The Kenmore Elite bottom-freezer refrigerator with ice and water through the door. Damn thing was the most expensive refrigerator Sears had. Cost us around $3,000.00. It freezes the meats and vegetables in the storage drawers no matter what temperature you set the refrigerator or freezer to. I've wasted way too much of my time off from work to have Sears repair this gynormous hunk of feces. Come to find out that virtually everbody who purchased one of these damn things is having the same problem. I give up. I now store the veggies in the 20 year old refrigerator that was left out in the garage by the previous owner of the house. It works fine.
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Bad Expensive Appliances.....
by restrangled inlet me tell you, bosch from germany is out!
i have a very high end oven that cost us $1200.00 (floor model ) originally $1600.00 two years ago, its also a convection oven.. while i was broiling some garlic bread on "low" tonight a portion of the top element decided to catch fire and then quit working.
i keep my oven very clean.
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The loss of a 70' musician
by worldtraveller inthe beer was empty and our tongues were tired .
and running out of things to say .
she gave a kiss to me as i got out and i watched her drive away .
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I've always liked Dan Fogelberg even though he wasn't popular with my generation.... Great music has no expiration date. Anyway, they just don't make music like his anymore, or at least the people who do make music like his don't get any radio play. Speaking as a song writer and musician, he will be missed and losing someone of his talent is a great loss.
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The Mighty Led Zeppelin Soars Again !!
by flipper ini know brent r. had a thread on this yesterday or day before , but in honor of my personal all-time favorite group, i had to write a few things here !
if some of you have seen the u-tube of them performing songs with john bonham's son jason on drums , it was an incredible performance !
watching their expertise on " stairway to heaven " and " kashmir " was like being back in high school again, like they never went away !
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Led Zeppelin Rules! By the time I was born they weren't performing anymore (if I remember correctly). But, Led Zeppelin rocks. Always have, always will. There's no age limit for great music. There's no expiration date on Mozart and there's no expiration date on Led Zeppelin. I just wish I could see them perform live!
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Add your own biblical commandment
by JH inthou shall not turn around and look at the rear end of someone walking by you .
ok, now you know i'm nuts...lol.
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I don't know if any of you have ever heard George Carlin's routine on the 10 commandments, but I like how he condensed all 10 into just 2 easy to understand commandments. Here they are:
1. Thou shalt always be honest and faithful to the provider of thy nookie.
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How many Christmas yard ornaments is too many I ask? (New Pictures)
by erynw inthere is a house in my neighborhood that has to hold the record for christmas decorations in their yard.
the neighborhood i live in has one road in and out so we can't avoid this eyesore.. i swear, they have every inflatable, plastic, lit up, wire formed, animated yard decoration that has ever been manufactured.
it looks like k-mart threw up in their yard.. they have enough lights on the house, bushes, trees, eaves, roof, fence to signal the mothership into a safe landing from any galaxy in the universe.
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Wow. I didn't even do outside decorations this year. We move to a new house and I don't have a ladder big enough to do the outside lights. Besides, it was 75 degrees outside yesterday. It just doesn't feel very "Christmasy" to me yet. It's supposed to get cold this weekend. Maybe I'll put the reindeer or something out there.
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I had a problem with online credit card fraud. Someone got the information somehow through paypal. I had to cancel my credit card and cancel my paypal account. I now have another paypal account and so far everything's been cool.
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Vasectomy Horror Stories- Have Any? Or Normal Vasectomy Stories ?
by flipper inwell, i know you all pretty well now after 9 months of being on board , so i feel o.k.
to approach this subject.
this subject is a pretty touchy one for most of us men, especially those of us that have been put under the " knife" , and got to the point where we did not want any more children.
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I think doctors in general don't have a real appreciation for pain. This includes dentists, too. I've had doctors wanting to do things to me with little or no anesthesia. What the hell is wrong with those people? It's not the Civil War anymore, we have medicine! My wife had to have some biopsies done and the sadistic bastard of a doctor did them with no anesthesia, and then on top of that, he didn't give her a prescription for pain medication. He told her to just take a couple Tylenol. My wife called him the next morning because not only was she in severe pain, it appeared that she had an infection. Of course, you NEVER get the doctor on the phone, just his assistant dog-washer or whoever-the-hell they let answer the phone around there. The doctor didn't call back all day or call in the prescription. My wife called me at work crying and telling me that she has been waiting all day to get a prescription called in. I had to call his office and threaten violence to get them to call in a prescription. I told him that the only thing that was saving his ass at that particular moment was the fact that his office closed in 20 minutes and I was 30 minutes away. I think every doctor should have to be cut, gouged, proddded, burned, drilled, and anything else that they like to do to their patients on a daily basis. That way, they would know exactly how it feels and why they should give people enough pain medicine before they start hacking away at you. There's no such thing as "normal pain".
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No Christmas Vibe??
by LouBelle ini am at an iffy place with christmas this year - i don't know if i'm not trying hard enough, or if this has just been a really difficult year, but i've lost my christmas groove.
and it's not just me.. so many that i've spoken to are saying the same things.
even the shopping malls haven't gone all out - i don't hear christmas music, they've got some decorations up but nothing that shouts ""christmas is here"".
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I just don't feel it. Hell, I haven't even done any shopping yet. We did manage to get the tree up and the indoor decorations done. I just don't feel it at all. I wish I did, because I love to "feel" Christmas, but it just ain't happening. Maybe I need a candy cane.
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Christmas shopping unhealthy for men.
by BrentR inmost of us guys hate shopping and now there was a study done on the psysiologic effects of shopping on men.
so ladies, when we don't want to go shopping with you don't take it personal.
it might be relaxing and enjoyable for you but it has the opposite effect on men.. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/1998/12/22/xmasshop981222.html.
