this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
3 points (100.0% liked)

Lemmy Shitpost

39639 readers
4819 users here now

Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!


Rules:

1. Be Respectful


Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.

Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.

...


2. No Illegal Content


Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.

That means:

-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals

-No CSA content or Revenge Porn

-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)

...


3. No Spam


Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.

-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.

-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.

-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers

-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.

...


4. No Porn/ExplicitContent


-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.

-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.

...


5. No Enciting Harassment,Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts


-Do not Brigade other Communities

-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.

-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.

-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.

...


6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.


-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.

-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.

...

If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.


Also check out:

Partnered Communities:

1.Memes

2.Lemmy Review

3.Mildly Infuriating

4.Lemmy Be Wholesome

5.No Stupid Questions

6.You Should Know

7.Comedy Heaven

8.Credible Defense

9.Ten Forward

10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)


Reach out to

All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

This is a real thing I do. It feels weird if the weight of the carton isn't evenly balanced when I take it from the fridge.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

it's just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the 'light end' and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.

[–] don@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago

exactly, set yourself up for success

[–] Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oh my god. This is beautiful.

Thank you, fellow lemites. I have assimilated this autism into my own.

This is why I do it. It's not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You try to take the egg carton out of the fridge and it's unbalanced ONE TIME...

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The problem now is living with someone who doesn’t do this and then you expect it to be balanced because you take the time and effort to be precise as a show of appreciation for the others around you so they don’t befall the same fate that YOU now must suffer as you discover the eggs are now unbalanced and they spill all over the floor, because they didn’t happen to hyper focus these exact thoughts and how could they be so inconsiderate after you put in so much effort to focus on this to prevent this exact situation

Bro life is too exhausting wtf

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn't share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.

[–] MikeOxlong@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] Rokin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There is always a relevant xkcd.

[–] Pilon23@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

My wife insists on true neutral and I can't think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I'm always playing catch up...

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Knowing Randall, I wouldn't be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns... or lack thereof.

That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing...

But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Chaotic good here.

Yep, I'm an Autist.

... Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that 'good enough is good enough', in scenarios like this.

EDIT:

... Also also, I find the lawful evil solution to be utterly diabolical and actually makes me angry just being exposed to it conceptually... which I guess does make sense, opposite sections of the chart.

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

... No?

She had different kinds of cleaning routines/phobias/rituals.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl I'm too lazy to do this and just take eggs out from right to left. I always put the carton back in the fridge the same way so the weight is always on the end I grab.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you're politically Left because you're here)

[–] ViperActual@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Lol nah I'm right handed. But to get the geometry right, my fridge is on the right side of the kitchen, and the door hinge is on the right. So the eggs stay on the left side of the fridge closest to the rest of the kitchen counter tops. So the carton comes out and goes back in the same orientation using my right hand. Meaning I'm always grabbing the heavy side with the eggs.

I'm still careful anytime I'm grabbing the carton just in case, but so far no dropped eggs in the house

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don't want someone to drop them.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

YOU'RE A GENIUS ! I take eggs out starting by one end and it always feels super weird to have an unbalanced carton, I'll have to try your method.

[–] raod_guitar@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

I always take them out symmetrically and front row first, if possible.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

This is the way!

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago

Symmeggrical

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.

T'was the tism m'lord

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Start from the corners one at a time.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do this because the weight distribution is even so i don’t drop the carton when grabbing it out of the fridge again

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end. It should be that way anyways if you're putting the eggs in the fridge because you'd also want to be holding the stable end of the carton and not the empty side.

[–] Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?

[–] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Then you don't have teenagers that are taking eggs from the carton to make scrambled eggs at 10pm. They happen to put the eggs back in correctly because they need the sturdy side to handle them. I don't need to teach them fractal patterns to take eggs out.

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

Huh... I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.

or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.

or...you get the picture.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I balance eggs...

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.

I still don't worry about the balance, but I get it.

I don't even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random

  • ooxoxx
  • ooooxx
[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll bring chaos into your house rumba!

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

The other day, in another thread about eggs (damn we talk a lot about eggs lately!) someone mentioned a 15 egg pack. WTF is wrong with your countries!! The natural egg set is 12. a dozen! because, 12 is the logical... Because 12 eggs is... Hmmm. we don't have twelve fingers, or toes... Why dafuq do we use dozens? I mean, even decimal months make more sense

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do this all the time but for some reason don’t feel compelled to drag the entire internet through my process to make me feel better every time…

Is ADHD supposed to be a social coping mechanism?

This whole sub is just bunch of folks complaining about habits…

Why is this an ADHD thing? Other folks have habits yet spare the world from suffering their internal mechanisms… Is ADHD just forcing others to hear your habits?

[–] bejean@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I do this too for weight distribution, but I don't make sure it's symmetrical. I'm worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I usually create checkered patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›