• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    Thinking before speaking. I would just sort of stream of consciousness it before. I still do sometimes, because I like the surprising things that come out of my mouth, but it’s handy to be able to rein it in when nessa

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        2 months ago

        Definitely not a “thing,” and extra definitely not contemporary.

        I’ve only ever known one other person to say it, and that was the ex partner my comment above was about! They had a really playful way of speaking, and I realise in retrospect I’ve unconsciously taken on a lot of their little idiosyncrasies.

        I had to look it up, but it looks like it’s a reference to this line from High Anxiety with Mel Brooks.

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    I was raised in a relatively high wealth family. Not personal jet rich, but still rich enough that we were going on vacation to fancy places a lot, dad had pretty cars, a big house, we went on ski trips, and played golf, etc. My wife was raised by a single mother with a more or less absentee father, working where she could to raise her two girls.

    I already knew I was lucky and privileged, my parents kept telling my siblings and I, but it never really registered to me just how much. The skill I learned a lot about is empathy, I think.

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    2 months ago

    I recommend dating a chef long enough to learn how to cook, that is a super helpful skill

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    2 months ago

    My first serious boyfriend taught me how to change the oil, change a tire, and rotate the tires on my car. Also that I don’t like anal.

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    My ex taught me how to crochet, which was pretty cool of her. I’ve always wanted to do stuff with yarn and having somewhere there to guide and correct me was so useful. I’m not sure I would have stuck with it if I tried to learn via online tutorials.

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    2 months ago

    My wife taught me to cook and that I was allowed to have feelings. I taught her a bunch of computer stuff and that she was allowed to have feelings.

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    My ex (though really his mom i guess) taught me you can just run a half empty dishwasher. I grew up without a lot of money, so we weren’t running the dishwasher until it was full (big family, so pretty often). But when you’re one or two people, it never fills up so I was just hand washing dishes, hating my life. They ran the dishwasher every night no matter how full or empty it was. At 9pm, the dishwasher started. It’s stupid to say it changed my life, but now I just run it whenever I want. I also run my washing machine all the time and folding half loads is so much better, I no longer hate laundry.

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        2 months ago

        The dishwasher is generally more efficient than handwashing. It reuses the water, so you’re using less water. In terms of electricity usage, I’m seeing around 2 kWh for one load.

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      My wife was like this when we met. She also grew up more poor than me. I still see her washing a lot of stuff by hand that should be in the dishwasher. Old habits die hard. The unspoken agreement is when we run out of a utensil, or get down to one, we run the dishwasher.

      One thing my mom taught her through me is not putting good kitchen knives or any wood through the dishwasher.

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        2 months ago

        Also, wood utensils, cutting boards, etc. need oiling. Just cheap mineral oil should do.