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

Darn those no good sock sneaks!

Pants and tumble dryers, the two don't always work well together. Unless you want them to shrink.

If anybody is thinking of getting a 'Whirlpool' brand - don't they burn your house down. Don't know if anybody watched, BBC TV watchdog a few weeks back. As it was on, dad started to chunner to the TV "cheap spade conectors". - It's true! A close call, with one; enough heat to fuse the live feed wires, and the control block destroyed, so easily a house fire. Well a garage fire, as that is where it was at the time.

Ah well, today: black cotton until 9:15pm then nowt in the way of pants after shower #2.

Your description of a bandana is about right, was the only bit of silk I could find. I tied two knots, using adjacent corners tied at my hips, worked a treat. Why? I needed somethng soft next to my skin after having a shave.

Oh yes forgot, back to usual boxers today, cotton:polyester, red, black vertical stripes

You'll never guess...

White boxer shorts.

RF

Multicoloured briefs cotton M and S are where I get my favourate y-fronts I've never had pants shrink in the wash, or the tumble dryer, I never had problem with tumble dryers, fathers had a tumble dryer for at least 15 years I think, well, I think he's been through three, sit in the garage, slowly rusting till they need to be replaced, Think he got a new one recently actually, just cheap tumble dryers, doesn't appear much point buying expensive 'white goods' any more, as no one will repair them once they are a model out of date, which judging from my brothers widescreen TV takes eight months or less, then you have no choice but to throw it out and buy a new one Viva la disposible culture, it sucks.

Technically speaking the wide screen TV is classified as "Brown Goods" and has a) a much longer lifespan than white goods and b) more chance of being repaired according to rental industry statistics.

However, personal experience indicates that the washing machine and fridge are most likely to break down, the fridge is unlikely to be repairable but a quick fix on the washing machine can double its lifespan for about £60.

You'l be lucky to get someone to repair it in half the places I've lived, last repair my father had on his washing machine; replacing the bearings (which I attempted to get him to let us together do), cost £90, took the guy about half an hour to do, the bearings cost less than £10 The washing machine had cost him, new £200, My Brother had real truble getting the thing fixed, luckly I think he has actually managed to find someone, but none of teh shops in high street would touch it I think I know whats up with it, but yet again, paranoid people won't let me near electrical things/help them to sort it out Fridges are funny things, they make me laugh sometimes.

Hmm.. I've never heard the terms "white goods" and "brown goods"... Teh closest thing I've heard to that is the yearly "white sale" at Foley's, but that refers to linen and towels and bed sheets and duvets and what not. (not that they have to be 'white' of course.)

Of course the first thing I think of if you say 'white goods' and 'brown goods' in this thread whilst discussing washers and dryers would be the condition of pants vis a vis the efficiency of said washers and dryers.

Having a dryer is great, but I've noticed that it leads to the death of elastic, so underwear needs to be replaced at a higher rate than "natural" drying. This does have the good effect that you don't have a pants drawer full of decaying greyish "non-date" (you know what I mean! ) underwear.

I try to find pants that have some percentage of lycra spandex. It survives the dryer quite well.

You Can't beat a bit of spandex, well, a lot really, though you have to watch out, soon as you are wearing more than about 80% spandex clothing, a tendancy to swing a fender 56 Strat in a hard case at detectives comes almost unavoidible Bit of an obscure reference there to another thread on here

... No I stick to about 10% - 20% and nothing shiny.. (although these new ones are pretty slick). No sign of that girl named Bob around here.

I'm not wearing any because I had an accident at work!!

'Accident at work' Do tell guess what I just found underneath the sofa whilst tidying up the place? A pair of socks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not* a single, lone sock!!!!!!!! Oh no!!!!!!!!! A whole* pair of socks, thats two socks that together form a matching pair!!!!!!!!!!! Unheard of!!!!!! Finding two** missing*** socks*** Together** in a** PAIR***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats the most Exciting thing since... well... since a Long while!!!!! and I just found two* cunningly hidden bottles of booze in teh cupboard! a £90 bottle of and a rioja which looks pretty good too Must be lodgers, I'll have to ply him with a bit of booze one night, and suggest we need* something else to drink I also found a computer tower and a keyboard, and a scanner and a table and a washing up rack in the back of the cupboard... none of which I remember having put there... though the PC looks famuliar, and I vaguely remember the table Think I ought to change my pants to celibrate!

Let me guess... Thong?

Are those your 'party pants'?

I decided against putting on a fresh pair of pants to celibrate finding a pair of socks, and yes, they probably would have been my thong I just did some more hunting around, I'm trying to find my electric drill... Found my two missing zippo lighters!!!

Yep, pants with a bit of elastane survive a dryer better than 100% cotton. I had a pair of 100% cotton, light blue brief today.

As for 'white goods' and 'brown' goods, don't forget your 'gray imports'

Red 100% cotton M and S y fronts