First-World Problems...

I'm not saying it's aliens, but...it's aliens!

Or maybe the ice maker is possessed? Who knows, but the damned thing will sometimes spit out a single cube with nobody near the thing!

We'll probably have to move...

Posted by: CBD at 02:00 PM

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Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:00 PM (fwDg9)

2 The Coming Ice Age.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 25, 2024 02:01 PM (aD39U)

3 Foist!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (0gvpA)

4 So that poor kid had the haunted TV and you have a haunted ice maker.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (67iRk)

5 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (T4tVD)

6 Oh do I have some.
Yesterday got down a 20 foot trunk of a tree, today only got 1/2 of a split trunk, the other I didn't get has a at least 20 foot more branch in a hook and in a maple tree next to it.

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

7 They're hereeee.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (aD39U)

8 Likely it's just a really lazy poltergeist . No need to worry.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, stoopid iPad at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (T/Lqj)

9 I've been in a contest of wills with our icemaker for 5 years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (RIvkX)

10 And I'm losing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (RIvkX)

11 Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (fwDg9)

C4.

It's the only way to be sure.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (gSZYf)

12 Wow, just opened up me Home page, which is the stock MSN page.

Two articles... one saying that to end Feb we will have Record HIGH Temps in 300 places in the US ...

While an article a few down, is about a Yuge winter storm hitting the West and midwest...

Uhhhh... /looks perplexed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (xaFKb)

13 And I just saw a reference to Ice Pirates online. One of my favorite 80s cheese ball movies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:04 PM (AJDwy)

14 Does seem Verizon is done playing with my internet for today, we will see.
Yesterday and since this morning it's been very slow to non existing

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (hCPY6)

15 CBD Gremlins don't like too many ice cubes

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (hCPY6)

16 Ahhhh...Polterice.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)

17 Ahhhh...Polterice.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)

*snort*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 25, 2024 02:07 PM (aD39U)

18 You need a dog to eat the spare ice cubes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:08 PM (AJDwy)

19 You and your ice maker privilege!

I now have an ice maker for the first time in my life. It shoots ice all over the kitchen. But it's still better than filling ice trays.

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2024 02:08 PM (1eY81)

20 Ahhhh...Polterice.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)

N...ice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2024 02:08 PM (gSZYf)

21 I'm one of the weird people who dislikes ice in drinks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (AJDwy)

22 Courage. We WILL rebuild. That ice can’t stand the heat

Posted by: Common Tater at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (gkbzD)

23
One word: Exorcism

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

24 Looks like a pile of cocaine!!!

WHERE'S HUNTER????

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (XV/Pl)

25 Spoke to soon on internet problem

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (hCPY6)

26 >>> 12 Wow, just opened up me Home page, which is the stock MSN page.

Two articles... one saying that to end Feb we will have Record HIGH Temps in 300 places in the US ...

While an article a few down, is about a Yuge winter storm hitting the West and midwest...

Uhhhh... /looks perplexed.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:03 PM (xaFKb)

*recalls that meme of the stupid Swedish bint wearing a fat down parka, greentard-splaining "it's cold because it's hot"*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (llON8)

27 I am having problems opening the stock home page. A GD multi ad comes up and blocks the entire page. Is ANYONE LESE SEEING THIS?

and Fk the caps lock key. Does anyone know how to defeat it other than taking pilers and pulling it out

Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (A5THL)

28 I never saw the necessity for a refrigerator freezer automatic ice dispenser. For one thing you need plumbing for it to work. I just use trays. I have the extra large trays that will make XL ice cubes.
My FWP is our dishwasher went 5150 in late January. The replacement is taking 6 weeks to arrive. During the interim I'm doing all the dishes by hand and really am finding it to be no big deal. Additionally, my electric bill decreased by a healthy amount. Next thing you know I'll be hanging laundry outside to dry...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (MeG8a)

29
I like to buy ice in chunks and jab it with an ice pick that I keep under the bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

30 F'n Maverik, getting all the attention...

Posted by: Adm. Tom Kazanski at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (xaFKb)

31 13 And I just saw a reference to Ice Pirates online. One of my favorite 80s cheese ball movies.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:04 PM (AJDwy)

Ice pirates was originally written and approved as a serious sci fi movie... its budget ended up being slashed and they flipped it to a comedy.

Posted by: Inogame at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (KCCqb)

32 31 13 And I just saw a reference to Ice Pirates online. One of my favorite 80s cheese ball movies.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:04 PM (AJDwy)

Ice pirates was originally written and approved as a serious sci fi movie... its budget ended up being slashed and they flipped it to a comedy.
Posted by: Inogame at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (KCCqb

Remember when the ship got herpes?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:13 PM (AJDwy)

33 I never saw the necessity for a refrigerator freezer automatic ice dispenser
========================

I use a counter-top ice maker.

Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 02:14 PM (A5THL)

34 >>Uhhhh... /looks perplexed.

MSN is simply DNC/Leftist talking points fed through a Drudge Report This outrage goes to 11 filter.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 25, 2024 02:15 PM (XV/Pl)

35 Ice. Ice baby.

Posted by: Uncle Miltie at February 25, 2024 02:17 PM (63Dwl)

36 I never saw the necessity for a refrigerator freezer automatic ice dispenser
========================

My fridge has an ice maker.
The problem is with the automatic dispenser - you have to be there when it automatically dispenses ice.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 25, 2024 02:17 PM (cOq4q)

37 Remember when the ship got herpes?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:13 PM (AJDwy)

Space herpes

Posted by: Inogame at February 25, 2024 02:17 PM (KCCqb)

38 My dogs would gobble that sucker up. They love ice cubes.

Posted by: Montec at February 25, 2024 02:20 PM (bWsRe)

39 That floor looks like laminate. Can't believe you'd do that.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:24 PM (7fmC8)

40 FWP, truck died today while I was away from the house. Crank no start, probably the fuel pump. 88 bucks to get it towed the 1.2 miles back home. I live 3/4 of a mile from where it will get worked on, but they're not open today so I couldn't just get it dropped on their lot.

