__________ is/are overrated.

[kphoger]

Oysters. Raw, they're like eating boogers in semen

I do not want to know how you know what that experience is like.

Why, what do you do with your boogers after you've picked them?  Or am I the only one... 

[JayhawkCO]

Time to upset some people......

Oysters.  Raw, they're like eating boogers in semen.  Fried, they're like eating dirt.

Kimchi.  It tastes like someone picked it out of the garbage can out back.

Caviar.  It tastes like salt that at one point had some fish nearby.

Brie.  The rind tastes like mold, because it is, and the cheese inside tastes like nothing at all.

Scrambled eggs.  Unless it's in a breakfast burrito, literally any other preparation is better.

Okra.  Slime.  Nuff said.

I am upset. I disagree with everything except the scrambled eggs comment. I have made okra one time that was good, but in general I agree.

[kphoger]

Oyster stew is just an excuse to eat hot cream and butter with a spoon.  You could leave the oysters out entirely, and it would be just as good.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Oyster stew does bring back memories of my dad's side of the family, most of whom are now dead, so I guess I have a nostalgic view of it.

[kphoger]

Oyster stew is just an excuse to eat hot cream and butter with a spoon.

Oyster stew does bring back memories of my dad's side of the family, most of whom are now dead

That much cream and butter...

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Oyster stew is just an excuse to eat hot cream and butter with a spoon.

Oyster stew does bring back memories of my dad's side of the family, most of whom are now dead

That much cream and butter...

I don't really appreciate the snarky comment about it.

[kphoger]

I don't really appreciate the snarky comment about it.

I'm sorry.  You've surely realized that I have a bad filter, especially online.  I appreciate you calling me out on it, because that was insensitive of me.

[thenetwork]

March Madness adding another 8 teams to the initial dance next year...

[kphoger]

How much water you waste if you don't fix a dripping faucet.

If your faucet is dripping once per second, then that's ...

1 drip = 0.25 ml
15141.64 drips = 1 gallon
1 drip/second = 5.706 gal/day
30.4 days = 1 month
173.7 gal/month

... which is like ...

14-minute shower = 28 gallons
6 showers/month

... or ...

1 bath = 56 gallons
3 baths/month

I don't know about you, but I don't think anything of taking an extra shower every five days, or taking an extra bath every ten days.

At our house, we have two dripping faucets right now, and at least one of them is dripping faster than one drip per second.  We've looked at our water usage totals, and it isn't even a noticeable change.  With a family of five who all take showers regularly and flush the toilet regularly and everything else, the extra water from a dripping faucet just doesn't add up to much in comparison.

The average American household uses somewhere around 10,000 gallons of water per month, so a faucet dripping once per second only accounts for about a 1% to 2% increase.

[Rothman]

How much water you waste if you don't fix a dripping faucet.

If your faucet is dripping once per second, then that's ...

1 drip = 0.25 ml
15141.64 drips = 1 gallon
1 drip/second = 5.706 gal/day
30.4 days = 1 month
173.7 gal/month

... which is like ...

14-minute shower = 28 gallons
6 showers/month

... or ...

1 bath = 56 gallons
3 baths/month

I don't know about you, but I don't think anything of taking an extra shower every five days, or taking an extra bath every ten days.

At our house, we have two dripping faucets right now, and at least one of them is dripping faster than one drip per second.  We've looked at our water usage totals, and it isn't even a noticeable change.  With a family of five who all take showers regularly and flush the toilet regularly and everything else, the extra water from a dripping faucet just doesn't add up to much in comparison.

The average American household uses somewhere around 10,000 gallons of water per month, so a faucet dripping once per second only accounts for about a 1% to 2% increase.

Just fix your faucets.

[kphoger]

Just fix your faucets.

That's overrated.

[Scott5114]

The average American household uses somewhere around 10,000 gallons of water per month, so a faucet dripping once per second only accounts for about a 1% to 2% increase.

