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StrangersInTheNight posted:microwaves essentially just agitate water molecules so it's fine to use them to heat water I was with you until you right up until the instant grits. Shame on you.
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yeah i do pour-over for my coffee since I like how meditative it is yet for my grits I need it right now, don't ask me about that contradiction, I can't answer it. You can make my morning meals if you wanna do it differently.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:15
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honestly instant grits are fine though i tend to just mix cheese into mine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Oct 30, 2021 21:16
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Apparently a lot of Americans never got the memo about the plain kettle you heat on your stovetop. You fill it with water, put it on a burner at a high heat, and you get boiled water in a few minutes.
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Oct 30, 2021 21:16
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I don’t think they care, memo or not
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Oct 30, 2021 21:19
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It's easier to take a poo poo in a coffee pot.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I really miss the days before people learned the word closure. Back in my day we just blamed a 50 foot tall marionette for our problems, set it on fire and got our closure that way.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:yeah i do pour-over for my coffee since I like how meditative it is yet for my grits I need it right now, don't ask me about that contradiction, I can't answer it. You can make my morning meals if you wanna do it differently. Is this an invitation to spend the night? Call me!
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AITA for getting angry at my girlfriend over how to split the gas accurately?quote:So, my girlfriend and I were gonna go on a trip with her car and we were working out how to split the gas correctly. Her idea was to collect all of the receipts everytime we fill up on gas, then in the end we will simply divide it by two. I explained to her that this method is not very accurate, and suggested a more accurate and fair method. Told her that before we leave, she'll fill up the tank. Every time after that, when we go to the gas station to fill up again, we will split every fill. Then, when we return, we'll fill the tank and split that. She didn't understand this method at all, and claimed that if we do it my way, she'll be spending more money. I tried to explain to her in so many different ways and she just wasn't getting it. She offered to do it my way, and said she trusts me, but I was determined to make her understand. After explaining it so many different times, she told me she got it. I was happy. I told her we can do it her way. quote:I am an engineer actually, haha. How’d you know?
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Oct 30, 2021 21:48
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How do you count a liquid?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How do you count a liquid? By the number of moles it can drown or something.
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to be a good host you stock expired instant (freeze dried) coffee and gesture vaguely at the microwave when someone asks
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Propaniac posted:AITA for getting angry at my girlfriend over how to split the gas accurately? quote:I told her she was playing the victim and needed to get more self-esteem. I can think of a way
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Propaniac posted:AITA for getting angry at my girlfriend over how to split the gas accurately? 20/2 + 20/2 + 20/2 + 20/2 + 20/2 = 10+10+10+10+10 = $50 By comparison, if you add up all the receipts first to get to $100, then divide by 2, you get…100/2 =$50. Does he explain his method any better in the comments or did this brilliant engineer just fail middle school math?
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quote:Jesus, if y'all look at this dude's post history, it's just him being an emotionally abusive dude to his partner. And the weirdness around him deleting all of his posts when he doesn't get the consensus that he wants. This guy seems like a real fun person. MagusofStars posted:I don’t understand why just adding up all the gas and dividing by 2 isn’t equal. If you have a common denominator of “dividing by two”, it doesn’t matter. quote:We did keep the receipts. The problem was she needed to reimburse me for the remaining gas left in the tank since it’s gas that I paid for that she’ll be using to drive to and from work etc. This is why her method doesn’t work—because there’s no reliable way of determining what the remaining gas is worth. pffft SHE DRIVES HIM AROUND BECAUSE HE HAS NO CAR and he doesn't pitch in for gas "especially if he's paying for dinner" Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Oct 30, 2021 22:03
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MagusofStars posted:I don’t understand why just adding up all the gas and dividing by 2 isn’t equal. If you have a common denominator of “dividing by two”, it doesn’t matter. If the gas tank happens to have more gas in it at the end of the trip than the beginning, then by her method he would be paying for half that excess gas, which was not used for the trip. Or it could go the other way where he might end up underpaying. By his method he'd be paying exclusively for gas used during the trip. The difference though is plus or minus the cost of half a tank of gas, which it's wild to spend so much sweat and tears on.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:11
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Learning to say "close enough, this isn't worth spending any more time/effort/money on which would only upset my partner" is such a vital relationship skill that seems to be lacking in many of these people.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:23
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You're real unlikely to superheat water in the microwave by accident, but I still think it's worth knowing that it's a thing that can happen, because if it does happen and you don't notice, you will burn off your face when you take it out or put anything in it.
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Oct 30, 2021 22:26
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But she IS putting wear and tear on her car, wearing down her tires, wearing out belts, running through fluids, and having to do the driving herself. As well as all the sunk costs of having a car, like emissions, registration, insurance, and other stuff even before gas comes into it. So if you’re using her as a taxi service, you sling her some money and say thank you! What the gently caress, engineer dude?
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Oct 30, 2021 22:27
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His "method" doesn't actually change the math involved any way; if they start and end with a full tank, any method of splitting the costs 50/50 will, uh, split the costs 50/50. He clearly does not realize this. He is both selfish and an idiot.
