What’s something you do that would make other people think WTF?
- Moonguide ( @Moonguide@lemmy.ml ) 39•1 year ago
Eat fries first, main dish later, always. Good reason though: usually the main dish holds heat much longer than fries do, and it probably won’t get as gross as fries do.
Cold fries are tasteless and soggy. A warm burger is still good.
- Atti ( @Atti@reddthat.com ) 32•1 year ago
I meticulously eat all the whites off my fried eggs then shove the intact yolk into my mouth. Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate and fried eggs are best hot. I have converted my husband. Everyone else seems to think it’s weird.
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 7•1 year ago
Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate
I’m the opposite then, I guess. I don’t need ketchup for my fries if I have egg yolk is all I’m gonna say.
- SecretPancake ( @SecretPancake@feddit.de ) 6•1 year ago
There are dozens of us!
- GFGJewbacca ( @GFGJewbacca@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
Thank God I’m not the only one who does this. I want to eat all the yolk, thank you very much. The stuff left on the plate is a waste.
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
Yes yes yes! I knew I wasn’t alone! We can start our own community now!
- Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English2•1 year ago
I do this but eat the intact and nearly raw yolk first. Then maybe I’ll eat the pedestrian whites with lots of Parmesan and butter.
- Ansis ( @Ansis@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 28•1 year ago
I eat bell peppers like apples. Just wash it and eat it, no cutting required.
- mitchell ( @mitchell@lemmy.ca ) 8•1 year ago
Is your name Matt? My friend in uni whipped out a pepper one day and bit into it like an apple, and just as the OP title describes I was like wtf
But then I thought about it and I was like why should that be so weird?
- absGeekNZ ( @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ) English7•1 year ago
I eat kiwifruit like this. Fur and all
- rozwud ( @rozwud@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
My grandpa used to eat onions like this.
- stealth_cookies ( @stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
Do you host iron chef?
- not_amm ( @not_amm@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I’ve always wanted to do that, ngl
- krolden ( @krolden@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Yum
- Chetzemoka ( @Chetzemoka@startrek.website ) 23•1 year ago
I don’t mow my lawn.
Fully invested in the no lawn movement, I’ve been slowly replacing my grass with “no-mow” fine fescue grasses that fall over when they grow long instead of standing up straight. They grow slowly and are meant to not be mowed most of the summer season, just a couple times in the spring and cut down low in the fall.
Between that and using shredded leaves as mulch in my flower beds or lasagna mulching to create a new flower bed, my neighbors definitely think I’m a bit off.
- BlueÆther ( @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ) 8•1 year ago
I like this, we don’t mow often, and have 6 sheep that keep, not only the paddocks, but the back lawn short-ish
- Chozo ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
I’m a chronic joint-popper. Fingers, toes, neck, and back are all pretty standard fare for most people. But a lot of people get weirded out when I pop my shoulders, elbows, ankles, knees, or hips. Sometimes I can make something around my sternum pop, but usually only after waking up from a long sleep.
I can sometimes squeeze my ass cheeks hard enough to make my lower back pop… first time scared the hell out of me.
- Guitar_Strings ( @Guitar_Strings@feddit.nl ) 2•1 year ago
I regularly pop my knees, ankles and jaw. I’m pretry sure if I could figure out how to pop my shoulders and elbiws they’d also start getting popped regularly
- Chozo ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Edit: I should mention, don’t hurt yourself trying anything in this comment. If you feel like you’re about to break/pull/sprain something, stop.
Try this for the shoulder. Sit in your chair with your feet on the floor, about shoulder-width apart. Place your right hand on your right knee, fingers pointing toward your left knee and thumb pointing toward your torso. Now, try to pivot your elbow laterally “inward”, as if you’re keeping the same height from the ground but trying to rotate it around toward the area above the space between your knees. It won’t actually move far because your hand is staying planted on your knee, but push just ever do slightly “past” where the rotation stops, and you should get a satisfying pop.
That’s how I do it, at least.
The hips are the most satisfying, though, in my opinion. Nearly the same position as before: sitting down, feet planted on the floor, but with a slightly wider stance. Go full manspread for this. Keep the toes pointed slightly inward, or straight ahead. Hand on knee, and mostly using your thigh muscles (with slight force from your hand), gently pull your knee toward the other knee, while keeping both feet squarely planted in place. Keep your knee at the same height, you don’t want to rotate vertically at all, only horizontally. Basically just need to make sure your feet and tailbone never move from their spots.
