I have some small magnets stuck to the underside of my stove’s range hood.
When I need a place to put that spoon that “I’ll probably need later”, I stick it to one of the magnets. Just let it dangle away.
Holy shit. That is genius!
Then you go to grab it and you knock it in to the sink.
The universal sign for “I may not be done with this yet.”
Yeah but a lot of people claim it to be “weaponized incompetence” so they can punish their partners.
They are what to do what?
Weaponized incompetence was a term created to shame partners for not being able to correctly preform household tasks that are considered “simple”
Like a husband not doing the laundry right just so the wife will do it instead.
…you have something you need to talk about?
I don’t really understand why people reacted negatively to this. It’s a known thing that people do and other people abuse in one way or another.
Weaponized incompetence was a term created to shame partners for purposefully incorrectly performing household tasks that are simple
FTFY
I keep trying it but I live alone so I end up doing tasks poorly then have to do them correctly myself.
Yeah I’m not good at wording things.
I have conflicting interpretations of those 2 paragraphs. Does the woman use it to shame the man? Or does the man use it to not have to do the task?
The original meaning was that the man was using it to not have to do the task.
Effectively it’s both.
If you use the same knife every day then at best the butter residues on it are just one day old and you can keep using the same knife for the rest of your life without ever washing it.
You’re welcome.
And yet change that to a cast iron pan and people fawn over it.
Do you typically heat your butter knives to several hundred degrees?
how on earth do you get through life without baking butter knives?
Where do you think the phrase “like a hot knife through butter” came from?
Balance on the top of the spread jar/container or go home.
I just make mine hover in midair
Butter comes in sticks so this would be difficult.
If there’s sufficiently less stick in the butter dish, I’ll cover the usable part of the knife and also the butter.
I take umbrage with “couple bits of toast”
Surely it should be “couple bits toast”?
You can’t lazily leave out one “of” and not the other
it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what other “of” you were talking about, “couple of bits of toast” looks so clunky to me
granted, i pronounce it as “cup’la bit’sa toast”
Except couple bits toast doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well as couple bits of toast.
Edit: that being said, I’m not a caveman - they’re fucking slices of toast. You want me to make some toast and tear off a couple bits for you?
Or just make me a couple toasts. Feels easier as a non native speaker.
Maybe in British English?
You mean not English [simplified]?
