British conventional niceties? Newbie questions
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@lucas1 Your dishwasher is clearly inferior.
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@Weng no I don't own one.
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@lucas1 Then your experience clearly comes from the era of inferior dishwashers.
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@Weng I suppose I will have to forego the advancement in dishwasher tech.
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@lucas1 Just wait until you see the new clothes washers!
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@Weng I have one if those they actually work quite well, I don't have to partially hand wash them before hand!
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@boomzilla said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@blakeyrat said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
But it's not like washing dishes by hand is super-difficult or time-consuming.
If you live alone, this may be correct.
Or, if you have enough kids (one) of sufficient maturity to do it right then you can delegate it to him/her/them.
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@Weng said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@lucas1 Then your experience clearly comes from the era of inferior dishwashers.
Yeah, my current dishwasher has a garbage disposal built in! It only really has problems if you let certain food (like refried beans) dry on.
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@Weng said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@lucas1 Your dishwasher is clearly inferior.
We were recently having issues where dishes weren't getting clean. Then @mrsboomzilla found something on Amazon that you put in the washer and it cleans the washer. We'd noticed gunk in some of the sprayers.
Now it cleans stuff again.
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Bah... why not just hire a housekeeper to wash the dishes?
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@owatson I did have one in Spain but they are too expensive here.
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@lucas1 said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Loading a dishwasher is normally more work than actually just cleaning the damn things.
Not with a very greasy meal, or one where you've got something burnt on. Roasting tins are awful.
Source: had to replace my dishwasher a month or so back after the old one broke, and was washing by hand for the week between the order being placed and the delivery occurring.
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@lucas1 said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
You normally have to wash or scrape off sauce etc before putting in the washer. Time I've done that I might have well have just washed it.
Mine doesn't require that, I just shake the plates over the sink and throw them in the dishwasher. You're
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@lucas1 said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@Weng no nothing to do with that.
You normally have to wash or scrape off sauce etc before putting in the washer. Time I've done that I might have well have just washed it.
I don't think I do anything more than a cursory "dump any massive amounts of food from the wasteful children into the trash" before slamming them straight to the dishwasher. Maybe a century ago you had to pre-wash things (in which case you might have a small credit), but we live in an age where dishwashers include their own mini disposal grinder thing.
Edit: Fsck, . Should have seen that coming...
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My dishwasher is probably at least 20 years old, and the only thing it doesn't clean properly is the fryer. Which isn't any easier to clean by hand, so I usually fill it with water, add a dish washer tablet, set to ~95⁰C and leave it running for an hour or so. If the foam clears up and it's not clean yet, add another tablet.
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@blakeyrat said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
But it's not like washing dishes by hand is super-difficult or time-consuming.
I disagree. Me and my partner, we cook a lot, including stuff like desserts, etc. It's a pin in the ass l, washing lots of dishes, sometimes even twice a day, half an hour to 50 minutes each time.
(It might seem a lot, but then there tends to be a lot to wash and you need to dry the motherfuckers, after all (they never fit all into the drier).
So, I've made a vow: I'll never move into a place that lacks a dishwasher.
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@kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I'll never move into a place that lacks a dishwasher.
I'd rather be able to select the model myself. They're definitely not all the same!
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@kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I'll never move into a place that lacks a dishwasher.
A 2 bdr in the UK seems to be around 800-900 sq.ft, generally, which doesn't give you a whole lot of kitchen.
Only the 3 bdr I was in a while back had space for a proper dishwasher so I've bought one of these:http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4754871.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=tsid:59158|cid:200294090|agid:12525738170|tid:pla-94833681170|crid:66128560730|nw:g|rnd:17394706839391659888|dvc:c|adp:1o2&gclid=CjwKEAjwtqe8BRCs-9DdpMOilBoSJAAyqWz_YZUyYjVoLo1S-uaIA3ZRXHVbaEfd90OT7jz9eL3FIBoCjr_w_wcB
It's fantastic. Shake plates over the bin and stick them straight in, it even manages to clean fryer baskets...somehow.I really wish there was some way I could fit a clothes dryer though, 3-4 days to get jeans dry on a rack in the winter.
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@dkf yeah, that's true. In fact, our landlord has just recently bought a new dishwasher, since the old one had finally broken beyond repair. You can see the difference and now I'm wondering how could I have lived with this old POS.
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@Gąska said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Not only we still use and abuse your tongue
Am I the only one that lol'd at the grammar fail?
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@kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
You can see the difference
There are also profound differences between models in how quickly they wash and how quietly they do it. (Alas, it seems difficult to have everything at the same time. Or not without paying a lot.)
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@sloosecannon said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Am I the only one that lol'd at the grammar fail?
What grammar failure, if I may ask?
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@Gąska said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@sloosecannon said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Am I the only one that lol'd at the grammar fail?
What grammar failure, if I may ask?
I believe "not only do we use..." is proper. Not exactly sure which grammar rule says so, though.
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@Maciejasjmj Correct. If you start a sentence with a negative adverb you need inversion.
