... I just don't get it!

[Tox]

Anything that doesn't make sense, or is just plain stupid... this is the place to get it off your chest.

For example...

I'm cooking some toast this morning - the knob is set to 3. It doesn't quite cook it enough, so you have to go again. Turn it up to just a toach over 3 and the toast gets irradiated. Then I noticed, the knob goes up to 7... what's the story with that? If the toast gets cremated on 3.0000001, who's ever going to use 7 and if you use 7, what are you cooking that needs that much heat? Now I know how they test the thermal insulation on the space shuttle... standard kitchen toaster on 5! And if you want to get an idea of the temperature on the surface of the sun... 7 will do it! I just don't get it! :confused:

[Selena]

7 is the setting for someone who likes a lot of smoke in their house, enjoys the melodious sound of their smoke alarm and has a craving for charcoal.

[BrowderChick]

You said this morning right? :snicker: Think you should open your eyes first before you do that? :D:D

[Tox]

Originally posted by BrowderChick
You said this morning right? :snicker: Think you should open your eyes first before you do that? :D:D

HAHA - yeah! Lucky I did.. the Mrs put the toaster in the appliance cupboard (stupid place to put it!!) and it took me 20 minutes to find it!!

[eta_carinae]

I swear I turn the light in my closet off every morning, but for some reason I come home and it's on. Like, every day. :eh: And the light in my garage turns itself on sometimes too (though I think I may be able to pin that one on my boyfriend).

[who45]

Originally posted by Selena
7 is the setting for someone who likes a lot of smoke in their house, enjoys the melodious sound of their smoke alarm and has a craving for charcoal. Aaahhhh...burnt offerings.:D

[trubador]

My toaster goes up to 11.... because it's one more! :rockband:

[BrowderChick]

Originally posted by Tox
HAHA - yeah! Lucky I did.. the Mrs put the toaster in the appliance cupboard (stupid place to put it!!) and it took me 20 minutes to find it!!

Now why would she put it there? :D:D

[vikingscaper]

I don't trust toasters because whenever I toast something, the bread either comes out too dark or too light. I tell you, toasters are intelligent and they are trying to starve us!

[Selena]

Originally posted by BrowderChick
You said this morning right? :snicker: Think you should open your eyes first before you do that? :D:D

Tox lives in Perth, W.A. - that's Western Australia which is +14 hours central US time. Hence it is now (10pm CT) Saturday (lunch time).

[Selena]

Tox, I strongly suspect that the 7 is for pastry like (frozen) Belgian waffles (although I'm not sure if they have those in Oz)

[Tox]

Where's "Belgian" and what's a waffle? :D

Hey, what's with the stupid ads that they are now putting at the bottom of the screen *while* the show is on?? They're now showing ads between the ad breaks!!! Pretty soon you're going to have ads interrupted by tv shows.

[Saajak]

Why is it if you use the "popcorn" button on the microwave, your popcorn never gets done enough, but if you follow the package directions, your popcorn usually ends up burnt?

[SweetpeaAeryn]

I don't get how practically my whole floor in my college dorm goes to bed at 10.

[TheBladeRoden]

I wished I lived in yout dorm, my dorm floor is always up and never lets me forget it.

[vandalrobert]

ads during shows doesnt bother me as much as ads before a movie. FAST FORWARD!!!
And if you go to more than one movie a month, you see the same ads over and over...

I prefer my toast in it's natural form...bread.

I just avoid toasters all together actually...

-What if they just made 10 higher? then wouldn't 10 be the same as 11?-

[VBKatLou]

Originally posted by Tox
Hey, what's with the stupid ads that they are now putting at the bottom of the screen *while* the show is on?? They're now showing ads between the ad breaks!!! Pretty soon you're going to have ads interrupted by tv shows.

I should probably take this to the 'pet peeve' thread, but those things drive me nuts! And some of the them (I think it's on TNT) are accompanied by this whooshing sound. It's very distracting.

