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Kit Walker posted:Ah yes it’s just like I’m right back at the lefty commune and someone’s mad at me because I asked them to stop leaving their dishes in the sink and actually wash them If you're ever in a communal living situation and no one else is doing dishes you wash what you need and then do just like all the spoons? Passive aggressive dishwashing. It was surprisingly effective at getting people to do them.
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Is that so if someone claims not to have the spoons for doing dishes, you can be like "au contraire"
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Brawnfire posted:Is that so if someone claims not to have the spoons for doing dishes, you can be like "au contraire" This was before I knew about Spoon Theory so no, but that would have been super funny. I'd just randomly choose. People who drink coffee get real mad when they have a million spoons but no cup or a million cups but no spoon.
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Feb 11, 2024 22:34
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Desert Bus posted:This was before I knew about Spoon Theory so no, but that would have been super funny. I'd just randomly choose. People who drink coffee get real mad when they have a million spoons but no cup or a million cups but no spoon. It's like raaaaaaaaaain on your wedding daaaaaaay
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Feb 11, 2024 23:23
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Desert Bus posted:Tina is coded ASD, Gene is coded black, Louise is coded "asian". Teddy is clearly discriminated against for being fat, Mort for being bald. Okay time to stop watching. Jimmy Pesto was arrested Ted for storming the capitol.
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Feb 11, 2024 23:44
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Jimmy Pesto storming the capitol isn't really surprising though.
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Desert Bus posted:This was before I knew about Spoon Theory so no, but that would have been super funny. I'd just randomly choose. People who drink coffee get real mad when they have a million spoons but no cup or a million cups but no spoon. For a long time I thought this was a thing my (now ex) girlfriend made up. She kept telling me I was lacking in spoons and I was like, JFC get a better metaphor, I don't even ever use spoons. I'm a fork guy. I fork and I slurp. In food and in life. Spoons never come into the equation.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:33
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Perfectly functional people WHO SHOULD BE WASHING THE loving DISHES TOO will get Spoon Theory when it's 6am and they don't have the spoons to dig through the sink for a clean spoon.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:36
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I haven't washed the dishes in six months, I just go to the dollar store and get more paper plates.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:41
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Which is fine for a certain combination of diet and paper plates, but the second you want to eat authentic Italian you're going to wish you had some real plates.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:48
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Byzantine posted:I haven't washed the dishes in six months, I just go to the dollar store and get more paper plates. i just eat a meal off a page in the phone book, then rip out that page
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Feb 12, 2024 00:55
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if your plates are bread you never have to clean plates.
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Feb 12, 2024 00:58
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PhazonLink posted:if your plates are bread you never have to clean plates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjlfd-ThQcE
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Feb 12, 2024 01:01
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PhazonLink posted:if your plates are bread you never have to clean plates. wisdom of the ancients itt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQT-aY9sTCI
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Feb 12, 2024 04:13
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Torquemada posted:heth eth eth eth eth eth. Chris Waddle. Stop showing off, Roy.
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Feb 12, 2024 05:56
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credburn posted:For a long time I thought this was a thing my (now ex) girlfriend made up. She kept telling me I was lacking in spoons and I was like, JFC get a better metaphor, I don't even ever use spoons. I'm a fork guy. I fork and I slurp. In food and in life. Spoons never come into the equation. Horse Spoon Theory
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Feb 12, 2024 17:02
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Desert Bus posted:This was before I knew about Spoon Theory so no, but that would have been super funny. I'd just randomly choose. People who drink coffee get real mad when they have a million spoons but no cup or a million cups but no spoon. This is an expression I've heard my wife use, I didn't realise it had not only attained the status of a theory, but apparently has some weird gatekeeping around its use.
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Feb 12, 2024 18:43
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Torquemada posted:This is an expression I've heard my wife use, I didn't realise it had not only attained the status of a theory, but apparently has some weird gatekeeping around its use. I don't think there is any weird gatekeeping around its use. I don't have enough spoons to gatekeep Spoon Theory though. Even normal people can use it.