If done right, you should get a loud, deep pop that feels absolutely amazing. I wish I could make a diagram, because I doubt any of this makes any sense.
- Guitar_Strings ( @Guitar_Strings@feddit.nl ) 1•1 year ago
Unfortunately neither of these get close to a pop before getting uncomfortable. I might just be unfortunate enough that my body can’t comfortably pop these joints and have to settle for what I can pop
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 23•1 year ago
When I’m alone I’ll wear a full suit, because dressing up makes me feel nice, but I lack the courage to go full “retro men’s fashion enthusiast” and dress up like it’s 1939
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 3•1 year ago
I wish lmao
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 21•1 year ago
According to my husband and all my friends, the weirdest thing about me is my name for a sandwich.
Apparently, everyone else calls it a ‘grilled cheese’. I have always called it by it’s proper name, a ‘toasted cheese’.
If you make it in a panini press, then it is a grilled cheese. But if you make a sandwich by buttering each side and toasting it in a pan on the stove until the cheese melts, then it is a toasted cheese. But every time I say ‘toasted cheese’, people look at me as though I have grown another head.
- Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English15•1 year ago
Cheese toasty.
I had a friend growing up that called them cheese toasties
- FunkyMonk ( @FunkyMonk@kbin.social ) 6•1 year ago
Griddle Fatwitch, I’m not welcome most places.
- Pinklink ( @Pinklink@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
But, you don’t “toast” anything in a pan. Toasting is done in an oven/broiler type fashion (counter-top work essentially the same way), often with a grill either horizontally or vertically involved. I guess if you want to get technical about a pan-done cheese sandwich, it would be a pan-fried-cheese? Like pan fried vegetables?
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
When recipes call for you to cook an item in a pan without first adding oil, they say to toast it to indicate that you are applying dry heat to it. For example, most Indian recipes call for toasting whole spices in a dry pan before grinding. That is also why you can toast marshmallows over an open flame.
- Pinklink ( @Pinklink@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
Bruh you just blue my mined
Edit: but you said butter it first, is that not oil?
- Otter ( @otter@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year ago
This reminds me of the “melt vs. grilled cheese” post
My parents called it ‘toasted cheese’ and I never thought much of it, but that makes a lot of sense. I might start using it too
- 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶 ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ) 3•1 year ago
My wife also says “toasted cheese”. Well, her and her children. Only people I’ve ever known to call it that.
Do you have any other unusual turns of phrase? She’s full of them. The one that drives me up a wall is where I’d say, “right side in”, she says, “right side to”.
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Not really? I actually get confused if people use mixed up idioms or other weird turns of phrase. It is really only this food item in particular.
- Haus ( @Haus@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Did you grow up in a different region than your husband? Based on my mother and grandmother, I’d bet that ‘Toasted Cheese’ was prevalent in the southwest US in the mid-1900s. Both terms sound right to me.
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
No, we grew up in the same region of the same state and haven’t moved from there. Most of our friends are native to the region as well. I have no idea why I call it something different, it is the term I have used all my life. Even my sister calls it a ‘grilled cheese’!
- TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
the only reason to call it that is to correct others on trivial bullshit.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I still have what many people call my commonwealth influence and so I have a lot of names for things that people don’t understand. Chips instead of french fries, shrimp (prawn) on the barbie, etc. Some friends asked if I wanted to see the Barbie movie and I jokingly asked if they’d serve shrimp instead of popcorn, and their utter confusion sent the message clear they didn’t get it. Yup, I’m the weird one :(
That said, by now my vocabulary is somewhat hybridized.
Related to this, one of the weirdest things I do is how I like many of my foods. People are weirded out because I like… my toast to be soft… my ice cream to be half melted… my steak to be mooing (back when I active partook in that; I don’t really anymore)… my tootsie pops to be eaten in one bite… my cereal poured after my milk… my pizza with pineapple on it… my milk with ice in it… etc.
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
I also like my ice cream to be soup lol! Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple. The rest are odd, but at least you know what you like!
