Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.
Microwave ice cream that was scooped in a bowl for 8 seconds to soften it.
I just heard of that for the first time like 2 days ago and this is the second time.
Is it a new thing? Or is it just coincidence? Lol
Some microwaves have this setting builtin. Forgot what it’s called though.
I have been doing it for decades.
Same with a Mars or Snickers bar. Just enough to make the center melt yet keep the outer hard enough to stay together.
You could also try the Scottish method of coating them in batter and deep frying them.
I never listen to a whole song. I’ll usually get about half way through before going to the next track.
Pretty sure that’s a torture tactic, friend. Are you ok?
I think it’s executive dysfunction. So, no
I have ADHD/Aspergers and do the same. I bounce around between songs and fast forward / rewind often too. Drives others wild when they notice
I’m more worried about the people that don’t notice.
I too eat kiwis with skin, but apparently stranger is that I eat the whole apple, starting from the bottom working up, core and all.
I started eating whole apples after I met someone who does. He said: “Why not? I don’t have to throw away the core then!”.
Ever since then I ate the whole thing.
i had one of those apple corer things you press down to cut an apple into slices and leave behind the core in a cylinder.
used it one day at work and started feeling more and more nauseated and dizzy right after eating the apple slices to the point i had to leave work and go home.
i googled it later and discovered apple seeds contain a small amount of cyanide. i guess normally if you don’t chew them they pass through just fine no problem. but that apple corer thing had sliced through several seeds.
i’ve chewed a seed or two before without issues so maybe i got some mutant apple or something but fyi about the cyanide thing!
Absolutely disgusting. You’re supposed to go top to bottom!
Wrong. Bottom to top you get the stern to better hold the last couple bites.
Might start trying this.
You what to a kiwi?
It’s self-evident. I’m not attracted to people without skin, regardless of nationality.
Relax, he’s not talking about Kiwi people, he means the bird
All the flavor is in the head.
Apple seeds contain cyanide and amygdalin.
That’s good, right?
Depends on what you’re trying to achieve
Gradual immunity
Not checking in with someone if we made plans. My wife will ask if I texted my family to see if we’re still doing the thing we planned. If I make plans with someone, then I’m going unless they tell me is cancelled. My family could make plans for 12 years from now and we’d all be there a little earlier than the time we said we would be there.
I noticed certain people will either change the time or day (or forget the confirmed time, or that they already initially set a time and seem to randomly change to what works for them without updating others and accuse like everyone else had the wrong time) or cancel without telling others. So those people I check to see if it’s still on and reconfirm the time even up to an hour before the meet up. I usually give up on a person who does that as it’s emotionally exhausting to constantly coordinate around a changing target. I get enough of that at my job.
In the case of my wife’s family, if we make plans, most of them are guaranteed to show up late. We’ve made it a habit to plan things for 30 minutes to an hour before we actually want to start because we know they’ll be late. Being a veteran, it drives me crazy. If I’m not a few minutes early, I feel like I’m late.
Aah the South American timezones difference lol
I’ve made these arrangements many times with friends. To the point that I’d adjust different times for different friends.
The downside there’s always the new one that shows up on time when you’re still in the couch before having changes clothes
When people often text me or call to make sure plans are still on, it has the weird effect of making me no longer want to go. I’m introverted, but if I make plans I will be there. So it sort of opens the door for me to cancel for some reason.
I eat the entire apple, starting at the top and going in circles to the bottom.
Are you a horse?
Neigh :P
Unless you eat the stem and core, how else would you eat it?
When I order plain soda water at the bar.
Bartender here. That’s not weird to me at all.
Out of curiosity then… what are the weirdest things you’ve had someone ask for?
Someone ordered a Baccardi and Grey Goose. Yes, a rum and vodka. No mixer. When I asked why they said something about Kanye West rapping about it. I said no.
I pick all my drinks by their lyrical scheme.
Anything that mixes alcohol and milk, see vodka paralyzer.
I beg your pardon Sir and/or Madam, but a properly made ‘White Russian’ tastes like suckling the breast milk of Venus herself.
