The math of making a mess:

[quarky]

The Game. You just lost.

Bummer.

I clicked your link, at which point, I'm ready to turn myself in.
I should have had a more clear agenda from the start.

Thank Christ Vorpal and Sol Invictus aren't ate up with vengeful agendas.

Regardless, this has become messy for me.
Curiously, that ties into the o.p.

Yet, in my humble opinion, doesn't precisely qualify for a quarky win.

Close, though, eh?

 

[CelticRose]

The Game. You just lost.

Actually, you just did.

Back on topic: It has more to do with psychology than physics. Making a mess feels like fun whereas cleaning it up feels like work. Work always feels like it takes more energy than fun.

 

[quarky]

Actually, you just did.

Back on topic: It has more to do with psychology than physics. Making a mess feels like fun whereas cleaning it up feels like work. Work always feels like it takes more energy than fun.

I think you're right, and yet it doesn't make sense. What if cleaning up became a sport?
How do we decide what's fun and what isn't?

For me, the game of golf would be a tedious chore...you have to hit this ball around until you've landed it in 18 separate holes. It takes all day; seems pointless, like most toil, and you have to bring your own tools.

It all feels so arbitrary; these attitudes we take up.
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to work hard at killing game. Now, its one of our main diversions for fun.

My dad used to give his boys horrible chores. He'd attempt to make a challenge out of it. Our hearts would sink, just the same. Scraping old paint off basement walls was anti-fun. Yet, we'd gladly run ten miles; hugely more work.

I wonder how much of this disparity comes from authority vs freedom?
In the non-physics definition of work, is it something that someone else wants us to do?

 

[marplots]

Mark Twain covered this in Tom Sawyer.

 

[quarky]

Mark Twain covered this in Tom Sawyer.

I find this quite believable. I must read it again.

Was it Huck he conned into the paint job?
If so, the Huckster (as I call him) may have been negatively effected, in the long run.
Though one must admire his racial tolerance and courage.

 

[quarky]

Well, it happened again.

Yup, Texans came in the night and trashed the place.

I'm getting security cameras.

 

[Ziggurat]

Actually, you just did.

Yes, I did. And so did you. So did we all.

 

[quarky]

So,

Even the science guys are getting bizarre?

 

[Solitaire]

Maybe its my fondness for genetics, but I've never found fruit-flies to be problematic. My various gal-pals have.

What's up with that?

I mean, fruit flies don't even bite.

Fruit flies like a banana. So they bit small holes in the fruit, lay eggs, basically ruin it after a while.
Time flies are worse. Time flies like an arrow. Hence all my arrows have small bite marks on them.
I suppose I need to find a spray.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

This. It also helps to have the place for an item be near where you actually use it. If you use something downstairs and its place is upstairs you're 1) wasting energy transporting the thing back and forth and 2) less likely to put it away when you're done with it.

That is why I reason that the bathroom, laundry room, and wardrobe should be one single room.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

I wonder why its acceptable to come in contact with your bedsheet, blanket and pillow case for 8 hours every 24 hours, 7 days in a row, but the bath towel has to be washed after every use, despite only coming in contact with it for 2 minutes tops. Moreover, I don't understand why they(bath towels) are considered dirty after drying off our clean skin.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

Moving on to folding laundry.

The only reasons I can find for folding is to prevent wrinkles and compress preserve the tradition and punish me.

Why not layer them flat.

Sock variety in the house hold should be nonexistent, thus causing the mating/matching game to be obsolete.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

I can't wait until wash free, fray fixing, four season friendly fabric becomes available. Oh how I long for the day that I aquire that coveted pair of pants that adjusts to me. It would be the only pair I need.

 

[SezMe]

I wonder why its acceptable to come in contact with your bedsheet, blanket and pillow case for 8 hours every 24 hours, 7 days in a row, but the bath towel has to be washed after every use, despite only coming in contact with it for 2 minutes tops.

You and I grew up in entirely different cultures. Even discounting my slovenliness, I have never washed my towels that frequently.

 

[h.g.Whiz]

You and I grew up in entirely different cultures. Even discounting my slovenliness, I have never washed my towels that frequently.

My wife insists that wet towels are ideal for bacteria growth.

 

[Perpetual Student]

I have it! (let m = mess)

1) dS = dE/T and
2) E = ½mv², so energy is proportional to velocity squared times mess.

So we have a connection between entropy and mess.

Conclusion:

dS = dE/T = d(mv²)/2T

 

[Roboramma]

My wife insists that wet towels are ideal for bacteria growth.

That's why I hang mine to dry after using it

The last few days I've been washing my towel after every use, but that's because I've got ringworm (again)

 

[h.g.Whiz]

That's why I hang mine to dry after using it

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Edited for Rule 2.

 

[elipse]

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Moderated content removed.

I don't know whether I would be more pleased to find out that English is not your native tongue, or to find out that it is.


Either way, this is the greatest post I have ever seen.



ETA: No, seriously, this just gets better the more you think about it.

 

[Modified]

My wife insists that wet towels are ideal for bacteria growth.

Probably true, but you could rotate through three towels to give them a chance to completely dry.

I do remember in my college days tracing down a stench to a roommate's towel. I'm not sure how long he went without washing it, but if you folded it in half it probably would have cracked apart at the crease.