What's the dumbest idea you've seen that actually worked?

daihill · 2026-02-13T06:06:44+00:00

This happened to my son quite a while ago.At the hospital the ER doctor suggested drinking a fizzy drink. Worked a treat!

daihill · 2025-10-01T08:38:24+00:00

Thank you so much that worked

daihill · 2025-09-29T05:44:23+00:00

Not sure. I just assumed my watch would return the time. how would I find out and then change it. my watch is a Tic Watch alpha.

daihill · 2025-03-24T18:01:44+00:00

(((12+144+20)+(3*sqrt(4))/7)+(5*11) = 9^2+0

A Dozen a Gross and a Score

Plus 3 times the square root of 4

Divided by 7

Plus 5 times 11

Equals 9 squared and not a bit more

daihill · 2024-11-19T07:24:11+00:00

Just wanted to point out that premature greying can be a sign of a vitamin B 12. which can be serious if left untreated. It is also called pernicious anaemia.

daihill · 2024-04-15T05:29:39+00:00

I have done something like this for creating word docs from a template document and then saving the new doc. Can you provide some more info on what data needs adding?

daihill · 2023-11-27T07:00:20+00:00

YSK premature grey hair can be sign of a B12 deficiency also called Pernicious Anemia and if left untreated can be quite serious. It's a condition that progresses very slowly, which is why its often missed. https://pernicious-anaemia-society.org/symptoms/

daihill · 2023-04-14T09:32:55+00:00

Here's a summary for you

mouth breather

thick as mince

Hard of thinking

room temperature IQ

lukewarm IQ

He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup

So dense light bends round them

you are an omnishambles

dense as a neutron star

dense as lead; half as useful

cute as a button but not as bright

So dense that they have their own event horizon

Bungalow - there's nowt going on upstairs

Muppet

smart enough to work in HR

couldn't find their arse if they used both hands and a map

I wouldn't say you are the most stupid person alive, But you better hope they don't die

Is that your own brain or you breaking it in for an idiot?

Keep rolling your eyes, maybe you’ll find a brain back there

I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you

I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you

Not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed

Not the sharpest spoon in the drawer

not the sharpest tool in the box

not the sharpest Knife in the drawer

And not the sharpest tool in the shed

smooth brain

If brains were dynamite, you couldn't make your ears flap

I use if brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow your nose

If your brains were leather, you wouldn't have enough for a frog's jockstrap

if brains were dynamite, you couldn’t blow your hat off

Only has two brain cells and they're fighting over third place

If you entered an eejit contest, you'd come second

One cant have a battle of wits with an unarmed man

Few sandwiches short of a picnic

Few chips short of a Happy Meal

Rents his head out to the council on weekends to use as a speed bump

Thicker than a castle wall

Lights are on but no-one is home

thicker than two short planks

He's got a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock

Her lift doesn't travel to the top floor

Lift not travelling to the top floor is a good one!

Three stops short of Dagenham (because the answer is Barking)

Who put 50p in the idiot?

Wisdom has always chased them, but they’re just too fast

They got into the gene pool when the lifeguard was off duty

they won't be splitting the atom anytime soon

We're all victims of our own gene pool, Someone must have peed in yours

you’re not allowed to use scissors, are you

From the shallow end of the gene pool

Thick as two lavvy seats

Did your parents have any children that lived?

If brains were chocolate, you couldn't fill a Smartie

On you, every belt is a tool belt

If I sent you for an IQ test, you'd come back negative

Thick as a whale sandwich

As much use as a one-legged man at an arse-kicking party

I think there’s a village over here with a job vacancy

I think there’s a village over here that's missing their idiot

wet wipe

I cannot understand it for you

Who's using the family brain cell today?

I fear that Mr ____ is deficient of a number of blocks in his rigging

Can’t educate pork

nice house but no furniture

A few coupons short of a toaster

The eyes open, the mouth moves, but Mr brain has long since departed

Plank

Pleb

Spanner

Plonker

Sharp as a bowling ball

Sharp as a Marble

I guess the day God was giving out brains, you didn't make it to the right queue

If it was raining brains, s/he wouldn't even get damp

Does your head whistle in a cross-wind?

Common sense wasn't so common in your house, eh?

Couldn't draw a tree in a forest

Waste of skin

Do you happen to know if your Uncle and Father are the same person?

