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‘Here’s Something I Didn’t Know Until I Was In My 30s’: Guy Is Sharing 27 Useful Tips People Wish They Had Known Sooner
Just think of how much easier this whole life would have been if you knew some things earlier. Like, mastering the art of tackling zip lock bags, organizing your sheets, relieving heartburn, calming an iPhone alarm, the list is endless.
But TikToker Sidneyraz has set out on a mission to get our lives back by sharing some very relatable, super simple, low-key and sometimes plain hilarious know-how tips for everyday life. In a series of viral videos, Sidneyraz tells the viewers ‘something I didn’t know until I was in my 30s’ and enacts the things in funny home scenarios.
With a whopping 842.2K followers and some videos racking up more than 5M views, you can see that this guy has definitely hit our soft spot: FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on even more years wasted without knowing such obvious, yet game-changing things.
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#1
Not Being Hungover Is Better Than Being Drunk
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#2
Dishwashers Have A Filter You're Supposed Clean
#3
Hiring Movers Is Worth It
Not everything goes downhill as we age. Well, surely our close friends circle becomes smaller, hangovers get worse and more responsibilities fall on our shoulders. But a new body of research has shown that some of our brain abilities improve as we age.
For example, a 2011 study looking at data from more than 60,000 people found that our ability to recognize faces continued to improve as we age—until just after we hit age 30. "At almost any given age, most of us are getting better at some things and worse at others," lead study author and MIT department of brain and cognitive sciences researcher Joshua Hartshorne commented to Business Insider.
#4
You Can Change Which Way The Refrigerator Foor Opens
#5
Salt Stops The Oil From Splattering In The Pan. Apparently
#6
How To Squeeze A Lemon
Another more recent study found that some of our abilities, like reading others' emotions and recalling events that have just happened, to name a few, keep improving until we turn 30. Incredibly, skills like basic math and a larger vocabulary rise throughout our lives and reach their peak around when we turn 50.
#7
Fruit Lasts Longer If You Take Out Of These And Put It Into Someting Airtight
#8
Travel Pillows Go In Front
Nela Rothenbach 4 years ago
I've always used mine this way. Then I pull down the table and put the pillow on it....best way to sleep in a plane...for me.
#9
The Abc Song And Twinkle Twinkle Are The Same Tune
Does that mean that we get smarter with age? Well, it depends what we define as ‘smart,’ but some of our cognitive abilities do indeed improve as we age. However, some will deteriorate, like our ability to quickly process and recall information (also known as fluid intelligence), which peaks at about the age of 18. After its peak, those abilities continually fall over the rest of our lives.
But that doesn’t mean it’s bad news for us. There is another study suggesting that having a greater purpose in life can help protect against cognitive decline among older adults. In fact, greater purpose in life has been linked to reduced all-cause mortality and cardiovascular problems, increased longevity, maintenance of general physical functioning, reduced risk of stroke and reduced incidence of sleep disturbances.
#10
How To Line This(Bread Tin) With Foil. Flip The Pan Over. Spread Foil Over. Make The Shape Over. And Now It's Easily Lined
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago (edited)
Don’t use Aluminium foil at all. It harms the environment and your health as well. Just butter your bread tin or use baking paper.
#11
You Can Store Avocados In Water To Keep Them Fresh Longer
#12
There Are Tags On The Bottom Left Corner Of Fitted Sheets?
#13
How To Clena The Microwave. Take Some Lemon Water. Microwave That For A Minute And A Half And It Should Wipe Out More Smoothly
#14
You Can Pick Up Flour With A Whisk, Apparently
#15
How To Put Trash Bags In The Trashcan
#16
How To Wrap A Towel Around Myself
#17
If You Keep Rotating Nothing Will Drip Down The Sides
#18
You Can Use A Pistachio Shell To Open A Pistachio
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Not the case with those hermetically closed bulletproof pieces. There are always a few of those clam-shut suckers in every bag. You have to smash those with a rock.
