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55 min wash, approx 60-90 to dry is what my current machines do, but when i was in a flat and had a washer dryer unit we just stuck the clothes in when we went to bed and they would be washed and dried by morning so it was basically irrelevant how long it took but 5 hours was pretty standard iirc.

Same with my apartment unit. The non-vent machines take ****ing forever.

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10-17-2011 , 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Eskimos have like 50 words for ice.

false

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In indonesian there are two separate words for "we": one includes the person who is addressed, the other one excludes them.

"they"

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10-17-2011 , 08:18 AM

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They isnt the same.

Adam is talking to Steve about Bob and he says "we should go to a bar sometime". In indonesia, apparently, you have specific words for whether "we" means Steve, Adam and Bob, or just Adam and Bob. Clearly "they should go to a bar sometime" makes no sense.

I dunno if we need to complex up one of the most complex languages by having another "we", but it is theoretically advantageous. Unlike the female, male and neutral nouns that exist in German and French which is just completely 100% dumb.

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10-17-2011 , 09:10 AM

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oh misread that, w/e

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10-18-2011 , 06:53 AM

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Youse guys

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10-18-2011 , 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by dkgojackets

in england at the grocery store there was just one long line that led to all the registers. I found this to be superior so you dont have to make decisions about which line to go to and end up stuck behind someone trying to argue about their ten cent coupons

that's not universal here, varies from place to place

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Self checkout tills, at least the types where you swipe barcodes, are going to be phased out in a lot of places, with them probably just being kept for novelty niche value in some larger places. They cost more to run than hiring people at min wage and have a lower item/minute sale ratio. A lot of models are also notoriously unreliable. The ones that Morrisons has under license often spend more time broken than working at my local supermarkets

well yeah, the morrison's ones are terrible but most other places are ok - they're somewhat useful if you're only buying a very small number of things that don't require someone to check it off anyway (i.e. booze). now if only they could incorporate that contactless payment via rfid that my card supposedly does that i've never seen anywhere accept

and yeah, that whole americans not including tax in the listed price thing i found incredibly ******ed

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06-19-2018 , 10:08 AM

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Taking shoes off when inside so you don't track dirt and disease everywhere.

24:00 time instead of lol AM/PM.

Vehicle registration stickers being affixed to the interior of the windshield, complete with scannable code.