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Post by mrgbh on Feb 28, 2015 11:07:38 GMT
I find that tilting it works. Make sure there's a tiny gap for the air to get into the bottle and the ketchup will ooze out in a controllable fashion.
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Post by xebi on Feb 28, 2015 13:25:35 GMT
That's very effective as long as the bottle is at least half full. If there's not a lot in there, THEN it gets annoying.
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Post by wonderbink on Feb 28, 2015 16:00:05 GMT
A waitress taught me the trick for Heinz bottles. "Thump it on the 57" she said. Instead of hitting the end, you hit the middle of the bottle, right where the neck meets the body. I've never had trouble with ketchup bottles since.
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Post by A. Noyd on Feb 28, 2015 17:24:28 GMT
Nah, what you do is you make sure the cap is on tight, hold the bottom half of the bottle with the cap pointing away from you, and snap your wrist¹ hard a few times so the ketchup is forced into the neck. Then open it over the place you're going to pour and hold it at an angle till sufficient ketchup pours out. Tap or shake lightly as needed.
..................... ¹ Or wrists, if your grip isn't strong or the bottle is slippery.
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Post by gardengirl13 on Mar 1, 2015 0:37:36 GMT
A waitress taught me the trick for Heinz bottles. "Thump it on the 57" she said. Instead of hitting the end, you hit the middle of the bottle, right where the neck meets the body. I've never had trouble with ketchup bottles since. I was taught that as a kid and have never had issues since. We hold it in our left hand and smack it with the palm of your right right on the 57. And around here all restaurants have bottles not squeezable plastic. They're washable and reusable which is why I think they use them.
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Post by AmoebaKat (Katje) on Mar 1, 2015 0:56:42 GMT
I used to be one of the fast walkers annoyed by the slow walkers. I'm a 6ft tall woman, walking fast is just natural when your legs are significantly longer than most people's (especially as I live in an area where the average height is shorter than the national average). But some years ago I had an injury to several locations on my spine and because of it I have a lot of trouble with balance, chronic pain and don't have as much range of motion in my hip/femur joint as I once did. So, now I'm a slow walker. I'm physically incapable of walking fast. When I first started having these issues I'd get so, so frustrated by people walking right up behind me even when I'm trying to get out of the way so they can go around me. (I also have social anxiety disorder and deal with claustrophobia, so those situations already upset me, but when I'm terrified that they're going to step on my heels and make me fall or run in to me it makes it that much worse) I had a walking cane and started using it even when I didn't need it hoping it would tip off the folks in a hurry that I'm not going slow to be a bitch, and maybe tell them to be a little easy around me. No such luck. I even had people go around me, but so closely that they'd end up kicking the cane out from under me. Imagine how scary/enraging that is. I'd also have cars in parking lots stop and wave me ahead to walk in front of them, then they'd honk or revv their engines when it turns out I'm crossing their path too slow. Dude! I had the freaking cane in my hand when you waved me ahead! It's not like I pulled a bait and switch on you or something! So, in a last-ditch effort to rectify these things I spray painted my black cane neon-freaking-purple. It has helped a lot. I still get the side eye and (thankfully, increasingly occasional) comments because apparently anyone under the age of 70 that uses a cane is just faking a disability so they can live high on the hog off the government's teat *rolls eyes*, but by-and-large it has helped a lot. I'm actually thinking about painting it some kind of super bright teal or lime green because that might be easier to see than purple. So, heed my cautionary tale, fast-walkers. Sometimes fate comes round to bite you in the ass. I feel this. I remember back in high school being irritated as fuck at the chicks who would walk at a snail's pace in the halls, spread out so there was no way to get around them, between classes (don't ask me why it was ALWAYS young women; for some reason it was). We only had 5 minutes to get to class and the campus was pretty big. You HAD to walk fast to be on time. I'd end up jogging around them, carrying a huge bag of books, trying desperately to make it before the bell rung so I wouldn't be sent back to the office (at the front of the school) to get a tardy slip, thereby making me miss half of class. (Our school was mired in stupid, stupid bureaucracy.) Always been a fast walker. Fast-forward to 2012, when a spinal injury I sustained in 2009 suddenly flares up and absolutely cripples me for weeks. Couldn't do more than crab walk or use a walker; could barely make it to the bathroom; was bedridden; legit thought I was going to die. Eventually got to the point where I could walk again, but only with a cane. After a couple of years the cane became more a 'bad day necessity' and a 'good day just in case' thing. Broke my leg last summer, and now I'm even slower. No one's knocked my cane out from under me yet, but I know it might happen because I'm fat and I get a lot of glares and mutters from folks (because walking with a cane is something for fat lazy people? I don't think they understand it doesn't actually make walking easier if you're not already disabled). I fully expect that at some point someone will erupt into violence at me because they are so offended that I'm fat and use a cane (obvs faking disability, right? even though I get ZERO support and have to find a part-time job to survive when I can't actually do 90% of the jobs out there) and feel they must, idk, "reveal the truth" or whatever.
