I never had a microwave magnetron give out, they last far longer than the plastic housing, plastic handles, hollow frames and thin plastic films over the buttons. I’ve also lost five vacuum cleaners of various brands in the last decade, full on smoke and melted plastic. Only Dyson has lasted more than a decade.
And I also realized that by discussing the durability of branded houseware, I am absolutely too old to be on the internet anymore.
And it all starts from people reading the endless, pointless, contention-filled threads like this, where two sides are arguing bitterly about nonsense, not giving in an inch, and not resolving anything.
What do you mindless drones out there think this is doing to your brain? Has anyone of any gender been helped by reading any of these stupid arguments about sharks and bears?
The answer is no. The younger generation who was raised by these terrible posts and terrible, wastes-of-time arguments and persecution olympics is desperately, chronically ALONE.
So yah, lets all just keep stirring this soup of loneliness as we all train ourselves to stop socializing like humans and view everything through the lense of internet arguments. I’m sure it will start to show positive impact annnnny day now.
What pushes people to grifters is reading endless, pointless internet arguments where neither side is compromising.
This is how we all learned to socialize, in bullshit threads like this, and this is why all you young people are so fucking lonely.
Stop making it a life-goal to go 1.5 million dollars in debt to own a stucco home in a vast ocean of identical stucco homes and maybe buy some property by a small town and sacrifice the luxury of convenience and being able to get doordash whenever you want and instead have a little garden or something.
If the market decided that living in suburban hell wasn’t profitable anymore, they would stop paving over vast tracts of land to unroll a sea of terracotta roofs as far as you can see like a rolling ocean of crippling debt and HOA fines.
I hope you’re copying and pasting this to every other user who thought your comment was inexplicable or I will know you’re just sore.
Your phrasing didn’t sound ironic at all, review the puzzled replies and rethink your notions of how well tone travels over text messages.
Keep trying, I’m done.
Are you not a native english speaker?
Aha, so you ARE their alt hahaha thank you for making it make sense
You misunderstand, the comment may or may not have been a joke, it wasn’t funny, it was just weird, but everyone made it INTO a joke. NOW we’re all laughing, because of the replies.
You’re the one too intense and taking this too seriously, unless your an alt of the person who used the weird word “ghoulish” to describe erotic disney fan art, then I guess I understand the irritation at people making the best of a weird moment.
This has been another episode of “over-explaining shit until it stops being funny and becomes contentious because one goddamn person can’t figure out what’s going on and tried to make it into an issue.”
I was speaking generally of most consumer goods that have cheapened on design and materials, but to address phones…
While the material of the shell was plastic, there were huge differences in both shape, density (bakelite has different compressive properties than polyurethane) as well as engineering.
IE, the shells of lets say, and old 1985 motel phone, were made of pretty thick bakelite or poly plastic, and the insides were made of very simple metal and copper wiring, there were no integrated circuits, there were no moving parts, no computers, no video screens, no charging ports, no boards with parts, they were almost entirely mechanical, the function of the keys only served to send signal tones and didn’t connect to anything more advanced than a switchboard somewhere. That’s why they could withstand a lot of abuse.
Modern electronics, including the rare home landline phones we have now, are made of much thinner polyurethane or styrene shells, they have almost entirely solid-state parts inside, chips and boards that capacitors can come loose from, charging ports that can break off the housing and make shorts in connections, wiring isn’t designed to withstand someone accidentally yanking the whole thing, they have LCD screens and are basically just more fragile in all regards.
The issue has a lot more to do with the wider array of consumer goods though, like vacuum cleaners or microwave ovens and home goods that are supposed to last for years and years, but tend to break after only a couple years, and this is now by design.
Condolences, you will be missed.
That damn movie was one of two VHS cassettes I had as a small child, the other was The Sword in the Stone. I watched them over and over and over.
As a result, my sexuality has been absolutely maimed in ways I am still untangling.
Wouldn’t trade it for anything.
You might need to take a long shower friend.
Nah bro, they actually felt it. You probably never got slammed so you don’t know, but the person on the other end would suddenly fly across the room like a truck hit them, that’s why we saved the phone slam for when someone REALLY deserved it. Good times.
Nowadays, we see the answer to the question “What if we made the hinges plastic?” in almost everything we do, everywhere we go.
Yah but what use is it for kids to say weird things if we can’t have 3000+ comment-deep debates about every possible angle of it online? This is what the internet is best for! Completely dismantling every benign situation until nobody even knows why everyone hates each other now.
I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words “animal” and “consent.”
Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don’t know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.