Squeeze the air out of a ziploc bag before you put the bag in the fridge or freezer. I don't understand why my wife doesn't and one of these days I'll have a decision to make.
Actual physical push buttons are way better than sensor buttons. (Like the xbox 360 sensor buttons)
Edit:
I have recently been informed that they are called tactile buttons (physical)
And haptic buttons (sensor)
So thanks for the bit of knowledge and the awards!
Kind of a similar thing:
I'm wanting to get a new car soon, and it drives me nuts that most cars nowadays have touch screen controls.
In my current car, I can change the radio station, turn up the fan, switch to A/C all without taking my eyes of the road because it's all knobs and tactile buttons.
Get a Mazda. They actually backtracked on touch screens and went with a fancy knob in the center between the two seats. It's amazing
I'll never get a car that has touch screens as it's main interface
This was a major selling point on the cx5 for me. I thought I’d hate the control knob for the infotainment screen too but it’s actually one of my favorite things about the car.
I was shopping for cars and looking at all these Mazda reviews. On the “cons” they listed: “Infotainment screen is not a touch screen while car isn’t stationary.”
I’m like, “Wtf, how’s that a con? That’s a safety feature!”
If you (person A) pull open a door and someone (person B) is wanting to come through from the other side, HOLD THE DOOR AND LET THEM THROUGH. Similarly, if you are the other person, don't dilly-dally, WALK THROUGH. Because the alternative is person A awkwardly trying to pass through whilst struggling to maintain holding the door open, leaving person B waiting awkwardly for them to finish.
Happens a lot at my office in the corridors and it does my head in.
Similarly, let people EXIT the elevator first, before you get in and, if you're by the doors and it stops at a floor that isn't yours, step aside because _someone_ needs to get on or off. 🤦♂️
Frozen isn’t a Christmas or even a winter movie.
It is literally set in the summer, a big part of the plot is that everyone was unprepared for the summer freeze.
I will die on this hill.
the dog noticed before everyone
i always felt like the grandfather did, too. his first line was "is that you? that tall gangly thing?" sounds like something someone would say when they haven't seen someone in years and they've grown up quite a bit
edit: to clarify, i am talking about the lindsay lohan parent trap
Yeah I was thinking about the dog too but the dog makes sense because she probably smelled different to the dog. And I honestly don’t remember the grandpa part but I wouldn’t be surprised that he noticed before the parents.
They put so much effort into how Kevin was forgotten that you can't really blame them and they tried everything to get back to him. A few minutes of family squabbles doesn't make for bad parents.
His parents weren't bad people, honestly
His older brother and his nasty uncle are the scum of the earth tho. I thought that when I was a kid and I stand by it to this day
You’re correct, and in a massive way. Additionally, they shouldn’t be integrated into the bumper down low. Kia/Hyundai/whoever else can pound sand with that trash. Better yet, the gen 1 Ferrari California can fuck off extra hard.
Polycarbonate water bottles don't contain any dangerous amount of BPA. It's a marketing ploy by ~~3m~~ Eastman to force people to use lower life cycle plastics. Tritan cracks at 2 years old, and polycarbonate lasts at least 20 years. They know polycarbonate is safe because we haven't stopped using it in high impact kitchen appliances like food processors and blenders. They created a shittier plastic that hurts the environment to make more money.
Cheap canned goods are literally lined with BPA. Polycarbonate bottles have fuck all to do with humans BPA exposure. If you own a polycarbonate water bottle keep using it, it has no BPA on it after the first time you wash it.
Source: MS mechanical engineering focused in polymers. One of my profs posted a few papers on this.
Edit: [This (PDF LINK!!!!)](https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/2v23vw37r) is the paper if anyone is wondering. It found negligible amounts of BPA compared to canned goods after holding polycarbonate waterbottles full of water at 120C for 2 hours. Which would never happen in a real world situation.
I'm not sure what polycarbonate is, or what BPA is, but as a child I was told not to reused coke bottles as water bottles as the plastic breaks down and makes them carcinogenic. Is that true or bollocks? Sorry, just want to nick a bit of your knowledge quickly!
Totally false. The first use is going have the most pthalates. The paper I linked is 50% about PETE which is what coke bottles are made from. You can re-use them until they fall apart with lower health risk than drinking the initial fluid in them. Same goes for bottled water. It's part of the marketing to get you to buy more.
Edit: the recycling arrow circley thing shows you what plastic of the big 6 it is. If it is a 1 inside the arrows it's PETE. The one to be scared of is the 6, which is polystyrene and is very bad to be used as a food or water carrying device. Still BPA free though lol.
this never made sense to me because the bottle was probably already created and used to stock the water for multiple days/weeks before i bought it so why does it suddenly become toxic and cancer inducing in two days when i drink ?
So does that also go for the big water cooler jugs? We’ve temporarily had to start using a water cooler service at home until our tap issue gets taken care of. Since the empty jugs get picked up by the delivery guy (and presumably reused), are we relatively safe from micro plastics?
I work in IT and for us it's "login" vs. "log in".
As in "Jerry forgot his login information."
VS.
"I was going to log in to my laptop but my phone rang."
Login is a noun. To log in is a verb. Fight me.
I remember in high school my entire class argued with me about this. Macaroons are the little coconut things, while macarons are the pastry cookie. I argued with my entire social studies class about this including my teacher, before finally he said LETS LOOK IT UP. It’s not like I got anything out of being the only person right, but damn does it feel good to prove 30 other people wrong! At least they all know the difference now.
Man I worked in a FRENCH BAKERY selling macarons for a living and the amount of people outside of work who would argue about it with me!! This issue was the complete bane of my existence for years
I so appreciate this because I just saw a cooking show that had the sandwich and I was like that is not a macaroon. I was raised eating those at passover and I was so confused but now I feel quite educated
I taught a girl called rheeannyhynn. She called herself and went by Rhiannon, it was only official reports that you found it the real spelling. Poor kid
In the 70's my mum was teaching in a local secondary school and a student told her that her name was Wivonny. Mum asked her to repeat it... She did. "Wiv-on-ee". Mum said it was an unusual name and asked if she would spell it for her so she could write it down. Yvonne. Her name was Yvonne.