#19
How To Use A Can Opener
#20
You Can Add Tinfoil If You Don't Have The Right Size Battery
#21
How To Fill The Cooler
#22
The Drawer At The Bottom Of Your Over Is Not For Storing Pans, It's A Broiler
#23
Chesse Gaters Lay Down
#24
Where The Instant Pot Lid Goes
#25
You Can Flip The Pan Over Instead Of The Thing In The Pan
#26
You Can Stop A Pot From Boiling Over By Putting A Wooden Spoon On It
Nadine Debard 4 years ago
It doesn't work very well if you put too much pasta for example and the water is full of starch. Only for water I guess (salted or not). I just lower the heat.
RandomBeing 4 years ago
HAHA SO I'M RIGHT AND MY MOM AND SISTER ARE WRONG >:D
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43 S 3 years ago
I always put a bit of butter when cooking potatoes. Never boiled over since. It also makes them taste great.
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Duncan 4 years ago
I do that all the time. Totally works. You can also blow on it to get the bubbles down. Works with boiling water like for pasta and rice.
Christine Lalande 3 years ago
Half the time, the spoon falls off from the boiling's vibration!
Cherry Lane 3 years ago
A chef said that pour a bit of cold water in it. Cooking something that causes foam: pick it up with a ladle.
Dustin West 3 years ago
If your pot is overfilled it's not going to stop water from boiling over, it will stop the bubbles that form and grow till they spill over.
Pam Mui 3 years ago
Depends what is in the pot. If it's goopey thick liquid... Nothing except lowering the flame will help... However if it's just water or similar density liquid then anything that you can place flat across the rim of the pot, such as spatulas, spoons, forks, or chopsticks, will stop anything from boiling over. HOWEVER.... It DOESN'T mean it's a " set it and forget it! ' kitchen hack. This was only meant for making it easier for someone actively in the kitchen who doesn't want to literally... watch water boil... So they can work on other dishes and not get surprised by an erupting pot on the stove halfway through...
Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago (edited)
I usually just move the pot a little bit to slow the boiling down. Ofc. I turn the heat down a little but it doesn't change the boiling instantly. (Not on my electric stove anyway)
Jerry Juneau 3 years ago
Turn down the heat a little to avoid boil overs…OR…Just Use A Bigger Pot!
Candia Lee 4 years ago
You can stop a pot from boiling by removing it from the heat til it stops, then turning the heat down until it doesn't boil.
Marsha Young 4 years ago
Thanks now I have a mess on my floor from flipping my pan over and now my pot boiled over and made a mess on my counter. And to top it off -I have a freaking headache from the PBR!!!!
Jess Thompson 4 years ago
It helps break up some of the bubbles so it doesn’t spill over as easily but it can def still boil over (tried and tested)
Jessi O'Brien 4 years ago
omg the burn lines. boy youre gonna set the spoon on fire, just use the box/conatiner to put the spoon on
John Smith 4 years ago
Actually if you put a spoon in the water you are boiling it reduces the chance of boiling over, but not stop completely.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
Just add a tablespoon of vegetable oil, it's far more effective
D S 4 years ago (edited)
I dont understand how people are doing it. It always works for me. Obviously not for normal boiling water. When you start cooking everything shouldn´t be at a level that goes over the top. But when things are cooking and the "foam" goes up, havin a spoon (wooden or silicone) that is over the top, specially is it´s slightly round towards the water, it wont spill........ this works while doing stuff like pasta or while you´re boiling milk for instance. Never had a problem with it...
Amy Smith 4 years ago
Ah yes, the well known fact that water is terrified of wood and will not pass the magical line created by a wooden spoon. I don't think I believe this one, usually I know it's boiled over because my kitchen sounds like someone filled it with snakes when the water hits the hob
#27
There's A Shiny Side And A Dull Side To Tinfoil And The Shiny Side Is Supposed To Touch The Food Food? Shiny Traps Heat Better, Dull Doesn't
Lindsey Turner 4 years ago
Tin foil has a shiny and dull side because of how it's manufactured. It's so thin, they put two sheets through the rollers at once. They've said they see no difference in which way you use it
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Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Please, men of bored panda, tell me that this isn’t an average 30yo. To me it reads like a 5yo is discovering the world.
