FabSwingers.com forum: What was your "I've been doing this all wrong" moment?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Oddly simply one but not using the blunt side of the knife when buttering bread and nearly always tearing the bread.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not using an Oxo cube properly!

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

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"Oddly simply one but not using the blunt side of the knife when buttering bread and nearly always tearing the bread.

Using the blunt side of the knife?

Nobody does...you simply put butter on it and drag the sharp end across the bread!

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

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"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

when I was a adolescent I used to wank in a very strange way...once I realised I was doing it wrong it was a game changer lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oddly simply one but not using the blunt side of the knife when buttering bread and nearly always tearing the bread.

Really??? I been doing it wrong most of my life then

First I ever heard that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You know the wee hole in the top of a packet of tooth picks..... "oh right"!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

That's not how the OXO mum does it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oddly simply one but not using the blunt side of the knife when buttering bread and nearly always tearing the bread.

Using the blunt side of the knife?

Nobody does...you simply put butter on it and drag the sharp end across the bread!

Spoken like some one who doesn't have freshly baked bread

When I realised frozen fruit keeps your drinks cold with out watering them down the way that ice does. (Grapes and berries working the best)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"when I was a adolescent I used to wank in a very strange way...once I realised I was doing it wrong it was a game changer lol "

Wondering how you used to wank haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sending 500 hi how are you emails a day ...then running out of people to contact due to being blocked

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

When i used to peel a kiwi fruit instead of cutting it in half and using a spoon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine's really ridiculous.

I'd been in labour with my eldest for 3 days and the contractions were pretty much constant. I'd been needing a poo for absolutely ages, but had held back as I didn't think it was an appropriate time for such a thing. Eventually the midwife said "right, does it feel like you need to empty your bowels?" I said "umm, yes", wondering how she knew. "That's the urge to push! You need to push now!" She said in exasperated tones.

Nobody bloody told me that having a baby felt like you needed a crap, so I'd been doing labour wrong for 3 sodding days!

Nell

Ps I didn't poo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"when I was a adolescent I used to wank in a very strange way...once I realised I was doing it wrong it was a game changer lol

Wondering how you used to wank haha"

it's hard to describe...I was about 12...I used to put my manhood in between my fingers and and run my hand back and forth between the fingers lol...it's so weird I know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

I only just found that out too!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Putting kirby grips in my hair the flat side facing down, supposed to put the bumpy part facing down!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Oddly simply one but not using the blunt side of the knife when buttering bread and nearly always tearing the bread.

When the chainsaw entered my shin.

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

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"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

I only just found that out too! "

Wow! I've always peeled em first too. My world is blown apart!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Instant coffee... Just found out that if you put the milk in first the coffee tastes better

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I realised tea is SO much better when you put the milk in first!

Tea bag

Milk

Water

Leave for a couple of minutes

Lift bag out and enjoy!

Amazing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I realised tea is SO much better when you put the milk in first!

Tea bag

Milk

Water

Leave for a couple of minutes

Lift bag out and enjoy!

Amazing. "

Thank you! That's how I do it but I'm told all the time I'm doing it wrong and that its water first .. I'm not alone!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I realised tea is SO much better when you put the milk in first!

Tea bag

Milk

Water

Leave for a couple of minutes

Lift bag out and enjoy!

Amazing. "

Really?

but coffee?!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Using it as a suppository

Boy! Was that embarrassing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've seen a few of those things on Fakebook and Twatter about how we've been doing things wrong - like the Oxo example quoted above and how to eat / break off pieces of Toblerone (you push inwards rather than outwards) for example .. Sometimes you do have a WTF moment and think why couldn't I see that all along?

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

Corby

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Using it as a suppository

Boy! Was that embarrassing

Well no wonder your lumpy gravy was never popular!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Now I'm ashamed to admit this but..... I recently found out that the numbers on the toaster are minutes - not what colour/ grade you want the toast

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"When I realised tea is SO much better when you put the milk in first!

