I had a friend, RIP, who would only buy t-shirt packs so he could throw them away instead of doing laundry. These people exist, it's wild to me, still wild after 15 years.
"why do we need environmental regulations, why cant we just let people be free and do what they want to instead of forcing them to be more sustainable"
Because of spoiled POS like him with no concept of resources or labour
They tried that in Grafton, NH, and it turns out people are really really bad at keeping their area clean. Like, just tossing trash out the nearest window kind of slobbish.
I have a friend who's life goal/definition of having "made it" is to buy a car, drive it until it runs out of fuel, and then buy another one instead of having to go fill it up.
I have several shirts that I've never worn once, and several I've worn 100 times. It says average shirt, so they're taking account of ALL shirts, not just the ones that are worn.
My buddy bought socks for every day, 3 drawers full, 370 pairs of socks. He threw out a pair after wearing. Because he could. When I asked him a mo th into the year what the people looked like when he brought in his bag of lightly used socks to the donation center, his response was he doesn't want anyone else using his dirty socks. I was livid, because I thought he'd been donating them. Nope. Just chucking them into the bin in his room. Like, wtf.
I feel like gooning is more specific? Like if you're gooning you're definitely jerking but if you're jerking you're not necessarily gooning. Am I way off base, chat?
Two options for OP. Keep being frustrated at friend or join in by using their ceramic plates and toss them afterwards so his friends have none. Then proceed to use some plates made of banana leaves.
Meaning either someone in their house is going 'where the fuck is all our kitchenware going?" and replacing it, or people who pity them are buying stuff for them.
I had a fork missing once and couldn't find it. I never did find it. I think I used it for some takeout food and threw it away with the container.
It was one fork, out of the most basic Main Stays set I could find at wal mart in college. It's been over 15 years now since I bought that set, and that fork is still the only piece missing.
I think about it a lot. And I check every takeout container now.
The shit in the OP and this thread blows my mind. As we used to say... "I literally can't even"
Someone in my household accidentally threw away a spoon that way. I happened to see the handle when I glanced into the trash, so I rescued it, but it's definitely a thing that could happen on a rare occasion.
The answer is their parents get confused by the missing dinner ware so they buy new. If OPs friend lived solo they would just have their hands to eat shit off. Source, my niece and nephew lived with my parents fir 4-ish years. In that time my parents purchased multiple full sets of dinner ware. When they moved out my parents found over 30 plates and dozens of forks under my nephews bed. Similar stat in my nieces room. Fuckin gross
Tbf at least you can remove the rust if you put in the muscle. I accidentally did when I got really depressed for a bit and my pan rusted. I got it all scrubbed off and reseasoned. Throwing them out is wild TToTT
By spilling it on the carpet you significantly increase the surface area making it evaporate quickly, getting rid of it in a way. Also, a moldy carpet speedrun, but I guess OP did not care or understand that.
I'm a woman with long hair. Went swimming in the pool and after I got out I was completely dry in under 10 minutes, hair, bathing suit, everything. If I didn't have chlorine frizz you'd never even know I'd been in the pool and hadn't just been sunbathing.
Also we tried BBQing. We grilled up the burgers, opened the burger rolls, plopped burgers on rolls, added burger-fixins, and by the time we went to take a bite the rolls were completely stale. We had a second pack, gave it a gentle squeeze, not stale. Stale again by the time they got to our mouths, not even open for 5 minutes. You literally can't eat bread outside there.
That carpet would be completely dry in like 15-20 minutes tops.
Ok that is honestly almost equally insane to just throwing away a dirty ceramic bowl lmao. wtf?!!!
I’m a messy ass person and have been criticized by many people in my life for my habits, but seriously just can’t imagine doing any of this lol. Throwing away bowls is obviously insane, but just… pouring leftover water into the carpet??? Why???! It takes literally the exact same amount of effort to throw it into the sink???? I’m so confused lol
Interesting in so much as I would think someone with that mentality wouldn’t be so shocked by throwing away tableware. Both are the same line of crazy to me.
I think throwing away ceramic bowls because you don’t want to clean them is definitely worse, but they’re certainly at least in the same ballpark as far as mentality goes.
I traveled to Europe as an ambassador yeeeeears ago and picked up one of those from a hotel breakfast spread. I thought it was a granola bar lol. I picked it up and took a big bite of it just as a friend who’d been to Europe before said “WAIT! You don’t eat it like that!!” Lmao.
ACKshully (pls don't hate me lol) in NZ it's WeetBix. So apparently not only can we not be arsed with the additional syllable, we're dropping letters too.
ACKshully in australia it is Weet-Bix, which is the original spelling of the breakfast food originally produced by australian man Bennison Osborne’s in the 1920s. so they didn’t drop any letters because they couldn’t be arsed, they added letters to appease the british and canadians when expanding their business internationally in the 1930s. They also made the bricks rounded for some reason.
Imagine frosted mini wheats, but un frosted, and about the size of a pop-tart. People pour milk on it, let it soak and break it up into chunks and eat it.
When I was like 14 when I had unwanted water in my room I just used to spill it on the carpet (yes I was a grotty little child and I have turned into an equally repugnant adult)
I’ll never forget when a friend was at my house and knocked over a cup of water on my carpet and I just like picked up the cup and kept doing whatever. She started looking at me weird and asked me if I was going to clean it up. I looked at her weird bc why would I clean up water? And so I asked her and she told me about the mold and I was in complete shock. So embarrassed so shameful. Idk why, I knew water caused mold, I just never applied that to carpet? I was 14 in this story and blame my ignorance on being severely neglected as a child
I'm honestly not sure which of those two options is worse, the insanity of bleaching them, or eating off the Pollock plates. But thank you for providing closure.
okay i know reddit likes to say that if you and your friends are not most excellent to each other then you shouldnt be friends, but i truly think that being able to say 'you are so horrendously stupid' to each other is a mark of infuriating but honest platonic love
"I'm cursed" got me. The friend is hilarious, what are they gonna do with all these plates? The house would fill up to the ceiling if they didn't keep chucking them!
This type of back and forth is the shit I live for. I'm giggling in the bathroom of my office right now 🤣 sorry your stress has become my entertainment
"i have gypsy curse! i live in constant fear of my next ceramics acquisition. such is a fate worse than death, but i can not die. the bowls wont allow it."
It's like when somebody says "I just came into money", meaning they acquired it out of the blue. Apparently ceramic bowls just appear on this person's doorstep at various times (possibly a gift from lawn gnomes)
My first roommate would go to sporting goods stores or malls and buy a new outfit every other day instead of just washing his clothes. The only time his clothes were ever washed is if his mom came and washed them. That level of laziness blew my mind
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u/Doubtful_Irony Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 19 '25
This was a fucking hysterical read