F Minus by Tony Carrillo for January 06, 2025

If only it were that simple to fix cluelessness.

My wife said she got most of the pebbles out of the garbage disposal. We have a new one now.

It does work.

Should have used a bigger rock!

Click bait clog.

It’s much quieter now.

Actually, the list it led him to never really included that item.

bonk

We’re driving full speed down that road.

Well, it is the “anniversary” of the biggest misinformation in recent history, whitewashing a violent coup.

Baiting the suckers didn’t just begin with YouTube. Way back in the early 20th century, an American gentleman was in London and became angry at the British practice of the laundry cutting all the buttons off a shirt and returning them in an envelope. For his revenge, he concocted a tale about a miraculous hair restored passed to him by an old Welshman. He sent it to the times Letter editor who printed the recipe, which had raisins, flour, butter and other messy things. Other people wrote in to say they too had heard of this miraculous cure for baldness, others that it was on account of the iron in the raisins and the correspondence continued in that vein for a long time. The prankster was satisfied to think about all the bald men kneading what was basically raisin pudding into their scalps.

I fixed mine with a broom handle once. A single parent suggested it.

the misinformation out there can be quite painful… I recall seeing a post about rinsing your sinuses with vinegar (which seemed like an obvious joke to me…either that, or the OP was seeking to cause some unsuspecting reader a lotta agony)- Well, she tried it, and felt like she was going to die. I can’t begin to fathom how painful that must’ve been! And, in case anyone’s interested, you DON’T use an acid for a nasal/sinus rinse… you use an alkaline, such as salt mixed with a pinch of baking soda. It’s easy and quite cheap to use the ready to use packets… (end of public service announcement)

If it sounds like a dumb idea, it probably is.

my upstairs neighbor once told me, apparently in all seriousness, that putting coffee grounds down the toilet was a good idea. this was the same neighbor whose toilet backed up, raining bluelet (a kind of toilet water “freshener” here in japan) down through my loo’s ceiling…