I learned that soap is a salt and that acids like vinegar break it down and kind of rerelease the fatty acid that made it up.
It was very gross.
Seems like a fun experiment. Especially with a kid who likes gross stuff
Have relationships. Turns out I can’t do it all all by myself and if someone isn’t willing to or able to work with me it’s not a viable relationship
Earlier this year I found out you’re supposed to run the sink water until it’s hot, then start your dishwasher. Also sprinkle in some powder detergent inside the door, especially if there is a tray for PreWash detergent.
You watched the video, didn’t you
A video, I don’t know if it’s the video.
Definitely the video
I haven’t watched any videos about dishwashers ever since I don’t own one but I’m 100% sure we’re talking about Technology Connections.
You are absolutely right!
The mad lad. He’s an international treasure. He has that CGP Grey about him that makes him one of my Hall of Fame educators/YouTubers. Can watch ANYTHING he makes for days.
I haven’t watched it but if TC recommends it I’m onboard.
Not recent, but I spent the majority of my teenage years dealing with awfully frizzy and unmanageable hair because I was shampooing daily (also using an excessive amount). I was under the impression that you need to thoroughly shampoo all oils away every time you shower in order to be “clean.” When I moved to university and no longer had parents around to tell me that I stink, my hygiene standards became more… relaxed, but I was surprised that my hair was a lot healthier!
Same issue here. Turns out when you strip all the oil off your skin/scalp, your body puts a lot of work into re-oiling it up. Now I’ve got to a point where I only need to wash my hair a couple times per week. It took a while to get there, with some days when I would have greasy-looking hair, but the longer you can push back the next wash, the better.
Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.
I learned that you should roll up a period pad and use the wrapper of the new pad to hold it rolled closed. They have a little tape and it reduces mess and smell.
In my defense, I didn’t use pads until last year.
going from pads / tampons to the silicone cup was my learning a better way. First week was rough but by the end of the week and thereafter I couldn’t even feel it once it was in. Went to fuck a few times and the dude was like TF is this? And I’d be like oh shit lemme swap it for a disc real quick.
I am not and never have been in possession of a vagina, so please don’t think I’m trying to tell anyone who is their business. That said, I saw diva cups being discussed and strongly recommended on reddit ten to fifteen years back and suggested one to my wife, then girlfriend, since everyone who said they had used one also said they were a much better experience.
She was resistant at first and I didn’t push since it’s her body, but apparently she took the recommendation to heart because one day one showed up at our house (not my doing) and she’s used them continuously (when needed) since then.
She has occasionally described their workings, in humorous terms, to me. I approve because she’s happier and they create less waste.
edit: To be clear, while I do approve, I didn’t mean to imply that it was a deciding factor.
Opening cereal/fruit/granola bars and similar foil wrappers. I would tear them on the serrated part and then only a sliver of the wrapper would come off and I’d have to try to widen the resulting hole in order to extract the bar, often crumbling part of it in the process. However, quite by accident I discovered that if I instead ignore the serration and tear against that foldy seam part that runs down the entire bar, then it separates right down the middle like magic and I can easily remove the bar. Often works on 8/16oz cheese too.
I traveled with some Thai monks who would tear the whole side off bags of chips turning them into a bowl to share.
Another kitchen one. I always assumed the strongest water flow was closest to the faucet, but actually the water just about to hit the sink works better. This discovery has been useful for rinsing out things like cake icing tips and tea infusers.
Potential energy getting converted to kinetic energy on the way down :)
When I would boil 2 boxes of different shape pastas, I would boil 2 pots of water, instead of timing it out. (Ie: pasta1 needs 7 mins, pasta2 needs 10. Boil pasta2 for 3 minutes, then add pasta1 and boil for 7 mins.)
But why would you do this
Jarbles has dedicated his life to being annoying to italians
Probably snaps his spaghetti and puts pineapple on pizza
Not too long ago I learned that you’re not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you’re supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.
As a kid I learned from the dentist that you should massage your gums with the toothbrush. I’ve recently learned that you should absolutely not and this is why I have retracted gums and exposed roots that hurt like a motherfucker.
Childhood dentist that is probably long dead, I wish you bad thoughts wherever you are.
I learned that same lie from that liar ass little dinosaur cartoon fucker.
My dental hygienist recently said that if you vomit you’re not supposed to brush your teeth right away. You’re supposed to rinse your mouth out with water to balance the pH levels and after a little while then you can brush.
