“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth
something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in
the beginning.”
They’re all using these dangerous weapons because I’m hoarding all the good can openers
The earliest version of this type of can opener was patented in 1926, and went into production around 1930 or 1931.
The Swing-A-Way model #407 has been in production since 1955 and has sold an estimated 100 million plus units.
The Bunker company was purchased by the Rival Company and was manufacturing can openers based on this design effectively since 1931 up to the present day (currently owned by Rubbermaid).
There have been a large number of improvements to the design but it remains in production to this day including under more or less the unchanged original patent. Many can openers even incorporate a small hook into their design which can be used as a bottle opener, or similar to the lever type can openers above.
Just so everyone on this thread knows, they also come in electric. Which can be very useful after you slice your hands open on that trench warfare shit.
after that cursed butter denier yesterday and now this, i’m starting to think half of tumblr users are visitors from some kind of Dickensian alternate reality where everything to do with food is crusty and depressing
Why does the box of that electric can opener demonstrate the opener being used on a can with a pull top
Reblogging again because I do actually have something to say to this. I own both, like one of those thingies OP has, and like an ANCIENT canopener. And like those things OP had just survive a year or two, then they don’t open cans anymore and are just frustrating BUT the ancient canopener? It works so perfectly fine and well. I think it is still from my great grandmother. And it just fucking SLAPS.
It might last longer but my wrists when I have to use it don’t. Those old openers are fucking hell on the hands. I can get a new can opener easier than I can get new joints.
Especially since you already have three of them
I love the migration in this post from ADHD purchasing to can opener discourse. You don’t get this shit on any other site.
So there’s a good reason to show the electric opener doing its thing on a pop-top can: pop-tops are great if you have the hand strength for them, which is not all that likely if you’re buying an electric can opener because leverage makes modern turn-the-handle wheel-type manual can openers about the minimum force necessary for opening a can. I have arthritic hands, and let me tell you, I notice that pulling off a pop-top can’s pop top takes more effort than turning the handle on my Swing-A-Way. So they took the product photo with a pop-top so that even if you don’t notice the text on the box saying that it works on them, you can be sure it will do that.
if a Tumblr post is reblogged enough times it eventually becomes about everything
All this talk of can openers and not one mention of a good old-fashioned wall-mounted can opener?
I’m just saying that if you had one of these screwed to your pantry door you wouldn’t have accidently bought three of them.
because you would have a permanent bruise on your arm where you keep walking into it.
It clearly folds away. You can see the hinge in the picture. Also, who the hell is walking around inside their pantry???
Me when I retrieve cans of chunky chilli beef. And if I remembered to fold things away I would also remember that I already own can openers.
In case no one has already shared this… a video about a new kind of can opener. It is by a video maker who is delightfully specific.
just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.
“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.
i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.
i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.
in my defense:
and:
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its very hard to tell for someone who only kind-of reads Japanese and just saw the component for “sake flask” (酉) and, rightfully assumed, that the bottle that said sake was probably sake.
“In the instance an employer makes an illegal request for a photograph as part of a job application, you may submit a complaint to the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.” Successful violation fee collections are paid partially to the one who suffered the violation, which in many cases exceeds a year of work at these shit jobs. There’s only two weak points to a corporation, and those are in the budget and in the supply chain. Hit them where it hurts.
Fucking word.
Learn your rights!
AUTO REBLOG IN CASE YOU MISSED THIS THE 1ST TIME AROUND. It is important to KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible
because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person
from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating
it’s fucked up.
What is the most important step a man can take?
The next.
I think part of the pushback about this is the idea that, to “redeem” bad people, their victims must first forgive them for unforgivable acts.
This is false. No one is obligated to forgive you. You can learn from your mistakes and become the best, kindest person on earth, and the
people you’ve hurt still won’t forgive you, and you’ll have to accept that. And that doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to grow. Because we aren’t just “pure” or “sinful”, we’re complex.
people who literally never pay any fucking attention to democrats releasing official statements, commenting to journalists, commenting on television, posting on official social media: “DEMOCRATS NEVER SAID ANYTHING ABOUT X”
and how the hell would YOU know, you illiterate bitch? you ignorant wankstain with your commitment to seeking nothing, learning nothing, and yapping always?
(yes. dozens of her democratic colleagues have stood up for sarah mcbride. the messaging is careful and coordinated, they are clearly following her lead, supporting her without fanning the flames for the big dumb culture war showdown that republicans are begging for. because all of them respect her & understand her strategy more than you do.)
usually the argument behind tarrifs is that it’ll make domestic production more competitive but since there is no domestic production the position is pretty much just ‘fuck foreigners, lets make everything more expensive’ which is very funny
see also: the mass deportations likely never actually sending anyone back to a country of origin, but instead resulting in massive privately-run for-profit detention camps that make a killing brokering free-as-in-enslaved detainee labour to farms and factories (the latter incidentally allowing “domestic production” while keeping things at foreign-sweatshop prices)…
oh I’M not innocent? i never did anything. i’m not the one writing tetris sex manifestos all over a perfectly legitimate public survey. i bet you sickos want me to draw the tetrimino gijinkas more. you’re all sitting there thinking things like ‘i wish topsy would draw I/T toxic yaoi and post it’ as if that’s a normal thing to think. well FINE
this is insane. you people are all insane
one thing i really like about tumblr is that the more stressful the political climate is, the more unhinged yaoi gets created. we’re like those parrots that overpluck themselves only instead of pulling feathers out we’re deciding which tetris pieces are twinks.
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amhrancas 