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Ged MaheuxImmediately tosses all my existing subpar teapots out the window… 😢
I had to do it. So glad one of ours passed the tea pot test!! 🫖😂👍
Moof! 🔜 #JetLagTheGame NL@gedeonm it depends on how you drink tea. Laminar Flow would be detrimental to the foaming process that properly poured Moroccan Mint Tea requires for a good foamy “head” in the cup. So one of the “poor” ones in this video would be better.
John Brophy@gedeonm "Hello there, Shopkeep. I'm looking for a fascinating teapot, please"
c4t.dr34m@gedeonm what that video gave me is interest in how such a short spout can achieve laminar flow. what sorcery is that?
monday at work will be very productive
the gripe ibis
Jack@gedeonm fascinating is indeed quite fascinating 😯
Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)@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?)
ChancerubbageI think there are tea ceremonies (the ringing bowl is a clue) that depend on the effect and showmanship. They are quite involved and ritualistic.
1 Dipl. fckng Ing.*It's a pre-SUV penis comparison.
@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 @gedeonm yeah, that's the hard part. the content economy rewards the game-ification of anything and everything. add to that the aspirational nature of influencers, every video can become a benchmark; why aren't your knives this sharp? why is your teapot so splashy? let me tell you about sleeping duck mattresses, they help me sleep great in between obsessively checking the lighting in my kitchen, the algorithm has decided lighting that is below 25ooo kelvins are demonetised now because someone made a joke about the desaturation in marvel films, and the AI can't tell the difference.
@uliwitness @gedeonm oooft, sorry about that. that was a lot of words to say i agree with you
@thegarbagebird @gedeonm Admittedly, as a bloody westerner, I didn't really have “tea ceremony" on my radar, thanks for pointing that out, @Chancerubbage ! Of course for stuff like that, it becomes important. The lack of context on a single social media post sometimes just draws out pet peeves and realizations about other content. So much of social media follows the capitalist line of "buy this or you won't be happy” that we see it even in things that are counter to it.
@uliwitness @gedeonm @Chancerubbage god i haven't done a proper tea ceremony in years. i should make the time.
You can make it entirely westerner science nerd mindset as a study in laminar flow, which can really be quite remarkable in its properties once you have met the conditions. There are probably dozens of YouTube vids on just that aspect of water. Fluid dynamics.
And with the history of pottery and ceramics, there are some remarkable pitcher/tea pot designs that whistle, only pour a certain amount before’ reset’ and do other seemingly magic things.
Firehorseart Lives!Other 'magic things' may include pots with 2 chambers, for different fluids from the same container.
Also known as the assassin's teapot!
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Here's a short video explaining how they work:
https://youtu.be/kkrgUT70Mbo?si=jjX35UHltbdiKNZv
The Assassin's Teapot
@srfirehorseart @uliwitness I was trying to remember the examples. Yes just placing a finger over a different air inlet.
Luka Rubinjoni@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 @thegarbagebird @gedeonm Also shaving hairs and finely cutting loose paper... There's gimmick sharpness, and there's practical sharpness.
Daniela@rubinjoni @uliwitness @thegarbagebird @gedeonm I agree on the coke can (would not do that anyway, afterwards the knife is surely not sharp anymore). But, working as a chef, if the knife is not sharp enough to cut hair it is not sharp enough for perfect tomato slices. Preparing food with a not sharp enough knife is a nuisance instead of a you and the results are sub par. Of course it will taste fine but not only the look, also the texture of the finished product depends on even cuts.
@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"
@srfirehorseart @uliwitness @rubinjoni @gedeonm the fucken denoument of reaper man lives in my head forever. righteous, narratively satisfying anger is the sharpest blade
pascoda@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 🖤
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 🖤
I'm happy to have shared a Discworld gem you love.
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@rubinjoni @uliwitness @gedeonm NO! TOO COMMERCIAL! DO NOT QUANTIF~ i actually don't know where i am going with this. i am really tired and overwrought and as a result i am simply firing poorly-thought-out riffs into the federated timeline. i’m sorry, all. i’ll try to take it down a notch
EaterOfSnacksRefill of your demitasse sir?
@Chancerubbage @gedeonm Oh, I've seen that language! http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/Essays/Turk2white.htm 😜
I’m not certain how its volume compares to a shot of espresso.
Ash Doyle@gedeonm I suddenly have the urge to go to the bathroom.
Shawn King@gedeonm Screw the teapot - I want to know where they got that bowl that never fills up and overflows!
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Justin Miller@gedeonm Even if not directly practical to the everyday, that’s a reminder to me to ponder the things that I don’t even know that I’m missing about a field of study, design, or engineering. Humbling.
Steve Riggins@incanus even the fascinating one was pour
@steveriggins always glad to watch something new streaming
Atelerix@gedeonm ::Throws away to-do list. Starts getting out teapot collection for testing::
Peter Lee@gedeonm
Hey Siri, demonstrate the difference between laminar and turbulent flow…
Hey Siri, demonstrate the difference between laminar and turbulent flow…
thejikz@gedeonm if I go full cyborg, I will be installing a laminar flow device in my peehole. This is inspiring as fuck.
Voltaire@2du @gedeonm fair, but could be the prequil...xD honestly I just want to pee super smooth, especially if I had to in public. #smoothcriminal.
No I don't encourage public whizzin but if you are needin to, at least be quiet about it?
Also, I was thinking how wild it would be to do artistic wee in the dark with an LED feature.
I want to very much say this is wholly #nonsexual pee talk for me personally. Its objectively fascinating, and simply peeing in the snow is so two thousand and late.
No I don't encourage public whizzin but if you are needin to, at least be quiet about it?
Also, I was thinking how wild it would be to do artistic wee in the dark with an LED feature.
I want to very much say this is wholly #nonsexual pee talk for me personally. Its objectively fascinating, and simply peeing in the snow is so two thousand and late.
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Pippa 🌈
Sparrow 🎄🎁@gedeonm : Laminar flow 😲🤯
Havyhh2@gedeonm ....huh....I'll be right back.
Just Plain Simple BridgeMakes⚪@gedeonm
I don't mean to um actually but in this instance you'll want to keep in mind that what makes a teapot good is entirely cultural. For example, a Moroccan mint tea is supposed to aerate during the pour, so while the laminar flow is good for an Asian tea ceremony it would make a bad Moroccan mint tea.
I don't mean to um actually but in this instance you'll want to keep in mind that what makes a teapot good is entirely cultural. For example, a Moroccan mint tea is supposed to aerate during the pour, so while the laminar flow is good for an Asian tea ceremony it would make a bad Moroccan mint tea.
@Bridgemakes That’s fascinating! Thx!
@gedeonm fascinating? I don't mean to correct you but I think you ment to shout "nerd!"
@gedeonm this has unlocked a non-sexual kink. i am changed, deep in my soul
Tattooed Nonna@gedeonm going to test mine...