Tea bag

Milk

Water

Leave for a couple of minutes

Lift bag out and enjoy!

Amazing.

Thank you! That's how I do it but I'm told all the time I'm doing it wrong and that its water first .. I'm not alone!!

Haha well we are having the last laugh because the others are all drinking god awful tea!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Now I'm ashamed to admit this but..... I recently found out that the numbers on the toaster are minutes - not what colour/ grade you want the toast

Wait.. What?

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By *am-RaiderMan
over a year ago

Corby

"Now I'm ashamed to admit this but..... I recently found out that the numbers on the toaster are minutes - not what colour/ grade you want the toast

Wait.. What?"

Not unless it's a pretty classy toaster. Mostly the numbers are there so you can experiment and find a setting that's right for you.

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By *oxy_minxWoman
over a year ago

Scotland - Aberdeen

Believing that single men are actually single

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

That's not how the OXO mum does it."

oxo mum should have

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By *exycouplemmmmCouple
over a year ago

Surrey

"Instant coffee... Just found out that if you put the milk in first the coffee tastes better

Omg.... I've only (literally a week) just found this out too! Xxx

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"Putting kirby grips in my hair the flat side facing down, supposed to put the bumpy part facing down!"

Are you?!

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

In the army when I couldn't climb the damn rope like girls do. As soon as I tried it like the boys, flew up it.

Was back squaded for that damn rope

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Now I'm ashamed to admit this but..... I recently found out that the numbers on the toaster are minutes - not what colour/ grade you want the toast

Wait.. What?

Not unless it's a pretty classy toaster. Mostly the numbers are there so you can experiment and find a setting that's right for you."

But just realising what the numbers represent!

I'm too old to not know this!

( hang my head in shame icon thingy! )

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By *ohnaronMan
over a year ago

london

"Not using an Oxo cube properly!

I'm gonna sound like I'm in pedant mode...sorry...but how?

Crush, tear open, sprinkle! Only found out a few weeks ago!

Eureka! Crush before you open so you don't get all those bits stuck to your fingers!

If only I'd known.

What I did know is with microwave packets of rice squeeze them between fingers and thumbs to seperate the rice before cooking. A bit like OXO really.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

"I've seen a few of those things on Fakebook and Twatter about how we've been doing things wrong - like the Oxo example quoted above and how to eat / break off pieces of Toblerone (you push inwards rather than outwards) for example .. Sometimes you do have a WTF moment and think why couldn't I see that all along? "

It is really annoying when you get a bit of toblerone up a nostril though

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"Repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different outcome is the definition of stupidity."

~ A. Einstein

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"when I was a adolescent I used to wank in a very strange way...once I realised I was doing it wrong it was a game changer lol

Wondering how you used to wank haha

it's hard to describe...I was about 12...I used to put my manhood in between my fingers and and run my hand back and forth between the fingers lol...it's so weird I know

This made me giggle. My boys 11 and just watched living and growing at school, he was mortified! He said "mum they told us what masturbation is. Ewww why would anyone do that?!" Hahaha I don't think he will have that attitude much longer!

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By *laytimenowMan
over a year ago

Essex

"When I realised tea is SO much better when you put the milk in first!

Tea bag

Milk

Water

Leave for a couple of minutes

Lift bag out and enjoy!

Amazing. "

Noooooooo.. Milk clogs up the tea bag .

If you put the tea bags in a pot then it is allowable

to put milk in 1st , otherwise you are not drinking Tea

you are drinking milky hot drink with a dribble of something else .

In a cup Tea bag hot Water , spin the bag a couple of times arouns & dunk completely then lift bag out .

a smallish anount of milk but enough to lighten colour .

with or without sugar .

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By *laytimenowMan
over a year ago

Essex

""Repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different outcome is the definition of stupidity."

~ A. Einstein "

People making Einstein quote when he never said it .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""Repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different outcome is the definition of stupidity."

~ A. Einstein

People making Einstein quote when he never said it .

But if you repeat it often enough he may have said it

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