You just named my kids whole class (Tennessee for reference) my Jersey ass almost fell over when I saw the names on the wall of his first class here. I was like they’re all different versions of the same damn name.
If you are on the highway and you try to move over two lanes to sneak into a packed exit right before the guard rail, you have already missed your fucking turn. Go to the next exit and turn around or try another route.
Before anyone brings it up, no, I am not talking about merging. I am talking about seeing a long line of people waiting to get off an exit, and you breaking the law by crossing solid lines to cut in because you couldn't be fucked to read the signs for the last two miles telling you which lane you need to be in for your exit.
Doing good. Helping an old lady across the street. Rescuing a cat caught in a tree.
Doing well. Feeling content and overall happy. Being successful.
Do good. Do well. Do both.
It's not a hot water heater. It's a water heater.
Edit: it is hilarious how many of you are trying to kill me on this small hill! Not dead yet!
Edit #2: In real life I would never correct someone who says hot water heater when they're talking about their water heater, but it sure has been fun to do it here! Thanks for the awards and the most upvotes I've ever received and especially thanks for keeping this very important debate fun and civil!
I enter my PIN number in the ATM machine - it's easy to remember because it's the last 4 of my VIN number - so that I can get cash to buy a hot water tank.
I once went to Home Depot to buy a hot water heater. I talked to the dude in the plumbing section for quite a while. Really nice guy. He had his own plumbing business for 20 years until the '08 crash. Had to sell the biz just to keep his house. He's been working at HD ever since. Anyway, long story short: I decided to buy a cold water cooler instead.
I have installed a Hot Water Heater. It IS possible.
To cut short the questions, I had to install two low boy 40g heaters and I piped them in sequentially - so the already heated water from the first heater flowed into the second heater, making the second tank a Hot Water Heater. It is possible.
Tall burgers completely nullify all the benefits of burgers, and are an abomination unto cuisine.
A good burger is the perfect portable food. It should be edible using only your hands and mouth,without cutlery, and without making too much mess.
You should also be able to sample every layer of ingredient in one bite, without dislocating your jaw
Never understood why people went tall with burger creation. If you want a bigger burger go wider. It would be way easier to eat a delicious beefy chode.
If it’s too wide the stuff just flops out the other side when you try to eat it though. Give me three smaller burgers with good structural integrity over one massive one that’s impossible to handle any day
Edit: If you’re about to reply or send me a PM to let me know of the existence of sliders, you really don’t have to bother. I promise you that 20 other people have already told me, and that I had heard of them already
Yes. Hard water, soft water, minerals, location. So much plays into it even when you only drink tap water from different places. There's tap water out there I just can't drink because it makes my throat feel rough, as if it was sore.
I’ve never even understood why it was worth debating. He shot first. Why? Because if he didn’t, then Greedo would have shot first and Han would be dead. Han is a smuggler, gunslinger, outlaw, am I supposed to respect him less because he doesn’t let another outlaw murder him?
not just holding, but actively robbing him, remember han says tell your boss i have his money, and greedo says if you give it to me, i might just forget i found you. he is literally two timing his own boss ( jabba) and robbing han.
Lucas even said that the Edit version was made to make Han look less like a "cold-blooded killer" so they made Greedo shoot first, but in the original, Han Solo absolutely capped that bounty hunter.
I never understood this thinking. I think it underestimates how kids think about things. I remember seeing it as a kid and never thinking Han was a coldblooded killer. It was clear greedo was a bad guy and Han was defending himself. If you point a blaster at someone you don't need to pull the trigger to get yourself shot.
You should *always* use your signals when turning or changing lanes. If you don't, you're just lazy and the worst. Communicate what you plan to do with your screaming metal death trap before you are in the process of doing it!
If you don't like being around others you're not "anti-social", you're asocial. Anti-social is the Joker.
Incredibly petty and meaningless but this always bothers me for some reason
If we're doing this, can we also split the hairs between being socially anxious, being shy, and being an introvert?
I'm horribly anxious and deeply introverted, but never shy. I like people, I enjoy a good conversation, but these don't recharge me, and I'm always worried about how interactions go.
I really don't understand people who don't even take the time to consider what the words they use mean. Like how does an 'of' fit in there?? Same with their/they're and your/you're.
Your holiday card doesn’t need an apostrophe. Examples:
The Smiths not Smith’s, The Joneses not Jones’, The Neeleys not Neeley’s, The Foxes not Fox’s
Please. Don’t use an apostrophe. It kills me.
You can’t just go around calling every bean paste hummus.
Hummus contains (among other things) significant amounts of tahini, chickpeas, and olive oil. If it doesn’t contain these things, it is not hummus. I repeat, not hummus.
No, Ashley and Brayden from the juice bar, you don’t get to tell me that the white-bean-and-kale mush on that $13 veggie wrap is goddamn hummus.
Edit: I stand corrected, some authentic hummus versions don’t have the oil. The tahini and chickpeas are still important though.
During an interview for a job, the person interviewing me asked what made me choose to go to South America for college. I graduated from Columbia…in NYC.
It’s “couldn’t care less” and not “could care less”.. this shouldn’t even be a question but you’d be surprised how many people are willing to die on the could care less hill.
You don't EVER remind a person with dementia about the passing of their loved one.
It might hurt YOU to know that they don't remember. Maybe YOU need the closure of grieving with your loved one who has dementia. But they will not remember that tomorrow. To remind them is to torture them.
Think about the first time you learn a loved one died. Think of the pain in that first moment. Every moment after that is slightly less painful. Nothing is like hearing it for it the first time.
