Pointlessly specific everyday items.

4leto wrote: »

That just crazy talk, a fire, why would you light a fire when you could walk over and talk:rolleyes:

Might want to dump them by smoke signal.

Thoie wrote: »

Kettles and toasters are generally more energy efficient than the alternatives at least.

The ones I'd question are things like

• electric can openers (unless you have an infirmity),

I used to use tin opener but once I found some small pieces of metal along the inner side of the can rim I bought a electric can openner immediately. Now the inner side of the can rim is very smooth.:P

foxyboxer wrote: »

Beds.

Sure what's wrong with the floor?

It is about the difference between the height of your heart when you lay down and you stand up.

CLOTHES.. im mean for fecks sake we have skin and hair to keep us warm, stupid pointless things.

MUGS - why not just do it mr bean style.


THE WHEEL - sure we have legs to get us places, and hands to carry stuff where it needs to go.

revell wrote: »

I used to use tin opener but once I found some small pieces of metal along the inner side of the can rim I bought a electric can openner immediately. Now the inner side of the can rim is very smooth.:P

I'd consider being worried about small pieces of metal an infirmity.

pmcmahon wrote: »

make up,smelly horrible paste.

women wear make up cause they look awful and wear perfume cause they smell.....








I,m nearly finished digging my foxhole,have my flak jacket ,just need my tin helmet now...

Adhamh wrote: »

1. Kettles. Why not just boil the water on the hob? Do you really need a whole appliance just to boil water? A Spanish chick once told me that when Spaniards visit here and the UK, they buy each other kettles as gifts and souvenirs, because apparently they don't use them back home.

We drink tea all day. The Spanish don't. Even if they bothered to have coffee at home they would use a moka pot which starts with cold water anyway.

/we're-loco-for-having-kettles talk.

4leto wrote: »

Anyway I want a cup of tea, so I am going out my back, to chop some kindling, then I will rub 2 sticks together to get the fire started. Then I will go down to the local stream fill a pot with water, then I will boil it, and throw a teabag in the pot.

Like cups who needs them.

You'll appreciate the cup of tea more for the effort you put in. Well done.

Urgh....tell me about it. I just hate the modern convenience of items such as kettles and toasters. When I make tea, I make it in a pot because by waiting about 10 minutes for the water to boil before pouring it into a cup, never quite sure whether it's been sufficiently heated, I like to believe that I earned that cup of tea.

Just like the clothes iron. Who needs the modern day convenience of wrinkle-free clothes when I can walk around town looking like a tramp. And if I need to look less wrinkly, for example a wedding, I can simply put hot water all over an item of clothing before rubbing it over with a towel and then putting it onto a radiator to dry.

But then again, I don't quite like the radiator either, too modern. Instead I like to pray to a Solar Deity to have the sun radiantly appear over the horizon so that I may wait four hours for the clothes to dry.

I just like the simpler life.

Johnny D. Mudd wrote: »

Urgh....tell me about it. I just hate the modern convenience of items such as kettles and toasters. When I make tea, I make it in a pot because by waiting about 10 minutes for the water to boil before pouring it into a cup, never quite sure whether it's been sufficiently heated, I like to believe that I earned that cup of tea.

This might just be my natural Irish desire for misery but I always felt the harder and more time consuming something is the more rewarding it feels.

Tea you made yourself in the woods over a fire in a fine Irish drizzle always tastes much better than tea from a kettle.

Same goes for an 'experimental' meal you made yourself or pretty much anything that took you ages. You wolf it down and savor every bite but if someone handed it to you you'd never eat it.

Modern convenience has its place but takes the enjoyment out of a lot of things.

4leto wrote: »

I actually do have a serious life threatening gripe with toasters. They are annoying inconsistent. No matter the model or how i set the timer, it either over or under does my toast.

So I wonder could they get some sort of camera detector thingy that will pop the toast when the bread hits a certain colour. This would be truly life enhancing, I think they should hold of funding to cancer research and redirect those funds into the smart toaster.

A perfect toaster in its chips it will have one thought "I toast therefore I am",

have you thought about a blow torch arrangement.?

The automated tea-maker - maybe I like the misery.