It's 17 years old, I get the feeling we're about to enter that stage of a vehicle's life where different things die every other month or so.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 25, 2024 02:24 PM (dZVON)

41 >I now have an ice maker for the first time in my life. It shoots ice all over the kitchen.

---

I have one of those cartoon toasters that launches the toast up in the air

I deployed an ABT* system

*Anti Ballistic Toast

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (geLO8)

42 That floor looks like laminate. Can't believe you'd do that.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Hmm. My first thought was genuine Red oak.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

43 You are lucky, skip. I have AT@T. It disappeared Friday

Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IG7T0)

44 Ice cube trays. They're a thing.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (NBVIP)

45 2.25" Red Oak

Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IG7T0)

46 My kid loves ice. Wife screams "you'll break your teeth!"

Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:27 PM (IG7T0)

47 Shut down on me again

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:27 PM (fwDg9)

48
My FWP is our dishwasher went 5150 in late January.

Van Halen?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2024 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

49 Dogs have been known to hit the ice maker to kick out a cube.

Posted by: christopher swift at February 25, 2024 02:28 PM (/TebF)

50 In the Civil War era, A style of piano was made that was sort of huge. A big box about 6 feet long, four feet from front to back, and 14 inches+/- deep. Four heavy legs held this sucker up. Made of cheap wood and lots of veneer, it only had 38 keys and was difficult to play and nearly impossible to keep tuned. These pianos were not popular. My grandparents had one. No idea why or where they got it. After researching its value as an antique, I found these things are worth nothing unless one finds someone who would take it apart and use the wood for other purposes or someone who wants it to be used as a coffin.
I took it apart and gave the wood to my dad, used the huge cast iron "harp" that held the strings as a yard ornament (coolest wind chime ever!), and kept the legs. Gave one leg to .... Someone, can't remember who, used one with a painted Mexican tray as a side table and the other two are being prepped for duty as plant pot stands.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 25, 2024 02:29 PM (cRrcX)

51 The time travel sequence...

I loved Ice Pirates as a kid.

Posted by: Reforger at February 25, 2024 02:29 PM (MoYQF)

52 >>> Additionally, my electric bill decreased by a healthy amount. Next thing you know I'll be hanging laundry outside to dry...

Posted by: gourmand du jour
=================

I'm a singleton so that makes a difference. I always hand wash the dishes and hang up synthetics in the pantry. - many times cotton too -
I leave a 100 watt incandescent on all night to take moisture out so in the morning everything is nice and dry.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:30 PM (7fmC8)

53 I now have an ice maker for the first time in my life. It shoots ice all over the kitchen.
---
I have one of those cartoon toasters that launches the toast up in the air

I deployed an ABT* system

*Anti Ballistic Toast
Posted by: Don Black
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*ponders the ice maker as a home defense system*

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2024 02:30 PM (1eY81)

54 Normally my internet is fast, secret to my firsts if nothing else. It's been worse than old dial-up.

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

55 "It's 17 years old, I get the feeling we're about to enter that stage of a vehicle's life where different things die every other month or so."

I went thru that with my 24 year old car recently. I was dropping 2 or 3 thousand a month to keep it running.

I bought a 2024 with 37 miles on the odometer, so far so good. But I still miss the old one.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 25, 2024 02:31 PM (MeG8a)

56 You are lucky, skip. I have AT@T. It disappeared Friday
Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IG7T0)

So did my consumer cellular

Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 02:31 PM (A5THL)

57 Has anyone considered Big Penguin may be involved?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 25, 2024 02:32 PM (PiwSw)

58 During the interim I'm doing all the dishes by hand and really am finding it to be no big deal. Additionally, my electric bill decreased by a healthy amount. Next thing you know I'll be hanging laundry outside to dry...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (MeG8a

Hmmmm. Our dishwasher is a disappointment and needs to be replaced with something more functional. Either a Bosch, or replace it with cabinet space.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Sf2cq)

59 I still besides the split trunk another dead 40 foot pine on the side of the house. It could be dropped with skill, but would have been nice to do it with scaffold and just drop 1/2 way up, then the rest.

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:35 PM (fwDg9)

60 I leave a 100 watt incandescent on all night to take moisture out so in the morning everything is nice and dry.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:30 PM (7fmC

Where ever did you find a 100 watt incandescent?

Posted by: Reforger at February 25, 2024 02:35 PM (MoYQF)

61 54 Normally my internet is fast, secret to my firsts if nothing else. It's been worse than old dial-up.
Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

Yeah, something has been going on for a few days, my internet is way slower than normal.

Comcast Cable Modem, which is usually pretty dang good.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:36 PM (xaFKb)

62 29
I like to buy ice in chunks and jab it with an ice pick that I keep under the bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

You need to come downtown with us for questioning miss.

Posted by: The Fuzz at February 25, 2024 02:36 PM (YnEiF)

63 56 You are lucky, skip. I have AT@T. It disappeared Friday
Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IG7T0)
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So did my consumer cellular
Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024
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It was all those NYC billionaires calling their lawyers.
Jammed the lines

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:36 PM (7fmC8)

64 My refrigerator isn't hooked up to plumbing, because Victorian house reasons, so we got a countertop ice maker. Wish I had known about these years earlier. That thing is the bomb!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 25, 2024 02:37 PM (OX9vb)

65 >I like to buy ice in chunks and jab it with an ice pick that I keep under the bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (lCaJd)

You need to come downtown with us for questioning miss.

