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RULES:
For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?
I can't think of an incident like this off-hamd for myself, but I once dated a woman who didn't know that women have a urethra. She thought the urine just came out of her vagina. She was ~23.
As someone living in the tropics, where home heating doesn't exist, warm/hot showers only takes 2 seconds after turning it on.
As for one of my own fuckups, I once put a piece of pizza with styrofoam as a plate in the microwave. I was 15 at the time. I did not eat pizza that day. Not the last time I fucked up with the microwave.
I mean, having lived more than half my life with water catchment NOT county water, letting the water run is wasteful and can mean you go without during drought. That means turning the water off while scrubbing, too. I've learned to embrace the cold on purpose at the end, with the closing pores n all.
Cold water is actually good for the skin, keeps it firm
Love that for once we're mostly not mocking them and are actually sharing similar experiences, we've all had one of those moments.
I genuinely can't tell you what my thing is. Other than that deep down, I know the feeling and know that I have one. This has happened to me before. I have felt this feeling. I just don't remember what about. I'll keep you guys posted if I remember.
I'm joining you on team traumatic memory repression.
And once again, we learn that common sense is actually not that common.
I'm positive if we took a closer look at your life we'd find many such things. Nobody is perfect.
Yeah I thought nobody being perfect was common sense.
I only fail ironicly.*
And of course, we have a relevant xkcd.
To be fair this is possibly the most relevant xkcd of all time
Yeah it's probably the most linked xkcd with some margin, would be fun to see the traffic data to that page.
Best tip I can give: Turn the sink hot water on and let it run until it's hot and the lines are filled to the bathroom. When you turn on the shower, turn it to full hot until hot water starts coming out, and then adjust it to your personal preference. No waiting for shower to warm up now. Just jump in.
That just sounds like waiting with extra steps.
Waiting longer, assuming the shower has a higher flow rate.
Fairly long pipe from the tank to the shower so I could see the benefit of the tap and the shower mixer in cold water too. Not sure how the flow rate compares but the tap probably can be worth doing. I rarely bother though and just run the shower for a bit first.
"I'm working on my masters and I feel like such a dumbass..."
Never assume someone with an advanced degree knows anything outside of that degree because "they must be smart".
I worked with someone who was working on his second PhD in computer science and the guy did not know how to print.
Literally couldn't figure out how to click the print button.
In computer science.
PhD.
Computers.
'Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes'
To be honest, printer technology is some arcane eldrich bullshit
I've worked in tech for almost 20 years. A big misconception is confusing Computer Science and IT. Computer Science is generally more about logic, data structures, and programming paradigms across languages. IT is generally more about the configuration, deployment and usage of technology and operating systems for end users.
There's a ton of nuance in there, like Infrastructure or devops, where it's about the deployment of technology software and hardware to power large technology services, which sits in the middle.
That being said, I've generally found that the more specialized someone is in computer science, the less they know about the operating system they use and how it works. Especially if they spent the time to go for a PhD or something.
The smartest programmer I've ever met is my boss, our CTO. PhD from an Ivy League school. Can write haskell on a napkin, even though our stack doesn't touch haskell. Also doesn't know shit about how MacOS works even though he uses a Mac, and consistently asks me relatively simple questions regarding unix/linux differences, filesystem stuff, package managers, etc. It's very interesting to see the difference in knowledge.
Absolutely. I'm a tech, hubs is a dev. Brilliant dev, one of the foremost specialists in my country.
Can't build a pc for shit, can't fix a network issue, screams for wifey when the printer's being a dick :D
You can tell he is smart because he asks you about stuff outside of his domain.
You're not supposed to just stand there and waste that warming-up water, you're supposed to collect it in a watering can and put it on your plants! It's got stuff from having sat in the water heater so it's not the best for drinking but plants don't mind.
This legitimately is something I've been looking for as I hate just running a gallon of water out for no reason.
Iirc if your water boiler supports it, you can have it circulate the hot water in the pipes to warm them up without wasting water
I don't think that's possible in my 1970s building. My water heater is in the kitchen and the tub/shower is way across the apartment so I get 2 gallons. I have a big balcony with lots of happy plants.
I remember this thread. One of the responses was from someone who thought that the beep his car made when locking the doors got quieter when activated from further away.
We had a guy at work a couple years ago, nice guy but not too bright. He'd fill his bottle from the water cooler, and always got surprised by how fast it filled up at the top. He thought the water cooler's dispenser somehow got faster as the bottle filled up, not realizing that it's because the top of the bottle is narrower than the bottom.
Ow. My face.
Well...by the power of the inverse square law, they kinda do, I guess.
Also before someone asks, they were just roommates
I can understand the shower one, but who tf is insane enough to not use oven mitts or a rag? I'd imagine you'd take a moment to think about the possible solutions before doing something that painful
It's an analogy, not real life.
Parenting. You think you’re doing great and you realise at times that some of the thing a you take for granted, you haven’t taught your kids.
Just because they’ve seen you do something a thousand times doesn’t mean they understand why
I remember a story of a child watching their mother cook a roast, and asked why she cut the ends off before putting it in the oven.
The mother learned it from her mother, so they both went and asked the grandmother.
Turned out the grandmother used to have a small oven and did that to make it fit.
I immediately thought of the variant of this story I've heard when I read the post.
In the variant I heard: grandma never had bakeware that could fit the entire roast.
Same difference. I kinda like yours better.
I'm so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one... it's just hot, like right away. Bizarre
