DgarMay 7, 2023

For those wondering, ′′how did i do it?":
I boiled 10L of water, added 2 tablespoons of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of coke, and half cup of lemon juice, then stirred well. Waited 3 minutes, put the pan in the solution for 45 minutes, then added a quarter cup of chlorine bleach to the mixture. Then I brushed it with a firm toothbrush and put it back into the liquid for another 25 minutes. I took it out, rinsed it, and it looked exactly the same, so I threw it away, and went and bought a new one.

Edit: Please don’t actually make this concoction! The resulting mixture may produce poisonous gases! This toot is a joke, the pictures are not even my pans. I didn’t throw any pans away. Following these directions, despite the fact it probably won’t do anything useful, would be fucking stupid and you may win a Darwin Award.

Show threadJanisMay 7, 2023

@dgar Next time donate it. There are Goodwills and Salvation Army stores
f*ing everywhere. There's a poor person out there who knows the formula, is willing to put on the elbow grease, and will keep it out of a landfill.

Yeah, I get it. I'm not impressed.

Show threadAndy in Indy
@janisf @dgar Goodwill rarely sells stuff that needs fixing or heavy cleaning. They don’t have to; people throw away plenty of perfectly good stuff.
May 7, 2023 at 4:15pmWeb
Show threadJanisMay 7, 2023
@naptowncode @dgar Ours does.
Show threadAndy in IndyMay 7, 2023
@janisf @dgar I'm just saying, any time I've volunteered to sort donations I see plenty of stuff that I'm like "really? you won't even try to salvage this?" and I get told "Nope."
Show threadJanisMay 7, 2023
@naptowncode @dgar Yeah, it can be pretty bad. I tend to donate to our local veterans' donation center, they do a better job with that kind of thing. Imagine what might happen if we all started donating to that end and pressuring these orgs, you know, just because we can.
Show threadAndy in IndyMay 7, 2023
@janisf @dgar To the point of the original joke, there's a lot of nonsense in "DIY" culture that people want to believe in order to feel better about buying so much cheap disposable crap and abusing what we buy.
Show threadJanisMay 7, 2023

@naptowncode @dgar Your earworm for the day: look for... the union label....

"What are you going to do with what you know now?" - Dario Calmese

Show threadJanisMay 7, 2023
@naptowncode @dgar "Have to" to what end? Keeping its employee training program going? maintaining donations? It's a non-profit. It doesn't have to be there at all.