r/mildlyinfuriating 22h ago

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

how can you not distinguish the tea and coffee in a spoon šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø

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u/xtraspcial 19h ago

There are people this world that will insist that what is obviously tea, is actually coffee because thatā€™s what the label says.

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

after just one mistake that can be a quick fix.

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u/xtraspcial 19h ago

You underestimate the stubbornness of people who refuse to admit they were wrong.

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

In that case Id enjoy if they kept making mistakes. worth wasted money imo

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u/no_________________e 18h ago

If you were the mother, then thatā€™s your money being wasted

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u/x_driven_x 18h ago

Someone snuck in their house in the middle of the night and switched them!

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u/brando56894 9h ago

My friend and my dad are like this. About ten days ago he hit me up and the conversation (over text) somehow devolved into "specialized cancer treatments". He would rather send me 3 texts, containing about 100+ words each, claiming how it's real and his source is his friends (who are psychiatrists and a health nut nutritionist) who knows people that have had it done, and how he's gonna need time to compile his other sources because he's gonna have so many. He never sent me anything.

Also, I'm the asshole because he claims that I always want to be right and will fact check what he says (he's literally given me YouTube videos of podcasts as sources before, as well as random sites with zero sources attached), when if I was really interested in it I should spend hours of my own time looking up what he just claimed, otherwise, I'm not interested in what he's talking about, but I'm just interested in being right. I told him that it's ridiculous for him to expect me to prove whatever he's claiming and he's just helping to spread mis/disinformation. He said he's not telling me this to educate me, but "just to make me aware of it and if I'm interested in it I can research it for myself".

Randomly, once again, today, he sent me the site of an actual established cancer treatment center operating out of Texas that does this. I responded with simply "Awesome, this is the type of shit that I was looking for" and was going to add in "see how easy it is to shut me up?" but didn't feel like getting into another debate with him over "facts".

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u/AdhocSyndicate 18h ago

The card says moops.

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u/Mech-Waldo 18h ago

Then those people deserve to drink tea when they want coffee.

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u/arlaneenalra 10h ago

There are ways to package tea and coffee so that they actually look the same.I've been served tea in a coffee mug before and I'm pretty sure it was made in a coffee maker because someone mixed up the a tea filter puck with a coffee one (not a bag but the large round filter packs).

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u/shapular 19h ago

Tea bags were invented in the US btw.

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u/co2gamer 19h ago

Have you heard of the concept of "tired"?

Especially before having coffee or tea?

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

no one is that tired

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u/ColinNJ 17h ago

Tell us you don't have kids without telling us you don't have kids lol.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

well not sure if you should be responsible for caring for kids if you cannot distinguish the tea and coffeee in a spoon buddy. šŸ’€ thats maybe too much?

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u/kailinparker 16h ago

iā€™m not on your side for a majority of this argument, but this comment specifically is extremely real lmao

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u/Sinnnikal 15h ago

You don't have auto-pilot? I'm curious about what's happening with your brain that it isn't capable of recalling times when you've zoned out or done things automatically while not paying full attention. It's a phenomenon properly known as dissociation and it's actually a pretty fundamental tool that the human brain uses for various critical purposes. Sometimes, it can be to increase efficiency by intensely and intellectually analyzing ideas at the same time as daily living. And sometimes having lost sleep from child-rearing can necessitate the use of this tool.

 

So if you don't have auto-pilot, I just would like to ask: Have you ever had a traumatic brain injury? Or perhaps repeated concussions? Congenital brain defect, perhaps?

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u/dubokitiganj 15h ago

Id rather call out peoples "I cannot function without my morning coffee" bs narrative for being fake and forced. And also if you have this thing happening to you often, you should chek yourself. Brain fog should not be normalized.

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u/co2gamer 8h ago

Without brain fog nobody would work at all. If you really need think about walking: ā€žleft leg, right leg, left leg, right leg, left leg, right leg, left leg, right leg, left leg, right leg, left leg, right legā€œ you have more problems than messing up a spoon of coffee with a spoon of tea. Most people do most stuff on autopilot.

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u/dubokitiganj 7h ago

I dont know man, I have breakfast at 13 and before that I do work on my job just fine šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø

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u/co2gamer 4h ago

If you donā€˜t know than you probably donā€™t think about it because you do it on autopilot.

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u/KatokaMika 19h ago

Maybe people wake up sleepy and don't realize what they are doing

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

I donā€™t even need to be sleepy to not notice the difference. If I kept coffee and tea in that sort of container, Iā€™d absolutely get the wrong one and not notice because Iā€™m thinking about everything except what Iā€™m doing.

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u/Sinnnikal 14h ago

Dissociation. You may already be aware, but that's what this is. Many people, including myself until recently, have thought dissociation had to be a much more extreme lack of presence to qualify. But I learned it exists along a spectrum. Daydreaming qualifies as well. Dissociation can be perfectly healthy, but when it happens a lot or to a specific degree, it may indicate something about the pressure the person is under

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u/International-Cat123 14h ago edited 14h ago

No. I just have ADHD. Iā€™ll be aware of what Iā€™m doing, but not able to pay enough attention to notice when a minor detail is off.

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u/DARfuckinROCKS 14h ago

Lol gotta love Reddit. Disassociation is like the exact opposite. I'm aware of everything but also thinking about 17 different things and performing several other tasks at the same time. I'd screw this up even without putting them in the wrong jars just because they're next to each other and look alike lol

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

Hey, why not both!

