Earlier this year I found out you’re supposed to run the sink water until it’s hot, then start your dishwasher. Also sprinkle in some powder detergent inside the door, especially if there is a tray for PreWash detergent.
You watched the video, didn’t you
A video, I don’t know if it’s the video.
Definitely the video
I haven’t watch any videos about dishwashers ever since I don’t own one but I’m 100% sure we’re talking about Technology Connections.
Not recent, but I spent the majority of my teenage years dealing with awfully frizzy and unmanageable hair because I was shampooing daily (also using an excessive amount). I was under the impression that you need to thoroughly shampoo all oils away every time you shower in order to be “clean.” When I moved to university and no longer had parents around to tell me that I stink, my hygiene standards became more… relaxed, but I was surprised that my hair was a lot healthier!
sounds like you need a conditioner, certain shampoos do dry out the hair more.
it varies from person to person. I have very oily skin and hair.
about 30 minutes after a shower where I use an oil stripping soap my skin looks like I rubbed Vaseline all over it.
I have to routinely soak/bleach my sheets/pillows to remove all the oil.
at this point I’m surprised the US army hasn’t invaded my ass.
I also have very oily skin, albeit my hair isn’t quite as bad. Washing daily didn’t make it any less oily, just a lot less manageable
I started looking up basic stuff after I saw a video of that guy who would shit in his hand in the bathroom and thought that was normal.
Turns out I was brushing my teeth backwards, you’re supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don’t spit.
Or you can just brush. For me mouthwash is something to use if you’re too tired to stand around brushing or in too much of a rush or need to re-clean your mouth after a snack.
But yeah when I use both I do mouthwash first because slushy liquids are more likely to remove toothpaste on the tooth surface.
i learned a trick, if you have water flosser you can fill it up partially with the mouthwash to help clean better before flossing with the strings.
you’re supposed to use mouthwash, then floss, then brush, and don’t spit.
every dentist I have ever gone to in 50 years it’s always been; brush, floss, wash. always spit.
even people I have dated brushed like this.
not saying you’re wrong…but you might want to verify your sources.
Opening cereal/fruit/granola bars and similar foil wrappers. I would tear them on the serrated part and then only a sliver of the wrapper would come off and I’d have to try to widen the resulting hole in order to extract the bar, often crumbling part of it in the process. However, quite by accident I discovered that if I instead ignore the serration and tear against that foldy seam part that runs down the entire bar, then it separates right down the middle like magic and I can easily remove the bar. Often works on 8/16oz cheese too.
when those types of wrappers were first introduced to things like mass market candy bars, some of them had instructions printed on them… ‘tear here’ with an arrow and such.
Another kitchen one. I always assumed the strongest water flow was closest to the faucet, but actually the water just about to hit the sink works better. This discovery has been useful for rinsing out things like cake icing tips and tea infusers.
Potential energy getting converted to kinetic energy on the way down :)
Not too long ago I learned that you’re not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you’re supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.
I’ve heard this before too, but no way, need a good rinse, and don’t get toothpaste residue on the towel or anywhere, rinse well, mouth, hands and brush. The dentist has given my teeth great reviews for decades now from brush 2x a day, floss as needed and rinse the tp well. I get fluoride in the water too so it hasn’t been an issue for my teeth at least.
It takes long enough after brushing and rinsing well to not have the odd tastes from eating as it is, but maybe not an issue for others and that would be nice.
Same, dentists said my teeth were excellent when I didn’t follow various tips like: don’t rinse, don’t use more than a pea of toothpaste, brush in circles. I do the 2nd and 3rd one now but I’m never going to stop doing water rinse. I’ve tried, but it doesn’t really help. the water rinse allows me to feel clean
As a kid I learned from the dentist that you should massage your gums with the toothbrush. I’ve recently learned that you should absolutely not and this is why I have retracted gums and exposed roots that hurt like a motherfucker.
Childhood dentist that is probably long dead, I wish you bad thoughts wherever you are.
I learned that same lie from that liar ass little dinosaur cartoon fucker.
Where did you learn this? I’ve never heard this recommendation before and it sounds pretty out there.
