How did you fuck up recently?
How did you fuck up recently?
For example, today i nearly set my house on fire after forgetting a pan on the stove.
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I bent over the sink to clean the drain and threw my back out three hours before I had to leave on a business trip.
Had to cancel the entire thing and spend the next day on my back.
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I can commiserate… One time I fucked up my back by picking up a loaf of bread. I had just worked an extremely heavy shift at work. Slinging +200 pound pieces of gear overhead, lots of bending and crawling around, etc… I was gross after work. Climbed into my car, toweled off with some baby wipes, and headed to the grocery store on my way home. I just needed milk and bread.
So I make a beeline to the dairy section and grab the milk first, then swing by the bread aisle on my way to the registers. I bend over to grab the bread from the bottom shelf… And I feel a twinge in my lower back. Just a small little tug. I stand back up, and start heading to the registers. As I continue, the twinge gets worse and worse. I didn’t even make it to the registers. I quickly found myself wishing I had grabbed a cart, because I needed a walker to stay upright. I had to abandon the milk and bread in the middle of the store, and slowly hobble back out to my car.
That was on a Friday evening, and naturally my doctor didn’t have any appointments available until Monday. So I suffered all weekend. Monday finally rolls around, and the doc basically goes “oh lol yeah that just happens sometimes. Have you tried taking any ibuprofen?” Uhh excuse me. What the fuck do you mean that just happens? Can we make it not happen?
He says it is extremely common for industrial athletes to injure themselves after work. During work, they’re careful enough to not injure themselves. They’re warmed up, they do team lifts, they’re careful to use proper lifting form, etc… Then they get into their car, drive home, cool down during the drive, and then get injured by something stupid and small (like picking up a loaf of bread, or bending over the sink) because their cold joints basically go “nah I already worked enough today. I’m just gonna rip instead of stretching.”
I was out of commission for a solid two weeks, all because of that loaf of bread. That was about a decade ago, and my back still gives me issues occasionally.
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If my doctor said it's extremely common for industrial athletes to injure themselves after work when I pulled my back out getting a loaf of bread I might well have killed them even with my back out.
If you have a issue with your back that's serious enough you can put it out getting a loaf of bread it's not that you weren't being careful enough, or didn't stretch first. You probably injured it at work and just finished it off at the grocery store.
I was working at a office supply store. The inventory manager did an all hands they decided they were going to restructure the warehouse storage. We were moving a wall of filing cabinets in the back to a different wall. They weren't incredibly heavy but they were very bulky and we were stacking them on top of each other. Essentially lifting a four-drawer filing cabinet and setting it across the room on top of another four-drawer filing cabinet. Like many times in my young life someone said "wow you're really moving stuff above your class, I didn't take you for being that strong" and that was all I needed to push myself way past the limit. I left there feeling great. I stoped by my old job to hang out with some friends went in the back to help him clean up, finished my back off just lightly sweeping, next thing I know I'm laying on the ground barely able to breathe. That was 33 years ago. I've been put out of commission by that same exact injury on my back probably a dozen times since then, once by sneezing while sitting. I learned about 15 years ago that if I fuck it up bad enough, the disc leaks and the fluid erodes nerves downstream which gives me radiating pain which puts me out of commission for a few days to a week.
Quick tip though, since COVID-19 it is possible to get a telehealth visit while your back is out. They'll usually make you show them how you have to get up off the floor, and they'll generally issue you something to at least alleviate enough of the pain to let you get up and down. They're generally apprehensive to give you serious narcotics, but they'll generally at least give you a reasonable muscle relaxer.
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I was clearing some brush with a machete, 6 stitches in my shin.
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If you really don't like your leg hair, just double up your socks. That's no way to shave, man.
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That reminds me of a few years ago when I noticed a neighbor down the street running a weed eater while wearing a small bikini. She had on heavy gardening gloves and safety goggles, but to protect the rest of her whole body just the bikini. And it was a really big-ass weed eater too, the kind with the extra side handle. Might have even been gas powered.
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OMG. I worked on lawn care as a teen. I still to this day avert my face away from anyone weed whacking. Received many hits to the face even with safety gear.
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Yeah, well. 🤷🏼♂️
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Username checks out!
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I would probably have cleared the brush before it reached my shin, that way you could probably get by with a trimmer instead of a machete. And doing it before spring has its advantages too so the beach bod is ready before swim season.
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Wrapped my 4yo in a big towel on the way back from the hotel pool and shortly after challenged him to a race to our room. He immediately tripped on the towel and hit his head because his arms were under the towel. Fortunately just got a bump and some rug burn on his forehead
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Was worried for a sec that you were going to say you got back to your hotel only to realize it wasn't your 4yo. Would have been potentially traumatizing for everyone involved that noticed before you quietly returned the kid hoping no one else did notice and that your own kid didn't drown in the meantime.