Where did you learn this? I’ve never heard this recommendation before and it sounds pretty out there.
Edit: it turns out that apparently both the American Dental Association and the National Health Service of the UK recommend not rinsing immediately after brushing. Huh, TIL.
I noticed a big decrease in plaque after I stopped rinsing.
I heard it straight from my Dentist (in Canada) just this last month. I was also blown away, been rinsing for decades…
Same here. I’m glad your dentist told you though.
I’m not them, but I first heard this in one of the early episodes of A Problem Squared podcast. Edutainment, baby!
The flouride in toothpaste doesn’t work if you rinse it off immediately. You should not eat or drink for at least 30 minutes after brushing.
Get a mouthwash with floride in it. Floss to get everything out, rinse, brush to clean everything, rinse, take a drink of water cause you won’t have any for a bit, mouthwash to polish everything up, don’t eat or drink for as long as possible (like right before bed so it stays clean)
It makes sense if you think about it. The flouride needs to rest on your teeth to harden them properly.
Toothpaste instructions often tell you to rinse with a small amount of water, but dentists here always say not to.
And floss before brushing, so you can rinse goop out before the toothpaste goes in.
I have the same logic about flossing personally, but I’ve asked my dentist/dental hygenist multiple times and they’ve all said the order for flossing doesn’t matter.
Nobody told me you were supposed to scrape/scrub your tongue when brushing your teeth… and nobody told me about washcloths either. 🫣 My wife put me on to that about a decade ago (so, in my early twenties) so by now it’s just part of my life but yeah…
“I think we can get them to brush their tongues”
AFAIK most people don’t do anything to their tongue. But I’m open to being told otherwise by others here.
Turns out the pedal in the middle slows down the car and you don’t need to just swerve around things all the time.
Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I’ve had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I’ve apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.
Thank you PT.
FUCK you PT.
Thank you PT.
FUCK you PT.
Oh god yes, this. I hate it so much. I’m so glad I’ve gone. Gotta go back as soon as I can afford to get some help with upper back tightness. Fuck the list of 8 new exercises I’m going to get, hate, and find magically fix my prooblem.
In the meantime between getting back to physio, try a cheap TENS unit. I found a lot of relief by slowly over the course of a few days applying 30 mins of electroshock to my lower back when it acts up. When I was going to physio, besides the exercises they gave I would get 20 mins of TENS therapy. I figured I could save time and money by just doing the shocking myself as well as my morning stretches.
I have a couple of them. I wish I was better at placing the electrodes. So many positions do basically nothing, or just sting the skin, but when I get them set up right, holy shit is it magic.
Need to order in some replacement gel for the pads, though.
It helps a lot to have another person place them for you.
I find that if I feel the muscle that is causing pain and put a pad on either end of that muscle group then another pad across it in an X shape then I usually get the muscles isolated.
It rarely fixes it in one day. I find if I’m at about 70% of how I normally feel then on day two I wake up feeling 75% normal then 85% on day three and back to normal on day four. People thinking it is instant usually are discouraged in continuing but sticking to it for days in a row is more successful.
Putting my T-shirts in the drawer. Historically, I did this via flat stacking, like pizza boxes. It’s much easier to find a specific T-shirt if you arrange them in the drawer like hanging file folders. Also allows you to pack in more of them.
I roll mine. Three rows wide, two courses high, five layers back.
just found out about email rules, i have been deleting individually for years like a peasant
What do you mean by deleting? I manually do everything as well, enlighten us!
For years I kept dating and being in relationships and putting a lot of effort into it. Also socializing and making friends too.
I gave up about 5 years ago and I’m much much happier with my life. It’s amazing how much better I feel on a daily basis when my energy and efforts aren’t going into a black hole from which no joy comes out. I also rapidly achieved a lot of life goals after 10+ years of achieving almost none of them.
Being mostly totally alone is completely awesome and I’m annoyed that other people convinced me it was terrible and awful.
I’m actually moving in the opposite direction. I was (still am really) a massive introvert, then I got really, really, really sick and realized I have zero support if something happens where I can’t take care of myself. I realized at the end of the day humans are a social species and we need some level of human connection to thrive.