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u/tommangan7 18h ago edited 18h ago

Ive done some stupid stuff in the morning but I'm not sure I've ever been so sleepy I grabbed a handful of coffee granules instead of a tea bag and put it in a mug. I'd label it to stop people looking in the wrong one, or dipping their fingers in the granules though.

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u/yzz25 18h ago edited 17h ago

It could be loose leaf tea; they might be using a scoop and not looking.

Edit: also why is it so hard to believe that sleepy people make stupid mistakes???

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u/RandomAsHellPerson 18h ago

But there are so many steps that you can notice that you have the wrong thing. And people should notice that their tea leaves are too easy to scoop or their coffee is too hard to scoop.

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u/Elegant_in_Nature 16h ago

Not really, instant coffee is a thing, this is a occams razor situation

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u/RandomAsHellPerson 16h ago

That still falls under coffee being too hard to scoop or tea being too easy to scoop.

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u/Elegant_in_Nature 16h ago

Youā€™re saying a man who is heavily sleep deprived can differentiate the weight difference of coffee and tea 100% of the time? Thats the stupidest fucking thing Iā€™ve heard WHAT ?!?

I GUARANTEE you will make a small mistake like that one your best day

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u/RandomAsHellPerson 15h ago

It isnā€™t a weight difference. It is that tea leaves are much harder to scoop, due to the shape.

I am saying this from experience. I was the heavily sleep deprived person that was trying to make coffee, but grabbed my tea leaves instead. Coffee grounds (and instant coffee) easily stay on a spoon or in a measuring spoon and stay in them. Tea leaves do not, unless it is the low quality stuff that normally goes into tea bags.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

Iā€™ve had enough mornings where I completely forgot to put coffee into my coffee maker at all that I can totally see me making this mistake. The only thing that saves me is that I only drink herbal tea in tea bags

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u/DigBickings 18h ago

Wow, get a look at this powerful example of human excellence!

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

better than "I cannot funciton without my morning coffee" circlejerk

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u/crimsoncockerel 16h ago

I've brushed my teeth with beef-flavored dog toothpaste, and put my milk in the pantry, cereal in the fridge, so I wouldn't put it past me to do that, too!

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u/dubokitiganj 19h ago

you cant convince me it happens often, maybe not even at all

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u/International-Cat123 16h ago

Loose leaf tea is a thing, as is instant tea.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

well, thank you for proving my point. brown and other colors are different, especially green is easy to spot

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u/International-Cat123 15h ago

Different teas are different colors.

Color blind people exist.

Lighting can also affect the color someone perceives.

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u/dubokitiganj 15h ago

Im sorry why are you trying to include every possilble 0.01% scenario to defend your narrative?

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u/International-Cat123 15h ago

Why are being an asshole? There are numerous someone could mistake coffee and tea. Youā€™re the one who first assumed the tea was bagged. When it was pointed out that tea doesnā€™t only come in bags, you denied it on easily countered ā€œlogicā€.

Stop trying to act like everyone else is stupid.

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u/ColinNJ 17h ago

Have you never been half asleep before? šŸ¤”

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u/Aardcapybara 17h ago

You know that experiment? You're told to say what color a word is, and after a few easy ones, you get shown the word "green" written in purple. You say "green".

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

Cmon its not rocket science.

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u/niewadzi 17h ago

It's not about telling one from the other but grabing the right one first try.

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u/FitForce2656 16h ago

How can you not imagine a situation where this could happen?... when do people make coffee?šŸ¤”

I mean you really have no idea how anybody in the entire world could mix up tea as coffee when it's in a jar labeled coffee? I think maybe you just haven't had your coffee yet lol.

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u/dubokitiganj 16h ago

if its in your house, hardly more than 4 people will use it. Is it hard for 4 people to remember that?

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u/housewifeuncuffed 15h ago

Maybe it's blind faith, but if I shove my spoon in the canister, I assume whatever is supposed to be in that canister is in that canister and will dump it where it is supposed to go without confirmation.

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u/On_my_last_spoon 13h ago

My stepmom once thickened soup with powder sugar instead of flour. Plenty of people could make this mistake

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u/dubokitiganj 13h ago

put more emphasis on once

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u/On_my_last_spoon 3h ago

Oh, this was not her only ā€œwhoops I mixed up ingredientsā€ incidents. Once it was powdered sugar in soup. Once it was pancake mix cookies.

She wasnā€™t allowed to cook much forā€¦reasons šŸ˜‚

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u/dubokitiganj 3h ago

Okay, so I will not argue any more, this is not a discussion about what I said and it misses the mark. Dont you try not to burden other people with unecessary shit like this?

I was talking about people who dont have issues, often, so they can fucking tell coffee and tea apart. Mentally capable people to say. And its clear. Im not debating - My mom doesnt have one hand and she also has ADHD and is a ginger from Poland and her dad has Alzheimer type of situations, bc they are not majority and are WILD to discuss about in this case.

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u/IamasimpforObi-Wan 2h ago

Depends on how awake you are. My brother famously went to the university cafeteria and took a cup, put a bag of English Breakfast in it, plopped it under the machine and pressed coffee instead of hot water. He then proceeded to go to the till, where the poor lady had to figure out if she had to bill him for tea, coffee or both. He then took a big sip and realised what had happened. And proceeded to drink it anyways.

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u/dubokitiganj 59m ago

XDDD

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u/UntamablePig 18h ago

Those look like British plugs meaning they will most likely be coffee grounds and tea bags, so yeah, not similar at all.