My next WTF. WTF do drivers cross a road to sit in median, but are afraid of traffic coming in the lanes they wish to enter and sit far from them? But, they are not afraid of the on coming cars from the lane they crossed and leave ass end out in road. Will it not hurt so bad if the rear of car gets hit? And speaking of drivers. Since WTF is it my problem there is an obstruction in your lane, but I must stop and wait for you to go around? Should the traffic in lane with obstruction wait until it is clear to go around. Why are basic principles being flipped around?

Picking up where we left off, the reason people sit next to the median with their asses hanging out in traffic has two components:
1.If I can't see it, it isn't there.
2.There is nobody in the entire world but me.

Both of those rules come into play when the ass is hanging out from the median, but I've seen lots of both of those. Occasionally you'll see someone stop, just plain stop, in the road, as though a)there's nobody else in the world and b)they can't see the people about to crawl up their tail pipe because their busy inspecting their fingernails for fecal matter or something.

It seems that a segment of the population may do this so they can get in the way. If it's not that, they seem to be trying to avoid a collision from the front, but don't give a rat's ass that they're blocking traffic. I also think that many of the ones I see doing this are so slow-witted that they can't think about or react to more than one thing at a time. I went to WalMart on Monday and as we all waited for the self checkout registers to become available, a 20-ish woman was standing there with her cell phone plastered against the side of her head and when the woman from WalMart went to her to say that she could go to one of the registers, there was absolutely no response. No blinking, no looking at the woman speaking to her, no real sign of life or intelligence- just a cold, 1000 yard stare.

People want respect, but they have no freaking respect for others. They can't have it both ways.

WTF aren't robo-call phone numbers required to be listed in a main directly with name and address of the perpetrator?

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Going back to the microwave.

My microwave runs on 220 volts, and can be used to grill a steak. Yes, it will come out looking exactly the same as it would had I put it on the grill out on the deck.

GE Advantium. It's REALLY cool.

Is it just a microwave, or is it a combo micro and convection oven? I don't know if those even exist, but I don't see how a microwave is going to put a char on the outside of a steak without drying the inside of it.

You started it.

I'm combining a response to highfigh, who said I started this thread, with an answer to the first post.

This is the first post in this thread: it wasn't from me:

See, now, given what the sign says, isn't that a truly reasonable question?

But the people who wrote the sign were not careful to say what they were doing. They were not taking the ingredients that they had been using, then removing the artificial stuff, even though that's exactly what they said they were doing. They were instead substituting other products that did not have the artificial stuff but had natural stuff. (The observations about hemlock et cetera are spot on -- The word "natural" all by itself is a placebo for dummies.)

THIS is why I take people to task when inexact questions are asked. For me the classic was the video switcher from the late 80s. There were perhaps a dozen ins and outs on this thing. Video. Right.

But they were not careful to be technical in their description. The connectors were F connectors and they expected to be routing TV channel frequencies through this device. Asking a question about video through this switch would have been meaningless.

So, yeah, Subway, WTF? You did not mean what you said. Worse yet, you were too stupid to know it.

Moving on, things don't necessarily get better. They might have meant that they used this "natural" ingredient:

The term 'natural' is meaningless. Any flavor produced in a factory or lab can legally be called natural. They don't have to resort to a bizarre animal or plant-based solution.

Truthful companies avoid the term. Look for its absence. Seriously.

Detents buddy, all about the detents. If it has auto down or up, you are blowing past the first detent with your mallet fingers! Auto up and down always has two detents with the first one being your discrete and lets you put the glass where you want it.
I cant tell you how many people go years and even a decade with out knowing that, these are the same folks that wont consult and RTDM.

detente (day-tont): the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.


detent (dee-tent or duh-tent): a catch in a machine that prevents motion until released.

Power windows don't exactly have a detent. They instead somehow* have a range of position where, if the window is moving within that range, releasing the button allows the window to stop moving. Or start moving. Or whatever combination is wanted by the guys who don't know how we actually want the windows to move.



*Of course, the somehow could be via a detent, but up to now we have been able to feel the detent when we move the knobs. These power window positions have to be learned by observation and ultimately guessed at.

Microwave, halogen and convection, all rolled into one.

Yes, it works.

See those frozen biscuits at the grocery? A few short minutes and they come out like homemade.

Has lots of shortcuts in the memory. Pizza, Bagel Bites, etc, etc. Even does toast better than a toaster.

some higher end toasters (with digital displays) do have timers, but for most part you are right, it is basically a thermostat. the toaster will have two pieces of metal stuck together with different expansion lengths based on temperature. The same way your bread gets heated up by the elements the thermostat gets heated up as well and its curvature changes and eventually the contact is closed and the toast pops up. On the other hand simple toasters (discussed above) are either on or off so it does work kind of like a de facto timer, your bread will spend less time in the toaster if it is put on 1 then if it is put at 10.

As for the original question (why more settings?). The simple reality is that people might want to toast different stuff. My dad likes having his bread in the freezer (keeps it fresher longer) so a frozen slice of bread will need a bit longer then a stale piece of bread.

Called a pool cover company and was told that they charge $140/hr plus parts to look at and repair snagged rope on my automatic pool cover.
HTF is that OK but my $90/hr rate is high!?!
I need to raise my rates if pool boy is charging that much.