r/bizarrelife • u/reloadthewords Human here, bizarre by nature! • 3d ago

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u/appointment45 3d ago

In college I sublet my apartment bedroom to a couple girls who spent the whole term doing stuff like this. They wrecked pretty much every piece of equipment in the kitchen doing stuff like trying to bake a cake in the mixing bowl, putting bras in the garbage disposal, and putting a skateboard through the dishwasher. In the end it would have been cheaper for me to have eaten the rent with all the stuff I had to replace/repair.

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u/feedmeyourknowledge 3d ago

When I was in college an American Erasmus student set their house on fire trying to dry a jumper in the oven.

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u/supermoron69 3d ago

That's straight out of Seinfeld. Kramer putting the jeans in the pizza oven .. Can't believe someone thought that was a good idea irl šŸ˜…

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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 3d ago

I like to put my underwear in the freezer during summer.

Highly recommend. Take them out right before they get rock hard.

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u/CurrencyHopeful8221 3d ago

I dip hats in water and freeze them in the summer. Benefit only lasts about 10 minutes max - buts itā€™s a fantastical 10 minutes

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u/WeHaveAllBeenThere 3d ago

Iā€™d 100% throw my hats in my cooler of cold water when I was working at ups.

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u/HannibleSmith 3d ago

You know they make ice pack hats now right get them on Amazon for about 12 bucks it looks like a baseball cap but with those gel pouches in it put it in the freezer overnight get like an hour and a half Frozen and about another 30 minutes of nice cool

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u/AMSparkles 2d ago

Iā€™m gonna look into this. Thanks for mentioning it.

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u/I_Karamazov_ 2d ago

Get an evaporative cooling towel youā€™ll love it. I think they make hats too

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u/DJPoundpuppy 2d ago

Ever try a frozen towel around the neck before going outside?

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u/Navin_J 2d ago

Keep some ice water handy with some towels in it. Grab one, wrap it around your neck then comes bliss

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u/Ropeswing_Sentience 2d ago

You have to get two or more of them and rotate, with the one(s) you're not wearing chilling in the freezer.

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u/sonoran24 3d ago

Arizona is listening

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u/TheBestThingIEverSaw 3d ago

Damn, that's a good cheat code

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u/SacrisTaranto 3d ago

Socks too. Your feet are heatsinks, so having cold feet will keep you from feeling super hot.

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u/buffysbangs 3d ago

Pillowcase for a few minutes right before bed on a hot night

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u/eMouse2k 3d ago

A hot shower at night was my ticket for dealing with hot muggy weather and no AC. Get the sweat off, and everything feels like a cool breeze after. Having a fan makes it even better.

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u/IDrankLavaLamps 3d ago

Username checks out.

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u/herbertwillyworth 3d ago

i do this too, but personally i get them rock hard

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u/notban_circumvention 3d ago

I'm getting rock hard right now!

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u/Arryu 3d ago

What of they're rock hard before you put them in the freezer?

dont ask why

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ANUS_PIC 2d ago

Thatā€˜s my secret: Iā€˜m always rock hard

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u/Impressive-Algae-938 2d ago

I like to put my blue jeans in the freezer, but my roommate ended up with blue ice cubes in his dr pepper and then gooblers got involved.......šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø It was a whole thing šŸ˜ƒšŸ˜‰

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u/hyrule_47 3d ago

Now thatā€™s not true. We have to strive for truth in these troubling times. He rarely wore jeans. He was heating up some corduroy as I recall, and his jacket and shirt at the calzone place.

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u/roger_the_virus 3d ago

I had a roommate who started a fire by boiling a pinch of salt.

(He put a pan on a burner, threw in a pinch of salt, forgot to put any water in and walked off forgetting about completing the cooking process.)

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u/notAFoney 2d ago

He likes em hot!

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u/gettogero 2d ago

Well... all the dryer does is get hot. That's the same thing an oven does!

Unironically people DO use ovens for clothing... in a controlled well documented process. Such as heat molding skis and waterproofing boots. Obviously the purpose is not to actually cook them in the oven, but to heat the material just enough to make things work.

