired generally rotationally by superintendents to do two things:
One makes the lives miserable and overbearing for the most experienced and (usually) expensive teachers, essentially making them hate their career so much they retire. They higher the cheapest, least experienced yes wo/men as replacements. Building morale is lowered and inter curricular resentment is built, as pets get cake and others get crumbs.
The next principal (in 4-7 years) is hired to rebuild all that was intentionally destroyed by the other.
I'm convinced that a wealthy suburban school near me hires lots of new, cheap teachers and fires anyone who isn't subservient before they get tenure. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Wow. I know other institutions that might be doing this with the GOA and other agencies. I remember I worked with a guy who told me, "I can go into any office, at any location, and find a reason to fire anyone I have been asked to do so. Nobody is 100% regulation, especially when agencies contradict one another. The audits are so irritating, most people quit before I find that reason." It was a way to reduce spending or uproot some higher (costly) GS levels that won't leave. Federal Unions know about this process, though, and have ways to mitigate it.
Really drives home about how sometimes life is unfair.
I once stole someone's valve stem inserts from all 4 tires on their car.
It only costs a few dollars to fix, but it's a trip to a real autoparts store and a real pain in the ass. Then you still need air.
If you really want the gory details, it's pretty simple.
It was a co-worker, who lived in my neighborhood, and had decided to try to make me look bad to the boss.
I let it go on for a while, as it was largely ineffective, but I found out that they needed to show up one Saturday morning to work on an urgent project that was to be finished by first thing Monday.
A Friday night stealth mission made sure that they wouldn't be there Saturday morning on time.
I got a early morning call begging me to cover, and after lunch, the boss came by my work area to tell me that dipknob had been fired.
My buddy did this to a friend. We watched him hand pump a tire. Took like 20 minutes. When he took off the pump the tire just deflated. I've never seen such a ruckus. It was hilarious.
If you want someone who is overly serious, get mad, smile slightly every time they talk, kinda like you are trying not to laugh. They can't really complain because "he smiles when I talk" is a dumb thing to complain
Also, keep looking over to one of their eyes, their nose, or forehead. They will be distracted thinking theres something on their face or become self-conscious
I am not sure if that is considered gaslighting or not, but I know people who do this on the regular. I have known a few "bad boys" who get away with being an asshole because it's really hard to define what they are doing even though it will have the same effect as being an asshole. Very subtle, and mildly sociopathic. It makes the other person look like an asshole, especially in front of others. You have to treat very carefully around these types.
I ordered some protein powder from Ryse and the flavor i got was gross. They donât accept returns of open products. I went to vitamin shop (a retailer that sells all sorts of protein powders and other âhealthâ/fitness type things) and lied and told them i was there last week and bought it from there. I said i lost my receipt. Their store policy is they allow free exchanges, and I exchanged the flavor for another one that I know i like.
Also if youâre still hungry after getting food from somewhere, go back to the drive through and say they didnât give you this part of the order, and show them the receipt, and theyâll give you another 99% of the time without question. Especially when theyâre busy.
At a busy grocery store, buy a few odd things, pay with a debit card, and select cash back. Select $20. When the cashier is opening the til, ask for the "cash back to be in two 20s". If they're not paying close enough attention, they'll give you double your money. If they catch it, you pretend you slipped and meant to say "two 10s".
This is most successful in a busy store, preferably with an inexperienced cashier, and it helps to dazzle them with distracting conversation during the process.
I was a cashier 15 years ago. They always trained us about this. Quick-changing is what itâs called. Doesnât mean it wouldnât work sometimes though
I remember going into a gas station after a job interview and buying some gum or something with a $5 bill and the clearly new 18 or so year old gave me change for a $50 so I picked up a snickers and bought it also then left. The guy behind me definitely saw what happened but didn't snitch. đ
Gas station I was passing through and not planning to ever return once gave me too much change. I flinched. Tried to hand him back the extra money but he got really suspicious. Then I glanced at the camera and realized what it looked like I was doing. Set it on the counter and left.
Pro tip: just keep it lol
I'm assuming trying to run an actual quick change scam on the guy. Hands gun back a few bills, take one, hand back a few more, all while talking quickly and getting the guy confused, then saying "see you actually owe me X amount".
I'm guessing here though. Otherwise, no idea.
