There’s an episode of The Office where Pam and Jim are trying to make Dwight think he’s in The Matrix, so they keep arranging “glitches.” Pam trains a cat to walk past Dwight’s door and then around to repeat it. As they’re telling the camera about it, Jim says “Why didn’t we just get two black cats?” and Pam looks at him with the expression I imagine this guy had with his girlfriend.
So I may be incredibly high right now, but I’ve watched all of The Office at least 5 times now and this scene sounds entirely unfamiliar to me. Is it a deleted scene or something? Because that shit sounds hilarious and I’d love to see it.
Yes they released it when they moved the series to peacock, I didn’t know either. Enjoy your surprise new office content
And thats what we call gaslighting!
Very cool, very funny, very good behavior!
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Gaslighting is a colloquialism, loosely defined as manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality.
Sounds like making someone believe they are in the matrix fits this perfectly but I’m no englishmatologist
I was about 25 years old before I realized I could use warm water to wash my hands in the winter. I’m usually considered a very intelligent individual, but for some reason this never occurred to me. Maybe it’s because I grew up poor and we tried to use as little hot water as possible, or maybe I’m just not as smart as people think I am.
The tree of knowledge is enormous. We’re all bound to miss a thing or two. Most people might not ever come across a situation where they are missing that knowledge or they live their whole lives not realizing. Fuck I wonder how many things I haven’t realized yet?
Fuck I wonder how many things I haven’t realized yet?
Just asking that puts you miles ahead of most people in this thread.
Almost everything I do I try to think of a better way of doing it. All of these things people are saying just seem so thoughtless to me, because … well, they are thoughtless.
If people would think about what they’re doing they’d come to these realizations much, much sooner.
I always wash with cold water, but that’s just because I’m impatient. Unless I’m about to get intimate with my SO, then my hands gotta be warm.
Y’all do know warm water cleans better than cold, no matter the weather, right?
I think it’s a little more nuanced. If it wasn’t a problem for you then I see no reason to question your intelligence, if it was a big problem and you didn’t see the obvious solution, then I’d be willing to agree with your reasons
Yup, I wash my hands with cold water because waiting for the water to heat up takes as much time as actually washing my hands. I can handle 10-20s or whatever of cold water, but waiting 10s just feels wasteful for a quick hand wash.
Right, I was going to add exactly this. Who has the patience to wait for hot water
My hot water tank runs out quick so if I let it warm up it’ll be cold by the time I get in.
I’m down to military showers, 8 minutes (heavy scrub independent of the time)
It can be a poverty thing too.
If you struggle to pay normal bills, letting it warm up makes the bill higher. So grow up poor, and you find out lots of habits of yours exist to save less than a dollar a day.
Does water service not come with a base volume in most places? Where I am, we have a base service fee of $20/m and that includes like the first 2000 gallons, and I struggle to even hit that most months. Jumping in a cold shower wouldn’t actually save me any money .
In the US, I’ve never seen that on any water bill in my life. It’s just dollars per gallon here.
The Carlin version is armpits assholes crotch and teeth
I didn’t realize I could dry off with a towel while still standing in the bathtub/shower until I was 26. Now my bathroom floor doesn’t get wet on a daily basis.
The perfect bathmat is one of those brown fibre door mats, the kind people also use to get their car out of the snow. Always feels dry, never slips, and lasts for years.
Huh, I tried so many of those over the years and always hated the way they feel. Then a few years back, I discovered mats that are more like towels you can throw on the ground but thicker. So much better. The clincher was that I never knew how to clean the mats, but the towel- like ones can go in the wash whenever towels are cleaned
If you put a duck board on the floor then you can put any towel you like on top of it as your mat.
Ok, but why not leave all the water in the spot that actually has a drain for it?
I believe wet bathrooms have a drain in the middle of the bathroom. This is the way we should build all bathrooms.
After you’ve skimmed the water off, then towel dried inside the shower, the bathmat barely needs to get wet, especially if you step onto your towel when getting out.
