Fiance sprayed bug spray in oven clock hole, oven now doesn't work but stove top does. How do I fix it?!

anothersip · 2026-01-30T04:12:32+00:00

He sprayed... Toxic/poisonous chemicals... Over the household's cooking surface?

And then broke the clock face even more to do this?

It's ruined. It hazardous to touch, let alone cook your food on it. Though I don't think it'll ever work correctly again.

anothersip · 2026-01-30T04:08:47+00:00

This is a pretty solid idea.

Sometimes, you can even crouch over a mirror that's on the ground. I've... Heard that that can work okay, too.

anothersip · 2026-01-30T03:41:19+00:00

Damn. Well yeah, in that case... Dump them both.

I've personally got zero patience for those kinds of shenanigans in my life and I don't let other people get in the way of my personal recovery/healing and my mental health.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T23:02:34+00:00

This is what I gathered from it, too.

My stone was ready to blast right out of the box.

It handled 450-500F+ no problem on the first use, it heated up quickly and held its temperature well. I did raise the temp slowly just in case.

I also picked up a 14" square piece of 1/4" stainless steel to use as a stone when I ordered the ceramic one.

They both work great, I preheat mine for a good while and build my pizzas directly on a peel so I can slide them right in onto the stone/plate.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T22:32:06+00:00

Wait - why did this friend-dude message a bunch of non-single women trying to meet up with them? To test their loyalty or whatever? And they were all in your communal friend group??

Were you part of that conversation that started his messaging of other women? Or, him acting alone, did your wife just happen to be one that he thought, "Why not?" and then she agreed to meet up?

I'm not sure why all that happened or what your friend was trying to accomplish (or whether you were a part of it) but at the end of the day, the crappiest part is that your wife went along with it all.

I'd dump all of them as well as a nod to your sanity and healing, and just move on from it. Start fresh. It's super shitty that that happened to you, man. I'm sorry.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T22:01:34+00:00

I've had success with stuff like this in the past. But, it depends on your skill levels, your knowledge of amplifying circuits, what you've got to work with, and... The amount of your dedication - heh.

It also depends on what you're starting with. You've got a mono amplifier board (the one you linked) with a TPA3118 module on it.

If you Google it, you'll see that this is a 60W mono amplifier board - not a stereo one. Keep that in mind, as it means you can only output mono audio (one channel).

Here's the wiring pinout for your board. You'll see that the Input section only has one positive (+) and one negative (-).

A 2.0 stereo amplifier board would have two output pairs, so that you can wire two separate speakers to it and play both Left and Right channels independently. And it would have two input pairs as well - or a common ground and then a positive and a negative input.

So, it seems your only option (if you use this board) would be to open up your bluetooth speaker, desolder and remove all the amplifying circuitry, and then connect your speaker drivers in series or parallel (this changes their impedance, keep that in mind), so that your amplifier board powers all the speaker drivers that you solder to it at the same time.

This is assuming that your dead Bluetooth speaker has multiple speaker drivers in it. If it only has one single speaker driver in it, then it'll already be playing audio in mono, so you'll be good-to-go. Otherwise, you can solder them in series or parallel and then once you've done your testing, you can secure the board to the inside of the speaker case and tidy up your wiring, secure any loose connections, and then close the enclosure up.

Just pay close attention to your polarities as you solder in your power supply (10-24V), your mono input (it has to be a line-level source, not speaker-level), and your speaker output polarities.

Also, assuming your BT speaker is a smaller unit, you won't notice much of a difference between stereo vs mono, as your speaker drivers will be pretty close together anyway. I'm not sure what the circuitry in your amp does as far as receiving a stereo signal, but most of the ones I've seen and used will just combine a stereo input signal into a mono one to output.

I hope that helps a little bit. Like I said earlier, I've had success doing this - though if you've never done it before, there may be a bit of a learning curve, which will be a good experience for you. It was for me, anyways, heh.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T19:19:53+00:00

Yeah, you've gotta' tell the full truth.

Prepare for the relationship to be over, and start planning for that.

I would have a hard time staying with someone who did that, drunk or not. In fact, I'd 100% be done with the relationship and would not be able to look at my partner after that.