Edit: it turns out that apparently both the American Dental Association and the National Health Service of the UK recommend not rinsing immediately after brushing. Huh, TIL.
i mean… how else would flouride do its job if you rinse it off immediately? my routine is: floss, mouthwash, brush.
Sure, it makes sense now that I’ve seen the recommendations, but previously I just assumed that it worked instantly on contact. I’m guessing that the majority of people haven’t considered the mineral deposition rate of fluoride in toothpaste. :)
The flouride in toothpaste doesn’t work if you rinse it off immediately. You should not eat or drink for at least 30 minutes after brushing.
Got it, thanks, I’ve updated my comment.
I noticed a big decrease in plaque after I stopped rinsing.
That would be a great result that I look forward to.
It makes sense if you think about it. The flouride needs to rest on your teeth to harden them properly.
I’ve updated my comment. I wouldn’t have intuitively thought about this because why would I think that it would take time for Fluoride to take effect, or that whatever is left after rinsing wouldn’t do the job? Thanks.
I heard it straight from my Dentist (in Canada) just this last month. I was also blown away, been rinsing for decades…
Same here. I’m glad your dentist told you though.
I’m not them, but I first heard this in one of the early episodes of A Problem Squared podcast. Edutainment, baby!
I’m flabbergasted
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At some point there is a limit.
Yes but that limit is not in toothpaste.
The fluoride concentration in toothpaste is not high enough to cause toxicity if not rinsed out. Don’t eat mouthfuls of it, but the small amount left after brushing is beneficial for enamel. Ask literally any qualified dentist. Literally a couple weeks back, my dentist suggested that I can put a little dab on a tender spot of my tooth after brushing before going to sleep to target it.
You have been misinformed about fluoride in toothpaste and water. Please take the time to inform yourself and trust in facts, not propaganda.
Not meaning any disrespect or negativity towards you, just a heads up.
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Are you imagining that toothpaste and municipal water supplies contain hydrofluoric acid? That’s like saying hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, contains water, H2O.
And what the hell is fluoride jelly and why do you need it?
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this is nonsense.
you’re not suppose to eat/drink after brushing, esp anything acidic.
because you want the fluoride in the toothpaste to stay on your teeth. and it’s like 10-15m.
you are suppose to rinse your mouth. just like you rinse the flouride treatment at the dentist.
After a a treatment at the dentist you spit, not rinse.
you need to rinse to spit.
How long does the treatment sit on your teeth before rinsing?
flouride treatment? it was like 10-15m. then they took out the trays and you rinsed your mouth out. and they told you to not eat anything for 20m so the flouride had more time to absorb, because any friction on your teeth would scrap it off.
toothpaste also has fluoride and the idea is the same.
So you’re saying it sat on your teeth for 15 minutes prior to rinsing?
yes, that’s how ever flouride treatment I ever had worked… because your in a dentists office.
toothpaste isn’t a flouride treatment. it’s toothpaste.
My dentist has never asked me to rinse my mouth with water after the flouride mouthwash (or the trays back in the day)
cool, mine tells me to rinse my mouth after everything. every visit i rinse my mouth like six times.
You may want to find out why.
https://staging.aapd.org/globalassets/media/publications/archives/stookey-08-02.pdf
There are studies from 40 years ago saying it’s a bad idea.
Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.
I love that site. It’s such a weirdly specific thing to be obsessed with.
Ian is a legend. I’m so glad I saw his knot’s 30th anniversary video 2 decades ago & never looked back to any other kind of knot on regular shoes. Hiking & survival/useful knots is another whole story (one that I still am endeavoring into).
Oh my god.
This discovery lead me to eventually changing to the Ian knot. Now I can’t even remember how to do it any other way.
I do a square knot. It’s not going to come untied and I don’t need to double knot it. It’s also just as easy to untie.
For years I kept dating and being in relationships and putting a lot of effort into it. Also socializing and making friends too.
I gave up about 5 years ago and I’m much much happier with my life. It’s amazing how much better I feel on a daily basis when my energy and efforts aren’t going into a black hole from which no joy comes out. I also rapidly achieved a lot of life goals after 10+ years of achieving almost none of them.
