Thread: Pry my clothes line from my cold dead fingers...

Originally Posted by Stumpy

And other Brits seem to have been beaten for leaving the immersion heater on. God forbid they ever washed clothes in hot water. Thank god we have natural / propane gas water heaters eh Snubs? Hot water 24/7 and you pick the water temperature in the washer both clothes and dish. Must be foreign to some.

Dishwasher???

Now you're just showing off.

Originally Posted by bsnub

You watch to much TV.

Had to go up the road to my Grandauntie Gladys's hoose for that.

^ posh bastards we had to press our face to the radio rentals shop window

Originally Posted by malmomike77

posh bastards we had to press our face to the radio rentals shop window

Luxury we used to strap a tobacco tin to Nissan hut with a piece of pyjama string to catch Glen Miller rehearsing Chittynuder Choo Choo
Tell young people to day and they won't believe

Fuck climate change if I could get a dishwasher. Wifey uses about 20 dishes a day.

Maybe that's enough episodes of 'Why My Marriage Broke Down'.

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

Had to go up the road to my Grandauntie Gladys's hoose for that.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

posh bastards we had to press our face to the radio rentals shop window

Originally Posted by david44

Tell young people to day and they won't believe

We got a cardboard box for xmas and made our own tv.

Originally Posted by bsnub

This page has me horrified, from the nightmarish food postings to the hanging laundry.

I mean, who actually has one of those laundry things hanging in the backyard? Much less to actually use it?

No one suggests that you have to dry your drag custume or your girlfriend's strap-on on the line.

For God's and the neighbor's kids sake.

Originally Posted by bsnub

We in the US are far removed from the 1940s. Apparently not so much in other places.

We know


You do behave as you were in the 1740s.

BC

What's so bad about the latter half of the 1940s?

Bet they were at it like rabbits.

Eh?

Eh?

All those piles of ruins?

Why else would the Queen Mother ave ung abaat there?

^^ American consumerism since the 1940's.. a big contributor to climate change.

We dry clothes outside in Thailand like most but never in direct sunlight, instead we have a wash house which has the washing machines in and a roofed over drying area with racks to hang the clothes up. Instead of ye traditional bamboo poles to hang them on I put up 1/2 inch water pipe with rebar through the centre, lasted 12 years and counting

This thread is clearly overrun with a bunch of geriatric, crotchety boomers.



In my day, I had to walk 20 miles to the closest river to do the washing...

Let's not neglect the monster of consumerism that is air conditioning, god bless America

Originally Posted by Joe 90

Let's not neglect the monster of consumerism that is air conditioning, god bless America

AC is the single largest reduction in the spread of Malaria and other mosquito borne diseases.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

AC is the single largest reduction in the spread of Malaria and other mosquito borne diseases.

it is also what allows 99% of expats to tolerate the swamp...as well as offering cooler temps and fewer cases of heat stroke to millions of cash-bearing tourists...

I tried living in Thailand with no A/C. FAIL.

Originally Posted by Neverna

I think most blokes on here have a dishwasher at home. She's a keeper if she does all the cooking and ironing too.


Well When I coke, I do my own dishes. But when my wife cooks for everyone she does it all. I like cooking my dinner meals. Seldom ever make lunch. My wife does all the laundry, folds and puts away. Changes the bedding weekly and makes up the bed every day where you could drop a quarter on the sheets and it would bounce. Almost military style which I love.










Edit: Can I say that in 2023?

Originally Posted by Neverna

Edit: Can I say that in 2023?

Carefully.....mind you.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

AC is the single largest reduction in the spread of Malaria and other mosquito borne diseases.

Yep. SE Asia is a must for AC

Originally Posted by tomcat

it is also what allows 99% of expats to tolerate the swamp...as well as offering cooler temps and fewer cases of heat stroke to millions of cash-bearing tourists...

I only use AC at night in my bedroom as I like how it conditions the air and it offers a comfortable sleep environment. Rest of the time is fans. Also as noted above, I never sleep at night with windows open here....EVER. Not gonna fight skeeters. Even with good screens they get in and all it takes is one to pass on Dengue fever.

^ Your choice of course, but the Aedes mosquito is active during the day... you'll be bitten walking around the garden in daylight rather than in bed at night.

Originally Posted by katie23

Some have the washer+spin dryer only, some have the washer-drier combo. I haven't seen anyone who bought a separate dryer - we have the sun for that.

We originally had a washer dryer combo system like you mentioned Katie. They do not work very well at all unless you do super small loads which means you are doing laundry constantly. We have a big washer and a large Electrolux dryer and my wife can do all the laundry in a few hours. I couldn't imagine my wife doing it all and hanging it out anymore. I remember all the times of her doing it and either the rain would come or big wind and blow the rack over, especially with bed covers and sheets. Used to make her mad as hell and I felt bad. So Dryer it is and no way we will go back to hanging out clothes anymore.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ Your choice of course, but the Aedes mosquito is active during the day... you'll be bitten walking around the garden in daylight rather than in bed at night.

Understood Mendy but not taking any chances. Simply not worth it when you do not have too. But its personal preference of course. I do not like sweating at night and kicking the bed sheets off, then pull them back on. Our electric bill here is pretty consistent and not very much overall. Just a comfort thing. My wife loves AC in the room at night. She uses none during the day even with brutal summer temps , same with me. I turn on fan at the pool bar and pour me a nice ice cold one. Takes that edge right off along with a dive in the pool....

stumpy

car towels

oh please.

everyone else uses their old t shirts, underpants or even a chamois to wipe down their motor. but stumpy god bless him has car towels.

probably kept in a custom built aluminium cupboard with pontiac and penzoil stickers on it.

How to dry clothes.

I'm right, you're wrong, x 123.