Things that are not all they're cracked up to be

[ahinton]

Quite. Regarding dishwashers however I should point out that they are the most environmentally friendly way of doing the job; as for the expense, what price all those valuable hours lost with your hands in the sink? ... unless you enjoy washing up, some people apparently do

Agreed.

I guess it's like Marmite or David Matthews.

What is? Washing up by hand? I don't understand the comparison, I'm afraid. In any case, whatever it is can't be both - indeed, for me, at least, nothing could be both; the very thought of Marmite makes me want to throw up (and Vegemite even more), whereas (go on - you know you want to!). Anyway, I've never washed up by hand to the accompaniment of the music of David Matthews; have you?

[ahinton]

I suppose that if you have a family, dishwashers may well be an efficient way of doing a tedious job. I had one for about ten years, but because it would take up to a week before the thing was full (thus necessitating getting items out of the machine, and hand washing them to be able to use them)

...then you should have had a small six-place setting one!

AND because when the machine was emptied further hand scrubbing was a regular necessity (to get rid of the gunk the machine couldn't cope with) AND because of the monthly cleaning/rinsing of the machine

...sounds to me as though you had a pretty inefficient machine

AND the number of times that I gouged my shins open when the door of the thing was down to be filled/emptied

...should've gone to Specsavers? (albeit not to have your washing-up done).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So you've never tried wrapping food in aluminium foil when barbecuing, then?

No - I @*%*!ing well haven't. I use the cooker in the kitchen that I spent a fortune on, and take properly cooked, salmonella-free food into the dining room to eat and thus let my neighbours enjoy the outdoors on a fine Summer's day (which doesn't happen that often) with the scent of gardens and clean air and the sound of birds and insects, rather than the antisocial, narcissistic stink of my barbecue smoke. Why? Because I actually respect my neighbours, get on with them, and don't want to ruin a lovely day for them. AND because I don't want my friends to suffer from food poisoning. NOR do I want them to see me dripping my sweat onto the various burnt offerings that they've been waiting hours to be given, and that they wouldn't touch with a barge pole if they weren't so @*%*!ing well hungry.

That alright with you?

[vinteuil]

... recent entries on this thread remind me -

"Things that are not all they're cracked up to be" -


Other People.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

...then you should have had a small six-place setting one!
...sounds to me as though you had a pretty inefficient machine
...shouldn've gone to Specsavers? (albeit not to have your washing-up done).

You got @*&*@ing Shares in the companies that produce this stuff?

And I did (and do) go to Specsavers!

[MrGongGong]

Agreed.


What is? Washing up by hand? I don't understand the comparison, I'm afraid. In any case, whatever it is can't be both - indeed, for me, at least, nothing could be both; the very thought of Marmite makes me want to throw up (and Vegemite even more), whereas (go on - you know you want to!). Anyway, I've never washed up by hand to the accompaniment of the music of David Matthews; have you?

Sadly I can't seem to find an online recording of
"Tables Clear" by Paul Lansky but its worth a listen

[ahinton]

No - I @*%*!ing well haven't. I use the cooker in the kitchen that I spent a fortune on, and take properly cooked, salmonella-free food into the dining room to eat and thus let my neighbours enjoy the outdoors on a fine Summer's day (which doesn't happen that often) with the scent of gardens and clean air and the sound of birds and insects, rather than the antisocial, narcissistic stink of my barbecue smoke. Why? Because I actually respect my neighbours, get on with them, and don't want to ruin a lovely day for them. AND because I don't want my friends to suffer from food poisoning. NOR do I want them to see me dripping my sweat onto the various burnt offerings that they've been waiting hours to be given, and that they wouldn't touch with a barge pole if they weren't so @*%*!ing well hungry.

That alright with you?

Of course!

[ahinton]

You got @*&*@ing Shares in the companies that produce this stuff?

No! (nor in Specsavers, for that matter)!

And I did (and do) go to Specsavers!

Well, that answers that one, then!

[vinteuil]

No - I @*%*!ing well haven't. I use the cooker in the kitchen that I spent a fortune on, and take properly cooked, salmonella-free food into the dining room to eat and thus let my neighbours enjoy the outdoors on a fine Summer's day (which doesn't happen that often) with the scent of gardens and clean air and the sound of birds and insects, rather than the antisocial, narcissistic stink of my barbecue smoke. Why? Because I actually respect my neighbours, get on with them, and don't want to ruin a lovely day for them. AND because I don't want my friends to suffer from food poisoning. NOR do I want them to see me dripping my sweat onto the various burnt offerings that they've been waiting hours to be given, and that they wouldn't touch with a barge pole if they weren't so @*%*!ing well hungry.

That alright with you?

... complete agreement.

[ Tho' I wd have preferred 'all right'... ]

[Nick Armstrong]

... recent entries on this thread remind me -

"Things that are not all they're cracked up to be" -


Other People.

You are Jean-Paul Sartre et je réclame mes cinq francs

[teamsaint]

Dishwashers are pretty handy if you are a kitchen porter.

Not much fun washing up the remnants of sausage egg chips and beans X 500 by hand.....

[teamsaint]

Microwave ovens.

much better to cook on an open fire.....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[ Tho' I wd have preferred 'all right'... ]

I don't all together agree, all though I see your point; hasn't this point been discussed on Pedants' Paradise all ready?

[ahinton]

You are Jean-Paul Sartre et je réclame mes cinq francs

Mais peut-être il est Gilles Deleuze, ou Jean-François Lyotard, ou Pierre Bourdieu, ou Jacques Lacan, ou Jacques Derrida, ou Michel Foucault, ou Jean Baudrillard, ou Georges Bataille, ou Guy Debord, ou any of those French fellows celebrated within the annals of the Postmodernism Generator (see http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ )...

[Nick Armstrong]

Lists of French post-modernists.