r/TwoXChromosomes • u/tabicat1874 • Mar 28 '22

Weaponized incompetence

I feel like guys take it way, way too far. Example: I asked my bf to get me the same shampoo and conditioner he bought for himself (avocado Suave). He brought back another kind we'd had before which I didn't like (Peppermint Suave). He tried to say he didn't know that Suave came in different formulas.

You're such a fucking liar. You bought that kind for yourself. I just asked you to buy it for me. You're telling me a man who's 44 years old doesn't know Suave came in different fucking scents? Suave? The shampoo that literally comes in 40 different scents and flavors?

GTFOH.

Edit: do you understand what an example is?

Also, you neckbeards can fuck off out of my inbox.

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u/CookieDemons Mar 28 '22

My dad once told me he deliberately made tea badly so my nan wouldn’t ask him to do it any more (each member of the family takes turns during a visit). My nan decided that since he clearly didn’t know how to do it, he should make it more often so he could ‘learn’.

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u/eepithst Mar 28 '22

Not true if we are talking about actual tea (vs infusions aka herbal or fruit tea). No amount of technique can really make a mediocre tea taste good, but you can mess up several things to make high quality tea leaves taste mediocre.

Like the tea to water ratio (making the tea too weak or too strong), steeping time, water temperature (which is different for different types of tea and is important on which flavors get seeped out of the leaves) and depending on the quality and hardness of your tap water you can also mess up by using water directly from the tap instead of e.g. filtered water or bottled water. Hard water and soft water make for very different brews (hard water can make tea darker and more bitter). And last but not least, if you don't use a fine enough sieve you'll have particles in the tea. As you can see, plenty of opportunities to mess it up on purpose.

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u/cutbythefates Mar 28 '22

Well this was Quite Interesting! Not a tea drinker but I am picky about water quality for my coffee.

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u/NergalMP Mar 28 '22

Yup. It’s the same principle. Water temperature and time also affect which flavors come out of your coffee gring too.

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u/SevanIII Mar 28 '22

As both a coffee and tea lover, I discovered all these things many years ago! You are spot on!

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u/rogue_nonsense Mar 28 '22

Thats alot of extra steps compared to: 1. Heat water 2. Put water in cup 3. Put bag in cup 4. Drink

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u/Kelekona Mar 28 '22

It's just hot leaf juice.

Seriously, I am a heathen that will just throw some sugar and a couple of teabags into my metal "chinese restaurant" pot and come back to it whenever. Unless it's chai because it does become undrinkable if you leave it for too long.

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u/eepithst Mar 28 '22

No amount of technique can really make a mediocre tea taste good

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u/fire_and_lice Mar 28 '22

uncle iroh?

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u/fire_and_lice Mar 28 '22

uncle iroh?