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Feb 12, 2024 19:21
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Torquemada posted:This is an expression I've heard my wife use, I didn't realise it had not only attained the status of a theory, but apparently has some weird gatekeeping around its use. I had to look up what it even means, and now I'm very glad to belong to a generation that grew up with The Sims. "My social bar is empty" makes so much more sense than "well, if energy was a bunch of spoons..."
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My comfort bar is almost always red 
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Feb 12, 2024 20:18
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ADHD is like hard mode where your bars don't have any indicators as to what they are.
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A Worrying Warlock posted:I had to look up what it even means, and now I'm very glad to belong to a generation that grew up with The Sims. I've heard of spoon theory, and I've also heard the nerdier interpretation of "spell slot theory."
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Ghost Leviathan posted:ADHD is like hard mode where your bars don't have any indicators as to what they are. This is deep wisdom
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the_steve posted:I've heard of spoon theory, and I've also heard the nerdier interpretation of "spell slot theory." yeah ok this makes sense I have Vancian Introversion
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A Worrying Warlock posted:I had to look up what it even means, and now I'm very glad to belong to a generation that grew up with The Sims. Or instead of the whole "imagine if energy was spoons, you might not have enough spoons to do the thing you want to do" you can just say "energy"? It's taking a very simple, easily-understood concept and complicating it with a weird metaphor for absolutely no reason.
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Tiggum posted:Or instead of the whole "imagine if energy was spoons, you might not have enough spoons to do the thing you want to do" you can just say "energy"? It's taking a very simple, easily-understood concept and complicating it with a weird metaphor for absolutely no reason. That always confused me too
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Feb 13, 2024 03:55
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The idea is that the spoons aren’t all the same size. So maybe you don’t have the energy to do the one really big thing that’s been weighing on you, but you have the energy to do lots of little things, even if the totality of the energy you’d need for all the little things is actually bigger than you’d need for the one big thing
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Feb 13, 2024 04:07
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I definitely prefer spoons to, say, buckets. But I can think of a lot better things than spoons. First of all, spoon is a weird sounding word. Spooon. Spooooon. Spoooooooooon.
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credburn posted:I definitely prefer spoons to, say, buckets. But I can think of a lot better things than spoons. First of all, spoon is a weird sounding word. Spooon. Spooooon. Spoooooooooon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iGSAFjzBd8
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credburn posted:I definitely prefer spoons to, say, buckets. But I can think of a lot better things than spoons. First of all, spoon is a weird sounding word. Spooon. Spooooon. Spoooooooooon.  e:fb
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_zzCLLRvE
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Is it spoons as a metaphorical measurement unit? That makes sense. If it's like, metaphorical spoons then I'm confused.
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Are they metric or imperial spoons?
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Honestly I just took it as a slang term for "energy/will" and that's worked plenty well so far.
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I also thought of Spoonman, but specifically Tom Scharpling making fun of Spoonman
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credburn posted:I definitely prefer spoons to, say, buckets. But I can think of a lot better things than spoons. First of all, spoon is a weird sounding word. Spooon. Spooooon. Spoooooooooon.  Oh hey, it’s media that didn’t age well.
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Improbable Lobster posted:That always confused me too Part of the appeal I think is that it takes a nebulous concept (energy) and turns it into something visual that someone can conceptualize more easily. For whatever reason, people glommed onto it because it was a way that could help explain something that they were already feeling into something a little less abstract, without having to go through the struggle of coming up with their own metaphor. Not everybody's grandma or coworker is with it enough to have spent their free time building swimming pools and then deleting the ladder, but most people have memories of being asked what happens when little Annie starts giving away her apples. Of course, it started as an impromptu explainer by a very worn down person for a well meaning person who just wasn't getting it, and like a lot of feel good stuff, the internet basically turned it into a meme
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I AM GRANDO posted:
This is such a beautiful encapsulation of Internet humor specifically in 2004, though. Oh my God, I've never seen this comic but it feels so nostalgic
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Improbable Lobster posted:That always confused me too I think anyone who has ever had to take care of themselves while sick can probably relate without needing a complicated metaphor, but I suppose if you're someone who's never had to be in that position maybe you need some help? idk
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