A completely useful compulsion I have.

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• Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cool. Now riddle me this: If you were to stack these eggs in 3D, would you create an hcp or an fcc lattice?

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This isn’t a useless compulsion. It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.

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• SaintOwlPizza25@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember my sister dropping the last of the eggs casue one side was heavy. She was so upset.

  Why do this.

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tend to get eggs in a box of six: front corners first, then the rear corners and then the centre eggs.

  I’m not in America so my eggs can live outside the fridge, it’s mostly about making sure someone doesn’t knock the box and crack an egg accidentally.

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• sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do this and I am not austic.

  I might have picked it up from this guy.

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  • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If your carton can physically do that, then either your carton is paper and not carton, or your eggs have stones inside them.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is he Monk’s cousin?

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  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not autistic or OCD, and I do this too. It’s just common sense and mildly entertaining.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When it must be inbalanced due to the number of eggs, as long as the extra weight is towards the hinge then it retains the safety benefits of being balanced.

  Since I get eggs while holding the carton I tend to take from the ‘outside’ row first, starting at the ends, and work my way into the center by the hinge. This puts the weight in the hand I’m using to hold the carton and works well even for 18 and 24 count cartons. If I set the carton down before yoinking eggs, I would go for more balance.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perhaps this person would be better employed as a tanker mate; that’s bang-on distribution to avoid hogging or bowing.

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• snf@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I guess a three-egg omelette is out of the question then

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• gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Whoa look at Mr moneybags here, flexing with an 18 eggs container

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For regular commodity eggs, the cost per egg is exactly the same between 12 and 18 packs (at least at my grocery store). However, with eggs being so expensive, I’ve started treating them as a luxury good, and so I took a look and noticed that the prices of the fancy eggs haven’t increased nearly as much (on a percentage basis) as the basic commodity eggs. I’ve also noticed that with the fancy eggs, you actually do get a small volume discount for buying 18 instead of 12. Therefore, the skyrocketing egg prices have actually caused me to buy fancier eggs and more of them at a time, LOL!

      Before:

      • 12 normal eggs: $1
      • 18 normal eggs: $1.50
      • 12 fancy eggs: $4+ ( 4x “normal” too much of a price premium)

      Now:

      • 12 normal eggs: $5
      • 18 normal eggs: $7.50
      • 18 fancy eggs: $10 (1.33x “normal,” a small enough premium to say “might as well get the better quality”)

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      buys the entire US egg industry

      technically cheaper than buying cartons

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• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.

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• ModestCrab@lemmy.wtf ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Huh, maybe I should give it a try……

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.

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  • Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh my god. This is beautiful.

    Thank you, fellow lemites. I have assimilated this autism into my own.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      exactly, set yourself up for success

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  • Q_the_misanthrope@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.

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  • don@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.

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• datendefekt@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I take supplements in the evening and i got so boring taking out the pills from top to bottom, left to right. So now I’m doing various patterns, usually symmetric.

  Thanks, now I feel not quite so absurd.

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• MikeOxlong@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Relevant XKCD

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Chaotic good here.

    Yep, I’m an Autist.

    … Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.

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    • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.

      That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…

      But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL I’m true neutral. Always thought I was chaotic good.

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  • Pilon23@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.

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  • amedd69@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Per this example I’m lawful good

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  • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is always a relevant xkcd.

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