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I ate too many blueberries yesterday and regret it today.
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I'm someone who can eat multiple pounds of blueberries in one sitting. Next time, try spraying them thoroughly with vinegar and letting them soak for at least 5min, 10 or even 20 is better. Then rinse thoroughly with water. There are some tummy upsetting molds and bacterias that are neutralized by the vinegar. This works for any berries or easily spoilt produce. It's majorly cut down on the "consequences" of my grape and berry binges.
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Yeah, I do a vinegar bath when brining berries home from the grocery store. Just fill a mixing bowl with water, then add like two cups of white distilled vinegar. Let the berries soak while you put away the rest of the groceries.
I started doing it after I had some strawberries get visibly moldy only one day after I bought them. I was pissed. Since I started soaking them in diluted vinegar, they don’t get moldy anymore. They literally dry out and shrivel before they go bad. I just dunk the entire container into the mixing bowl, and let the entire thing float while I put my groceries away. Then give them a quick rinse with the sink sprayer before they go in the fridge.
When I notice them starting to dry out, I just move them to the freezer instead; They still taste fine, so after they start to dry, I use them in smoothies instead.
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Are you blue?
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How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.
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Blewb poop soup
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He blued himself
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I had sex with a girl way out of my league. Usually I fuck down.
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I stepped on a garden millipede by accident 😭
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Every time someone says millipede I get the millipede song stuck in my head.
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Left my iron plugged in for a week without realizing it.
Accidentally caused massive heat wave. Sorry folks, but I unplugged it so temps should start to go down now.
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You mind leaving it plugged in mid January and through Feb? Maybe cycle it a bit so we still get snow, but not below freezing temps.
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My friend wants to play games with me last weekend, but I completely forgot. It's something she wanted to do for her birthday since we're states apart and our schedules are weird. She said she's fine, but I can tell I disappointed her by missing such a simple request and I feel absolutely terrible.
However, it was a wake up call. I've been very lethargic and tired, but I just kind of ignored it, but it's now affecting my friendship, so I'm going to try to make some changes to help with my energy. I don't want to disappoint her again if I can help it.
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I think I'm in a similar situation, and I totally get how your condition affecting others is a way bigger motivator than it affecting yourself. I just wish I could tell my subconscious that I'm actually a friend, as well
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I printed 200 labels at work all with a typo on it, so I had to print 200 more. Good thing the only thing that cost me was my time lol
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Be glad. It could have been coffee mugs...
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or 200 tattoos
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I changed a native vlan on a switch. Took down an entire campus.
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Oh-ho-ho. Condolences, my net dude.
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Easy fix?
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Well. The management VLAN is within the trunk... So I had to walk out there and fix it via console cable.
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I'm on vacation and I stepped on a red anthill, and by stepped on I mean I sat on a ledge with my foot hanging over the anthill for about 10 minutes before stepping down onto it.
Stuck my foot in the pool to try to get rid of them only to ruin my only pair of pants and walking shoes I had for 3 days before we could do laundry/get the shoe dry. Also they just do not sell afterbite where I am so I've been trying different shitty creams that haven't done much for the ~15 ant bites I have on my leg.
Also this was a few days after I forgot one of our travelling phones on a bus and it was not recovered.
Also, it was my only pair of pants because I had ruined my other pair of pants when I slipped and fell into a puddle.
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fuck me, what a shitty week
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Don't jinx him or the universe will give him a sore tummy.
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Hopefully your vacation takes a turn for the better after all that.
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"... The very pants he was wearing..."
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I made a move on a coworker I really like. Asked her if she wanted to fool around because I thought I would only be around for another week or two. But now that I've found a new place to live around here, it made me realize how shitty my train of thought was to put her in that sort of position.
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Perhaps. But you realize it now, and you also have the opportunity to take things in a different direction if you want.
Communication is important. Admitting when you did something that you think is wrong is good, we all make mistakes. Tell her that you're sorry and why, and let it be. Either she will forgive you and you guys can move forward if it works, or she won't want anything to do with you, and both are fine. Emotions are complicated.
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Yeah I apologized the next night, but it seems we're still not really on speaking terms which sucks because I really enjoyed our banter. Hopefully we move past it as we're coworkers, but I'm ready to accept that it won't be repaired so easily.
I'm still working on how to bury my feelings for someone for their sake (and mine I guess) but fuck its hard when you crush on someone that hard.
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Was it a mistake because she turned you down or because she accepted?