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple.
Allergy or something else?
- Firebirdie713 ( @Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•1 year ago
It just irritates my mouth. May be oral allergy or just a reaction to the enzymes in the pineapple. It isn’t as bad as my reaction to wine and vinegar though, so I have to see more specialists to figure that out lol.
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 20•1 year ago
I brush my teeth in bed and swallow the toothpaste at the end. According to the chemical fact sheet swallowing my toothpaste is well within osha defined limits for sodium flouride, and people who live in places with naturally more fluoridated water than where I am are exposed for far more than I am. so I really don’t think there is any health concern. I have been doing it for a decade now and I have no symptoms of over exposure. I find it greatly helps me fall asleep if I don’t have to get out of bed to brush.
- coaxil ( @coaxil@lemm.ee ) 28•1 year ago
Get out of bed to brush? Why not just brush before you even get to bed?
- ehxor ( @ehxor@lemmy.ca ) 26•1 year ago
Look, with your level of logical thinking I don’t know if this is the right thread for you
- Pinklink ( @Pinklink@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
That….doesn’t seem like a high bar
- saigot ( @saigot@lemmy.ca ) 3•1 year ago
I like a cup of tea (nothing caffienated) / hotchocolate before bed.
- demystify ( @demystify@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
I, uh… I shave hair like 5 cm around my bumhole. Paired with a bidet, you wouldn’t guess how much easier it made it to wipe. I used to use 30-50 squares of toilet paper per wiping session, today I can manage with just 10
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
More people should do this, honestly. Getting a hairy bumhole to be clean after a big dump is annoying as all hell.
However… 10 squares of toilet paper? Even with a shaved and hosed down bussy? That still seems like a lot to me
- Million ( @Million@lemmy.zip ) English2•1 year ago
It’s like trying to wash a melted snickers bar from a Persian rug
- Pazuzu ( @Pazuzu@midwest.social ) English11•1 year ago
a bidet and a waxed butthole are the pandora’s box of the bathroom. once you open them you can never go back
- Sir_Kevin ( @Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•1 year ago
I use hair removal cream for the same effect. Indeed, anything less seems barbaric.
- rhythmisaprancer ( @rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
I came here expecting to share about my ears, but will come away expecting to shave my bum 🤔
- Che Banana ( @Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) 5•1 year ago
Careful, hair there is for a reason…think of how two slices of baloney stick together. Bonus thought: if you do this and work in a hot/humid environment cornstarch will be your best friend.
- Pazuzu ( @Pazuzu@midwest.social ) English3•1 year ago
for me butt hair and pubes are far more uncomfortable than being hairless in hot weather. also getting rid of armpit hair stopped like 90% of my bo when I sweat, and smooth legs make socks far more comfortable. at this point I’m all for less hair in places that aren’t my head.
that said I’m fairly thin and don’t usually have chafing problems with or without hair in places, and I also either wax or use an epilator so anything growing back comes in slower and softer than the stubble you get from shaving. now that sounds like a nightmare between the cheeks
- Che Banana ( @Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Electric clippers set with the lowest hair guard = no stubble. Everyone reading this needs to know options are available, you don’t need to be stinkey pete
- boatswain ( @boatswain@infosec.pub ) 4•1 year ago
As a dude with very sparse body hair, threads like these always make me feel like I won the genetic lottery.
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English19•1 year ago
One day I saw advertised these birdhouses with little accordion-like appendages, the same kind most air conditioners have that allow them to fit into windows, and I bought several of these, one per window. On the side facing the outdoors, birds find a little hole and can venture inside, as is typical of a birdhouse. On the side facing the inside of my home, the same birdhouses have tiny windows, like those one-way viewers hotel doors have, that allow anyone to see into the birdhouses, as well as the secretly built option to open it like a door, either while no bird is inside (makes cleaning them easy) or, if someone for some reason felt devious (I wouldn’t, and would never give anyone the key to said birdhouse doors), while a bird was in there, which would force it to honor the will of the owner of the home with all the said birdhouses (again, I would never use this feature, unless maybe a bird was injured or something and needed help).
