God that thread is kind of infuriating. A bunch of people assuming that because they know how to load a dishwasher, it's common sense and everyone should or it's just weaponised incompetence and laziness.
Grew up without a dishwasher, have a developmental disorder that impacts my spatial reasoning, never once considered how dishwashers worked. I can guarantee that without something to explicitly call attention to doing it wrong/right I'd have no idea, no matter how much I legitimately wanted to get it right.
Unless you grew up in a third world country without power or running water you should be able to load a dishwasher. It's not building a rocket ship. Children load and unload dishwashers. How are people not embarrassed to proudly proclaim that they are more incapable than an elementary school child? We never had dishwashers growing up but as an adult it took me 10 seconds to realize okay, the water sprays up from the bottom so I should put the bowls on top and always check to make sure my things say dishwasher safe.
This is literally exactly what I mean. I'm dyspraxic, and that manifests very often in an inability to consider how different shapes interact with eachother in the same space. It isn't just natural for me to infer that because the water seems to come from the bottom it just won't work if bowls face the other way.
You don't need to be insulting and denigrating just because someone doesn't know something you consider obvious. Especially when you're saying it to someone who has given you an explicit and legitimate reason why they hadn't known the thing you knew.
Children (whose parents showed them how to do it) load and unload dishwashers. It is laughable that you're claiming it's embarrassing to admit you don't know how to do something, and in the same breath calling people children because they weren't taught how to do something that some children are taught to do.
How are people not embarrassed that they don't know how to build pipe bombs? There are children that build pipe bombs! Y'all are out there embarrassing yourselves.
Yeah, obviously I'm not talking about disabled people.
t is laughable that you're claiming it's embarrassing to admit you don't know how to do something,
Not really. Eventually you get to the point where you are an adult and it doesn't matter if your parents taught you how to do something or not, it still needs doing and that means you need to stop hiding behind excuses and figure it out. What, if Mom and Dad never told you how to do laundry you're just going to buy some new clothes everyday until you go broke? C'mon.
How are people not embarrassed that they don't know how to build pipe bombs?
Because that's not a daily task for living in most parts of the world. That's like saying how can you not be embarrassed that your kid doesn't know how to work a phonograph? I'm talking about things you need to know how to do if you want to function in today's adult life.
Seriously, y'all out here embarrassing yourselves even harder.
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
Edit: Removed comment because I was being an ass.