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Looking back on it, I think either outcome would have probably been bad for us just because of transportation issues. But for the record she did turn me down, about 5 minutes after I prompted her she said "welp, time to go back home to xxx" and I pursued no further.
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Forgot a lunch box for weeks at work, and then they threw it out while I was sick, so now I have to buy a new lunch box.
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I am the one at my workplace who throws moldy lunchboxes away. Though in pur fridge it is mostly unopened yoghurts that somebody brings and forgets about. So disappointing how much food is wasted
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Had a colleague who went on leave and had probably $50 of lunch in the work fridge.
New admin assistant says we have one work day to get our stuff out so she can clean out the fridge, and his stuff was all tossed.
If they'd given more notice, we probably would've had time to get our stuff out then ask whose food that was, and realise it was old mate's.
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That's just anarchy, wtf.
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That's quite rude. I'm lucky at my work they just throw the food out and wash the Tupperware.
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I made sure I told them, too, that I would've cleaned it and taken it home had I not been sick since the day before they posted the ultimatum and gave me 3 working days until they threw it out.
It was a nice glass container too.
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I planted hydrangeas in an area with too much sun exposure and they're getting scorched leaves while I wait for shade cloth to ship
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Hopefully you know that until the shade cloth arrives any kind of cloth will actually create shade.
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Aware, but heavy storms have been passing through for the last two weeks so I'm waiting it out instead of sacrificing cloth that won't hold up as well outdoors
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Very minor, but I very recently changed deoderant after not being able to find the one I usually use. I just got to a clinic for a medication infusion and it has completely worn off, being replaced by the smell of stress sweat from traffic, and now this poor nurse has to smell me while I get my medicine, so I am mortified.
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If it helps, I'm pretty sure stress sweat is far from the worst thing that nurse routinely smells. By a long shot.
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the nurse probably has access to body wipes you could use; alternatively, you could see if they have some antimicrobial soap like hibiclens, washing armpits with those (like in a bathroom) works like a lasting deodorant I've heard
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If it makes you feel better, most of my major fuck ups are cooking related. I was boiling down some dr. Pepper for jerky marinade and fell asleep. Didn't wake up to alarms until my wife woke me up. Pretty embarrassing, and really makes you doubt your own ability to do things. Eventually you get over it and just get cagey about the very specific lead up steps, which is probably a good thing.
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I set some humming bird food to boil a while back. Got distracted in the other room and smelled smoke. Went back into the kitchen and couldn't see the stove there was so much smoke. Then the smoke alarm went off. Very effective. Took hours to scrub the burn sugar out of the pot and days to get rid of the smoke smell in the house.
Pro tip, always set a timer when you walk away from something on the stove.
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About, oh my a decade ago, I had what I call the toffpocalypse. I was drinking and decided to make toffee from sweetened condensed milk by boiling the cans in a pot. Well I inevitably fell asleep and woke up to the alarms in the entire apartment blaring. There was a thick smoke and the dog had pooped on the floor in fear. The cans had exploded when the water boiled away, denting the ceiling and the stove hood. I turned off the stove, opened the windows, and fanned the smoke until the alarms stopped. Luckily the building alarms had not gone off.
I had intended it to be a video gaming heavy weekend as my wife was away visiting a friend. Instead I had to use wet rags to clean toffee off of the ceiling as best as I could for all of Sunday. I did manage to mostly get it all clean. It was a good lesson to learn not to actively cook while not sober, the results could have been much worse, even fatal
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When I was living in a boarding-school like arrangement for people with disabilities once, they had really sensitive smoke detectors and if you tripped them needlessly, you were in for a hell of liability, because they immediately caused complete evacuation pocedures and an automated emergency call where not just a small contingent of firefighters were called. One night, one person forgot their pasta boiling on the stove and fell asleep on the couch in exhaustion - so deeply and long, that all the water boiled away and the noodles burned and tripped the alarm. That exhaustion cost them several thousands of Euros.
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I saw online a cool idea for “pinwheel burgers” and wanted to make them for my kids.
- assembled them after work, had the younger one select and apply the spices
- discovered most of the veggies were dead, and I never bought Cole slaw or cucumbers
- put them on the grill but when I went to flip them discovered I’d run out of propane
- restarted with a new tank but went inside because of the heat and humidity
- came out to flip the burgers and discovered a raging fire, and burgers like hockey pucks.
Luckily I had sufficient backup but after anticipating a new variation of burger and a new variation of Cole slaw, we had dinner two hours late, plain burgers, no veggies
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Caught my shoelaces in my bike chain trying to avoid a shitty driver who almost ran me off the road (I did successfully not get hit by this idiot and eventually got him to realize how bad he was fucking up, yay).