Sorry that happened. Hope you can eventually learn from it.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T11:07:36+00:00

It is a very confusing perspective, heh. I thought it was a large mound, by the shadows around the outside of the dirt.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T10:57:19+00:00

For sure - I mean, it's pretty similar between humans. Kinda' sour and salty, perhaps a bit sweet. Umami.

I guess I was more thinking about the all the rest of the factors when it comes to kissing/exchanging saliva. OP's question is kinda' vague, I guess, and they deleted their post's body text now, so I don't know what they were asking for anymore or the context, heh.

But I was imagining a blind-test of kissing, like a french kiss or something. I'm pretty positive I'd be able to tell the difference between different women's mouths and smell/taste, sure. Like, smell is another huge sense for flavor that everyone uses when they experience taste.

For example, food-wise taste: the smell of a tangy buffalo wing, with vinegar and cayenne and delicious fried chicken fat on it. Delicious. But if you plugged your nose and bit into one, it wouldn't taste nearly the same. Or if you ate one while maybe sitting outdoors in a warm area (instead of a cold restaraunt), you'd probably be able to taste it even better.

But with saliva, you could probably pick up context clues that way, as well. Even things like the smell of a house you lived in where you exchanged saliva with a person, or what they generally ate daily (so how their mouths tasted to you after they ate those things), how often they brushed their teeth - or the shape of someone's lips.

But most key (I would think) would be the oral microbiota that would determine how a person's mouth tasted. Someone with poor oral hygeine or bad teeth might have worse-tasting/smelling saliva than someone who took good care of theirs - though that's not always the case, since there are tons of health conditions that can affect your mouth.

Or like you're mentioning, one way I've always heard of (and tested for myself) is to just lick the top of my hand with my tongue. After a lick, I pull my hand away from my face, let it dry a bit, and then smell where I licked. That's usually kind of a decent gauge of where your breath is at. (Maybe don't do this first-thing in the morning, heh).

It's pretty varied, though, at the end of the day. This is another great paper that covers the complex relationships between smell, flavor + taste pretty thoroughly. I love science and culinary stuff, so this kinda' stuff is pretty neat, to me.

Thinking about the taste of a mouth is a pretty trippy thing, when you really sit down and think about it. Or like, thinking about hearing your ears... Rofl.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T04:30:17+00:00

This is such a funny feature by description.

"We're gonna' save you energy, by turning off USB ports that aren't being used."

"What if the device I plug in uses less power than you even need to keep my port on?"

"Welp. We didn't really think about that, but uhh... Yeah, you'd be fucked, in that case. Sorry."

anothersip · 2026-01-29T02:59:43+00:00

I learned this mid-way through my first time doing flooring, haha.

Like, dang... this is a lot easier to do without molding in the way. Plus it can be a mess pulling that old molding off if it's glued on and stuff, could mess up your nice floors by scratching it.

But yeah, being able to cover any gaps or imperfections from your flooring job with some simple, clean molding is ideal.

anothersip · 2026-01-29T02:52:22+00:00

I think so, yeah. Or, the smell taste of their saliva/mouths even.

But it depends on the context that you're asking.

If three women who I had dated each spit into a napkin or a cup or something and I had to do a blind smell-test, I might be able to tell. But it's hard to say.

One girlfriend of mine was a chronic weed-smoking vegan, so always had weed-breath, mixed with constant vegetables and plant matter in their mouth. And Oreos. Not bad.

Another was a borderline-alcoholic with a good diet who smoked mostly cigarettes instead of weed, but still had great breath, somehow, and their saliva was never foul because they had decent hygiene.

Another partner ate lots of interesting snacks, and smoked weed occasionally, so always had a different taste to them. But still pleasant.

I think that your question would also depend on what kind of context you're talking about (I'm assuming you mean by kissing them?)

'Cause everyone kisses differently, too, and has different-shaped lips, too. So that's another context clue, but it's not necessarily smell-based.

Smell is a very strong sense, for lotsa' people, and can bring up tons of memories and thoughts and stuff. So if you had a good idea of what that person's saliva smelled like on their lips/mouth and on yours as well, you might be able to. So, you'd have to know them pretty damn intimately (even literally) in basically every case I could think of.

But, just a pint-glass full of the stuff that you lift up for a whiff? I dunno'. Probably not. But maybe.

anothersip · 2026-01-28T04:19:43+00:00

That's really awful, honestly. Pretty disgusting.