[abbadon]

originally posted by vikingscaper
I don't trust toasters because whenever I toast something, the bread either comes out too dark or too light. I tell you, toasters are intelligent and they are trying to starve us!




aaaaaaaaah he is on to us we must retreat

TWEEDLEFUNKBOTTOM THE THIRD......KING OF THE TOASTER-MEN

[fermicat]

About those logos on the TV screen...

Originally posted by VBKatLou
I should probably take this to the 'pet peeve' thread, but those things drive me nuts! And some of the them (I think it's on TNT) are accompanied by this whooshing sound. It's very distracting.

It really, REALLY sucks when you are taping a show that you'd like to keep. Thank goodness most good shows eventually make it onto DVD.

[Third EYe]

this is my favorite thread to date, and it's just getting started.

[fermicat]

Everybody likes to grouse.

[Third EYe]

*looks up grouse* ................................ *get's a sode or pop or soda pop or tonic depending on where you live (wow you guys are sensitive)*............................*dismisses imaginary friends as remnants from a mispent youth*..............................*imaginary friends won't really go away*............................................. .................................................. .................................................. ..............................*oh yeah, grouse*



n. pl. grouse or grous·es
Any of various plump, chickenlike game birds of the family Tetraonidae, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere and having mottled brown or grayish plumage.


*hmm? fermicat has lost it, or is this a dance?*

intr.v. groused, grous·ing, grous·es
To complain; grumble.

*ok, I get it now*

n.
A cause for complaint; a grievance.


*eerie*

Yeah I agree completely, everyone likes to grouse. (damn wordsmith)

[BaseLine]

Originally posted by VBKatLou
I should probably take this to the 'pet peeve' thread, but those things drive me nuts! And some of the them (I think it's on TNT) are accompanied by this whooshing sound. It's very distracting.

I noticed that too when I was visiting the U.S. Sometimes half the screen is filled with network advertising. Another thing that annoyed me were the very, very frequent (and long) commercial breaks.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Tox
Where's "Belgian" and what's a waffle? :D

Hey, what's with the stupid ads that they are now putting at the bottom of the screen *while* the show is on?? They're now showing ads between the ad breaks!!! Pretty soon you're going to have ads interrupted by tv shows.

AHHHHHH! I've just experienced this today watching a movie on TV. It's bad enough I have to sit through comercial breaks, and ads at the movie theatre, now I have to watch my screen get shrunk by a third so they can sell me Dove soap? I am NOT happy about this!

[vikingscaper]

Wanna know what I don't get? Well, if you don't want to know, tough because I am going to say it no matter what. It seems like I am always the last person to find out things in my department at work. For example, today I found out that there was a love tiangle in my department (no, it doesn't involve me) and apparently it has been going on for awhile.

[Scarran Raptor]

okay why is it called "easy listening" when it's agonizingly hard to listen to? and who listens to this stuff anyway? and while I'm on the subject, why is it anyone who can form an opinion and shout down someone else is considered a political pundit?

[KellEy.. "red"]

why is it that more and more dvd's are coming out with ads and previews at the beginning that you are FORCED to sit through before you can actually get to the menu screen to hit "play"..... i've TRIED to hit the menu button and all i get is this "talk to the hand" icon in the top right of my screen... :grr: ... if i wanted to see this, i would have gone to the theatre and sat through the 15 minutes of trailers there!!!!

[Tox]

Originally posted by KellEy.. "red"
why is it that more and more dvd's are coming out with ads and previews at the beginning that you are FORCED to sit through before you can actually get to the menu screen to hit "play"..... i've TRIED to hit the menu button and all i get is this "talk to the hand" icon in the top right of my screen... :grr: ... if i wanted to see this, i would have gone to the theatre and sat through the 15 minutes of trailers there!!!!

Try pressing STOP then PLAY. My dvd player goes to the menu when I do this, cunningly allowing me to skip the ads. It's worth a try...