Tired of this bullshit and am probably going to convert my bike from chain and derailleur to belt and hub like I have on my Priority Folder.
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Accidentally put a hot pan on the couch (don't ask) and it BURNED A HOLE in the couch
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Consider this me asking
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Oh I got this. Real good fuck up. So, I run a bunch of services for me and family and friends, like Nextcloud, Immich, Mastodon, etc. All of their data is stored on a big RAID array built with mdadm. I built it before I knew about dm-integrity, so I wanted to rebuild it with dm-integrity running on all the disks. So I took out one disk (it’s a RAID6, so it can stand losing a disk just fine), and added dm-integrity on top of it. When I tried to add it back to the array, mdadm was like, “that’s not a big enough device”. Ok, yeah, makes sense, dm-integrity takes up some space. So I took all the services offline and started a resize2fs to reduce from 22TB to 18TB. Well that was taking forever, so I canceled and ran e2fsck, no worries. I started a new resize2fs reducing from 22TB to 21.8TB, which should be good enough. On pass 4, it’s looking like it’s gonna take 8 DAYS. I can’t have my services offline for that long, so I cancel and run e2fsck. Thousands of errors. Oops.
At least it’s looking like all the errors are just in Mastodon’s cache files.
So now I’m moving all the files to an external drive in order to migrate the array properly. In its degraded state though, the array is painfully slow. At least my services are online.
So basically I risked my files (though I have a backup from about three days before all this), and gave myself an extra maybe ten days(?) of work.
Moral of the story, don’t ever use resize2fs unless you have time to wait.
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I've done something like this before, but thankfully it only impacted services that I host for my own use, didn't affect any family and friends.
Btw, I've found the easiest (but not the cheapest) way to fix this is to simply buy bigger disks. Swap out each disk for a bigger one one-by-one, then resize the whole volume to fill the new disks. Resizing upwards is much faster than shrinking a volume.
I've never had a volume shrink operation work without errors, and yes it takes days if you have more than 4TB.
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Left my bicycle unattended (but locked) for 3 days. Came back to a bicycle without tires. Rip 300€
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Damn that sucks. I have a chain lock but it only loops through the frame and front wheel. I use a shitty old cable with it to loop through the back tire and my pannier strap if I’m leaving it on the bike. I do this because I’ve had a wheel jacked before also, it fucking sucks.
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Recently? The worst was accidentally drinking coffee too late in the evening a few days ago, which, sadly, was more than enough to mess up my well-being for several days at this point in my life.
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well, i woke up for one
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You're not supposed to do that. Rookie mistake.
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This is kinda long and kinda vague: I had a meeting recently with some devs/artists to discuss an upcoming project.
In short, the meeting went poorly. I stood alone against everyone else on the design/direction things were going to be headed.
I was tired and frustrated and walked away basically saying I'm not going to support any of it.
After mulling it over for a day, I felt I was too harsh and unreasonable. I reached back out and apologized and asked to give this one more try.
Well they didn't accept. I guess that bridge is too scorched to go back on. It wasn't until that point that I realized I really messed this one up.
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Bought some parts for my car without checking they fit. Two hour round trip to pick them up, hours grinding the old rust off them, more hours repainting them, another £100 buying all the extra bits I needed to fit them. Then got under the car and realised there was no way they were going to fit. Ended up just buying some refurbished ones off the internet so at least the extra parts weren’t wasted and I get to fit them.
They were anti-roll bars for anyone who cares.
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I was replacing the runner lights for our stairs and was having some resistance pulling, so I tried pulling the other way. It’s currently stuck and I’ll need to take off a section of molding to push it back through. At least I did the other side correctly
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I left a thermocouple connector unsecured and it fell onto an aftertreatment unit during testing.
When the aftertreatment unit was red hot the connector caught fire. 👌Was my first time ever using a fire extinguisher!
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I once forgot to turn off a stove burner and burned a hole in an oven mitt
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Done that before. It scary
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I woke up to yet another day
I washed my dish towels with a yellow orange bag and now they're super bright yellow lol
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Many years ago there was something weirdly wrong with our old washer or dryer where white things occasionally came out stained bright pink. Not an overall tint like if you wash a cheap red shirt in the same load. It was always very distinct vivid stains, like if a little Pepto Bismol got splashed around. We never figured out what the hell was causing it.
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I left the hot water running in the kitchen sink for like 20 minutes and it steamed up the place.
