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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you

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  • Paul Campbell,

    Actually we do all have dishwashers, it's just that some are more automatic than others .....

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    some are more automatic than others

    Or more saved.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Megan Wegan, in reply to James Butler,

    Everyone has a dishwasher, it’s just one effect of your general depravity that yours has failed to become manifest in the physical world.

    Oi! What depravity?

    Welly • Since Jul 2008 • 1275 posts Report Reply

  • bmk, in reply to Danielle,

    Sharp knives and teaspoons down. Everything else up. Learnt the hard way about the sharp knives: is incredibly easy to cut yourself when they are facing up. Teaspoons if I try to have them facing up the handle falls through the gap and then gets stuck.

    What I do which others don't is stack each of the same utensil together. Doesn't take much longer to stack but makes the emptying far quicker.

    Since Jun 2010 • 327 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to Megan Wegan,

    Oi! What depravity?

    It's a priori evident from your lack of a tangible dishwasher...

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Campbell, in reply to bmk,

    I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason

    Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 2623 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to bmk,

    What I do which others don’t is stack each of the same utensil together. Doesn’t take much longer to stack but makes the emptying far quicker.

    But then don't your spoons all clump together, preventing the water getting in to wash them?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock, in reply to Lilith __,

    Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm.... :-)

    Ah, so that's why white men can't dance. Too privileged.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to James Butler,

    Everyone has a dishwasher, it’s just one effect of your general depravity that yours has failed to become manifest in the physical world.

    I think I found my first Pope.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock, in reply to Heather Gaye,

    Wasn't there another thread here than mentioned mansplaining a short while back? Might've a link to elsewhere, but I had an "ooohhh" moment when someone expressly defined it as speaking from the platform of male privilege.

    This is why I think it's useful over and above 'patronising'. It specifically indicates a male, talking to a female, under the assumption that the female couldn't possibly know or understand the subject in question, and therefore needs it explained to her. Which is more specific, and in certain circumstances more useful, than 'patronising' would be.

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to Rich Lock,

    Which is more specific, and in certain circumstances more useful, than ‘patronising’ would be.

    But isn't it in fact literally what patronising means?

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Rich Lock, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    Literally yes, but it seems to me that the useage of the word has evolved so that it wouldn't be in the least jarring on the ear to use patronising to describe a woman's behaviour. Assuming she was actually talking down to someone, of course

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report Reply

  • Martin Lindberg,

    Don't care too much about dishwashers, but just get me started on washing machines.

    Front-loaders FTW!

    Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    But isn’t it in fact literally what patronising means?

    That fancy Latin education won’t do you any favours with Our Lord of the Finish Tablet, Tiso.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • bmk, in reply to Paul Campbell,

    I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason

    Same.

    Since Jun 2010 • 327 posts Report Reply

  • bmk, in reply to James Butler,

    But then don't your spoons all clump together, preventing the water getting in to wash them?

    Not if you don't put more than four or five in any compartment. More than that and that does become a problem.

    Since Jun 2010 • 327 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to Martin Lindberg,

    Front-loaders FTW!

    Although. My mother just moved into a house with one supplied and has decided she'll need to get up every night at 3am just to get one load finished in time to hang it out the next day.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • bmk, in reply to Martin Lindberg,

    Don't care too much about dishwashers, but just get me started on washing machines.

    Front-loaders FTW!

    Are they really better? I've never used one but to me they look like more work because I thought you'd have to bend down further to put the clothes in. Oh dear - I'm sounding old. That was when I first realised I wasn't a young spring chicken any more - when I dropped something and sighed before forcing myself to bend over and pick it up.

    Since Jun 2010 • 327 posts Report Reply

  • James Butler, in reply to bmk,

    Front-loaders FTW!

    Are they really better?

    The basic idea is that they use less water + are gentler on the clothes. As a bonus, ours provided several weeks of entertainment for our children when it was new - they would happily lie in front of it for a whole cycle, watching the clothes go around through the glass door.

    Danielle's right though, they take forever to run.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 856 posts Report Reply

  • Megan Wegan, in reply to bmk,

    Front-loaders FTW!

    I've hated every front loader I've ever tried to use.

    Welly • Since Jul 2008 • 1275 posts Report Reply

  • bmk, in reply to James Butler,

    The last washing machine I bought was a top-loader but didn't use an agitator at all (don't ask me how it worked) which I found made our clothes last much longer. But would have still used a lot more water and didn't provide any entertainment for the children.

    Since Jun 2010 • 327 posts Report Reply

  • JackElder, in reply to Danielle,

    Does everyone else pack the cutlery tine-side down, or is that just my paranoia?

    In our dishwasher, and with our forks, any forks packed tines-down have a slight chance of dropping down through the bottom of the basket and preventing the bottom spray head from rotating correctly. So we're tines up for forks.

    Wellington • Since Mar 2008 • 709 posts Report Reply

  • Megan Wegan,

    Can I just say?

    God, Russell, I am so sorry - I have managed to jack this thread AGAIN. (I really didn't mean to, this time.)

    Welly • Since Jul 2008 • 1275 posts Report Reply

  • BenWilson,

    My dishwasher forces me to put all cutlery handle-down. It has advantages. No clumping, more exposure to the spray, more visibility for counting (saving time scouring the house), and sharp knives have to be done by hand and put away (which typically means they are available, handy since they are the most used item in the drawer). There's only one downside I can see, that you will touch the eating surfaces during unloading.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to JackElder,

    So we're tines up for forks...

    sake.

    <sorry>

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

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