Posted by: The Fuzz

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wear underpants

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (geLO8)

66 8pm on the button last night internet was fine, somewhere around 8am it went screwed again.

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (fwDg9)

67 >>>Where ever did you find a 100 watt incandescent?

Posted by: Reforger
------------------

I'm a hoarder.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (7fmC8)

68 I'll be hanging laundry outside to dry...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 25, 2024 02:12 PM (MeG8a

Hmmmm. Our dishwasher is a disappointment and needs to be replaced with something more functional. Either a Bosch, or replace it with cabinet space.
Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 02:34 PM (Sf2cq)

I now wait for a nice sunny day to do laundry... not to hang it outside, but so the dryer is running off of the solar panels.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xaFKb)

69 Not a FWP, unless it's a plot by Big Penguin:
https://shorturl.at/wCFKP

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (llON8)

70 My FWP for the week: New microwave installed without incident in a new position. Yea!! Old microwave (under cab with exhaust over the stovetop) now needs to be pulled out. The specs say it weighs about 60 lbs.

I like to work alone so this is going to be a PITA.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (eacmp)

71 I have a retractable clothes line. One end attached to the shop, other end attaches to the shed. Reel that baby in when clothes are dry and don't have to mow around posts. It's awesome. I did have the standard clothes line with posts and it was just annoying as hell when mowing.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (cRrcX)

72 65 >I like to buy ice in chunks and jab it with an ice pick that I keep under the bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
---------------------------

Recommended addition to G'rump's team.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:40 PM (7fmC8)

73 Maybe this internet problem is way bigger around the country than ice cubes, after all is is winter, who needs much ice now?

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 02:42 PM (fwDg9)

74 I'm a hoarder.
Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (7fmC

Me too. I ran out of 100's and 75's a couple of years ago. Still have some 40 watt.

I'd kill for a 150/100/50 or two. I like my reading lamp to be a heater too.

Posted by: Reforger at February 25, 2024 02:42 PM (MoYQF)

75 Skip, I don't care how cold it is, I want icy water to drink.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 25, 2024 02:44 PM (OX9vb)

76 Where ever did you find a 100 watt incandescent?

Posted by: Reforger
------------------

I'm a hoarder.
Posted by: Braenyard
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My mom had a pretty good stockpile of light bulbs in her house. I made sure we rescued those and brought to the new house.

Also a supply of every type of battery to last til the apocalypse. (to be fair it's probably not that far off). We saved those too.

The 8000 clothes pins, not so much...

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 25, 2024 02:45 PM (1eY81)

77 Well, if you really want an answer as to why this is happening, the ice cube is the last one ready to fall into your glass, but is big enough to not fall. It is already out of the freezer, so it starts to very slowly melt. When enough of it melts, it falls down the shoot. Since there is now no one there with a glass, it hits the floor.

Posted by: Buford Gooch at February 25, 2024 02:45 PM (ZoHZd)

78 I did have the standard clothes line with posts and it was just annoying as hell when mowing.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (cRrcX)

Yeah, especially when you back into it with the lawn tractor and you hear the creaking of wood and your neighbor yelling, "TIMBER!" Followed by laughter.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguynow with twice the crazy at February 25, 2024 02:45 PM (iODuv)

79 On the edge of oblivion
And all the world is Babylon
And all the love and everyone
A ship of fools sailing on
(Everybody)
Everybody have fun tonight
(Everybody)
Everybody have fun tonight

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 25, 2024 02:46 PM (cRrcX)

80 I see that CBD's ice maker makes the correct shape of ice cubes. Trapezoidal works much better in a glass than half moons.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 02:46 PM (Sf2cq)

81 Skip, I don't care how cold it is, I want icy water to drink.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

I always order my water in restaurants without ice.

I was so hopeful this was going to work out.

Darn! *kicks rock*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:46 PM (eacmp)

82 Gah! Just finished an epic struggle with the spare tire windlass on my Suburban. I had been hearing a clunk in the rear for some time, and it suddenly came to me, "Damn, that spare tire is hanging kind of low." Dug out the jack, and the jack handle and extensions, and took the locking plug out of the windlass tube. The drive end of the extension did not engage the windlass. Face palm moment, "Oh, I remember now. The windlass broke when I had to change a tire, and I welded a half-inch nut on it." Fetched ratchet and long extensions, and a half-inch socket. Did.Not.Fit. Neither did the 9/16, 7/16 or 12 mm. Face palm moment, "Doh! That was the '02 F 150 that had that problem." Linked two jack extensions together, and pushed the square socket end of one into the tube. Bingo! Cranked up the tire, and all is well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 02:47 PM (tkR6S)

83 but so the dryer is running off of the solar panels.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xaFKb)

...
umm..

Posted by: Reforger at February 25, 2024 02:48 PM (MoYQF)

84 My FWP for the week: New microwave installed without incident in a new position. Yea!! Old microwave (under cab with exhaust over the stovetop) now needs to be pulled out. The specs say it weighs about 60 lbs.

I like to work alone so this is going to be a PITA.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (eacmp)

STRONGLY recommend you get a helper for that. I've put a few of those in - both new applications and replacements. A second set of hands is a must!

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2024 02:48 PM (eNASR)

85 "Damn, that spare tire is hanging kind of low." Dug out the jack, and the jack handle and extensions, and took the locking plug out of the windlass tube. . . .
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

"Doesssss your tire hang low,
does it wobble to and fro. . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:48 PM (eacmp)

86 AOP, that would make a funniest home video winner.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 25, 2024 02:49 PM (IBIxQ)

87 Yeah, especially when you back into it with the lawn tractor and you hear the creaking of wood and your neighbor yelling, "TIMBER!" Followed by laughter.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguynow

My dad made his post out of iron and since he wasn't using them anymore I brought them here. Hitting those things could break my mower. Happily I got rid of them. They went back to dad's old house which is now my brother's house.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 25, 2024 02:50 PM (cRrcX)

88 I see that CBD's ice maker makes the correct shape of ice cubes. Trapezoidal works much better in a glass than half moons.
Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 02:46 PM (Sf2cq)

Pffft! Everyone knows dodecahedrons are the best!

