Sabbath Mode?

deezell

I've just bought a new fridge freezer, and on reading the instructions, I've come across this;

8.3 Sabbath mode

To ensure that you can also use the
appliance on the Sabbath, the Sabbath mode switches off all non-essential functions.
During Sabbath mode, the following
functions are switched off:

Super cooling
. Super freezing
. Alarm
. Interior lighting
. Signal tones
. Messages on the control panel.

Note: The control panel lighting is
switched off during the Sabbath
mode. "super freeze" lights up at a
reduced brightness level.

What the actual f is this? It's not a setting to play Ossie tunes anyway. A fridge with built in religious observance? It appears to be a setting where the fridge 'pretends' to not be working, but the compressor is having the odd sneaky squeeze of the Freon when no one's looking, like a lad eating a rasher on a Friday back in the 60's. Which fundamentalist market is it aimed at? Bible belt? The lads with the hats and pigtails? It took three weeks to deliver from HNs, maybe they had to wait till it was baptised, or circumcised? ( I done that anyway, moulded mains plug needs snipping off to get through a conduit to the wall socket. I hope my replacement plug is kosher. BTW I know they don't use Freon no more, it was sacrilegious or something).

magicbastarder

some jewish sects observe a law which forbids working on the sabbath - and the ins and outs of it can get very legalistic - so this is obviously a sneaky way to pretend there's no work being done in the house on the sabbath.

L1011

Doing anything that causes electrical contacts to open or close is seen as 'creating fire' for the most observant jews, hence the light staying off when you open the door.

They also have sabbath mode lifts, that just go up and down and open at every floor, so you don't need to touch the buttons.

StupidLikeAFox

I too have a fridge that had "smart fridge" plastered all over it in the shop - when I looked into it this was the only "smart" feature it had

the_amazing_raisin

Its for Jewish people, they aren't supposed to worth on the Sabbath

This includes things like cooking or preparing food

In Israel the lift buttons apparently don't work on Sabbath, the lifts just visit every floor in sequence then back to the ground

breezy1985

And on the 7th day the lord said "don't push elevator buttons"

I think all religion is stupid but some really go to extreme levels of dumb.

notAMember

Yes , appliances that are designed to work globally, rather than just your neck of the woods, will incorporate features that other cultures want.

See also:

• Language settings
• payment systems like Alipay/mpesa that are built for chinese/african payment norms
• amazon alexa built to understand regional accents
• telemedicine software built to take account of cultural or local practices.

The rest of your xenophobic post I'll ignore, in the generous assumption you actually never encountered anything outside the sphere of your local village.

Hoboo

Can someone let Israel know that like their fridges and lifts, they really shouldn’t be firing bombs at women or children on Fridays either. I presume they have automatic fire to observe the sabbath.

Montage of Feck

Have you tried the black Sabbath mode yet?

deezell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123901420#Comment_123901420

It's a bit if a stretch to compare functional operational mode settings to built in faux religion observance, (the fridge continues to work on the sly, the motor runs, electrons hare all around the place, etc.) It's an even bigger stretch to compare satire and irony to xenophobia, though this is what's happening in dictator states, where free speech is being criminalised. As OP, I wasn't even sure which religion was at play here.

@Hoboo's comment on the bombs falling on the Sabbath is undeniable though. As he said, maybe they set the timers on Friday, to launch them on Saturday.

NIMAN

You aren't getting into the afterlife cos you were at the fridge on the Sabbath.

Religion is so daft.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123901504#Comment_123901504

I think its only fundamentalist Jews who are strict about the Sabbath and they're excluded from military service, much to the annoyance of their more liberal and serving peers

Seanachai

🎶 What you get and what you see
Things that don't freeze easily
Frozen yoghurt, vanilla flavoured nice and plain
Icicles within my brain

Something blowing in my head
Winter's ice, it soon will spread
Down to freeze my very soul
Makes me happy, makes drinks cold 🎶

Black Sabbath - Snowblind 1972

deezell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904258#Comment_123904258

What were the band on when they wrote that?

deezell

I suppose the clue is in the title, Snow... Great band in their day.

Hellrazer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904444#Comment_123904444

They didnt exactly write that but @Seanachai post is a brilliant take on it!!!!

The real lyrics

What you get and what you see
Things that don't come easily
Feeling happy in my vein
Icicles within my brain (cocaine)Something blowing in my head
Winter's ice, it soon will spread
Down to freeze my very soul
Makes me happy, makes me cold

magicbastarder

now i'm paranoid that i can't trust anything on this thread.

deezell

I'll be looking at this new fridge for the next 10+ years and seeing Ossies's frozen face every time I open it. BTW, I was wondering how the fridge knows it's Saturday, but it doesn't, it stays on Sabbath mode for 3 days and 8 hours, or until you turn it off (or on?) again. Thats long enough for someone who accidentally selects it to call out rhe service man for an apparently dead fridge.

