What's a Cheat Code you discovered in real life that works?

What's a Cheat Code you discovered in real life that works?

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Supersam83

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1,117 posts

159 months

Tuesday
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Here’s mine:

Tell a woman you’re going to take her for food (favourite food) and she has to guess where. The place for food suggested easy. You know what she wants and she thinks it’s your idea!


Here’s one I’ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!


Austin Prefect

794 posts

6 months

Tuesday
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When buying something in WH Smith that you're embarrassed to be seen with, buy a birthday card at the same time.

If the doorbell rings unexpectedly put a coat on before opening the door. Then if it's someone you don't want to talk to you can claim you are just going out.

If someone says 'What's the latest score mate?' when you have no idea of the score or even who is playing, just say 'as far as I know it's still nil nil' and they'll go away quite happy.

If someone is giving you a long complicated explanation and use the word obviously as in 'obviously this is caused by a glitch in the buzzword generator' just say 'Obviously?'. They'll think you are fully following the explanation even if you don't understand a word of it. If they do realise there is an alternative explanation they'll think you are the one that spotted it.

Edited by Austin Prefect on Tuesday 3rd June 07:58

Adenauer

18,819 posts

250 months

Tuesday
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Supersam83 said:
Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
Errr, okay.

vikingaero

11,877 posts

183 months

Tuesday
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Adenauer said:
Supersam83 said:
Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
Errr, okay.
Most self checkouts ask you to press Yes if you'd like a receipt, so the chances of getting a receipt is next to bugger all, let alone the theft aspect.

TGCOTF-dewey

6,433 posts

69 months

Tuesday
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That style of Reddit questions only work in the US. Here, you're more likely to get viz top tips.


ChocolateFrog

31,290 posts

187 months

Tuesday
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Supersam83 said:
Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
I don't think there's any need to complicate shoplifting.


ThingsBehindTheSun

1,937 posts

45 months

Tuesday
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TGCOTF-dewey said:
Here, you're more likely to get viz top tips.
Exactly what I was thinking reading these. Although not a cheat code, being incredibly good looking is like playing life on easy mode. Everybody is nice to you, you get better service in shops and restaurants, people are more likely to hire you and pay you more as they perceive good looks with success. etc.

I used to know someone who had been approached to go on the Australian version of the bachelor, and going out for an evening with him was certainly an eye opener. We were just sitting down in a bar talking, and some very attractive lady just sat down next to him and started talking to him. To him it was a bit of an inconvenience, whilst I was thinking "that has never happened to me". As we were walking down the road to the next bar we passed a another very attractive lady who he knew and said hello to.

It was a view to a world that I never knew existed.

Being an ugly man is playing life on extreme difficulty mode.

Gary29

4,482 posts

113 months

Tuesday
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Up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, A, B, Start.

motco

16,539 posts

260 months

Tuesday
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vikingaero said:
Adenauer said:
Supersam83 said:
Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
Errr, okay.
Most self checkouts ask you to press Yes if you'd like a receipt, so the chances of getting a receipt is next to bugger all, let alone the theft aspect.
You cannot get out of the Smart Shop area in Sainsbury's without a receipt to scan to release the gate. Therefore everyone in that area gets a receipt. But... it has a time on it so if you have nefarious plans be quick or you'll be needing a time machine.

bigpriest

2,010 posts

144 months

Tuesday
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Supersam83 said:
Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
Come on Grandad it's not 2019, you don't even need a receipt to buy stuff and leave the shop. smile

Johnspex

4,677 posts

198 months

Tuesday
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I didn’t think he was suggesting shoplifting, I thought he was suggesting, as you had forgotten your shopping list, that you used someone else’s.
Or am I just innocent?

Supersam83

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1,117 posts

159 months

Tuesday
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Austin Prefect said:
If the doorbell rings unexpectedly put a coat on before opening the door. Then if it's someone you don't want to talk to you can claim you are just going out.

If someone says 'What's the latest score mate?' when you have no idea of the score or even who is playing, just say 'as far as I know it's still nil nil' and they'll go away quite happy.
They are good ones that I might have to use! smile

Supersam83

Original Poster:

1,117 posts

159 months

Tuesday
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Johnspex said:
I didn t think he was suggesting shoplifting, I thought he was suggesting, as you had forgotten your shopping list, that you used someone else s.
Or am I just innocent?
It's not one that I would ever use but a known cheat code that I've heard being done.

There's so many people who don't collect their receipts from self service even if they press the button for one.

The security guy isn't going to look at the time as he would see that you have a receipt and cross check a few items.

Like I said, it's not one I would ever try!

Doofus

30,323 posts

187 months

Tuesday
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Why are you calling doing something a "cheat code"?

Here's a cheat code: Don't talk bks. Fewer people will think you're mental.

AdeTuono

7,521 posts

241 months

Tuesday
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Johnspex said:
I didn t think he was suggesting shoplifting, I thought he was suggesting, as you had forgotten your shopping list, that you used someone else s.
Or am I just innocent?
Yes, you are.

Sheets Tabuer

20,226 posts

229 months

Tuesday
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ThingsBehindTheSun said:
Being an ugly man is playing life on extreme difficulty mode.
In that case try this cheat code, when an attractive woman won't sleep with you ask her to smell this cloth (instructions to follow in DM) once incapacitated she'll no longer be able to look at you with disgust.

TwigtheWonderkid

45,982 posts

164 months

Tuesday
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If you arrive at Farringdon on the Elizabeth Line, and you're heading for Kings Cross St Pancras, you need to get the Metropolitan or Circle line westbound 1 stop. The official signage will take you on a long walk to the escalators, then up the 2 escalators, out thru the barrier, leave the station, cross Cowcross St, enter old station, thru barriers, down stairs to westbound platform.

Or, get the lift from the Elizabeth line and go up just 1 level. That brings you out on Eastbound Thameslink platform. Turn right, and in about 25m is about 4 steps up onto the westbound Met / circle line platform. Saves about 7 minutes of walking, barriers, etc.

GliderRider

2,646 posts

95 months

Tuesday
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Supersam83 said:
Here s mine:

Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
You may go hungry if its Lidl, you could be leaving with a paddleboard, a patio furniture set and a plasma cutter...

TGCOTF-dewey

6,433 posts

69 months

Tuesday
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GliderRider said:
Supersam83 said:
Here s mine:

Here s one I ve heard of but not done:

Go straight to the supermarket self checkout, pick up a receipt left behind. Go shopping for whatever is on the receipt!
You may go hungry if its Lidl, you could be leaving with a paddleboard, a patio furniture set and a plasma cutter...
No man will ever go hungry if they have a plasma powered paddle board.

Super Sonic

9,272 posts

68 months

Tuesday
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Next time you're at a pub, when you go for a piss, if there's someone already standing at the urinal, bet him you can piss louder than he can. If he accepts the bet, pull out a pistol and shoot the urinal. Then demand his wallet.