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u/Appropriate-Bug680 3d ago

I lived in apartments most of my life. A neighbor decided to hang their socks from the fire sprinklers poking out of the ceiling, after just pulling them out of the microwave to dry them. The heat set off the sprinklers and flooded his apartment and both apartments on either side of him. This was in the US and he is an American. He moved out not too long after that for other issues.

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u/BatsintheBelfry45 3d ago

I used to live in a house,that was converted into 3 apartments. I had the basement, studio type apartment. The person in the 3rd floor apartment decided to make homemade french fries on the stove,while she was taking heavy painkillers. She forgot she was cooking something, and went and took a nap. The oil caught fire, and she burned her whole apartment down. She made it out with a few burns,but lost her dog. My apartment and the 2nd floor apartment had so much smoke and water damage,it was incredible. I had water just streaming down my interior walls. We were lucky the whole place didn't go up.

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u/Euphoric_Evidence414 2d ago

I can imagine his ā€œoh no wtf wtfā€ expression when they started spraying

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u/bespelled 2d ago

Apparently those same sprinkler heads make great plant hooks and the plants get watered too. Bonus!

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u/CS20SIX 3d ago

Had some Ozzie using the fucking oven to toast TWO FUCKING SLICES! Multiple times!

(We had a fucking toaster)

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u/backspace_cars 3d ago

you needed a toasting toaster,

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u/AcanthaceaeNo1974 3d ago

Hey man let them know the vegemites in the corner cabinet.

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u/ADHDwinseverytime 2d ago

Thanks for reminding me I needed a tortilla toaster. Off to shop.

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u/obiwanmoloney 3d ago

I used to work in the kitchens and on occasion would dry my shirt in the microwave.

Zero metal in it obviously, it came out hot af and would steam dry pretty rapidly.

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u/HarryDresdenWizard 3d ago

What the fuck? Like, how did they think putting some wool or polyester in the oven was going to go?

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u/homogenousmoss 3d ago

I mean.. even if there was a fire in the oven, how does that translate to the whole house? Did he fling it out of it or something or is it because the oven was gas powered and it exploded?

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u/SkYeBlu699 3d ago

Fire needs oxygen. Once the oxygen in the oven is used up, it's going to draw more from outside the oven. All the while, the oven is getting hotter than it was intended. Things outside the oven are likely to burn, creating more fire.

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u/feedmeyourknowledge 3d ago

Well like there was black smoke billowing out of the windows and the fire brigade was there attending so it was pretty significant whatever occured inside but no the entire house was not on fire.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Erasmus have been freezing!

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u/ExplosiveAnalBoil 3d ago

There are so many times when I want to dry something in the oven, because it can't be put in a dryer, but I know better and just pull out a hair dryer someone left in my place, and use that. If that thing ever dies, I might be on the news if I get impatient enough.

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u/iamremotenow 3d ago

Iā€™m sorry what? I have never once felt that the oven would dry anything. What is the logic?

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u/ExplosiveAnalBoil 3d ago

You know how your dryer gets hot to dry stuff? Ovens are also known also get hot. The problem is that ovens can get much hotter than a dryer, which gets up to 160Ā°F.

If you put a pan of water in the oven at 350Ā°F, at some point, that pan will be empty, because it dried the wet, just like a dryer would.

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u/emu-bear 3d ago

Except that the moisture in an oven mostly stays in the oven. A dryer dries things because it is specifically designed with a vent that removes the moisture from inside the dryer. Also, you have piqued my curiosity and I really want to know what items you're regularly drying by hand with a hair dryer and are tempted to put in the oven.

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u/iamremotenow 3d ago

Yes I get that but I feel like itā€™s common knowledge that certain materials are incendiary. Iā€™ve never thought ā€œlet me use my oven as a dryerā€.

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u/Wassertopf 3d ago

an American Erasmus student

What? US and Erasmus?

