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Actually we do all have dishwashers, it's just that some are more automatic than others .....
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James Butler, in reply to
some are more automatic than others
Or more saved.
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
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?
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bmk, in reply to
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.
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James Butler, in reply to
Oi! What depravity?
It's a priori evident from your lack of a tangible dishwasher...
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Paul Campbell, in reply to
I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason
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James Butler, in reply to
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?
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Rich Lock, in reply to
Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm.... :-)
Ah, so that's why white men can't dance. Too privileged.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
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.
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Rich Lock, in reply to
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.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
Which is more specific, and in certain circumstances more useful, than ‘patronising’ would be.
But isn't it in fact literally what patronising means?
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Rich Lock, in reply to
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
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Don't care too much about dishwashers, but just get me started on washing machines.
Front-loaders FTW!
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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.
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bmk, in reply to
I hang the socks out on the line in pairs for the same reason
Same.
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bmk, in reply to
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.
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Danielle, in reply to
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.
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bmk, in reply to
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.
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James Butler, in reply to
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.
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Megan Wegan, in reply to
Front-loaders FTW!
I've hated every front loader I've ever tried to use.
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bmk, in reply to
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.
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JackElder, in reply to
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.
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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.)
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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.
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recordari, in reply to
So we're tines up for forks...
sake.
<sorry>
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