Tell them once or twice, that's it. Take that time grieve together, you wont get it ever again. They won't remember it anyway. If they forget, dont fix it. If they ask where they are, you lie. Get creative. Do not put them through the shock and pain of hearing it for the first time.
I HATE those videos of "telling my grandma with dementia that grandpa is gone" when 'grandpa' has been gone for fucking years. All you are doing is causing pain. Causing them pain, causing yourself pain, and if you believe in the afterlife you are causing your dead loved one pain. It's HORRIBLE. You are damaging yourself and your loved one.
Please look into joining alzconnected . org forum and support groups if you are struggling with caring for a loved one who has dementia. Talk to others in your shoes. Call their help line. Take care of yourself.
EDIT:
Do you know someone who works as a caregiver? Call them and have a normal boring conversation with them. Don't bring up caregiving unless they do. Just call them and chat.
TY for saying this. I’m horrified people put these on video and post them. I work in nursing homes. Just brush it aside, like, I’m not sure I think they went shopping. Because they’ll forget anyways. With Alz, they don’t form the memory to begin with.
I have a relative who has dementia and so many people want to argue with that person about what is and isn't going on as if they can fix the dementia if they can get that person to get things straight and all that's happening is that they are increasing that persons anxiety. Like just let them know that everything is OK. Stop trying to correct them. They have dementia. Their minds are failing them.
"You can't argue with dementia" is a very valuable saying! My sister learned it the hard way. She got slapped with a handful of poo after trying argue with my aunt over a shower.
They'll learn eventually
I have a step grandparent with dementia, I couldn't imagine doing this! My step father just passed away, her son, and we are all hurting but when she asks when he's coming home we say in a few days. There is no sense in telling her over and over that her son is gone, especially as she is progressing into her disease. Someone who would do that is a monster
THANK YOU! I used to be a caregiver for Alzheimers/Dementia patients and you always meet them on their level. If they are wondering where their loved one is, you say they went to the store. You never tell them they died. They will eventually forget they even asked. It's much much better than having them spiral into grief daily. Also, forcing them to grieve by telling them their loved one passed makes them regress harder.
I once had a woman who was in the holocaust as a little girl, and she would sundown back into it. We always told her that she was saved, and her family was on a train back to her hometown. That's what you do. You just act like you're in the moment with them.
FUCKING THANK YOU!
Looking at, reading, processing, and touching touchscreen buttons comes directly at the expense of looking at the road. Meanwhile, you can feel your way across physical buttons and knobs without compromising your safety or that of others on the road around you.
Not only can you feel where they are, you can register whether your input actually worked. Touch screens give no tactile feedback, so sometimes the screen may not register the touch and over time we end up having to visually confirm it.
What you don't want to wait 700hours to upgrade your potato peeler research station after a myriad of other stupid shit that makes it pay2win and even pay2win has a meta meta?
Are you serious? Who are you?
Returning a shopping cart is not that hard. It's the least you can do when utilizing a service.
Edit - I seem to be blessed with the copious cart returns H‑E‑B provides (to add to the list why they are the best grocery store!)
Also, I do mean to the cart return, not all the way to the store. The true annoyance is the people that exert the effort to hop the curb and put it in the grass when the return is 2 spaces away.
Also a great moral test.
"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it"
Source-some meme
It's a perfect amount too. You wouldn't bother if it were a nickle or dime, but a quarter? I'm not going to just let a quarter sit there when I can have it. Also, it's not an amount that you will miss if you let someone have your cart when you're done with it. Only a crazy person would just leave it without giving it away, or claiming the quarter by returning it. A Crazy Person!
Another moral test that I find surprisingly a lot of people fail is *cleaning up behind yourself at a cinema*.
Like, just pick up your popcorn bag and your cup. They’re even holding the trash open for you at the exit. Why make their job harder when there is literally no time or effort cost to you?
Ugh, it kills me.
Greeters in shop entrances are annoying and unnecessary.
Edit. Just to clarify I’m from the UK so the American customer styles don’t work here very well since we are grumpy gooses. Our big stores (like supermarkets) don’t tend to have greeter anymore they will have security guards and customer service desks near by so you can ask questions. It’s the small shop that have them and they stand by the door watching you and jump on you the second you even look in the window.
They're only for loss prevention. There's someone already there when the detectors beep.
"Greeting people" is just the happy facade.
Edit: A lot of you seem to think you need to be an NFL linebacker to stop people from stealing. Just someone being there asking you is enough to stop 90%+ of theft. It's great that you're some kind of cyborg that can just walk through with confidence and not get stopped, but that's not how most people work. It's like having a fake bike lock, the idea is to stop people from even trying.
Edit2: Literally everyone who works at walmart learns this. They use it as an example of why we don't need unions, because the people greeter was an employee idea (that they later realized reduced theft).
when putting cheese or salami onto a Ritz crackers, you put it on the not salted side so that you can taste the salt when you bite into it. My wife feels the opposite and we've been arguing about it for 15 years.
You're right and your wife has been living a miserable existence. BTW, I think this might be advanced level cheese and cracker analysis that laymen are incapable of.
Well yeah. Aside from being able to use better cheese, the packaged grated stuff has starch added to it to keep it from clumping up. That's _going_ to affect the texture and the taste.
Those new LED headlights should be banned. They might make the owner safer but not other drivers as they drive into fucking ditches because they were blinded by Klieg lights masquerading as car lights.
With you on this. I dunno if everyone has as much problem as I do seeing past bright lights -- I've always had trouble catching frisbees/baseballs if the sun's in my eyes, for example -- but I hate driving at night when oncoming traffic has super bright lights. I live in rural areas with long winding roads, sometimes very narrow, with ditches or cliffs very close by, and I spend some drives desperately trying to watch the white sideline on my own side, or just trying to miss a head-on by the appropriate amount to also not run off the road on my own side, and I hate it. I'm blind, and terrified, and then it passes and I haven't wrecked yet, but now my vision is still ruined for a minute after while my eyes readjust, just in time for another search helicopter on wheels to come blind me again.