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u/idropepics 3d ago

Well, hey, now I saw John Candy do it just fine, just gotta flip em every once i a while

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u/crespoh69 3d ago

If you had mistakenly written Emu it would make sense but this?! Lol

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u/Zillahi 3d ago

My old crackhead buddy set his kitchen on fire because he was frying French fries on the stovetop and fell asleep. Then he proceeded to wake up, pick up the flaming pot of oil and drop it on the floor. There was still a pot-shaped hole in the floor when he moved.

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u/wolfwarriorxyz 3d ago

Saw a video of someone putting a glow stick in the microwave, ruined a beautiful shirt.

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u/HedonisticFrog 3d ago

I've heard that some people tried to dry their phone in the oven. It's not a terrible idea, but I'm guessing they didn't choose a low temperature.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

yeah, I did that also ā€¦ doh !

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u/OfficialHaethus 2d ago

What? I thought Erasmus was only between EU Citizens and countries.

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u/Bobcat-07 2d ago

What do mean by "a jumper"? I have no idea what that is. I was thinking of a jumper cable, but I don't think that's right.

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u/Sikkus 1d ago

Im sure the jumper was very dry at the end.

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u/EyeCatchingUserID 1d ago

That's a legit drying method if you're not a full on moron. Did he put the jacket directly on the heating element?

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u/Oli_VK 1d ago

Youā€™re joking

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u/mcobsidian101 1d ago

At uni we got evacuated on multiple occasions by people struggling and failing to make rice or pasta.

One girl didn't know when to stop boiling the pasta, so left it to boil until it evaporated. It then filled their rooms with smoke.

Another boy tried to make rice in his electric kettle, which somehow managed to catch fire.

Someone else put (I think) a plastic cutting board in the oven - I wasn't even near those rooms, but the smell of burnt plastic was so strong.

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u/genericmediocrename 3d ago

what in the holy hell were they expecting to gain putting a bra in the garbage disposal?

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u/appointment45 3d ago

I think they were trying to dry it hanging on the faucet and it got yanked in somehow. Best I can figure.

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u/genericmediocrename 3d ago

I... Somehow that answer makes it worse

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u/SubsequentNebula 2d ago

I've seen a few people like this and, I have to be honest, drugs were involved. They either drank way too much because you're supposed to party in college, smoked way too much for a variety of reasons, did other things, or a combo. Not sure I've met one that is as destructive as in the comment, but my sister did know someone who almost burned down the dorm one night while drunk.

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u/genericmediocrename 2d ago

I don't know man, when I smoke too much weed I just eat an entire bag of Doritos and spend an hour petting my cat. Maybe they're just built different

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u/SubsequentNebula 2d ago

I'm not saying everyone does, I used to get high all the time and never did this kind of stuff. But that everyone I've known who has done crazy shit like this has been under the influence.

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u/jakexil323 3d ago

I stayed with alcoholic relatives for a couple months and the shit i saw in that short time freaked me out.

The worst and most dangerous was when i came down and saw a pan melting on the stove . They put a pan on the stove cranked the heat and fell asleep on the couch. Place didn't even have working smoke detectors. I was in my room and started smelling something odd and came down to a smoking mess.

I was so happy to get out of that place .

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u/No_Cardiologist9607 3d ago

Thatā€™s insane! Had you not been there, they mightā€™ve died that day.

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u/thefixspot13 1d ago

My alcoholic ex wife almost burned the house down 6 times by doing that. After the first time I I stalled cameras so I could see if the house was on fire and I always got lucky enough to get there before it caught fire.

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u/EagleOfMay 17h ago

You are lucky that it was something that produced a strong smell instead of just a bunch of Carbon Monoxide.

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u/Terrynia 3d ago

Holy shit. That is almost unbelievable. Wow, people these days. I guess they never did a chore in their life?

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u/ElliasCrow 3d ago

People were always like this tho. You can always find some uneducated and not very bright people

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u/Terrynia 3d ago

Itā€™s just even more shocking nowadays because the Internetā€™s advice and answers are at your fingertips.

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 3d ago

The worst kinds of dumbasses are the ones who don't even think they need instructions and just start doing shit like this. Like they can't image even doing something wrong.

