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Cylusthevirus, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?
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Nobody's mentioned lighter fluid so far, but that stuff works well. Dad always used Ronsonol and it's quite cheap. It's also highly flammable, so mind that.

tal, (edited )
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A couple points:

The lighter fluid that the parent poster is talking about, Ronsonol, is not the stuff that goes in butane lighters, nor is it the "lighter fluid" used to start charcoal barbecues. He's talking about the stuff that goes into Zippo and similar refillable lighters, stuff that's also called "naphtha".

If you want to use it as a solvent with much frequency, you can get the stuff at dramatically-lower unit prices in much larger containers than what Ronsonol is sold at.

https://www.amazon.com/2-Pack-VM-NAPTHA-QT-KLEAN-STRIP/dp/B01LWRQPWK/

Keep in mind that this is potent stuff and can damage some surfaces. For example, another user is talking about using Goo Gone above to remove adhesive from paint on a wall. Naphtha is more-or-less paint thinner -- your wall's paint will dissolve in it. It'd be fine on glass, what OP is intending it for, but if you use it elsewhere, be careful with it, try it on a small amount of the surface somewhere first to see if it damages it.

It can also cause skin irritation. Probably not a big deal unless you're regularly using it, but worth keeping in mind.

I also have a container of white spirits, which are similar but less volatile.

BaroqueInMind,
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This is a really helpful post. Thank you for the link, because I spend way too much buying Ronsonol

tal,
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I don't smoke, but I absolutely adore the sound that a Zippo makes when flicked open and struck, and wanted to get one a while back. I was kind of appalled at the fluid pricing -- the Zippo-brand fluid is even pricier, and I've seen the Ronsonol fluid itself recommended as a lower-priced alternative.

There are a lot of other things that people can burn in the refillable lighters, but I went through various testing that other people did and tried some myself, and none other than naphtha are really satisfactory. Some -- like white spirits -- aren't volatile enough, and won't maintain a consistent flame. Some, like gasoline, or low-water-content isopropyl alcohol, are too volatile and evaporate even more quickly than the regular fluid does or risk making an out-of-control fire.

Also works for the hand-warmers, which use the same fuel (and go through a great deal more of it than the lighters, so it's more-important there).

On an side note, I really wish that lighters of that sort would introduce some type of gasket that isn't dissolved by the fuel to help reduce the fuel vapor leaking out of the device when closed, or maybe some sort of other mechanism that seals the fuel reservoir off when the lighters are closed. As it stands, for a regular smoker, the fuel loss isn't a huge deal, but for someone who infrequently uses a lighter of the sort, the fuel loss is much more obnoxious -- it only takes several weeks for the reservoir to empty itself, in my experience.

TwistedFox, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?

Goo-B-Gone or Goo-Gone, plus steel wool like SOS pads or Scotch-Guard. Razors would work if it was a flat surface, but on a curved one like a bottle or glass, you want the flexibility of the steel wool.

SolacefromSilence,

+1 for steel wool

Talaraine, (edited ) in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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I had bursitis crop up in both my shoulders at once. The inflammation was so bad I couldn't lift my arms, and the pain when I forced it was horrible.

Then one day I was climbing a short ladder to a loft. The ladder slipped and I caught myself on the ledge. Yay? Nay.

I lay curled up on the floor in agony, not even noticing that I'd deeply cut my shin...literally didn't know. I've got a deep divot in the bone there still, but all I could think about was not vomiting on myself from the pain in my shoulders.

The docs had tried to put me through physical therapy to deal with the bursitis up to this point, and the day after the fall I told them to fuck off and give me cortisone shots. I went from crippled to cured in 2 minutes. Sometimes it's worth it, y'all.

ivanafterall, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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About a year back or so, I had a double epidural injection into my spine to relieve pain from pinched nerves/messed-up discs. They stuck two needles into this deep source of pain in my spine that nothing had ever touched so directly. It was indescribably awful. I still cringe and can imagine the pain when I think of it. I don't think I'd do it again without being put under.

Yewb,

Jesus man that is terrifying, your description ran chills down my spine.

Teal, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?
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When I need to do something like this I run the glass under hot water to soften the adhesive the use 91% rubbing alcohol.

Ladiira, in Is Grammarly premium worth it?

I used it throughout undergrad and grad school. I found it helpful. Not sure what you need Grammarly for but if you need MLA or APA help, I would recommend checking out Perra - www.perrla.com. Made formatting and references so much easier.

Rainbows, in What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore?

Those wooden playgrounds. There was one I went to all the time as a kid. It was so much fun and had all kinds of rooms and nooks and crannies to play in. It got replaced with a generic plastic playground at some point, I think for safety reasons.

JickleMithers, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?

I had a pulmonary embolism about 2 years ago, absolutely awful. The fun part was after I went home from the hospital and coughed up a blood clot.

NumbersCanBeFun, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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  • greatwhitebuffalo41,
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    Damn! I hope the healing gets better

    cabbages, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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    Broken my sternum in two places when I was 12, rib cage was completely floating in my chest. Three days in the hospital and all they did to fix me up was put a rolled sock under a piece of elastic with some Velcro to help hold things in place. When it was time to go home they told me to get dressed. I bent over to put my pants on, thought I was going to die from the pain, and passed out in the bathroom. No one said don't bend over or your sternum will poke into your lungs, guess I should have known that

    dontforgetthat, in Why do some people have a extreme hate for Furries?

    I might get downvoted to hell but here goes. Unironically roleplaying as animals by wearing costumes and finding that sexually stimulating is fucking weird man.

    Alexmitter,
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    If you think that is unacceptably weird, then you seen nothing. Though the portion of people who can afford such costumes that start at 20k and are into adult roleplaying with that is tiny.

    gk98s,
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    It is kinda weird because whats the difference between that and zoophilia? Though I dont really give a fuck what people do or think, I dont "hate" anyone for being anything

    rackmountrambo,

    Yeah it's weird, but it's somebodies good fun. I'm not into it but hell, if they are have at it. No need to get angry about it.

    jerkface,
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    Let’s assume that it is “fucking weird, man,” for the purpose of this discussion. Please walk me from there to hating furries.

    cyberian_khatru, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?
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    As others have said, isopropyl alcohol works great to remove adhesive residue. Just don't use it with certain plastics.

    greatwhitebuffalo41, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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    Same as you OP but, it was in my lady bits, not my mouth. Gotta love when glands don’t function properly and decide to get blocked. I screamed so loud, the kid across the hall started crying.

    snailwizard, in The worst physical pain you've ever experienced ?
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    I have a chronic illness that can cause a lot of pain. Specifically, I have had to go to the ER several times because I legitimately thought my appendix was about to burst. (It wasn't, but the doctors still told me it was good I had come in.)

    I thought that was the worst pain(s) I had ever experienced. Then I had a kidney stone. My god. Gonna go hydrate now.

    BananaFlip, in How does comment federation work?

    Nah, you're good. For unknown reasons federation between kbin and lemmy.ml in particular is just fundamentally broken right now. There is some talk about this on lemmy.ml , there are a couple of threads about this topic on kbin as well somewhere, the most popular here.

    Essence: Lots of speculation, nobody knows for sure, participation on lemmy.ml hosted discussions from kbin seems to be impossible right now (I tried, to no avail), federation between kbin and other lemmy instances does not seem to be impacted to the same extent, if at all?

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