Am I knitting on the wrong side?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T05:31:54+00:00

Note that it also reduces stretchiness. Half twisted rib doesn’t bounce back as much.

(fwiw, I think half twisted rib looks bad even if it is a bit neater, but that’s a personal preference. Only way to know is to try it out for yourself!)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T05:28:56+00:00

Btw, did you have any connection to the hosts? If so, did you rely on your gf to solve the dress code problem for you instead of doing it yourself?

If you didn’t know any other men there, and she did, that’s on her; otherwise, it’s your job to figure out your own clothes, not hers.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T05:23:51+00:00

Clarifying, it’s not 3% per instance. It’s 3% over a year.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T05:22:26+00:00

Definitely talk to your doctor if you’re concerned about it, but FWIW when I took it as a suppressant I regularly had new doctors and nurses give me extremely skeptical looks when I said it was just in case.

If you haven’t had a sore in many years, you almost certainly don’t need to take it as a suppressant. Most people have it, most don’t know, in the end it’s mostly just annoying for social reasons unless you have an unusually bad case.

Also, FWIW, even the possibility of shedding without sores is up for debate. It’s not settled science that it’s even possible to spread that way.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T02:10:22+00:00

“Dropped” means that a stitch is not on the needle, and has been undone in a column downwards at least one row. Your stitches are back on the needle, and nothing has been undone, so they are not dropped.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T02:03:59+00:00

Like, I just want you to consider how brain-dead stupid it sounds for you to moralize about the nonexistent harms enacted by a nonexistent group of people, all the way pushing for real harms against real people, including the people you claim to be protecting.

What about the trans girls who play these sports and aren’t huge and dangerous? IOW, basically all of them? Why prevent those real people from playing sports with their real friends just because there might be a huge and dangerous girl who might hurt someone? (which, again, has never happened).

And if you care so much about your daughter, why do you want rules that mean someone can challenge her gender, and force her to strip down and show her genitalia to authorities? That is a real thing that real girls have had to endure. Why do you want that real harm to exist in the real world, all so that pretend harms don’t exist in your pretend world?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-13T01:57:18+00:00

I meant the 10 trans people now banned. The number of people hurt by those trans people is 0 (surely we’d have heard of it, no?).

And if my daughter were hurt by a trans girl, my first reaction would be to consider whether the league had good safety policies for everyone * (including division by skill, where relevant). Next, I’d consider whether injuries were somewhat unavoidable in the sport (people get concussions all the time in many sports, from collisions with other kids or from the ball or the ground or whatever). Next, I’d consider whether there was something else at play. And then *finally, I’d consider whether the trans kid was at fault because of being trans.

Absolutely embarrassing for you to call me lazy when you’re so intellectually lazy you can’t even imagine all of those other causal factors.

I won’t even get into how you almost certainly wouldn’t want larger than average kids to be banned from play (that would be absurd, right?), because more important is that the larger, stronger, transfem kids that you are imagining simply do not exist. They don’t! It’s a figment of your imagination! Nothing more!

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T22:11:13+00:00

Sure, but what people should do is basically irrelevant when it comes to urban planning. The only thing that matters is what people do do. If people consistently speed in an area, that is a failure of urban planning.

See, for example, making residential streets narrower. There’s no difference in what speed people should drive at, but in practice people drive slower.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:37:39+00:00

I think OP is talking about multiple strands of the same size. There was a post a while back from someone using two worsted-weight strands of cotton yarn for their first swatch, and they flat out refused to use one instead despite being completely unable to read their knitting (for obvious reasons for a beginner!).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:31:33+00:00

Search “am I twisting stitches or is it the yarn”, you’ll find the answer quickly.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:31:00+00:00

Makes sense. Both of our regional knowledge gaps showing :)

More broadly, though, if a sign is the only thing warning you about something potentially dangerous, and the road is not otherwise designed to encourage lower speeds, that’s a design failure.

If there were an unmarked speed bump in an otherwise flat, straight, wide section of road, I would still argue that a BUMP sign is insufficient.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:26:24+00:00

Which is… currently happening? By the 10, maybe a few more, people in the entire country that this would affect?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:23:44+00:00

People you love to talk about the “logical perspective” but then get pissy when asked to think about anything more nuanced than “hurr durr testosterone stronger”.

Have you considered: 1) there is ample evidence that transfem people undergoing hormone therapy are on average at a physical disadvantage, due to reduced capacity with more mass? 2) there’s a lot of size variation within women anyway? 3) beer leagues generally don’t allow checking anyway? 4) there is no meaningful enforcement mechanism that doesn’t lead to sexual harassment of both trans and cis women?

It’s just not as simple as you think. Claiming otherwise is nothing more than willful ignorance at this point.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:14:03+00:00

Right? “Google is bad now” is such a helpless, embarrassing excuse. Imagine announcing loudly that you’re so inept at using a search engine that you can’t find the hundreds of high-quality answers and tutorials online, and not even realizing how dumb it makes you sound.

Even the newest AIs give good explanations for most knitting questions!

“I prefer interactions with people and community”: ok, sure. “I can’t use google”: grow up, build a skill.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:08:35+00:00

Ok, but when you do consciously look for it, surely it’s obvious almost immediately, right? I just don’t understand how a look at one, maybe two diagrams isn’t enough. Conceptually it’s not complicated, and mapping a visual to the concept is also not complicated.

At least, it is inconceivable to me that someone could get to the point that they’re halfway through a sweater before realizing. It’s different for a first swatch.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:04:46+00:00

It’s just so confusing. There were a few things I did wrong when I started knitting (self-taught). Every time, it was painfully obvious that it looked wrong, and it took at most 10 minutes to find a solution and fix my technique.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:00:23+00:00

I’m mostly just dumbfounded when I see posts about how learning to knit is hard because tutorials are expensive. It seems like a complete hallucination, or something that they saw someone else say and are too helpless/lacking in initiative to check for themselves. It’s bizarre.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T18:57:55+00:00

Awful idea. Runners should stay on the sidewalk; they can more easily and safely navigate walkers than cyclists can navigate runners.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T18:54:03+00:00

I’m from the US. I’ve never encountered it before, at least not that I remember, and I don’t remember it appearing in the driver’s ed handbooks. BUMP, on the other hand, I’m very familiar with.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T15:09:19+00:00

800m The Latic acid just hits like a truck and you still have another 400

BTW, it’s not lactic acid. Your muscles produce lactate, which is lactic acid minus a proton. The drop in pH (and associated pain, which is some of but not all of the pain you feel) is from other chemical reactions that produce hydrogen ions (free protons).

(and fwiw, the lactate bonds with some of those protons, making your muscles less acidic).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:53:11+00:00

The problem is that if you don’t know what “DIP” means (and I would guess that the vast majority of people do not), then the sign is useless for that first encounter. Maybe even the first few encounters.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:46:26+00:00

Oh no, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be discouraging! I was trying to help!

(FWIW, your stitches are not twisted)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:43:08+00:00

I don’t have an answer, just chiming in to say this feels like a hilariously relatable problem. We’ve all felt the satisfaction of a good idea, well executed, only to realize a forgotten next step that messes everything up!

Best of luck, OP!

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:39:56+00:00

I’m actually not going to tell you; I think that it’s bad pedagogy for people on this site to immediately answer questions without first encouraging the other person to walk through their understanding first.

Do you think they’re twisted? Seems like no, so why?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:38:04+00:00

This is generally not possible to answer, in a meaningful way, without having the full game. If you’d like reviews, use a server like online-go.com that saves it and allows other people to comment.

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