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2024 02:50 PM (eNASR)

89 A second set of hands is a must!
Posted by: Doof

Strongly seconded.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 25, 2024 02:51 PM (IBIxQ)

90 Hmm. My first thought was genuine Red oak.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
===
I thought laminate at first also, but decided on study that it's wood.
Been wrong before.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 25, 2024 02:51 PM (4780s)

91 STRONGLY recommend you get a helper for that. I've put a few of those in - both new applications and replacements. A second set of hands is a must!
Posted by: Doof

You're right of course. My next door neighbor is a good guy but apparently he doesn't have anyone to talk to him. A ten minute job with him helping turns into a 90 minute listening session were I hear about his childhood issues. Again.

*Le sigh*

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:52 PM (eacmp)

92 FWP:
Forgot the password on my security cameras dvr. Both monitors work individually but the original one works only with direct HDMI connection, not through a splitter.
To get into the connection menu, you need the password.
Company info says, hit Lost Password. My unit is so old that it doesn’t have that option.
Grrrr.

Posted by: RI Red at February 25, 2024 02:53 PM (2hOms)

93 To get into the connection menu, you need the password.
Company info says, hit Lost Password. My unit is so old that it doesn’t have that option.
Grrrr.
Posted by: RI Red

Is Bob at NSA around?

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (eacmp)

94 My F-150 uses that, must have, key. Driven twenty years concerned every trip that, ... where's that key?

Posted by: Braenyard at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (7fmC8)

95 Hmmm... I have to replace the icemaker in our fridge. It's getting overfilled and dumping excess water in the ice bin. Creates a big block of ice that I've got to bust up into smaller pieces about once a day.

Might have to move.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (Q4IgG)

96 You're right of course. My next door neighbor is a good guy but apparently he doesn't have anyone to talk to him. A ten minute job with him helping turns into a 90 minute listening session were I hear about his childhood issues. Again.

*Le sigh*
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:52 PM (eacmp)

I keep my imaginary friend around to converse with me, so everything's cool. Pinky swear.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguynow with twice the crazy at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (iODuv)

97 and Fk the caps lock key. Does anyone know how to defeat it other than taking pilers and pulling it out
Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 02:11 PM (A5THL)

Pried off the key cap on mine. What I hate is the damned Windows keys. What I would like to see is software you could use to define the 3 left-hand bottom row keys as CTRL; all three do the same thing. And make the 3 on the right hand all ALT. Because a mis-strike on CTRL or ALT alone does nothing; you have to depress another key at the same time to get the shortcut. A mis-strike on the damned Windows keys invokes some damn-fool menu, even in Linux.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 02:55 PM (tkR6S)

98 Have ice delivered by The Three Stooges.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2024 02:55 PM (63Dwl)

99 No one I know in Papua New Guinea even has an Ice Maker

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 25, 2024 02:55 PM (ZV+pB)

100 My neighbor called me to ask for help moving his refrigerator. I came over with a dolly. Damn, this thing is heavy I said as we tilted it over onto the dolly. Hold on a second I said, why is this so heavy? I opened the door, every shelf was loaded with food. Freezer was full. Dude, empty this out and call me back when you're done. I'm pretty sure he's a democrat.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 25, 2024 02:56 PM (MeG8a)

101 Is Bob at NSA around?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (eacmp)

*snort

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 25, 2024 02:56 PM (OX9vb)

102 You're right of course. My next door neighbor is a good guy but apparently he doesn't have anyone to talk to him. A ten minute job with him helping turns into a 90 minute listening session were I hear about his childhood issues. Again.

*Le sigh*
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:52 PM (eacmp)

No young dudes in the neighborhood willing to help you out for a 6-pack? With the understanding of "no chit-chat!"

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2024 02:56 PM (eNASR)

103 101 Is Bob at NSA around?
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:54 PM (eacmp)

No.

Posted by: Bob at NSA at February 25, 2024 02:57 PM (PiwSw)

104 >Cranked up the tire, and all is well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I do not like that type spare tire storage set-up. It's difficult to use once your body becomes old and inflexible

I wish I could find a gadget to securely store the spare in the truck bed

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 02:58 PM (geLO8)

105 Good point , TP.
He must be around cuz someone just whispered, “Jack of Diamonds on Queen of Spades.”

Posted by: RI Red at February 25, 2024 03:01 PM (2hOms)

106 In Washington State, you cannot collect rainwater. A big no-no.
So it's only a matter of time before they come after you for using the sun and a clothes line.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 03:01 PM (W/lyH)

107 Just realizing this is the Nth anniversary of when I started That Job.

No, this is not a FWP and really has nothing to do with what you were all saying, carry on...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2024 03:02 PM (llON8)

108 So ... has anyone removed a dishwasher without replacing it? Was that a good decision or a cause for regret?

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Sf2cq)

109 83 but so the dryer is running off of the solar panels.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 02:38 PM (xaFKb)

...
umm..
Posted by: Reforger at February 25, 2024 02:48 PM (MoYQF)

Electric dryer... why Umm?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 25, 2024 03:04 PM (xaFKb)

110 You can all Blow me suckers. I stumble because the other day I Squat 500 lbs 50 times. So shut up you pencil neck homos !!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 25, 2024 03:05 PM (Wb+1f)

111 > In Washington State, you cannot collect rainwater. A big no-no.