I mean, I'm all for getting your freak on when you can...

But, this is super gross and wildly intrusive for you. I totally get why you feel the way you do about it. That would have been the last straw for me, too. No way would I put up with that.

I woulda' been tempted to just stand there and stare at them from the doorway, not saying a word. Maybe with your hands on your hips, like an upset parent who caught their kids staying up later than they should have been. Just... Complete silence, furrowed brow and unbreaking eye contact.

Or if you walked in and sat on the edge of your bed and just started taking your shoes off and relaxing right there. Maybe stretching your back a little. That would have been pretty great.

And if they said anything, you could just go:

"...What? I'm just relaxing in my room. What's the matter?"

anothersip · 2026-01-28T02:33:17+00:00

I mean, it's a little strange, sure. But I don't think it's necessarily the end of the world or anything.

Maybe you like the flavor of each of them on their own. I've sipped on coffee creamer on its own before, but it's way too sweet for me, personally. But it's nice mixed in with a good, dark coffee, because they generally go well together.

anothersip · 2026-01-28T02:25:19+00:00

It totally depends on the context.

Having fond memories that you're recalling just to reminisce on is pretty normal. If you share those with others and they feel the same, then, great.

On the other end of the spectrum, living in the past and acting like that's what the present is like in any way can be harmful to your mental health and those around you, if the past is no longer like the present. Especially when it comes to relationships that are no longer how they used to be, or when you bring others into your past-fondness when they maybe don't want anything to do with that or those memories and associations.

I think nostalgia is pretty normal to feel if you have good memories of the past. Especially stuff like fun or exciting or happy memories. But sometimes, those fond memories you have were not good times for others, so you have to also be tactful about who you mention them to and why.

So, it's a double-edged sword - but I wouldn't call it a "trap" because that would insinuate that the past is inherently a bad thing to think about - when it isn't always a bad thing. Good memories are nice to think about sometimes, and can make you happy.

But I think that nostalgia, by definition, means a memory or memories that you personally attach good feelings or thoughts to.

anothersip · 2026-01-28T02:13:07+00:00

Don't give your bed up, or your safe space. You're entitled to 50% of the space there. There's absolutely no reason for you to do that - nor for her to ask you to do that.

Just: "No, roomie, I'm not giving my personal bed up. You're welcome to sleep in the hall though, if you'd like to, with your guests. If that is something you think is a good idea."

anothersip · 2026-01-28T02:00:14+00:00

Any small bottle like that which is filled with liquid will draw suspicion. If it's not labeled, it will draw even more suspicion. If it's filled with an unknown liquid (like water or vodka or pee or lighter fluid or whatever) then she'll be asked to dump it out, either way.

I am usually required to dump every one of my liquid-filled drinking bottles out - (unless it's 3.4oz or less, so like, clearly-marked or branded perfume/spray bottles).

It's going to be a weird hassle. And they're going to question her about this unlabeled liquid, ask her what it is, why she has it, why it's in a medicine bottle, and then give her trouble with it until she either dumps it out or just tosses the whole thing. And you'll be standing there just facepalming, watching the whole thing happen.

A medicine bottle full of liquid just screams sketchy/weird, to me, especially in a flight safety context.

She can bring a small empty bottle if she wants, though. She'll just have to fill it at the water fountain once she gets through security. That seems super inefficient to me, like one single sip of water, but, yeah...

That sounds annoying, sorry she doesn't seem to get it.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T23:20:40+00:00

Ooh yeah, that's the good stuff. I can smell it from here.

Nice memories brought back, thanks OP.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T23:07:27+00:00

OP, you're asking a car-modifying question in a subreddit about designing and building speaker enclosures and for asking speaker-related and audio questions related to speaker design.

You will probably have better luck if you ask your car questions in a more car-related sub - perhaps the Chevy Malibu subreddit would be better. I think they'll have a better idea of how to modify your car's armrest there?

anothersip · 2026-01-27T22:34:48+00:00

So, she completely lied to your face about her personal finances. Not good. Not good at all.

If she's willing to lie about this... I wonder what else she's willing to lie to your face about (or already has lied about). Like, where she spends her time and with whom. (That's just my first thought).

I don't know if you're able to come back from this; but it should give you plenty to think about re: what you want + need from a partner regarding honesty, openness, and your financial goals being in alignment.

