Comments on: When refrigerators speak

By: Somebody Else

Somebody Else — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:01:41 +0000

Talking refrigerators are cool.

Mutters to self: And I was *first*. I could have written that *first*. I could have been somebody. I coulda been a contender!

bangs head repeatedly …

By: Nocturnesthesia

Nocturnesthesia — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:17:45 +0000

That’s PC-speak for “I don’t want any stanky diarrhea-inducing fishy-curried-clam sauce-bullshit that close to my American food”

By: Geoff_Modulate

Geoff_Modulate — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:02:23 +0000

Does this imply that people actually ask where their lunch from last week is after it’s been in the fridge at work for a week?

Now either it’s gone really bad…in which case, let them eat it and suffer the consequences.

Or it hasn’t, in which case, what’s the problem?

By: Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff

Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:44:35 +0000

I would reformat everything because I’m socially awkward and neurotic and would worry about what the person reading the form would think of me if I didn’t.

By: Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff

Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:42:15 +0000

In a very real sense it’s completely justified, Park Rose, you’re right.

By: harv33

harv33 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:06:56 +0000

I think the talking fridge idea was cute… luckily, I was able to get what the fridge meant

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:15:05 +0000

It’s a box lunch. Fish taco.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:17:24 +0000

Refrigerators are wall-flowers.

By: PANs_Labyrinth

PANs_Labyrinth — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:51:42 +0000

This in stark contrast to microwaves, some of which can’t seem to stop being whiny attention-seekers, and coffee-makers that are generally very forward and sometimes even downright rude.

By: PANs_Labyrinth

PANs_Labyrinth — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:48:34 +0000

Totally, I just can’t imagine a yelling fridge. All the ones I know are pretty laid-back types; besides storing and cooling food, they don’t really get up to much. Definitely not the kind of appliance I’d call the life and soul of the kitchen/break room party.

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:12:04 +0000

You do use a fourth period to represent the end of the sentence.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:32:02 +0000

Totally. Refrigerators wouldn’t yell.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:30:58 +0000

Is it Magic Hat beer? I fully support stocking the fridge with alcohol at work. Drink enough and it’ll talk all right. Maybe even dance. That sounds scary, but I always have the pink elephants to protect me when the appliances animate.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:26:12 +0000

Where I work, we use a standard form to describe things we need to fund in the future so we can adequately budget. It is not uncommon for people to cut and paste from other documents into the form. Naturally, they wouldn’t bother to reformat everything, and sometimes they’d throw in other formatting to create emphasis. So it was not uncommon to suddenly have a section in the form that was in a different font, centered with odd hard returns (like this), bolded, and underlined. It would make me insane because it is so very jarring.

And I’d be less inclined to support funding them.