Remember ladies, Jars are similar to tars, so simple xvf would be enough
Instructions unclear; rolled the jar into a jarball.
Jars are actually zips, so a simple as an unzip *.zip
Unzip sounds like harassment
Transgender lady here. I have experience on both sides of this.
Testosterone does a lot of interesting things to your body, including making your skin more rough. This includes your fingertips.
Several years after taking HRT, I had problems holding onto things. This wasn’t a matter of grip strength. My fingerprints had lost the pronounced ridging that they used to have. The result was butterfingers; losing grip on anything that wasn’t roughly textured itself. Anything smooth would just fall right out of my hands. And jar lids became suddenly difficult to open.
Having really dry skin does not help with grip.
That’s true.
That’s not true
That’s true!
Less slip with dry skin though. Put moisturizer on and try to open a tight jar and you’ll need to squeeze harder to prevent your hand from slipping
Wait, so is this tweet about someone putting moisturizer on right before they try to open a jar? Because that’s just silly.
Otherwise, it shouldn’t be a big difference. If anything it might help with grip vs super dry hands.
Might also have something to do with having, on average, twice the grip strength… but who knows.
I read somewhere that for some reason grip strength is one of the only muscle groups where the Bell curves of male strength vs. female strength has essentially zero overlap. It was something like “the weakest 2% of men have stronger grip strength than 98% of women,” or maybe even more extreme. IDK, I can’t remember the source and I can’t be bothered to look for it on a Saturday morning, but I thought I’d throw it out there anyway. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
Here’s a source for that claim. I didn’t realize the difference was so huge! https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2017/05/04/in-grip-strength-a-woman-in-the-90th-percentile-would-be-at-the-10th-percentile-for-men/
I hand my rock climber sister in law jars to open all the time lol
You’re both in your respective 1%
If women had the same grip strength as men, there’d be a lot more penile injuries in the world.
Imagine if they could control it.
Well crap. Now I want to train my grip strength.
It’s not quite that dramatic from what I can see, but I wouldn’t be surprised if studies have been done that found that distribution.
It’s hard to account for social factors inherent in this, too. Like, how do we account for men being more encouraged to develop grip strength muscles than women? Men are much more likely, from young childhood, to be encouraged to perform many different kinds of strenuous physical activity. Women are discouraged from performing those same activities (also from childhood) and are also very heavily pressured towards eating less and being/appearing weaker.
This social influence definitely has a real tangible impact on how people’s muscle strength develops. Due to its essentially all-encompassing nature (there’s not really any man/woman in society who is entirely free from societal pressure) it’s hard to tell to what degree this discrepancy is influenced by external factors instead of biological circumstances. That is, how can we test this accurately when half the participants have been discouraged from building muscle mass and grip strength all their lives?
Testosterone exposure definitely has a real impact, but the idea that the weakest 2% of men have stronger grip strength than 98% of women is doubtful. A study may have been done that had those findings, but I’d question the methodology used and be interested to see what their sample size and demographic makeup were.
The distribution is not that extreme but it’s still very skewed. This is one of the areas where the anatomy of men and women seem to really differ.
This still suffers from an unaddressed element of external factors. Including 60 participants who are athletes does not undo social pressures. Those athletes are still and were subject to social pressures throughout their childhood and adolescence. The same could be said for the men in the study as well. They were still disproportionately encouraged towards activities that would build grip strength.
There are other studies showing a more moderate bell curve overlap (closer to 50% of men studied have stronger grip strength than all women studied). I’d be interested to see data aggregated from different nations comprising individuals from similar age and height ranges across different continents. Taking a bunch of people still within western society as your sample base does, well, nothing to account for the inherent influence of western society on women.
It’s because we’re always grabbing things. Our own dingalings, boobies, booties. Werkin that grip.
Bullshit, we do use moisturizer.
Sure, boy.
No, skin condition.
Not sure if sarcastic racism or toxic masculinity.
or just played too much hades
Or not enough God of War
Racism? Someone’s head is full of shit lol.
No, it isn’t. “Boy” used to be the term of address for non-white male servants, regardless of age, or any non-white male, regardless of age.
Ah yes, of course, that’s the meaning that makes sense in the context of this conversation, not the actual one!
Are you being intentionally dense? Are you simply like this? Or are you just a poor excuse for a troll?
You think that I’m racist because under a meme about men not moisturizing their hands I joked that boys do, yet I am dense? Lol. Like I said, someone’s head is full of shit.
It kinda sounds like both y’all are.
You crackers should Google what “ashy” means and why it’s a thing
You know white people get the exact same thing, it’s just not visible? Jfc lol
If you think “ashy” is just having the dry skin and not having it be immediately visible because of skin tone, fair enough. You’d be wrong, but understandably so, and that still doesn’t have anything to do with running around putting some weird emphasis on “boy.”
We also regularly train grip strength. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Can confirm, left hand has greater strength
It’s all about that grippy texture. Just put on some rubber dishwashing gloves.
Even as a guy i do that. Why work harder when grippy rubber makes it easy? I used to use rubber bands but some kids lids are too big, so dishwashing gloves are the best
I usually just take some cloth. If it doesn’t work, I use a knife to let some air through and that does the trick.
If you have oven mitts with rubber on them, those work too. Mousepads also work in a pinch (do people use mousepads anymore?)
Rubber bands are my go to.
Rubber bands are well known to the photography crowd to take filters off, but they do work to unscrew all kinds of things.
What’s a mouse, grampa?
Get off my lawn.
It’s a thing real computers that can actually be used to create things (as opposed to tablets and phones which can only be used to consoom) still have and will always have.
What is a “computer”? I only know my iPad and fruit ninja
Can’t get a good grip if you’re bone dry either.
Balance.
Half an hour in the tub gives frog grip bonus
I put a 1/4" layer of moisturizer on my hands before bed and then put gloves on. I can still open jars because of the testosterone.
I put the gloves on first
That… that’s not how it works!
That is exactly how it works.
Don’t listen to them, they’re just a shill for big moisturiser!
You wear gloves when you sleep?
Yeah, when my hands are really dry during the winter. They’re just cotton gloves made specifically for use with moisturizer.
I could never do that. I aborre the feeling of moist skin touching cloth. Lotion on feet with socks is my nightmare.
I resorted to extreme measures when my hands were deeply cracked in a dozen places and getting blood all over my sheets.
Fair enough. I would probably suck it up and do it if it was that bad.
You got a big guy called Lenny working for you?
I did, but he pet the puppies too hard.
Nah
I’m going through a divorce and recently moved out. Went to pick up more of my stuff and had to open a jar. I bought her a few jar openers for her lol.
why give her more stuff
Because her birthday is coming up and we’re still good friends. It’s a “grow apart” divorce, not a “screaming and throwing shit” divorce.
well, I’ll have you know that the palms of my hands are very moist
Some promotion for !skincareaddiction@sh.itjust.works, not very active but hopefully that will change
Men also do something else with their grip, and I’ve heard quite a few use lotion when doing it.
QED checkmate.
Yeah? And how many removed the lid that way?
I used to tuck the jar between my legs to grip then use my both my hands on the lid to open, gets thru the toughest jars. Now i just use a dishwashing glove for better grip.