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Post by muskratthemink on Mar 3, 2015 4:07:34 GMT
Adding another post here. Anyone have any words they can't stand hearing? One of my biggest ones is 'novel'. I don't know why, but it just sounds gross to me.
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Post by xebi on Mar 3, 2015 17:23:54 GMT
I can't bear the word "prequel." I think it's because the word sequel comes from the same Latin root as sequential, consequence etc and implies something that immediately follows something else. The pre- root that means before makes the whole thing give me some weird cognitive dissonance.
I also have a thing about "ginormous."
I have a friend who can't stomach the word "spoon."
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Post by rhiannon on Mar 3, 2015 18:28:18 GMT
All this talk of words that sound nasty reminds me of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQfGd3G6dg I really like the word 'lurk'. Especially when spoken by someone with a West Country (south west England) accent. I used to work with this really lovely woman from Devon who had the funniest voice ever, and I remember telling her how a large spider had got away from me and hidden somewhere and she said 'Oh that's terrible, then it's LURRRRRKING'. (West Country people really pronounce Rs...)
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Post by Bethany on Mar 4, 2015 5:45:58 GMT
I don't like the word 'common'. I don't know why. It almost equates with the word 'diarrhea' in my mind.
Things that bother me insanely that aren't defensible: when my kids scuff their shoes along the ground as they walk.
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Post by hiela on Mar 4, 2015 7:10:25 GMT
I hate the word "yummy." Just...so bad. And I can't even give a good reason for it, though I think it bothers me more coming from adults than from (or to) children.
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Post by mamawolf on Mar 4, 2015 19:43:06 GMT
A HUGE peeve of mine: Using the English language badly. And I do NOT mean someone who is learning this twisted up mishmash that is English, but someone who was raised in an American English home, attended American schools, and still doesn't know "than" from "then" or says (or WAY WORSE) writes "could of/should of" instead of could HAVE/should HAVE... I know English is a knotty mess of a language, and I have no idea if other languages have this problem, but butchering the language you were born speaking seems simply ridiculous! "Irregardless" is NOT a word!! I could go on and on, but I won't bore everyone with my hang-up about language and grammar... I don't mean slang, either. Some people even seem as though they're trying to get it right and get it more wrong! UGH!! Just drives me up a wall!
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Post by gardengirl13 on Mar 4, 2015 21:24:07 GMT
squat. Something about it just bugs me.
Also recent words that people use and are now way too common, even in some dictionaries. Just makes me die a little bit. Like ginormous. Selfie. Baby bump. My bad. Fail. Cray cray (shudder). Totes. Sure sometimes it can be fun or silly to use words like this but most of the time it's just annoying.
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Post by xebi on Mar 4, 2015 22:42:51 GMT
Oh hell yeah. People keep referring to my baby-to-be as "bump." As in, "Nora sends her love to you and bump." I'm not carrying a fucking Mr Man, and my body simply isn't that shape - I'm one of those women who just looks a bit fatter when pregnant. A HUGE peeve of mine: Using the English language badly. And I do NOT mean someone who is learning this twisted up mishmash that is English, but someone who was raised in an American English home, attended American schools, and still doesn't know "than" from "then" or says (or WAY WORSE) writes "could of/should of" instead of could HAVE/should HAVE... I know English is a knotty mess of a language, and I have no idea if other languages have this problem, but butchering the language you were born speaking seems simply ridiculous! "Irregardless" is NOT a word!! I could go on and on, but I won't bore everyone with my hang-up about language and grammar... I don't mean slang, either. Some people even seem as though they're trying to get it right and get it more wrong! UGH!! Just drives me up a wall! ALL OF THESE. One of my current eyeballs-stabbers is this weird overuse of the word "of" where it's not only unnecessary but also makes no sense in the context. As in "he's not that bad of a person" or "off of." The worst of all is "based off of" because things are based ON other things, not off them. Argg. Then there's "a whole nother thing." What the fuck is nother supposed to be?
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Post by wonderbink on Mar 4, 2015 23:35:25 GMT
I'm driving a rental while my car gets de-bashed and the noise the turn signals make irritates me. It sounds like a cross between wooden blocks knocking together and cartoon bubbles popping. There's nothing I can do but put up with it until my car is restored.
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