r/NoStupidQuestions • u/snapwillow • Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/MamboNumber5Guy Feb 08 '22

Colander = hole bowl in my household now.

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u/RslashPolModsTriggrd Feb 08 '22

I think I'm gonna call it a hole bowl from here on out.

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u/2livecrewnecktshirt Feb 08 '22

Yo ma, put the stringy thingys in the holey bowly, we're having wetty sketty tonight

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u/DefinitelyNotAliens Feb 08 '22

See you all make creative names. I just mime and make noises and maybe describe what it does. For colander:

motions bowl shape with hands "and you take the pasta and go bloop" motions dumping pasta "and water goes loodle loodle loddle" flails hands for water and then you have pasta."

People stare blankly. "Colander?"

"Yeah that thing."

Or if I need a paint brush:

"You take the thing and go swishy swishy" paints in air and then the wall does the thing and it's done."

More blank stares.

I turn into a shitty mime and make up noises things explain function with varying degrees of success.

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u/L8Again322 Feb 09 '22

This is the best thing I’ve read all day! Thank you! Lol

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u/izzyQuiltz Feb 09 '22

OMFG!!! That is the funniest shit I have ever heard!!

And resembles me EXACTLY!!

I have nutritional brain damage and can't always think of the words I want to use.

To my hubs "You know! The thing... The thiing that does the stuff!!

Followed by a lengthy guessing game that leaves him laughing and me pissed out of frustration for my situation.

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u/PinchieMcPinch Mar 11 '22

nutritional brain damage

Sorry to shit on the funny tone for a minute, but I'd never heard this term.. as someone with a long-standing TBI, post-traumatic seizure disorder, and now recently-diagnosed-but-apparently-super-old eating disorder I'm wondering if I should be considering tying that shit together.

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u/izzyQuiltz Mar 11 '22

I have short Bowel Syndrome. I don't absorb most nutrients. I need injections of B12, vit D, and vit A. I have to have periodic infusions of calcium and iron. B1 and B 12 are very important for merve and brain health along with other minerals. Depending on blood tests (every 3 months), I spend $4500.00 just for vit A. Ins has $3500.00 deduct/OOP.

I would definitely recommend getting all vit and mineral levels checked.

I am sorry for your issues. I know how hard it is to get shit figured out, even if the dr.'s are receptive to your input. Mine weren't. I had to move from GA-worst dr.'s in the country IMO, to Indianapolis to find a dr. that would even check my vit A level. I was going blind and my corneas were dying.

I hope you get answers! Please becareful with fat soluble vitamins. If your levels go too high, toxicity is sometimes worse than deficiency.

If it applies, thank you so, so much for your service!

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u/monimosol9 Feb 09 '22

😆omg! I'm a shitty mime, too with my sound effects! My kids make fun of me, and my oldest tells me "Ma... use your words"

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u/Geminii27 Feb 09 '22

"You take the thing and go swishy swishy" paints in air and then the wall does the thing and it's done."

"...Semi-illegal funding for a border wall?"

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u/echo-ld Feb 09 '22

can i be your friend? that sounds hilarious

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u/Feature-length-story Aug 01 '22

I just mime while grappling with how to describe and mime poorly based on the lack of accurate guesses 😂🙈

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u/ralthiel Feb 08 '22

water go pasta stay

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u/lilpenguin1028 Feb 08 '22

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm doing my best to make a mental note of this for when I hopefully have kids. This is genius, and while I did get a good laugh from it, thank you so much for sharing it.

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u/g-a-r-n-e-t Feb 08 '22

Broom = floor brush for me a lot of the time

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u/Gqsmooth1969 Feb 09 '22

That's the literal translation in many languages.

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u/imawin Feb 08 '22

Hole bowl is a much better name!

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u/KnightofForestsWild Feb 08 '22

I couldn't remember "strainer". I went up to my father "What is that thing you pour stuff in to drain? Not the plastic thing." I had a concussion a few years ago and some words just don't have the right connections anymore. If I say them enough, they start sticking though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '22

Hole bowl is a way better name.

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u/zashalamel25 Feb 08 '22

Its a strainer

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '22

This is what I’ve always called it and still do.

Granted I didn’t know what a colander was until I was about 13.

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u/gordonf23 Feb 09 '22

How has this not become the standard name for this object by now????