If you can't figure out how a can opener works and it's actually an emergency you would find some other way to open the can that worked for you (pry it open with a knife, punch a hole in it with the claw end of a hammer, like she actually suggested)
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Then once you weren't hungry anymore you could try to figure out a better way to do it at leisure The need to spend six hours fighting your own low blood sugar in order to decipher the mechanism is a wholly artificial scenario
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(One fun fact I do like bringing up is that can openers were invented 50 years after cans themselves were, as a way to make cans a safer and more convenient technology If you look at old cartoons you see cans opened the "old-fashioned" way, pried out from a hole in the center)
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Jabbing a knife into the middle of a can lid and then cutting wedges to the edge in a star shape to peel it up and open its a lot more intuitive than using a can opener, arguably It's just that you have to mind the sharp edges
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can someone please call CPS on that man (not cinema robert, the dude he's talking about)
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Honestly if you're trying to teach someone to survive the apocalypse maybe requiring them to open cans with fragile easy to break devices instead of teaching them to open them in generally available method s? Well it's almost as bad as his teaching style
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Yeah, that's just an abusive dad.
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True. Also. The man has contempt for his daughter. And that absolutely infuriated me—brag, brag, contempt, and no sense that everything he says is emotionally bankrupt.
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Agreed. If he'd wanted to take time away from what he was doing in order to work with her on understanding the mechanics, give her his full attention, etc., then ensure she's got a snack or lunch however that first turns out, I'd have just thought he was a bit power-trippy.
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Heaven help me, but I kept recalling the tin of pineapple scene from Three Men in a Boat...it's comedy gold because they weren't starving to open the can, it was just dessert. Genuine hunger wouldn't have been funny.
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