Random Rants
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Having an “I’m surrounded my complete fucking morons” moment for going on a couple of decades now. The latest is an order for a new dishwasher (the brand new LG that came with our new home is worthless) with paperwork and an email reminder saying it should’ve been delivered and installed by now. Checking the web site, it claims there that I have yet to schedule the delivery (delivery and installation was scheduled at purchase and confirmed last night for this morning). I tried to call the salesperson, and the number said that they were not accepting calls and didn't afford an option to enter his extension.
I bought a Logitech Harmony remote (dog having eaten the previous two of these things at a couple hundred a pop) and it didn't work, and there was no getting support for it really. They just don't give a shit about these remotes at all and I think are winding down that operation, which makes very little business sense to me. They had some of the best universal remotes out there if they just would've invested a little in the software.
Ticketmaster sent me an email asking that I make sure I have the correct address for a concert that was postponed due to COVID. I provided the correct (our new) address, and they confirmed the update. The tickets have not arrived, and when I asked about that, they said that they could not find the order.
Finally, Waste Management decided they didn’t feel like picking up our garbage last week, so we have an overloaded stinky bin and cannot throw anything away. They also wanted to charge $80 to carry away a few boxes over and above our bin. I’m currently taking a hard look at alternative garbage companies, since Waste Management seems to be a garbage company.
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@mclaincausey I feel your pain…You need to have a nice Mezcal with some Sal de Gusano!
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I cant quite make it out, Is that homeschooling from the Airstream I hear calling @Matt?
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Damn right @Jett129 ; and the garbage garbage company did finally do their job yesterday!
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@mclaincausey - sounds like you ordered a BOSCH?
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HA! not sure how you figured that out @Appfaff , but at our last home our dishwasher went out and we replaced it with a Bosch 300. It was such an amazing machine that I insisted we get the exact model. Sure, we could have gone with one of their fancier ones or a Miele, but I know for sure this thing was rock solid and stuck with it.
Hopefully it will arrive tomorrow.
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@mclaincausey - your story was too specifically familiar for it to have been any other brand lol
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Hilarious and sad. But man they make a great dishwasher. The KitchenAid it replaced was fine, but the Bosch was able to clean even very crusty dishes and glasses flawlessly in an hour without the need for rinse aid. I think it's every bit as good as a Miele.
OTOH, our LG:
a) takes almost 4 hours to do a cycle
b) is so loud we can't talk in the kitchen or watch TV in the living room when it is active. We have to work around the dishwasher's schedule (e.g., do overnight cycles), and that doesn't work for the volume of dirty dishes and baby bottles we generate
c) doesn't remove debris effectively
d) leaves its contents moist even days later as we found out after a trip, making me worry about bacteria and mold (especially on the baby's bottles and such)We do love our LG TV and the washer and dryer we used to have, but man what a drag their dishwashers suck pond water.
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Man I hate shitty appliances. To add insult to injury, they seem to be in no short supply. When I bought my house, I was so stoked to finally buy some nice stuff and get away from the crap landlords typically stock rental properties with, so I bought:
A Frigidaire Gallery bottom drawer fridge that absolutely blows. The ice maker crapped out once and I replaced it myself (surprisingly not that bad), but the real issue is in the design of said ice maker. It doesn't stop making ice once it gets full, so it ends up with this huge pile that, once you try to open the drawer, drops many ice cubes back behind into the cavity below the drawer. These ice cubes cause the drawer to go off the rails and keep it from closing properly, so if you're not careful you'll get the alarm because temp has dropped in the freezer. It's so goddamn infuriating. Really the worst when you just wanna grab something out of the freezer and you hear that clacking sound of cubes falling back there, and you know you've gotta get on your hands and knees to fish the fuckers out.
A Maytag Maxima XL front-loader washer/dryer pair, recommended as no.1 by Consumer Reports, that also totally sucks absolute ass. I can't wash a pair of jeans in the washer because the sensor in it that weighs the load and I guess determines when it needs rinsing gets hung up and just senses indefinitely. I'll start a load and it'll say 60 mins or whatever… I'll check it at 40 and it'll be sensing. Then an hour later I'll think "oh shit what's up with my laundry?" and it'll still be on 40 mins, in a state of seemingly failed robot confusion. I've since started washing all of my jeans in the tub. Oh also it's called "XL" and just stops working if you put too much laundry in it. The dryer makes horrendous noise — I had an appliance guy come over and look at it, and he said nothing was out of balance, couldn't figure out why it was doing this.
Anyway, sigh — I feel your pain. I'll check out some Bosch next time, bc by no means will I ever buy Frigidaire or Maytag again.
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I recently dragged my two year old Samsung washer out to the road because it leaked all over the floor and brought my decade old LG front loader out of the basement and it still works great.
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Kinda funny how Maytag had such successful marketing built around a repair man you hope to never see.
I had LG frontloaders with a 10 year warranty on the motors. Those were great. Now we have Samsung top-loading washer and dryer, and those so far are great too. Between them, I prefer the Samsung, mainly because top-loading washers are less of a hassle (easier to transition the clothing, don't have to worry about perfectly cracking the door almost-closed to avoid mildew) and maybe have greater capacity.
We had a Samsung fridge at the old place that was aight but had an absolute turd for water and ice (it just didn't make enough ice and the water trickled out). The new rig is also Samsung, though a different format. It appears to have the same icemaker and water dispenser, which I dreaded, but it can stay ahead of our ice consumption and the water comes out in a jet. So even from the same company and apparently the same hardware, a much better product.
You just never know. I suppose there are some reliably good brands out there in the appliance realm (I would be most encouraged to try the Sub-Zero family of products since they are still a family-owned business) but until we do a kitchen reno I won't even think about it (and so far, see no reason to do so even then outside of the electric range we have now).
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Crime against humanity @Giles
PS I'll be in Gosport on Tuesday afternoon next week for hemming
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This biscuit tin is almost square, but not quite. So 50% of the time I go to put the lid back on, it's wrong. Who on earth thoughts slightly non-square tin was a good idea…..
?I would have forced the lid down until it's eventually square..
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2pm. Also going to try on a few other pieces, looking forward to it!