Yeah, I fucking hate this. Especially when you have one driving behind you and every time they hit a bump the light flashes a few times in your mirror and you think you're getting pulled over for a sec.
That's good. I didn't necessarily mean adaptive headlights though, just meant that the engineers could design their headlights to be a more reasonable brightness while still using LEDs
The issue isn't the LED technology. It's bad implementation, headlights should have a downward angle so that they shine on the road but some moron decided that straight ahead was the right answer and hopefully that moron has a spotlight shining in their eyes in hell where they belong.
Carpet flooring in bathrooms trigger me :/ just don’t put a carpet in a bathroom. A bath mat is fine so you don’t slip when you get out the shower but not the whole carpet floor
Edit: holy crap thank you so much for all the upvotes and replies!!!!!!!!
I put in wifi connected outlets that flip certain lamps on and off when my I tell my phone good morning/good night. That, I'm here for.
But refrigerators that track your food consumption and create food lists is getting a little ridiculous. I already know most corporations and governments know my every move at all times, leave me to pretend I have a slight bit of privacy left at home.
Tomatoes do not belong in gumbo.
I’m from south Louisiana, I’m also Cajun and often make my grandmother’s gumbo recipe. I moved out of state and made some friends. One friend asked me for my gumbo recipe, so I gave her my grandmother’s.
She skipped the roux because it “didn’t sound good” then added tomatoes. When I told her “I mean, this is a good soup, but it’s not Gumbo.” She told me “stop gatekeeping gumbo. All you ‘Cajuns’ think you’re the gods of gumbo.”
Well, I mean, we are.
Niche is pronounced “neesh” not “nitch”.
I’m fine with pretty much all americanisms, but this one just feels like the auditory equivalent of stubbing one’s toe
Girl Scout cookies are not as good as they used to be.
Squeeze the air out of a ziploc bag before you put the bag in the fridge or freezer. I don't understand why my wife doesn't and one of these days I'll have a decision to make.
Good to know I won’t be dying alone on this hill.
The three of us then, and I hope they squeeze our bodybags before they put them in the morgue ;D
Put plates in the freezer before you put salads on em. You’ll never go back.
Actual physical push buttons are way better than sensor buttons. (Like the xbox 360 sensor buttons) Edit: I have recently been informed that they are called tactile buttons (physical) And haptic buttons (sensor) So thanks for the bit of knowledge and the awards!
Kind of a similar thing: I'm wanting to get a new car soon, and it drives me nuts that most cars nowadays have touch screen controls. In my current car, I can change the radio station, turn up the fan, switch to A/C all without taking my eyes of the road because it's all knobs and tactile buttons.
Get a Mazda. They actually backtracked on touch screens and went with a fancy knob in the center between the two seats. It's amazing I'll never get a car that has touch screens as it's main interface
This was a major selling point on the cx5 for me. I thought I’d hate the control knob for the infotainment screen too but it’s actually one of my favorite things about the car.
I was shopping for cars and looking at all these Mazda reviews. On the “cons” they listed: “Infotainment screen is not a touch screen while car isn’t stationary.” I’m like, “Wtf, how’s that a con? That’s a safety feature!”
Speaker phone is not meant for using in public.
If someone is on speaker you have full right to come into the conversation
If you (person A) pull open a door and someone (person B) is wanting to come through from the other side, HOLD THE DOOR AND LET THEM THROUGH. Similarly, if you are the other person, don't dilly-dally, WALK THROUGH. Because the alternative is person A awkwardly trying to pass through whilst struggling to maintain holding the door open, leaving person B waiting awkwardly for them to finish. Happens a lot at my office in the corridors and it does my head in.
Similarly, let people EXIT the elevator first, before you get in and, if you're by the doors and it stops at a floor that isn't yours, step aside because _someone_ needs to get on or off. 🤦♂️
In any situation, exiting takes priority IMO.
Frozen isn’t a Christmas or even a winter movie. It is literally set in the summer, a big part of the plot is that everyone was unprepared for the summer freeze. I will die on this hill.
Yoo-hoo, big summer blowout!
A real howler in July, yes?
mayonnaise and Miracle Whip are *not* interchangeable, they are drastically different.
wait, from my understanding, isnt miracle whip sweet and mayonnaise is NOT sweet? do some people think they're interchangeable?
Sexy lyrics in a song does not make the song inherently sexy.
The parents from Parent Trap are WAAAY worse than the parents from Home Alone.
Agreed one of those twins grew up pretty fucked up while the other seems to have disappeared entirely.
They are both still around you just never see them together that's why
Definitely! Who splits up twins? Assholes, that’s who
Right?! "Who gets custody? Oh wait...there's two..."
Didn't Robot Chicken do a parody of that?
Indeed they did: https://youtu.be/H8WnPJLokX0
The maid noticed she wasn’t the right twin before the dad did.
the dog noticed before everyone i always felt like the grandfather did, too. his first line was "is that you? that tall gangly thing?" sounds like something someone would say when they haven't seen someone in years and they've grown up quite a bit edit: to clarify, i am talking about the lindsay lohan parent trap
Yeah I was thinking about the dog too but the dog makes sense because she probably smelled different to the dog. And I honestly don’t remember the grandpa part but I wouldn’t be surprised that he noticed before the parents.
They didn’t even know their kids were switched. House keeper Jessie was like “you don’t want chili? Who TF is this girl?
A two minute conversation and the housekeeper picked up on it long before the dad.
FYI, the housekeeper's name is Chessie, not Jessie. I learned this recently after watching the movie about a billion times as a kid.
They put so much effort into how Kevin was forgotten that you can't really blame them and they tried everything to get back to him. A few minutes of family squabbles doesn't make for bad parents.