[KellEy.. "red"]

Originally posted by Tox
Try pressing STOP then PLAY. My dvd player goes to the menu when I do this, cunningly allowing me to skip the ads. It's worth a try...


i tried that, too... unfortunately, it just takes me back to the very beginning.. i do fast forward through them, though... at least until it gets to the FBI Warning that sits on the screen for a full 3 minutes before moving along....... ..... and there ain't no fast forwarding through the FBI Warning... in the length of time it sits there, i can go get a drink, go to the bathroom, fix myself a piece of toast/peanut butter and settle in.... :cool:

[Third EYe]

Here are the major complaints about DVDs, and they involve packaging.

Why so much damned tape on all over it, and before I get to the tape I have to get a blow torch and a machete just to get thru the plastic wrap. I know people who almost cut thru the entire package just to at the DVD, and then they can never put the disc back in the container.

The next is specific to one distributor.

Warner Brothers, by far the most stupid relations in the entertainment world. If this case breaks, you no longer have the artwork either. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!


Other than that, I love the DVDs.

[KellEy.. "red"]

you have to really really REALLY want to watch the movie and be willing to suffer to actually be able to get to the dvd...

of course, i always remove that little black strip out of it, too... i think it's some kind of sensor that reports back to the manufacturers to see how long it takes to get into the package, how many times it seems to be thrown against the wall, how much heat (blow torch time) is applied to the sticky tape stuff that's on THREE sides of the case, and the total number and style of cuss words used getting into it...

umm.. but that's just me...

[Lord Loser]

I like DVD's too, except those that you have to bend in half to get out of the case (I just know it's going to break before it gives), after going through the field sobriety test that Third EYe just spoke of. Why must they cold weld them to that little thing in the center? ...I just don't get it...

[Third EYe]

..............anti theft, however this black strip makes it easier to steal. I've done work for malls and departments stores, where I would figure out how to steal things. Apparently I'm good at it, which worries me, but that's another subject so I'll move on.

Here's what you do, in theory, don't actually do it, buy some DVDs, one or two, then set the alarm off, oh yeah you have to be with another person.

I left some information out so nobody actually tries this. I can do it, and have done it, with permission from the store as a test. Works well.

So they are just spinning thier wheels, cause those who really want to steal, will.

[Tox]

FBI warning? We don't get no steenking FBI warning!! :D

[fermicat]

I hate that big huge security wrap that some stores are using on box set DVDs now. It's the thing that looks like plastic cord tied around the box in two directions, connected to a big circular thingy. What I don't like is that they always put them on super-tight and it dents the sides of the box permanently. Can't they secure a product without damaging it?

[Scarran Raptor]

why is it in every fandom there's at least one out of every five fanfic writers have to make the straight characters engage in homoerotica? I can understand it with certain sexually ambiguous characters but one does not write stories wherein Crichton and Scorpius do things more appropriate for alternative lifestyle film festivals? I mean who thinks of this stuff?

[Selena]

I want to know why crummy music that is played in waiting rooms etc is referred to as "elevator music"? I have been in lots of elevators and none of them played music.

[BaseLine]

Originally posted by KellEy.. "red"
why is it that more and more dvd's are coming out with ads and previews at the beginning that you are FORCED to sit through before you can actually get to the menu screen to hit "play"..... i've TRIED to hit the menu button and all i get is this "talk to the hand" icon in the top right of my screen... :grr: ... if i wanted to see this, i would have gone to the theatre and sat through the 15 minutes of trailers there!!!!

What you can do to remedy the "talk to the hand" effect, is unlocking the dvd player. Almost all DVD players are originally region-free. Once they are shipped to the country where they're going to be sold, they activate the region protection. The fun part is, that you can also change the region code, which sometimes has the side-effect that you can also skip every scene (including the trailers). There are some databases on the internet which contain instructions for thousands of dvd players. Remember that unlocking a dvd player is at your own risk.

[vikingscaper]

Here is something else that I don't get. Everytime I go to sign into my school email account I always enter in the wrong username and password. I really wish that I could change my screen name to vikingscaper instead of some stupid number.