"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
01/12/2020 at 00:19 • Filed to: Houselopnik
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"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
01/12/2020 at 00:19 • Filed to: Houselopnik | 1
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my clothes dryer just decided to crap itself after 15 odd years of useage, bloody electrical equipment
oh well, harvey norman here i come.
another store has it for $2 less, but they’re a few kms away.
it’s only money.
SirDrivesAlot (now with hybrid powerrrr)
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 00:28 |
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I had to replace the timer switch on mine a couple of weeks ago. Now the drive belt on the washer is starting to squeak.....
ttyymmnn
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 00:29 |
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Any new appliance you buy will suck compared to the one that lasted 15 yers. I speak from experience. Buy the cheapest one you can find, most like the old one.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> ttyymmnn
01/12/2020 at 00:32 |
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that’s what this one is and the old one was
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> SirDrivesAlot (now with hybrid powerrrr)
01/12/2020 at 00:33 |
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time for a new machine
Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
> ttyymmnn
01/12/2020 at 00:42 |
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I bought my current dishwasher from a 2nd hand store for $30 6-7 years ago. Other than a $10 upper rack hose, and $65 for some new parts, it’s been solid. Best deal I’ve ever had.
Chariotoflove
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 01:35 |
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Washers and dryers drive me nuts. When they go on me it’s usually at the worst time. With the help of manuals and YouTube I’ve been able to repair a fuse and change a blown motherboard on the current one. So at least I saved a couple of bucks. The darned things get more complicated so they have more to go wrong than when I was a kid and my parents’ Maytag lasted over 20 years.
M.T. Blake
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 01:36 |
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We have an eccentric family friend who buys his clothes at thrift stores and once they’re dirty he throws them away. I’m just saying...
Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 02:03 |
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We don’t use driers but has to replace the washing machine recently.
The thing has an NFC reader meaning I can download an app, customise it and then have my mobile near to the machine to send the information.
Or I CAN NOT BE SUCH A NERDY LAZY GIT AND TURN THE SODDING DIAL, I mean, I’m standing next to the machine having put the washing in the machine and the liquitabs, why would I reach for my mobile, turn on the phone’s NFC (because I always have it off unless I’m paying for something in a store), navigate around the app. When as I say, I can turn the dial and press, ‘on’ and off it goes.
Now you might say, ‘well you can set it to start later on if you wish’, etc... well there are four buttons below the dial so I can quickly and easily change the temperature, spin rate, delay, etc...
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 02:08 |
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i just load my washer and turn it on straight away, bugger delays.
SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 02:35 |
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Repeat after me: there is no such thing as an energy efficient dryer.
However...since Ballarat is a feature that comes into play in this equation...I will cease to lecture.
Our washing machine dropped its bundle a few weeks ago. Motor error. New brushes from eBay for $10 and a hard reset thanks to Dr Google and our 10 year Bosch gets another lease on life. However, if I got a pro to fix it... uneconomic repair.
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Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 02:39 |
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Me too. I don’t get these people that say, ‘I delay the start of mine so the machine will be finished just as I’m getting home so I can put it out to dry or put it in the dryer’. Sod that, let it sit a short while to drain off more water, then it’s a little bit drier for when I take it out.
It’s the ‘app’ culture that kills me the most.
You want to turn on the heating before you get home, yay, good for you, but turning on ceiling light, table lamp, etc... by saying ‘Google/Siri/Alexa, turn on light’when your in the god damn room and the switch is four feet away, well screw that.
Then to have an app for the washing machine. Why? You have to go to the washing machine, putting the clothing in, you’ve got to touch the phone to the machine anyway, plus, the dial is right bloody there. All my clothing comes under ‘sports clothing’ or ‘mixed coloured and black’.
Even, wifi kettles.
You may say, ‘well you have to get up, turn the kettle on, sit down while it comes to boil, then you’ve to get back up again to pour it, etc...’. NO, you turn on the kettle (having checked there’s enough water in), then you continue to get everything else ready such as the milk, get the sugar ready, get a spoon and the cups. By which time the kettle has either boiled or close to boiling.
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 02:49 |
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yep, wifi kettles i don’t understand either.
people are too lazy these days.
they’re all just a bad gimmick
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
01/12/2020 at 02:50 |
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agreed, there is no such thing as an energy efficient dryer, unless you use a Hills hoist
SmugAardvark
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 02:54 |
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Is it an LG ? We bought their brand of washer and dryer when we got our house about 5 years ago. Neither one of them lasted a year. After several warranty repairs, we sold them on Craigslist.
Their NFC features were, to put it nicely, absolutely damn useless. And that’s from someone who actually uses NFC tags.
