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Off topic & small talk: Silly stories from the household

Topic created on 14th Oct. 2024 | Page: 1 of 2 | Answers: 21 | Views: 1,369
Pat1991
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Silly stories from the household

14th Oct. 2024, at 11:09 pm CEST#1
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Hello,

it's time for another stupid thread from me This time it's about stupid stories from the household. Let me start:

A year ago, I wanted to inaugurate our new kitchen. So I ordered a pack of these super tabs for the dishwasher, which supposedly do everything... With a citrus scent or something.

The result: all the plates had a strange film on them and the food tasted incredibly disgusting.

In the end, the manufacturer sent me a free replacement bag with a postcard saying "Sorry" on it.

True story

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Donnie
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Silly stories from the household

14th Oct. 2024, at 11:42 pm CEST#2
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In my first apartment when I was 18, where I lived alone, I fell asleep overtired with a lasagna in the oven (a normal stove with no frills or automatic switch-off) and woke up 3 hours later. The lasagna was black and no longer edible. I had laid down on the couch beforehand and fell asleep when I came home from work, I had a nice eat-in kitchen. I was very lucky that nothing caught fire, it could have turned out badly

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Falko
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Silly stories from the household

14th Oct. 2024, at 11:55 pm CEST#3
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Two years ago, when I was upstairs in my room and then went downstairs, the whole hallway, the whole kitchen and the whole living room were full of water and water was also running down the stairs into the cellar. A pipe had burst in the kitchen. This in turn led to a lot of unpleasant work. The only consolation was that we had buildings insurance.

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frapi07
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Silly stories from the household

15th Oct. 2024, at 12:06 am CEST#4
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The washing machine wasn't connected properly (I'm innocent here). At some point I came home from work and half the apartment was flooded. I had to spend 2 or even 3 hours cleaning everything dry.

When we first moved in, the toilet was really easy to block. We called a friend who had a rotary valve and he helped us unclog the toilet. It was a huge mess (I'll spare you all the details). But it didn't help. So we called the landlord and had the problem investigated with the Risk that we might have to pay the costs. It turned out that the construction had been sloppy and it had to be redone.

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MisterL
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Silly stories from the household

15th Oct. 2024, at 12:17 am CEST#5
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Pipe burst in the kitchen

very strange

reason that I no longer have anything to do with insurance
what should the flood victims say

it's all not kosha with the Insurance industry

hopefully it was worth it with the broken pipe in the kitchen

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MisterL
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Silly stories from the household

15th Oct. 2024, at 12:35 am CEST#6
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what is Frontex actually for?

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Donnie
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Silly stories from the household

15th Oct. 2024, at 12:38 am CEST#7
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frapi07 wrote on 15.10.2024 at 00:06: Washing machine was not connected properly (I am innocent here). At some point I came home from work and half the apartment was flooded. Was allowed to clean everything dry for 2 or even 3 hours.

When we first moved in, the toilet was really easy to block. We called a friend who had a rotary valve and he helped us unclog the toilet. It was a huge mess (I'll spare you all the details). But it didn't help. So we called the landlord and had the problem investigated with the Risk that we might have to pay the costs. It turned out that the construction had been sloppy and it had to be redone.

Once the toilet was blocked, we had to arrange for someone to come and clean it or buy something like a plunger or something. Then I googled on the internet and it said to use the toilet brush to create pressure in the drain/toilet by pushing it up and down (can't explain it well) and the blockage was gone. I didn't think it would be so easy to solve the problem😅

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frapi07
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15th Oct. 2024, at 06:29 am CEST#8
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Donnie wrote on 15.10.2024 at 00:38:
Once toilet was clogged, already set up to have someone come or have to buy some stuff like suction cup or something. Then I googled on the internet, it said you should create pressure with the toilet brush in the drain/toilet by pushing it up and down (can't explain it well) and bang, the blockage was gone. I didn't think it would be so easy to solve the problem😅

It's not really an art to clear a blockage like this, but something was wrong with our system so that it was regularly blocked. It was unacceptable. I don't know what exactly was wrong back then, but if I remember correctly, something was so badly built that it couldn't drain properly. I don't remember, it was over 20 years ago

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upola
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Silly stories from the household

15th Oct. 2024, at 11:13 am CEST#9
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A few years ago, I came home from work on Saturday and popped a few buns in the oven. I sat down and did something on the computer. Suddenly the fire alarms went off and the whole place was full of smoke, even in the hallway the fire alarms went off. I didn't take my oven gloves out of the oven.
The neighbors had already called the fire department. They stormed into the apartment and just shouted out. So I grabbed my cat and got out. Thank God it was only smoking and not on fire.
My wife was delighted when she came home from work. Luckily the Insurance paid out.

