There are moments when I miss the stupid useless awards from Reddit.
Here you go … it was given to me and now I’m giving it to you.
my microwave has a wheel
And if my grandma had wheels she’d have been a bicycle
I’m not sure 160 is 2 minutes on my microwave.
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Had a friend who got a microwave that instead of a numpad it had a dial like a volume knob. It was so irritating for some reason to twist it and then have to turn it the opposite way to correct it. Like you wanted 45 seconds and you’d twist and it’s be at 1:30, youd scroll back, 35… 50, fuck it good enough. I just would twist it to a number and then stop it 45 seconds in after I realized it was that way
Every microwave I’ve ever lived with has had a knob to input time. Maybe this is a regional thing?
My old one was completely analog and just had dials for time and power and a single button to open the door. Truly an efficient interface!
Sub-Thought: I wonder how many people punch in “1:00” instead of “60”?
Answer: not enough. Sub-sub-thought: of those people, how many open the door at 0:01 to avoid the bell?
If they do that, they’d better fucking clear the timer.
“9999” equals 1 hour, 40 mins, and 39 seconds
Clearly shows that hours and minutes are messy units. The French Revolution fixed a lot of stupid problems, but decimal time just didn’t stick for some reason.
Cannot say why decimal time didn’t stick, but a similarly-proposed semi-decimal calendar with 12 months of 3 weeks each of 10 days was abandoned in France solely because Napoleon didn’t like it.
It was also designed to frustrate Sunday church attendance because Sundays being every seven days would usually fall on a weekday on a workweek based on a ten-day week. While Revolutionary France experimented with state atheism and then deism, it eventually returned to Catholicism.
France spread its decimal measurements (the metre, gram, and litre) to the countries that Napoleon conquered or tried to conquer, but by that time, France was well beyond the “stamp out all semblance of religion” phase of its revolution, so a calendar designed with the intent to stifle religious attendance in mind was never going to stick very long once the French had left those territories. Besides, doing maths on length, volume, and mass is something that people do far more often than performing those calculations on dates. Sure, it would have made some things more convenient, but I’m guessing that for most people, the ten-day weeks just stuck out like a sore thumb.
