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Total lifetime expenditure on television programming and hardware: $0

 

I'll bet that you can say that about many of life's "modern conveniences". And, I solute you!

 

Nice play on word, snakeman.

Last year I broke my streak of no microwave oven. I had a couple decades running. How TF did I/we do that?

Are electric can openers still a thing? Anyone noticed how good even the cheap manual can openers are now? If they were that good 50 years ago, the electric would never have been invented. Yes, I revel in being a Luddite.

 

I haven't paid for TV in 20 years. I get 162 over-the-air, digital channels, for free. If I want to watch something on cable, I can usually find it streaming.
Oh, but you pay for the internet? Yes, but just for my phone. Besides, I happen to live next to a public library and they have a strong wifi signal and no filters.
Try to top that AT&T et al...

Cue to @mike, spotlit through the smokey haze. Whistles and heckling.
He peers into the rowdy crowd,
"So what's the deal with can openers these days... "

 

Fun fact, many people use manual can openers incorrectly. Kind of like when I learned how to peel a banana the correct way I felt like an idiot when I learned that can openers are meant to be used horizontally rather than vertically. I am sure people on here will laugh at me but almost everyone I’ve asked in person to show me how they use one does it the “wrong” way.

Wrong way:
https://m.wikihow.life/Use-a-Manual-Can-Opener

Correct way:

 

I haven't eaten canned foods in years. I used to eat canned tuna but even those cans went to peel off top. My revised diet requires constant fresh/wholesome foods, meaning that I am going to the market 2-3 per week!

But the pounds are melting off...

 

Canned beans for chili is really all I need one for.

 

Interesting as hell, but “video not available.”

See, this is what I’m talkin about!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please mail the instructions to my cave.

 

Just not available on other sites embedded, you have to click on the link to watch it in YT. Seems like more and more YT videos do this now, probably has to do with revenue stream changes.

Maybe this uploader doesn’t have that setting:

 

Thank you! Mother Mary, thank goodness this has come to light!!! I can’t wait. I don’t care if it has a pop top. I’m goin in from the top, yaw!!!! How do you keep the contents from spilling out with the can sideways?

 

It just opens it like those battery powered infomercial can openers from 15 or so years ago, no spillage. Just keep the can vertical and it is actually easier to spin the handle with it cutting the can this way. We have an old stubborn opener that was a bear to use until I turned it horizontally.

The banana opening method blew my mind even more, no more floppy stem thingy hanging off the end or botched openings when you do it like they do on the Discovery channel.

 

Okay pal I was bustin ya on the spillage. I’m a terrible person.

I have a can of tuna on deck for tomorrow’s maiden run with my Chinese Swing-Away knockoff. Will report back.

 

Sometimes you just have to respond to sarcasm with a little bit of patronization.

 

West Hollywood to open a Cannabis Cafe.

 

@rossage just turned @mike into Jerry Seinfeld!

 

Are you sure???

 

You can't fix stupid...

https://patch.com/california/lakeforest-ca/fireworks-spark-brush-fire-santiago-canyon

LAKE FOREST, CA —Firefighters rushed to a small blaze in the area of Black Star Canyon Road and Baker Canyon Road early Wednesday morning, Orange County Fire Authority reported...

 

Yaw!!!!!! Results are in from the can opener method challenge!

Initial grab and action of "new" in-from-the-top method about the same as the old "wrong" way – so far so good. Lid removed. Then I have a can of tuna in water with a gnarly sharp edge all around the top of the can, and tragically, no way to use that lid to press the water out of the tuna. Oh, and don't forget to pick out the slices of can label from your food. SUPERFAIL, YAW!!!!!!!!!!! I'm goin in from the side hence forth. What a bust; YMMV...

 

I was coming down Glendora Mtn Rd after an MTT ride. I saw 2 young men setting of bottle rockets into a rock wall from a turnout. I strongly suggested they stop and they politely told me to "Fùck off!"
I continued riding, trying to figure out what to do when I saw a Forest Service crew working by Big Dalton Cyn. The guy literally dropped his shovel when I said "fireworks" and within minutes the lights and sirens of the LASD were jamming up the road.
Sorry boys, "Fùck you!"

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/594187/

“...In the Santa Cruz Mountains, [ecological researchers] placed speakers at sites where mountain lions had killed large prey and were regularly returning to feed. When the cats approached, the team played either talking humans or croaking frogs. The frogs didn’t faze them. The human voices—including those of Rachel Maddow and Rush Limbaugh—made them flee more than 80 percent of the time.”

 

Love it when justice is served!

 

I guess it does depends on preference, execution and perhaps even the manual opener itself. When I make chili I open maybe 6-8 cans all at once and using our manual opener vertically would often cause the lid to sink into the contents a bit so I’d have to use a butter knife to pry the lid open which was messy and the lid is sharp (for tuna this way may be better so you can drain the juice, but I would still often have to pluck that lid out from inside the can). Going in from the side I can get the lid flipped up and pour the contents into the pot a lot faster so the sharp edges on the can aren’t an issue for that scenario. I have noticed the label shards a little bit but never had any end up in the food, could just peel that label off.

I’ll get the GoPro out for my next chili batch!

 

I see this as a problem for some applications...tuna, olives, etc.

However other items that don’t require pressing out the juices, I see the side cut working better as it doesn’t leave a lip they causes some of the contents to get hung up.

Keeping the can opener talk going.

 

/thread

 

This is how I roll:

 

P-38!

 

Beat me to it, was gonna say the exact same thing. I never seved, but my dad was Army and we always had those around the house.

 

Even better-er: