It looks as though they are having their entire meal/snacks experience during the commercials, perhaps from prep to washup. It could be they don’t approve of chomping through an actual bit of emoting drama and reserve all their mastication (and washing up) for the ad breaks (as I am guessing they are plausibly just about long enough).
I think they are eating during the show, it’s the preparation and cleanup that take place during commercials. Another area where a DVR would help.
Given the ubiquity of streaming and DVRs, I wonder if this is a geezer-only joke.
I’d consider the ubiquity of dishwashers to make it even more of a geezer-only joke.
Oh, Andréa, even with a dishwasher, the work of scraping, rinsing, racking the plates and serving bowls can take more than allotted time.
If you’re watching the game with a DVR you can Google the final score to decide if you want to watch the rest of it or not.
Oh, if only dishwashers were ubiquitous. I’ve only had one in 54 years on this planet. A terrible apartment we lived in for a year did have a small “apartment-sized” dishwasher. Meaning it was too small for a lot items. However, it was pretty awesome, though very time consuming to have plates and cups and utensils that I didn’t have to wash in the too small kitchen sink. In the USA, dishwashers exist in about 70% of homes, but only 54% of homes with a dishwasher actually use it. So, lots of hand washing still happening.
Now, back in insurance adjuster warning: your dishwasher will destroy your kitchen and anything underneath it. It is only a matter of time. Inlet house, outlet house, door seal, whatever. It will fail and the water damage will be remarkable and expensive. It will also ruin your basement as the water flows through there too. Or the apartment underneath you. If you mush have one, have the lines replaced regularly and replace them after normal service live expectancy is up. And make sure you have a good all-perils homeowner/tenant insurance policy.
Gosh. I think our dishwasher was installed when the house was built in 1975 and has been in place – as far as I know – since 1994 when we moved in, without any of these maintenance disasters (so far – probably happen tomorrow). It did stop working once a few years ago, but on the principle of “first check your cables and plugs”, it turned out to be the fuse in the plug that needed replacing (mostly these days new plugs are sealed units but it was once common to be able to wire your own plugs and also take them apart to replace the fuse).
I did once however rent a room in a house where the washing machine broke down and leaked. Luckily it was the owner’s wash cycle that did it, not one of mine, because even if putting a wash load on doesn’t make it your fault, I would still have felt guilty.
I haven’t dealt with an American dishwasher in decades, but in Germany they have a sensor unit on the water supply line that detects leaks and shuts off the water. I won’t say that an accident can’t occur, but I’ve never heard of a case in which one did. Happily, I’m not an insurance adjuster.
I think the joke is just how long commercial breaks are.
As someone who hates leaving dishes in the sink, I can relate to this strip from that angle.
As happy as you are that you are not an insurance adjuster, Kilby, I am 100 times happier to no longer be an insurance adjuster.
My dishwasher never did that, but the toilet in the upstairs bathroom somehow broke its connector and water came down and saturated the dish cupboard. The dishwasher earned its keep that day.
If all y’all have so many perfectly functional, non-leaking dishwashers, how come you never called me when I was working at the insurance company?
SingaporeBill, I never thought of calling my insurance company to tell them that nothing happened and I didn’t have a claim.
But maybe I should. Whenever I see a missing person’s face on a milk carton I call the number and tell them he’s not here. Every piece of information helps.
MiB: I assure you, your call would have been a pleasant change.
If you accept contrapositive as fully equivalent to original, and try to have a verification theory of hypothesis testing, then you could check if “All crows are black” is true by checking if “all nonblack objects are non crows”. So let’s start right here in my room … This item is red, and let’s verify that it is not a crow .. yes, it is a book. This item is orange , and let’s verify that it is not a crow.. yes, it is a cat. This blue shirt also helps. And this green spritzer. .. Now here is a black jacket … nope, no help, as we are only checking nonblack objects …
A confirming instance is supposed to strengthen it, but sometimes it can weaken the hypothesis. Take the hypothesis “No raven weighs more than 250 pounds.” You go to an aviary and find that they have an immense black raven, A sign on the cage says that the raven weighs 249 pounds. There it is, supposedly living proof of the hypothesis.
But that wouldn’t at all prove the hypothesis of course: it’s an hypothesis that can be disproven, but never proven.
Our house that we bought it in the 1990s was built in 1949/50. It came with a dishwasher which was added after it was built (other ones we saw in this subdevelopement did not have a dishwasher or had a portable one – we actually lost a much needed lower cabinet to same having being installed. My mom never liked her dishwasher and we never used it. Robert’s mom used hers all the time. I tried putting in our stuff from the move which was dirty with newspaper ink – it did not clean it. I took me several years of Robert pushing me to use it before I did. It died. We replaced it. I used the new one.
About 15 years ago the second one developed a problem – the interlock did not work as the inside of the door had broken loose of the door. He was ready to buy a new one – I leaned a chair against the door when I ran it and it held the interlock in place. About 7 or 8 years ago I opened it to take out the dishes, etc. inside and the water was still in it. After hand washing what was in it and setting it all aside to air dry, I bailed it out.
He convinced me to buy a new one. I had been looking since the interlock at dishwashers. I actually was leaning towards a fairly expensive (for us) model as it was the only one I had found that had racks I liked. Then I read reviews and it was not well rated. As I read more reviews I found out that newer dishwashers work differently and people do no like them compared to the old ones.
So, I am storing items too big to store elsewhere in the dishwasher. I wash the dishes by hand – there are only 2 of us – I figure it takes me the same or less time to wash by hand than to put it all in the dishwasher. Every now and then the question comes up, but I see no reason to waste money on one. Only time there is a problem is if I am sick (a cold, etc) as he does not like to wash the dishes – a face mask and plastic gloves solves the problem as does the rather occasional use of paper goods.
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It looks as though they are having their entire meal/snacks experience during the commercials, perhaps from prep to washup. It could be they don’t approve of chomping through an actual bit of emoting drama and reserve all their mastication (and washing up) for the ad breaks (as I am guessing they are plausibly just about long enough).
I think they are eating during the show, it’s the preparation and cleanup that take place during commercials. Another area where a DVR would help.
Given the ubiquity of streaming and DVRs, I wonder if this is a geezer-only joke.
I’d consider the ubiquity of dishwashers to make it even more of a geezer-only joke.
Oh, Andréa, even with a dishwasher, the work of scraping, rinsing, racking the plates and serving bowls can take more than allotted time.
If you’re watching the game with a DVR you can Google the final score to decide if you want to watch the rest of it or not.
Oh, if only dishwashers were ubiquitous. I’ve only had one in 54 years on this planet. A terrible apartment we lived in for a year did have a small “apartment-sized” dishwasher. Meaning it was too small for a lot items. However, it was pretty awesome, though very time consuming to have plates and cups and utensils that I didn’t have to wash in the too small kitchen sink. In the USA, dishwashers exist in about 70% of homes, but only 54% of homes with a dishwasher actually use it. So, lots of hand washing still happening.
Now, back in insurance adjuster warning: your dishwasher will destroy your kitchen and anything underneath it. It is only a matter of time. Inlet house, outlet house, door seal, whatever. It will fail and the water damage will be remarkable and expensive. It will also ruin your basement as the water flows through there too. Or the apartment underneath you. If you mush have one, have the lines replaced regularly and replace them after normal service live expectancy is up. And make sure you have a good all-perils homeowner/tenant insurance policy.
Gosh. I think our dishwasher was installed when the house was built in 1975 and has been in place – as far as I know – since 1994 when we moved in, without any of these maintenance disasters (so far – probably happen tomorrow). It did stop working once a few years ago, but on the principle of “first check your cables and plugs”, it turned out to be the fuse in the plug that needed replacing (mostly these days new plugs are sealed units but it was once common to be able to wire your own plugs and also take them apart to replace the fuse).
I did once however rent a room in a house where the washing machine broke down and leaked. Luckily it was the owner’s wash cycle that did it, not one of mine, because even if putting a wash load on doesn’t make it your fault, I would still have felt guilty.
I haven’t dealt with an American dishwasher in decades, but in Germany they have a sensor unit on the water supply line that detects leaks and shuts off the water. I won’t say that an accident can’t occur, but I’ve never heard of a case in which one did. Happily, I’m not an insurance adjuster.
I think the joke is just how long commercial breaks are.
As someone who hates leaving dishes in the sink, I can relate to this strip from that angle.
As happy as you are that you are not an insurance adjuster, Kilby, I am 100 times happier to no longer be an insurance adjuster.
My dishwasher never did that, but the toilet in the upstairs bathroom somehow broke its connector and water came down and saturated the dish cupboard. The dishwasher earned its keep that day.
If all y’all have so many perfectly functional, non-leaking dishwashers, how come you never called me when I was working at the insurance company?
SingaporeBill, I never thought of calling my insurance company to tell them that nothing happened and I didn’t have a claim.
But maybe I should. Whenever I see a missing person’s face on a milk carton I call the number and tell them he’s not here. Every piece of information helps.
MiB: I assure you, your call would have been a pleasant change.
See Hempel’s crows problem .. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_paradox.
If you accept contrapositive as fully equivalent to original, and try to have a verification theory of hypothesis testing, then you could check if “All crows are black” is true by checking if “all nonblack objects are non crows”. So let’s start right here in my room … This item is red, and let’s verify that it is not a crow .. yes, it is a book. This item is orange , and let’s verify that it is not a crow.. yes, it is a cat. This blue shirt also helps. And this green spritzer. .. Now here is a black jacket … nope, no help, as we are only checking nonblack objects …
A confirming instance is supposed to strengthen it, but sometimes it can weaken the hypothesis. Take the hypothesis “No raven weighs more than 250 pounds.” You go to an aviary and find that they have an immense black raven, A sign on the cage says that the raven weighs 249 pounds. There it is, supposedly living proof of the hypothesis.
But that wouldn’t at all prove the hypothesis of course: it’s an hypothesis that can be disproven, but never proven.
Our house that we bought it in the 1990s was built in 1949/50. It came with a dishwasher which was added after it was built (other ones we saw in this subdevelopement did not have a dishwasher or had a portable one – we actually lost a much needed lower cabinet to same having being installed. My mom never liked her dishwasher and we never used it. Robert’s mom used hers all the time. I tried putting in our stuff from the move which was dirty with newspaper ink – it did not clean it. I took me several years of Robert pushing me to use it before I did. It died. We replaced it. I used the new one.
About 15 years ago the second one developed a problem – the interlock did not work as the inside of the door had broken loose of the door. He was ready to buy a new one – I leaned a chair against the door when I ran it and it held the interlock in place. About 7 or 8 years ago I opened it to take out the dishes, etc. inside and the water was still in it. After hand washing what was in it and setting it all aside to air dry, I bailed it out.
He convinced me to buy a new one. I had been looking since the interlock at dishwashers. I actually was leaning towards a fairly expensive (for us) model as it was the only one I had found that had racks I liked. Then I read reviews and it was not well rated. As I read more reviews I found out that newer dishwashers work differently and people do no like them compared to the old ones.
So, I am storing items too big to store elsewhere in the dishwasher. I wash the dishes by hand – there are only 2 of us – I figure it takes me the same or less time to wash by hand than to put it all in the dishwasher. Every now and then the question comes up, but I see no reason to waste money on one. Only time there is a problem is if I am sick (a cold, etc) as he does not like to wash the dishes – a face mask and plastic gloves solves the problem as does the rather occasional use of paper goods.