Speak for yourself. When I’ve been sick my gf/family told me to go f myself and what an asshole I am for getting sick. Literally nobody is ever going to take care of me, and never has. When my dad was dying, my 5 year old girlfriend didn’t help, she broke up with me for ‘being a loser who is sad about his stupid dad’. Oh and then called me up asking me for money after we broke up. Most of my gfs/friends actively tried to sabotage the progress in my life and would argue against me doing the things that improved my life. Working out, not drinking, eating right, saving, investing, were all labeled ‘gay, stupid, weird, queer’.
At the end of my days, people add very little to my life, and having them in my life results in a net negative. Which is precisely why excluding them in my life has lead to massive gains in my health, happiness, and wealth. I can work out, eat right, and pursue my passions and grow my career skills without repeatedly being told how awful and shitty doing those things are, and what I should be doing with my life is sitting on my ass drinking booze, eating fast food, and watching shitty sitcoms every night.
You can lecture me all you want, but I’ve never had anyone in my life really add anything of value or given me any genuine support and the second I ask for help they tell me what a piece of shit I am and then start asking me for help. Anytime I called anyone up to try and share good news, like getting a $35,000 raise, buying a home, or adopting my pets, I was told how shitty I was and then asked for money by so called ‘friend’ or family member or other person who supposedly ‘cares’ about me and lecturing me what an asshole I am because they ‘deserve’ my money more than I do and I shouldn’t be able to have a home, or pets, or a car, or a great job.
Which is to say, without all that horrid negatively dragging me down from my supposed ‘support structure’ I am finally able to be happy and enjoy my life without being shamed, harassed, or threatened. I’m also allowed to be proud of my achievements in life, rather than being repeatedly told how horrible and undeserving I am for having achieved them.
my 5 year old girlfriend
Ummm…phrasing might need a little work there.
No, just reorder.
my girlfriend of 5 years
would work better
That is rephrasing.
my 5 year old girlfriend didn’t help
Phrasing my bro, phrasing.
Those are some shitty friends and family.
I’m glad that you were able to achieve so much for yourself by focusing on yourself, many people never get to learn that lesson. Never forget that.
When you heal everything your formers have done to you, then you get to learn to find people that don’t want to drag you down. It’s hard; when we grow damaged and broken, we become a lighthouse for people looking for someone to take advantage. However, it’s possible to change the lightbulb, we just have to heal first.
No. I don’t need to heal. I’m healed.
I know I’m healed because instead of listening to people lecture me how damaged I am, I ignore them. Because that is what everyone in my life used to do, lecture me how damaged I am for not being like them and how ‘concerned’ they are for me. It’s manipulation to setup a power dynamic where they are ‘normal’ and you are ‘faulty’ so later on they can convince you to do what they want.
Just like the lady last winter I tried to date who lectured me I am mentally ill and need therapy if I am happy driving a basic car, because a ‘well-adjusted person has ambition and self respect and would want to drive a $100,000 car.’ She drove a $70K car. She genuinely thought I was mentally ill. I genuinely thought she was a stupid idiot and I lost all respect/desire for her when she voiced her ‘concern’ for me.
I’d love to meet someone someday who thinks it’s OK to be happy with driving a basic car, but I have literally never met such a person in my life. They might exist out there somewhere but I have never met them. Most folks I meet, sadly, just want to lecture me on how I need to have a more expensive one or how ‘disappointed’ they in me for driving such a ‘cheap car’ and how I have ‘no self respect’ if I do so. They also tell me how I have ‘no self respect’ because I don’t own $5,000 suit and shit like that.
Weird how that works.
No offense but where the fuck are you finding such horrible people? I’d probably feel the same way in your shoes but the people you are describing sound cartoonishly evil and self absorbed. Like I don’t know that I’ve ever met even a couple people like who are you describing.
my zip code is in the top ten highest HCOL in the USA.
People here are very cartoonish yes. They are straight out of New Yorker with how absurdly self-absorbed they are. And they see nothing wrong with it because they grew up that way. Lots of old money types. I have endless stories, like another date I went on a few months ago where a woman whined to me she only made 2 million dollars on her stock last year and how could she possible ever retire in if she isn’t making like 5 million a year. she was 35. I told her I made $5000 in stock last year and ended the date instantly because she was so disgusted to be talking to a poor person.
Sorry Askew, I misunderstood you. I’m glad to hear you’re healed.
The people in your story sound really superficial. I hope someday you find people that value and see things like you do. :-)