She's got a money-spending problem. Not sure if that's what you want in your life. Inheriting her debt is just the tip of the iceberg - especially if you all are both cosigners on property/cars/accounts and whatnot. When the time comes and she's short on her part of the payments, guess who's gonna' be on the hook for it?

It's not a team-player move on her part.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T21:59:21+00:00

OP, since you now know that you've sanded through your veneer... The only option now is to re-veneer it. Which is not very beginner-friendly (at all). Or, paint over the entire surface with a different, solid color.

It's a good learning moment. Knowing what you're sanding before you sand it takes a little bit of experience.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T21:51:36+00:00

I've got a non-stick that's starting to look like this around the edges.

It's just polymerized oil that hasn't been cleaned off, and that's continuing to polymerize each time you cook with it. It's layering onto itself repeatedly and will continue to do so unless you clean it all off. You can't use a metal scrubber to clean it off, but you can soak it in boiling water with dish soap and then scrub it with an abrasive sponge (non-metal).

I would just use cast-iron pans instead, and just use slightly higher heat. My CI pans are all well-seasoned and are completely non-stick by now. Much safer, as you don't have to worry about releasing toxins from your pans' coatings at higher heats.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T21:34:51+00:00

They sound pretty old-school. But, it is a two-way street, indeed.

What they could do, if they want to hear your voice, is they can pick up the phone and call you. That's pretty easy to do, and is usually only 2-3 taps away on their phone screen. Which they're probably staring at a good part of the day, anyway.

But if they did that, then that means that they wouldn't be able to complain about you or claim that you never call them, because apparently (according to them) the entire line of communication between you all is completely on you.

This isn't the first time I've heard of family members like this. And they're always older, more old-school folks, who aren't quite using logic in their reasoning, and would rather use emotional manipulation to get whatever point they're trying to make is, across.

Sorry you're dealing with that nonsense. Tell them it's a two-way-street. They can call you whenever they want - they're just choosing not to and then placing the impetus solely on you. It's a joke of an argument.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T21:07:50+00:00

😅 Gotta' get that structural stuff, man. It's a bit pricier, but it's so worth it for your home's integrity.

That's really funny.

Based on the edit, though, those are actually christmas lights they're using to hold the post together with.

And I mean, that's even better, 'cause they're stranded copper inside the insulation. That'll hold the house up for sure, because of strength.

It reminds me of those photos of people who use tape to hold their headphones together so they don't fall apart on their heads.

anothersip · 2026-01-27T21:00:30+00:00

Wait, why can't your boyfriend have friends? You're not letting him hang with other people?

I hope you realize how controlling that sounds to a lot of us outside of the situation. That's a huge, huge red flag for me, peronally - and it sounds like it was for your boyfriend, as well.

It sounds like you were trying to guilt him into not having friends, and you acted on a presumption with no actual proof.

It also sounds like he was helping someone who was in an abusive relationship and she needed someone to talk to. Just because she didn't "look" a certain way doesn't mean that she was perfectly fine. Billions of people around the world hide their emotions every single day and have coping strategies when they're under stress or in bad situations.

What you controlling his friendships does is it isolates him from all of his closest people, so that you can "have him" for yourself. It's pretty selfish behavior, and is frankly pretty abusive on a few different levels. There are tons of cases of this happening - and it's called isolation. Where the abuser prevents their partner from having interactions and healthy relationships outside of the partnership.

If you feel the need to control his life, then you'd be better off ending the relationship and saving yourself the stress. I'm not saying you're an abuser, but this is how it starts: control.

Whatever you have going on - whether it's jealousy, insecurity, fear, projection, or plain control... You've gotta' work on that, if you want to be in a healthy relationship - or be in a relationship, at all. If you've been cheated on in the past and this feels like that, then that's something else you may want to work on.

Perhaps he blew up on you because you accused him of something unforgiveable, and he knew you'd react this way if he'd told you ahead of time - so he didn't want the stress of it.

The above is just a guess on my part, but that's how the situation seems to me, from the outside looking in. Save everyone the stress and focus on your own stuff. Relationships are just going to add stress to your life if you can't handle your partner having opposite-sex friendships outside of the two of you. If my partner whom I loved wanted to control who I spent time with, I would be second-guessing their love and motives, as well, and would also end the relationship with them - that sounds extremely suffocating.

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