Units are hard (giggity)
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Since the water at work sucks, I take my own water bottles in with me. Due to wear and tear, I recently had to order some new ones. This arrived from Amazon in the manufacturer's packaging, so all labeling is the manufacturer's.
Guess I need to review what the "milli-" prefix means.
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I'd ask for my money back...that's far short of 20 gallons.
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Maybe the top bit (above the 750ml line) is bigger than it looks.
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Maybe it's just me, but it looks like there's a faint spot on your bottom picture where a decimal should be, which would make it say ".75L"
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Maybe it's just me, but it looks like there's a faint spot on your bottom picture where a decimal should be, which would make it say ".75L"
You may be right. I didn't see it till now. Looks like a problem with the printing.
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I recently had to order some new [water bottles]
So … you don’t have any spare bottles you could, you know, wash out and use? Like, buy some cola and get a bottle for your water free?
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Like, buy some cola and get a bottle for your water free?
I could, but those don't last very long. This is a longer term solution. Plus, I don't have to deal with a screw-top to get a drink.
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Filtered water and a 1 liter bottle keep me hydrated.
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The hard plastic "Nalgene" (or whatever other brand you go for) doesn't leech plastic taste into the liquid. Although if you use a particularly strong liquid inside it (hello, grape juice), the taste of the strong liquid can stay around for a few subsequent refillings, unless you really really really really really really wash it well.
Soft plastic re-used soda/water bottles break down very quickly as you refill them, and typically distort the taste of what you put into them via the plastic "leeching" into the liquid. Hence why the same soda pop tastes differently depending on if it's stored in a plastic bottle, a glass bottle, or an aluminum can.
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The hard plastic "Nalgene" (or whatever other brand you go for) doesn't leech plastic taste into the liquid. Although if you use a particularly strong liquid inside it (hello, grape juice), the taste of the strong liquid can stay around for a few subsequent refillings, unless you really really really really really really wash it well.
Try just rinsing out the container, then adding a tsp of white vinegar and slosh it around before cleaning normally with soap and water. It works pretty well for me.
As a random aside: if you have a coffee maker this is similar to what you should do to clean it periodically. It does a great job of cleaning the old coffee taste out of the machine.
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Try just rinsing out the container, then adding a tsp of white vinegar and slosh it around before cleaning normally with soap and water. It works pretty well for me.
As a random aside: if you have a coffee maker this is similar to what you should do to clean it periodically. It does a great job of cleaning the old coffee taste out of the machine.
I let dishwashing soap/water soak in it for a short while. It's almost always easier to find that than vinegar.
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It's almost always easier to find that than vinegar.
In the grocery store or your kitchen?
Either way, wat.
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I just make my coffee with dish soap. The coffeepot and my mug never need cleaning, nor do I have to brush my teeth, and it dissolves any grime in the toilet bowl.
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In the grocery store or your kitchen?
Either way, wat.
My kitchen, my friend's kitchen, the kitchen area at work...
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I just make my coffee with dish soap. The coffeepot and my mug never need cleaning, nor do I have to brush my teeth, and it dissolves any grime in the toilet bowl.
You should submit that here.
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It's almost always easier to find that than vinegar.
Not if you go buy a bottle and keep it under the sink or something.
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Also, nobody's @algorythmics'd the title yet, almost 20 posts in?
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thought about it but the only thing i can think of is far too NSFW
so i decided to leave it to someone else.
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thought about it but the only thing i can think of is far too NSFW
That's why I only @mentioned him and didn't come up with my own idea.
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That's why I only @mentioned him and didn't come up with my own idea.
I took care of it. You're welcome.
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@Intercourse said:
I took care of it. You're welcome.
Reverted. It's best to keep titles SFW. I wouldn't want any of my co-workers seeing that title over my shoulder.
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Viagra is not exactly a NSFW word by itself.... ;-)
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That's not the part I was most worried about. More like the bit about algorythmics junk.
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if you say so. ;-)
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Viagra is not exactly a NSFW word by itself
Yeah, next time spell it Vigara or something.