Isabela Ivan 4 years ago
That s an average 30 yr old whose mum brought breakfast in bed till she kicked him out.
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Radek Suski 4 years ago
Every time I see another TikTok video I’m really trying to stay objective and read it through. And every time it’s either bunch of bullshit or things so obvious kids in kindergarten probably knows it. At some point you have to ask if this is the generation that is that stupid, which I really doubt, or TikTok is somehow an incubator of entitled people
somnomania 4 years ago
considering some of the tiktok "challenges" i'd be inclined toward it being an incubator
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
considering my 9-yr-old godkid can do better.... yeah, this guy isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer... but don't let him have a knife. Please. Ye heavens.
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A B C 4 years ago
Seriously, BP staff: could we PLEASE stop advocating tikfuck, especially with extremely stupid content like THIS? It's a data mining platform controlled by the chinese government that insta-bans everything that's contra the PRC's narrative (eg concerning Taiwan or Hong Kong), do we really want to support this? Oh an did I mention that this post was EXTREMELY STUPID and half of it is either useless or plain wrong?
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I've commented a few times about how ridiculous it is to have to look at 14 giant photos of someone's nostrils or making a slightly different face or those who spent 3 hours doing their make up so want every angel to be shown, hoping they'll pass an audition. It gets voted down so much I stopped posting. I'm glad to see this Tik Tok crap annoys others, too. There's soooooooo many sites, funny things, beautiful things and places to reproduce or repost content besides Tik Tok, FB and reddit.
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Vonny 4 years ago
Has it occurred to any of you posting all the negative comments, that he's just sharing helpful little 'hacks' or tips he's learned to use, that others may not have known about and can try them out for themselves. I've been putting sheets on beds for half a decade and until today I didn't know the tag is on the lower left of the fitted sheets! And putting salt in a pan with hot oil in it is a helpful tip for anyone who's just learning to cook, no matter their age. Sheesh, so much negativity from so many... it's discouraging to see here.
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AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Who wrote these captions? I think my 7 week old niece could've done a better job. Good Lawd.... also, those of you wigging out over the can opener thing, this is true, we just all have been doing it wrong. it makes it so the edges aren't sharp. However, it's a pain in the ass so I just stick to the "wrong" way.
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
Some tin openers only work on the side of the tin, some on the top.
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Tee Witt 4 years ago
I thought he was just introducing things most people know but many don't, does not mean he is not knowledgeable.
Vonny 4 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you! All the negative comments here about this post are just rude.
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René Studer 4 years ago
Did you know, when you put your dirty clothes in the washing machine and turn it on, after an hour or so they‘ll be clean?
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
Oh l, the idiocy. The only moron bigger than this guy is anyone that needed his "advice".
Marea Lewis 3 years ago
I did find the one about the dishwasher interesting. I had no clue it had a filter. I grew up overseas in a third world culture that didn’t have almost any of the technology I now have in the United States, including a dishwasher and a dryer. I had left the US when I was 8, so, when I first came back to the United States for college a few years ago, even though I was coming from a family that are citizens from America, I had no idea how to use a dryer or a dishwasher - even though I was 19. So, I find some of this stuff really interesting. Thanks!
memyselfandI 3 years ago
People are railing on this dude for only learning these things now and not giving actual life advice, but it’s supposed to be funny, not useful. You can’t see it in the screenshots, but in the video it’s him making fun of himself for not knowing these things. Of course not everyone is this ignorant, that’s the point. You get some videos of him being ignorant, and some of actually useful tricks.
Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
I think the comments are rather hard. These things you have to learn, and not everybody does at home
oisin lambert 3 years ago
Hi I'm 13 and I knew the real stuff from the fake this is pretty bad
Victoria Fabling 3 years ago
Well, I liked the posts, and there was only one I didn't get - the crockpot lid
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
This post gave us a revealing insight in the brain function of the average tik-tokker. All hope for the human race is lost.