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Svend
> pip bip - choose Corrour
01/12/2020 at 02:57 |
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What I only found out a few years ago was, North Americans don’t or rarely use kettles. There voltage is so low, 110v as opposed to our 230v, it takes longer to boil a kettle. That blew my mind.
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Svend
> SmugAardvark
01/12/2020 at 03:06 |
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No, It’s a Hoover DHL.........
Pretty much a basic machine for around £350 (it’s since come down to £249)
I only use the NFC on my mobile when I’ve forgotten my wallet or my card is being an arse in the reader and I need to get some odds and ends.
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SmugAardvark
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 03:20 |
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Yeah, I got into NFC tags as a way to streamline a handful of tasks that I do regularly. Nothing monumental, of course.
I have a tag hidden in both of my cars. When I swipe my phone, it automatically connects to Bluetooth and starts playing one of my Google Music playlists. Same with the sound bar in my living room.
I also have a few in my garage for when I’m brewing beer. I just hold my phone up to the tag that best matches my current task, and it automatically sets the appropriate timers for me because I’m usually drinking at that point and will forget to do it myself.
And of course, Google Pay being everywhere now, having an NFC-enabled smartwatch makes me feel like a nerdy superhero.
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Svend
> SmugAardvark
01/12/2020 at 03:39 |
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I don’t really come across many NFC things in daily life. I suppose if I got out more it’d be different.
jimz
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 03:42 |
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that’s because we don’t drink near as much tea. coffee instead, nothing to do with our damn mains voltage . we also in general don’t have egg cups because we don’t really do soft boiled eggs.
it’s almost as if we’re- and this might sound crazy- a different country that does some things differently than yours.
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jimz
> Chariotoflove
01/12/2020 at 03:45 |
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I’m still using the old-school Whirlpool top-loader I bought in ~2003. three knobs, mechanical timer, that’s it. Haven’t had to do one damn thing to it in the 17 years I’ve owned it so far, not even the motor coupler. yeah it uses a lot of water but I live right on the Great Lakes; water we pull out gets treated and goes right back in.
MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 04:22 |
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Why would I use the kettle when Chef Mic is faster?
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MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
01/12/2020 at 04:27 |
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We had an energy efficient dryer at my last apartment that came with the unit. Literally brand new, we got to peel the plastic off. By the time we moved out I was ready to fill it with billiards balls and set it for a spin cycle, just to see how they would still be damp at the end
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Svend
> jimz
01/12/2020 at 04:29 |
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Wow, wrong side of bed there?
Many Americans on here, via Youtube comments to my questions and stated elsewhere, the often reply is it takes longer to boil a kettle there than it does here.
https://www.iradio.ie/americans-dont-have-kettles-and-people-are-losing-it/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3051130/americans-dont-have-kettles-and-people-cant-handle-it/
We don’t all drink tea, the vast majority of people I know and have met drink coffee using coffee granules or freeze dried coffee power/granules.
Also. I don’t know anybody that uses egg cups. It’s mostly fried, scrambled, poached, etc...
it’s almost as if we’re- and this might sound crazy- a different country and defines others by stereotype s.
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Svend
> MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
01/12/2020 at 04:32 |
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I had to look that up, and ew, microwave water for coffee , tea, etc...
I’ve done it a few times out of necessity over the years and won’t again unless I can’t avoid it.
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jimz
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 04:36 |
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Wow, wrong side of bed there?
No, I’ve just had it up to here with Brits who look at us and say “wow, you don’t do what we do? What’s wrong with all of you?”
promoted by the color red
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 04:47 |
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I’ve wondered the same thing about that. My friend bought a pricey LG with push-buttons, NFC, and all this fancy technology for the house we share. It does a good job washing, but we’ve not used the NFC once in the three years since it’s been installed. The hinges also break every year.
It’s three button presses at most to get the settings I like and I don’t have to sell my information to yet another multinational conglomerate.
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Svend
> jimz
01/12/2020 at 05:13 |
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Is it just the Brits, because the Canadians, Iri sh, Australians , etc... and even Americans were asking the same thing.
Irish,
https://www.iradio.ie/americans-dont-have-kettles-and-people-are-losing-it/
It’s an essential (and overused) kitchen appliance in every Irish home but it seems most Americans don’t own electric kettles.
It’s come to the world’s attention that our friends Stateside don’t use kettles to boil water, and some don’t even know what a kettle is.
Instead, they boil water in a stovetop kettle, a saucepan, or get this…a microwave.
We know. Shudder.
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I know americans who literally believed the only way to boil water was on the stove. And that it took 10-15 minutes.
