Like how people constantly fill the dishwasher in a way that nothing gets clean and dirty puddles form in the cups.
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.
My boss will purposely screen shot text he writes so I have to rewrite it and not copy paste… not fun.
Now you can use text capture to copy the text from a photo
Text capture saves hours and hours
I use Microsoft PowerToys for that and dozens of other QOL life hacks.
I’m pretty sure that requires admin access to enable though.
That’s when you just screen shot it again and paste the image in where you need it.
You need an OCR tool.
Or an iPhone with access to the email. Probably a feature on Android too, idk, I’ve been away from modern Android for ~3 years.
Lots of times I’ve realized it’s easier just to take a screenshot (or even a photo of someone else’s phone…did that tonight when my wife was getting a weird error in Netflix) and then copy the text (or just go right to search from the selection).
Google Lens can do OCR since a few years ago I believe
I know everyone complains about Microsoft AI but you can just screenshot text and have it tell you what the text says.
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Or a new job with a boss that’s not a wanker.
The major life protip is the people we met along the way. ;-)
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.
These people must not have parents 🤯
Or they have terrible parents.
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.
That’s the exact opposite as my experience.
I am gay and from Canada and I assume you are straight and from Germany?
Maybe it’s a regional thing, or a gay vs straight thing?Canadian here. It’s not regional. My wife and I use the bathroom while the other is present all the time.
I am straight, though, so I can’t comment on that theory.
Same. I know of no couple in my circle where using the toilet in each others presence is anything else but just plain normal. They all do it.
Edited for clarification, because words = hard
so everyone always locks the door? even if one person needs something from the washroom they would always wait till the other person finishes?
Yes.
My kid would never tolerate the indignity of waiting until after I was done shitting to tell me a barely parseable half remembered factoid
I’m an idiot. I meant the exact opposite and have edited the sentence to make it clear.
Every single couple I know uses the toilet in front of each other.
Why?
Why not?
Yes.
Yes, unless it’s something small that the toilet user can slip under the door
My wife and I respect each other’s bathroom privacy because it’s simply something we don’t care to see, although she-like nearly all females I know- doesnt know how a door works and can’t close it. We now live in a place where we have separate bathrooms, and it’s awesome.
That’s because your bath and toilet are in the same room. They should be separate.
I was in your team before having kids. It has been a drastic change I had to adapt to :(
I have allergy meds on me at all times, because sometimes I break out in hives for no reason.
One day, I’m sneezing like crazy from seasonal allergies, and my coworker asked if I tried any medicine. I suddenly realized allergy medicine works for allergies
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.
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.
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.
And all the cold water that has been sitting in the shower pipes since the last shower comes out, pushed by the warm water behind it.
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.
Putting the tap opposite the shower head could also work. The plumbing would be kind of wonky, though.
That’s an understatement. It would be such a huge pain the ass to plumb that.
Yeah that was definitely a take that forgets that valves are still a mechanical system and the knobs are where they are cause they open and close the flow of water there. I guess you could do electrical systems now but… That’s probably a bad idea for so many reasons.
Yes, the plumber would have to put a few extra bends in the pipe, drill through a couple more studs. I don’t see that as being a big deal. It’s a pretty common thing to see taps that are not directly in line with 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… :(
Design > function
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.
This would honestly be a reasonable enough excuse on why the OP was set in his ways from something like this. Once you’re conditioned to something it takes a hold on you. How often does a person really question a habit they learned at a really early age?
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?
Oh, way into the 2000s.
So, like, 2024? That’s how far they go as of now
Hm, maybe 2010 or so?
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.
Even if that was the case was she too stupid to think of starting a new document?
This sounds like when that podcast dude realised you shit directly in the toilet and not in your hand first
Wat?
Amazing. People are amazing.
Based on context clues, I’m inclined to believe that they have characters and he’s more or less the “fall guy” so she can be the “Bully.” It also just sounds like he was going for “toilet paper isn’t an impenetrable shield, and if there’s any smear left before you wipe, you’ve got poo particles on your hands” but pivoted to “this sounds like a really good bit if I can milk it.”
