I’m envisioning this, and it seems like a part of the advantage is that it transfers a large portion of the weight directly onto your shoulders and spine, thereby avoiding being on the unfavorable end of the lever that is your arms. Makes sense to me. I do something similar frequently at work:
I’m a stagehand, and I spend a big chunk of my life hauling cable. 12 gauge and 14 gauge cables can get pretty heavy, especially if they’re the sort that have more than three conductors. So most people put coiled cables onto one or both shoulders. That’s great, but you inevitably have to expend effort keeping your arm up, and even though it’s a pretty short lever, it’s still pretty tiring, especially because you can’t keep your spine upright because you lean to one side to balance. So I put an equal load on each arm, raise my arms up, and lace my fingers behind my head. That way, the weight of the cable is transferred directly down onto my shoulders with no lateral component to be compensated by my arms, and I don’t have to use my arm muscles to keep my arms up because my interlaced fingers have so much friction that I can keep my arms up with very little effort. I always get funny comments about it, but I can carry a shitload of cable without much effort.
It doesn’t help me get through doors because my hands aren’t free, but it’s a damned efficient way to carry that heavy load a long distance. Mechanically, it’s similar to a Carrying Pole, but the interlaced fingers also make it similar to a suspension bridge, which is where I got the notion.
Sorry, can you provide pics? No idea which jars you’re talking about. The ones I’ve always seen are just regular glass jars with “gummy” metal caps, you open them the same way you open a vacuum-sealed jar from the store (knife, screwdriver, key, magic triangle…).
Mister Rik, that pic says “button will pop if seal is broken”. One time, my landlady’s best friend and neighbor was over and she said “oh, since I have both of you here, let me ask you a question.”
She brought over a couple of storebought jars and said “ok, so this says ‘discard if seal is broken’ and this one ‘discard if button is up’. If I’m the one just broke it, it’s OK to use it, right? I can’t use it without breaking the plastic ring thing!” “Yes, Mama, that’s OK.” “But this one, if I go to use it later, the button is up so I should throw it, right?” We explained. And hell, at least she was able to figure out that there was something she wasn’t getting right, and who to ask.
My mother always used the double-ring lids when she did her canning.
I get the joke in the cartoon, and think it’s hilarious, but at the same time my brain is saying, “WAIT! the lid should only 'pop” the fist time!" The writing on the lid is incorrect. The first time you open the jar, you should get the “POP”. So Mr. Peanut Butter there was cracking open a “virgin” jar of Miss Jam.
But, then, knowing the artist, there may have been a meta-joke there.
No, the lid (with no button) would pop the first time, but the button will pop only after the seal is broken - otherwise the lid is being held down by the vacuum (all right, by the ambient atmospheric pressure) and you will get no pop when you push the button on a virgin jar because the button is already down.
My SOTYNSOTO is “If you are on the point of leaving the room and remember something else you needed to say, don’t hold the conversation in the doorway”. :smack:
Accelerating to a red light does not get you to your destination faster! You’re just wasting gas and wearing out your brakes faster. And me not doing it is not holding you up.
You can type a URL in your address bar. You do not need to type xxx.com in the text box of a search engine and then click on the first link.
If somebody tells you to go to login.xyz.com don’t type “www.” in front of it.
Don’t lift the sneeze guard on a buffet in order to get your food. That’s not why it’s hinged and you’re defeating it’s purpose.
In advertising, they’ll always make the strongest claim they can, but they’ll try to word it to imply more. “No one can beat us” doesn’t mean that they’re the best. It means that there are other products just as good. If they are provably the best they will say “we’re the best”. The same goes for qualifications. If they say “best in class” ask yourself what the class is. If they say a movie is “the best this year” on January 2, be skeptical.
It really amazes me how much people can know about one subject, and still know nothing about another. The vacuum sealed food containers problem came up all the time at my son’s preschool, where I helped at lunch, and half the parents had Ph.Ds, while every single parent, except one, had at the least a BA/BS, and the one who didn’t had a two-year nursing degree (and more common sense than most of the others). My mother speaks eight languages, has a Ph.D, and once forgot what the PRND12 on her dashboard stood for. It wasn’t old-age forgetfulness, or anything, just a brain cramp. She also never did learn to program the VCR, but she still uses it-- won’t go DVR no matter how much my brother and I try to explain that it’s actually easier.