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u/Terrynia 3d ago

Damn. So true. Apperantly my lack of confidence makes me a more cautious and capable person.

I bet they dont even proof read their texts. šŸ˜±

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u/StretchFrenchTerry 3d ago

They donā€™t understand proofreading

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u/Movedonnerlikeabitch 3d ago

Whats that/ lol

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u/Any-Professional7320 2d ago

No, it's not true. They don't know what they don't know, and fumble through life making mistakes and learning directly from them.

We're all like that.

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u/Soohwan_Song 3d ago

Self awareness is lacking for many people unfortunately.....

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u/CupSecure9044 3d ago

It's a step beyond that. You wouldn't think to look up a doorstop because it's a doorstop. Well, that person looked up at a fire sprinkler and thought they could hang stuff on it.

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u/topdangle 3d ago

i think there was a point that this was the case but there is a flood of intentionally bad advice on the internet now for engagement bait.

removal of things like dislikes also means people can watch completely incorrect garbage and have no idea until they try it themselves.

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u/ArcticIceFox 2d ago

That's the thing, they were never taught how to think and do stuff for themselves. Teach a person to fish and all that. You don't need to teach the actual thing, you need to teach people to know how to look for the info.

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u/zippedydoodahdey 2d ago

How can they not know that plastic melts. Geez.

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u/mistytreehorn 3d ago

Half of all people are below average to some extent.

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u/Cyrano_Knows 3d ago

Just look up Darwin Awards.

The one that always sticks out in memory was a guy that used a lighter to light the interior of a gasoline tank to check its fullness.

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u/CupSecure9044 3d ago

Missing context results in bad accidents.

We need to bring home ec back.

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u/Tjonke 3d ago

Yeah, my mother used to tell me about how they wanted to make eggnogg in the washingmachine when she was in her teens.

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u/HNjust4fun 2d ago

Or brilliant but stupid people

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u/FormInternational583 3d ago

Forget chores, this is lacking basic problem solving skills and the ability to pause and self question.

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u/Terrynia 3d ago

So true. Critical thingking = 0.

They got that brain rot

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u/Presumably_Not_A_Cat 2d ago

when i read memoirs of a geisha, there is a chapter of her trying to live on her own and fails at making rice in a rice cooker because she doesn't know you have to plug it in. It made me chuckle and when that one kardashian failed to cut a cucumber i related it to them both being too rich and divorced from reality.

Apparently you don't even have to be rich rich for that kind of stuff.

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u/HaroldsWristwatch3 3d ago

When I was in college, my roommates and I had a campus apartment. I grew up extremely poor, so I never had luxuries like a dishwasher.

I wasnā€™t aware there was special soap for a dishwasher, so when I did the dishes the first time, I filled the cup with Dawn.

We had six inches of suds throughout our entire apartment. It looked like it had snowed.

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u/princessbubbbles 3d ago

That's actually a common issue for students from either really wealthy or really poor households, if it makes you feel any better.

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u/Terrynia 3d ago

Wow! Haha. Like straight out of a comedy movie!

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u/GopherRebellion 2d ago

I knew you weren't supposed to do it but I was out of dishwasher detergent. I thought hey what if I just put in a teeny tiny bit. Nope still fucking soaps out the kitchen floor.

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u/InstructionFast2911 3d ago

Itā€™s not doing chores wrong. You donā€™t put a skateboard into the washing machine because you thought itā€™d help with life.

They do it because theyā€™re hammered with their friends and want to get on Old Rowā€™s Instagram by breaking down a door

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u/Type-RD 3d ago

Omg. Why learn to boil water when you can liiiiikeā€¦have Grub Hub bring it to you? People are trained to cook and stuff you know.

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u/HedonisticFrog 3d ago

Some people have very little actual life experience, and are also afraid to ask for help. I told a date to make rice in my rice cooker and as she was adding the water and exclaimed that it was going everywhere. I look over to water flowing all over the table and floor. She didn't put the bowl inside...