Maryland tried to tax people based on how much rain fell on their property

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 03:05 PM (geLO8)

112 So ... has anyone removed a dishwasher without replacing it? Was that a good decision or a cause for regret?
Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Sf2cq)

*scratches head*
What would inspire such an action??

Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2024 03:05 PM (eNASR)

113 Ice was invented by blacks in Africa. Then stolen by whites who erased the memory of blacks of ice.

Posted by: coyne at February 25, 2024 03:05 PM (s2qQw)

114 Anytime I move something it's gets down to the lowest common denominator

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 03:07 PM (fwDg9)

115 I wish I could find a gadget to securely store the spare in the truck bed
Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 02:58 PM (geLO

That wastes cargo space, and should you have a flat when carrying a load, you would have to take off part of the load to get at the spare. The ones on the windlass are always accessible, unless you are axle deep in a bog.

I can't blame this on GM. The windlass and its handle worked as designed. What was missing were operating instructions, which are in the owners manual, which I don't have, as this 'burb was bought as government surplus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:08 PM (tkR6S)

116 My FWP for the week: New microwave installed without incident in a new position. Yea!! Old microwave (under cab with exhaust over the stovetop) now needs to be pulled out. The specs say it weighs about 60 lbs.

I like to work alone so this is going to be a PITA.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 02:39 PM (eacmp)

Forklift.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 25, 2024 03:10 PM (x4P51)

117 " You need a dog to eat the spare ice cubes."

Ha..I just emptied my ice cube bin today and one cube fell on the floor. The dog grabbed it and made off with it like it was a T-bone steak. Had a stealthy look on his face and hid under my bed with his prize. It was funny.

Posted by: Tuna at February 25, 2024 03:10 PM (oaGWv)

118 2 The Coming Ice Age.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 25, 2024 02:01 PM (aD39U)

heh

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:11 PM (o3SCB)

119 So ... has anyone removed a dishwasher without replacing it? Was that a good decision or a cause for regret?
Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 03:04 PM (Sf2cq)

I roughed in for a D/W, but did not install one. I don't like them, and as a single, don't need one. I stuck a self-contained base cabinet in it's place. If i list the house for sale, I will buy a cheap D/W, and bung it in there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:11 PM (tkR6S)

120 Biden is up early today.......

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 25, 2024 03:12 PM (/1UO6)

121 Air conditioner in a 70s Lancia would blow warm air and bits of ice and frost.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 25, 2024 03:12 PM (z7cQS)

122 16 Ahhhh...Polterice.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 02:06 PM (W/lyH)

oh my goodness

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:12 PM (o3SCB)

123 bung it in there.

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 25, 2024 03:13 PM (z7cQS)

124 Being the only one in the house, I force myself to put enough dishes in the dishwasher to run it once a week.
It helps. But it's a pain in the ass.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 25, 2024 03:13 PM (4780s)

125 Totally aliens. Definitely sell the house and move!

Posted by: Weasel at February 25, 2024 03:14 PM (JwHpX)

126 2.25" Red Oak

Posted by: Jamaica at February 25, 2024 02:26 PM (IG7T0)

With tons of dings and divots from dropping stuff and falling stuff. Eh...I'll refinish it (maybe) when we sell the house. I call it "character!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 25, 2024 03:14 PM (gSZYf)

127 What kind of ice men are you? Show me your tongs!

Posted by: Julius Marx at February 25, 2024 03:14 PM (V5BDR)

128 Who in the Hell are the 37% that still support Biden ?????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 25, 2024 03:14 PM (/1UO6)

129
old news: Miracle on Ice
new news: Miracle of Ice

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:15 PM (o3SCB)

130 You can all Blow me suckers. I stumble because the other day I Squat 500 lbs 50 times. So shut up you pencil neck homos !!!!!!
Posted by: Joe Biden at February 25,

The thought of Joe with that frail body atop enormous quads makes me laff.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 25, 2024 03:15 PM (xcrUy)

131 Global Warming is causing the Ice Machine to malfunction

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 25, 2024 03:16 PM (/1UO6)

132 The thought of Joe with that frail body atop enormous quads makes me laff.

Popeye in reverse ..............

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 25, 2024 03:17 PM (/1UO6)

133 Speaking of First World Problems, here's one: I have added one cabinet door, and one drawer to my kitchen counter, and will be adding 4 more cabinet doors. I cannot find drawer pulls/cabinet handles that match my current ones. Being frugal, I do not want to discard all my perfectly functional existing ones just to buy a set of cheap ones that all match. I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:17 PM (tkR6S)

134 What would inspire such an action??
Posted by: Doof at February 25, 2024 03:05 PM (eNASR

My last three dishwashers have been crummy performers. Plus you can't wash aluminum, knives, vintage carnival glass, plastic, things that don't drain well, or pots with nonstick coating or certain types of handles. That leaves china, stainless steel, and certain types of glass. At that point, I might as well do all the dishes by hand.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 03:19 PM (Sf2cq)

135 "Hmmmm. Our dishwasher is a disappointment and needs to be replaced with something more functional. Either a Bosch, or replace it with cabinet space."

If you get a Bosch don't get one with the upper rack for laying out silverware. My mom had one of those and it was a pain in the a**. Give me an old fashioned silverware basket any day.

Posted by: Tuna at February 25, 2024 03:19 PM (oaGWv)

136 I hand wash a lot of things, but I do like putting plates and glasses and especially flatware in the dishwasher to sterilize them.

