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"I don't need a shopping list; with effort, I will remember that I need this item"
Okay but will you be able to remember that you already bought it? Because apparently I can't.
They're can openers.
So again, why are they shaped like this? I've never seen a can-opener like this
This is the right shape
That's a Klingon weapon.
person out here using wwi can openers
I've never seen a can opener that's not shaped like
outside of like, American movies? Where are y'all getting CAN OPENERS WITH HANDLES?
Well I got these ones from Kmart. From memory I think they each cost about six bucks. (About $4US)
what is wrong with all of you? here is the opener!
Just looking at this picture is giving me tetanus.
#jesus christ people are really out here using can openers from the bronze age#op is the only person in this thread with normal can openers and they have 3 of them
They're all using these dangerous weapons because I'm hoarding all the good can openers
The earliest version of this type of can opener was patented in 1926, and went into production around 1930 or 1931.
The Swing-A-Way model #407 has been in production since 1955 and has sold an estimated 100 million plus units.
The Bunker company was purchased by the Rival Company and was manufacturing can openers based on this design effectively since 1931 up to the present day (currently owned by Rubbermaid).
There have been a large number of improvements to the design but it remains in production to this day including under more or less the unchanged original patent. Many can openers even incorporate a small hook into their design which can be used as a bottle opener, or similar to the lever type can openers above.
Just so everyone on this thread knows, they also come in electric. Which can be very useful after you slice your hands open on that trench warfare shit.
after that cursed butter denier yesterday and now this, i'm starting to think half of tumblr users are visitors from some kind of Dickensian alternate reality where everything to do with food is crusty and depressing
Why does the box of that electric can opener demonstrate the opener being used on a can with a pull top
Reblogging again because I do actually have something to say to this. I own both, like one of those thingies OP has, and like an ANCIENT canopener. And like those things OP had just survive a year or two, then they don't open cans anymore and are just frustrating BUT the ancient canopener? It works so perfectly fine and well. I think it is still from my great grandmother. And it just fucking SLAPS.
It might last longer but my wrists when I have to use it don't. Those old openers are fucking hell on the hands. I can get a new can opener easier than I can get new joints.
Especially since you already have three of them
I love the migration in this post from ADHD purchasing to can opener discourse. You don't get this shit on any other site.
i saw a man at work the other day wearing a shirt that said "i was normal 2 pomeranians ago" with pictures of his pomeranians on it. important to note he had his pomeranians in his cart
artists rendition (i forgot to add the poms on his shirt but you get the gist)
Every time someone makes an artist's rendition of a weird little guy they saw in public instead of recording them without consent, an angel gets it's wings.
Love that they put “a sense of impending doom” as one of the symptoms of a heart attack, like girl, that’s just how it is to be alive these days, you’re gonna have to be more specific
This made me chuckle but after scrolling away I felt the need to come back to it.
Because as someone who has felt this I can not stress how different it actually is from anxiety. Which is saying a lot because I have a massive anxiety disorder.
I've only felt this twice in my life - once when I was going into kidney failure due to an infection and again when my body was going into shock due to dehydration and malnourishment due to GI issues - and I can not stress how much it saved my life. It's hard to even put it into words. It's not like a panic attack, or anxiety. It is a horrific gut turning feeling of absolute dread.
Especially if you have anxiety you'll know the difference honestly. It's so much worse. It's every cell in your body and your brain screaming that there's something horribly wrong in a way you've never felt. It's your brain screaming out that you are going to die in a way no panic attack has ever done before.
I can not stress how important it is to get yourself to the ER if you feel this way. Especially if your having other physical symptoms.
This is amazing and incredibly helpful, oh my god. Thank you.
Thanks billion-year-old survival engine within us that is more fundamental than the soul
[ID: A man with a red beard, wearing glasses, a touqe, and a green sweatshirt that says 'kith' on the front is sitting at a table. The tiktok name on screen is @redbeardrn. There are captions above his head as he speaks, transcribed below, with minor edits for spelling/punctuation.
"What's up everybody. So the other night, I posted about how I had ordered a Diet Baja Blast, and I failed to check the soda with my glucometer before consuming it to make sure that it was diet and not regular. This is something that I tend to do when I order drinks in public, just because in the Baja past, I've been given regular soda instead of diet, and as a type one diabetic, if I'm not taking the proper amount of insulin for the amount of carbs that I'm consuming, my blood sugar will skyrocket, like Baja fast.
