21 Incredibly Important Diagrams To Help You Get Through Life

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1. How to Get the Perfect Cup of Tea

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4. How to Make the Perfect Burger

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5. How to Know Which Beer Glass to Use (via Beer Color)

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6. How to Determine the Perfectly Ripe Avocado

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You’ll never waste a precious $2 avocado again!

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7. How to Make the Perfect Cheese Plate

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8. How to Tip Correctly

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9. How to Tie a Perfect Bow

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10. How to Know When a Steak Is Done by Touch

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11. How to Transform Your Hoodie or Sweater into an Emergency Laptop Sleeve

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12. How Much to Serve at a Party

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13. How to Tie a Bow Tie

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18. How to Know How Long to Cook Your Veggies

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19. How Dehydrated Are You? (via Urine Color)

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20. How to Be a Creative Person

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Oh, man, where to start? Invest in a ‘seal-a-meal’ or machine like it. Put extra bread you won’t get to in a couple of days into a seal-a-meal bag, suck out the extra air and freeze it. WTF is the steak test? Looking at fingers tells me nothing about steak. This is a joke! You want fresh, ripe avocados? Fine. Pop off the button but I guarantee you some ass has pushed their thumb into it to see if it’s ripe long before you pop the button. Ask you grocer for your avocados from ‘the back room’ before they’ve been given over to the mindless trolls who love screwing up YOUR avocados. And, finally, ‘how much to serve per person at a party’? Assume guys will come ravenous and will stuff their faces with as much protein as possible before the host yells at them. ‘1 1/2 sandwiches’? Don’t make me laugh.
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- melseyj80 a week ago
  
  I know a lot of restaurant people that use the steak test. The firmness of the steak is suppose to match the firmness of the part of your hand under your thumb depending on which finger you are touching (that muscle tenses up the further away the thumb goes). It works. I guess the diagram just doesn’t explain that very well.
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Or just stop using ounces and pints as a scale… 8 fluid ounces is one cup and 4 cups is one quarter… Or liter is exactly 10 deciliters that is exactly 10 centiliters, which is 10 milliliters… Humans are way better remembering words and concepts than numbers and, especially numbers with fractions that are not in any way logical..
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GOD DAMN most of these infographics are terrible. Infographics are meant to educate visually by simplifying the ideas being presented. A lot of these are chart junk.
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AquaRegia 2 months ago

#19 Bullshit. If your pee looks like water, congrats you’ve given yourself hyponatremia. Water intoxication, also known as hyponatremia, normally is linked to marathon runners’ drinking too much water after a race. When this happens, there is so much water in the body that it dilutes vital minerals such as sodium down to dangerous levels. This can lead to confusion, headaches and in extreme cases fatal swelling of the brain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia
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- Mandie A. 2 months ago
  
  I drink a normal amount of water, but generally not anything else and my urine is usually close to being clear. You have to drink a ridiculous amount of water to get hyponatremia.
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- A.Leigh 2 months ago
  
  MedScape says “Under normal conditions, renal handling of water is sufficient to excrete as much as 15-20 L of free water per day. Further, the body’s response to a decreased osmolality is decreased thirst. Thus, hyponatremia can occur only when some condition impairs normal free water excretion.” A standard plastic water bottle is about 500 mL. Theoretically, a healthy person could drink 30 in a day and not get hyponatremia. (Don’t try this at home, though.) Also, just like drinking six beers in an hour will get you more drunk than drinking one beer per hour for 12 hours, even though it’s twice as much beer, the more spaced out your drinking, the less it affects your body chemistry. So definitely don’t go downing 30 bottles of water all at once. Also, exercise increases the likelihood of hyponatremia and decreases the amount of water you’d have to drink to cause it, because it causes you to sweat, which makes you lose sodium. Hyponatremia isn’t too much water, it’s too little sodium (which can be caused by too much water). Long story short, you shouldn’t aim for completely clear. What you really want is pale yellow. If it’s perfectly clear, you probably don’t want to drink anything for awhile. It does not mean you HAVE hyponatremia, but it does mean you’re at least sufficiently hydrated, if not slightly over-hydrated, and could potentially be risking hyponatremia if you drink much more. (This is more of a “better safe than sorry” thing than anything. Like I said before, you have to drink a LOT to cause problems.) Where the urine color correlation really matters, though, is at the other end of the spectrum. If it’s very dark, you are probably dehydrated. If it’s fairly light, don’t worry about it.
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- tanak a month ago
  
  Correctamundo. Agree that going for clear is way overboard and not great as a reccie. :) Another thing to consider is dietary supplementation can also affect urine color. I can have pale yellow urine, take a multivitamin, and have second-to-worst according to the chart. Needs a bit of caveat to go with the posted recommendations, I think.
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AquaRegia 2 months ago

#1 Start by not using a teabag.
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serenamarieh 2 months ago

Btw, the freezer times for food is for best taste only. Food, when kept frozen, NEVER goes bad.
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Floobity 2 months ago

Your avacados are $2!?!? Holy crap! Go to a Mexican store, 2 for 99 cents.
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keithr14 2 months ago

Whose pee is naturally clear like that? Maybe after 10 beers it is…
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- Mandie A. 2 months ago
  