I run it when I run out of coffee mugs, about once a week. It's very handy when I have company, too.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2024 03:20 PM (BaunM)

137 Jordan LeBron. Really a thing.

Posted by: coyne at February 25, 2024 03:21 PM (s2qQw)

138 I can't make ice, because I have no water. The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle.

Posted by: Robert of Duluth at February 25, 2024 03:21 PM (V5BDR)

139 About half of my dishwasher usage is as a self-cleaning dish drainer when I hand wash items.

Posted by: Emmie at February 25, 2024 03:22 PM (Sf2cq)

140 How many handles and pulls do you have in total.
Can you move them around to the most obvious places, and find near matches to put on the less obvious spots, like bottom drawers, etc.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 25, 2024 03:23 PM (4780s)

141 What was missing were operating instructions, which are in the owners manual, which I don't have, as this 'burb was bought as government surplus.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:08 PM (tkR6S)

Can ya buy one online ?

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2024 03:24 PM (T4tVD)

142
I'm sitting in our kitchen and there is a mild odor here, no doubt coming from the trash can. It kind of smells like fish, but we've not had fish for at least two weeks. "What can it be?" I wondered, and then I thought, "For crying out loud, just take out the trash!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2024 03:24 PM (1i0Hi)

143 In Washington State, you cannot collect rainwater. A big no-no.
So it's only a matter of time before they come after you for using the sun and a clothes line.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 25, 2024 03:01 PM (W/lyH)

Drinking rainwater contaminated by runoff from bird shit causes people to vote Democrat. It is known.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:24 PM (tkR6S)

144 just mix them all up and call it eclectic

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 03:25 PM (geLO8)

145 You can buy light bulbs at the Dollar Stores.

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2024 03:25 PM (T4tVD)

146 Ice?

Please contact us.

Posted by: Newsweek at February 25, 2024 03:25 PM (89Sog)

147 Speaking of First World Problems, here's one: I have added one cabinet door, and one drawer to my kitchen counter, and will be adding 4 more cabinet doors. I cannot find drawer pulls/cabinet handles that match my current ones. Being frugal, I do not want to discard all my perfectly functional existing ones just to buy a set of cheap ones that all match. I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?

See if you can find some handles/pulls with same spacing and hole size requirements and intersperse them so that you've got an even mix. Or several different styles for the "eclectic" look. Not recommended for people with OCD.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 25, 2024 03:25 PM (dZVON)

148 77 Well, if you really want an answer as to why this is happening, the ice cube is the last one ready to fall into your glass, but is big enough to not fall. It is already out of the freezer, so it starts to very slowly melt. When enough of it melts, it falls down the shoot. Since there is now no one there with a glass, it hits the floor.
Posted by: Buford Gooch at February 25, 2024 02:45 PM (ZoHZd)

cool

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:25 PM (o3SCB)

149 With tons of dings and divots from dropping stuff and falling stuff. Eh...I'll refinish it (maybe) when we sell the house. I call it "character!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I wouldn't bother as the new homeowner will most likely fit the place and remodel it in their own image. A Scandi couple I know spent literally years and a hundred thousand dollars remodeling their home in order to sell it. Then interest rates skyrocketed and they ended up selling for far less than they had hoped for. Then the couple who bought it gutted it and remodeled.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2024 03:26 PM (BaunM)

150 I can't make ice, because I have no water. The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle.
Posted by: Robert of Duluth at February 25, 2024 03:21 PM (V5BDR)

and the train it won't stop going no way to slow down..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 25, 2024 03:26 PM (aD39U)

151 My kitchen floor looks so nice when it's clean. Pity it doesn't happen more often.

Posted by: Grubby Garry at February 25, 2024 03:26 PM (V5BDR)

152 I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
_________

Can't you take a photo with your phone and search the internet now with one of these AI engines?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2024 03:27 PM (Dm8we)

153 How many handles and pulls do you have in total.
Can you move them around to the most obvious places, and find near matches to put on the less obvious spots, like bottom drawers, etc.
Posted by: From about that Time at February 25, 2024 03:23 PM (4780s)

It will probably come to that. I might make a visit to the Habitat Re-stores. Maybe they have baskets of handles?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:28 PM (tkR6S)

154
My kitchen floor looks so nice when it's clean. Pity it doesn't happen more often.
Posted by: Grubby Garry

Yeah, what's with that?

We put in a hardwood kitchen floor when we bought this house. Big, big mistake. I loathe it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 25, 2024 03:28 PM (1i0Hi)

155 AOP,
Matchy matchy is overrated.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2024 03:28 PM (BaunM)

156 Can't you take a photo with your phone and search the internet now with one of these AI engines?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2024 03:27 PM (Dm8we)

My phone is not enabled to do that sort of stuff. By choice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:29 PM (tkR6S)

157 133 Speaking of First World Problems, here's one: I have added one cabinet door, and one drawer to my kitchen counter, and will be adding 4 more cabinet doors. I cannot find drawer pulls/cabinet handles that match my current ones. Being frugal, I do not want to discard all my perfectly functional existing ones just to buy a set of cheap ones that all match. I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:17 PM (tkR6S)

My original drawer pulls were yellow brass i had a new island with drawers installed. had to go with ss pulls.

Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 03:29 PM (A5THL)

158 Alternate 4'' pull, 3" pull, and a variety of knobs would make a cool kitchen, and keep your on your toes as how to grab/open them. Probably fights dementia, subconsciously.