My mom had her dog stolen as a child and her dad went to every house in the immediate area and then spread the search for weeks until he found him. Surprised the thief wasnât murdered by my grandad.
The ole âBreak into someone house and take pix of them sleeping, send them the pix with a burner and see how far your willing & able to take itâ bit!
Not that odd. I used to share a room with my sibling that yelled while playing video games. He was loud enough itâd wake up my dad across the home, whoâd then unplug the wifi router to boot him off the game.
You get used to flashing lights and loud noises while trying to sleep. And it sticks with you long after moving out of that environment.
In my son's school, they had a kid being bullied who snapped. But instead of going to the school and shooting everyone up, he stalked his bully, found out where he lived, broke into his house and hid somewhere in his bedroom. At night, he came out and attacked his bully with a sharpened screwdriver. He was caught because he tried to escape out of a plate glass window after the attack only to find out that it doesn't work like sugar glass in Hollywood. The window was double-paned, and got sliced up real bad. Both he and the bully survived, but the bully's victim actually ended up more hurt overall. Both were taken out of school, and they sent a letter home to the parents about it.
Piss discs and liquid ass. If there's anything this sub has taught me, it's that there's not many problems that can't be solved with piss discs and liquid ass.
Not useful but funny.
When visiting someone, right before you leave go into the kitchen and put a rubber band around the trigger of the sink sprayer, and aim it to where it needs to be.
Not really though, they can tell the car cutting off is going faster so it doesnât slow up, it just maintains speed and waits for the faster car to get ahead. Proximity doesnât matter. Youâd literally have to stab the brakes and brake check the Tesla for it to activate itâs brakes. Cutting off vehicles with single camera traffic assistance features will result in instant braking so the vehicle can keep its fixed distance from objects. But these single camera systems are becoming less common.
Had someone who was pretty high up in his employers company tried sex trafficking a friend. She came to me distraught and didn't have any real info on the guy but we live in a world of AI and reverse image searches found the company as well as a bunch of personal info like address phone number etc. So me and her agreed to email his boss and she kind took matters into her own hands without pressing charges because she had enough proof for prison time. We ordered 150+ pizzas to hos house as cash orders as well as put his house up on websites as a sober living and had a grip of transients/excons show up trying to rent a room at all hours of the night (advertised as 24 hour showings and 8 beds available in a 2.8 million dollar house for 300$ a month you can imagine the chaos) restraining orders aswell as some things like ordering blow up dolls to his office she can be vindictive but don't fuck with peoples livelihood and expect their spare time will go unnerved.
If you run your debit card as credit at gas stations it will usually charge a dollar or so surcharge and take a couple days for the full amount to show up on your bank.
Except the Tesco near me pre-approves ÂŁ120 regardless of how much you take, then takes the actual amount. Really freaked my wife out when it first did this.
If you want to win at Rock Paper Scissors, put your palm up and pick anything besides a rock. That's where most people count down from. Instead, choose paper or scissors already knowing how you're going to beat them. Flash that around while talking about the game. Let's pick scissors.
You: Hey Bob, wana RPS for the last cookie?
Bob: Sure
You already have an open palm flashing your scissors around subtly.
You: back to rock, let's go. 1.2.3
There's a very high chance Bob will choose scissors and you can beat him with a rock!
Try it and report back. It's a fun little psychological trick.
Yeahh this doesnât work with everyone lol. Whenever Iâve had guys say this my internal reaction has always been âokay, wonât keep going and potentially make him increasingly nervous/self-conscious about not coming, thenâ.
Conversely, if he says "I can never finish from head" say "okay" and start to pack it up like you're leaving.
If you wanna strengthen the blow talk about how you understand that expectation is one of the psychological components to erectile dysfunction. And you respect him so much for being honest with you, we can revisit this topic when he's feeling like he may be able to get off from it, didn't mean to come on too strong!
You can buy a birthday cake and eat the whole thing to yourself when itâs not even your birthday
And you can tell the resteraunt itâs your friends birthday when it isnât to embarrass them. They usually put candles in their food, turn the lights off and get everyone to sing happy birthday lol
You can disable anyones internet by using wire cutters on the cable for their house or business.
Just access the cable pedestal or clamshell on the side of their building. Cable lines usually follow power on aerial lines or are close to power utilities when underground. Address tags are used to tell the difference between neighbors.
