You could also say life is too short to waste time retying inferior drawstrings. If learning the knot takes 5 minutes, it seems like it could easily save you time overall.

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someguyiguess 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you're spending that much time tying drawstrings I think you've got bigger problems.

	▲	tzs an hour ago \| parent [-]
		If it takes 5 minutes to learn, and if you have 30 more years of needing to tie drawstrings, and you need to tie on average one drawstring per week, you will come out ahead if it saves you 0.19 seconds tying or retying per drawstring.

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m463 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I was looking for the comic and found this:

https://xkcd.com/1205/

(I swear there was a better one)

	▲	microbiont an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This one perhaps? https://xkcd.com/1319/