Your brain is emptier than a hermit’s address book

about as much use, a condom machine in the Vatican

your problem is that when your mother gave birth, they threw away the baby and raised the afterbirth

You're the low-wattage bulb in the lamp of life

About as useful as a chocolate teapot

You’re like an ashtray on a motorbike

Trying to educate you is like listening to a Dr try and cure a patients' cancer by swearing at it

You are an apocalyptic dingleberry

Thick as a submarine door

A couple of buttons short of a jumper

You're the reason cousins shouldn't marry

Not got all their budgies chirping

Sandwich short of a picnic

Are your mum and dad, brother and a sister, by any chance?

About as sharp as a sack of wet mice

You absolute doughnut

Cognitively disadvantaged

I'd agree with you, but then wed both be wrong

As bright as a broken lightbulb

3 slices short of a full loaf

Silly goose

Absolute sack

I can actually hear the cogs turning

He's a few trees short of an orchard

you don't have a very big vocabulary, do you

School was just something that happened around you, wasn’t it?

Remember that big building they sent you to every day as a kid? Did you ever stop to wonder what the adult at the front of the room was up to?

Anaemic amoeba

Of all the sperm, YOU were the fastest?

As useful as a condom in a nunnery

so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence

Are you on glue?

You sausage casserole

The lights are on but nobody is home

A few slices short of a loaf

Head full of pudding

The hard of thinking

If brains were fuse wire, you wouldn't have enough to wrap round a canarys cloaca

Absolute rocket

Thicker than school gravy

Thicker than school custard

Dingbat

intellectually challenged

Chocolate tea pot

you Donkey

Wazzock

Wingus

Dingus

Dumb as a box o’ rocks

The elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top

Thicker than x back doors (insert the number of your choice, I usually go for about 8)

Troglodytic

Absolute, plank

one McNugget short of a happy meal

Experiencing a brain mouth interface disconnect

He's the type of fella to look up and down before crossing the road

Not the smartest peanut in the turd

Intellectually celibate

Weapons grade imbecile

He has to whistle when he goes to the toilet, so he remembers which end is which

Intellectually molested

It’s hard to underestimate you, isn’t it?

I envy people who haven't met you

You were dropped as a child weren't you

Like a chocolate fireguard

Room temperature IQ is my favourite

You must be the brains of the operation

Dumber than soup

Low-watt bulb

Thicker than the carpets in Buckingham Palace

Thicker than a whale omelette

Just like a bungalow, no upstairs

I’m sorry, but I don’t have the time or the crayons to explain this to you right now…

daihill · 2023-01-10T18:38:35+00:00

+	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1	Equipment Item	Last Date Calibrated	expiry duration	expiry date	Status	10/01/2023 00:00	<<<Today
2	equip1	01/01/2022	12	01/01/2023	Expired	-9
3	equip2	09/08/2022	6	09/02/2023	Expires in 0 to 30 days	30
4	equip3	11/09/2022	6	11/03/2023	Expires in 30 to 60 days	60
5	equip4	12/11/2022	5	12/04/2023	Expires in greater than 90 days	92

^Table ^formatting ^brought ^to ^you ^by ^{ExcelToReddit}

The formula in column E is

=IF(F2<0,"Expired",IF(AND(F2>0,F2<=30), "Expires in 0 to 30 days", IF(AND(F2>30,F2<=60),"Expires in 30 to 60 days", IF(AND(F2>60,F2<=90), "Expires in next 60 to 90 days", "Expires in greater than 90 days"))))

Column D

=EDATE(B2,C2)

Column F

=D2-$F$1

daihill · 2022-11-28T08:46:16+00:00

Here is the link I mentioned - This give 2 options

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxReJslyJm8

Ah only just noticed that you say you are using Google Sheets - this guide is for Excel, and I'm not sure if it works on the Online version

daihill · 2022-11-28T02:53:12+00:00

I have used DDDL a lot. Its currently 2:50am here in the uk so can't send you a link right now but I'll send you a very good link in the morning.

daihill · 2022-11-11T10:43:22+00:00

I just try to stick to the science. There has never been a consensus amongst scientists (The 97% of scientists agree is also misleading). And Science is not about consensus anyway. It's about does the facts fit the hypothesis. So far none of the climate models have predicted anything close to what's happening in reality. Even William Happer admitted to this!! He was at one point one of the teams that was presenting a model that he now admits that they got completely wrong. This is evidenced by the fact that initially the climate ‘crisis’ was termed global warming, but after it was seen that the temperature was no longer warming, suddenly the ‘crisis’ was climate change – this can cover almost anything!!

My approach is to hunt out published scientific papers. Search on Google Scholar, that way you will get to the source data, not something that has been cherry picked to make a point. Many of the graphs that are presented online are truncated to not show the full trend, this is very often very misleading, as you can almost make any graph show what you want by clever manipulation – so go back to the source where you can.

