I just realized while cooking that a measuring-cup cup (as measured out as 250mL in a glass measuring cup) is the same amount(s) as one of the actual plastic baking measuring cups that go inside each other like Russian dolls lol

I thought they were different somehow (something something imperial metric yadda yadda yaddda)

Your turn to come clean Lemmings!

**EDIT: to clarify, I mean volumetrically for measuring liquids

  • Koof_on_the_Roof@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Mum: we’re definitely going the wrong way

    Me: how do you know?

    Mum: because we need to go south and we are currently going north

    Me: how do you know we are going north?

    Mum: because the sun sets in the west

    Me: oh…

    • Mechanismatic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Technically, you could say we’re the ones who set since it’s the Earth’s rotation causing the change.

    • tal@lemmy.today
      0·
      1 year ago

      I used to use the sun.

      Then I had a car compass for a while.

      But, honestly, everyone’s got a GPS-enabled cell phone these days, and unless you’re worried about running out of charge, that pretty much beats the pants off anything else.

      EDIT: And if you’re in an operable car, then you, in all likelihood, have a source of electricity in the form of the cigarette lighter.

      • rammer@sopuli.xyz
        0·
        1 year ago

        You at least know how to use the sun. There are many who have never bothered to learn.

    • Hylactor@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      1 year ago

      I’ll try to cheer you up a little:

      Owning a house: to an extent traps you in a physical location. Your job pool is smaller, and everyone you like who doesn’t own a home eventually moves away. As a bonus, the longer that pattern goes on, the older you get, and the more difficult to replace the departed becomes.

      No kids: You seem pretty upset about global warming and the economy. Not having children has to be one of the single most impactful environmental choices you can make. I don’t have figures but your carbon footprint has to be a fraction of anyone with kids. Also, if systematic collapse is as inevitable and imminent as you suspect, it’s a good thing you don’t have any kid(s) for to be exploited by Tina Turner into fighting to the death in a big iron cage.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    Until he was 50 years old my father did not know how his mother could see through walls.

    When he was little his mother sat in the living room while he was playing with his sister in their playroom. With a wall and a hallway between them. But every time he tried to pull his sister’s hair or something their mother would shout from the living room for him to stop it. He was really angry and confused because he couldn’t fathom how she could see them.

    On his 50th birthday his mother revealed that she could see them perfectly fine through the reflection in a wardrobe that stood in the hallway.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      mirror/reflection

      Yep, that’ll do it, altho its weird he didn’t see her. Mirrors reflections are usually bidirectional, no? Like if I see you <-> you see me usually…

      • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        You get used to seeing something your whole life and it becomes background noise, but it wouldn’t have been like that for the mom’s whole life, she’d be more likely to notice that she can see him that way.

      • rdyoung@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It depends on the angle. There are definitely times you can see someone/something but they can’t see you.

    • bridge_too_close@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      There are more peppers like that, too:
      poblano - ancho
      chilaca - pasilla
      anaheim - colorado
      mirasol - guahillo
      serrano - chile seco
      bola - cascabel

      Also related: green, yellow, orange, and red bell peppers are all the same pepper, just various stages of ripeness. Guess I had my own dumb moment in this thread. Not sure where I read my take, but the reply to mine is correct.

      • Soggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Bell pepper thing is false. Green ones are usually underripe red bells but the other colors are all equally ripe. This is easy to fact check: look for less ripe peppers at the store, they will be red with green splotches rather than yellow or orange. Or you can shop for bell pepper seeds online.

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I thought Edinburgh was two different places because of pronunciation.

    I always read it as pronounced like -berg, but there was this other, similar town pronounced -bruh or -boro that people talked about.

    Just one of those place names that didn’t come up often at all, so I never compared them in my head and wondered if “hey, these might be the same place…” It came up and bit me in conversation far too recently where my misunderstanding was worth a laugh among friends.