That probably doesn't matter if you can get water out of the sky. If you can't, well...

173.7 gallons times 2,421,685 (the population of the Las Vegas Valley) is 420,646,684 gallons. Which is 1,291 acre-feet (a unit used in the West for measuring reservoir capacity, which is equivalent to the amount of water it takes to cover one acre with one foot of water). Or 15,491 acre-feet per year. Not a lot compared to the amount that's in Lake Mead, but that's still a fuckton of water being spent to do literally nothing useful.

When you live a city with special cops that only enforce codes about water usage you tend to think about these things differently.

[kphoger]

I mean, it's not like the water gets lost.  It gets piped to a treatment facility and then put back into a lake or river from there.

[formulanone]

Just fix your faucets.

That's overrated.

Or over-torqued.

[Scott5114]

I mean, it's not like the water gets lost.  It gets piped to a treatment facility and then put back into a lake or river from there.

Some still gets lost to evaporation and leaks in the sewer line on the way back. And not all faucets are directly above a drain. (A leaky outdoor spigot, for example.)

[GaryV]

Just fix your faucets

In some cases it may be more cost efficient to not bother.

[Rothman]

Just fix your faucets

In some cases it may be more cost efficient to not bother.

Just fix your faucets.

[kphoger]

(A leaky outdoor spigot, for example.)

I once neglected to shut off the outdoor spigot all the way and didn't discover it till a few days later.  Again, our monthly water usage was indistinguishable from any other month.

By the way, I no longer keep a knob on the spigot outside.  I took it off once upon a time, and I just use pliers now.  That's because I used to have a next-door neighbor who liked to hook her hose up to our tap and water her garden with our water.

[Scott5114]

I once neglected to shut off the outdoor spigot all the way and didn't discover it till a few days later.  Again, our monthly water usage was indistinguishable from any other month.

That probably doesn't matter if you can get water out of the sky. If you can't, well...

(I wouldn't get too comfortable with this sort of thing, by the by. From what I have heard, Wichita's water security doesn't seem like it's as assured as you might like to think it is.)

[kphoger]

(I wouldn't get too comfortable with this sort of thing, by the by. From what I have heard, Wichita's water security doesn't seem like it's as assured as you might like to think it is.)

Wichita gets a lot of its water from Cheney Reservoir.  And yeah, the lake level there has gotten pretty low in the last year or two.  Water restrictions last summer lasted way longer than we're used to.

Of course, as someone who never waters the lawn and only washes the car a few times a year, I don't feel bad about washing the car on a "no water" day.

[CtrlAltDel]

Kyle's ability to justify his actions, no matter what they may be, is nothing short of impressive.

[kphoger]

Kyle's ability to justify his actions, no matter what they may be, is nothing short of impressive.

That ability is overrated.

[Scott5114]

Of course, as someone who never waters the lawn and only washes the car a few times a year, I don't feel bad about washing the car on a "no water" day.

That sort of restriction, when applied to things like car washing, is often more about making sure that everyone doesn't wash their car on the same day and put too much load on the system. (I doubt there are too many people who wash their car daily, so it's not about reducing total usage like grass-watering schedules are.)

We have something similar in LV where people are assigned watering schedules (I don't pay attention to mine since I have nothing to water). The pamphlet stresses that one should never water on Sunday; presumably this is because so many people are doing their laundry in preparation for work on Monday that they need to dedicate load to that.

[kphoger]

That sort of restriction, when applied to things like car washing, is often more about making sure that everyone doesn't wash their car on the same day and put too much load on the system. (I doubt there are too many people who wash their car daily, so it's not about reducing total usage like grass-watering schedules are.)

Around here, at least, it's just a "no using the water outdoors at all except on this certain day" kind of thing.  So it applies to watering the lawn just as much as it applies to washing the car.

I just don't care.  I only use the water outdoors maybe five times a year, so I'm not going try and squeeze in washing the car into my weekday schedule instead of just doing it on Saturday or Sunday like a normal person.