Will someone please invent...

... targeted memory erasure.

If there was such a thing, I could watch Lost for the first time ...as many times as I please.


and BSG...and POI...and Doctor Who...and...and...

On second thoughts - maybe a bad idea.


What do you wish someone would invent?

How is this for timeliness....

Beest;935826 wrote:

Strongly influenced by Glatts Consumer Reports ratings we bought this

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Whirlpool-Top-Control-Dishwasher-in-Monochromatic-Stainless-Steel-with-Stainless-Steel-Tub-WDT780SAEM/206135980
...
The wash cycle takes a lot longer, 2 1/2 hours as opposed to 1 1/2 on the old machine,
but it cleans much more effectively so I guess that's OK, especially as I put it on at night mostly.
...

The 2-hr+ wash cycles are common among US brands.

Makers should add a manual timer that us bill-payers can control.

DanaC;935824 wrote:

... targeted memory erasure.

Learn from US politicians, denial and selective memory are your friend.

Lamplighter;935828 wrote:

Makers should add a manual timer that us bill-payers can control.

Most washers allow you to set the actual washing cycle time but that's usually between 8 and 16 minutes. I don't know why the hell the fills/drains, rinse and spin take so long but there's no way to control it.
My buddy said he was surprised when his kid needed a particular shirt for school the next day he did it in the dishwasher. :eek:

I want the Wayback Machine.

Lamplighter;935828 wrote:

How is this for timeliness....



The 2-hr+ wash cycles are common among US brands.

Makers should add a manual timer that us bill-payers can control.

2 hours?!?!?! JFC! That's an awful lot of money just to get out of washing dishes. I've never used a dish washer. The longest I've ever spent doing the dishes was two sinkfulls after a dinner party. Took ~40 minutes.

I want someone to invent turn signals for grocery carts.

Fortunately the cart ain't mine so crashes are the markets problem, but they should have air horns. ;)

...but they should have air horns.

...and 4 properly functioning wheels.

what about self-driving grocery carts/shopping trolleys? Could test them at M-Town.

Ones with little drones you could send back to pick up the thing you forgot while you stay in line. Ones that stay close enough for you to chuck stuff in, but not so close that you shin yourself if your shoe sticks on some discarded gum on the floor or a rogue piece of trash jams the wheel.......

;)

That would be tough. The carts could be developed but people are too unpredictable. :haha:

Nobody said easy was a prerequisite

A personal A/C device, that works. Maybe the size and shape of an umbrella, weighs two ounces, runs on a watch battery that lasts for five years, and keeps the air in your personal space a balmy 72 degrees.

See? I'm pretty easy to please.

What, no fart dissipater? :haha:

xoxoxoBruce;935923 wrote:

What, no fart dissipater? :haha:

I love my farts, why would I want to dissipate them? Farts are to be shared.

fargon;935927 wrote:

Farts are to be shared.

That's why farts stink...So deaf people can enjoy them, too.

Gravdigr;935941 wrote:

That's why farts stink...So deaf people can enjoy them, too.

Your Rite.

Why don't we switch to a system where you get a card with a 21 digit ID coded in bar code, QG code, Chip or whatever... and it has your standard info that those companies all want. Email, phone, name, zipcode.

And instead of the store giving you their unique card, you give them yours and they sign up for YOU?

Is that already out there?

Oooooooh...:yesnod:

Nope, I'm very selective giving out information to businesses. You need my phone number AND email address? Would you like my mother's maiden/middle name, high school mascot, and first pet's name, too? I don't think so. :headshake

THEN you choose to NOT let them sign up for xoxobruce. and you get no discount. your choice entirely.

I remember asking RadioShack why they needed my phone number to sell me a battery, in person, for cash.

Gravdigr;935836 wrote:

2 hours?!?!?! JFC! That's an awful lot of money just to get out of washing dishes. I've never used a dish washer. The longest I've ever spent doing the dishes was two sinkfulls after a dinner party. Took ~40 minutes.

It only takes 15 minute of your time to wash dishes in a dishwasher.

I also have a single friend who doesn't bother with his as it's easier to wash and dry by hand.
As a family we have to run the dishwasher 10 times a week to even vaguely keep up. it would be at least an hour a day, every day for someone to keep up.

With the schedule of public appearances your tribe maintains, I'm surprised anybody is home enough to dirty that many dishes. :haha:

Yep. I cook a lot, have between 4 and 6 household members depending on what week it is, and almost always have to run my dishwasher twice a day.

Beest;936039 wrote:

It only takes 15 minute of your time to wash dishes in a dishwasher.

Beest;935826 wrote:

The wash cycle takes a lot longer, 2 1/2 hours as opposed to 1 1/2 on the old machine...

Well, which is it? Does it take 2+ hours, or fifteen minutes?

I'm confused.

No, really.

xoxoxoBruce;936040 wrote:

With the schedule of public appearances your tribe maintains, I'm surprised anybody is home enough to dirty that many dishes. :haha:

I was thinking almost the same thing.

:)

Gravdigr;936052 wrote:

Well, which is it? Does it take 2+ hours, or fifteen minutes?

I'm confused.

No, really.

"Your time". Loading and unloading, presumably.

yup the magical wishdosh even does the work quietly while you sleep, and makes sure the pipes are full of nice hot water for your shower in the morning if you time it right.... Our tribe often eat in the car, but the dishes always make it home. 5-6 meals a day and plenty of drinks of milk and tea for 5 plus "snacks" for three athletes dirty a fuck on of pots and pans.

I have a robot that cleans the floor, I have a robot that scrubs it, why can't I have a robot that picks up furniture so that it can get to the tough spots underneath it? Like a really flat roomba with a piston smart enough to find the center of mass and lift from there? or a group of toy sized forklift working together? IDK...

edit: OK so I don't actually have them, but we have them, as a species.