My wife, to this day, shuts off the shower and then immediately steps out while water is still running off her soaking wet body, inevitably creating a puddle in the bathroom.
“Honey, why don’t you drip for like five seconds, or even grab the towel and give yourself a quick dab before you get out?”
The first time I told her this she just stared at me for a solid 20s while her brain rebooted. But then her “never admit anything ever under any circumstances” instinct kicked in and she responded “wow are you really policing my shower habits?”
So anyway, now she knows better, but still does it because marriage is about compromise, or something.
I give myself knife hands over my body before going for the towel. Towel stays significantly more dry and I can use it several times before it needs a wash.
I got ridiculed for doing this by my partner. I do it very quickly and vigorously, it just makes a ton of sense to me; I end up being dry faster and more efficiently than going straight to the towel.
Why does your towel need to be washed more often if it gets wetter?
The water coming off your body is pretty clean (you just showered).
Things like to grow on wet stuff. Even if you’re clean, wet towels will start to grow things and get an odor. The quicker the towel gets dry the quicker it doesn’t grow stuff.
I can use it several times before it needs a wash.
Look at this guy over here, washing his towels.
This is it, my least favorite comment chain today
I squeegee my whole body with my hands before stepping out
I call it knife hands.
A (very smart and educated) girlfriend once told me it was so smart how I actually dry off my body with the towel instead of just wrap myself and wait for myself to dry naturally. We only have 4 limbs.
That’s a really shitty way to talk about your partner.Is this supposed to be funny or something? I’m neurodivergent and can’t tellYep, has a humorous tone for sure. Don’t worry, this guy doesn’t hate his wife.
If anything, this guy is describing a healthy relationship. You don’t have to have a discussion where you share your heart and feelings about every issue. That’s exhausting having to learn and grow all the time.
Imagine a friend that you joke around and are comfortable with. You would say “fuck you, I’ll drip wherever I want. You’re just mad because you have no drip.” That’s a healthy relationship.
At the same time, sometimes it’s good to say “yeah, your way might be better.” Of course, I’m single, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
This comment has it all. This is Lemmy.
I dry myself completely while still in the shower and it’s a mystery to me why not everybody is doing this.
Because sometimes I leave the towel hanging on the door hook :')
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Am I the only one who lays a towel out on the floor in front of the shower? This thread has me thinking what I thought was standard practice might not be.
Yes, because other people have bath mats…
My wife started a new job a few years ago, and during training she was shown how to create invoices.
- Open the excel template
- Fill inn the items, and the prices
- Sum all posts USING THE DESKTOP CALCULATOR …
She was completely dumbfounded.
I’m a professor and require students to submit typed homework as either docx or pdf format - a student wrote their paper in Word, took a screenshot of it (including their desktop), then saved the screenshot in pdf format.
It was probably cuz you can’t run plagiarism checks on it.
Yeah I know that one but in this case it was pretty clear it wasn’t plagiarized.
That bad eh
I’ve seen pdfs with just a photo of a monitor showing an error message.
I’ve had support tickets with screenshots pasted inside a power point presentation
The best thing about Excel is the look of hatred you get when using ctrl+; in front of someone who’s been manually entering the date through their entire career.
As an engineer, I hate the way excel handle dates
Don’t correct the trainer and reap the benefits, I guess… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Here’s your arm: \
Ah thanks, I was looking for it everywhere!
My previous place heated up very slowly, so I started saving the cold water in a bucket to water my plants because it felt like a waste
I think I will start doing this.
This is a great tip actually, the water heater in my house is on the opposite end of both bathrooms but close to the kitchen/laundry so it takes forever to get hot water in the bathroom
So, one day I’m hanging out with my friend, and he introduces me to his friend. Middle-aged guy, seems pretty nice, but he’s having a shit day. Why? Because he had to copy something from an email, and he spent about an hour, flipping back and forth between two windows, copying the email into a Word document or something. I was dumbfounded, and I said “Why didn’t you just copy-paste?” The guy stalks off with his head down, muttering under his breath.
Growing up we had a walk in shower, the way it was setup there was no way to reach in and not get hit by cold water. Especially a short kid with short arms, you were getting a full blast cold water trying to go “out” of the shower. The tap was the push-pull type and very difficult to modulate so limiting to low pressure trickle was basically a game of russian roulette. The best I could do was hug the wall and let it only get whatever corner of my body I wanted to sacrifice to temporary hypothermia that morning.
My aunt and uncle had a walk in where the controls were by the door instead of under the shower head. I always thought that was brilliant.
some people have posted photos of showers in modern upscale hotels, walk-in showers that have a hole through the glass for you to stand safe & warm & dry outside, reach through the hole from the outside to turn on the water.
This just seems like the wrong way around… Surely it’s better to build the shower so the water doesn’t go near the tap? Just have the tap off to the side?
Imagine having a sink where the tap was directly underneath the spout.
My friends house had a little spout near the floor in his stand up shower, so you could run the water and test the temperature with your toe. When it was good you pulled the stopper like in a bath and it came out of the shower head.
An alternative solve is to get a handheld shower head so you can point it away from you while it heats up.
Oh yeah, this was the solution later on. For like kid me? At the time I didn’t know you could even replace the showerhead… :(
Like how people constantly fill the dishwasher in a way that nothing gets clean and dirty puddles form in the cups.
An acquaintance was always complaining about how cold the water was when washing dishes. He had never thought to turn on the hot water.