I prefer eating only with the spoon. I’d even cut meat with it if it’s soft enough
That’s not even strange, the spoon is just the perfect utensil.
Are you my wife? I swear she has some kind of pathological aversion to forks.
I do this as well, but with a fork.
I wonder if there’s anyone eating knife only?
The three untenseers. We’d be unstoppable.
Sometimes I eat an apple with a knife only, slicing pieces and sticking them in my mouth with it.
I wonder if there’s anyone eating knife only?
Mercenaries that try to intimidate people?
Here comes the airplane.
I write the number 5 from the bottom up.
I put my arms in my coat in front of me then flip it over my head
Montessori coat flip ftw!
I was purely public-schooled (US meaning) and we learned the coat-flip too.
The Martin Sheen? Or something less majestic?
Leaving noobs to die in their dumb situations while I full clear my jungle.
waiting in line when there are self checkouts available. I just dont like doing it.
abandoning self checkouts because the machine is yelling at you and the workers are busy elsewhere. they say self-checkout lane 7 is still blinking to this day.
“Remove item from bagging area!”
"Please wait, help is on the way… "Funnily enough I tend to find that if you just pick up your bags and walk away a member of staff is arrives pretty quickly. Wild, right?
I like the interaction.
I use the self checkouts specifically to avoid interaction.
yo I fucking hate that rude robot lady
Ive dated a few Filipina women over the years. When its my turn to cook, I’ll sometimes add a packet of onion soup mix to the rice cooker. Its delicious, but it triggers their FauxCD because its just wrong.
Delicious.
What typ of supe mix? powder, gopy, the little cube thing?
The packet of powder with some dried onion flakes in it. Works well enough. I’ve also used the leftover broth from a roast.
Thank you, I will try it. It sounds delicious.
You get a turn to cook?! My Filipina just about kicks me out of the kitchen.
I set my clocks on 24 hour time. Usually gets a comment when they see it.
'Murica
French here, you can come viqit anytime and the only thing we might notice is that you’re using clocks the right way ™ :D
Started doing this since my very first watch. 24 hours in a day, why cut it in half? What is 12am or 12pm idk which is afternoon or midnight
I finally managed to learn it after working with brits for years, but every time they said “after midnight, past midday” as if it made it easier to remember, I just responded with “after midday, past midnight”
Wtf does this mean. I’m so confused. Somebody please explain
“after midnight, past midday”
AM, PM. It actually means ante meridiem and post meridiem, Latin for “Before Noon” and “After Noon,” but the above also works and is in English.
It’s terrible as a mnemonic though. “After” and “post” both mean the same thing, and the other words both start by M.
Latin for “Before Noon” and “After Noon,”
I’m going to start using BN and AN, just to confuse people.
I don’t think they’re confused by times like 1pm.
At least for my brain, 12pm and 12am are the sticking points.
As you note, pm is Latin for after noon, yet we call noon 12pm. Noon isn’t anymore after itself than it is before itself. Neither makes any sense.
With 12am, we generally seem to think about midnight as the end of the day, even though it’s really the start of the new day. The Latin isn’t confusing here, but the numbers get real weird. We start the day counting at 12:00, go up to 12:59, and then reset the count to 1 an hour in? Our 12h clocks are split between being 0-indexed, and a weird variant of modulus 12.
I’m clearly overthinking things, but I don’t always immediately remember which 12 is which. Latin doesn’t help.
With 00 it’s clear which time we’re talking about, and which calendar date it’s part of. It’s also the easiest way to sort out which 12 gets mislabeled what.
13h is pm, but sometimes people are confusef about 12h00 tops! If 12h01 is pm then 12h00 is pm too, or as said, as fast as it’s 12 it switches.
I remember it as the _M changes the moment it hits 12. So if the rest of the day is PM, the moment it hits 12(for noon) it swaps to PM. In the same way, the moment it hits midnight, it swaps to the morning hours of AM.
TIL people have to learn how to count the 24 hours in a day as 24 rather than 12x2.