Aubrey 3 years ago
Okay but I think they missed a lot of his really good life hacks. Also he's just trying to inform other people so I don't get why so many people are just dishing out hate (except for the dangerous ones)
Angela Lovelace 3 years ago
The wooden spoon over a boiling pot actually works. I've seen it in action. Don't know how it works, going to look it up.
Nanci Weaver Taplett 4 years ago
I blame his parents. Obviously, they didn't teach him anything.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
This would be better titled, "Things Functioning Self-sufficient Adults Already Know."
Alegiro 4 years ago
But first, he must explains us how to get water out of a tap... 😐
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Vonny 4 years ago
But it isn't dirty... why so negative? Why say anything at all?
Load More Replies... Elisha 3 years ago
Damm why is mostly everyone so mean I've read the comments and some are seriously mean like the one that called him a man child like seriously is that really necessary just think how you'd feel if you were this guy and had all these hated comments I'm with this guy all the way he taught me stuff I didn't know so stop with the nasty comments
Bravo6Two 3 years ago
Apparently all the negative commenters are just absolute frigging geniuses, who were taught everything ever by the time they were three. Except they never matured much past six...
Michael ONeale 3 years ago
Not at all but our parents didn't have to tie our shoes for our graduation ceremony...oh wait is that hurtful? Hmm...yeah don't care.
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Anony Mouse 3 years ago
Again - I really don't see why these have to be tiktoks. Please protect your readers better by not promoting that site.
Customer1234 Doe098765 3 years ago
Looks like BP has run out of interesting things and started accepting all submissions
JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
Next we’ll be seeing a useful tips I didn’t know until I was a grown ass adult article about “you see these funny loops around the waist band of your trousers? They can be used to thread a belt through and will prevent your trousers from falling down“ or “shoelaces can be used to tighten your shoes so they don’t fall off” and all the kids on TikTok will be like 0.O !
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
Many young people don't learn to fend for themselves because they aren't interested in learning... and many parents allow their children to be like this by enabling their "learned helplessness". Most soon learn on their own as the need arises, though.
MaekoMermaidGirl 3 years ago
Most of this content probably helped a lot of people. I didn't really gain from it(besides the instant pot), but people I know can.
voice of reason 3 years ago
This "man child" discovers things after he sees a TikTok on it. Sad, really. He seems genuinely uninterested in everything.
TG Davis 3 years ago
Sometimes it looked like he was just milking basic stuff for filler, like the wooden spoon to stop overflow, but some of this was good info! My husband and I weren't homeowners until fifteen years ago. Still on our first home, we're learning there is a lot of stuff we should have learned about and been don't all along and we are trying to catch up now. This week we're repairing our washer. It's been way out of balance and, once taken apart, we found a lot of wet lint deep in it. I think it will be fine now that it's cleaned, but we had no idea that there is a filter to be cleaned. I recently started treating our cabinets with beeswax, such a difference. We obviously should have been doing it all along, but had no idea. The travel pillow on front? I didn't fly regularly until my thirties. It was a few summers of flying home before I realized that one.
weatherwitch 3 years ago
These are either known to mankind for Decades or absolutely insane rubbish. The TikTok lot are bloody bonkers. A 'grown man' mansplaining and getting much of it wrong or having only just discovered these. Bless his very public ignorance 🤣
Alegiro 4 years ago
We are free to comment. Either nice or harsh. I and more else, won't see stupid and obvious things like that. And.. We are here for a reason. If we want to see tiktok, we go on tiktok.. Not here.
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Jerry Juneau 3 years ago
This was by far one of the more lame posts. It also reflects manyof your past posts, just repackaged with a different title and different model.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
SEriously this was the worst more R*****d article ever!!! Just down vote everything about it
Ronna Stefan 4 years ago
Most of these are obvious things. If he's just figuring this stuff out now....sheesh.
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
Please, men of bored panda, tell me that this isn’t an average 30yo. To me it reads like a 5yo is discovering the world.
