Depends on the situation.
Currently? 40 pound box of cake mix I'm probably going to launch at my store manager.
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Depends on the situation.
Currently? 40 pound box of cake mix I'm probably going to launch at my store manager.
Is it the 40 pound box of cake mix that kills? Or is the person hucking the 40 pound box of cake mix?
My cat. Everything else in my room brings me either misery or a feeling of meh. Cat brings joy, which is difficult for me to obtain.
Vibrator.
For almost everyone it's gonna be the phone we're reading this on.
Toilet paper 𧻠Very, very useful.
See, if you're in the room I think you're in, I think I would vote for the toilet.
TP actually makes an awesome and really inexpensive kleenex or napkin alternative
Toilets are effective at pushing shit, piss and vomit into the sewer while preventing sewer gases from entering your home, and they also double as chairs when not in excremental use. You can also use a toilet to repair the mental defects of a billionaire if you drop it from high enough, I don't think toilet paper functions in that way.
All I'm saying is that I found the extra-restroom utility of TP when I had a sinus infection.
You win.
The toilet. Lost count of the number of times this has saved me from getting dysentery or something and it's so convenient when it just pushes the shit away from my house and I never have to see or smell it again. I almost feel bad that I repay it for all its done by repeatedly shitting in it.
Me? Unless Iβm excluded, then the laptop. Although the room itself is pretty useful, but I donβt think I consider it βin the roomβ.
Me.
Toilet paper
And lotion
Outside of my brain and body?
Probably my mobile phone
Toilet paper
The doctor.
The SCADA servers.
Ominous.
The answer is electricity. It's so useful, we take it for granted. Your phones, computers and laptops are not useful if you can't power them.
I'll give the people on the dunny their due: toilet paper is still useful in a room without electricity.
A human being.
Probably my phone, and that probably applies to most rooms frankly if we're talking about potential things I could need to do
That's a tough one because I'm currently surrounded by computers and tools. I'm within reach of my smart phone, one of my laptops, I'm typing this on my desktop PC, I'm within reach of three multitools, a power drill, and my away mission tool bag. So I think I'll give a cop out answer and go with "The several thousand liters of air filling the room."
My wife.
Same! Mine's smart, entertaining, manages my social life, probably contributes more to society than I ever will and on top of that, for reasons that still escape explanation, actually wants to have sex with me which is probably the only reason I never turned into an incel. She is easily the best thing in this house, myself included.
Right there with you. Sheβs amazing. Plans all our trips. Organizes the kids. Lets me do the things I do best. Perfect travel buddy. To wives!π»
Weed
This computer.
Air freshener.
Probably my hatchet, first aid kit, and a duffel bag I keep packed with all weather gear and a small tent as well as my headlamp, survival knife, and half a dozen MREs
I'm not even a "collapse is imminent" prepper kinda guy but it's better to be safe than sorry, you never know.
The manager likely thinks itβs him, but itβs actually all the workers that do the work.
Laptop probably. Linux, tmux, i3, vim, GCC, GDB, Pdb, gplaces, links2, curl, wget, netcat, awk, sed... what more could be needed for happiness?
Kdunno, but it's preloaded with shittons of tools I don't even know the use of yet (thanks kali). Excluding that probably my lensatic compass. It's nice, quite cheap and not magnetically dampened but it does the job.
Iβm in the ER. Probably the doctor standing directly in front of me.
My phone. It might be my laptop, but it's currently not working. If you consider humans, me.
Pumpkin spice old fashioned. With real pumpkin puree!
Air. Canβt go more than a minute or two without it, and thereβs enough to share!
Coffee
Most useful? Without a doubt, my laptop. The amount of things that can be done with a modern computer is pretty stunning, and a portable one is arguably more useful.
Other than that, maybe my car keys because the amount of things you can do with a car is stunning, but you need the keys to start it, and the car isn't in this room.
Home server.
I'm outside so I'm not sure how to evaluate "the room". My phone is the most immediate at hand (pun intended) useful thing right now though.
Towel warmer.
My pc but that's too easy so I choose my bed as the very next thing. Good comfortable sleep is important.