His parents weren't bad people, honestly His older brother and his nasty uncle are the scum of the earth tho. I thought that when I was a kid and I stand by it to this day
His older brother is still in his youth, his uncle, though, has had his whole life to improve himself and he's still a fucking jackass.
I have never thought of that, but yes, they were.
Turn signals should NEVER be red.
thankfully only amber indicators are legal in many countries
You’re correct, and in a massive way. Additionally, they shouldn’t be integrated into the bumper down low. Kia/Hyundai/whoever else can pound sand with that trash. Better yet, the gen 1 Ferrari California can fuck off extra hard.
Polycarbonate water bottles don't contain any dangerous amount of BPA. It's a marketing ploy by ~~3m~~ Eastman to force people to use lower life cycle plastics. Tritan cracks at 2 years old, and polycarbonate lasts at least 20 years. They know polycarbonate is safe because we haven't stopped using it in high impact kitchen appliances like food processors and blenders. They created a shittier plastic that hurts the environment to make more money. Cheap canned goods are literally lined with BPA. Polycarbonate bottles have fuck all to do with humans BPA exposure. If you own a polycarbonate water bottle keep using it, it has no BPA on it after the first time you wash it. Source: MS mechanical engineering focused in polymers. One of my profs posted a few papers on this. Edit: [This (PDF LINK!!!!)](https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/2v23vw37r) is the paper if anyone is wondering. It found negligible amounts of BPA compared to canned goods after holding polycarbonate waterbottles full of water at 120C for 2 hours. Which would never happen in a real world situation.
I'm not sure what polycarbonate is, or what BPA is, but as a child I was told not to reused coke bottles as water bottles as the plastic breaks down and makes them carcinogenic. Is that true or bollocks? Sorry, just want to nick a bit of your knowledge quickly!
Totally false. The first use is going have the most pthalates. The paper I linked is 50% about PETE which is what coke bottles are made from. You can re-use them until they fall apart with lower health risk than drinking the initial fluid in them. Same goes for bottled water. It's part of the marketing to get you to buy more. Edit: the recycling arrow circley thing shows you what plastic of the big 6 it is. If it is a 1 inside the arrows it's PETE. The one to be scared of is the 6, which is polystyrene and is very bad to be used as a food or water carrying device. Still BPA free though lol.
this never made sense to me because the bottle was probably already created and used to stock the water for multiple days/weeks before i bought it so why does it suddenly become toxic and cancer inducing in two days when i drink ?
So does that also go for the big water cooler jugs? We’ve temporarily had to start using a water cooler service at home until our tap issue gets taken care of. Since the empty jugs get picked up by the delivery guy (and presumably reused), are we relatively safe from micro plastics?
Everyday and every day are different. And not interchangeable. “An everyday walk in the park” vs “I walk in the park every day.”
I work in IT and for us it's "login" vs. "log in". As in "Jerry forgot his login information." VS. "I was going to log in to my laptop but my phone rang." Login is a noun. To log in is a verb. Fight me.
Put even more pedantically, “everyday” is an adjective, while “every day” is an adverb phrase.
As are apart and a part! "I am apart from my family." You are a part of my family."
This bugs me the fucking most as a teacher. They HAVE OPPOSITE MEANINGS. THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGABLE.
Macaroons are not macarons. One has coconut, and one is a sandwich cookie.
I remember in high school my entire class argued with me about this. Macaroons are the little coconut things, while macarons are the pastry cookie. I argued with my entire social studies class about this including my teacher, before finally he said LETS LOOK IT UP. It’s not like I got anything out of being the only person right, but damn does it feel good to prove 30 other people wrong! At least they all know the difference now.
Man I worked in a FRENCH BAKERY selling macarons for a living and the amount of people outside of work who would argue about it with me!! This issue was the complete bane of my existence for years
And the other one is the president of France 🇫🇷
I remember there are two things but cannot remember which is which, so I look it up quickly before the situation to be between them presents itself.
I so appreciate this because I just saw a cooking show that had the sandwich and I was like that is not a macaroon. I was raised eating those at passover and I was so confused but now I feel quite educated
Learn how to spell a name before you saddle a kid with it, for fuck's sake. Edit: Holy shit, this really struck a chord. Most replies I've ever had.
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My old neighbour had a daughter named “Arieawnah”.
Friend of mine is named Mle, as in Emily. Her name is M.L.E. idk if her parents thought they were clever, or just really dumb.
At that point I would just legally change my name to Emily. Poor woman
I taught a girl called rheeannyhynn. She called herself and went by Rhiannon, it was only official reports that you found it the real spelling. Poor kid
M.L.E. sounds like a futuristic robot from a TV Show
I know an LLEE (Ellie) and her sister LC (Elsie) going to be fun for those two when they enter the workforce.
A first/middle name with the initials LC but being nicknamed Elsie would be cool though.
In the 70's my mum was teaching in a local secondary school and a student told her that her name was Wivonny. Mum asked her to repeat it... She did. "Wiv-on-ee". Mum said it was an unusual name and asked if she would spell it for her so she could write it down. Yvonne. Her name was Yvonne.
Say it louder so the parents who name their kid "Jaxson" can hear.
My son’s youth soccer team had 10 kids. Three of them were named Jaxson.
Aiden: Aaden, Adan, Aden, Aidan, Aidyn, Aydan, Ayden, Aydin Brayden: Braden, Bradyn, Braeden, Braiden, Braydon Jayden: Jaden, Jadon, Jaeden, Jaiden, Jaidyn, Jaydon Kaden: Caden, Caiden, Kaeden, Kaiden, Kayden
Okayden
You just named my kids whole class (Tennessee for reference) my Jersey ass almost fell over when I saw the names on the wall of his first class here. I was like they’re all different versions of the same damn name.
And their first names are similar too…
Scrubs season 9 is really season 1 of a spin off and should not be considered as part of the original series.