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Pat1991
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Silly stories from the household

16th Oct. 2024, at 02:04 am CEST#10
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When I was 16, my father had to go into hospital and my mother couldn't cook me anything for lunch. So she made me a pizza and put it in the oven raw.

Unfortunately, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. put me off for a few hours. It was only a few hours later that I had the idea to turn on the oven.

When the pizza was baked, I was amazed: the thing was about three times as big as usual, the dough had turned into a porous mass and there was still topping somewhere inside.

The yeast had done a great job

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Mallpall
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Silly stories from the household

16th Oct. 2024, at 07:47 am CEST#11
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Back then in my first apartment I had to buy a new washing machine; proud as punch I started the first wash cycle and waited - after about 20 minutes it started banging around and dancing through the bathroom; I had the impression that it was about to tear down the wall.

I forgot to unscrew the safety screws. (of course I didn't read the instructions beforehand)

That was an action.... xD

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frapi07
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Silly stories from the household

16th Oct. 2024, at 10:23 am CEST#12
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Mallpall wrote on 16.10.2024 at 07:47: Back in my first apartment I had to buy a new washing machine; proud as punch I put in the first wash cycle and waited - after about 20 minutes it started rolling around and dancing through the bathroom; I had the impression that the wall was about to tear down.

I forgot to unscrew the safety screws. (of course I didn't read the instructions beforehand)

That was an action.... xD

Who reads the operating instructions? Just it will fit!

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Donnie
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16th Oct. 2024, at 10:51 am CEST#13
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frapi07 wrote on October 16th, 2024 at 10:23 am:

Who reads the instruction manuals? Just on it will fit!

What keeps you from reading manuals? Being the cool stud? With some things you have to do it, especially if they are new or you need to know how to do something. You can see what can happen if you try to be cool and resistant to advice. If he hadn't been at home (there are people who leave a washing machine running while they're not at home, so start it and go out and do things) it could have caused a lot of damage

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Mallpall
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Silly stories from the household

16th Oct. 2024, at 11:42 am CEST#14
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Donnie wrote on 10/16/2024 10:51 AM:
What's keeping you from reading instruction manuals? Being the cool stud? With some things you have to do it especially when they are new or something needs to know how to do it. You see what can happen when you play it cool and are resistant to advice. If he hadn't been at home (there are people who leave a washing machine running while they're not at home, so start it and go out and do things) it could have caused a lot of damage


Cool And I'm not resistant to advice; I'm happy to be proven wrong...

That was just my first apartment and the first machine I bought myself.
I was 19 at the time.
I thought it was bought 'ready to use'... I was never told anything about safety screws...
Falls under the category...
"Learned something for life"

When I told my father this, he had to laugh quite a bit...

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frapi07
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16th Oct. 2024, at 12:04 pm CEST#15
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Donnie wrote on 10/16/2024 10:51 AM:
What's keeping you from reading instruction manuals? Being the cool stud? With some things you have to do it especially when they are new or something needs to know how to do it. You see what can happen when you try to be cool and resistant to advice. If he hadn't been at home (there are people who leave a washing machine running while they're not at home, so start it and go out and do things) it could have caused a lot of damage

Nonsense, that's not why I don't read most of them. Some are so badly written that it's not worth reading them. It's different with German products, of course.


I can also tell you a story that happened to me two days ago. It wasn't an instruction manual, but a tutorial video on YouTube - something similar. It wasn't from XY either, but from the ADAC. The video isn't old either, I think it's about 1 year old or so, so it's quite recent. I needed a jump start and wanted to get some good information. I did it the way the ADAC guy explained it. I had also made extra notes. He said that you should attach the black cable to the negative terminal of the donor vehicle and, when the car is empty, not to the negative terminal, but to the ground point (metal point somewhere in the engine compartment) : Jumper the car battery correctly | Easy. Do it yourself. Do it yourself. | ADAC - YouTube (from 3:10 minute). What happened? It started to give off smoke - so I quickly disconnected the cable and plugged it into the negative terminal and then it worked. Fortunately, nothing happened, neither to the vehicles nor to the cable.

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