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"I never knew how much I took for granted, until I poured soup on my best jacket. Hooray for Ban Useless Keys!" - Patient #374

"To err is human, so let's keep it that way, and get rid of these erroneous keys." - Benjamin Dover

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How can I Support the Cause?

Perhaps the easiest way to support the Ban Useless Keys revolution is to surgically remove them from your keyboard, as demonstrated in this graphically-interesting photo to the right. Extraction can be performed preferably with a screwdriver or other sharp object. (Keys can feel pain too you know, so show em what pain really is.)

If you really feel the hatred, you could perform an interesting scientific experiment by melting the keys with a magnifying glass in the hot sun. However, I am sure there are plenty of other useful things you can do with your spare keys, such as:

  • Make a cool necklace to show your geeky interest in pre-modern technology.
  • Glue them together into a robot, and make a stop-motion educational film about safety in the home.
  • Switch them with various other keys on your keyboard, or better, your friend's keyboard.
  • Attach many together to form a snake-like marionette and create your own puppet show for young and old alike.
  • Get a program to bind the keys to useful functions, like shutting down Windows, or ordering instant coffee.
  • Paint new stress-relief labels on them, such as "Invade Slovakia", "Frag a Random Noob" or "Explode Computer"
  • Find a way to get these new panic buttons to actually perform their given tasks. The screwdriver may again come in handy.
If you have any examples to share the revolutional community of how you have coped with the problem of these useless keys, then feel free to email details and photos. (No emails above 100k please.)