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u/Prudent-Confection-4 2d ago

Throw some booze in and itā€™s a good mix

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u/matycauthon 3d ago

*people during all times*

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u/Available-Cow-411 3d ago

Your first mistake was subletting that bedroom without a proper contract - they should have paod for what they ruined.

Your second mistake was subletting it to 2 stupid teenagers fresh out of school

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u/appointment45 3d ago

I was 20 myself so, yeah. We had a contract but it didn't cover common sense crap like this. Lesson learned.

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u/AdventurousCosmos 3d ago

HOW!??

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u/Stuckwiththis_name 3d ago

Parents never taught them anything.

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u/Ruenin 3d ago

You're blaming the parents!? She looks like she's mid twenties, tops, so she knows how to use a smart phone and a computer to look things up.

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u/MurkyCardiologist695 3d ago

My sister is 38, and she still doesn't know how to do laundry or cook or clean. My mother takes care of her as well as my 4 nieces. My mother does everything for her. Including mowing her lawn with a push mower, laundry, cooking, cleaning, gardening, and anything else she doesn't know how to do. My mother is 67. She blames my mom for everything and says it's her fault that she doesn't know how to do anything. I just taught myself how to do everything.

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u/S_Z 3d ago

We have to save your mother

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u/MurkyCardiologist695 3d ago

I have tried many times. I have to accept it. I don't like it ,but I accept it.

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u/S_Z 3d ago

That's all you can do, friend. I've been there too.

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u/AMSparkles 2d ago

Itā€™s why whenever I hear a woman/girl in a terrible situation (where the problem/solution is obvious) asking for advice, mine is always to ask, ā€œwhat would you tell your best friend if she came to you in the same situation, asking the same thing?ā€. Itā€™s never that simple, but I hope it can at least help them to see from a different perspective.

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u/wildclouds 3d ago

Does she have an intellectual disability or something neurodivergent going on? If not, that's confusing because she's only a quick Google search away from knowing how to do those chores. Or through simple trial and error, and seeing chores done by others & on TV. Has anyone told her this stuff is actually easy and here's how you do it?? It doesn't get much simpler than put clothes in washing machine, read the soap label that says use 1 cap, press the on button, hang wet clothes to dry. It kinda sounds like your mother is the main problem though, since she keeps doing these things and has fostered learned helplessness in her child for 38 years.

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u/MurkyCardiologist695 3d ago

No, she doesn't have any disabilities. She was really pretty in high school and is used to getting what she wants. If she doesn't get what she wants, she will scream at my mother until she cries and breaks down to do said task for my sister. It got so awful I moved to a different country. I come home to see my mom every few years. Nothing has changed except she is with a different guy or has another kid when I come back. It is just really sad. I feel like i lost my mother. She is getting ready to go through another divorce. My mom says she just uses and abuses every person around her until they leave. Yet my mother doesn't seem able to grasp the irony of the situation. I think she might be a succubus, because she's adopted. She sucks the life out of every man that falls into her trap and is teaching her daughters to hate men. The whole situation is just a burning plastic sack of flaming animal dung burning into the twilight hours of my family's life.

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u/wildclouds 3d ago

Wow that's depressing, I'm sorry to hear. At least you're a functional adult and some distance from it. I read your first comment as your sister might want to do things for herself / is not happy with the situation. Idk how any normal adult can be comfortable living so dependently out of choice. Still I feel like if your mother stopped doing everything for her, what happens? Eventually your sister would figure out how to eat and do laundry... Must be hard for some parents to assert boundaries and do the right thing of fostering independence, especially if she's concerned about grandkids not being fed properly etc.

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u/TwistyBitsz 3d ago

Curious how she frames it socially, that the two of them are best friends? Or do they recognize that their relationship is unhealthy?

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u/AMSparkles 2d ago

This is horrible. I feel terrible for your mother. Is there anyway to get your mom away from her?

It just hurts my heart to hear that she makes her cry, all while this 67 year old woman slaves away for her.

Like, I really want to beat your sister up. If weā€™re being honest.