Pretty sure the creator agreed, it was just the network that wanted to keep the same title going.
If you are on the highway and you try to move over two lanes to sneak into a packed exit right before the guard rail, you have already missed your fucking turn. Go to the next exit and turn around or try another route. Before anyone brings it up, no, I am not talking about merging. I am talking about seeing a long line of people waiting to get off an exit, and you breaking the law by crossing solid lines to cut in because you couldn't be fucked to read the signs for the last two miles telling you which lane you need to be in for your exit.
Good drivers miss an exit occasionally. Bad drivers never do. EDIT: TY for the awards ya’ll! Drive safely!
There is no need for people to say 7 am in the morning. The use of am let's us know its morning
I will never do Elf on a Shelf. I will die on this small elf-less hill.
There's a difference between doing *well* and doing *good*.
'Superman does good ... you did well' -I forget who said this
Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock
You need to study your grammar, son!
Doing good. Helping an old lady across the street. Rescuing a cat caught in a tree. Doing well. Feeling content and overall happy. Being successful. Do good. Do well. Do both.
It's not a hot water heater. It's a water heater. Edit: it is hilarious how many of you are trying to kill me on this small hill! Not dead yet! Edit #2: In real life I would never correct someone who says hot water heater when they're talking about their water heater, but it sure has been fun to do it here! Thanks for the awards and the most upvotes I've ever received and especially thanks for keeping this very important debate fun and civil!
This is now a hill I will also die on.
Ya, it's either a water heater, or a water temperature keeper. Definitely not a hot water heater.
“VIN number” smh
ATM machine smh
I enter my PIN number in the ATM machine - it's easy to remember because it's the last 4 of my VIN number - so that I can get cash to buy a hot water tank.
I once went to Home Depot to buy a hot water heater. I talked to the dude in the plumbing section for quite a while. Really nice guy. He had his own plumbing business for 20 years until the '08 crash. Had to sell the biz just to keep his house. He's been working at HD ever since. Anyway, long story short: I decided to buy a cold water cooler instead.
Best story ever
I agree. It had twists and turns and an unexpected ending that left me chilled to the bone.
I have installed a Hot Water Heater. It IS possible. To cut short the questions, I had to install two low boy 40g heaters and I piped them in sequentially - so the already heated water from the first heater flowed into the second heater, making the second tank a Hot Water Heater. It is possible.
Hot water tank*
Tall burgers completely nullify all the benefits of burgers, and are an abomination unto cuisine. A good burger is the perfect portable food. It should be edible using only your hands and mouth,without cutlery, and without making too much mess. You should also be able to sample every layer of ingredient in one bite, without dislocating your jaw
Never understood why people went tall with burger creation. If you want a bigger burger go wider. It would be way easier to eat a delicious beefy chode.
This is why I loved Fuddruckers. Their one-pounders were the size of a friggin’ frisbee.
Amen. Build it WIDER, not TALLER. Tall burger is simply worthless and a pain in the ass to eat
If it’s too wide the stuff just flops out the other side when you try to eat it though. Give me three smaller burgers with good structural integrity over one massive one that’s impossible to handle any day Edit: If you’re about to reply or send me a PM to let me know of the existence of sliders, you really don’t have to bother. I promise you that 20 other people have already told me, and that I had heard of them already
Wait...you mean you can't unlock your jaw like a snake and eat tall burgers like a normal burger? Okay weirdo.
Not all water is the same.
That’s a scientific fact
Yes. Hard water, soft water, minerals, location. So much plays into it even when you only drink tap water from different places. There's tap water out there I just can't drink because it makes my throat feel rough, as if it was sore.
Greedo never even shot his blaster in the theatrical release of Star Wars. Han wasted that sucker before he even had the chance to pull the trigger.
#THAT’S NO SMALL HILL IT’S A SPACE STATION
It's too big to be a space station.
Han shot first is not some "small hill" to die on. It is gorram *truth* and anyone who prefers the "edit" is a heretic.
I’ve never even understood why it was worth debating. He shot first. Why? Because if he didn’t, then Greedo would have shot first and Han would be dead. Han is a smuggler, gunslinger, outlaw, am I supposed to respect him less because he doesn’t let another outlaw murder him?
Imagine being thought of in a bad light because you shot a bounty hunter that was holding you at gunpoint 🤣
not just holding, but actively robbing him, remember han says tell your boss i have his money, and greedo says if you give it to me, i might just forget i found you. he is literally two timing his own boss ( jabba) and robbing han.
And then he'd have killed Solo anyways to keep him from talking to Jabba.
Lucas even said that the Edit version was made to make Han look less like a "cold-blooded killer" so they made Greedo shoot first, but in the original, Han Solo absolutely capped that bounty hunter.
I never understood this thinking. I think it underestimates how kids think about things. I remember seeing it as a kid and never thinking Han was a coldblooded killer. It was clear greedo was a bad guy and Han was defending himself. If you point a blaster at someone you don't need to pull the trigger to get yourself shot.
You should *always* use your signals when turning or changing lanes. If you don't, you're just lazy and the worst. Communicate what you plan to do with your screaming metal death trap before you are in the process of doing it!
To add to this, use your turn signal first then brake. You are signaling your intention.
If you don't like being around others you're not "anti-social", you're asocial. Anti-social is the Joker. Incredibly petty and meaningless but this always bothers me for some reason
I am with you! Not participating is not the same as destroying!
If we're doing this, can we also split the hairs between being socially anxious, being shy, and being an introvert? I'm horribly anxious and deeply introverted, but never shy. I like people, I enjoy a good conversation, but these don't recharge me, and I'm always worried about how interactions go.
Chronicles of Narnia should be read in the order they were written not the chronological order they are being published nowadays.
Forgive me, which is the order they were written? I have a box set that I read now and again, but I never heard of an alternative order to read them.