He and his wife were conservative talk show hosts in Indiana, specializing in talking about how stupid liberals are.
Every accusation is a projection.
When I was 30 I learned that I had pronounced and spelled the German word “unbedingt” wrong my entire life. I thought it was “umbedigt” as in “um jeden Preis”. I thought all others spelled and pronounced it wrong or spoke more elaborate than I.
Ah, don’t worry. There are tons of those in the German language. Mine was “Firmament”, I thought it was “Firnament”. Yours is a bit worse ;)
Someone on Reddit once said they didn’t realize the white part of your finger nails are where it’s unconnected to your skin, and they’d just clip wherever, and often bleed because they’d clip the skin.
Reminds me of the guy that spent his entire life sitting on the toilet with the seat up because he was told “girls use it with the seat down and boys have the seat up”.
It wasn’t until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him and asked why he wasn’t sitting on the seat did it even occur to him that he could.
It wasn’t until he got comfortable enough with his partner that when she saw him
Unless it’s your kink, most people don’t use the toilet in front of their spouse.
Edit: It sounds like a lot of straight people expel waste in front of their partners.
That doesn’t match my personal experience at all.
Using the toilet with each other present has been a thing in every relationship I’ve been in. And no, at no point was that a kink of either one of us.
I was in your team before having kids. It has been a drastic change I had to adapt to :(
I was about 25 years old before I realized I could use warm water to wash my hands in the winter. I’m usually considered a very intelligent individual, but for some reason this never occurred to me. Maybe it’s because I grew up poor and we tried to use as little hot water as possible, or maybe I’m just not as smart as people think I am.
The tree of knowledge is enormous. We’re all bound to miss a thing or two. Most people might not ever come across a situation where they are missing that knowledge or they live their whole lives not realizing. Fuck I wonder how many things I haven’t realized yet?
I always wash with cold water, but that’s just because I’m impatient. Unless I’m about to get intimate with my SO, then my hands gotta be warm.
Y’all do know warm water cleans better than cold, no matter the weather, right?
It took me several years to realize that Canadians were from Canada. Specifically, I didn’t connect the spoken words. I was fine with the written words.
Did you wonder why no one is mentioning Canadaians?
Took me three tries to pronounce this. Love it!
You’re not wrong. They’re from Canadia.
A friend of mine told me a story once about an intern that was tasked with writing a text. She delivered one page of text and was told to write more. She asked how. She didn’t know that you could write more than one page in Word.
What year was this?
No, I could se this… Fill up a full page and then it jumps to the next, blank page. If she can’t see that the first page exists, she may have thought she just erased all her work by typing one too many keys.
Source: I work in IT and pretty sure I’ve seen exactly this. Lot’s of flavors to the human experience, lemetellyou.
There’s a german insult about people who take warm showers
What is it?
Du Warmduscher.
There’s an episode of The Office where Pam and Jim are trying to make Dwight think he’s in The Matrix, so they keep arranging “glitches.” Pam trains a cat to walk past Dwight’s door and then around to repeat it. As they’re telling the camera about it, Jim says “Why didn’t we just get two black cats?” and Pam looks at him with the expression I imagine this guy had with his girlfriend.
And thats what we call gaslighting!
Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!
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That’s not what gaslighting means
Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality.
Sounds like making someone believe they are in the matrix fits this perfectly but I’m no englishmatologist
It’s about making someone question the validity of their perception of reality. It’s emotional abuse, not simply tricking or lying to someone.
When I was a kid, my parents weren’t gaslighting me when they convinced me the tooth fairy was real by putting money under my pillow and taking the baby teeth. They weren’t making me feel like I couldn’t trust my perception of reality, or that my feelings were invalid.
(Real world example): My best friend as a teenager tried convincing me he wasn’t trying to seduce my girlfriend at the time. He convinced me that my expressions of discomfort with all the “accidental” touching was me being a prude, and when I told him I thought he had ulterior motives trying to hang out with her alone and swim in his pool so often he convinced me that I was being up-tight. Lo and behold, one day in a drug-fueled stupor he admitted to me that he loved her the whole time. Making me feel like I couldn’t trust my own feelings on the matter was gaslighting. Now I have trust issues.
You’re overthinking this a bit, the whole point of the matrix is that our reality is fake. Making someone believe they are in the matrix is to make them question their perception of reality. Making someone question their perception of reality is gaslighting.
I know, I’ve seen The Matrix twice, and you’re still using “gaslighting” wrong.
WebMD: “Gaslighting is an emotionally abusive strategy that causes someone to question their feelings, thoughts, and sanity. If someone gaslights you, they’ll attempt to make you question reality. The purpose of gaslighting is to convince you that you can’t trust your thoughts or instincts.”
The definition you found is frustrating because it’s too vague and easily misinterpretable. If you look at any full explanation you’ll see that the “makes them question their perception of reality” in your definition means it like “undermines their perception of reality”.
The way you and the other guy used it is like when mentally healthy people say they have “OCD”. It’s a watered down buzzword version of a term that’s actually useful for understanding life issues when you actually understand what it means.
So I may be incredibly high right now, but I’ve watched all of The Office at least 5 times now and this scene sounds entirely unfamiliar to me. Is it a deleted scene or something? Because that shit sounds hilarious and I’d love to see it.
Yes they released it when they moved the series to peacock, I didn’t know either. Enjoy your surprise new office content