Posted by: Typical American-No Taste! at February 25, 2024 03:30 PM (V5BDR)

159 133 Speaking of First World Problems, here's one: I have added one cabinet door, and one drawer to my kitchen counter, and will be adding 4 more cabinet doors. I cannot find drawer pulls/cabinet handles that match my current ones. Being frugal, I do not want to discard all my perfectly functional existing ones just to buy a set of cheap ones that all match. I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:17 PM (tkR6S)

Buy a set of cheap ones that all match. Hang onto the perfectly functional existing ones for other projects.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:31 PM (o3SCB)

160 I'm a Knob man, myself.

Posted by: The Peeper at February 25, 2024 03:33 PM (V5BDR)

161 Is this okay here or do I need the Cooking Thread??

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - A man has reportedly set himself on fire near Israel embassy in Washington, DC

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 25, 2024 03:33 PM (2yu8s)

162 My icemaker died for the second time. I bought a replacement icemaker again, but no joy. Step two, I bought a $25 water inlet valve and now have ice. DIY to the rescue. BTW, door ice dispensers are the most failure prone appliance in your kitchen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2024 03:33 PM (zErLK)

163 Bird Magic Jordan. There will never be an NBA trio like that ever again.

Posted by: coyne at February 25, 2024 03:34 PM (s2qQw)

164 161 Is this okay here or do I need the Cooking Thread??

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - A man has reportedly set himself on fire near Israel embassy in Washington, DC
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 25, 2024 03:33 PM (2yu8s)

cooking canuck

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:34 PM (o3SCB)

165 162 door ice dispensers are the most failure prone appliance in your kitchen.\

All refer ice makers are failure prone after a month or two

Posted by: vic at February 25, 2024 03:36 PM (A5THL)

166 dude, we were having a substantive discussion about knobs

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 03:36 PM (geLO8)

167 Matchy matchy is overrated.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2024 03:28 PM (BaunM)

Heh. Well, my base cabs, except for the new ones are all salvage faces on cabs of my own building, and they have black-painted brass handles, sort of midway between "plain" and "ornate". I have ONE spare. The little cabs over the range were made from a piece of Goodwill furniture, and they have shiny brass round knobs. I have built (and faced) wall cabs flanking the sink. Have yet to build the doors. Possible solution: put shiny brass round knobs on the four new cabinet doors, and on the cutting board. Strip the black paint off the existing brass handles, and use them on the base cabinets and drawers, and slip in one ringer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:37 PM (tkR6S)

168 Just saw that Justin Trudeau is spending $4 million in Canadian taxpayer money on "gender inclusive landmine removal in Ukraine". I swear that's a lefty mad lib or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2024 03:38 PM (sSGtB)

169 An ice cube on the floor. I guess things Chez Dildo are going pretty well!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 25, 2024 03:39 PM (w6EFb)

170 Buy a set of cheap ones that all match. Hang onto the perfectly functional existing ones for other projects.
Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:31 PM (o3SCB)

I could do that. But it would grate on me. Amounts to surrender.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:40 PM (tkR6S)

171 My wife replaced all the handles the house came with, and she loved those she found. I hated them. They have points, and I have big hands. I saved the old ones.
Been gone 14 years now, and I still haven't switched back. And I still get stabbed regularly.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 25, 2024 03:40 PM (4780s)

172 152 I have perused the catalogs of several online suppliers of such stuff, and that is a tedious chore in its own right. Any ideas?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Can't you take a photo with your phone and search the internet now with one of these AI engines?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 25, 2024

This works, I take a picture and do a google image search. I needed what I found out was called a gate latch for my house. It's hard to search for things when I don't know what they are called. I found the antique brass gate latch on eBay for $10 plus shipping. I bought two, I know everything breaks.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 25, 2024 03:40 PM (5iHJw)

173 Internet was out again
The tire winch on my F-150 is long enough to set the tire to it behind the truck and it can drag it to its holding position

Posted by: Skip at February 25, 2024 03:40 PM (fwDg9)

174 "gender inclusive landmine removal in Ukraine"

Is this the removal of gender inclusive landmines, or are they sending the trannies out to 'splode themselves?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 25, 2024 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

175 the ice maker is possessed?

Shirley the cat is convinced it's trying to get her and runs whenever you get cubes.

Posted by: DaveA at February 25, 2024 03:42 PM (FhXTo)

176 All refer ice makers are failure prone after a month or two

My LG fridge is 6 years old and the ice maker's working great. The secret? Replace the fridge's water filter regularly. (When I didn't, the ice maker stopped and I had to look up how to reset it, which made it happy again)

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2024 03:42 PM (sSGtB)

177 Where ever did you find a 100 watt incandescent?
Posted by: Reforger

I have boxes and boxes of them in the attic.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2024 03:42 PM (zErLK)

178 >I could do that. But it would grate on me. Amounts to surrender.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

it will be your victory. You will have found a perfectly acceptable solution to a vexing problem. Look upon your works and be amazed.

Posted by: Don Black at February 25, 2024 03:42 PM (geLO8)

179 Is this the removal of gender inclusive landmines, or are they sending the trannies out to 'splode themselves?

I think it's removing landmines without misgendering the mines. They usually give their pronouns as "ka" and "boom", but some are different.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2024 03:45 PM (sSGtB)

180 gender inclusive landmine removal in Ukraine

But is it plant based and sustainable?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 25, 2024 03:46 PM (G9z2o)

181 I still have a dozen or two incandescents that I bought at the beginning of 2014. Including 3-way bulbs.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 25, 2024 03:46 PM (w6EFb)

182 Where ever did you find a 100 watt incandescent?
Posted by: Reforger

You can buy them at The Dollar Stores !

Posted by: JT at February 25, 2024 03:46 PM (T4tVD)

183 179 Is this the removal of gender inclusive landmines, or are they sending the trannies out to 'splode themselves?

I think it's removing landmines without misgendering the mines. They usually give their pronouns as "ka" and "boom", but some are different.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2024 03:45 PM (sSGtB)

There's "ker" and "blooey."

