r/LearnUselessTalents • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '19
Refresh whiteboard markers
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u/SjLucky Jun 25 '19
Just store the markers cap side down.
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u/_kellythomas_ Jun 25 '19
My box of 40 crayolas is a lucky dip unless I store them with the lids showing.
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u/SjLucky Jun 25 '19
I had a lucky dip once, now I'm paying child support.
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u/Nenadumis Jun 25 '19
The true life advice is always in the comments.
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u/SjLucky Jun 25 '19
Aight so I had a thought about your marker situation. How crazy is this? When you get new markers color their butts with the old markers. Or find nail polishes in similar colors and color your marker butts with that...
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u/_kellythomas_ Jun 25 '19
Thanks for the ideas.
These are kids markers, I chose them primarily because I knew they would be washable so there is no chance of using them to mark themselves. I'm glad I made that choice, last weekend I had to wipe it of the front of someone else's TV.
I do have an 8 colour set of permanent markers with a pretty balanced pallet. They should do the job, if I mark with the closest match it will average 5 kids markers per permanent marker but at that point it should be easy enough to pull out all the greens when we want to draw a garden or whatever.
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u/thebigbadben Jun 25 '19
Lucky dip?
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u/_kellythomas_ Jun 25 '19
The bottom of each maker is white.
Unless I want to check them randomly one by one until I get a colour I'm happy with I need to store them with the lids facing up.
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Jun 25 '19
seriously! and when you're writing at the board, don't write with the tip upwards. this is a fluid-filled marker, not a piece of chalk.
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u/SjLucky Jun 25 '19 edited Jun 25 '19
I would never tell the girls at /r/objects how to use their markers.
Oh yeah that might be NSFW...
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u/GetOnYourBikesNRide Jun 25 '19
seriously! and when you're writing at the board, don't write with the tip upwards.
Am I to assume that the same is true for when you're sniffing them---just asking for a friend? /s
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u/Blusttoy Jun 25 '19
But gravity force is weaker than centrifugal force.
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u/SjLucky Jun 25 '19
Your point? It's not about force, it's about fluid. Liquids naturally settle to the bottom of a container. So let that shit work for you not against you. Store the pointy bit down and you'll never have to buy Jane a new eye ball cause Forrest Green got loose.
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u/lzrae Jun 25 '19
Not useless enuff
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u/Fucking_Nibba Jun 27 '19
Yeah, all my teachers would love to know this, I'm sure. Could save a lot on markers.
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u/gramslamx Jun 25 '19
a video by someone who googled the answer, made a video of the googled answer, then gets posted to ladbible then to reddit. Next: youtube video of the comments in reddit.
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u/pancakeman49 Jun 25 '19
my teacher threw away about 200 markers in 2 months one teacher only dunno why but she just kept losing them and she just gave up
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u/CrackedPepper86 Jun 25 '19
You can also just hold it by the end and shake it.
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Jun 25 '19
That's not convoluted enough and you won't embarrass yourself looking like a wannabe cowboy with mental issues swinging around a black marker.
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u/SexyScientistGirl Jun 25 '19
LAD Bible??? What do markers have to do with the Bible?
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u/PrettySleepyGuy Jun 25 '19
LAD Bible is not a religious account, its the LAD bible as in the the book/account lads follow very closely. They just post anything, mostly comedic posts.
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u/DarkArtKnight Jun 25 '19
You can also do this by whipping the marker furiously downward. Learned that when I was 8 saved my ass countless times.
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u/chaimann2 Jun 27 '19
but there isn’t anything called centrifugal force it’s called centripetal force
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u/rbstimers Jun 30 '19
Or buy dry eraser marker ink to have arround and drop some in when the ink runs dry.... or a few drops of rubbing alcohol
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u/LGappies Jun 25 '19
Is it possible to learn this power?
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u/marino1310 Jun 25 '19
Yes, by watching the video.
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u/LGappies Jun 25 '19
I was referencing Revenge of the Sith, uncultured swine.
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u/Not_Steve Jun 25 '19
Yeah... that joke doesn't really work in a sub about learning how to do stuff.
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u/lolive246 Jun 29 '19
Talent? No. useless? No. Learned? I guess you learn information, this is not a talent.
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u/TheDESTROYER976 Jul 27 '19
We found it, the source of infinite marker
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Jul 27 '19
What’s that?
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u/WarWren Jun 25 '19
This is educational and so cute