Immediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the window… 😢

@gedeonm I can't aim from those distances anyway, my cup is much smaller than this sink, and the tea tastes the same, I’ll pour poor, thank you.

(What is it with rating items by random criteria that barely have any effect on typical uses of an object?)

@uliwitness @gedeonm craftsmanship, personal satisfaction, the deep focus that comes with having a special interest, i can keep going.

the video is not an attack. it's okay to pour tea normal style. in fact, you can even use teabags. it's not against the law.

just watch the pretty water go bloop, you will feel better

@uliwitness @gedeonm i must insist you never watch knife-sharpening videos. if this annoys you, them shits will send you right over the edge.

they are amazing.

don't watch them.

@thegarbagebird @gedeonm Agreed on both counts. All these videos (tea and knives) are gorgeous, and I'm grateful to see them, but also, it just feels so weird that so many of them create this parallel world in which a certain criterion is so disproportionally important.
@uliwitness @thegarbagebird @gedeonm The criteria of sharpness for knives is OK, I guess...

@rubinjoni @thegarbagebird @gedeonm Not really. There were those late night commercial presentations and their ridiculous “you can use our knife to cut a coke can”, which turned out to have completely different criteria than the usual problem of getting past the resistant skin of a tomato.

When did you last have to cut a coke can? See! 😂

@uliwitness @rubinjoni @gedeonm you've never had to take the widet out of a guinness tin? do you even recycle? one of those daytime-tv-between-the-soaps, late-night-between-the-life-insurance-commercials knifes will sort you right out!
eversharp! you know serration? what if they did more of it? you never have to sharpen it, because you can't sharpen it! if you see one of them shits on a knife-pervert channel, it will be because they have sanded down that brittle bullshit steel and made it ALMOST as sharp as a knife made of literal jelly crystals.

sometimes you get a free paring knife. it's equally useless because you aren't a presentation chef, you don't need a passion paring knife

@thegarbagebird @uliwitness @rubinjoni @gedeonm

That reminds me of a fictional scythe:

"Death's scythe is one of the two sharpest objects in existence. It is capable of slicing air, shadows and even time. Most importantly, it is designed to sever souls from their mortal shells. The blade is almost transparent, but glows blue thanks to the energy released by atoms splitting on its edge"

https://wiki.lspace.org/Death%27s_Scythe

Death's Scythe - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki

@srfirehorseart
I saw the first couple of words on your post and hoped it'd be a Death reference.
I want to fav this post over and over again for this.
Thank you 🖤

@pascoda

I'm happy to have shared a Discworld gem you love.
🖤