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.
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
And thats what we call gaslighting!
Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!
/s
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.
Pretty mild, though an ex struggled with a standing light for years. It had one of those skinny, turntable hatched poles that you twisted. This one was rather tough to turn to the point that your fingers would slip. I remember looking at her struggling with it one day and asked, “Do you have any rubber bands?”
Same thing. She stopped, stared at me, and got flustered, “I…can’t believe I never thought of that…”.
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.
Has anyone here ever taken a cold shower on purpose? It’s quite invigorating once one acclimate.
I go hot for the muscles, pores, and lungs. At the end I wind it down to freezing or as close as I can get, a bit at a time. Typically ends in some kind of barbarian spiritual catharsis involving grunting. Then I picture polar bear club and want to die.
I like to do the same and put myself face first into the cold ass water and act like I’m some wild man standing under a freezing waterfall and gasping for breath.
Try it sometime.
Exactly! I recently installed a double showerhead, so now when I look straight up, it’s immersive and horrible! I start taking meditation breaths right before ratcheting the temp down.
Just close your mouth dude you don’t have to inhale the water
ITS PART OF THE EXPERIENCE
Not an entire shower, but I sometimes end with a cooler second rinse.
Only time I intentionally took a cold shower was after a long bike ride, wearing formal clothing, in the middle of summer. It was freeing and very cold.
Why the formal clothing?
Didn’t that make it hard to shower?
Formal clothing can shrink in hot showers.
The trick is to start at the end of your limbs and move slowly inward until you think you had enough, and definitely not so fast you start to pant: The calmer you are, giving time for the body to switch to the change, the more you’ll be able to take, so take it slow. Also don’t feel obliged to use only the cold tap, especially in winter that can be rather extreme. Just up to elbows and knees more often than not get you that nice metabolism boost and that’s a perfect pre-coffee, OTOH some days are torso days and even others are head days.
Nah, just go all in for maximum impact. Bonus: showers take like 2 min.
Cold shower after workout is great for preventing muscle soreness.
Sure, on some Arizona summer days.
I live in a tropical area, so baths and showers are always in cold water. Hot water is for small children and the sick or elderly.
This is apparently a huge culture shock to people coming from the colder parts of my country.
It has some nice health benefits. Tricks your body into suvival mode.
I have easier ways to provoke a fight or flight response from my brain, such as receiving a phone call from an unknown number, or having to schedule an appointment in advance
Surprise: it’s an unknown charge on your credit card. You’ll have to call support and get a new card issued! Oooooo
Jokes on you, I can disable the old card and order the new one though the mobile app now! Which happened at least once already. Welcome to the future, where we automate away the human contact and I’m all for it
The app needs to update and forgot your stored credentials oooooooooooO
Cool thing is you can train your flight or fight response with things like cold plunges to be more useful. Cold showers might be a way to reduce your unneeded response to harmless things like phone calls.
Fortunately, this one is self induced.
Everyday on the southern hemisphere, minus in winter.
I always knew I could let the shower warm up but it seemed wasteful and I found the cold invigorating so I did it that way until about 40. Something shifted and it was unpleasant instead of invigorating. Signs of getting old I guess.
Not getting old as much as deciding that maybe it’s ok to let yourself enjoy things rather than be strict abt them. For me I was changing a lightbulb and decided that I was done standing dangerously on office chairs so I bought a nice collapsible step ladder.
I used to enjoy the invigorating cold when I was younger. Then I stopped enjoying it.
Congrats on the ladder though
I had commented in that thread on reddit. What really blew my mind was that he wasn’t even the only one.
When I was about 8 years old my aunt told me she returned a belt to the store because the buckle wouldn’t fit through the belt loops in her pants. I’ll never forget the look on her face when I told her to put it through the other end first.
Bested by an 8 year-old. What utter humiliation.
