Let me put you in the picture, let me show you what it means

[venta]

You'd think that, by now, I'd have exhausted all my weird words and phrase. Or, at any rate, learned which ones of them would get me funny looks. Apparently not, though.

Last night I sent a text message which ended "... and once you've found your keys you'll be framing".

I got the response "framing?"

Er... ok. You know the drill now, don't you? Clicky time!

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And not relatedly: microwaves. Why are they so complicated? I don't want to be able to set 10% power for a fish-based plated meal of 350g, I want to choose a time and press "go". Full power.

Do people really use these features? Assuming we're not talking about combination microwaves and ovens, or anything like that, does anyone do anything other than full power, go?

I'm perfectly happy that such microwaves are on offer, for those as want them, but why are there none available which have basically a time dial and a big green button?

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Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Mine came from Robert Dyas and has a power dial and a time dial and that's it.

Sounds great :)

I guess the trouble is, I didn't buy our microwave, I was given it by a friend after she had a rented-house-too-many-microwaves issue. So I didn't choose it. And it was very nice of her to give me hers :)

Since it still works, it doesn't make sense to replace it just because it has a UI which is cleverer than I am. If it blows up (or I kill it in my incendiary carrot experiments) I shall certainly be checking out Robert Dyas or Argos for simpler designs.