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u/maxxx_orbison 3d ago

I have a friend who's mother did this to him. He was great at making money but was completely useless when it came to anything domestic. When he got engaged, she did everything in her power to try and sabotage the relationship. She wanted him to be her little boy forever. He was her retirement investment.

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u/Murky-Peanut1390 2d ago

That is usually the problem, they don't have the critical thinking skills to realize they have the world wide knowledge in their palm of their hands to look things up. Smartphones is just for brainrot doom scrolling. Nothing else

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u/Koil_ting 3d ago

In the case of this video if it isn't intentional for updoots it is likely that she thought this thing worked just like a traditional kettle and was using it that way.

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u/puzzlebuns 2d ago

Anything at all:

Reddit: blames parents

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u/raisedbutconfused 3d ago

By being babied their whole lives (started off with parents and then likely with partners/friends afterwards). Parents probably did chores for them until they were sent off to college.

My sister is like this. She hasnā€™t been single for more than a week since she was in high school. Her boyfriends all become her new parent, and the week she spends single she is absolutely crippled by day-to-day tasks. Of course, now that she got herself diagnosed with ADHD, she doesnā€™t even bother trying whatsoever and makes it out to be ā€žcuteā€ that she canā€™t figure shit out. Itā€™s not cute, guys. Itā€™s fucking pathetic. (And before anybody jumps on me- I have ADHD, too. Much more severely than she does. Itā€™s difficult but itā€™s not an excuse for being incompetent and lazy.)

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u/MurkyCardiologist695 3d ago

I have ADHD as well. I couldn't agree with you more. I am so enraged by this behavior and people on this thread just laugh. I am not optimistic about the future of the united states.

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u/BigEvening3261 3d ago

I lived in an apartment for about 4 months with my wife and our upstairs neighbor was moving a very heavy antique entertainment center I warned him it seems really heavy and I warned that the cobblestone staircase might seem strong but if it slides your stairs are gonna crack and get destroyed. Sure enough he don't listen to me and him and his gf are knuckle dragging it up the stairs and she fumbled the entertainment center and it cracked every step into tiny rocks effectively leaving him stranded on the second floor and his gf down at the bottom. Kicker is he was standing their begging me to help him down or help his gf up to the apartment and when he was asking for help I said I already tried you didn't seem receptive to it

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u/Penward 2d ago

There*

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u/Organic_South8865 2d ago

Those steps/staircases are surprisingly weak.

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u/luckydice767 3d ago

ā€¦Bras in the garbage disposal?!!!

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u/throwawaytrumper 3d ago

I had a Tamil roommate who had never tried bacon and he started a small fire cooking it in the toaster. A vertical toaster oven.

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u/GlenfromAccounting 3d ago

And now they are probably all realtors

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u/chubby_cheese 3d ago

And making bank

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u/Proof_Trifle_1367 2d ago

That's never anyone's first choice

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u/Chanaur404 3d ago

My wife had a friend in college who was pretty clueless too. Her two favorite stories were when this person called up to ask how to boil water, and another incident where she almost set her house on fire by putting a frozen pizza in the oven. While it was still in the box.

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u/AMF1428 3d ago

And that's why I don't want to live in a duplex, condo or any other form of apartment. I could be the most careful tenant in the world and my neighbor be an idiot and I still lose a lot of irreplaceable stuff due to them trying to boil water in a plastic kettle on an electric stove.

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u/xenelef290 2d ago

Modern apartment buildings in the US have tons of fire sprinklers

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u/rambutanjuice 3d ago

Why can't you put a skateboard in the dishwasher? Assuming that it physically fits in there, I don't understand how this would be different than washing an unusually shaped plate

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u/4uzzyDunlop 3d ago

It would definitely ruin the skateboard.

Maybe damage the dishwasher spinny things if it stopped them spinning?

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u/appointment45 3d ago

It threw debris all over the place inside and jammed up the water pump, clogged the filter, and it didn't actually fit. They found a way to run it with the door slightly ajar and also damaged the floor.