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Reverted.
Why are you working on a weekend before xmas anyway? :-p
Can we agree on this one? As since when is this forum, in general, SFW?
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Not trying to make the forum SFW. Just the title of this topic. And I'm not working. Just thinking of those who are.
Plus, it's my topic.
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Not trying to make the forum SFW. Just the title of this topic. And I'm not working. Just thinking of those who are.
Plus, it's my topic.
INB4 "that's so blakeyrat" complaints.
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Just screwing around. It is your topic. Do what you wish.
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the taste of the strong liquid can stay around for a few subsequent refillings
I can’t say I see the problem — at least that would give some flavour to the water, though I suppose it would taste rather like the original beverage has been very watered-down. Then again, I don’t normally drink water by choice anyway.
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Try just rinsing out the container, then adding a tsp of white vinegar and slosh it around before cleaning normally with soap and water. It works pretty well for me.
As a random aside: if you have a coffee maker this is similar to what you should do to clean it periodically. It does a great job of cleaning the old coffee taste out of the machine.
And if you don't like the smell of vinegar, simply use citric acid. Works just as well and doesn't smell as nasty.
Though you should use vinegar when cleaning the microwave - pour some vinegar into a small bowl, heat it inside the microwave to the boiling point and then let the bowl sit inside for about 10 minutes.
After that, you can wipe off any food residue with a paper towl very easily.
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The problem:
Liquid #1 - Grape Juice
Liquid #2 - Dr. Pepper
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And if you don't like the smell of vinegar, simply use citric acid. Works just as well and doesn't smell as nasty.
That would be great - if it didn't trigger debilitating migraines.
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Dr. Pepper … I can see your problem right there. (Drank it exactly once, soon after it was introduced into this country about 15 years ago.)
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That would be great - if it didn't trigger debilitating migraines.
I'm not suggesting that you drink the stuff. And that you rinse it properly afterwards.
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I'm not suggesting that you drink the stuff. And that you rinse it properly afterwards.
Still, I won't risk it.
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And if you don't like the smell of vinegar, simply use citric acid. Works just as well and doesn't smell as nasty.
Though you should use vinegar when cleaning the microwave - pour some vinegar into a small bowl, heat it inside the microwave to the boiling point and then let the bowl sit inside for about 10 minutes.
After that, you can wipe off any food residue with a paper towl very easily.I suspect vinegar is more common in kitchens; though I admit I've never tried to buy what I am guessing would be distilled citric acid?
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I suspect vinegar is more common in kitchens; though I admit I've never tried to buy what I am guessing would be distilled citric acid?
Nope. You'll buy citric acid in crystallized form. Solve in water, done. 500 grams cost about 2€ over here.
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Nope. You'll buy citric acid in crystallized form. Solve in water, done. 500 grams cost about 2€ over here.
D'oh - I think I have bought it before - you're talking about sodium citrate, right?
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D'oh - I think I have bought it before - you're talking about sodium citrate, right?
No, that would be the salt of citric acid and the solution would actually be alkaline.
Pure citric acid (Either water free or as a monohydrate) is crystalline and not a liquid at room temperature.
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No, that would be the salt of citric acid and the solution would actually be alkaline.
Pure citric acid (Either water free or as a monohydrate) is crystalline and not a liquid at room temperature.
Ah, my lack of chemistry education comes back to bite me.
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Ah, my lack of chemistry education comes back to bite me.
Well, truth to be told, acid-base-relations are usually not covered in detail in schools.
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Not if you go buy a bottle and keep it under the sink or something.
So you keep vinegar around every sink that you spend part of the day using?
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So you keep vinegar around every sink that you spend part of the day using?
Who doesn't?
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So you keep vinegar around every sink that you spend part of the day using?
In my case, that would be two at home and one at work. I suspect at least two of them have vinegar[1], but at least one, the one I spend the most time near, does.
[1] the office kitchen needs to be cleaned too, and it's not as if the building's cleaning staff's job includes descaling our coffee pot, for example.