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:48 PM (o3SCB)

184 Grrr. Just used a paper clip to scratch the inside of my "spare" handle. It's not brass; it's pot metal. They don't even have scrap value.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM (tkR6S)

185 So that poor kid had the haunted TV and you have a haunted ice maker.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 25, 2024 02:02 PM (67iRk)

Generally you don't see that sort of behavior in a major appliance.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM (D7oie)

186 I replaced our original DW a few months back. Since there are only two of us, we don't create that many dirty dishes. But what I have been doing which I hadn't done before, is to put the pots and pans in there also. They look great when they come out and I don't even rinse the dishes or pans even if the food bits are dried on.

The old one couldn't do that. The new DW is German build. Even has a setting where it will play 'Ericka'.

https://youtu.be/rcVb6l4TpHw?si=Zdz6aA-4ycq5Aw0O

Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM (eacmp)

187 I have to replace the icemaker in our fridge. It's getting overfilled and dumping excess water in the ice bin. Creates a big block of ice that I've got to bust up into smaller pieces about once a day.

Might have to move.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Take off the front cover of the icemaker. There should be a white plastic cylinder with a slotted tip. Insert screwdriver and turn it a half turn clockwise. Replace cover.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM (VzJ5p)

188 >>> 174 "gender inclusive landmine removal in Ukraine"

Is this the removal of gender inclusive landmines, or are they sending the trannies out to 'splode themselves?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 25, 2024 03:41 PM (w6EFb)

Can we send Levine and Brinson to help?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 25, 2024 03:52 PM (llON8)

189
The old one couldn't do that. The new DW is German build. Even has a setting where it will play 'Ericka'.

https://youtu.be/rcVb6l4TpHw?si=Zdz6aA-4ycq5Aw0O
Posted by: Tonypete at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM (eacmp)
----------
Watch out if it starts playing "Die Wacht am Rhein."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 25, 2024 03:52 PM (0gvpA)

190 Generally you don't see that sort of behavior in a major appliance.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2024 03:50 PM

*golf clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2024 03:55 PM (Wnv9h)

191 Pot metal (or monkey metal) is an alloy of low-melting point metals that manufacturers use to make fast, inexpensive castings.

Today I learned!

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:55 PM (o3SCB)

192 ... The term "pot metal" came about because of automobile factories' practice in the early 20th century of gathering up non-ferrous metal scraps from the manufacturing processes and melting them in one pot to form into cast products.

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:57 PM (o3SCB)

193 168 Just saw that Justin Trudeau is spending $4 million in Canadian taxpayer money on "gender inclusive landmine removal in Ukraine". I swear that's a lefty mad lib or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 25, 2024 03:38 PM (sSGtB)

I thought stampeding drag queens through a minefield was frowned upon.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 25, 2024 03:58 PM (z+89e)

194 "I cannot find drawer pulls/cabinet handles that match my current ones."

Barbie doll heads.

Posted by: pawn at February 25, 2024 03:59 PM (QB+5g)

195 noodfood

Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 04:01 PM (o3SCB)

196 Van Halen?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 25, 2024 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

Put the dishwasher in cuffs and took away its shoelaces.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2024 04:01 PM (D7oie)

197 Nikki Haley is asshoe.

Posted by: Montec at February 25, 2024 04:01 PM (bWsRe)

198 Food nood.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 25, 2024 04:02 PM (Wnv9h)

199 >>My FWP for the week: New microwave installed without incident in a new position. Yea!! Old microwave (under cab with exhaust over the stovetop) now needs to be pulled out. The specs say it weighs about 60 lbs.

I like to work alone so this is going to be a PITA.
Posted by: Tonypete

Hydraulic lift table from Harbor Freight

Posted by: Aviator at February 25, 2024 04:03 PM (HQ9Sl)

200 My new bong is made of pot metal. The old glass one broke.

Posted by: Stewed to the Gills at February 25, 2024 04:03 PM (V5BDR)

201 Pot metal (or monkey metal) is an alloy of low-melting point metals that manufacturers use to make fast, inexpensive castings.

Today I learned!
Posted by: m at February 25, 2024 03:55 PM (o3SCB)

It is everywhere. Your home is full of it. Appliance frames, had drive cases for computers. It's mostly zinc, with maybe 15 to 20 percent other metals. Late 19th - early 20th Centuries, it got a well-deserved bad name because it was garbage metal. They would throw just about any moderately low melting point metal into the pot. The composition was never consistent from batch to batch. Much of it would develop inter-crystalline corrosion, and swell up and crumble. I have seen such failed parts in antique radios, and in door handles etc. for antique cars.

Now you have durable modern alloys like Zamak, which don't have that issue.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 04:05 PM (tkR6S)

202 Any ideas?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 25, 2024 03:17 PM (tkR6S)

buy the closest style you can find in a similar color, and then back every one of them with a diamond shaped plaque of brass so when you look at the kitchen you focus on the brass diamond instead of the mis-matched knobs.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2024 04:10 PM (D7oie)

203 I run it when I run out of coffee mugs, about once a week. It's very handy when I have company, too.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 25, 2024 03:20 PM (BaunM)

I think you void the dishwasher's warranty when you use it to wash your guests. You should get a pressure washer for that.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 25, 2024 04:12 PM (D7oie)

204 Or you could just get another ice machine/maker.

Posted by: Flywheel at February 25, 2024 04:33 PM (ENR8i)

205 Our last fridge we bought has an ice maker but we didn't hook it up. Chose to avoid that failure point that can ruin floors if the special water line breaks. Ice cube trays work fine. As does putting a bit of water in my water bottles and freezing so I have built in ice.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 25, 2024 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

206 Is it a Maytag. Happens with ours a lot, too.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 25, 2024 05:48 PM (FRT/w)

207
Fani was just checking to see if Nathan's Hot Dog was Kosher, and would fit her bun. They had to get rid of their legal briefs to do the cross examination. 😀

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