So of course, the one time that I did not check it with my glucometer, it ended up being a regular soda. And so you can imagine I was Baja aghast when I started realizing my blood sugar was going up and up and up, and I ended up having a pretty long night of trying to bring that back down, making sure that it didn't Baja last the entire night.
And a lot of you Baja asked me, 'what do you mean, use your glucometer to check the soda?' So I wanted to make a quick video to show you that you can use your glucometer to check to make sure your sodas are actually diet."
At this point, the man puts two plastic cups with a Taco Bell logo on the side on the table, both filled with Baja Blast, a green tinted soda. He starts to unwrap the straws, then blows air in them to shoot the paper wrappers toward the camera, before inserting one into each cup. Captions continue;
"I have two Baja Blasts here. I notoriously cannot the difference between diet and regular." He pauses to take one sip from each cup. "Yeah, I have not a clue. So, if I were out in public, I would take and I would put a little soda just in the cap like that, and I would pop a strip in my glucometer. And then I would dunk the strip, once it's ready, I would dunk it in the soda."
As he speaks, the man covers the end of one straw to pull a bit of liquid out and drop it onto the lid of the cup. He takes his glucometer from offscreen and loads it, waiting for it to be ready before dipping the strip into the small puddle of soda. When he lifts the screen to show the camera, it reads 377. Captions continue:
"Yeah, and so that says three seventy seven. If this were diet, there would be absolutely no sugar content in that at all. So I know that that is not a diet soda. And just to verify, we can do that with what I assume would be the diet now, and I will either get a strip fill error, or a critical low, depending on the type of glucometer you use. So with this one, we'll dunk it in, hold it there, yeah."
He repeats the steps on the second soda, holding the screen up once it has been tested to show it has a black screen with an error message too small to read on camera. Captions continue:
"So for that I got a strip fill error, and I know that that's diet. They also make like a dipstick that you can put in to test the sugar content, so you don't have to use test strips, but this is just a quick and easy way to do it.
This is also a good tip for my fellow ICU nurses out there. If you have a patient that's vented and on tube feeds, and you start suctioning something that you think might be tube feeding, grab a luki trap (Lukens trap), get a sample of that, take your glucometer and do a test of the sputum itself. Because sputum should not have any glucose content to it. So if you test it and all of a sudden it's reading a high glucose, chances are your patient is aspirating their tube feeding.
Um, so yeah, that's just a quick and easy way that you can use your glucometer to check to make sure your soda is actually diet and feel a little more confident that you're not going to end up with a sky high blood sugar. Alright, have a good one." end ID]
(thank you so much to @the-hero-system for writing up the image description! you’re amazing!)
“Progress Shark” outside the Australian Museum, ahead of Sydney Mardi Gras/World Pride Festival 2023.
More flags should be inflatable sharks
Ok this is making me go insane because. that’s a photoshop. it absolutely is, someone’s edited a progress pride flag onto the shark.
you can see spots where the red is misaligned with the top of the body and even extends slightly beyond it. the lines of the flag don’t conform to the shape of the shark’s body at all. you can see the gills through it as if it’s at like 70% opacity.
but like. the progress pride shark is real and it looks like this:
yknow. cause it’s a flag wrapped around a model shark.
why was this edited????? it’s a real thing but for some reason someone edited a digital flag over it instead of just using a real photo of the real thing??? why????
original gilbert baker pride flag colourpicked from this specific weird al shirt
on it boss 👍🏼
just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over
Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can't meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.
^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers
Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven't, streaming the shows actually helps. You're not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.
I love that he apparently got the job because he looked so pathetic that children truly believed he would be unable to solve puzzles created by a cartoon dog without their assistance.
something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.
I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie
I’ve always been like this and you can’t stop me. Screaming Into The Void 2k23
Just when I thought I couldn’t be radicalized more, I learn the CEO of my “small” family company owns not two but THREE houses
Damn, you gonna do anything about it?
Hello user isuggestarson, I have not considered it, perhaps you have a suggestion?
My rule of thumb for rich person has always been “more than 2 houses or more than 1 boat”. A second vacation house isn’t that absurd, maybe it’s a cabin by the lake or w/e. Three houses though is Too Many. What’s the third one for? Storage?
tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva
This feels like the start to a horror movie and I love it
stormesandshowers
Me rn: