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- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 2 days ago:
Did you know an American 10¢ coin is the perfect size to drop behind a plug-in night light, such that it gets stuck between the power plug prongs? You can then unplug the night light and the dime drops to the floor, with two impressive marks taken out of it.
- Comment on Is it weird that I cringe whenever someone calls my name and I avoid using peoples names when talking to them? 1 week ago:
I’m face blind and your methods of telling people apart sound very similar to mine. I don’t use odor but I do use gait. I also often just assume that I know someone if they act like they know me, and I play along until I figure out who they are.
I also didn’t like hearing my name much until I changed it. Now I’m happier to hear it, and even diminutive forms of it.
- Comment on Modern lies 1 week ago:
We’ve got hard water and I’m trying to get my partner to try a chelating (mineral-removing) shampoo on his long, curly hair. His poor scalp is so itchy and I think it’s the hard water.
- Comment on Modern lies 1 week ago:
Depends on if you have hard water or not. I tried it with wicked hard water and it just never washed out, my hair ling felt so gross and greasy. (it was mid move and my regular shampoo was already packed :( )
- Comment on Modern lies 1 week ago:
I like Lush’s cinnamon one.
- Comment on Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet 1 week ago:
d:
- Comment on Love when emoticons get translated to emojis, I love the modern internet 1 week ago:
🦜
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 week ago:
oof, that sucks.
Vaguely related story: Back in the Olden Times before ubiquitous wifi and data plans, I had a friend cancel on me after I’d already gotten in the light rail to meet him an hour away. He didn’t call or text, just emailed, so I looked for him for almost an hour before giving up.
Turns out he’d emailed me then was at the hospital with a friend who’d gone into labor, and didn’t have his phone with him (so didn’t get my calls or texts).
My partner (who’d come with to meet my high school friend) and I had a good time in DC anyway. We went to a geeky bookstore and a nice cafe.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 week ago:
My mom once blew up at me because I didn’t respond to her text for 23.5 hours.
“Sorry to bother you. I thought you might give a fuck but I see I was mistaken. I won’t bother you again.”
She didn’t call, she didn’t email, she just sent a text and then exploded when I didn’t respond (because I didn’t see it). Anyways, she’s blocked now–I don’t want to make a liar out of my mother, so I won’t let her bother me.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 1 week ago:
or were commuting home, having texted as soon as they got off work
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 1 week ago:
You guys have sheets?
(I sleep in a hammock and wash my blankets and hammock routinely, but no sheets)
- Comment on Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds 2 weeks ago:
contrast this me picking up my dog’s prescription meds: “ah, shit, that was his last pill!” <calls vet office> “hey, could I get a refill of gabapentin and vetmedin? Let’s toss in some canned food. Sure, I can swing by after work. Thanks!”
From my point of view, the difference is there’s no insurance involved, so I pay out of pocket and no one has to deal with insurance companies. (pet insurance exists, but I’ve done the math and it doesn’t make financial or logistical sense for me.)
I do like my human pharmacy, but all my human meds are generic and not super controlled or abusable. I gave up on ADHD meds.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 4 weeks ago:
a half bath is a toilet+sink. A 3/4 bath is a toilet, sink, and shower (but not a tub). 3/4 bath can be fuzzy: if it’s the only bathroom in the home, it will often be called a full bath.
I’m not sure if we had to pay an estate sales tax when we bought this place. We pay town taxes every 6 months automatically through our mortgage. We also paid a recording fee for the town to record the condo sale. There were a lot of fees, tbh.
And yes, you got me, I heard about German kitchens from YouTube.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 4 weeks ago:
Yep. For example, search for parcel “176-194-030” in the Hartford, CT tax assessor’s search. It should bring up a McDonald’s fast food building (I chose that because it’s less creepy than singling out some random person’s home.)