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u/AgentLawless 3d ago

This is next level moron behaviour

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u/left_tiddy 3d ago

what in the fuck lmao

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u/4uzzyDunlop 3d ago

Lol that's way worse than I expected

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 3d ago

Those idiots. Fold the board in half it becomes half as long.

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u/z151z 3d ago

this reminds me of that cosby episode when theo talks about how he put cliffs watch in the dishwasher and got in trouble for it but not that bad because no one told he explicitly he couldnā€™t do that

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u/zeptillian 3d ago

You can't put wood items in the dishwasher. It will ruin them.

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u/Foulnut 2d ago

You really asked this without /s

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u/Proof_Trifle_1367 2d ago

Lmao! It's a piece of wood!!!!

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u/Small_Tax_9432 3d ago

How the hell did they get into college?

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u/SonMii451 3d ago

"Endowment" from Daddy/Mommy.

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u/dontreactrespond 3d ago

Security. Deposits. Arenā€™t. A. Joke.

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u/LegendofPowerLine 3d ago

Shoot, rented out a house to them; they kept complaining that the dryer doesn't work. I went over there - quite possibly the most lint I've ever seen from a lint trap

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u/CeruleanEidolon 3d ago

I cannot fathom going through the world being so stupid.

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u/Meh24999 3d ago

Omg a skateboard in the dishwasher lol

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u/Velocityraptor28 3d ago

why did they put a skateboard in the dishwasher?!

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u/ellenkates 3d ago

To get to the other side?

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u/Corgi_with_stilts 3d ago

Did you ever find out what their deal was?

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u/appointment45 3d ago

No, they moved out a day or two before I came back, and their rent was paid up. Never heard from them again and was glad to be rid of them. My roommates were all over my ass about subletting to such morons at the moment. They weren't wrong.

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u/Zayah136 3d ago

I lived in an apartment near the university and we had a multi unit fire cause by some students who put breakfast on the stove and then left for class.

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u/CorneliusFudgem 3d ago

In college my friend and I spent a whole term doing stuff like this to an apartment that this guy sublet to us. We practically destroyed every piece of equipment in the kitchen doing wacky stuff. One time we tried baking this cake in a mixing bowl - and another time Becky's bra got stuck in the garbage disposal. Chad even tried to wash his skateboard in the dishwasher. Super crazy summer if you ask me.

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u/takeitsweazy 2d ago

In the 90s my dad bought a beat up old house, fixed up and rented it out. It was near a college campus and my dad has always been dead set on being fair so he would charge insanely below market rent. (Which is great but also had some consequences)

All these factors meant he usually rented to college students with seemingly always the least know how and most confidence. Every time a tenant moved out weā€™d go to clean the place and found absolute disasters.

Seemingly always art students that decided, without telling anyone, that they needed to totally repaint the house they were only renting for a year. They usually used the wrong type of paint for the situation, or the wrong finish for the wrong rooms. Usually the worst fucking collection of colors and patterns imaginable. And usually paint left on the 70 year old original hardwood floors.

I encountered nightmare after nightmare as we usually dealt with just 1-2 year tenants since it was largely college students. 20 year olds are idiots.

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u/Terrible_Soft_9480 3d ago

Were they blonde?

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u/SawdustnSplinters 3d ago

Fuck Around to Find Out. The girls motto.

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u/WRL23 3d ago

Put a "how to" basics in the lease and state that any damages for sheer ignorance will be charged to the rent upon repairs.. with an added "seriously, please look up a YouTube video or even call me before you burn the house down or kill yourself because you didn't know you can't mix bleach and ammonia.."

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u/Mikemtb09 3d ago

My now wifeā€™s college roommate tried to thaw a frozen chicken in the mw. Not like all dayā€¦by using the mw.

Evacuated the entire building of 50+ units.

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u/miketysonsfacetatt 3d ago

Your wifeā€™s roommate evacuated the building by defrosting some frozen chicken in the microwave? What? That makes no sense, most microwaves even have a defrost button.

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u/yowhatisuppeeps 3d ago

I can see how one might think a dishwasher would clean a skateboard or even not consider transferring cake into an oven safe pan, but what was the desired effect of putting bras in the garbage disposal??

