This is what monkeys do and they are the experts.
I seem to remember my uncle rubbing nails with bar soap for the same thing
what a trip, I was trying to find this the other day but couldn’t come up with a google string that would locate it. When I was in school they taught this at the smarmy prep school but would not allow it to be taught in standard public school:mad: (where unlike the smarmy prep school we couldn’t afford calculators) thanks for posting the name, now I can try to learn it
for me its 5 inches from the bird finger to base of palm, pinky from tip to second knuckle is one inch. 12 inch from wristbone to elbow, and inversely it was my ex hubby rolling his eyes, but hey it works!
I’ve been “drafted” more than a few times on poker nights my uncle held to play bartender, this would have been much easier to do partway into the night so they’d be nigh sober time to go home rather than literally having to fight them for their keys. old bastards fight dirty when drunk and don’t care if the other person is female and trying to look after them.
Recently heard a fantastic variation on this: bluntly say “I’m sorry, what was your name again?” They will of course be crestfallen and sigh “Joe.” but you respond with “No I meant your LAST name!” thinking you liked them enough to remember their first name, but made enough of an impression for you to want to know their last.
Mine will most likely not be helpful unless you have a teenage girl in the house (or are merely insane like me) but I’m tickled I figured it out on my own.
One sad night I was growing frantic at not being able to break the seal on a bottle of vodka and knew I didn’t have one of those grippy jar opener things. I set about looking for a rubber band, which is the default, right? None. Thought long and hard about things rubbery and grippy and happened to glance at my wrist holding the bottle neck. Cackled maniacally as I peeled off a Big Time Rush jelly bracelet, wrapped it around the lid and CRACK! it was cocktail hour.
Wife used to work for the County run shelter, and we both work for the County. I’m pretty sure my info is good. They also have a very nice new building, so conditions are good.
This also cuts down on thefts of lunches from the breakroom fridge.
Leave the drawer where you put the detergent in open a little, too, to prevent mold from growing in there. I guess if you live in Arizona, you don’t need to do this.
Which brings to mind something they do in Asia to keep salt from clumping from the humidity inside a salt shaker: mix it in with dry grains of uncooked rice, which absorb moisture and keep the salt separated but at the same time are too large to come out the holes at the top. I don’t recall ever seeing that done in the US, where it’s probably unnecessary.
Actually, I’ve seen that a lot in the US, but mostly in Mom & Pop diners, old-timey ones that probably didn’t always have air conditioning.
It’s a fairly common practice in Louisiana, at least, though it’s less common than it used to be.
You’ll often see rice in the salt in humid locations. Although, I’ve heard it’s because the larger pieces of rice smash up the salt clumps, not because it’s absorbing the humidity.
I’ve lived in San Antonio, which is a very humid place, and I used this trick, plus a lot of my friends did, and it was pretty common in restaurants, too. Not only will the grains of rice absorb moisture, but they’ll break up minor salt clumps. I’ve also seen a wooden toothpick broken in half in a salt shaker, it absorbs moisture and breaks up clumps, but it looks tackier IMO.
Or you could just grab the slider at the right, and pull it up to the top. Much more intuitive, and nothing to memorize.
Coming from the Unix/tty/vi world, I often use keyboard shortcuts in GUI programs. I’ll use the mouse if I don’t know the shortcut, but otherwise I’m using the keyboard as much as possible.
Your Mom watches you shower?
A most excellent collection there.
The one about fold in tabs for the roll of foil made me think of the gas cap situation. I had owned a car for 7 years and the one time I used an old fashioned gas station, where the fellow pumps the gas for you, I watched with absolute dismay, as he put the cap in the holder built into the gas cover. Ever since I noticed all cars have such a device, so you don’t have to set the gas cap down on the car, or the pump, which means you can drive off with out it. Which I had done before.
Yes, some cars have the cap connected by a plastic strap, meaning the y might have skimped on the holder. But finding out there was a built in place to put the cap blew my mind. All the more so since I just didn’t realize they have always been there.
If this helps just one person my life will be complete.
And yes, I felt much like some kind of idiot at the time.
Much like when I realized you can punch holes in a paint cam rim to let the paint drain back into the can, and the top still seals the can.
I just tried this and, as I suspected, the flaw is that you start off with the little “spike” in the end , which I normally discard by leaving the last half-inch or so in the bottom of the peel.