Personally I am looking at the ~ 1,000 square feet I share with six other mammals, and I am not seeing where I would put a drying rack/clothes horse that wouldn't either be intensely inconvenient, or trampled in minutes.
― leave your emu at the door (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 July 2017 19:12 (six years ago) link
Yes I know they fold WHEN NOT BEING USED; the question is if I am drying four person's worth of laundry, when is a drying rack/clothes horse NOT being used?
― leave your emu at the door (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 July 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
Right, it's great when circumstances allow for it, but most people can't rely on it exclusively.
In Europe everyone relies on it exclusively, jsl
Even in London where 1) it rains every goddamned day 2) flats are v small
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
I feel not enough has been said about Lee's magisterial post about dryers.
Also, getting back to the original article.. I have lived in London for about 10 years and have literally never seen a combo washer dryer. Is it possible the author is confusing the spin cycle for a dryer function? Its purpose IS drying... but only to the extent that you can hang your clothes up without them dripping all over the floor.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
"I prefer the 'texture' of say a towel dried outside versus from a dryer."
do you also wipe your ass with sandpaper?
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:37 (six years ago) link
since hot water cleans better
― Lee626, Monday, 24 July 2017 11:45 Bookmark
no
― r|t|c, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 19:37 (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
John Wayne toiletpaper
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 24 July 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
Would wipe
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 24 July 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
I own one other person and we have quite a small apartment and it's a combo of dryer (proper dryer not a washing machine with a "would you like your clothes superheated, creased and smelling of rubbershit?” option) and clothes horse and must admit the latter is tbf pretty much a constant fixture
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 24 July 2017 20:08 (six years ago) link
"I own one other person"
I'm glad you let your slave wear clean clothes.
― akm, Monday, 24 July 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
Rumbled
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 24 July 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
Is it possible the author is confusing the spin cycle for a dryer function?
Nah, those new combo dealies are apparently dreadful at properly drying (and washing, I hear) yr shit.
As to our machines being smaller - i'd never wash a blanket at home anyway, that sort of thing's for the drycleaners surely?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
Not in my land.
Also, Trayce? Some of us machine wash our pillows.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
Oh god, I had forgot all about that horror ... I posted on facebook or something right?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
Yeh I remember seeing that and chuckling.
(But I do do it)
― Je55e, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
Y'alls water and power bills must be massive.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
Recently moved into a new apartment and was really excited about having laundry on premises for the first time in many years. My mood was deflated when I realized the machines are small, the washer loads from the top, and with the dryer you can't independently set heat level and drying time (like if you want medium heat you have to have a 40 minute cycle). Now I miss my old laundromat with its spacious machines, front-loading washers etc. where I could do more than one load at a time.
Fwiw I grew up in a pretty nice American neighborhood and still line-dried all my clothes until about 1980. So did the next-door neighbors.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:22 (six years ago) link
If I line-dried where I live right now everything'd end up covered in bird shit, so.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 05:45 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CISs0xtWoAAWFpv.jpg:large
tumble dryers are pure decadence, first thing to get banned in the new world order
― ogmor, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
respect Lee626, truth bombs
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 09:06 (six years ago) link
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, July 24, 2017 8:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I had one in Ireland until the last one broke and i had it replaced with a straight washing machine. I think we're in the same market at least at the moment as the U.K. I think I saw them over there too.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Also, getting back to the original article.. I have lived in London for about 10 years and have literally never seen a combo washer dryer. Is it possible the author is confusing the spin cycle for a dryer function? Its purpose IS drying... but only to the extent that you can hang your clothes up without them dripping all over the floor.― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, July 24, 2017 8:37 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
We had one at our when you stayed and it was shit, I think we used the dryer function precisely once.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
haha i guess that's why i never noticed!!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link