jello@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhat basic or everyday thing did you recently find out you were doing wrong?message-squaremessage-square248linkfedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down12
arrow-up1190arrow-down1message-squareWhat basic or everyday thing did you recently find out you were doing wrong?jello@programming.dev to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square248linkfedilink
minus-squareThe Real King Gordon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·4 days agoTying my shoes wrong my entire life. https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
minus-squareCedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 days agoI love that site. It’s such a weirdly specific thing to be obsessed with.
minus-square3laws@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoIan is a legend. I’m so glad I saw his knot’s 30th anniversary video 2 decades ago & never looked back to any other kind of knot on regular shoes. Hiking & survival/useful knots is another whole story (one that I still am endeavoring into).
minus-squarepurplemonkeymad@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoThis discovery lead me to eventually changing to the Ian knot. Now I can’t even remember how to do it any other way.
minus-squarebrygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 days agoI do a square knot. It’s not going to come untied and I don’t need to double knot it. It’s also just as easy to untie.
Tying my shoes wrong my entire life.
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
I love that site. It’s such a weirdly specific thing to be obsessed with.
Ian is a legend. I’m so glad I saw his knot’s 30th anniversary video 2 decades ago & never looked back to any other kind of knot on regular shoes. Hiking & survival/useful knots is another whole story (one that I still am endeavoring into).
This discovery lead me to eventually changing to the Ian knot. Now I can’t even remember how to do it any other way.
I do a square knot. It’s not going to come untied and I don’t need to double knot it. It’s also just as easy to untie.
Oh my god.