I still have to think twice when someone says something about single digit hours and somehow mean afternoon. We even have an expression in my language for the nightly hours after midnight, they are called ”little hours”.
My job uses 24h/UTC time a lot. Love the 24h time, everything I can set to it that I use is on that format. Can’t set the coffee machine or microwave to 24h time.
UTC? Hate it. Too much math that changes with the time change and your time zone to get to UTC. Thankfully wearables and phones will often let you have multiple clocks visible.
Same here. I sometimes get momentarily confused when I see 12-hour digital clocks now…
This is anti-confusing.
The real art is doing it with an old grandfather clock.
It kinda bugs my wife, but I still prefer it to 12 hour. My car, my time format.
I do the exact opposite. I think 12h clock is the only way of measuring things americans got right.
I open bananas by pinching the bottom instead of ripping at the top (because it works better) and people act like I’m insane.
I run my thumb up the middle splitting it into 3 slim bananas.
I break bananas in half instead of peeling them
You still have to peel them off right?
You just squeeze them like a gogurt
How does this work with that nasty little stump at the bottom of the banana? (Which everybody knows is pure poison… TIL: AKA the ‘bananus’)
Easy to discard or no?
I slice it a bit above the bananus and when you peel it it comes right out. Easy peasy
Yeah, it’s easy to discard if a little bananus bothers you. But I ain’t a’feared.
Also, I’m usually making smoothies so it’s not much of a concern.
Pro Tip: another advantage of peeling the gorilla-approved way is that you don’t have to separate them when peeling multiple. I usually eat a couple one-offs while the bunch is ripe and then, before the rest get brown and mushy, peel the rest to freeze for smoothies or banana bread or whatever. You can just peel several from the bananus side and save the step of separating them.
I worked in a restaurant that served Bananas Foster so that’s actually a pro tip. You may never have to quickly peel a whole bunch at once but cooks, busy parents, smoothie artisans, etc. frequently do.
Holy shit, “bananus,” I am crying from laughing right now. Phew, I needed that!
Technically you’re opening from the top.
In a hand yes. In a tree it’s the bottom
Incorrect, bananas grow from the stem upwards making the stem end, where most people open them, the bottom, OP opens their bananas from the other end.
Huh TIL thanks
It’s how the other great apes do it too, which as far as I’m concerned is pretty much the end of the issue. It really is one of those things where there’s a right and wrong way to do it.
That is how apes open bananas too.
Not that I’m implying anything of course.
I looked into this and was unable to find quality evidence of such. I also open my bananas from the bananus
bananus
This shit is bananas.
Technically, humans or homo sapiens sapiens are apes.
See? The experts agree with me. Your bananas are upside down, not mine.
As someone who also has to argue about how wrong everyone else is…
I always tell them to imagine the iconic ‘slipping on a banana peel’ joke. Sometimes I make them draw it.
If you peel from the stem, it would never look like that. We have so many references that I challenge anyone to show me any media from any time period that shows the banana opened from the stem.
People learn the stem way as children because it’s easier with limited motor skills and just never give it up.
Blow into my cigarette before putting it in my mouth.
I smoke Parliaments, which have a little recess in the filter and sometimes bits of the tobacco get in there; I blow it out because I don’t want to eat it
I thought the blow in parliaments was supposed to be cocaine stuffed in the recessed filter…
You gotta blow into it before putting blow in it. Wouldn’t want to snort the tobaccy!
Those bits are probably bad for your health anyway
I didn’t know fag smokers still existed.It’s about a grand per 20-pack where I live.
People act like I’m a monster for eating kiwis in their entirety. Not just the skin, but even the … Stump? Whatever the hard end but is called that presumably attaches it to the tree. It’s just extra fiber!
That’s the kiwinus I believe.
Okay, that’s definitely what I’ll be calling it from now on. I almost want to buy some to eat at work just so I can say I’m eating kiwinus.
Isn’t that the stem? Or have I been calling it wrong all this time?
Stem sounds more accurate than my choice of words. But what do I know - I’m a kiwi-skin eating monster.
Legs and beak too???
Even the nest.
