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98 Comments

Asafum@feddit.nl · 92 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Are you stupid?! I make 1 billion an hour repairing door hinges! What kind of fool takes this kind of "deal"

Scam! Release the door hinge files!

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 292d

Are you stupid?!

You could say they're... unhinged 😎

MimicJar@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 292d (4 replies)

Yes. I can spend those two hours watching door hinge repair videos on YouTube, I was going to do that anyway.

123@programming.dev · 14 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Spend 2 hours watching door hinge repair videos followed by buying a new house since you have 500m.

MimicJar@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 292d

A new house! Just think of all the new doors with hinges that need adjusting.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d

Sure you were. And then you were finally going to get around to fixing them, right!? Just take your precious money.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

All jokes aside your youtube recommendations for the next 3.4 years will include door hinges.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 28 pts · 292d

As long as I can break door hinges for those 2 hours, I'm good.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 291d (5 replies)

This is how those onlyfans promo account posts read. "Would you (obese gamer virgin) fuck me (fit nude model) however you want if I begged you for it enough????"

And then the comments like "yes baby I'd love to 😋😍😉"

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 291d

I fucking hate this whole dynamic.

Localhorst86@feddit.org · 7 pts · 291d (3 replies)

"If you could do anything with me in a hotel room, what would you do?"

Grimtuck@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 291d (2 replies)

Scrabble

Localhorst86@feddit.org · 5 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Nice. I love board games.

MisterFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 289d

I just want to congratulate you on the excellent punny username haha

I hope that's not your actual name and birth year though, DATENSCHUTZ! (/jk)

Anissem@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 292d (10 replies)

On a serious note, if you have a striped screw hole on a door hinge, put some tooth picks in the hole, snap off the bit that sticks out, and put the screw back in. I’ve fixed so many doors this way.

BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 292d (4 replies)

Does it matter what direction the stripes run on the screw? :)

To add to this, a stripped screw into concrete or brick can be fixed with the same method but using a small piece of copper wire the length of the screw.

Anissem@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 292d (3 replies)

Unfortunately I don’t know enough about screws to tell if this is a joke

BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 292d (2 replies)

I'm making a dumb joke about your spelling haha. Striped is like a zebra, as in having stripes. Stripped is what happens when a screw is stripped.

Anissem@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 292d

Ohhh I see. I had a feeling I was wrong about that spelling, hah. I shouldn’t have put my faith in autocorrect

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

Stripping screws sucks. Screwing strippers is pretty cool.

TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 6 pts · 292d (4 replies)

You don’t need wood glue? Just the toothpicks?

Anissem@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 292d

I’ve gotten many loose screws tight with just toothpicks, no glue.

bzLem0n@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Wood glue and toothpicks, without the glue the toothpicks would get pulled out.

kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 292d

Wood glue won't hurt (though you do have to wait for it to dry), but friction alone is often enough to do a decent job.

marcos@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

You are better with some plastic, but any flexible material will do. Glue will only make you life harder.

Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Plot twist, you're teleported in a room that will be set on fire if a switch isn't pressed within 2 hours and broken door hinge blocks you from pressing it

groet@feddit.org · 16 pts · 292d

Every broken doorhinge can be bypassed in two ways. Fix it. Or break it more.

ulterno@programming.dev · 0 pts · 292d

Perhaps you could look for an alternate solution?

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 292d (5 replies)

What rhymes with orange?

prime_number_314159@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 292d (1 reply)

"Sporange" does. If you're especially bad at pronouncing words, many other things also rhyme with orange, like flange, range, and monkey.

BanMe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d

Porridge, horseridge, the entire first act of Hamlet, LaBron James' telephone number in Spanish,

CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 292d

Doorhinge

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 291d

No it doesn't.

SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 292d

Drake and Josh reference, nice.

AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 292d (6 replies)

"Name 10 things that aren't Jackie Chan!"

otacon239@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Uuuuhhh… Laptop, horse, Jackie Chan — Damn!

altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Jacklyn Chan, Jackie Chan-Darn!

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 292d

Blackie chan, Mackey chan, chimi changa, four chan, channel three, the English Channel, black and chan, dr. Chan, Jackie chan FUCK

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 292d (1 reply)
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ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 292d
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Nalivai@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 291d

A piece of paper with number "1" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "2" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "3" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "4" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "5" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "6" written on it.
A piece of paper with number "7" written on it.
A piece of paper with "Jackie Chan" written on it.
...
Damn it, I was so close

Wilco@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 292d (1 reply)

WTF is this on about?

wieson@feddit.org · 12 pts · 291d

You can pretend, you can lie to yourself and us - your friends - but your door hinge repair addiction is becoming a problem.
So we've pooled some of our resources together to try to help you...

