It’s a reference to a very old SNL sketch called “shimmer”. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/03lLPUYkpYM
replyIt probably won’t be up very long but it’s a classic.
Of course for maximum confusion, there’s Gen X me, making this reference to my Gen Alpha kids who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about.
replyI’m still waiting for the moment in the ice cream shop when I can ask them, “sugar or plain?” https://mediaburn.org/videos/sugar-or-plain/
ah, I thought it was an Ubik reference!
replyHah, nice!
replyBorax is an example of a substance that is simultaneously used for skin care, household cleaning, as soldiering flux, and ant killer. But I guess it is a constant with variable effects. Hard to be found in local shops anymore.
replyreminds me of WD-40 (water displacer formula 40).
replynot used that often to displace water.
Really? It's at practically every hardware store I've been to (US, things may be different elsewhere).
replyYes, Netherlands, think it is quite different in retail in comparison.
replyWhite vinegar is a fierce cleaning product and a salad dressing. Although to me it has the disadvantage of tasting like a cleaning product.
replyI worked for awhile as a janitor in a college dorm. Not an easy job but it definitely revealed a side of humanity I might not have otherwise seen. Especially the clean out after students left for the year.
replyWe had a large green plant growing in an unused fridge. Fungus yes, but this was a new experience. As students we learned a lot.
reply> it definitely revealed a side of humanity I might not have otherwise seen
replyIt definitely revealed a lot of falsehoods and stereotypes.
I thought that you were about to write: "as a janitor in a restaurant, the dessert topping is sometimes used as a floor polish".
replySomething as expensive as dessert toppings would only be used as floor polish by the people who truly were high... and only if they could do it without the boss knowing what they were doing.
replyfloor polish as a dessert topping if they're told it'll get them high.
replyI think that would be called a drug, not a desert topping.