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@dkf said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Alas, it seems difficult to have everything at the same time. Or not without paying a lot
I got a miele from a charity shop for £60 delivered. On eco mode it does everything except pans perfectly. Normal is similar but quicker and intensive basically gets everything. It's also whisper quiet
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@Maciejasjmj said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@Gąska said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@sloosecannon said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Am I the only one that lol'd at the grammar fail?
What grammar failure, if I may ask?
I believe "not only do we use..." is proper. Not exactly sure which grammar rule says so, though.
Indeed. It's not the worst fail you can have, but it's definitely ironic in context...
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@sloosecannon I can always pretend I did it on purpose.
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@Cursorkeys said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I really wish there was some way I could fit a clothes dryer though, 3-4 days to get jeans dry on a rack in the winter.
Don't you guys have laundromats?
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@FrostCat they're called laundrettes here and not all that common outside cities. I've got about a 20 minute drive to my closest one
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@FrostCat said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@Cursorkeys said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I really wish there was some way I could fit a clothes dryer though, 3-4 days to get jeans dry on a rack in the winter.
Don't you guys have laundromats?
As Jaloopa said, they are really uncommon. I honestly couldn't tell you if I've ever even seen one.
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@Cursorkeys said
I really wish there was some way I could fit a clothes dryer though, 3-4 days to get jeans dry on a rack in the winter.
A dehumidifier? Or a washing machine with a faster centrifuge? Ours does 1600 rpm, and clothes come out nearly dry.
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@Mikael_Svahnberg said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
A dehumidifier? Or a washing machine with a faster centrifuge? Ours does 1600 rpm, and clothes come out nearly dry.
Washing machine is the landlord's so I can't change that. A dehumidifier isn't a bad idea though, I've kind of wanted one for a while anyway. Just have to wait until screwfix has them on offer again.
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@Cursorkeys said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
As Jaloopa said, they are really uncommon. I honestly couldn't tell you if I've ever even seen one.
Hm. Probably every town in the US has at least one. I know of two within a mile or so of where I live, although I do live in the middle of a major metropolitan area.
It's also fairly common for apartment complexes to have a laundry room--sometimes a small one in each building--if they don't actually provide a washer/dryer in each apartment.
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@FrostCat said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I know of two within a mile or so of where I live, although I do live in the middle of a major metropolitan area.
Yeah, there are at least two within walking distance of my house, and plenty of people do walk to them. Some of the people who go there, like my next door neighbors, definitely have a washer / dryer in their house, so I'm not sure what's going on there.
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@boomzilla My apartment has one of those annoyingly-small stacked washer/dryer combos. It doesn't dry very well, so sometimes I'll take a pile of blankets to the laundromat instead and save a couple of hours.
Then a couple years ago the dryer died, and it took the complex a few days to replace it, so until then I had to do a couple loads there.
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@boomzilla said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I'm not sure what's going on there.
for sure
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@boomzilla said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
my next door neighbors, definitely have a washer / dryer in their house, so I'm not sure what's going on there.
Our drier stopped blowing hot air, so now we go to the laundermat in town. It's actually quicker to do everything there than it was here, and they come out fresher (since the town doesn't use our shitty well water).
Maybe similar situation there?
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@kt_ do you tag all your threads with 'fuck this shit'?
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@bb36e said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@kt_ do you tag all your threads with 'fuck this shit'?
No, it seems @Kuro and @Aliceif did one each:
Also, @kt_ in general doesn't seem to tag their topics, but when they do, it's often with said tag...
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@Erufael said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
Maybe similar situation there?
No. These tenants just moved in about a year ago and I saw the new washer / dryer get delivered when the new owner was doing renovations.
My theories are that they like doing it all at once as one can at a laundromat, or, since it's one of those deals where a lot of (maybe?) related people are living in the same house, it makes splitting the utility bill simpler. But some of the guys who live there don't have cars and walk their stuff to the laundromat, which is about a half mile away.
Whatever...better them than me.
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@boomzilla Ah, yeah. Whatever floats their boats, I guess.
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@bb36e said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@kt_ do you tag all your threads with 'fuck this shit'?
GOOD question, I like that someone noticed.
I try to, yes, but I gave do admit that I slipped a few times. :(
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@Tsaukpaetra said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@bb36e said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@kt_ do you tag all your threads with 'fuck this shit'?
No, it seems @Kuro and @Aliceif did one each:
Also, @kt_ in general doesn't seem to tag their topics, but when they do, it's often with said tag...
I CBA to click the image and take a closer look at it, but I bet a hundred thousand million billion dollars, that it contains threads from before NodeBB, when it was impossible to tag threads.
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@kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I CBA to click the image and take a closer look at it, but I bet a hundred thousand million billion dollars, that it contains threads from before NodeBB, when it was impossible to tag threads.
I don't gamble, but what happens if nobody bets against that?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
@kt_ said in British conventional niceties? Newbie questions:
I CBA to click the image and take a closer look at it, but I bet a hundred thousand million billion dollars, that it contains threads from before NodeBB, when it was impossible to tag threads.
I don't gamble, but what happens if nobody bets against that?
I win a hundred thousands million billion? But there are also the irregularities in employees' pension funds. :/
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