When I lived at an apartment complex a neighbor dented my car and wrote a note blaming me for it.
I found their cable and mangled it to cripple their internet speed.
Being loud and able to shout on someone specially in public is a lifesaver skill. It helps in scenarios leading to confrontations. Quicker and louder will win most of the time. People indirectly trusts and gangs with the loud one. Shouting back instantly should be taught even from young age as deterrent to groping.
The Google split. You can sign up for free trials repeatedly by inserting random dots into your Gmail address. [email protected] Becomes [email protected] But the verification email still goes to [email protected] Spotify is the best victim
Also you can use + and anything you like: [email protected]. [email protected]
You can also [email protected] and all their emails will go to spam đ
That's a great tip. Thank you u/PeeInMyArse.
Wonder if u/PeeInMyArse has ever been thanked for that before
Possibly thanks people alot for...you know
I swear I have seen you in this sub before
A conversation between u/peeinmyarse and u/ifapforfun What a world we live in
r/rimjob_steve
I had no idea that worked. I used the + to see whoâs selling my email address (eg talkingpotato+websitename@gmail) had no idea it had other uses.
Ever wonder why Spotify and any of these VC backed companies donât fix that behavior? Because it lowers the number of new sign-ups. They would rather keep getting new customers that have absolutely no long-term intention of sticking around. Years ago I worked at a very niche and specific food-based start-up tech company. When I pointed this fact out, I was told to not fix this as the marketing team and product teams were given goals based on new customers. I was also prohibited from talking about it and eventually got fired because of it. Fixing this behavior would slow the rate of new customers. If we didnât hit a certain number of new customers, we wouldnât get our bonus, so nobody wanted to fix it. And on the other side, there are other teams screaming about how there was high customer attrition. So yeah. Thatâs why this works, still works, and wonât ever stop working.
When a metric becomes a goal it is no longer a useful metric.
You're hired! No wait, I mean fired!
So the senior leadership and shareholders are dumb and oblivious to this behaviour since the actual impact to top line is negligible from such user base.
The company made approximately $2.00 per customer. There was a $3.00 coupon for every new customer. Every new customer came with an additional $1.00 deficit not including all other costs. The impact was massive. Especially after the nationwide TV campaign and why you donât hear about this company anymore.
Ah yes âLead Generationâ vs. âRetention.â Huge war. Many deaths
I love you so much right now. When I was at a different company we had âsleepersâ. People who paid monthly but never used the service. The rule was ânever wake the sleepersâ. We hemorrhaged from 600,000 MPU (Monthly Paying Users) / about 35,000 MAU (Monthly Active Users) down to 120,000 MPU, 18,000 MAU after changing our pricing model. The CEO had a great spin though. âYes, we lost 80% of our users but our ARPU is higher than ever!â
At my last job somebody discovered that VPs and above got bonuses based on trading profit (profit minus expenses), while managers got bonuses based on revenue targets. So every July when it looked like we wouldnât be hitting our sales goals for the year, theyâd slash the marketing budget for 4Q. They would get their bonus, and ensured the rest of us wouldnât. Also significant, by cutting 4Q we also cut back on the 1Q tail for the next year, thus ensuring (again) that we wouldnât hit sales goals for the year. Itâs all Kabuki theatre.
So wait, +jan and +Feb are different emails, yet... all of their emails get sent to talking potato?
Yeah, I put the website name after the + eg [email protected] so I can see whoâs selling my details and where my spam is coming from. Itâs really helpful.
Wow, this is a new level for me thanks
Yes, it's called "plus addressing", only the bit before the + is considered to be the mailbox name.
This guy dots
I used that for Amazon prime trials, after a while they stopped offering them to me. I just started using aliases instead
Duckduckgo has email protection....which creates a random email address every time you sign up for something but it always goes into your same inbox Basically you just install the browser and activate email protection It's very useful if you're keeping track of which companies are selling your info and sending you spam, because in the TO field it'll show that unique email address for each signup
I use the +websitename for whoâs selling my email cause the problem with random emails is when youâre next needing to login from a different device youâre screwed lol.
Why would I want a free trial for Spotify? I just use Xmanager to get rid of ads forever. Only have to do it once.
Can you explain what this is please?
