Rant of the Day v2.

[OFSO]

Sunday lunch over, loaded dishwasher, pushed 'on' button, *B*A*N*G*, flash of light from behind push buttons, smell of Beelzebub's Hooves, silence.

Next sound: hot water being run into sink for hand wash....

[Pontius Navigator]

Conundrum:

Remove dishwasher from sale particulars?
Get dishwasher repaired/replaced?
Well it worked yesterday, you must have done something

We had that with a very expensive Neff Oven. The temperature setting was a film tape, none of your electronic stuff. We had one replaced some years prior. Then with house sale in progress repair or replace. In all probability it would have been ripped out but we bought a replacement at near the cost of repair and a fifth the price of the original 15 years previous.

[G-CPTN]

In all probability it would have been ripped out.

Indeed - seen it happen.

[Pontius Navigator]

Had a niece in law who couldn't bare (sic) to place her Lilly white on a toilet or bath that some one else had used. I did wonder how she managed at work or on holiday.

[OFSO]

White goods form no part of a house inventory when selling. Dish washer has been suffering dementia for months, I have been talking to it in Deutsche, addressing it as meine Fuhrer, singing die Horst Wessel Lied, and coaxing it to work now and then by suggesting that Arbeit Macht Frei, Herr Bosch.

Meanwhile in Spain big storm has knocked the ELB off and our reset lady is on holiday in Cambridge. Odd, that. Asked the estate agent to go up and turn it back on tomorrow.

And you folk with hippos think you've problems...

[Pontius Navigator]

OFSO, obviously not built in nor are you being ransommed by it

[ExSp33db1rd]

Why do radio/TV announcers always say. 7.1 .... "on the Richter Scale" .. I assume that, how many fxxxxg earthquake scales are there in use these days ? Irritating.

[OFSO]

I pulled it out to check the rear connections and weight. No, I cannot carry it down several flights of stairs - or the new one up again. Then, I couldn't get it back in as would not slide into cabinet. If place unsold in September, will replace. Finally slid it in using an old painting board.

P.S. Mrs OFSO some years ago ordered a fridge from John Lewis, delivery paid for. Men arrived, said stairs too steep to carry upstairs. Mrs OFSO became incensed and threw old fridge out of the window (I repaired cracks in sill and repainted on a subsequent visit). She and Dave the window cleaner then brought the new one up a ladder thru the window. John Lewis men fled. Wankers.

[Pontius Navigator]

Why do radio/TV announcers always say. 7.1 .... "on the Richter Scale" .. I assume that, how many fxxxxg earthquake scales are there in use these days ? Irritating.

Then there is the Mercalli scale.

[ExSp33db1rd]

Then there is the Mercalli scale.

Never 'eard of it.

(Thanks)

[Hydromet]

Thanks Cape. Will seek it out.

[llondel]

Had a niece in law who couldn't bare (sic) to place her Lilly white on a toilet or bath that some one else had used. I did wonder how she managed at work or on holiday.

It's quite common to find a box of arse gaskets in the stalls over here, so you can keep clean tissue between you and the seat.

[llondel]

Then there is the Mercalli scale.

Never 'eard of it.

(Thanks)

I just went and looked it up on Wikipedia. The USGS uses it for their "did you feel it?" ratings, I recognise the graphics in use, having reported feeling a few quakes.

[Pontius Navigator]

Had a niece in law who couldn't bare (sic) to place her Lilly white on a toilet or bath that some one else had used. I did wonder how she managed at work or on holiday.

It's quite common to find a box of arse gaskets in the stalls over here, so you can keep clean tissue between you and the seat.

In Copenhagen airport in the middle of the concourse are the facilities. The gasket is automatic.

[Wodrick]

I am advised an approved technique is to leave the seat up, or raise it and "Hover"

[Pontius Navigator]

Do you ever wonder how people with short arms manage?

[OFSO]

According to 'recent studies' there are more bugs on the average keyboard than on a public toilet seat....As for sample wipes taken from the steering wheels of hire cars, don't even think about it. Snot, excrement, blood...

[Hydromet]

Then there is the Mercalli scale.

Digging into the memory now, but isn't the (Modified) Mercalli scale based on the observed effects at any particular site, rather than the strength at the epicentre?

Ah yes, thought so. Modified Mercalli scale

[Slasher]

Snot, excrement, blood...

True, but sh!t tops the list and can be found on almost everything. I reckon it's because people scratch their arses and simply carry on, and also not putting the lid down when flushing their turds (especially when they're all sloppy).

Then there's India.

[Pontius Navigator]

Sister in law was a police officer. She said a bowl of peanuts on a bar had DNA from 20 people.