Home Improvement Thread

[Willie Kool]

Banana was in skin I believe

If you want to move 3 in front of 2 no objection.

It was most likely discarded for a valid reason. I mean, who throws away a perfectly good banana?

Besides, this is a very slippery slope. It starts with taking only wrapped food or fruit in peelable skins from office garbage cans. "Look, a banana, and it's right on top" or "it's still in the sealed wrapper" but soon leads to something a little more adventurous - like finishing a stranger's half-eaten pizza. Next thing you know, you're 'shopping' from the dumpsters behind the grocery stores.

[tifosi77]

lol...... just went and dug up the original post (from 2013!)

Say you are in the kitchenette in your office cleaning your teacup at the end of the day, and when dumping used tea leaves into the trash can you notice a banana sitting on top. It’s not rotten or overripe, and upon picking it up you observe that the peel appears completely intact and unpunctured. It appears in all respects to be a perfect normal, nicely ripe, unmolested example of the fruit of Musa acuminata. The trash can in question didn’t contain anything nasty or toxic, and let’s say you also wash off the banana’s peel with soap and water. Let’s also assume said banana is now sitting on your desk. If you for the sake of argument a banana would really hit the spot right now, would you eat it?

[meow]

Was it below the rim?

[NTP66]

I fully expect the person who washes fruit using soap to also eat out of the rubbish.

[Shyster]

Banana was in skin I believe

Correct. The bananas in question (note the plural) have always been unpeeled, with no breaks or openings in the skin. And I even washed off the outside before eating them.

[slappybrown]

Banana was in skin I believe

If you want to move 3 in front of 2 no objection.

It was most likely discarded for a valid reason. I mean, who throws away a perfectly good banana?

Besides, this is a very slippery slope. It starts with taking only wrapped food or fruit in peelable skins from office garbage cans. "Look, a banana, and it's right on top" or "it's still in the sealed wrapper" but soon leads to something a little more adventurous - like finishing a stranger's half-eaten pizza. Next thing you know, you're 'shopping' from the dumpsters behind the grocery stores.

In the realm of "how offensive is this mutant behavior", Its still "better" than plucking a hair from your dang head and flossing your teeth with it.

[willeyeam]

Welcome to the home improvement thread 5af

[dodint]

Still not safe huh?

[slappybrown]

Welcome to the home improvement thread 5af

I live for this

[Willie Kool]

In the realm of "how offensive is this mutant behavior", Its still "better" than plucking a hair from your dang head and flossing your teeth with it.

A new survey conducted by the marketing firm Ipsos finds 80 percent of Americans admit to using something slightly unorthodox, inappropriate or unhygienic to remove food particles from their teeth. Conducted on behalf of Waterpik and in consultation with the American Dental Association, the report—based on responses from just over 1,000 adults—identifies the items Americans most commonly use as makeshift dental implements. These include fingernails (61 percent), folded paper or cards (40 percent), cutlery (21 percent, including fork, knife, or spoon), safety pins (14 percent) and a strand of hair (7 percent).

http://www.newsweek.com/flossing-teeth- ... ene-687861

I'd argue that, maybe aside from cutlery, hair is the cleanest option listed.

[dodint]

I assumed the gross part was that you're left walking around with food bits and spittle in your hair after you're done.

[Willie Kool]

I assumed the gross part was that you're left walking around with food bits and spittle in your hair after you're done.

Good god man, I'm not a neanderthal. I pulled the hairs out first, and I've done it maybe a half dozen times at most. I usually have floss at work and in the car if I need it. In these instances I didn't, so I improvised.

What's worse - privately hair flossing or going all day with a piece of food that other methods had failed to dislodge, visibly stuck in your teeth?

[mac5155]

Perhaps moving to the top of the list over garbage bananas, blow drying your grundle, flossing your teeth with hair, biting your toenails off...

Woohoo! I'm two of the top four!

Kitchen in the daytime
4/5ths of a pizza

Come on slap

[willeyeam]

Did you turn it off and back on again?

Not joking, really. That's what I have to do to mine.

That was step #1. Intake and exhaust pipes outside got clogged with snow and ice. Cleared those then restarted it again and we are back in business

the intake pipe has gotten clogged with snow like 4 times in the past two weeks. am i incredibly unlucky or could something else be up that is causing condensation to freeze in there? i'd chalk it up to recent weather but i've lived there a year and a half and it didn't happen once last year.. i know we had a mild winter but still.

[NTP66]

Did you turn it off and back on again?

Not joking, really. That's what I have to do to mine.

That was step #1. Intake and exhaust pipes outside got clogged with snow and ice. Cleared those then restarted it again and we are back in business

the intake pipe has gotten clogged with snow like 4 times in the past two weeks. am i incredibly unlucky or could something else be up that is causing condensation to freeze in there? i'd chalk it up to recent weather but i've lived there a year and a half and it didn't happen once last year.. i know we had a mild winter but still.

How is snow getting into your intake pipe? The intake should be pointed to the ground, with the exhaust pointed straight out. I guess it's possible that wind-driven snow is blowing up into it, but I've never seen anything like that before. Do you have wire mesh on the pipe? That might be your next stop. It should help with not only snow, but rodents. They make caps specifically for these applications.

[willeyeam]

yea the one on the left doesn't point straight down, it's about a 45 degree angle down and left.. i'm wondering if i've just been unlucky that the wind has been blowing towards it this month. I think the cap is next for sure, just didn't know if something could be mechanically wrong to produce condensation in there as opposed to it being snow blown into it. It's probably just the snow.

[meow]

plant a bush in front of it

[Silentom]

Buy another 45° and point it down.

[dodint]

That's another angle of attack, sure.

[NTP66]

Silentom is going to continue suggesting 45s until you've got a crazy straw intake.

[willeyeam]

That's another angle of attack, sure.

this was good

[Silentom]

Silentom is going to continue suggesting 45s until you've got a crazy straw intake.

45 and Alt+0176 you pleb.

[NTP66]

Silentom is going to continue suggesting 45s until you've got a crazy straw intake.

45 and Alt+0176 you pleb.

I prefer forty-fives over forty five degreeses.

[Silentom]

[dodint]