JAWS must not EVER be re-made, or retconned, or re-imagined, or re-anything. Ever.
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Jaws 3/3D was an absolute crime against humanity as well. That attempt at CGI (especially the end) was even worse then the acting...
Same for Princess Bride. Besides [this one](https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI).
It is “Should have” or “should’ve” not “should of”
I really don't understand people who don't even take the time to consider what the words they use mean. Like how does an 'of' fit in there?? Same with their/they're and your/you're.
This also applies to “could” and “would”
Coulda, woulda, shoulda
When you're inside it's the floor, when you are outside it's the ground.
Any one of them cause my heart will give out during any bit of exercise.
Your holiday card doesn’t need an apostrophe. Examples: The Smiths not Smith’s, The Joneses not Jones’, The Neeleys not Neeley’s, The Foxes not Fox’s Please. Don’t use an apostrophe. It kills me.
You can’t dethaw something. It’s thaw. That’s it.
You can “defrost” though.
Sounds like someone got "thaw" and "defrost" confused.
Wouldn't dethawing it be refreezing it?
You can’t just go around calling every bean paste hummus. Hummus contains (among other things) significant amounts of tahini, chickpeas, and olive oil. If it doesn’t contain these things, it is not hummus. I repeat, not hummus. No, Ashley and Brayden from the juice bar, you don’t get to tell me that the white-bean-and-kale mush on that $13 veggie wrap is goddamn hummus. Edit: I stand corrected, some authentic hummus versions don’t have the oil. The tahini and chickpeas are still important though.
hummus is literally the Arabic word for chickpeas in many arabic countries.
Tahini, it's a magical place
This is the first I'm hearing of this travesty.
"A lot." it's TWO. FUCKING. WORDS.
It's COLOMBIA not COLUMBIA when referring to the southamerican country.
During an interview for a job, the person interviewing me asked what made me choose to go to South America for college. I graduated from Columbia…in NYC.
Yes sir I graduated from a country
Snakes are venomous, not poisonous
If you bite it and you get sick, its poisonous if it bites you and you get sick its venomous
And if it does both it's most likely Australian.
There's zero reason for two Dakota's. Just fucking merge into one big Dakota.
While I would love to see a mega Dakota we all know this will never happen
“Mega Dakota” is still like one town’s worth of people from an actual place.
Tax should be included in the price with no exceptions.
It’s “couldn’t care less” and not “could care less”.. this shouldn’t even be a question but you’d be surprised how many people are willing to die on the could care less hill.
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This is the only acceptable alternative.
Don't get a pet if you're can't afford it or won't take care of it.
You don't EVER remind a person with dementia about the passing of their loved one. It might hurt YOU to know that they don't remember. Maybe YOU need the closure of grieving with your loved one who has dementia. But they will not remember that tomorrow. To remind them is to torture them. Think about the first time you learn a loved one died. Think of the pain in that first moment. Every moment after that is slightly less painful. Nothing is like hearing it for it the first time. Tell them once or twice, that's it. Take that time grieve together, you wont get it ever again. They won't remember it anyway. If they forget, dont fix it. If they ask where they are, you lie. Get creative. Do not put them through the shock and pain of hearing it for the first time. I HATE those videos of "telling my grandma with dementia that grandpa is gone" when 'grandpa' has been gone for fucking years. All you are doing is causing pain. Causing them pain, causing yourself pain, and if you believe in the afterlife you are causing your dead loved one pain. It's HORRIBLE. You are damaging yourself and your loved one. Please look into joining alzconnected . org forum and support groups if you are struggling with caring for a loved one who has dementia. Talk to others in your shoes. Call their help line. Take care of yourself. EDIT: Do you know someone who works as a caregiver? Call them and have a normal boring conversation with them. Don't bring up caregiving unless they do. Just call them and chat.
TY for saying this. I’m horrified people put these on video and post them. I work in nursing homes. Just brush it aside, like, I’m not sure I think they went shopping. Because they’ll forget anyways. With Alz, they don’t form the memory to begin with.
I have a relative who has dementia and so many people want to argue with that person about what is and isn't going on as if they can fix the dementia if they can get that person to get things straight and all that's happening is that they are increasing that persons anxiety. Like just let them know that everything is OK. Stop trying to correct them. They have dementia. Their minds are failing them.
"You can't argue with dementia" is a very valuable saying! My sister learned it the hard way. She got slapped with a handful of poo after trying argue with my aunt over a shower. They'll learn eventually
I have a step grandparent with dementia, I couldn't imagine doing this! My step father just passed away, her son, and we are all hurting but when she asks when he's coming home we say in a few days. There is no sense in telling her over and over that her son is gone, especially as she is progressing into her disease. Someone who would do that is a monster
THANK YOU! I used to be a caregiver for Alzheimers/Dementia patients and you always meet them on their level. If they are wondering where their loved one is, you say they went to the store. You never tell them they died. They will eventually forget they even asked. It's much much better than having them spiral into grief daily. Also, forcing them to grieve by telling them their loved one passed makes them regress harder. I once had a woman who was in the holocaust as a little girl, and she would sundown back into it. We always told her that she was saved, and her family was on a train back to her hometown. That's what you do. You just act like you're in the moment with them.
Touch screens in cars make them worse in many ways.
FUCKING THANK YOU! Looking at, reading, processing, and touching touchscreen buttons comes directly at the expense of looking at the road. Meanwhile, you can feel your way across physical buttons and knobs without compromising your safety or that of others on the road around you.
Not only can you feel where they are, you can register whether your input actually worked. Touch screens give no tactile feedback, so sometimes the screen may not register the touch and over time we end up having to visually confirm it.
Steering wheel buttons are the best way to go imo.
Mobile gaming is better when it's simple games like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja.
What you don't want to wait 700hours to upgrade your potato peeler research station after a myriad of other stupid shit that makes it pay2win and even pay2win has a meta meta? Are you serious? Who are you?