Isabela Ivan 4 years ago
That s an average 30 yr old whose mum brought breakfast in bed till she kicked him out.
Load More Replies... Radek Suski 4 years ago
Every time I see another TikTok video I’m really trying to stay objective and read it through. And every time it’s either bunch of bullshit or things so obvious kids in kindergarten probably knows it. At some point you have to ask if this is the generation that is that stupid, which I really doubt, or TikTok is somehow an incubator of entitled people
somnomania 4 years ago
considering some of the tiktok "challenges" i'd be inclined toward it being an incubator
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
considering my 9-yr-old godkid can do better.... yeah, this guy isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer... but don't let him have a knife. Please. Ye heavens.
Load More Replies... A B C 4 years ago
Seriously, BP staff: could we PLEASE stop advocating tikfuck, especially with extremely stupid content like THIS? It's a data mining platform controlled by the chinese government that insta-bans everything that's contra the PRC's narrative (eg concerning Taiwan or Hong Kong), do we really want to support this? Oh an did I mention that this post was EXTREMELY STUPID and half of it is either useless or plain wrong?
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
I've commented a few times about how ridiculous it is to have to look at 14 giant photos of someone's nostrils or making a slightly different face or those who spent 3 hours doing their make up so want every angel to be shown, hoping they'll pass an audition. It gets voted down so much I stopped posting. I'm glad to see this Tik Tok crap annoys others, too. There's soooooooo many sites, funny things, beautiful things and places to reproduce or repost content besides Tik Tok, FB and reddit.
Load More Replies... Vonny 4 years ago
Has it occurred to any of you posting all the negative comments, that he's just sharing helpful little 'hacks' or tips he's learned to use, that others may not have known about and can try them out for themselves. I've been putting sheets on beds for half a decade and until today I didn't know the tag is on the lower left of the fitted sheets! And putting salt in a pan with hot oil in it is a helpful tip for anyone who's just learning to cook, no matter their age. Sheesh, so much negativity from so many... it's discouraging to see here.
Load More Replies... AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Who wrote these captions? I think my 7 week old niece could've done a better job. Good Lawd.... also, those of you wigging out over the can opener thing, this is true, we just all have been doing it wrong. it makes it so the edges aren't sharp. However, it's a pain in the ass so I just stick to the "wrong" way.
Bianca Saville 4 years ago
Some tin openers only work on the side of the tin, some on the top.
Load More Replies... Tee Witt 4 years ago
I thought he was just introducing things most people know but many don't, does not mean he is not knowledgeable.
Vonny 4 years ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you! All the negative comments here about this post are just rude.
Load More Replies... René Studer 4 years ago
Did you know, when you put your dirty clothes in the washing machine and turn it on, after an hour or so they‘ll be clean?
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
Oh l, the idiocy. The only moron bigger than this guy is anyone that needed his "advice".
Marea Lewis 3 years ago
I did find the one about the dishwasher interesting. I had no clue it had a filter. I grew up overseas in a third world culture that didn’t have almost any of the technology I now have in the United States, including a dishwasher and a dryer. I had left the US when I was 8, so, when I first came back to the United States for college a few years ago, even though I was coming from a family that are citizens from America, I had no idea how to use a dryer or a dishwasher - even though I was 19. So, I find some of this stuff really interesting. Thanks!
memyselfandI 3 years ago
People are railing on this dude for only learning these things now and not giving actual life advice, but it’s supposed to be funny, not useful. You can’t see it in the screenshots, but in the video it’s him making fun of himself for not knowing these things. Of course not everyone is this ignorant, that’s the point. You get some videos of him being ignorant, and some of actually useful tricks.
Susanne Bækvig 3 years ago
I think the comments are rather hard. These things you have to learn, and not everybody does at home
oisin lambert 3 years ago
Hi I'm 13 and I knew the real stuff from the fake this is pretty bad
Victoria Fabling 3 years ago
Well, I liked the posts, and there was only one I didn't get - the crockpot lid
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
This post gave us a revealing insight in the brain function of the average tik-tokker. All hope for the human race is lost.