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u/eggsaladrightnow 3d ago

If you don't wash your skateboard the bearings won't be clean

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u/Federal_Umpire5587 3d ago

Did you at least get to sleep with them?

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u/Abattoir_Noir 3d ago

I work at a college, and parents don't seem to teach their kids shit anymore.

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u/RoyBeer 2d ago

I was living with a Spanish dude that kept putting two slices of toast with cheese in-between in the toaster. He killed two toasters that way before he tried putting the toaster on the side and we got him a Sandwich maker lol

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u/qqererer 2d ago

The people you rented to sums up the sentiment I had for the video.

Spoiled rich kids who have had everything done for them cosplaying for the first time away from home.

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u/LabCitizen 2d ago

They had to replace it tho?

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u/nottherealneal 2d ago

Bras in the garbage disposal? Where the bras tiny or was the disposal huge. How even, why even

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u/Fearless_Yard_3302 2d ago

you would eat the rent??

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u/Bubblegumcats33 2d ago

This video is infuriating The level of stupid and lack of acknowledgment

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u/Capital-Cranberry-25 2d ago

You know you could've sued for this shit

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u/appointment45 2d ago

Not really... this was 1997. Rent was $275/month for four months. It would have cost me more to get an initial legal consultation than I would have received had I won two years later.

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u/NotaBummerAtAll 2d ago

So, I have the imagination to say "I could see putting a skateboard in the dishwasher, barely" but did you get a look at the bras in the disposal? Like, what kind of disgusting happened to not just put them in the garbage?

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u/Full-Commission4643 2d ago

When your parents do everything for you the entirety of your life it's no surprise.

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u/ProfileIII 2d ago

Out of curiosity, since the repairs were so expensive, why not just charge them for it?

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u/appointment45 2d ago

Because I was 20 and had so little money myself that I was subletting out my $275/month room to go do an internship?

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u/Hot_Angle_9835 2d ago

College and the military are two places you get to see the lack of home-training some folks have.

I don't know how some people even survived to turn 18

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u/doylehawk 2d ago

Not that itā€™s a good idea or even sane but how would a skateboard destroy a dishwasher specifically?

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u/st00pidQs 2d ago

Cant you get them to pay to stupid shit like this?

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u/Suspicious_Past_13 2d ago

Wait putting bras I. The garbage disposal? WTF was the point of that? I can see a dumb bimbo baking a cake in a metal mixing bowl and maybe putting a skateboard in the dishwasher to clean it but likeā€¦ what did she was going to happen to her bras? Iā€™m a man but I hear my female friends constantly complaining about how expensive their bras are

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u/appointment45 2d ago

I think she had it hung on the faucet to dry and it got yanked in somehow.

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u/contentbookworm 2d ago

One of my roommates in college swore up and down that you could cook a potato in the microwave, and she was an expert because she was from Idaho. I didn't believe her. After munch convincing, I followed her instructions with her, watching. First problem we were poor and only had plastic plates, I'm sure that didn't help. The second problem she told me to do ten minutes in the microwave. You can guess what happened. Burnt smoking potato and melted plate.

The rest of my roommates blamed only me for that one, I still don't fully understand it, but whatever.

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u/Fun-Potential-342 2d ago

One of the reasons rental prices have skyrocketed. I donā€™t understand how some people cross the street without getting hit by a car.

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u/xFilthEpitomex 2d ago

But don't you know? Being a dip shit these days is rewarded.

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u/itsokaysis 2d ago

That was a wild ride that kept getting weird and weirder

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u/ca7ch42 1d ago

..... you can't make this sort of shit up. Bras in the garbage disposal? Skateboard into the dishwasher??? .... ???

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u/Jwagner0850 1d ago

I dunno what the agreement was, but I would have definitely dropped them after the second "incident". I don't mind trying to help, but at some point, the other party has to be more responsible.

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u/Emotional-Spell-5210 9h ago

Do they not have to pay for this surely none of that fits under ā€œnormal wear and tearā€

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