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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    I heard a rumour that the safe and correct operation of your washing machine is reliant on regular animal sacrifice before it.

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    this is strike 2, dutch people

    you'd have more strikes but I took one away because of your lack of commercials

  • GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    100 Notifcations in 20 mins

    Why did no one warn me about starting threads

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    Kochikens wrote: »
    this is strike 2, dutch people

    you'd have more strikes but I took one away because of your lack of commercials

    :(

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    this is strike 2, dutch people

    you'd have more strikes but I took one away because of your lack of commercials

    :(

    She also deducted fourteen because of the Wiets of the world, I'm sure

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  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    I can't even figure out Dutch washing machines! What good will I be when we're beset by laundry on all sides?

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    I can't even figure out Dutch washing machines! What good will I be when we're beset by laundry on all sides?

    Don't worry, it's like those old Saturday morning cartoons! When the new threat arrives, the original threat will save the day out of jealousy or some misplaced sense of honour

    What I'm saying is, murderous trams will save us all from the onslaught of Dutch washing machines

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    this thing looks like it can maybe wash a shirt a day

    how the hell am i supposed to wear clothes

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Now starting the European Laundry Service!

    For a meagre £500 per month you can join our EXCLUSIVE and ILLUSTRIOUS Member's Only Associates Club!!

    Send all your dirty laundry to the address provided once you sign up and we receive your first month's payment* and we will do your laundry for you!

    Never again struggle through obscure and aged washing machines that may have come from a negaverse!

    Never again worry about buying detergent!

    Never again know for certain that a creeper has not been sniffing your underwear!

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    also what is up with this separate toilet room and shower room


    and the lack of mirrors over sinks

    what the heck

  • JunpeiJunpei Registered User regular
    Should've come to the UK, we would treat you right.

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Kochikens wrote: »
    also what is up with this separate toilet room and shower room

    That seems to be an occasional thing all over

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    you're too expensive!!!

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    Solar wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    also what is up with this separate toilet room and shower room

    That seems to be an occasional thing all over

    its dumb
    like, I understand its intentions. So if someone is showering you can still poop

    but its a tiny one bedroom apartment I mean cmon jesus christ, you could have saved so much space, maybe enough to not have to stack the stove ontop of the fridge!!

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    That does seem pretty wasteful. How Dutch of them.

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Kochikens wrote: »
    you're too expensive!!!

    For less money you can join the inclusive and infamous public version of the same.

    Up to 12% of your laundry will be returned soiled in some fashion, often not visible to the naked eye!

  • BogeyBogey I'm back, baby! Santa Monica, CAModerator Mod Emeritus
    Crazy Europe stories are the best!

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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    also what the hell

    shelf toilets

    whyyyy
    WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    Are you sure you're in Amsterdam and not in, say, Germany? I didn't think there were any shelf toilets in this country.

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    So that you can examine your poopies, Kochi!

    Gotta examine those poopies.

    take a reaaaaaaaaal good look at them.

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    ugh

    shelf toilet with no lid

    barbaric terrifying washer

    two separate rooms

    what is this I don't even
    how do dudes even pee with this thing standing up that seems like pure chaos

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    Are you sure you're in Amsterdam and not in, say, Germany? I didn't think there were any shelf toilets in this country.

    Really? I saw heaps of shelf toilets. You're in Utrecht, right?

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Theory!

    Kochi was given a joke flat that is kept for new immigrants, everyone in Amsterdam is in on the joke and secretly laughing at her, if she lasts a month without complaining they will accept her as one of them and move her into a real flat, if she complains they will think she is rude and while she may be allowed to remain in the city, she will never be truly part of the community.

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    I'm in Breda, and I haven't ever seen one of those heinous things around. Guess I must live in the civilised south.

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    I've never seen someone have a Europe-induced breakdown before.

    Deep breaths, Kochi.

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    awesome

    awesome

    also the front door of the building is apparently busted, it wasn't just me being stupid as shit
    though it was me being canadian and unaware of these stupid YOU GOTTA TURN THE KEY A MILLION TIMES IN THE SAME DIRECTION locks in general

    I was hoping to live near the canals but man, if all the apartments are this ghetto, fuck this noise, I want to poop like a civilized human being and shower in the same room, do laundry not in terror, have a dryer, and, AND, not have my stove ontop of my fridge. Those are my demands

    if these are fulfilled

    ill be willing to ride a bike

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    smof wrote: »
    I've never seen someone have a Europe-induced breakdown before.

    Deep breaths, Kochi.

    HUFF
    HUFF
    THIS COUNTRY IS JUST SO SILLY

    cupboard full of cleaners, I just sat and stared at them, trying to parse what those eight different bottles were meant for. Then I just started using them and crossed my fingers that one wouldn't turn out to be Acid.

  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    be less poor and rent a decent place.

    /snark off

    you do seem to have ended up in quite the shithole.

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    Do not worry I am not paying for this, that is its saving grace

  • TefTef Registered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    I'm in Breda, and I haven't ever seen one of those heinous things around. Guess I must live in the civilised south.

    Actually yeah. I don't think I ever saw one for the few weeks I was in Maastricht! I don't know if Maastricht counts as the civilised south or the deep, dirty Belgium-tainted South though

    help a fellow forumer meet their mental health care needs because USA healthcare sucks!

    Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better

    bit.ly/2XQM1ke
  • bwaniebwanie Posting into the void Registered User regular
    edited July 2012
    You get to check your stool and most important, none of that awful splashing business. What's not to love?

    bwanie on
  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Addendum: Splashing may still occur.

    It just.

    Won't be water.

    HTH! :rotate:

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    Tef wrote: »
    Wiet wrote: »
    I'm in Breda, and I haven't ever seen one of those heinous things around. Guess I must live in the civilised south.

    Actually yeah. I don't think I ever saw one for the few weeks I was in Maastricht! I don't know if Maastricht counts as the civilised south or the deep, dirty Belgium-tainted South though

    Maastricht is actually quite lovely! Its the rest of that province that is usually a bit crappy.

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  • jippeejippee Registered User regular
    Kochikens wrote: »

    OK let me try to give you the simple dutch way:
    • Take Pic 3 and pour powder/liqued soap in the left bit of the drawer
    • Stuff the machine with clothes till it bursts (Bosch is a good brand and it can take loads)
    • Go to pic 2 and set the temperatuur dial to 40º (most detergents are made for that and it saves tons of energy)
    - Except for blood the stains you might have sustained from your surprise forays onto cycle lanes and or turfsteken -
    • Set the centrifugeren dial to 600 (makes less ruckus and saves energy)
    • Press on and try to forget all the other buttons
    • Dry your stuff on a clothesline/rack and inspect when dry.
    • Not clean? try a higher temp. (but check the labels in your clothes first)
    That ought to do it.


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  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    Well done, @jippee!

  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    jippee is ruining my business model.

    I am going to go poor and starve now.

  • LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    You'll never be a good washerwoman with that attitude!

  • WietWiet Mao Mao Registered User regular
    My cat is snoring like a chainsaw now.

    Should I bring him to Scotland?

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  • FyndirFyndir Registered User regular
    Wiet wrote: »
    My cat is snoring like a chainsaw now.

    Should I bring him to Scotland?

    Be sure to hang a sign reading "NOT FOR EATING" around his neck if you do.

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    ....

    so I just attempted to follow your instructions jippee
    did anyone else just notice that in the photos the on button is pressed??

    because I just did
    because when I went to press that button i realized it was already pressed, and unpressing, pressing, press press press did dick all

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