I love my wife and all, but Jesus Hercules Christ...

[MakersTeleMark]

Please pass down your old guidebooks to the younger generation now. Same goes with old mountain gazettes, couliors, climbing, rock and ice, and maps. It really does make an impact.

They can re-sling your cams too, and learn to place passive pro.

Don't die with paper, or paper weights. Please. It makes their day and you might change an entire group of kids and keep this whole fun ball rolling.

[XXX-er]

Love the story about pounding wood screws seano.

My wife’s father is a semi-retired jack-of-all trades contractor. Designed and did about half the build of her cabin (that we’ve since sold). I’ve had to bite my tongue on more than one occasion when my wife would critique my handyman skills. Granted I’m no tradesman, but can complete most 7 monkey-level jobs with a bit of research and one or two do-overs. Wife has demonstrated she has trouble hanging a picture-frame. It’s taken a few years, but she rarely comments on my handyman skills anymore.

nobody like this around here, just them Albertans eh

[nickwm21]

The weather is warming up but my wife is continuing to run the space heater in her office. It was 82deg in there when I got home from work yesterday…..


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Appropo of this thread women are always cold right ?

the now former wife was alwasy complaining of being cold in balmy Vancover driving the subaru home and she was later on found to be a hypochodriac

driving to deepest darkest Alberta for xmas during a cold snap as we get inland and it gets colder the heater fucntions but does not put out any heat, no way to get it fixed so drive 3000kms some of it at -38C

[frorider]

driving to deepest darkest Alberta for xmas during a cold snap as we get inland and it gets colder the heater fucntions but does not put out any heat,

I thought putting out heat was the function of a heater.

[XXX-er]

I thought putting out heat was the function of a heater.

The car ran fine even at -38C the heater functioned as it was suposed to except it was only blowing cold air so just no just no heat out put, the top 8" of inside of windshield was iced up, the rest of the fam were ok cuz they could be in sleeping bags but I was driving wearing cowboy boots and it was fucking cold

When I got home I took it to a rad shop and the guy told me the heater was full of white shit that was clogging the heater core so no heat, he flushed with a garden hose and I got good heat. What had happened I think was I blew a waterpump and after changing the waterpump I ran plain water for awhile ... DON'T ever do that

and sometimes maybe you wana believe the hypochondriac ?

[skaredshtles]

My wife was going to make a cake. But apparently all we have is salted butter, which has brought the cake-making to a halt.

I'm not getting any fuckin' cake.

[guide]

So…right now, as I’m typing this, my wife is in the garage beating the hell out of something with what sounds like a hammer on wood or metal, (but of course it’s probably a crescent wrench), and I’m not gonna go out there and risk my life.

HAHAHAHA. Sounds like either: not your first rodeo OR, you've been married a long time. Good on ya.

[Boissal]

My wife was going to make a cake. But apparently all we have is salted butter, which has brought the cake-making to a halt.

I'm not getting any fuckin' cake.

The vast majority of cake recipes call for a pinch of salt no? At worst that cake will be a tad saltier than it should be.
Sounds like Mrs skaredshtles is looking for an excuse not to make a cake. Which brings me to ask what you've done to antagonize her? Other than not buying unsalted butter that is, cause that's clearly on you...

[skaredshtles]

The vast majority of cake recipes call for a pinch of salt no? At worst that cake will be a tad saltier than it should be.

You know that. I know that. You want to come over and tell *her* that? I ain't goin' there.

But she has some sort of weird aversion to baking with salted butter.

Sounds like Mrs skaredshtles is looking for an excuse not to make a cake. Which brings me to ask what you've done to antagonize her? Other than not buying unsalted butter that is, cause that's clearly on you...

I think that's it.

I'd bake it myself, but I suspect that would get me into even MORE trouble.

[nickwm21]

Tell her there’s no such thing as “unsalted butter” in France. And the French know a few things about butter and baking…


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[skaredshtles]

Tell her there’s no such thing as “unsalted butter” in France. And the French know a few things about butter and baking…

Yeah. That's what I'm going to do.

[Boissal]

Yeah. That's what I'm going to do.

Make sure to tell her some French guy on an internet ski forum is telling her what to do, that should help your case.
Seriously though, if it's anything chocolate-based, salt is an enhancer. But I get it, had to convert Ms Boissal to the salted butter. I used to sigh as loudly as I could before salting any piece of toast I got my hands on at her house. Then I took over all grocery shopping. Ain't putting up with that nonsense.

[XXX-er]

Marie Antoinette had some tips on baking, apparently its nothing to lose your head about

[Art Shirk]

Oh man do I have one for you guys. Of course it involves the dishwasher. And my compete lack of self-preservation.

Our dishwasher has a very thin small upper rack that slides out just for things like knives and spatulas etc.

Something like a year ago, it failed to clean a singular knife. In my wife’s world, that means the rack is dead to her and will never be trusted to wash a knife again. Context be damned, how the rest of the washer was loaded, irrelevant, food type on the knife, immaterial.

I kept using the rack and was admonished. Calmly explained that I thought it had some utility but it was still deemed verboten, never to be spoken of again.