Ash.J.Williams

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058426593/sabbath-mode

Good lord if I bought a fridge that played iron man every time I opened it id be a happy man

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904868#Comment_123904868

Wouldn't it be better for the diet to play S Club 7 or something similarly awful so you don't want to open the fridge?

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904858#Comment_123904858

It doesn't even know the day? You got ripped off man, your fridge can't even do a proper Sabbath mode 😂

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904185#Comment_123904185

Your mind is gonna get blown when you find out that Kosher meat and dairy can't touch and have to be prepped, cooked and eaten using completely separate pots, plates and utensils

deezell

Supposing the target user of the Sabbath mode nods off and wakes just before midnight on Friday, and realises they haven't put the thing into stealth mode. They run, like an immersion heater obsessed Des Bishop, to try and press the set button, but the Sabbath alarm rings. It's a second after midnight, Its the Sabbath, the fridge is still in Gentile mode, but our friend is not allowed to press the button to turn on Sabbath mode, like, because it's already the Sabbath. Worse, you've to open the fridge to get to the controls, but then the light will go on! Two sins!. So he's fkd basically, the fridge stays shut till Sunday, I presume, when its safe to see the light. Meantime he can't order a takeaway, or get something from a vending machine, or even tap for a baguette in centra.

Who needs fawlty towers, I can create hours of scripts like this in my head.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123905232#Comment_123905232

Stuff like that, various other restrictions on meat and the Muslim thing of washing at certain times I actually understand. That was just a smart religious leader using God to either help people medically or do something about the smelly bstards humans were in medieval times.

Needing your fridge to stop working or not being allowed press buttons is a whole other level of stupid. Same with no meat on a Friday like why would an all powerful God give a fuk about such banal stuff.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123905232#Comment_123905232

Had to explain that to my partner when I was asked why a (very nice) house for sale near me had one and a half kitchens. The initial assumption was that it was a student let.

Some student lets have a second kitchen cause there's a lot of people trying to cook at once; but this was a high end cooker, a sink and some cabinets in the utility room as well as the main kitchen.

SuperBowserWorld

...

Zzzz

witchgirl26

God people really are going overboard here. The key is that electrical things aren't meant to be switched on or off during the Sabbath. So you can leave a light on from the day before until the day after. A lot will use camping lights where it's a cover that goes over it as opposed to it being turned on or off. So Sabbath mode on the cooker will be for that. They will also cover the switch that auto turns on the light in the fridge so it doesn't click on & off. Don't follow the religion? Don't bother with the mode. Simple.

506972617465

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123904185#Comment_123904185

Ah, nothing that a few shekels cannot fix…

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123910921#Comment_123910921

That's reminded me, my mother used to get paid to light the fire and turn on and off the oven for a Jewish family that lived near her as a teenager, back in the 60s. Paid on the Sunday evening I think as they didn't handle cash either, or something like that

It also ended up as a plot point in the books of the original Mrs Browns Boys - the radio series that became the Anjelica Huston movie; not the current drek - the eldest son did the same thing

Hellrazer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123910939#Comment_123910939

When we visited Israel way back in the early 2000s our host (It was a business trip) used to hire a Palestinian to do all this for him on the sabbath. Even as far as turning on light switches etc. I found it very strange but its the way it was - the well off could afford to pay someone to do it.

deezell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123910902#Comment_123910902

Thanks for the religious advice, but not the telling off. No-one is 'going overboard' about this, but we are discussing it with a hint of humour as is our right. I won't claim we are discussing it rationally, as a defence of inferences of religious intolerance. We're not discussing it rationally, because the whole thing is irrational in the extreme, it reaches Hogwarts levels of fantastical beliefs.You'd need a new branch of physics beyond quantum and particle physics to even begin to accept some of the religious logic behind it. I'm bursting my bollix laughing at it, its bizarre beyond belief, but then, there are millions of Americans who believe the 7 days of creation are true. You'll notice that none of the normal commentators have displayed any offence at having these instructions included in the English instructions of a product that was tweaked and destined for the UK and Irish market (BS three pin plug fitted). We're tolerant enough to have this mode included and explained to us, so those for whom it was intended, or those for whom it wasn't, but feel obliged to tell us off, should be tolerant enough to put up with our guff. Free speech and all that. Keep it up. OP