St George's Day

[teamsaint]

If you know the settings on your washing machine, you need to get therapy.

I was thinking about under use of technology the other day.

Why do they have 18 settings when nobody uses more than 2?

Must be a market for a stripped down, 1setting budget machine?

Or perhaps 2, normal and abnormal ?

[Don Petter]

I was thinking about under use of technology the other day.

Why do they have 18 settings when nobody uses more than 2?

Must be a market for a stripped down, 1setting budget machine?

Or perhaps 2, normal and abnormal ?

One's quite enough. We always dip out, so to speak, and do everything on wool wash.

After all we only used the one stone down by the canal.

[Beef Oven!]

I was thinking about under use of technology the other day.

Why do they have 18 settings when nobody uses more than 2?

Must be a market for a stripped down, 1setting budget machine?

Or perhaps 2, normal and abnormal ?

How do men know so much about washing machines?

What is the world coming too?

[teamsaint]

How do men know so much about washing machines?

What is the world coming too?

To many settings, too many "o" s........too much stuff........

[ahinton]

How do men know so much about washing machines?

Perhaps in part because quite a few of them are involved in their design and manufacture - but anyway, why shouldn't they?

[Pabmusic]

How do men know so much about washing machines?

What is the world coming too?

Perhaps in part because quite a few of them are involved in their design and manufacture - but anyway, why shouldn't they?

From my own experience, it might be because the statement "the washing machine's gone wrong" is so often addressed to a male, the subtext being "fix it", "get someone to fix it", or "buy a new one".

How very sexist! I can't believe I've written that, except that I've been on the receiving end more than once.

[Flosshilde]

I was thinking about under use of technology the other day.

Why do they have 18 settings when nobody uses more than 2?

Must be a market for a stripped down, 1setting budget machine?

Or perhaps 2, normal and abnormal ?

Because they're following clothes manufacturers & the standard wash instructions.


So I'm told. The Laundry maid tends to deal with that sort of thing.

[Beef Oven!]

From my own experience, it might be because the statement "the washing machine's gone wrong" is so often addressed to a male, the subtext being "fix it", "get someone to fix it", or "buy a new one".

How very sexist! I can't believe I've written that, except that I've been on the receiving end more than once.

I counted two double entendres. Any advance?

[Pabmusic]

I counted two double entendres. Any advance?

????

The washing machine (nudge, nudge) has gone wrong (wink, wink)?

[Beef Oven!]

????

The washing machine (nudge, nudge) has gone wrong (wink, wink)?

e.g. "....I've been on the receiving end more than once" - very Kenneth Williams!!!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Elgar referred to St George, with a song in The Crown of India and an earlier (and rather fine) short cantata- The Banner of St. George.

[ahinton]

Elgar referred to St George, with a song in The Crown of India

I suppose that he had to, really - although I have to confess that even his brief in writing that work was not quite so bad as the penny-dreadful results that he produced in it (and this from an ardent admirer of Elgar's best work).

[ahinton]

Because they're following clothes manufacturers & the standard wash instructions.


So I'm told. The Laundry maid tends to deal with that sort of thing.

I suppose that we'll be in for similar questions about tumble dryers soon, not least the virtues of the condensing variety over the others; what all of this has to do with the topic I have less than no idea, other, perhaps, than in terms of a washing machine that I discarded after more than 25 years by which time it had really outlived its usefulness, my excuse for dispensing with which was "well, it is Georgian"....

[Flosshilde]

Tumble driers are very heavy on the electricity (having just acquired one - a condenser. I don't know if they use more than the other sort). I wonder if, when domestic appliance electricity consumptioin is rated, the comparison is with other washing machines, or driers, or if there is a universal measure of consumption applied to all appliances?

[ahinton]

Tumble driers are very heavy on the electricity (having just acquired one - a condenser. I don't know if they use more than the other sort). I wonder if, when domestic appliance electricity consumptioin is rated, the comparison is with other washing machines, or driers, or if there is a universal measure of consumption applied to all appliances?

I don't know the answer to that either (although I suppose that it wouldn't be so very difficult to find out) but, as with washing machines, fridges, freezers and the like, power consumption ratings can vary considerably from one appliance to another of the same type.