Being mostly totally alone is completely awesome and I’m annoyed that other people convinced me it was terrible and awful.
I’m actually moving in the opposite direction. I was (still am really) a massive introvert, then I got really, really, really sick and realized I have zero support if something happens where I can’t take care of myself. I realized at the end of the day humans are a social species and we need some level of human connection to thrive.
I’m somewhere in the middle. Big introvert (actually I’m autistic) and I really isolated after a bad friendship broke down years ago, not the first time. I just didn’t want to put myself back out there and keep getting hurt. I was also sick of the thing people say like “let’s hang out sometime” and then nothing ever happens. It’s just a polite saying apparently? So I stopped taking those statements as any interest in a friendship.
Relatively recently, a coworker said the whole we should hang out thing and I was sigh this again. We got along so well at work but I didn’t trust that let’s hang out sometime crap. Until one day she actually pulled her diary out and was like when are you free. Anyway now we’re actually friends and hang out quite a bit!
It’s the kind of person you let in I think. I was taken advantage of so many times and in toxic friendships I assumed that’s just what friendships were. They don’t have to be. You just have to know when to let those relationships go and how to recognize the friendships that are actually fulfilling!
Speak for yourself. When I’ve been sick my gf/family told me to go f myself and what an asshole I am for getting sick. Literally nobody is ever going to take care of me, and never has. When my dad was dying, my 5 year old girlfriend didn’t help, she broke up with me for ‘being a loser who is sad about his stupid dad’. Oh and then called me up asking me for money after we broke up. Most of my gfs/friends actively tried to sabotage the progress in my life and would argue against me doing the things that improved my life. Working out, not drinking, eating right, saving, investing, were all labeled ‘gay, stupid, weird, queer’.
At the end of my days, people add very little to my life, and having them in my life results in a net negative. Which is precisely why excluding them in my life has lead to massive gains in my health, happiness, and wealth. I can work out, eat right, and pursue my passions and grow my career skills without repeatedly being told how awful and shitty doing those things are, and what I should be doing with my life is sitting on my ass drinking booze, eating fast food, and watching shitty sitcoms every night.
You can lecture me all you want, but I’ve never had anyone in my life really add anything of value or given me any genuine support and the second I ask for help they tell me what a piece of shit I am and then start asking me for help. Anytime I called anyone up to try and share good news, like getting a $35,000 raise, buying a home, or adopting my pets, I was told how shitty I was and then asked for money by so called ‘friend’ or family member or other person who supposedly ‘cares’ about me and lecturing me what an asshole I am because they ‘deserve’ my money more than I do and I shouldn’t be able to have a home, or pets, or a car, or a great job.
Which is to say, without all that horrid negatively dragging me down from my supposed ‘support structure’ I am finally able to be happy and enjoy my life without being shamed, harassed, or threatened. I’m also allowed to be proud of my achievements in life, rather than being repeatedly told how horrible and undeserving I am for having achieved them.
my 5 year old girlfriend
Ummm…phrasing might need a little work there.
Those are some shitty friends and family.
I’m glad that you were able to achieve so much for yourself by focusing on yourself, many people never get to learn that lesson. Never forget that.
When you heal everything your formers have done to you, then you get to learn to find people that don’t want to drag you down. It’s hard; when we grow damaged and broken, we become a lighthouse for people looking for someone to take advantage. However, it’s possible to change the lightbulb, we just have to heal first.
No. I don’t need to heal. I’m healed.
I know I’m healed because instead of listening to people lecture me how damaged I am, I ignore them. Because that is what everyone in my life used to do, lecture me how damaged I am for not being like them and how ‘concerned’ they are for me. It’s manipulation to setup a power dynamic where they are ‘normal’ and you are ‘faulty’ so later on they can convince you to do what they want.
Just like the lady last winter I tried to date who lectured me I am mentally ill and need therapy if I am happy driving a basic car, because a ‘well-adjusted person has ambition and self respect and would want to drive a $100,000 car.’ She drove a $70K car. She genuinely thought I was mentally ill. I genuinely thought she was a stupid idiot and I lost all respect/desire for her when she voiced her ‘concern’ for me.
