On hooking and unhooking bra straps.

[randomness]

While hooking together bedfull_o_books bra straps in preparation for laundry--if you don't hook them together they snag other items in the wash--I remembered a conversation I'd had with some folks a while ago about unhooking them one-handed.

No deep conclusions here. Just funny mental juxtapositions.

Off to laundry. :)

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Well, I was going to go off to laundry, but now I have a question:

Does anyone know a really good reason why one should not microwave liquid laundry detergent which has become frozen in the car in order to unfreeze it?

Winter, feh.

Comments

[gingicat]

I'd be worried that the outer layer of detergent might come to a boiling point and damage the plastic bottle.

Instead, run hot water over it.

[bookly.livejournal.com]

Erm... if it explodes, you'll have a really clean microwave? :) More seriously, I'd be afraid the plastic isn't microwaveable. You could experiment with submerging it in warm/hot water first...

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I try to undo my own bra hooks with one hand, which is difficult, but I can do it. Tends to waste other people's time, though.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yah, I never had much trouble unhooking someone else's with one hand, but I can see how much harder it can be to unhook your own that way.

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Yes, a very good reason—it really shouldn't work. The microwave needs something with an absorption band at the right frequency to do anything useful, which pretty much means liquid water. And if it does work, then you get the problem tigerbright mentions, which is that it'll melt by bits, not all at once. So I recommend the same solution: immerse in hot water for a while, and it'll get better. One hopes.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was an impressively practical application of knowledge. You win.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Well, it's impressive, certainly, but I now have empirical evidence that he's wrong. :)

More in another post.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, yeah, one would hope that the soap is diluted!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

It contains water, but the water wasn't liquid.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

I'd worry about local heating issues blowing a hole in the side of the bottle. Water in the ice-matrix form absorbs 2.4 Ghz microwave energy at a *much* lower rate than in the liquid form.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

But don't we often microwave frozen food to make it thaw?

[kateorama.livejournal.com]

I knew this guy at Wesleyan who prided himself on being able to unhook a woman's bra while dancing (slow dancing), one- or two-handed, without her feeling it. He demonstrated on me and my friend Jane... and it was true, we couldn't tell 'til it was already unhooked. And we were relatively sober at the time.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Now there's an esoteric skill!

Maybe I should try this with bedfull_o_books.

[a-dodecahedron.livejournal.com]

But it would only take a bit of the already-melted stuff to get hot enough to melt more of it.