Siethron@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 292d (4 replies)

You all are misinterpetting this. If in the rest of your life you spend 2 hours or more fixing door hinges the 500 million is revoked and if you're in the negative now they take your organs to make up for the deficit.

grte@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 292d (3 replies)

If I had half a billion dollars I can promise you I would be spending zero seconds of the rest of my life screwing in door hinges.

binarytobis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I can imagine the genie thinking “Bwahaha I tricked you!” and then getting increasingly frustrated that I never fix a door hinge again even though I didn’t notice the trick wording.

kn33@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 292d

Right? It's like... let's see. I have half a billion dollars. I just noticed my door hinge isn't working correctly. Do I

A. Attempt to fix it, requiring maybe a trip to the hardware store, but at the minimum some time and effort
B. Ask my assistant to call someone and go back to playing video games

I know what I'd do.

sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 292d

If I had that money I could finally pursue my passion of fixing door hinges.

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 292d

I would simply use $250 million to buy replacement door hinges for the ones I can't fix during that time. Easy peasy.

ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 292d (11 replies)

And how do I explain my income to federal agencies?

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Pretty sure there's no IRS anymore. Just give Trump some gold-plated turd and you get a no taxes season pass.

ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 291d (1 reply)

Ah yes, everyone on the internet is American

Nalivai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 291d

Give Trump some gold-plated turd, and you get to become American and not pay any taxes

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 292d

As long as you pay taxes on it, IRS ain't snitching.

Burninator05@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d

I conveniently own a laundromat and several other cash only businesses.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d (4 replies)

I am a door to door salesman.

ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 292d (3 replies)

Good for you.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 292d (2 replies)

I like turtles

ApertureUA@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 291d (1 reply)

I like trains.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 291d

I like you

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 292d

It fell off a truck.

Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 291d

I just honestly don't think I could. They say money can't buy happiness and it sure as hell can't buy a properly self installed and adjusted door hinge.

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 292d (7 replies)

I work for a door company, that's going to be super difficult

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 12 pts · 292d

They'll probably fire you. What will you do without a job!?!

ButteryMonkey@piefed.social · 8 pts · 292d (3 replies)

Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Some of us have bills to pay.

ButteryMonkey@piefed.social · 1 pts · 292d
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 291d

A day off? In this economy?

hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 292d (1 reply)

ever heard of free time?

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 291d

what's that?

guy@piefed.social · 6 pts · 292d

Like, I am not allowed to or I just physically can't?

LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Pretty sure it's been 5 years since I've meddled with any door hinge.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 292d

it's been less than a year, and to this day that door just ain't right

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

You're not fooling anybody here, friend.

Triumph@fedia.io · 5 pts · 292d (3 replies)

Pro tip:

If the holes in the door frame are wallowed out, jam some pieces of toothpick in there first, then put the hinge on and screw it in.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Master tip:

Use a rawl plug

kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 292d

Otherwise known as a drywall anchor or wall plug. My parents also call them mollies, but those are different (though also often used for screwing things into drywall).

ulterno@programming.dev · 1 pts · 292d

Yeah, I didn't understand why people were going around talking about toothpicks when there is a thingy specifically made for the job.
To use a toothpick, I would need to go out and buy a pack, while I already have a dozen of them plugs lying around in my house. In fact I got 2 more pieces, complementary with the a handheld mixer, because it had a wall-mount fitment.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 292d

what am unhinged proposition

zxqwas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d

What's the ruling on paying someone to fix a door hinge? Knowing my luck it's when the bathroom and front door comes off.

tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 292d

Replace your 'door' hinges with 'cabinet' or 'industrial maritime' hinges and your semantic loophole is set.

vale@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 291d (1 reply)

define "fix"

Agent641@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 291d

Like with all the exes!

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Two metric hours or two imperial hours?

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 292d (1 reply)

Light hours.

lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 292d

In that case I would do it. Heavy hours would be a different story

JustVik@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 291d (3 replies)

I would buy a tent and a pickup truck. Then I'll set up a tent in the back of the pickup truck. And I'm going to have a house on wheels without door hinges because tents don't have door hinges. Crazy enough?

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 291d (2 replies)

truck doors have hinges. I have been known to fix those.

JustVik@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 288d (1 reply)

Ok, ok, My plan is ruined. I urgently need to hire qualified planners to make a new one. :)

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 288d

Just looking out for you, make sure you make it all two hours.

HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 292d

Smoke a few joints and make a garden bed.

Bazell@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 292d

At first, I thought that I actually need to fix any door with hinges for exactly 2 hours and for the challenge would be given a very complicated dozen hinged door and was OK with it, but then, well... I realized that this challenge is impossible.

marzhall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

Do I still get to grease squeaky hinges? If so, maybe a deal.

Luci@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 292d

God no omg

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 292d (1 reply)

BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 292d

This doesn't need repairing, this is perfect how it is now

icelimit@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 291d

What's this meme about?

danekrae@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 292d

capuccino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 292d

We are in that age, huh

altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 292d

Yes, I believe I would do it even if everyone I know must die of natural causes some day...at random!

QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 289d

for those who need to hear this, you can fix/adjust automatic door closers with just a screwdriver. Google a tutorial and go nuts at your job fixing all your minor inconveniences!!