IT'S NOT A HACK!

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I know iABU but my reels on Insta and FB (yes I'm unreasonable to use SM!) are full of HACKS.

Except....I wouldn't consider any of them hacks!

-'Short Hair Hack' - video of girl using Kirby grips to pull back some of her fringe...THIS IS JUST A HAIRSTYLE

-Important life hack' - video shows how you should take a photo of important things like business cards in case you lose them... THIS IS JIST COMMON SENSE?

-'Ironing hack' - video shows someone ... wait for it.... turning a shirt over so buttons are face down and they don't have to iron around them.... WHAT? WHY WOULD YOU DO ANYTHING BUT THIS?

Yes, I'm unreasonably angry about this...yes I'm using too many capital letters... yes I need to give my head a wobble as there are worse things going on

Any other hacks that aren't hacks that people have rolled eyes at?

Lighthearted obvs

Oh God, the top tops in Viz are brilliant. I remember laughing until I cried at something along the lines of Put a stop to car thieves by siphoning off your petrol and carrying it around with you in a couple of plastic buckets.

Oh god yes, the sanitary pads.

'In a cold snap, use two sanitary pads as warming ear muffs, held in place with kirby grips.'

Followed the next week by, 'Run out of sanitary pads? Stuff a winter hat in your knickers.'

Totally agree. At best they're tips, but most of them are called living life! I look at some of them and think - "goodness, look at all the 'hacks' I've been doing for the last 20 years"!

I my favourite TAB top tip was one from a woman whose husband only had one arm so she popped his yoghurt tub in a plant pot to stop it from sliding around the table when he was eating it.

Another TAB favourite. I remember this one word for word because it was hilarious

"My gas hob covers were looking a bit tatty so I glued on a a collage of pictures of Princess Diana from my magazine collection and finished them with varnish. A fitting tribute!'

My dog squatted on a thistle once!

Did anyone else take notes for the fitted sheet hag

I fold fitted sheets like this, it still turns into a ball

From viz this morning

🤣 one of my favourite viz tips is make funerals more enjoyable by only going to those of people you didn't like 🤣

I still laugh at Viz top tips from years and years ago ( was it the 80s it first came out) . They were so funny. Although, sometimes, the real top tops in whatever the crappy woman's magazines of the time were just as ridiculous.

They weren't very PC though 🫤

TBF the I do now only ever use the method where you lie the inside out duvet cover on too9f your duvet and roll it up to change it and I also now fold all my shopping bags into neat little triangles

they are tips, if they are anything.
where did this word hack come from.
to me hacking is breaking into computer systems illegally; not to be encouraged.
keep away from hackers.

Hack = cut = short cut?

I thought 'hack' was a term used for freelance, mediocre journalists, who aren't very good at their job and so don't earn at lot of money and so sit it their unheated, attic room wearing a 'hacking jacket' to keep out the freezing cold and whistling wind.
But I may be wrong... 🤔

Back in the day a hack was what you did to your hair when you decided you thought a fringe might be a good idea. In the bathroom with the kitchen scissors.

Yes, I thought I may be wrong... 🤔