Looked at me like a tentacle had just sprouted from my forehead right on the spot. You could see her gears grinding thinking “Nobody could actually be that selfish!- Bump’s clearly an asshole.”
But time and time again, people show up deathly ill from about October through March or so, and then take 2 week vacations in July and August and the occasional 3 day weekend during the year. All things that they wouldn’t be able to do had they burned all their time staying home because they were sick.
So clearly they are actually that selfish. But she was right; I’m am an asshole, in that the reason I figured that whole thing out is because it happened to me- I had my Xmas vacation all approved set, and got sick for a few days, and really didn’t want to lose some of that time because I had a cold and deliberately made the decision to come in.
I’m now even more confused. I’m talking about glass jars, like the ones from Ragu, but without fancy shapes and without any branding; things that, unlike cans, you can close easily by hand. Cans don’t have lids… are the ends of cans called lids before you open them? Is a double-ring lid for a can the same thing as “a lid with two pieces”? Are you using “canning” for “making preserves” but not necessarily for “making preserves in a can”? And can someone provide pictures? Google isn’t being helpful, but I suspect I don’t even know the right words to ask about.
“Sealing compound” can be paraffin wax-- that what I usually have seen used. I have never canned one my own, but I’ve participated in in a lot. My grandmother used to do her strawberries, and my aunt did tomatoes. My Aunt grew fruit too, but she liked to blanch and deep-freeze hers instead of can. Same with her peas and carrots. Occasionally she canned peppers and onions together for making sauces through the winter.
No one in the current generation takes gardening and preserving very seriously anymore.
“Canning” when you’re talking about it in this sense always means “making pickles or preserves or whatever in glass jars”. These days the recommendation is to use two piece lids for this, not the old fashioned latch lids. Almost nobody does canning in metal cans at home, which requires special equipment.
I think you’re reading into this too much. It’s generally viewed that matters of opinions in advertising are “puffery” and not meant to be taken literally as facts. There isn’t really a difference in a factual sense if a company says its product “can’t be beat” or “is the best,” it’s almost certainly just based on what they think sounds more appealing to the consumer in that context.
Green Acres didn’t invent this. People in the auto industry call it a “purndle” or “prindle.” The writers for Green Acres just made it a little funnier by adding a syllable (I remember Lisa calling it a “pur-NURN-dle”).
In some cases, you’re right, but some ads do make actual quantifiable claims—like “no brand contains more Vitamin C,” or “no other summer camp has lost fewer children to zombie attacks.”
Even more obvious would be to use the catch that the manufacturer of the cooler put on there for just that purpose. Most of those types of coolers have them.
I use my non-dominant hand for the mouse exclusively. Something like 40% of us who are left-handed do. In my case I learned how to use a mouse on a school computer and wasn’t allowed to move it so I could use it with my left-hand instead.
As for what should be obvious but isn’t…I would love to ask my coworkers the following, since close to half of them don’t get this.
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[li]You know you have more than one password, and most of you have 3.[/li][li]You know I gave you more than one password because I administer all 3 programs you use for work that require passwords.[/li][li]You even know to ask me for help with passwords.[/li][/ul]
So why don’t you know that if you e-mail me and say only that “I need help with my password,” I’m not going to help you until after I’ve e-mailed you and asked which f’n password you mean?
I like to cruise along comfortably between highway clusters because I like having a lot of space around me.
Look ahead, you idiot, not just at me or the car right in front of you! Do you not see the cluster up ahead? Do you really think that by zipping around me* at MySpeed+10mph you’re gaining time? I’m already over the speed limit. Why do you seem so surprised :eek: when you reach that cluster and have to hit the brakes?
And we’re not even heading to (or from) the same place. Why do you think you’re winning something valuable by covering the next dozen yards before I do?:dubious:
–G!
And did you really have to rush up to within a yard of my tail before going around? It’s not like there wasn’t plenty of space and time to change lanes well in advance.
