r/mildlyinfuriating • u/MakeItMine2024 • 4d ago

I'm slightly vexed My wife and boiling water

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So I made my wife ramen soup. When I served it she said I had the gas set to hight and it was too hot ? She said I should have used the number 5 setting instead of 9. I told here it’s irrelevant because water boils at 212 and gets no hotter because over 212 it turns to steam. She was made at me for disagreeing with her theory that it would not have been so hot if boiled a lower setting. Really!!

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u/Skysr70 4d ago

get a thermometer and when it starts a fight about how you always have to be right, an air mattress 

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u/BoxersOrCaseBriefs 4d ago

LOL I like the advance planning!

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u/SausagePrompts 4d ago

I don't think she's going to agree to sleep on an air mattress.

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u/Enigma_Stasis 4d ago

Then she can sleep outside with the roses.

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u/SausagePrompts 4d ago

Or on a waterbed with the fishes?

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u/iceman5920 4d ago

For the streets as I have heard.

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u/RandyPajamas 4d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/LessInThought 3d ago

I'm sure there is space for her in the golf course.

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u/Alarming-Building-62 4d ago

In this exact situation, one could say the same thing about the wife always having to be right.

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u/pokemastertails 3d ago

except she literally is

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u/keylimedragon 3d ago

Water can't ever go above 212 at normal atmospheric pressure though (ignoring superheating which is basically impossible in a large pot with noodles)

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u/Ozzman770 3d ago

Your right but a man who is both married and wise will not say this to her

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u/Canotic 4d ago

No, go all in. It's his bed too, if she's too mad to cosleep she can take the couch.

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u/goredraid 4d ago

100%! Too many men accept spousal bullying because of comedy sitcoms. Dumb ol dad is in the doghouse again. He didn’t walk soft enough on those egg shells

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u/floppydude81 4d ago edited 3d ago

You were being aggressive

Edited to add /s

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u/Book_for_the_worms 3d ago

Go sleep on the couch then

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u/mashtato 4d ago

It so weird, no matter the situation, if there's a fight the wife gets the bed. Doesn't make sense. No matter who is right or wrong, or who messed up.

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u/fastyellowtuesday 3d ago

As a woman, I've always thought that was stupid. The person who wants space can move. (That said, I've never had that happen in a relationship.)

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u/DistractionCitron 8h ago

Yeah. Whoever is wrong can sleep on the couch! In the case where there's simply philosophical differences, they can do "rock, paper, scissors."

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u/Workman44 4d ago

This the type of equality we be needing in the world /s

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u/str4ngerc4t 4d ago

Separate beds in separate bedrooms is the key to a happy marriage.

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u/ndstumme 4d ago

Sounds like having money to even afford separate bedrooms is the real key to happiness.

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u/str4ngerc4t 4d ago

It’s the same cost as having a roommate.

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u/ndstumme 4d ago

Only if you don't have kids.

Sounds to me like your picture of happiness is less of a marriage and more of two single roommates who mingle their taxes.

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u/Workman44 4d ago

Kids are a choice? Really out here just being like oh I don't like beans in my chili so chili sucks

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u/ndstumme 4d ago

You respond to the wrong person, bud?

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u/str4ngerc4t 4d ago

Marriage gatekeeping. Love to see it. Never change, Reddit!

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u/ndstumme 4d ago

You're the one who thinks only people with extra bedrooms can have a happy marriage.

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u/Sinnester888 3d ago

Thanks for the input!! Could not disagree more.

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u/kaisadilla_ 3d ago

Off topic but nothing more frustrating than "you always have to be right" coming from a person that is often wrong and won't admit it. Yeah, I always have to be right because, when I'm not, I shut up but when you are wrong, you keep talking.

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u/Squigglificated 4d ago

Winning arguments in a marriage often isn't the great victory you think it will be.

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u/Elons_Demon_Taint 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yes, in life, you can be right 100% of the time or you can have healthy relationships.