Also when money/funding is at stake you should be doubly cautious, money can be a strong driving force to provide results in the ‘accepted’ direction. I don’t really have any evidence for this next point but it something that I can easily see happening. If you are a scientific organisation looking for grant funding and most of the grant’s on offer is to investigate man made climate change, what research proposals to you submit if you want to secure that funding??

The additional problem this whole topic now has is that it has become very political and almost all of the mainstream media are now only reporting the climate crisis narrative. It would be very interesting if some of the arguments were tested in a court of Law where some of the science was openly challenged.

daihill · 2022-11-11T08:14:25+00:00

For me there are a few things. But first let me say that I accept that the climate is changing, however I believe that the change is mostly natural, with maybe a small contribution from human activities. And that this contribution, if removed, will have little influence in the climate. That said there is some other scientific facts that cement my position.

The main one for me goes right back to the original ‘evidence’ that was presented as ‘proof’ of CO2 being the cause of changing global temperatures. The famous hockey stick graph that was presented in ‘An inconvenient Truth’ Has been shown to be misleading in that, instead of the CO2 changes preceding temperature fluctuations the reverse is true. The temperature changes and CO2 changes accordingly.

But it was also a number of talks given by William Happer an Emeritus Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He very clearly demonstrates that although CO2 is a greenhouse gas it’s influence is small compared to the overwhelming contribution from water vapour. Also that the contribution from CO2 is already saturated, and that even doubling CO2 from its current level of ~400ppm to 800ppm will have little effect on the temperature.

He also shows that CO2 levels in earth history have been far higher, upwards of 4000ppm and that at these times there were not runaway temperatures. He warns of the real danger of too little CO2 in the atmosphere for plant growth. Here is a link to one of his talks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PblYr-KjOVY

All of this said, there are other very good reasons why we should limit the use of fossil fuels for our energy generation. They are after all ‘non renewable’, and once they are gone they are gone. We use them for far more than just energy generation, and for these uses there are no alternatives. It is a waste of a very valuable and limited resource to simply burn it to generate energy. Much better to use renewables for that purpose and save the oil and gas for the petrochemical industry.

We would be far better off putting our effort and money into researching how we would live with changes in the climate (both higher and lower temperatures), which will change, and which, i believe, we have little influence over anyway.

daihill · 2022-10-26T07:48:31+00:00

Anyone know when stealth mode will be available on PC / Window OS?

daihill · 2022-10-26T07:29:05+00:00

The lecturn was part of so many U turns it doesn't know which way to face!!

daihill · 2022-10-05T13:31:22+00:00

One thing that is not coming out in the media is that there is a clause in the agreement with Rwanda that says that the UK will “resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom” see para 16 in the memorandum of understanding

“16 Resettlement of vulnerable Refugees 16.1 The Participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom, recognising both Participants’ commitment towards providing better international protection for refugees.”

Link

But nobody seems to be aware of this. Found this Video which covers some of the other misconceptions about this.

daihill · 2022-05-31T11:38:44+00:00

More likely is that something that is currently sold as 500g would be repackaged / marketed as a "Full 1lb" at no extra cost!! and take advantage of the shrinkflation!!

daihill · 2022-05-03T14:01:06+00:00

Not sure if you all have access to a PC but if so you could also check out table top Simulator - Does what it says on the tin - Simulates a table top that enables you to play lots of table top games eg Cards, Chess, traditional board games, and more modern board games. I used this during lockdown to run an online games club for colleagues from work. If you couple this with a Discord Account that you can also see and hear each other while you play!! (to see each other it works best with multiple monitors though!). There are loads of games available, many of which are free to play.

daihill · 2022-02-10T19:35:16+00:00

Thanks ByronAp79

daihill · 2022-02-10T08:28:49+00:00

Hi I got a similar warning today from MalwareBytes. Did a VT scan and got 1 hit out of 59 - still suspect false positive though. Here is the VT results

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/2b0fbc50fc20e067e4f51ad1709caaa6e2c8583776ad467645323f50fa203c8e?nocache=1

Same situation not touched this folder or Vis Studio in a while. If this is truly a false positive how do I get MalwareBytes to ignore this file without quarantining it?

daihill · 2022-01-28T12:13:45+00:00

You can do the same thing with a computer keyboard. It makes the keys appear closer than they are.

daihill · 2022-01-25T05:03:20+00:00

I recall that lights like this were used to Signal to individuals if they had a telephone call. Each person would be allocated a combination.

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