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My bathtub faucet plunger that diverts water to the shower head wasn't working anymore so I couldn't shower. I bought a new one with chrome finish to match the existing hardware in the bathroom. Installed it
Then I decided to CLR douse the water valve and decorative plate and get rid of some hard water staining. It dripped onto the new faucet which clearly wasn't made of the same material because it instantly oxidized.
So that was infuriating.
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Yesterday I didn’t sleep, it was hot and couldn’t sleep.
Got up at 4am, went to work, ran errands. Then as I was driving I put the car in reverse in the freeway instead of 6th gear. What the fuck. Grinding noise.
Turns out the car no longer goes in reverse. I believe I bent the teeth in the synchro gears. Fuuuu, need to pull the transmission and take it all apart. I don’t even have concrete or anything yet. I have lived here 6 months on raw land. I guess for the next few years I need to push the car if I get stuck lol
I plan to have an automotive workshop when we build the garage, but that might be a few years away.
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Does 1st still work? Reverse isn't usually synchro'd, it's just an idler for 1st to reverse the rotation of the output shaft.
If 1st still works, then your probably just chewed all the teeth off the idler, or shattered the gear.
Anyway. I'm impressed you managed to force it into reverse at highway speeds, that takes some serious strength (props to your shifter and linkages too), and your transmission is full of metal shavings at this point, so if you are going to drive without fixing it for a while, at least flush the fluid out.
Have fun using the Flintstone drive for reversing.
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Bumped into something sharp and it cut me. No biggie. Except for the part where I haven't self harmed in 3.5 years and it looks EXACTLY like something I would've done intentionally. Mildly triggering. I'll live though.
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scary! did you lose the pan?
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Fortunately not, cast iron is damn near invincible. Just a lot of smoke and a brief bit of terror.
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By stepping back into an abusive relationship and not knowing how to get out without fear of the person committing suicide and leaving 3 children with no parent.
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Their choices are not your responsibility.
Their choices are not dependent on your choices.
You choose your own actions. You don't control theirs.
Fear is just a feeling, don't let it control you or stop you. Face it. Deal with it. Don't listen to it.
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Username checks out
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I decided it was a good idea to do the mandatory university stage while also working this summer, while also trying to pass my last four exams. I greatly overstimaded my capacities and the trust i should have gave to my employee when they said i would be working just some days a week.
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Bought a new car on the spot after a test drive. Most stupid decision of my life. It was only a week after I had wrecked my longtime car. Must have still been in some kind of weird mental state, although I felt fine at the time. Don't do that. Do not. Do that. Test drive, think about it, go back if you're still interested. You'll thank yourself.
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Posting online that Luigi did nothing wrong? Social Credit™? Flagged.
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What is that ? is that what the chinese have ?
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Coming soon, to a
livestock penUS community near you! 😅
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My work decided to close for Juneteenth, but then I had to come back on Friday, and I told everyone I was going to request that Friday off so I could have a four-day weekend for the price of one day of PTO, and I forgot to do it, so I had to work a weird bizarroland hellscape Friday where we had just had a day off so we have like a little bit more energy than usual, but then the weekend is also about to hit so everyone wanted to leave, but everyone also wanted to get all of their work done, so for me it was just a fucking nightmare.
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Bought 2 bananas and 2 apples for work, but forgot to take the receipt. That small 2$ mistake, was apparently enough to make our "smart and automated" accounting system brick itself. Woups.
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Just scribble "fuck you it's two dollars" on a napkin and scan that in.
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Agreed to manage our clients AVD environment.
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I can see you on the hill
Comatose but walking still
Curves beneath your flowing gown
Only I could bring you downWhy do I keep fuckin' up?
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I did nothing to improve my situation
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I wrote a long thoughtful reply to a heavily downvoted post only to find the post had been deleted before I could hit submit, and I hadn't copied the text.
Oof that is pain. I have started to just move to a local text editor when i realize the comment is getting long.
I have a window open in my preferred text editor that is perma-opened for ephemeral writing just such as you’re describing.
I have textarea cache browser again installed (on desktop) for those rare cases where I want to recover text input.
I wouldn't attribute a fuckup on your end though. Just really unfortunate and depressing. Caused by someone else.
Eh, the mistake was in engaging with a post that was surely about to be deleted by the OP.
Yeah, I wish there was a way to delete a post with out deleting it to preserve comments.
Maybe an "abandon" feature. It removes your user name from public view and does a simple find and replace to remove your name in the comments. The post can live on, but now you have nothing to do with it. The user would have a "abandoned post" counter, this so we know if a user is constantly abandoning posts and can block them. Or put a hard cap, more than 2 a month = banned from posting until mod appeal. Posts with 0 comments face no penalty and are deleted.
Someone still needs to be able reference to the original poster for modding and blocking purposes.