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It truly is one of the more baffling things that happens in America. Which is saying something. apparently they’re super expensive too, so all the poor expats have to end up using a slow stove top kettle or the entirely dismal microwave option. how do you get used to that?
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I don’t think Americans even know electric kettles exist because I’m American and I just found out today.
Australia,
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A significant number of Americans don’t know what an electric kettle is .
That’s right. Wander in to a domestic kitchen in America and you’re more likely to find a hand gun than an electric kettle.*
This little nugget of knowledge has just been picked up on Twitter and people are losing their minds over it.
It’s stunning to us because we were colonised by the Brits who love nothing more than a cup of tea (or a Spice Girls reunion). So to a certain extent we have adopted the tradition of flicking the button on the kettle for a nice cuppa. As such the concept of not having a kettle seems terribly quaint to us.
There are delightful tales doing the rounds about Americans picking up an electric kettle when they’re in a foreign country, not understanding how it works, and putting it on the stove to heat it up (thus melting the bottom).
Is it true that Americans rarely own kettles and boil their tea water in the microwave? Wtf is wrong with that country?!
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A science-y type wrote a blog post explaining that as a concept, electric kettles are not as effective in the US as they are in the UK or Australia.
“The voltage of mains electricity varies from country to country: the majority of countries use between 200 and 240 volts, but a small minority (most notably the US, Canada and Japan) use between 100 and 127 volts,” writes physicist Mr Reid.
“To raise the temperature of one litre of water from 15C to boiling at 100C requires a little bit over 355 kilojoules of energy. An ‘average’ kettle in the UK runs at about 2800W and in the US at about 1500W; if we assume that both kettles are 100 per cent efficient than a UK kettle supplying 2800 joules per second will take 127 seconds to boil and a US kettle supplying 1500 J/s will take 237 seconds, more than a minute and a half longer. This is such a problem that many households in the US still use an old-fashioned stovetop kettle.”
And that right there is about as much science as our brains can handle.
Good night.
But ye’, it’s just us Brits.
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Svend
> promoted by the color red
01/12/2020 at 05:44 |
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I think we are now doing things for doing it’s sake.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 07:30 |
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We have one. It’s mostly used for tea or coffee in the French press. It does take a while to heat up. Would be faster on the stove, I suppose.
MiniGTI - now with XJ6
> SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
01/12/2020 at 08:02 |
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My house came with a 90s Kenmore washer. It works fine except the timer hangs now and then and it doesn’t final spin. I’m certain I could repair it myself but I’m not sure I feel like it. Probably going to look at something new soon.
getFuckedHerb
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 10:20 |
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we use a kettle every day but they are not very popular here, I agree. A lot of coffee vs tea enters into that debate though. I make a pot of drip coffee every day, my wife has 2-3 cups of tea. WE have this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cuisinart-PerfecTemp-Cordless-Programmable-Kettle/31261707?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=90&adid=22222222227022579349&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=40345434992&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78310599872&wl5=9020363&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=31261707&veh=sem&gclid=CjwKCAiApOvwBRBUEiwAcZGdGAzQdfbIqZPkjcB3p1monlgOwZTr8Hone7NcMl8aj0PxnECSjjpjnhoCWGwQAvD_BwE which brings a liter of water to boil in 4 minutes. How fast are they over yander?
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Svend
> getFuckedHerb
01/12/2020 at 13:17 |
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We’ve an average Morphy Richards with a Brita water filter it, just timed a one litre boil at 2 :26.
We used to have a Breville Hot Cup. Which boiled and poured the required amount you needed in a very short time.
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MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 15:58 |
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How could it possibly taste any different? If anything the kettle would have scale in it. I don’t not believe you and I get that the flavour of water can change.
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Svend
> MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
01/12/2020 at 16:31 |
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There have been a few studies, because some scientists have nothing better to do, and found a microwave can heat the water temporarily past boiling, kettles heat by convection as opposed to microwaves, so the water heats up differently, microwaved water can be affected by what was cooked in it previously which can affect the flavour and taste tests have found differences.
For me, I guess it's more subliminal as it's not my preferred way of heating water, but I'm sure I detect a more metallic taste.
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MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 19:05 |
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neat, makes sense
Cé hé sin
> Svend
01/12/2020 at 19:13 |
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Interestingly, it’s n
ot just the people in the low voltage world. I had occasion once to buy a kettle in France. I succeeded, but there weren’t many to be had. I think it’s be
cause places that don’t drink tea much don’t have much use for kettles and don’t buy them.
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Svend
> MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
01/12/2020 at 19:32 |
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I'm not totally sure how many if any would notice a difference if they weren't asked to compare though.