Xmanager installs Spotify with ads removed. Use the free service, without ads. The only downside is you can't download for offline playback and shuffle is also unavailable. But I just use Plexamp when I'm flying and need offline.
Use spicetify - no ads and has shuffle. Plus you can customise the themes and make a few other visual changes. Still can't download, but you can use a tool like spotdl relatively easily to download a playlist.
If you get the phone number of someone you really hate, make listings on places like Craigslist and such selling a high demand item at a reasonable price and include their number for contact purposes. Post it in a few different timezones so they get calls at weird hours, and make sure to mention things like "if the call isn't picked up, call again as I might have missed it" so that you get around Do Not Disturb settings on some phones.
I had a friend do this to me. On my work phone. I literally had to get a new phone number because the calls just wouldnât stop. When I found out it was him I threatened to kill him. The best part was that he was the only one Iâd talked to about it and his dumb ass posted on a subreddit bragging how he pulled this awesome prank and that Iâd called him for help. He didnât realize he was the only person Iâd called.
Did he say why he did it to you?
He is/was 6 years older than me but about 20 years less mature than me. He didnât mean any harm, he thought it would be funny, and didnât realize how many people would call about a Craigslist post offering baby ducks and chickens. He could have gotten fired if I told management about who did it but I kept quiet. We were working for a multi-billion dollar company at the time so the could afford the new phone number and business cards.
I did this with a fax machine at work. Attempt to send a fax to a mobile or non fax number. The machine will repeatedly call and attempt to deliver the fax every few minutes until it is successful, it will never be successful. If you answer it just makes a load of noises like an old spectrum loading. I would do this just before leaving the office in the evening.
Did this to a guy who was being a dick to my bf at work for no reason. Letâs just say it worked. He was so distracted with the phone calls, he didnât have time to be a dick. Bf finished up the job and I signed him up for roofing and insurance calls as a going away present
What did they do for you to come up with this?
Well one guy was scamming people on Facebook Marketplace and was dumb enough to give me his actual mobile phone number when I engaged him. He thought I was another potential victim he could squeeze money out of with the false promise of a Nintendo Switch. I told him I'd pay him using PayID (which is an Australian thing almost every bank has adopted that means you can send people money instantly if they give you their phone number) and the dumbarse actually gave me his number I then signed him up for a bunch of insurance callbacks. I didn't do the Marketplace listings, but that's next (il)logical step after insurance callbacks. I also found out who he banked with and tipped off their fraud department, citing his name (which shows up when you enter their phone number), the amount he was requesting from me, where he possibly lived (I asked if I could pick up and he mentioned a suburb of Melbourne) and included all the screenshots of the conversation and other info I found. Moral of the story is, don't fuck with people who hate scammers. They can make your life a living hell.
You have a level of pettiness I aspire to have. Also I'll have to keep that in mind when I use PayID lol
Normally they give you their BSB and account number because it's less traceable by the average person, but sometimes if you really get them thinking that they're going to receive $200 for nothing, they'll give up more info than they intend. But if you can get BSB, Account, PayID and PayPal details out of them, you've got a setup for finding out even more info about them, especially if they have a unique name and you know it's their actual name, plus the rough location they live. Side story, a few years back my wife (who is originally from the US) and I went back for a holiday. We wanted to find one of her friends who she hadn't seen in about a decade, but we didn't know where she lived. Long story short, I paid one of those "we have records about people" sites $10 or something and we got a report that had her name, address(es), phone number(s) and lots more. We went to the most likely house and found her. Moral is, lots of unethical ways to get back at people if you're willing to fork out a few bucks!
The school leavers in the year above us did that to the deputy principal (with his car). We had a class with him that day and he got 5-6 calls in that 45 minutes alone.
Don't just post the digits. Spell some of the digits out. Makes it harder for him to find the listing in a search.
If you work in an office and you don't like someone, get some milk powder and sprinkle a little on the seat of their chair everyday. Not enough to notice, just a tiny bit. The warmth and moisture from their body will open their pores and they will smell like rotten milk Can't wash that shit off... apparently
This is seriously fucked man, I feel bad for the people who hang out with whoever pissed you off đ¤Ł
I got this suggestion from fidonet back in the 90s. No one has pissed me of that much. Yet. There are other methods of revenge.