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Uriah, it sounds like you've been shopping with my wife! I got dragged to the mall 3 times last weekend. I get dragged from store to store, then she asks me an opinion on something, I give her my honest opinion and then she treats me like an idiot because obviously my opinion is wrong, then of course I get to hear "You said that just to shut me up". Dude, I think all the women get a little manual to read when they get married detailing how to torture their husbands with shopping. When I go shopping, first I need a reason to be there. I know WHY I'm going to the store (to purchase a particular item), I know WHAT store I need to get it at, I actually PURCHASE it, and then I go HOME! I don't waste all day and gallons of gas trying to find something at multiple stores when I don't even know why I'm there.
I had only one shopping goal last weekend: To purchase a watch battery for my wife's watch. I know what battery the watch needed. I know where to buy the battery. And, I know how to get back home and put the battery in the watch. But, because she dragged me to stores from 7:30 AM to 11:00 PM Saturday, I didn't get to go to the electronics store to buy the battery. So, Sunday morning I hear: "You didn't do a thing yesterday; at least you could have fixed my watch!" I almost had a stroke!
And it is very stressful for a man trying to purchase a gift for his wife. The first reason is that wives don't want to tell their husbands what they want. We desperately want our wives to be happy with our purchases for them, but most of the time they aren't. Women have this fantasy that if a man really loves you, he should automatically know what she wants and give it to her without having to ask her. I only wish that was true the other way around. Because, if things worked that way, my wife would automatically know that the only thing I want for any occasion is a BJ, she would automatically do that every time without being asked. Oh well. I guess that means she doesn't love me. hee hee.
The second reason is that unless you are one of the rare men who have an unlimited source of income and an unlimited amount of free time, most of the crap that society has convinced women they need as a gift is way too expensive for most average men to easily afford. Throw a couple of children or other family members in there to buy gifts for, and the money worries cause enough stress to kill a man.
So, holiday times are hell for men. It's one of the many reasons that men die before the women. Imagine ladies.... the stress of holiday shopping for men is the same stress level as being shot at! Sucks to be us!
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How do you feel about Photo Radar?
by Funchback inrecently, in my great city of phoenix, arizona, i received a notice of violation for speeding even though the actual person (a woman) who was captured by the photo radar was driving a car which wasn't mine with a plate that wasn't registered to me.
i took it to the media and they did an interview with me, which you can see here: www.kpho.com/video/14785490/index.html.
my biggest issue or concern is that i am jumping through hoops to clear this up with the arizona department of public safety.
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My opinion? Every night when I get home from work I watch the news. And every night there's a new robbery or murder or some other crime in this town that the police just don't seem to have the funds or manpower to take care of. And yet, every morning and every evening those doughnut-munching morons are out on the side of the road with their radar guns writing tickets to all of the good working people of this world. Why do they do this, I ask? They say that it is for "public safety". As far as I can tell, nobody was ever raped, robbed, or murded while exceeding the "speed limit" while going to work in the morning. It's all about money and picking on an easy target. My safety has never been in jeopardy because I was driving 65 miles an hour in a 55 mile an hour zone. My safety has been in jeopardy, however, when driving through the bad part of town at night that the police won't patrol because they don't have the time or people because they're all out saving us all from that most terrible of criminal elements: the speeder.
In fact, speeders are so dangerous and they are such ravenous, preadatory criminals that the police have stepped up their efforts to stop these law breaking bastards once and for all! Now, we have speeding cameras! So, even when there aren't any cops around, the cameras can catch them in the act. After all, we wouldn't want one single person to get to work 5 minutes faster in the morning! Hell, if people started getting to work quicker, the world might stop turning and fling us all off into outer space and that would be bad.
We all know why the police target speeders. Let's be honest. Because most of the people who are out on the road are easy targets. We're working people usually going to or comming home from work. Being the productive memebers of society that we are, we obey the officer, pull over, take our ticket with a smile on our face, and then send in the payment. Most of us don't even go to court. Why? We have jobs, that's why! They know that we will not flee the police or resist the officer or take the time off from work to even dispute a ticket because that would mean screwing up our jobs and our lives. It's easy money, all day long. An actual criminal will flee the police and kill a police officer if necessary to avoid capture and jail time. It's simply too risky for police to persue those people, and, besides, there's no money in that! The local news here in Atlanta runs stories all the time exposing memos sent to local officers instructing them to write more tickets to generate revenue.
Oh, and let's talk about red light cameras! I am against these cameras for two reasons. The first is that the traffic lights that have these cameras are set up differently to write more tickets. It's a fact. The local news here actually timed the lights and proved it. The yellow light is at least 1 second shorter at the camera-equipped traffic light than it is at the traffic lights without cameras. As a result, not only does it screw up the flow of traffic and screw people with crooked tickets, but it leads to my second reason for not liking red light cameras. Every traffic light where they've installed these cameras have seen the number of rear-end collisions at those lights double. Why? Because so many people have been screwed by the crooked red light camera tickets, everybody now slams their brake pedal with both feet the minute the light turns yellow, and the person behind them hits them. Let me say that I think that people who run red lights should be ticketed. They are infinitely more dangerous than any speeder. The police should write tickets for this, but most of the time they don't. The police should be patrolling the streets and finding dangerous drivers, especially those who run red lights and risk killing people every time they do this. But, the police have treated this as just another opportunity for generating revenue and it has backfired and has become the cause of more accidents.
Sorry to be so long-winded, but this is has been a sore spot with me for many years. Well, gotta go to lunch now. Just hope I don't get a ticket!