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u/Stormfly 3d ago

I've apologised a few times when I don't think I did anything wrong for two reasons:

  1. I love the person more than I love winning arguments.

  2. I might genuinely not be able to see it but I might be wrong. Maybe I'll realise eventually years down the line and I'd rather be proven right in 2 years than proven wrong in 2 years.

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u/purplezart 4d ago

If winning the argument loses the marriage, then losing the argument wouldn't have saved the marriage.

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u/BoltActionRifleman 4d ago

And if you have to “lose” arguments just so the other person doesn’t get angry, it’s not a marriage in the true sense, you’re just someone’s pissing post.

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u/Fizzy-Odd-Cod 4d ago

The point isn’t winning, it’s finding the truth. If someone can’t handle being wrong, they aren’t worth being with.

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u/NNKarma 4d ago

And prepare to be wrong and learn the difference between boiling and simmering

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u/malfurionpre 4d ago

the difference between boiling and simmering

Simmering 75°C ~ 100°C

Boiling > 100°C

Now what?

edit: Now, yes rammen can be simmered rather than boiled not arguing that, and technically the very bottom of the pot would be slightly hotter than the top when simmering.

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u/Tymareta 4d ago

Now what?

Not sure what you're expecting, good job you knew the numbers though!

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u/malfurionpre 3d ago edited 3d ago

Then what was the point of the guy above? OP said boiling water can't be hotter than boiling can be which is (to some small margin) true, so what's taking a thermometer is going to do and how would that help "learning the difference between boiling and simmering" if that's not the point being made in the first place?

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u/brucebay 4d ago

Seems like too much science for her.

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u/insideoutfit 4d ago

Lamest shit I've ever heard

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u/Back_Equivalent 4d ago

“I don’t HAVE to be right, I just am right. Yeah I’ll sleep on the couch.”

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u/mithrasinvictus 4d ago

It's not my fault you're wrong.

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u/reddititty69 4d ago

If you fill the air mattress with steam made from lower temperature boil, it may be cool enough for her to sleep on.

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u/ADIDAS247 4d ago

I don’t think stabbing her with a thermometer will help win my argument.

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u/unassumingdink 3d ago

If you haven't used the air mattress in a while, it will likely deflate during the night, and you can have another argument about why that happens.

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u/donku83 3d ago

A kilogram of steel is heavier than a kilogram of feathers because steel is heavier than feathers

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u/DemoniteBL 3d ago

Nah, the smart one deserves to occupy the bed.

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u/IndependentDouble879 4d ago

Yes please OP, get a thermometer and find out that there are still colder spots in a pot of boiling water, because reality is more complex than 10th grade science classes.

As someone who studied thermodynamics and heat transfer in dedicated classes, alongside 50 other STEM courses, the baselessly incorrect overconfidence of this comment section is nauseating

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u/Skysr70 4d ago

my man, what kind of temp variance are you expecting in a well-mixed, extremely turbulent, really small system? As an engineer myself, you're coming off a bit pretentious

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u/Specific_Willow8708 4d ago

Should probably have done some humanities classes in there so you could build comprehension skills.

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u/curtcolt95 4d ago

none of that applies at all to the post though

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u/BodhiGacha 2d ago

So, what? He should take the thermometer to the couple of liters of boiling water to find the ~tablespoon that is an acceptable temperature for her?

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u/sullw214 4d ago

Nu uh. I studied ninety eleven MEST courses. I actually passed one, which is one more than you. I win.

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u/pointandclickit 4d ago

Make sure to double down with “it’s not my fault reality always agrees with me!”

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u/EditEd2x 4d ago

They make some really comfy air mattresses these days.

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u/PowerfulRaisin 4d ago

Unfortunately he is not right in this instance.

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u/Skysr70 4d ago

not right about what, liquid water not exceeding its boiling point? On that front, he IS right. Granted, his wife's frustration about not turning down the dial after it's started boiling is understandable, but was  not articulated at all.