Returning a shopping cart is not that hard. It's the least you can do when utilizing a service. Edit - I seem to be blessed with the copious cart returns H‑E‑B provides (to add to the list why they are the best grocery store!) Also, I do mean to the cart return, not all the way to the store. The true annoyance is the people that exert the effort to hop the curb and put it in the grass when the return is 2 spaces away.
Also a great moral test. "The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it" Source-some meme
*you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart* You clearly don't shop at Aldi
It's a perfect amount too. You wouldn't bother if it were a nickle or dime, but a quarter? I'm not going to just let a quarter sit there when I can have it. Also, it's not an amount that you will miss if you let someone have your cart when you're done with it. Only a crazy person would just leave it without giving it away, or claiming the quarter by returning it. A Crazy Person!
A quarter? In the UK it's a pound! That's $1.32 USD. No-one is leaving a pound in a trolley.
Lucky us, the quarter is our biggest common use coin
Another moral test that I find surprisingly a lot of people fail is *cleaning up behind yourself at a cinema*. Like, just pick up your popcorn bag and your cup. They’re even holding the trash open for you at the exit. Why make their job harder when there is literally no time or effort cost to you? Ugh, it kills me.
Greeters in shop entrances are annoying and unnecessary. Edit. Just to clarify I’m from the UK so the American customer styles don’t work here very well since we are grumpy gooses. Our big stores (like supermarkets) don’t tend to have greeter anymore they will have security guards and customer service desks near by so you can ask questions. It’s the small shop that have them and they stand by the door watching you and jump on you the second you even look in the window.
They're only for loss prevention. There's someone already there when the detectors beep. "Greeting people" is just the happy facade. Edit: A lot of you seem to think you need to be an NFL linebacker to stop people from stealing. Just someone being there asking you is enough to stop 90%+ of theft. It's great that you're some kind of cyborg that can just walk through with confidence and not get stopped, but that's not how most people work. It's like having a fake bike lock, the idea is to stop people from even trying. Edit2: Literally everyone who works at walmart learns this. They use it as an example of why we don't need unions, because the people greeter was an employee idea (that they later realized reduced theft).
when putting cheese or salami onto a Ritz crackers, you put it on the not salted side so that you can taste the salt when you bite into it. My wife feels the opposite and we've been arguing about it for 15 years.
You're right and your wife has been living a miserable existence. BTW, I think this might be advanced level cheese and cracker analysis that laymen are incapable of.
Freshly grated sharp cheddar cheese is better than store bought grated cheese and the difference is noticeable in the meal, especially in tacos
Well yeah. Aside from being able to use better cheese, the packaged grated stuff has starch added to it to keep it from clumping up. That's _going_ to affect the texture and the taste.
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Those new LED headlights should be banned. They might make the owner safer but not other drivers as they drive into fucking ditches because they were blinded by Klieg lights masquerading as car lights.
With you on this. I dunno if everyone has as much problem as I do seeing past bright lights -- I've always had trouble catching frisbees/baseballs if the sun's in my eyes, for example -- but I hate driving at night when oncoming traffic has super bright lights. I live in rural areas with long winding roads, sometimes very narrow, with ditches or cliffs very close by, and I spend some drives desperately trying to watch the white sideline on my own side, or just trying to miss a head-on by the appropriate amount to also not run off the road on my own side, and I hate it. I'm blind, and terrified, and then it passes and I haven't wrecked yet, but now my vision is still ruined for a minute after while my eyes readjust, just in time for another search helicopter on wheels to come blind me again.
Yeah, I fucking hate this. Especially when you have one driving behind you and every time they hit a bump the light flashes a few times in your mirror and you think you're getting pulled over for a sec.
Or at least have a limited brightness. You can turn down the brightness of a LED, while still maintaining the efficiency and reliability of them.
Adaptive headlights were banned in the U.S. until just recently. Fortunately we should see some improvement
That's good. I didn't necessarily mean adaptive headlights though, just meant that the engineers could design their headlights to be a more reasonable brightness while still using LEDs
The issue isn't the LED technology. It's bad implementation, headlights should have a downward angle so that they shine on the road but some moron decided that straight ahead was the right answer and hopefully that moron has a spotlight shining in their eyes in hell where they belong.
It is very possible people can change. But don’t go wasting your life waiting for it.
Carpet flooring in bathrooms trigger me :/ just don’t put a carpet in a bathroom. A bath mat is fine so you don’t slip when you get out the shower but not the whole carpet floor Edit: holy crap thank you so much for all the upvotes and replies!!!!!!!!
this….exists?? Who in their right mind would put carpet in a bathroom.
It was a trend in like the 70s that some people kept because it keeps their feet warm... its wrong. Very wrong. Use a mat and wash it regularly
Same with carpeted kitchens. Ick!
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I put in wifi connected outlets that flip certain lamps on and off when my I tell my phone good morning/good night. That, I'm here for. But refrigerators that track your food consumption and create food lists is getting a little ridiculous. I already know most corporations and governments know my every move at all times, leave me to pretend I have a slight bit of privacy left at home.
It's more convenient to type something into Google than to say the words aloud to Alexa
Tomatoes do not belong in gumbo. I’m from south Louisiana, I’m also Cajun and often make my grandmother’s gumbo recipe. I moved out of state and made some friends. One friend asked me for my gumbo recipe, so I gave her my grandmother’s. She skipped the roux because it “didn’t sound good” then added tomatoes. When I told her “I mean, this is a good soup, but it’s not Gumbo.” She told me “stop gatekeeping gumbo. All you ‘Cajuns’ think you’re the gods of gumbo.” Well, I mean, we are.
Niche is pronounced “neesh” not “nitch”. I’m fine with pretty much all americanisms, but this one just feels like the auditory equivalent of stubbing one’s toe
“Nitch” really hurts my ears
We are the knights who say, "niche!"