I almost exclusively put away clean dishes, so for about a year I have been putting knives and such into the rack just before running it. Super solid results, clean knives, I’m happy.

So happy that every time I remove them, I take a picture of them in the glistening glory. I did that for about 11 months straight. Something like 200 pictures because we run the thing so often.

Well I fucked up and threw some knives in there and forgot to immediately turn it on. She found them and found out I’d been cheating on her with the knife rack. Take two: I calmly told her that it worked well and she would give the rack another chance. Again, no dice.

The next day, I sent her one picture of clean knives. Not total fireworks for that maneuver but not happy, along with a claim that one clean knife does not make for a working rack. So you guessed it. I came hard with receipts. Picture after picture lit up her phone like the 4th of July.

I’m going to end the story there. What a fucking boneheaded move.


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[skaredshtles]

Oh man do I have one for you guys. Of course it involves the dishwasher. And my compete lack of self-preservation.

Our dishwasher has a very thin small upper rack that slides out just for things like knives and spatulas etc.

Something like a year ago, it failed to clean a singular knife. In my wife’s world, that means the rack is dead to her and will never be trusted to wash a knife again. Context be damned, how the rest of the washer was loaded, irrelevant, food type on the knife, immaterial.

I kept using the rack and was admonished. Calmly explained that I thought it had some utility but it was still deemed verboten, never to be spoken of again.

I almost exclusively put away clean dishes, so for about a year I have been putting knives and such into the rack just before running it. Super solid results, clean knives, I’m happy.

So happy that every time I remove them, I take a picture of them in the glistening glory. I did that for about 11 months straight. Something like 200 pictures because we run the thing so often.

Well I fucked up and threw some knives in there and forgot to immediately turn it on. She found them and found out I’d been cheating on her with the knife rack. Take two: I calmly told her that it worked well and she would give the rack another chance. Again, no dice.

The next day, I sent her one picture of clean knives. Not total fireworks for that maneuver but not happy, along with a claim that one clean knife does not make for a working rack. So you guessed it. I came hard with receipts. Picture after picture lit up her phone like the 4th of July.

I’m going to end the story there. What a fucking boneheaded move.


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That's an impressive amount of dumb shit.

[AK47bp]

Oh man do I have one for you guys. Of course it involves the dishwasher. And my compete lack of self-preservation.

Our dishwasher has a very thin small upper rack that slides out just for things like knives and spatulas etc.

Something like a year ago, it failed to clean a singular knife. In my wife’s world, that means the rack is dead to her and will never be trusted to wash a knife again. Context be damned, how the rest of the washer was loaded, irrelevant, food type on the knife, immaterial.

I kept using the rack and was admonished. Calmly explained that I thought it had some utility but it was still deemed verboten, never to be spoken of again.

I almost exclusively put away clean dishes, so for about a year I have been putting knives and such into the rack just before running it. Super solid results, clean knives, I’m happy.

So happy that every time I remove them, I take a picture of them in the glistening glory. I did that for about 11 months straight. Something like 200 pictures because we run the thing so often.

Well I fucked up and threw some knives in there and forgot to immediately turn it on. She found them and found out I’d been cheating on her with the knife rack. Take two: I calmly told her that it worked well and she would give the rack another chance. Again, no dice.

The next day, I sent her one picture of clean knives. Not total fireworks for that maneuver but not happy, along with a claim that one clean knife does not make for a working rack. So you guessed it. I came hard with receipts. Picture after picture lit up her phone like the 4th of July.

I’m going to end the story there. What a fucking boneheaded move.


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Oh boy. Hope your affairs are in order.




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[Danno]

she is going to kill you in your sleep. with a clean knife from the top rack.

[SorryBro]

Long story about bad husband decisions...

That third rack in dishwashers is amazing. Adds so much capacity to each load, but I can't get my kids or wife to utilize it. I move stuff up there all the time. No one gets mad at me because they all know I can't help my desire for efficiency.

[m2711c]

If you’re gonna go, you might as well go big.


fact.

[Art Shirk]

That third rack in dishwashers is amazing. Adds so much capacity to each load, but I can't get my kids or wife to utilize it. I move stuff up there all the time. No one gets mad at me because they all know I can't help my desire for efficiency.

200 loads a year at like 5-6 items a load. I didn’t have to wash over a thousand knives.


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[Meadow Skipper]

Make sure to tell her some French guy on an internet ski forum is telling her what to do, that should help your case.
Seriously though, if it's anything chocolate-based, salt is an enhancer. But I get it, had to convert Ms Boissal to the salted butter. I used to sigh as loudly as I could before salting any piece of toast I got my hands on at her house. Then I took over all grocery shopping. Ain't putting up with that nonsense.

Is Ms B French too? Reason I ask is French butter is the total bomb! IMO anyway. An Italian woman I was seeing told me the Italians say the best cheese in France is the butter.

[John_B]

Art you might be ending the story there, but I guarn-goddamn-tee that the story is not over.

[up an down]

Art you might be ending the story there, but I guarn-goddamn-tee that the story is not over.

And it will be titled... Saw 9 : Based on a true internet story

[XXX-er]

just get yourself a Bosch and all your DW drama will be over

that thing works so well I could almost see getting married again