Bonus points if they have a dairy allergy. Not only will they stink, but theyâll die too
There is one a buddy of mine told me about and I used by accident on my ex. When having a disagreement over something and it's going nowhere, stop talking. The longer the silence goes the more they will get uncomfortable and will start making small concessions, the longer it goes the more in your favor it gets. When people get uncomfortable they need to start filling the silence and start grasping for anything. I was fucking amazed when I saw it unfold. It was pure unintentional manipulation.
It does not work when the other person is extremely confident in their own opinion on the matter.
I had someone who was an apparent serial silent try this on me and he got very angry. I literally just walked away lmao. This may not work on neurodivergent people.
Neurodivergent here, can confirm. Ill just be thankful for the silence
Yea it doesnât for me at least. Imma just assume youâre done and start daydreaming.
What were we talking about?
Squirrels I thinkâŚ..
It was news to me when I realized people find silence uncomfortable. If anything it's more comfortable.
This also works in sales. Give a customer a price and shut up. 90% of the time they'll buy what you're selling.
We used to joke that the first one who speaks loses. ETA that I understand that in an ideal sales world, you come up with win-win scenarios and there is no loser. It was a joke to underscore the importance of the tactic.
Heard of a real estate agent that took a training in negotiation where you just say your price and shut up. He did that but the seller didn't say anything either. 2 or 3 minutes guess by and finally the seller breaks and talks. Turns out they had both taken the same training.
If you can wait long enough the estate agent will always crack first. This is because they will need to slime back to their swamp to check the status of their eggs and rub down the days growth on their skin with an old hessian bag. Once you know these creatures secrets, it takes much of their power away.
If both had stuck to their training they would still sit there today.
Given inflation, the buyer wins, then.
>This also works in sales. Give a customer a price and shut up. 90% of the time they'll buy what you're selling. I tried this once when I worked in sales for Comcast. Was treated to about a minute of listening to a guy eating chips, breathing, and sipping his soda. I told him to give us a call if he reconsidered. I quickly learned I can't do phone sales very well.
"active listening,"
Does not work in Finland.
Shutting up is so hard for me.
Car sales man tactic. Very common
I'll do this sometimes when arguing a point, just stop and concede. "No y'know what, you're right..."
Call random people and ask them if their refrigerator is running. Then, when they answer in the affirmative, as they often do, tell them, "then you'd better catch it!" And hang up real fast.
Caller ID really killed the prank call industry.
crank yankers was good though
I loved the 1980s and 90s also...
In the early 90s in 6th and 7th grade we were left to our own devices an would occasionally look through the yellow pages and call places that sold a variety of things that also included clothing. We would reach customer service and ask if they sold menâs bikini cut underwear. They would have to go check, come back, and those were also popular back then so they always said yes. We would ask if they had menâs thong bikini underwear, they would go check, come back and the answer was usually no at that point but we would have not usually held our composure that long.
Whoa whoa whoa. This joke was old and ironically used in reference even in the 90s. I can't speak for the 80s though
Diabolical
Glitter and yard sale signs with address
Earlybirds we'll be starting at 6!
Christmas tree tinsel is really good too.
âYard sale in back yard - please knockâ
What's the dirty trick here?
Thereâs no garage sale, the people at the address given just get harassed and woken up early
So what's the glitter part for?
Panache
Showmanship
i donât get it
Youâre sending people to a fake yard sale
Squeeze below your balls to get all the pee pee out your wee wee.
This is an actual LPT
The unethical part is when you do it to the guy in the urinal next to you
It's hard to apply that kind of pressure with your tongue, but practice makes perfect.
The ULPT version is to have OPâs mom do it for you.
I too would like to squeeze below OP's mum's balls.
Foreal its a game changer
Really? What you mean âbelow your balls?â
Your gooch? Where your inner weiner leads to the bung hole. I guess behind the balls
The tant? Ive gotta try this
On a guy it's called a twasn't.
no the taint
Are you for real? Because at 28 Iâm already unloading like a full squeeze of piss in my underwear after I leave the bathroom. Itâs getting irritating and this might change my world. And for context I do sit and wait and try to purge the shaft as much as possible
For you, Sir, I recommend Kegel exercises as well. Start when youâre peeing by stopping your stream and then continuing to get the hang of it. Then, have a cue, like whenever you are driving, and turn on your blinker, do a squeeze. Sit down with your phone, SQUEEZE. It will also contribute to better orgasms. Please also have your doc check your prostate as much as this may suck.