I’d love to meet someone someday who thinks it’s OK to be happy with driving a basic car, but I have literally never met such a person in my life. They might exist out there somewhere but I have never met them. Most folks I meet, sadly, just want to lecture me on how I need to have a more expensive one or how ‘disappointed’ they in me for driving such a ‘cheap car’ and how I have ‘no self respect’ if I do so. They also tell me how I have ‘no self respect’ because I don’t own $5,000 suit and shit like that.
Weird how that works.
No offense but where the fuck are you finding such horrible people? I’d probably feel the same way in your shoes but the people you are describing sound cartoonishly evil and self absorbed. Like I don’t know that I’ve ever met even a couple people like who are you describing.
my zip code is in the top ten highest HCOL in the USA.
People here are very cartoonish yes. They are straight out of New Yorker with how absurdly self-absorbed they are. And they see nothing wrong with it because they grew up that way. Lots of old money types. I have endless stories, like another date I went on a few months ago where a woman whined to me she only made 2 million dollars on her stock last year and how could she possible ever retire in if she isn’t making like 5 million a year. she was 35. I told her I made $5000 in stock last year and ended the date instantly because she was so disgusted to be talking to a poor person.
Sorry Askew, I misunderstood you. I’m glad to hear you’re healed.
The people in your story sound really superficial. I hope someday you find people that value and see things like you do. :-)
my 5 year old girlfriend didn’t help
Phrasing my bro, phrasing.
This is the most unhinged and egocentric take I’ve seen on here in quite a while, congrats.
“If you meet an asshole on the way to work in the morning, you met an asshole. If everyone you meet all day is an asshole…”
I learned that, even though automotive fluid containers are #2: HPDE, they are not accepted by many recycling centers–including my local streetside pickup–because they’re not BPA free.
Oops.
Nobody told me you were supposed to scrape/scrub your tongue when brushing your teeth… and nobody told me about washcloths either. 🫣 My wife put me on to that about a decade ago (so, in my early twenties) so by now it’s just part of my life but yeah…
AFAIK most people don’t do anything to their tongue. But I’m open to being told otherwise by others here.
Why wouldn’t you? It’s right there.
A tongue scraper is so much better than brushing.
It changes things! Sometimes the mouth area is still a bit funky and it’s not the teeth you’ve just brushed but the unclean tongue that’s the issue.
Walking in general. Physical therapy both sucks super hard and is vastly improving my life. I’ve had a decades long back injury caused by a dog attack, but I’ve apparently been walking in a way that guards a wound not entirely there.
Thank you PT.
FUCK you PT.
I learned that you should roll up a period pad and use the wrapper of the new pad to hold it rolled closed. They have a little tape and it reduces mess and smell.
In my defense, I didn’t use pads until last year.
going from pads / tampons to the silicone cup was my learning a better way. First week was rough but by the end of the week and thereafter I couldn’t even feel it once it was in. Went to fuck a few times and the dude was like TF is this? And I’d be like oh shit lemme swap it for a disc real quick.
Not actually recent, but a while back I learned that what we call the “bottom” of the banana is actually the top, flowering end. Turns out it’s way easier to open a banana at the flowering/non-stem end. So many years I’d been opening them at the other end, trying to snap off the stem part, mushing up that end of the banana most of the time.
Neither way is wrong. I will often give the stem end a quick test and if it breaks and starts the peel, I peel from that end. If it doesn’t, I start at the other end. Both work just fine.
I tried this out a while back and tbh it’s hard to open on the non stem side for me. I will continue to use the stem side as it provides more leverage.
Easier way, grab in the middle and forcefully snap it in half, works even on very ripe bananas
Lol, that is often the reaction I get when people see me do it.
Yeah I’ve done both for years and it just depends on the banana which end might be easier.
i just give it a little squeeze and it splits in two and it’s the easiest thing to pull apart, way easier than trying to get the stem part to separate unless you have a knife and cut it first…
Your bananas are not ripe enough.
