ViscountBurrito
ViscountBurrito t1_j6kzxm4 wrote
Reply to comment by Drink_Covfefe in ELI5: Why do so many fruits have seedless varieties but the apple and cherry do not? by JanaCinnamon
We need a new folk hero. Johnny Appleclone or Johnny Applegraft?
ViscountBurrito t1_j4mayab wrote
Reply to comment by humboldt77 in TIFU by changing my name by [deleted]
This isn’t all that uncommon. For example, from an obituary for the famous Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall:
>The name Lauren was given her by Howard Hawks before the release of her first film, but family and old friends called her Betty throughout her life, and to Bogart she was always Baby.
ViscountBurrito t1_j0go7pe wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIFU by asking my father in law if he liked rapists… by [deleted]
As an American, if someone made the equivalent mistake in English (“I want to eat cock”—that is, male chicken), I would expect the same sort of reaction to occur. Nobody would take it as a literal request, absent some very specific context clues.
The problem for OP is that the dad may be sensitive to this sort of thing because it is actually possible that OP meant what he said—it’s not like it’s unheard of for someone to mention a celebrity and someone else to bring up that celebrity’s problematic or criminal history. And the dad wouldn’t necessarily have put together it was a translation issue.
ViscountBurrito t1_ix8b8h3 wrote
Reply to comment by WesternEmoWitch in TIFU by trying to be funny by ChumDumpsterr
“He’s gonna be so mad when he meets my nephew at Christmas…”
ViscountBurrito OP t1_jdi93c3 wrote
Reply to comment by car10los81 in LPT: If your dishes smell like detergent or have white residue, you might have hard water. If your dishwasher has its own water softener (salt dispenser), make sure it has salt and is turned on. by ViscountBurrito
With mine, dishes got to be noticeably soapy smelling, especially plastic ones, and especially if you microwaved it. It was very off-putting to me, which is why I looked into it to see what was happening. I was already running the extra rinse cycle, so there weren’t a lot of options left.