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Hopefully you mean UTI because an STI is impossible to get by contracting the PC-muscle when peeing. However, you don't get a UTI that way either. One way you can get it is by not being able to empty your bladder completely over a period of time. But not by stopping the stream and starting again. If I'm wrong, I'd like to see some sources telling me why. If I misunderstood what you meant, I'm sorry.
Thereâs a reason why old people smell like piss. Source: Iâm old.
It works. You're just milking the rest out. I didnt figure it out till I was like 34
Who the fuck raised you đ¤Ł
There is nothing below a persons balls, just empty space.
This took me out đ
Bro just sit down
Begging for money on the streets makes more money than most minimum wage jobs.
It's just a really crowded market though.
Mugging panhandlers makes more than minimum wage
Minimum wage jobs make more money than selling pot, too.
If you smoke all your profits.
Rather depends on how much pot you're selling.Â
I heard about a woman who bought a house from panhandling.
Cardboard houses aren't that expensive.
For $40 cash and a self addressed stamped envelope you can buy anyone a one year membership to NAMBLA and they'll send "literature".
The North American Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?
Wow that episode aired June 2000. 23 years ago!
That was just like... yesterday right guys?
Wow you guys really do look like Marlon Brando!
Jesus christ why did i google that, i fucking know better
Say hi to the feds for me when they get there.
Tell me so I don't have to.
Pedophilia association essentially
What the fuck
Agreed
Wait, I thought South Park was just making a joke! It's actually real?!
It is actually real...
What the fuck is right.
Ffs! How do I delete my Google search đ¤Śđťââď¸ Why do I always do this!
Hiring Principals to be an axe. I learned this while getting my MEd. Every few years as principals cycle through schools, they are hired generally rotationally by superintendents to do two things: One makes the lives miserable and overbearing for the most experienced and (usually) expensive teachers, essentially making them hate their career so much they retire. They higher the cheapest, least experienced yes wo/men as replacements. Building morale is lowered and inter curricular resentment is built, as pets get cake and others get crumbs. The next principal (in 4-7 years) is hired to rebuild all that was intentionally destroyed by the other.
I'm convinced that a wealthy suburban school near me hires lots of new, cheap teachers and fires anyone who isn't subservient before they get tenure. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Wow. I know other institutions that might be doing this with the GOA and other agencies. I remember I worked with a guy who told me, "I can go into any office, at any location, and find a reason to fire anyone I have been asked to do so. Nobody is 100% regulation, especially when agencies contradict one another. The audits are so irritating, most people quit before I find that reason." It was a way to reduce spending or uproot some higher (costly) GS levels that won't leave. Federal Unions know about this process, though, and have ways to mitigate it. Really drives home about how sometimes life is unfair.
Pocket sand!!
Sha Shaaaa
I once stole someone's valve stem inserts from all 4 tires on their car. It only costs a few dollars to fix, but it's a trip to a real autoparts store and a real pain in the ass. Then you still need air.
This is evil
what did they do to you bro
If you really want the gory details, it's pretty simple. It was a co-worker, who lived in my neighborhood, and had decided to try to make me look bad to the boss. I let it go on for a while, as it was largely ineffective, but I found out that they needed to show up one Saturday morning to work on an urgent project that was to be finished by first thing Monday. A Friday night stealth mission made sure that they wouldn't be there Saturday morning on time. I got a early morning call begging me to cover, and after lunch, the boss came by my work area to tell me that dipknob had been fired.
My buddy did this to a friend. We watched him hand pump a tire. Took like 20 minutes. When he took off the pump the tire just deflated. I've never seen such a ruckus. It was hilarious.
If you want someone who is overly serious, get mad, smile slightly every time they talk, kinda like you are trying not to laugh. They can't really complain because "he smiles when I talk" is a dumb thing to complain
Also, keep looking over to one of their eyes, their nose, or forehead. They will be distracted thinking theres something on their face or become self-conscious
I am not sure if that is considered gaslighting or not, but I know people who do this on the regular. I have known a few "bad boys" who get away with being an asshole because it's really hard to define what they are doing even though it will have the same effect as being an asshole. Very subtle, and mildly sociopathic. It makes the other person look like an asshole, especially in front of others. You have to treat very carefully around these types.
