• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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          Weaponized incompetence was a term created to shame partners for not being able to correctly preform household tasks that are considered “simple”

          Like a husband not doing the laundry right just so the wife will do it instead.

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            Weaponized incompetence was a term created to shame partners for purposefully incorrectly performing household tasks that are simple

            FTFY

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              30 days ago

              I don’t really understand why people reacted negatively to this. It’s a known thing that people do and other people abuse in one way or another.

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                It seemed like a nonsequiter? How is efficiency in sandwich knife use in any way related to what you said?

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                  I think they were reading into the knife example as meaning they’d just leave the knife there after leaving the kitchen, expecting someone else to deal with it. Which if someone did habitually would be an instance of weaponized incompetence. I more charitably assume people are doing this while still actively in the vicinity.

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                  Yeah, it’s not one of the things people associate with incompetence, weaponized or otherwise.

                  Going on a seemingly random rant about weaponized incompetence on the other hand I’m not saying it’s a red flag, but it’s certainly not a green one

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            I have conflicting interpretations of those 2 paragraphs. Does the woman use it to shame the man? Or does the man use it to not have to do the task?

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              The original meaning was that the man was using it to not have to do the task.

              Effectively it’s both.

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    If you use the same knife every day then at best the butter residues on it are just one day old and you can keep using the same knife for the rest of your life without ever washing it.

    You’re welcome.

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      And yet change that to a cast iron pan and people fawn over it.

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            I’m not saying it’s never happened to me (it hasn’t, but that’s neither here nor there, I measure the effectiveness of adhd treatment by rate of cooking fires so it may just be my recipes here), but how is it happening so often it’s a regular occurrence to a degree you think of it as universally regular?

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        First, you can totally clean cast iron with soap and it’s not an issue. The “seasoning” is oil that has polymerized. It’s not coming off without scraping, assuming you’re using a modern soap that doesn’t have lye.

        Second, your cast iron shouldn’t need to be cleaned as frequently because it’s being heated to the point any bacteria should die. Is your food cooked enough that you won’t get sick? The pan was hotter for longer.

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    I have some small magnets stuck to the underside of my stove’s range hood.

    When I need a place to put that spoon that “I’ll probably need later”, I stick it to one of the magnets. Just let it dangle away.

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    Balance on the top of the spread jar/container or go home.

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      Butter comes in sticks so this would be difficult.

      If there’s sufficiently less stick in the butter dish, I’ll cover the usable part of the knife and also the butter.

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    I take umbrage with “couple bits of toast”

    Surely it should be “couple bits toast”?

    You can’t lazily leave out one “of” and not the other

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      Except couple bits toast doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well as couple bits of toast.

      Edit: that being said, I’m not a caveman - they’re fucking slices of toast. You want me to make some toast and tear off a couple bits for you?

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          I can understand why it might make more sense, but that just isn’t how it’s used in common parlance.

          You can say that, if it is easier for you to communicate that way. Just understand that you might throw some people off.

          Edit: I would like to clarify, I’m not at liberty to give anyone permission to use any word. I meant that it’s perfectly acceptable usage.

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      it took me like 30 seconds to figure out what other “of” you were talking about, “couple of bits of toast” looks so clunky to me

      granted, i pronounce it as “cup’la bit’sa toast”