• Sonor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago
    • me, an icecube
    • finally, it’s my day to shine
    • someone finally takes me out of the fridge
    • clumsy mofo drops me, I’m spiraling downwards into the deep unkown
    • when i think it can’t be worse, i got kicked back into the darkness i came from
    • fml
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      • me, an ice cube
      • ugh, no I don’t want to leave the freezer
      • oh no! He’s picking me! Grab one of my annoying neighbours please!
      • you know what? I’ll jump out of his hands! He’ll surely have to pick me up and put me back.
      • what the fuck? He just kicks me underneath the freezer to melt uselessly?!
      • fml
      • dave@feddit.uk
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        • me, an ice cube
        • can’t wait to get out of this place
        • door opens every day, but never get to leave
        • anon finally picks me out–this is my chance
        • wriggle out of his inept grip
        • make a break for freedom under the fridge
        • mfw the fuckwit helps by actually kicking me further under
        • Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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          • me, an ice cube
          • want to see the outside
          • the door opens and i get picked
          • exited i try to look around
          • get dropped on the floor, still exited
          • get kicked under the fridge
          • enraged i take revenge by feeding mold and warping the floor
  • allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world
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    My brother-in-law did this at my house the other day! My jaw almost hit the floor watching him try to kick that shit under the fridge. He did it in front of his son too. They didn’t seee behind them, so I bent over and picked up the cubes and told them we don’t do that in this house. I told my wife and she told her sister, they were both surprised. I had no idea people did this. Just pick them up and toss them in the sink.

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      Rinse the ice and then keep using it. It’s literally pristine again.

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        Something tells me we can trust this user on their knowledge of ice and its limits.

          • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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            Ice is naturally antimicrobial because North Face doesn’t make any coats small enough for bacteria and whatever so they get too cold and drive their little RVs down to Little Florida

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        Melt the ice cube, boil the resulting water to evaporate it, collect the vapour in a condenser, refreeze it… boom!

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          just… eww

          Why? Just clean them after every use. How is a plastic cube different than drinking from a plastic cup?

          I have steel cubes with liquid inside (not sure if water) and I love them. I can put ice cubes into beer and other drinks without watering them down.

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            Metal ones seem nice. I agree with the plastic ones being shitty though. It just seems like more waste and microplastics being added to my brain fork.

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            I got tired of wondering what the random particles were that ended up in my ice, plus that smell and taste, so I tried getting a metal ice cube tray and now my ice is just ice. Dunno what but something was leeching from the plastic tray into the ice. It was old, so maybe that had something to do with it.

            But yeah, I agree that there’s not much difference from drinking from a plastic cup, which is why most of my cups are glass and my water bottles are metal. I still have a few plastic cooking utensils but have been transitioning to wooden and metal. I stopped using non stick pans, too. Dunno how much of a difference it’s making in my life but I make an effort to minimize all plastic use.

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            Why? Just clean them after every use. How is a plastic cube different than drinking from a plastic cup?

            the plastic cup is made to be thrown away, otherwise you’d be drinking out of a nice glass/ceramic cup if you were gonna wash it anyways

            the plastic cubes would shred more and more microplastics as you wash them-and inevitably scuff the surface even more

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          I’m actually not joking, if you rinse an ice cube. Superficial ice immediately melts and is rinsed away. You could have dipped it in engine oil and it would be immediately pure ice after rinsing.

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            Yeah, it’s probably fine… but still, it’s just an ice cube. Maybe if it’s like… the last one or something.

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            You’re assuming that all the contamination is on the surface, but there is hair, lint, and other particles under your fridge that will stick into the ice.

            Also, your example of motor oil was a poor choice. Oil is probably not going to stick to your ice, unless it is in contact long enough to freeze, or get viscous enough to cling to it, and oil will not rinse away cleanly.

            Also, how bad to you need to save one ice cube?

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              Hair and lint can stick to the ice, but try it for yourself, ice isn’t a sponge. The only way for anything on the surface to work it’s way in is to melt it’s way in, and then freeze the outer shell again. Akin to dropping the ice, kicking it under the fridge, fishing it back out, tossing it back into the ice tray. In which case, you deserve all the hair in your cocktail.

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            My ice cubes are small enough that rinsing them would waste more water than just tossing the very few that fall. I toss em in the sink.

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          I have metal versions. I don’t really use em, but they’re for stuff like alcoholic drinks or whiskey on ice but for if you don’t want it to get watered down, just cold. I have two that look like metal golf balls and 6 that are small cubes,and they generally just sit somewhere atm.

          I’ve used em to cool booze before, but I haven’t drank any high percentage alcohol in a while.

          • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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            Don’t put ice in your whisky. It’s supposed to be enjoyed at room temperature optionally with a splash of water. If you chill it the aromatic flavours are muted and it tastes bland.

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              Propylene glycol/water mix would be my guess; they noticeably don’t crystalize the same way pure water does

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    I’m trying really hard not to comment something like “Welcome to one of many, many joys of living with an immature teenage child.”

    Kicking the ice under the fridge is actually one of the least aggravating of the shitty things to do in the kitchen, but so indicative of what type of person they are. Other well-known classics include leaving a microscopically small portion of milk in the carton to avoid having to rinse the thing out and place it in the recycle bin and using the last clean cup in the cabinet so that you don’t have to bring one of the dozen+ dirty cups you’ve accumulated in your room to the kitchen to be cleaned for reuse. Oh, and let’s not forget drop a spoon of peanut butter the floor and leave it for the dog to clean up even though you know she’s allergic to it so it makes her throw up and then later on causes a bunch of skin issues for her.

    No, I’m not the least bit bitter. Why do you ask?

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        I have this formative moment from my teenage years where I finished something in the fridge and asked my parents if I should leave the packaging in there. My dad, obviously frustrated with the question, snapped back asking if I saw an accumulation of empty packaging in the fridge.

        My kids are starting to do this now. I’m still perplexed why this is the default our brains take.

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            I read through that literacy link a bit. Very interesting. I was assuming at least a majority of the adult illiteracy was from people born outside the country, but that’s only 34% of them! Do you know how California has the lowest rate by state? Are those 34% concentrated there, or is public school particularly bad there? I’m not American.

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          I think its just a “this was in there before so it must go back in after im done using it,” since it’s only when it’s fully empty that changes.

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        You’re overthinking this. He doesn’t care because he didn’t see the consequences. He throws in the ice. He cleans and take shot the trash.

        A lot of people start thinking real fast when they have to face the consequences of their actions.

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          years back, my eldest daughter was the only one in the family with long hair (wife and I keep ours short, at the time the rest of the kids also kept short hair - that’s changed now), and she would just let that go down the drain in the bath, which would eventually clog the drain.

          The first couple times, I cleaned it and had gotten one of those strainer things to help keep the hair out. She would always “forget” to use it, even though it was always over the drain (the plug is one of those pop-up ones so you can open and close it without moving the strainer out of the way).

          The next time the drain clogged, I handed her a bag and an old pair of pliers and told her to get to cleaning. That strainer has been on the drain ever since.

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        Very well said!

        It’s like everybody wants an easy shortcut to living a good life, and they don’t know the secret, so they just go through life on autopilot letting society tell them what they should be into.

        Sometimes remembering to live in the moment and appreciate the simple things will be the best part of my day.

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      I don’t mind that, because I use a small amount of milk for coffee and even a tiny bit is enough.