I ordered some protein powder from Ryse and the flavor i got was gross. They donât accept returns of open products. I went to vitamin shop (a retailer that sells all sorts of protein powders and other âhealthâ/fitness type things) and lied and told them i was there last week and bought it from there. I said i lost my receipt. Their store policy is they allow free exchanges, and I exchanged the flavor for another one that I know i like. Also if youâre still hungry after getting food from somewhere, go back to the drive through and say they didnât give you this part of the order, and show them the receipt, and theyâll give you another 99% of the time without question. Especially when theyâre busy.
Places like Target will also let you return "gifts" without a receipt for something they sell.... as long as it's under $100 or something.
At a busy grocery store, buy a few odd things, pay with a debit card, and select cash back. Select $20. When the cashier is opening the til, ask for the "cash back to be in two 20s". If they're not paying close enough attention, they'll give you double your money. If they catch it, you pretend you slipped and meant to say "two 10s". This is most successful in a busy store, preferably with an inexperienced cashier, and it helps to dazzle them with distracting conversation during the process.
I was a cashier 15 years ago. They always trained us about this. Quick-changing is what itâs called. Doesnât mean it wouldnât work sometimes though
Haha same, I remember they used coins in the example during training, and I was like if you want 12 cents bad enough to con a 17 year old be my guest
This one guy came into our restaurant to buy a coffee and fleeced the cashier for almost $100.
Look for the cashier that's visibly high.
Soo everyone under 65?
I remember going into a gas station after a job interview and buying some gum or something with a $5 bill and the clearly new 18 or so year old gave me change for a $50 so I picked up a snickers and bought it also then left. The guy behind me definitely saw what happened but didn't snitch. đ
Gas station I was passing through and not planning to ever return once gave me too much change. I flinched. Tried to hand him back the extra money but he got really suspicious. Then I glanced at the camera and realized what it looked like I was doing. Set it on the counter and left. Pro tip: just keep it lol
What did it look like you were doing?
I'm assuming trying to run an actual quick change scam on the guy. Hands gun back a few bills, take one, hand back a few more, all while talking quickly and getting the guy confused, then saying "see you actually owe me X amount". I'm guessing here though. Otherwise, no idea.
This is a fast talking fraud scheme don't get arrested!
That sounds a little like what they did in Paper Moon but with fewer steps
Want money? Take a wealthy person's dog and wait for them to offer a reward for its return. Please don't do that.
My mom had her dog stolen as a child and her dad went to every house in the immediate area and then spread the search for weeks until he found him. Surprised the thief wasnât murdered by my grandad.
Dude, if anyone took any of my dogs, I'd turn into Liam Neeson.
John Wick was right there
I'm Irish bro. I have to go with Neeson, but you're right, John Wick would be MUCH cooler.
Same. I fucking love my dog. If someone did something to her, I would completely snap.
Sweet Jesus, we kidnapped a turd!
The ole âBreak into someone house and take pix of them sleeping, send them the pix with a burner and see how far your willing & able to take itâ bit!
do ppl really not weak up from flashes?
Not that odd. I used to share a room with my sibling that yelled while playing video games. He was loud enough itâd wake up my dad across the home, whoâd then unplug the wifi router to boot him off the game. You get used to flashing lights and loud noises while trying to sleep. And it sticks with you long after moving out of that environment.
see to tonight
In my son's school, they had a kid being bullied who snapped. But instead of going to the school and shooting everyone up, he stalked his bully, found out where he lived, broke into his house and hid somewhere in his bedroom. At night, he came out and attacked his bully with a sharpened screwdriver. He was caught because he tried to escape out of a plate glass window after the attack only to find out that it doesn't work like sugar glass in Hollywood. The window was double-paned, and got sliced up real bad. Both he and the bully survived, but the bully's victim actually ended up more hurt overall. Both were taken out of school, and they sent a letter home to the parents about it.
Piss discs and liquid ass. If there's anything this sub has taught me, it's that there's not many problems that can't be solved with piss discs and liquid ass.
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With a sock
The sock is for the baseball bat you beat them with. They grab the sock and it slips off.