  Beer dehydrates you, so after 10 beers your pee would actually be darker. Light colored urine means you are well hydrated.
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- deaddrift a month ago
  
  You are no beer drinker, Mandie.
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buddersmoosh 2 months ago

#6 is dumb just squeeze the avocado!! That’s the best way to know when it is right to eat!
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- sandyra a month ago
  
  You’re the idiot screwing up all the avocados for everyone else. Do you enjoy black thumb-spots in your GREEN avocado? No? Well, you are to blame. Congratulate yourself, you’ve ruined lots of very nice veggies. Figure it out, chump. Quit messing with avocados!!
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buddersmoosh 2 months ago

I’m confused I thought water evaporates at anything above 200 degrees Fahrenheit?
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- Changinface 2 months ago
  
  The boiling point for water is 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Ange 2 months ago

Why would you boil broccoli florets for 10 - 15 mins? Broccoli gets pretty mushy after 4-5 mins. Does that include the time it takes to boil the water?
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- NeekaJones a month ago
  
  Agreed. Same for green beans, unless you are my mother-in-law. Yuck. And why no time for sauteed potatoes?? Home fries, hello??
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andrea 2 months ago

Who eats asparagus with their fingers (#2)?
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mariath 2 months ago

i don’t get #10 :( Can someone explain?
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- mariath 2 months ago
  
  Ok, I decided not to be completely stupid and read the source.
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- Lillithdv8 2 months ago
  
  when you touch the flesh under your tumb that is the consistency you want with your steak. This indicates each state of meat cooking (well done meat is tough, rare is yielding)
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donkeynubb 2 months ago

Cool stuff, however #19 is utter crap, don’t believe it. You need to drink when you are thirsty simple as that, over drinking can be incredibly dangerous.
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- A.Leigh 2 months ago
  
  The Mayo Clinic begs to differ: “Unfortunately, thirst isn’t always a reliable gauge of the body’s need for water, especially in children and older adults. A better indicator is the color of your urine: Clear or light-colored urine means you’re well hydrated, whereas a dark yellow or amber color usually signals dehydration.”
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- emilybargmanb 2 months ago
  
  If you are thirsty, your body has already started to dehydrate. Thirst is your body’s way of begging you to hydrate it.
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- whynotzoidberg 2 months ago
  
  I’ve always heard that clear urine means you’re over hydrated and running low on electrolytes. Light yellow is good, though. I clicked through the source and kept clicking through to try to find the original source until I ran into a dead Tumblr. Basically as far as I can tell the original source is some random fitness blog.
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- JohanPar 2 months ago
  
  The color also varies by certain dietary factors, so it’s not always a signal of dehydration. For example, quite a bunch of vitamin B will make your urine considerably deeper in hue. Similarly, it’s complete bulls**t that caffeinated drinks dehydrate people. Unless you’re guzzling down 7 large cups of coffee each day, they don’t work as a diuretic any more than an excess of water does. There are so many stupid myths that people still cling to. Ehh.
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Art Vandelay 2 months ago

Cool stuff but post links next time or make some of the images clickable to enlarge.
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- stone_soup 2 months ago
  
  There are links to the sources of the diagrams at the bottom of every diagram.
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lotsofgoats 2 months ago

#1 stop using teabags
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- janice! 2 months ago
  
  THIS.
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- like this matters 2 months ago
  
  Because?
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- tanak a month ago
  
  Loose leaf is better, no argument… but not all of us have the energy to devote to that method, or just want to dunk, soak & toss, such as at work. The chart allows those of us have at least proper brew time & temp (vital for any brewed beverage including coffee) when bags are the only option. :)
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- gregorycharlesedwardt 3 weeks ago
  
  the way i brew my tea is even better… i put the tea bags into water not hot not cold just room temp. this is espessially great for people like me who are sensitive to tea, if you like it hot then once its strong enough for your taste take out the tea bags and heat. if your making ice tea or herbal tea spritzers leave the tea bags in.
  try my ice tea
  2 liters water
  4-6 black tea bags
  1/3-1/2 cup sugar
  1/4 cup lemon juice/ 1 large lemon juice and zest
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1. How to Get the Perfect Cup of Tea

2. How to Tie a Scarf

3. How to Set a Dinner Party Properly

4. How to Make the Perfect Burger

5. How to Know Which Beer Glass to Use (via Beer Color)

6. How to Determine the Perfectly Ripe Avocado

7. How to Make the Perfect Cheese Plate

8. How to Tip Correctly

9. How to Tie a Perfect Bow

10. How to Know When a Steak Is Done by Touch

11. How to Transform Your Hoodie or Sweater into an Emergency Laptop Sleeve

12. How Much to Serve at a Party

13. How to Tie a Bow Tie

14. How to Convert Measurements for Cooking

15. How to Determine the Characters for the Epic Novel You’re Writing

16. How to Determine Which Glue to Use for Any Project

17. How to Know When to Throw Your Groceries Out

18. How to Know How Long to Cook Your Veggies

19. How Dehydrated Are You? (via Urine Color)

20. How to Be a Creative Person

21. How to Determine Which Wine to Drink with Dinner

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