this was exactly as I expected, and I can now lay down and sleep soundly

thank you, marlo—you're the greatest!

just ripping off the fucking collar is a winning move, I have to admit

bless your soul!

true! think of all those memories of late night crashes, your data fluttering away, never to be recovered

I just read that wiki page and I pray that somewhere, in some archive, is filmed evidence of this folly—the shoddiness of which was noted at the time, mind you—for future generations to ponder

here you are again, giving me bad ideas that will get me in trouble

that's a REALLY difficult problem, and almost all the combo machines I've seen suck in some fashion

like I said earlier: the person who figures that out—and I mean TRULY figures it out, so the results are great and the process is dead simple—will be loved down the generations

I currently employ a used machine that only works reliably on one cycle: when it dies, I'll buy another used machine for $150 (tops!) which will go for at least a decade, at which point my time might have run out, so I might not be the target audience for new breakthroughs in washer/dryer technology

absolutely! this is designers doing something just because they can

actually IMPROVING a washing machine is really fucking hard; it's mature technology, and raising the bar is hugely difficult

most users want a simple machine that LASTS: all of this works against the corporation's interests

agreed: whoever really solves this issue is truly going to be a beloved person

(wtf am I kidding? it'll probably be some shiteating clown like Palmer fucking Luckey)

I will beat my clothes on a rock to clean them before I talk to a fucking washing machine

talking to machines is inhuman, imo—am I the crazy one?

after many years of doing laundry (starting in the early 70s!) the only thing of which I'm absolutely sure is that the only way to make laundry easier or less messy is to have someone more competent than I am doing it

yes, I'll be doing my laundry today, and decrying all the things in this thread

cats! never can rely on their loyalty to sports teams

kinda hoping this one doesn't stick with me, or esp pop up when I'm sleeping

I was raised in a “respectable” Baptist church—which means no speaking in tongues or charismatic stuff—and the whole thing they make of it is truly terrible, and imo is actively harmful to the bereaved

and slapped and slapped and slapped