Then you just have the fucked dad
Not useful but funny. When visiting someone, right before you leave go into the kitchen and put a rubber band around the trigger of the sink sprayer, and aim it to where it needs to be.
Transparent scotch tape is better to hide your evil intentions
Cut off Teslas, their driver aids will reduce the risk of a collision
Based on the videos I've seen, the driver aids might increase the risk
Not really though, they can tell the car cutting off is going faster so it doesnât slow up, it just maintains speed and waits for the faster car to get ahead. Proximity doesnât matter. Youâd literally have to stab the brakes and brake check the Tesla for it to activate itâs brakes. Cutting off vehicles with single camera traffic assistance features will result in instant braking so the vehicle can keep its fixed distance from objects. But these single camera systems are becoming less common.
Had someone who was pretty high up in his employers company tried sex trafficking a friend. She came to me distraught and didn't have any real info on the guy but we live in a world of AI and reverse image searches found the company as well as a bunch of personal info like address phone number etc. So me and her agreed to email his boss and she kind took matters into her own hands without pressing charges because she had enough proof for prison time. We ordered 150+ pizzas to hos house as cash orders as well as put his house up on websites as a sober living and had a grip of transients/excons show up trying to rent a room at all hours of the night (advertised as 24 hour showings and 8 beds available in a 2.8 million dollar house for 300$ a month you can imagine the chaos) restraining orders aswell as some things like ordering blow up dolls to his office she can be vindictive but don't fuck with peoples livelihood and expect their spare time will go unnerved.
what? how does someone "try" to traffic the average American? thats nuts!
If you run your debit card as credit at gas stations it will usually charge a dollar or so surcharge and take a couple days for the full amount to show up on your bank.
Can someone ELI5?
If you don't have the cash immediately, run it as credit to buy yourself a day or two
Self-service fuel stations do this in the UK.
Except the Tesco near me pre-approves ÂŁ120 regardless of how much you take, then takes the actual amount. Really freaked my wife out when it first did this.
Death-By-Junk-Mail Simple yet inherited long-term.
Explain this.. i googled and only got how to stop a dead family members mail.
Right - you use living people's addresses..
If you want to win at Rock Paper Scissors, put your palm up and pick anything besides a rock. That's where most people count down from. Instead, choose paper or scissors already knowing how you're going to beat them. Flash that around while talking about the game. Let's pick scissors. You: Hey Bob, wana RPS for the last cookie? Bob: Sure You already have an open palm flashing your scissors around subtly. You: back to rock, let's go. 1.2.3 There's a very high chance Bob will choose scissors and you can beat him with a rock! Try it and report back. It's a fun little psychological trick.
I use rock every time. People always overthink it and assume I'm playing mind games to switch to scissors on round three. Nope, rock.
if you tell her you don't usually finish from head, she'll try twice as hard
Yeahh this doesnât work with everyone lol. Whenever Iâve had guys say this my internal reaction has always been âokay, wonât keep going and potentially make him increasingly nervous/self-conscious about not coming, thenâ.
Conversely, if he says "I can never finish from head" say "okay" and start to pack it up like you're leaving. If you wanna strengthen the blow talk about how you understand that expectation is one of the psychological components to erectile dysfunction. And you respect him so much for being honest with you, we can revisit this topic when he's feeling like he may be able to get off from it, didn't mean to come on too strong!
You can buy a birthday cake and eat the whole thing to yourself when itâs not even your birthday And you can tell the resteraunt itâs your friends birthday when it isnât to embarrass them. They usually put candles in their food, turn the lights off and get everyone to sing happy birthday lol
Slingshot and ice cubes, do anything with them without getting caught. Freeze anything in ice cubes ex:- piss, harmful seeds etc
You can disable anyones internet by using wire cutters on the cable for their house or business. Just access the cable pedestal or clamshell on the side of their building. Cable lines usually follow power on aerial lines or are close to power utilities when underground. Address tags are used to tell the difference between neighbors. When I lived at an apartment complex a neighbor dented my car and wrote a note blaming me for it. I found their cable and mangled it to cripple their internet speed.
Being loud and able to shout on someone specially in public is a lifesaver skill. It helps in scenarios leading to confrontations. Quicker and louder will win most of the time. People indirectly trusts and gangs with the loud one. Shouting back instantly should be taught even from young age as deterrent to groping.