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Posted June 19, 2010
In anticipation of my new PC arriving, I decided to clean my table off and turn it around so the broken edge wasn't pinching my arm every time I moved. Turns out I'd used masking tape on the other side of the table to try and stop it peeling and getting all pinchy so when I scraped the tape off it left that immovable sticker residue that tears out your arm hairs and collects dust like crazy.
I thought I'd break out the isopropyl alcohol I use for cleaning most everything else, I put in some serious work, an hour or so of scrubbing to clean 1/3 of the table edge, hard work but getting the job done.
Then my mum comes in with a finger full of peanut butter, rubs some into a small section of the sticky stuff for like 2 minutes and bam, its all off.
What the hell is up with that?
Posted June 19, 2010
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Aliasalpha: In anticipation of my new PC arriving, I decided to clean my table off and turn it around so the broken edge wasn't pinching my arm every time I moved. Turns out I'd used masking tape on the other side of the table to try and stop it peeling and getting all pinchy so when I scraped the tape off it left that immovable sticker residue that tears out your arm hairs and collects dust like crazy.
I thought I'd break out the isopropyl alcohol I use for cleaning most everything else, I put in some serious work, an hour or so of scrubbing to clean 1/3 of the table edge, hard work but getting the job done.
Then my mum comes in with a finger full of peanut butter, rubs some into a small section of the sticky stuff for like 2 minutes and bam, its all off.
What the hell is up with that?

Just as well she didn't use Vegemite - otherwise there'd be GOGers worldwide scratching their heads thinking 'Veggie...what..... ?!?" ;)
Posted June 19, 2010
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Aliasalpha: What the hell is up with that?

This is just about the most random thread starter I've ever seen ..that's not in a spam section.
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Anyway I figure your mother is probably a daemon warlock from another dimension who lost her memory after casting a particularly exhaustive spell of undeath (resulting in your heroic self) and who is now cursed with whimsical magic that manifests itself in small, yet significant ways such as this intriguing spell of immovable sticky residue remover.
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That's what the hell is up with that, in my totally relevant opinion.
jks =P
Edit: Woot, go the Aussies - and Vegemite!!
Post edited June 19, 2010 by Jezza07
Posted June 19, 2010
All thanks to the corrosive properties of Aussie condiments.
Posted June 19, 2010
Thats why I didn't use vegemite, it would have dissolved the tabletop
Posted June 19, 2010
I am going to guess that it is probably the fat in the peanut butter that got the job done. :p
Posted June 19, 2010
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Aliasalpha: Thats why I didn't use vegemite, it would have dissolved the tabletop

Peanut butter is evidentally effective in removing chewing gum from carpets. Magic stuff...
Posted June 19, 2010
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Kezardin: Peanut butter is evidentally effective in removing chewing gum from carpets. Magic stuff...

If thats true wouldn't it just leave a peanut butter stain on the carpet in place of the chewing gum?
Edit: Also is vegemite anything like marmite?
Post edited June 19, 2010 by Ralackk
Posted June 19, 2010
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Kezardin: Peanut butter is evidentally effective in removing chewing gum from carpets. Magic stuff...
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Ralackk: If thats true wouldn't it just leave a peanut butter stain on the carpet in place of the chewing gum?

It has to be done with care :)
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Ralackk: Edit: Also is vegemite anything like marmite?

Yes, it's somewhat similar - though Marmite evidentally has a more intense taste :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite
Posted June 19, 2010
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Aliasalpha: Thats why I didn't use vegemite, it would have dissolved the tabletop

Vegemite? Isn't that the stuff they used for acid blood in Alien?
Posted June 19, 2010
It was probably due to the oils in the peanut butter being a better match in terms of polarity to the adhesive in what you were trying to get off. Isopropanol is also a pretty mediocre solvent for dissolving solids, although this is part of why it's often used for cleaning (afterall, you wouldn't want it to dissolve the surface on whatever you're trying to clean).
Posted June 21, 2010
Everything Australian terrifies me, from that weird-ass kangaroos to the muderous spiders and snakes and platypus and freaking dropbears and peanut butter wielding moms and those huge-ass alligators in the north. Oh, and don't forget Mel Gibson, fucker is scary.
Last time i went to visit my grandma i saw some freak wearing SpongBob shorts and huffing gasoline right in front of the hotel i was staying at., i shit you not.
You guys scare me.
Posted June 21, 2010
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Aliasalpha: Thats why I didn't use vegemite, it would have dissolved the tabletop
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Navagon: Vegemite? Isn't that the stuff they used for acid blood in Alien?

Why don't they use that stuff in WMDs?
Posted June 22, 2010
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DarrkPhoenix: It was probably due to the oils in the peanut butter being a better match in terms of polarity to the adhesive in what you were trying to get off. Isopropanol is also a pretty mediocre solvent for dissolving solids, although this is part of why it's often used for cleaning (afterall, you wouldn't want it to dissolve the surface on whatever you're trying to clean).

Thats JUST like you, come into a weird mystery and just SOLVE it! Where's the fun in that?
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Navagon: Vegemite? Isn't that the stuff they used for acid blood in Alien?
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michaelleung: Why don't they use that stuff in WMDs?

It's specifically outlawed in several of the geneva conventions
Post edited June 22, 2010 by Aliasalpha
Posted June 22, 2010
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Aliasalpha: Then my mum comes in with a finger full of peanut butter, rubs some into a small section of the sticky stuff for like 2 minutes and bam, its all off.
What the hell is up with that?

It's what moms do. You're in your 20s Alias, your mom's had at least 2 decades of cleaning up after you and everyone else in the house, you learn a few things by then. The other option would be using something like Goo Gone, which has orange oil in it that does the same thing. Personally I prefer the smell of peanut butter.
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