    That, and I thought we’d elect basically decent (as far as politicians go) people to the presidency that would at least honor tradition and the institution. Boy, was I wrong about that.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Every time I drive into the city centre I pass a sign for the Eastport exit. You never hear about Eastport on the news and I figured it must be the most boring part of the city - until I finally realised it was the sign for the East motorway exit to reach the sea port. 😟

  • swordsmanluke@programming.dev
    2·
    1 year ago

    Growing up deep in the dusty heart of the American West, I lived far from the conveniences and attractions of city life. But once in a blue moon, my parents would take my siblings and I to enjoy the rides at the park in The City.

    Despite being the region’s commercial hub, The City was small - barely 50,000 souls - yet it contained a park with mechanical rides. It was less a theme park and more a clamorous set of decrepit carnival rides that had been once erected and never removed. Naturally, the rides at the park were a favorite birthday treat.

    The years passed and I traded the wide open spaces for a major metropolis, but I never forgot that little park and its rides.

    …And so it was not until my thirty-third year that I realized the many signs upon our nation’s freeways were advertising commuter parking lots - and not a local “Park and Ride”.

  • PrincessTardigrade@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Rhode Island isn’t really an island. Like, yeah it’s named after one of its islands, but people who live in the state are on the continental part. I thought the whole state was an island lmao

  • jpreston2005@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Well those wires that hold telephone poles and other such tall objects in position? those aren’t called “guide-wires.”

    They’re called “Guy wires.”

    I think that’s pretty dumb of everyone else tho

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Haha, that sounds like more of a BoneAppleTea or Rickyism but funny nontheless ;) Its not even objectively unreasonable, so props smartypants

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Having a tooth pulled wouldn’t be that expensive.

    Now I see why Noone in America goes to the dentist

      • nizvicious@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Wow I had one of mine removed and it costed 580 Euros, been putting off going because they checked the other teeth and had to get two fillings total bill was 1,140 Euros. Sucks because I was told when this happened two years ago that I’d need the other one pulled out soon and after that costing just over half my months pay, I have been putting it off.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
        01·
        1 year ago

        This old lady I know went and got a prescription filled last week. The co-pay was $24. Not bad, I don’t know what medicine it is. Then she got home and couldn’t find it. After looking everywhere and not finding it (probably threw it out by accident) she went back to get a refill and said,“I’ll just pay cash for this, I fucked up” and it rung up at $10. The cash price was less than half the insurance price. What the fuck is that?

    • qantravon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I grew up calling them Mosquito Hawks and was told the same thing. Urban legend with good cultural penetration, I guess.

      • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I started using Reddit when I was 13, I’m currently 24 so still a kid depending on who I ask.

        For years in early Reddit, it always felt like everyone on the site was just people browsing it in work, to the point where ‘summer reddit’ was a thing because the quality would drop when the kids weren’t in school. You could feel the difference in the website between work days and weekends.

        That’s exactly how Lemmy feels now. I bunch of people in their 20s and 30s who all have jobs Infront of a computer, sometimes I’m sad that this site isn’t filled with Gen Z because they are the critical generation. It’s much less progressive for the internet if this site is filled with old fogies nostalgic for the golden age of the internet, than it is if it’s equally filled with enthusiastic kids who never saw the unfiltered internet but want to ride the fediverse train regardless, because they believe in it.

        I hope everyone on Lemmy didn’t grow up with the old internet, because it means they believe in something they haven’t seen.

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
          07·
          1 year ago

          The quality of discussion is terrible because there’s so many kids, and because Gen Z is just dumber than previous generations. So many stupid edgy hot takes with no actual analysis behind them. Gen Z is almost as bad about “feelings before facts” as boomers.

          • PatMustard@feddit.ukEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            Stop making stupid generalisations about generations like you’re some kind of enlightened genius. Kids are always stupid, old people are always stupid, everyone’s stupid, especially you!

  • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Honest question, have you ever measured anything for cooking?

    You really can’t measure solids in the liquid cup and you can’t really measure liquids in the solid cups.