A spoon-based miracle this morning (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by TeaHands@lemmy.world to c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

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Somehow overnight our little spoons spontaneously organised themselves into perfect order.

I can confirm neither of us did this on purpose, as you can see our usual cutlery storage method is just "throw it in the drawer it's fine".

What's the word for the opposite of entropy?

After standing staring at the sight for a bit, we realised they may have done this to draw our attention to how badly the drawer needs cleaning. So it's ok, you don't need to ;)

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[-] rubikcuber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

In this house just only having spoons in the spoon compartment would be a miracle.

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Usually same!

[-] Chris_ni@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What’s the word for the opposite of entropy?

Localised entropy may decrease so long as the total entropy increases. If the spoons hadn't organised themselves, would you have come to Lemmy to tell the world, expending energy in the process?

Universe: 1, OP: 0

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you, I'm on Lemmy all day every day regardless of what the spoons are doing.

I...may have a problem.

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Left handed person! My MIL puts the cutlery away like this and its marginally annoying when picking one up as a righty (although the benefit of her emptying the dishwasher outweighs the annoyance).

[-] Toothpickjim@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm a lefty and put the cutlery away am I imposing some kind of cutlery hell on my normie right handed family?

[-] sideone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you're right handed, you'll naturally pick up a spoon by the bowl if they're like OP's image.

away am I imposing some kind of cutlery hell

Probably, but they should do it themselves if they are going to complain

[-] SuperLogica@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hehe I am left-handed and live alone but I’ve noticed guests hesitate when they open my cutlery drawer. Spoons aren’t such an issue, but there’s a little element of danger when a right-handed person goes to retrieve a knife 🤣 (My chopping knives are arranged horizontally like OP’s spoons.)

[-] TeaHands@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, I am right-handed but he's ambidextrous so you could be onto something there. Can't say I'd ever noticed they were the wrong way round though, probably because any other morning they'd be in all directions at once.