h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have a problem with the remote printer at home, too. On my old laptop, I couldn't connect to the printer - it kept asking for some password. We tried all the passwords in the system, but it didn't work. Then I got a new laptop and it worked fine. Then hubbie got a new computer (the printer is connected to his computer) and it's started asking for a password again. I just take my laptop to the printer and plug it in. Not even the family can solve the problem. He just blames windoze and loses patience.

Now to Anna's comment > OCD cleaning. I know OCD exists and I'm not doing it down but the more you bitch over the house being untidy, the more we will ignore you.< I am like Anna's Mum. The problem is, while my kids ignore me, too, the same kids accuse me of not being able to keep the house clean. It's lose/lose in that battle

Dishwashers were mentioned - and they are a PH of mine. For a so-called "labour-saving device", they require a helluva lot of labour! First, you have to clean most of the dirt off manually anyway, or they get blocked up. Then, you have to stack everything into the correct places, or things get broken. Then the dishwasher does its job, using a lot of electricity which you have to work to earn the money to pay the bill.

Labour-saving my ass - it's less work to do the washing up in a sinkfull of water.

I think the really good thing about dishwashers is that you can pile up your washing up for a couple of days out of eyes way.

I don't care, personally. If I haven't used much on a Saturday I have no qualms in leaving it stacked up beside the sink until Sunday. <weneedasmiley>

Deb

You could just put them in a cupboard, then.

I love my dishwasher. When I don't have one we spend ages and ages washing and drying dishes. When it works, we put the stuff in (no real effort to put any leftovers in the bin) and when it's full, or every two days or so, we switch it on. Eventually someone empties it. Lather rinse repeat. Or something.

forgot my PH.

people calling everything OCD - either when it is someone else and it's a criticism, or when it's themselves and they are making a big thing of how OCD they are.

OCD can just about ruin people's lives. It's not about putting a toaster away, or wanting not to live in a pigsty (Anna's mum and TC, I feel your pain) it is about things like going back in a house 20 times to check the toaster is unplugged, it's about going into a room 4 times or the unbelievable sudden pressure that you have to do something (shred a picture of your child) or they will die (and yes, a lot of that was from the brave UK MP who stood up in Parliament to describe his OCD)

At best it's a tic.

Believe me - I've lived with and without dishwashers, and there's a reason I never use one when I have one. They cost a lot to run and they make more work than they do. Without getting OCD about it.

Oh, and they waste space which could hold an extra kitchen unit, too.

it's horses for courses. I really have better things to do with more than 7 hours a week than stand at the sink...
The dishwasher also uses less water.

another PH today. People making a noise when they eat.

More on dishwashers?

We installed two single-drawer units, seemed like a good idea at the time. Mistake.

They're OK for, say, a single person.


Using a swasher is all in the planning - fill it up, like together, so that emptying is easy. It's mostly my job and my swasher PH is other people trying to be helpful...

I don't know when you last used a dishwasher, KB, but pre-rinsing the dishes is not necessary.

I quite like ourdishwasher, like all labour saving devices, if used properly, it’s effective.
PH:
1.people who don’t load them right, so things are all over the place, put the cutlery in all mixed up and they leave a fork or something protruding through the cutlery holder, stopping the jet wash bar from spinning.

2. People who unload them and put everything back in the cupboards in the wrong place.

3. People who leave half their Sunday dinner on the plate and try put into the washer and then complain things are still greasy when they unload it and put things back in the wrong place again

4. People who lean on it door, cause there too lazy to stand up straight

5. Finally, people with a fat a**e who keep turning it no as they pass by and then look surprised

>>pre-rinsing the dishes is not necessary.

Malabarista, I find I need to pre-rinse a few things, like fatty baking trays, rice, and porridge. Maybe your dishwasher* is better than my Bosch, or your tablets/liquid is better? If so, I want to know what they are!

PH; TV lounges in B&Bs. How can you relax in front of the TV if a complete stranger might walk in at any time, with whom you will be obliged to make awkward conversation? Such lounges are pure evil.

I find them quite easy to relax in when you're in a grotty B&B and don't want to sleep in the room you've got because there is just something horribly, undefinably *wrong* about it. I would've thought I was going crazy if Mrs. D hadn't felt the same thing too. It really was that Lovecraftian sense of lurking, sourceless terror.

Anyway, PH: people who you thought were reasonable people being so politically apathetic they'll share '7/7' images created by nasty right wing groups on the basis that support for the families is not supporting the politics of the group. By sharing their image, you're supporting them and validating their politics...

What's a '7/7' image?

It was the first major post-WTC terrorist attack on British soil. Happened on the 7th July, thus '7/7'. A '7/7 image' is the slighty more reserved version of the '9/11 image' ours don't tend to be animated GIFs or have pictures of symbolic animals crying... but just like 9/11 images they are often used by right wing groups to remind everyone that any good patriot (a word that has become much more prevalent in the UK since the event) should dislike Muslims "coz dere all terrorists innit."

Ah. So "support for the families" means support for the families of the victims?

Yes, basically. But when the picture was created and posted by an anti-Muslim right-wing group I think it's fair to say there's an Agenda there rather than just showing support.

I see your point.

Harking back to kitchen design, when we had our house refurbished we had a new kitchen installed. I have hip problems, so bending down to get to the back of a cupboard is not an option for me, particularly the back of the lower shelf. Our solution was to have 1000mm base units with two deep drawers. OK, so they're nowhere near full, but at least I can get at everything that's in them, even the lower ones.

Still can't get at the stuff on the top shelf of the wall units without using a step stool though.