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    Things We Should Have Learned Sooner

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    • Auspice
      Auspice last edited by

      What's something you should have figured out so much sooner than you did?

      Let's all embarrass ourselves. Just a little.

      I'll go first...

      You know the little cap over the deodorant? The plastic thingy? It took me years before I realized I could just twist the product up to make that thing easier to remove rather than fussing at getting a grip on it.

      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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      • Aria
        Aria last edited by

        ...I spent most of a decade working as an administrative assistant before someone explained to me that the little rectangle thingy on fax machines and copiers, which has a folded down corner and lines on one side, is an indication of which way you're supposed to load the paper in the machine to get it to scan/copy/print correctly.

        I'd feel bad about this, except I pointed it out to my boss yesterday, who has graduate degrees from two Ivy League schools and is an officer at one of the largest financial companies in the world.

        He thought I was a goddamn genius.

        https://whatiswrongwith.me/Mia
        There were never any good old days. They are today. They are tomorrow. It's a stupid thing we say, cursing tomorrow with sorrow. -- Gogol Bordello

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        • Auspice
          Auspice @Aria last edited by

          @Aria said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

          ...I spent most of a decade working as an administrative assistant before someone explained to me that the little rectangle thingy on fax machines and copiers, which has a folded down corner and lines on one side, is an indication of which way you're supposed to load the paper in the machine to get it to scan/copy/print correctly.

          I've never worked in any such position, but I had no clue about this either.
          I will probably forge about it, since I use those machines rarely, but goddamn if I don't angst over which way to put shit on them. XD

          Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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          • mietze
            mietze last edited by

            Bananas peel much easier and cleaner if you peel from the butt end instead of the stem end.

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            • Auspice
              Auspice @mietze last edited by

              @mietze said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

              Bananas peel much easier and cleaner if you peel from the butt end instead of the stem end.

              Yessssss. So many fewer stringy bits!

              Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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              • Tinuviel
                Tinuviel last edited by Tinuviel

                The main one, and it's a deep'un, that I took forever to learn is this: Most of the time people don't think about you. If you're not a complete boor, you don't have very much to worry about socially. Whatever you think people are obsessing over or gossiping about you behind your back... they probably aren't.

                ETA: This doesn't count for this community. We're vengeful pricks.

                He/Him

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                • Royal
                  Royal @mietze last edited by

                  @mietze said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                  Bananas peel much easier and cleaner if you peel from the butt end instead of the stem end.

                  Witchcraft!

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                  • Jennkryst
                    Jennkryst Banned last edited by

                    There is an arrow on your fuel gauge that tells you which side of your car the fuel tank is on.

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                    • Jennkryst
                      Jennkryst Banned last edited by

                      The numbered dial on your toaster is for how many minutes the bread is toasted for, rather than the 'degree of toastiness'

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                      • Faceless
                        Faceless @Jennkryst last edited by

                        @Jennkryst said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                        The numbered dial on your toaster is for how many minutes the bread is toasted for, rather than the 'degree of toastiness'

                        Holy shit.

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                        • Lotherio
                          Lotherio @Jennkryst last edited by

                          @Jennkryst said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                          The numbered dial on your toaster is for how many minutes the bread is toasted for, rather than the 'degree of toastiness'

                          Isn't the greater number of minutes relative to the toastierness of the bread though?

                          I'm just a surge protector doing my job, sir.

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                          • Jennkryst
                            Jennkryst Banned last edited by

                            @Lotherio said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                            Isn't the greater number of minutes relative to the toastierness of the bread though?

                            I mean... yes, but minutes are the primary function of the dial, rather than an obscure 'toastiness' meter.

                            Continuing on... Helicopters do not fly by the blades shoving air down, but rather by the blades pulling the fuselage up (lift is weird, okay?)

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                            • Jennkryst
                              Jennkryst Banned last edited by

                              The racial slur 'cracker' does not refer to food, but actually implies that you are a 'whip-cracker'.

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                              • Auspice
                                Auspice last edited by

                                If you 'core' an onion before chopping it, there are fewer tears to be had! The core is where most of the tear-inducing oils live.

                                Freezing the onion also helps. Additionally, you can buy bags of pre-chopped onions in the frozen food aisle if you are really adamantly against chopping onions.

                                Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                • Jennkryst
                                  Jennkryst Banned last edited by

                                  Back to the Future 2. Marty travels to the DISTANT FUTURE OF 2015. Michael J Fox plays Marty Junior, as we all know.

                                  What we should have learned sooner was that Marlene McFly, Marty's daughter, is ALSO played by Michael J Fox.

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                                  • PuppyBreath
                                    PuppyBreath last edited by

                                    Going back in chrome is hotkeyed to alt+left arrow (PC)/cmd+left arrow (Mac). It used to be backspace, but they removed that one for obvious reasons and I came across the new one accidentally. I love my shortcuts.

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                                    • Auspice
                                      Auspice @PuppyBreath last edited by

                                      @PuppyBreath said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                                      Going back in chrome is hotkeyed to alt+left arrow (PC)/cmd+left arrow (Mac). It used to be backspace, but they removed that one for obvious reasons and I came across the new one accidentally. I love my shortcuts.

                                      On a similar vein...

                                      Ctrl/cmd+shift+t to re-open a closed tab!

                                      Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.

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                                      • Jaded
                                        Jaded last edited by Jaded

                                        Aluminum foil has push in tabs on the side to keep the roll in place as you use it.

                                        I did not learn the pleasures of Alt-tab until Windows Vista.

                                        2 parts water, 1 part bleach in a spray bottle can be used to kill invasive wasps in a house in about 15 seconds.

                                        Opening a bag of microwave popcorn just a little at first lets you shake out all the unpopped kernels first.

                                        Eating marshmallows helps a sore throat. Tested this. It works.

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                                        • Apos
                                          Apos @Tinuviel last edited by Apos

                                          @Tinuviel said in Things We Should Have Learned Sooner:

                                          The main one, and it's a deep'un, that I took forever to learn is this: Most of the time people don't think about you. If you're not a complete boor, you don't have very much to worry about socially. Whatever you think people are obsessing over or gossiping about you behind your back... they probably aren't.

                                          ETA: This doesn't count for this community. We're vengeful pricks.

                                          I dunno. I've gotten approached several times in the past year by people thinking I have some kind of grudge or antipathy for them and I have no idea what they are talking about. Even the people that I'm like, 'yeah I don't think we work well together and I'm not gonna collab on anything with them in the future' I'm not building creepy shrines of hate to them, and I don't think other people are either. Of the couple dozen 'thanks but no thanks' I've said, only one has stalked my facebook and used a VPN to spam profanity at me so hey, that's hitting at under 5 percent.

                                          some fucking idiot who people only like because he's good at taking credit for the work of everyone under him, just like every other fucking L&L headwiz.

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                                          • Kanye Qwest
                                            Kanye Qwest Banned last edited by

                                            Even in this hobby, most people are not at all aware of anything outside their own cage of wants and anxieties and eternal grudges.

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