Screenshot of the parcel info page
There’s even a little drawing of the building. The purple is the first floor and the blue is the “canopy” or, I guess, awning outside. The “interior” tab on this site doesn’t list the kitchen quality, but does say the insulation is “typical” and 40% of the building has sprinklers. My guess is different cities and towns track different things in their tax assessments.
Oh! IIRC, Germany has the thing where the kitchen doesn’t stay with the house. In the USA, they’re firmly attached.
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 4 weeks ago:
(USA) My flat just had its tax assessment done and that includes the floor area, heating source, and other things like how fancy your kitchen is (mine is “standard”, btw). That tax assessment is available online to everyone.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 5 weeks ago:
I had those neighbors growing up. Loud parties until 1 am on school nights, constantly revving their motorcycle. They also parked a boom lift in their driveway and I’d routinely wake up to their teen son looking in my second floor bedroom window.
Surprise, talking with them didn’t help anything. My dad helped by getting me earplugs. My mom told me to stop bothering her by having needs.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
They might not even be pervs, maybe they’re autistic and feet are their special interest.
- Comment on Fake News 1 month ago:
Sure would have been nice to know this when my house got invested with fleas. No need to flea bomb, I just needed to wash my hands!
(got a pup from a household with inadequate flea control measures–they’d give him a flea bath weekly, but never treated the environment or their cats. They swore up and down he didn’t have fleas.)
- Comment on I have a plan 1 month ago:
Also autistic. Seconding that this is hilarious. I’m with the reporter, the prisoner makes prison sound like a good place to be.
I stacked paperback books as a toddler, straight in a line. My dad taught me to do them in a brick pattern for stability.
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 1 month ago:
might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 1 month ago:
My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.
Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.
- Comment on Always use proper lifting technique 1 month ago:
you have to sneak up on the box
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 1 month ago:
I’m a big fan of textured vegetable protein (TVP). It gives a ground beef texture but is vegetarian and shelf stable. It looks expensive per pound, but it’s dehydrated so you’re not paying for water.
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 1 month ago:
Original recipe has fish in it (sardines iirc), so might be ok for pescetarians.
- Comment on marriage update 1 month ago:
I often demand an olfactory component to my calming shelters. The smell of rotting bananas in particular reminds me of my first college advisor’s comfy, crowded office.
- Comment on where? 1 month ago:
Plus you get a window seat.
tbh, I don’t know who most of that people are. I’m just going by “yay, window seat”
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
I don’t think I’m trying to over stock. It’s things like buying more pasta when we’re down to 5 boxes instead of 0. We go through it, we just disagree on how much we should keep on hand.
So far, the trick has been to keep the backlog out of sight and refill the main cupboard as needed. Like, he knows I keep extra, but he doesn’t look for himself because it’s in the low-down awkward corner cupboard.
I guess I’d rather stress-buy pasta than gacha toys or another multitool or something, and I’m stressed for various reasons my therapist knows about.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
I’m still in the “mark expiration year in big marker” stage of rotating food, but that’s been easy enough to keep up with.
Sadly, my condo doesn’t allow vegetable gardens on our porch because of the real threat of visiting bears. I sneak in some herbs because they’re not vegetables, but the HOA can be persnickety.
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 month ago:
My partner and I are in conflict about food storage. I buy beans, pasta, and jarred foods when I’m stressed. He doesn’t like sacrificing storage space and I think just sees it as clutter.
Anyways, I’m going to pick up more pasta, pasta sauce, and canned soup. Boxed macaroni and cheese. Stuff I know we’ll cycle through and doesn’t need much effort to cook because I know when things get bad I won’t want to brain much.
Oh! LPT: textured vegetable protein is shelf stable dried soy protein and you can rehydrate it to add a ground beefy texture to things, like macaroni and cheese or pasta sauce.
- Comment on CW: Picture of a severe vaccine injury, NSFL 1 month ago:
I remember reading that some folks (actresses, models) would get vaccinated in less conspicuous places, like the inner thigh, but now I can’t find any documentation for it.