Mushed banana tastes better anyways.
Blech, hard pass for me, I can’t stand that texture.
Granny knot. Making the knot the right way helps top never having to re-tie my shoes during the whole day.
The sign of a stable shoe knot is that it is perpendicular to the shoe. A shoe knot angled or parallel is the unstable granny version.
The most simple correction, for anybody else wondering, is simple. Make your first cross the other way and do not change the next main step at all.
This is the way. Your muscle memory is so ingrained it’s really hard to change how you tie the bow (whichever method you use) but it’s easy to reverse that initial knot. With the Present Holidays coming up, it’s good to know for tying ribbon bows on gifts, too
Oh! If anyone is interested in shoelace knots, I’d highly recommend checking out the Ian Knot. There’s a similar need to make sure the knot is balanced to keep it secure, but it’s overall much faster to tie.
Yes, it wasn’t recently, but learning this made a huge difference for me. I actually learned it from a TED talk, lol.
You can learn even more from Ian.
Thanks, that site is awesome. I’m pretty sure that it was the one I used some time ago to learn a few new lacing methods.
Explain?
See my reply parallel to yours for a video of it.
Cleaning cast iron. I used to add water cold and bring to a boil. Now I heat first until grease is almost smoking, then add a bit of water and let it steam and sputter itself clean.
Just use soap and water like normal. You just need to thoroughly dry it afterward and if possible, apply a small amount of oil while it’s got to keep building the seasoning.
The seasoning is polymerized oil and does not come off with soap. You need a lot of abbrassive action to remove the seasoning.
I use a ring mail washcloth.
I have one of those too, but I usually don’t need it with the heat and steam method. Most of the stuck-on foodstuff comes off with just a spray from the faucet. No need to even scrub.
🫤 I just wash it out like anything else and put it upside down on the stove to dry.
Depends on how stuck things get. I do a lot of blackening of meat which tends to leave dry cooked bits on the pan which don’t wash out so easy.
When I say “blackening”, I mean with my black spice in light oil. How are you doing it?
Nothing that fancy. Just getting a good char. But the pan dries out everywhere not touching meat, so bits get caked on a bit.
I have a solid plastic scraper that has never let me down. Doesn’t matter what I cook in it, how much blackened meat gets stuck, or how long I neglect it in the stove top before washing it, I run it under hot water, hit it with the scraper, then the abrasive side of my sponge, then the soft side. After, I towel dry it, put it in the stove top to evaporate left over moisture, then rub a thin layer of oil on it.
Swallowing pills. A friend pointed out that tilting your head down helps with swallowing and I had never thought about it before. It really does make it easier!
I just have a swig of water in my mouth first, then pop a pill and swallow at once. No more gross pill taste if you do the pill first
When I was a teenager I had the hardest time swallowing pills, even with water. So my mom bought me some mini M&Ms and had me practice with those. Since they are small, squishy, and don’t taste bad, they are easy to swallow. I learned where to position the m&ms on the back of my tongue to easily swallow them without gagging. Now I can easily swallow any size pill without water.
also water helps, so you dont feel the pill. if its a large one it might more difficult.
Water is absolutely necessary. I didn’t use it until I started taking spironolactone, which is a notoriously bad tasting pill. But without water pills can just get stuck at the back of the throat far too easily
If it’s a floating pill like a capsule tilting your head down helps a lot, but if it’s a pill that sinks and sticks to your tongue tipping your head back can help
The trick for me is to sort of toss the pill up into the water in my mouth. Do it a few times and you’ll feel it go out of contact with your tongue.
Once that happens, swallow and it will be like you didn’t take anything at all.
I hold my breath and swallow first. It tricks me into swallowing the pill so I can breathe again sooner.
Swallowing with yoghurt or pudding also helps.
I’ve never been able to make this work for me. I have a horrible gag reflex and I’ve been told I swallow pills like a goose. Which I do but hey it works for me 🤷🏻♀️
I just tale a bite og food and let the pills go down with that once chewed.
Add the pills just before swallowing