Aubrey 3 years ago
Okay but I think they missed a lot of his really good life hacks. Also he's just trying to inform other people so I don't get why so many people are just dishing out hate (except for the dangerous ones)
Angela Lovelace 3 years ago
The wooden spoon over a boiling pot actually works. I've seen it in action. Don't know how it works, going to look it up.
Nanci Weaver Taplett 4 years ago
I blame his parents. Obviously, they didn't teach him anything.
Al Christensen 4 years ago
This would be better titled, "Things Functioning Self-sufficient Adults Already Know."
Alegiro 4 years ago
But first, he must explains us how to get water out of a tap... 😐
Load More Replies... Vonny 4 years ago
But it isn't dirty... why so negative? Why say anything at all?
Load More Replies... Elisha 3 years ago
Damm why is mostly everyone so mean I've read the comments and some are seriously mean like the one that called him a man child like seriously is that really necessary just think how you'd feel if you were this guy and had all these hated comments I'm with this guy all the way he taught me stuff I didn't know so stop with the nasty comments
Bravo6Two 3 years ago
Apparently all the negative commenters are just absolute frigging geniuses, who were taught everything ever by the time they were three. Except they never matured much past six...
Michael ONeale 3 years ago
Not at all but our parents didn't have to tie our shoes for our graduation ceremony...oh wait is that hurtful? Hmm...yeah don't care.
Load More Replies... Anony Mouse 3 years ago
Again - I really don't see why these have to be tiktoks. Please protect your readers better by not promoting that site.
Customer1234 Doe098765 3 years ago
Looks like BP has run out of interesting things and started accepting all submissions
JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
Next we’ll be seeing a useful tips I didn’t know until I was a grown ass adult article about “you see these funny loops around the waist band of your trousers? They can be used to thread a belt through and will prevent your trousers from falling down“ or “shoelaces can be used to tighten your shoes so they don’t fall off” and all the kids on TikTok will be like 0.O !
Oskar vanZandt 3 years ago
Many young people don't learn to fend for themselves because they aren't interested in learning... and many parents allow their children to be like this by enabling their "learned helplessness". Most soon learn on their own as the need arises, though.
MaekoMermaidGirl 3 years ago
Most of this content probably helped a lot of people. I didn't really gain from it(besides the instant pot), but people I know can.
voice of reason 3 years ago
This "man child" discovers things after he sees a TikTok on it. Sad, really. He seems genuinely uninterested in everything.
TG Davis 3 years ago
Sometimes it looked like he was just milking basic stuff for filler, like the wooden spoon to stop overflow, but some of this was good info! My husband and I weren't homeowners until fifteen years ago. Still on our first home, we're learning there is a lot of stuff we should have learned about and been don't all along and we are trying to catch up now. This week we're repairing our washer. It's been way out of balance and, once taken apart, we found a lot of wet lint deep in it. I think it will be fine now that it's cleaned, but we had no idea that there is a filter to be cleaned. I recently started treating our cabinets with beeswax, such a difference. We obviously should have been doing it all along, but had no idea. The travel pillow on front? I didn't fly regularly until my thirties. It was a few summers of flying home before I realized that one.
weatherwitch 3 years ago
These are either known to mankind for Decades or absolutely insane rubbish. The TikTok lot are bloody bonkers. A 'grown man' mansplaining and getting much of it wrong or having only just discovered these. Bless his very public ignorance 🤣
Alegiro 4 years ago
We are free to comment. Either nice or harsh. I and more else, won't see stupid and obvious things like that. And.. We are here for a reason. If we want to see tiktok, we go on tiktok.. Not here.
Load More Replies... Jerry Juneau 3 years ago
This was by far one of the more lame posts. It also reflects manyof your past posts, just repackaged with a different title and different model.
Azure Adams 4 years ago
SEriously this was the worst more R*****d article ever!!! Just down vote everything about it
Ronna Stefan 4 years ago
Most of these are obvious things. If he's just figuring this stuff out now....sheesh.
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