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Akumu posted:If the gas tank happens to have more gas in it at the end of the trip than the beginning, then by her method he would be paying for half that excess gas, which was not used for the trip. Or it could go the other way where he might end up underpaying. By his method he'd be paying exclusively for gas used during the trip. Yup. And he completely botched explaining that by implying the method was flawed in general rather than just the endpoints. If he's said "rental car method: leave with a full tank, get back with a full tank" he'd still be a cheapskate but everyone would understand. I'm a bit sympathetic to the guy because I get wound up over even small bits of money I owe people (or the other way round, but those are in my power to wipe off the "debt" so I discard them a lot more easily). I see it as an obligation to make up. But GEEZ there are ways to not be an rear end in a top hat about the whole thing! It's my responsibility to fit my neuroses to general society, save putting my foot down for things that are actually harmful. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Oct 30, 2021 22:37
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I think the fairest way to ensure costs are split exactly fairly is she drives herself to the destination and he can walk. I bet he didn't even think of that.
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mllaneza posted:Apparently a lot of Americans never got the memo about the plain kettle you heat on your stovetop. You fill it with water, put it on a burner at a high heat, and you get boiled water in a few minutes. After using a stove kettle for years, an electric kettle was a nice luxury. It's much faster and more energy efficient But just lol at microwaving your water
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What's all this about a kettle? Just boil your water in a saucepan.
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I prefer to boil water by holding a pot of water over Rush Limbaugh's grave while loudly talking about how great it is to be a still alive leftist and not a dead piece of poo poo rotting in a piss-soaked coffin, it's not as easy as a stove but is a whole lot more satisfying
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Oct 30, 2021 22:57
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Japanese hot water dispensers are the best, and we have it on a smart switch so I can turn it on from bed and then have 3 liters of hot water by the time I'm dressed. I also have two electric kettles, for...reasons. One's a travel kettle at least. I don't use stovetop ones because I almost caught them on fire multiple times when I was a teenager. I'm shocked I didn't get diagnosed with ADHD until I was 30.
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Oct 31, 2021 00:09
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Sugar and butter go into grits you philistines.
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Oct 31, 2021 00:12
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sweet AND savory? what is this sinful madness
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spacetoaster posted:Sugar and butter go into grits you philistines. 
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Oct 31, 2021 00:19
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I only know of grits from My Cousin Vinny. No self respecting southerner uses instant grits.  Also how do you microwave enough water for a pot of tea or something? Get an electric kettle, they're cheap and awesome.
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small pastries and grits
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everyone raves about shrimp and grits, but if you simplify the recipe to its essence it's just shrimps and grit
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Trapick posted:Also how do you microwave enough water for a pot of tea or something? Get an electric kettle, they're cheap and awesome. My microwave gets 32oz of water, plenty for two people, to hot tea temperature in 6 minutes. If you're serving tea to a larger group a kettle is probably a better option, the microwave would take 10 minutes+ for double the amount. Even when making pasta or something it seems to go faster by boiling half the water on the stove, and the other half in the microwave then dumping it in. AreWeDrunkYet fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Oct 31, 2021 00:36
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limp_cheese posted:The actions of a man that has moved on and definitely still doesn't love his ex. Just do the block around the house, hooting and hollering the whole time. She has to come home eventually!! I feel like the reason he wants the OP in the car with him is so, after the ex is thoroughly owned and his heart swells with the warmth of closure, they can drive straight to the courthouse to annul the marriage, which will have served its purpose.
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Less water more blood. AITA For excluding my husband from my brother's funeral after he called me with the news and told me to guess? quote:I lost my brother in a motorcycle accident 3 weeks ago at the age of 21. This was sudden and devastating beyond measure. I live 3 towns away from my entire family and I didn't know about it right away. When my friend and previous professor died this past April, another student-friend texted me and said she had to talk to me. It took a while to get her to answer, and when I hear her crying, I asked her straight out, was it about her family, or the professor's family? We were all friends post class, she met her husband because of him, I nannied for him for about six years. She said the latter. I listed off the family members until I said his name, and when she started crying again, I knew. No one ever texts you news like that unless they literally can't talk about it. edit: I mean that my friend called me to tell me a mutual friend of ours had died. or rather was dying. But she and I barely spoke the past few years, and we weren't that close. Even then, she didn't make a game out of it. The Reddit lady's husband was a total loving monster. I'm only surprised he wasn't recording for TikTok. Cowslips Warren fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Oct 31, 2021 00:50
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Cowslips Warren posted:Less water more blood. I feel like there's a different vibe from your thing and from literally saying "guess who".
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Oct 31, 2021 00:54
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quote:he said "guess who!" 
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Midnight Voyager posted:I feel like there's a different vibe from your thing and from literally saying "guess who". Does he have a moustache? What about a moustache and red hair? Red hair, but no moustache? That's my baby brother!!! ...oh gently caress
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Oct 31, 2021 00:55
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Funeral mystery game, whodunnwithit?
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Midnight Voyager posted:I feel like there's a different vibe from your thing and from literally saying "guess who". Moreso saying it twice after the person screams at you to answer them.
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