Alright, with all that said… while I have no plans to ditch any of the birdhouses, I will admit I’ve received complaints that the combination of a few dozen birdhouses in unison is noisy in the morning, like you wake up at six in the morning and it sounds like the birdie house of commons. People say such bird hospitality is unbecoming of an inn attendant. Is it though? Is it? That said, this is usually when the noise cancellers aren’t working.
- room_raccoon ( @room_raccoon@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
It’s not really weird to want temporary bird aquarium windows in your house. That’s ingenious. I think I’d love that
- Che Banana ( @Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Any increase in them smacking up against the window or do they just shoot for the birdhouses?
- Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
There is a huge increase if you don’t mark the windows with some kind of visibility method. In my case, these are in the useless parts of the window, so it was easy for me to simply add tiny ornamental wind socks without anyone asking what I was going for in making those windows difficult to use (you know, aside from it being taken up by a birdhouse).
- BlueÆther ( @BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ) 19•1 year ago
I process insect vomit for a day job
- anothermember ( @anothermember@beehaw.org ) 18•1 year ago
I don’t change my clocks for daylight saving time and live on permanent winter time all year, and just do the conversion in my head when dealing with the outside world.
For some reason this really confuses some people and I get all kinds of questions about it whenever the clocks change.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable and think people setting their clocks to the wrong time for half the year is strange.
- noim ( @noim@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
I think you inspired me. Maybe I will try this next year too. My job allows me to do so, so why not
- cRazi_man ( @cRazi_man@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Go full on anarchy. When the clocks go back, you put your clocks one hour forward.
- anothermember ( @anothermember@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
That would make me kind of proud!
- JGrffn ( @JGrffn@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Are you from the US? Aren’t they phasing this out?
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English17•1 year ago
All 3 of the stuffed animals that don’t leave my bed all have their own distinct voice and personalities. I sometimes have conversations with them (just not out loud).
Gavin, my stuffed turtle pillow has the personality of a chill middle aged man who’s proud of his son since he’s been with me since I was maybe 4-5 and has dealt with a lot of my bullshit. He loves when I rub his shell.
Jake, my polar bear I got from a hospital when I was maybe 12, is a pretty happy and optimistic man with a voice that is a little high pitched and scratchy. He loves wearing his little bandana I fashion around him like a neckerchief and his little when it’s spring or summer.
Laura, my stuffed brown rabbit I got maybe a year and a half ago, is a female with a voice like Tsumugi from Danganronpa V3. She’s Jake’s slightly older sister. I like to cuddle her because she’s the softest of all 3 and because she’s the easiest to cuddle with. She’s my little dress up bunny, despite the fact she only has one outfit. It took some time, but she eventually got used to her outfit.
Edit:
Nobody probably thought this, but I totally looked this over and my autistic brain totally thought the part about Gavin made it sound like my actual dad isn’t proud of me, which is false.
Also, I don’t know anyone else in their mid-20s who does this.
- Yerbouti ( @Yerbouti@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Michel the bear says hi.
- johnthedoe ( @johnthedoe@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
When I type on the keyboard I often always type F at the end and immediately backspace. I don’t understand why I do it and I can’t stop doing it.
- LogarithmicCamel ( @LogarithmicCamel@lemm.ee ) 9•1 year ago
If it really bothers you, every time you realise you did this, delete the previous word before the F and retype it, maybe even a few times, while paying attention to every movement. Slowing down helps too.
- Ms. ArmoredThirteen ( @ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml ) 6•1 year ago
This is wild I picked up this quirk like 4 years ago, F key even. I code so a lot of the times I’m already ending something with a semicolon, but then the line gets an extra temporary F just to be sure
- deadbeef79000 ( @deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ) 5•1 year ago
I have
ctrl+s
as a unavoidable muscle memory. - limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I do the same thing with a space.
I have no idea why I do that and when I started
- ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English1•1 year ago
Space is for the spell checker to run on the last word.
- Redoomed ( @Redoomed@lemm.ee ) English14•1 year ago
When I feel very bored, I go to the Wikipedia page of a movie that I do not intend to watch anytime soon and just read the entire plot write-up, as well as the “Critical Response” subsection.
- Wojwo ( @Wojwo@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
That’s OK. I want to get into comic books, but their information density is that of foam. I start to read and get bored. But I love the stories, so I just find a synopsis on Wikipedia or some other site and read it in prose.