Also Europeans have access to household appliances. Why do Americans think Europeans don't have most amenities that Americans do? Just because the market is small for a few of them? Insane thinking.
the NHS or on demand ice cubes. I mean wow, fuck, he's really got me wavering here
My parents have like 3 drawers filled with random useless kitchen gadgets. "Reasonable" "moderates" think this is justification for employees to never have vacation time.
One piece of good advice that I found on reddit, I think in an AMA with Alton Brown, is to never buy single-purpose kitchen tools that do something that you can reasonably accomplish with a tool you already have, like a knife. Exceptions apply of course but it's a good general rule.
Yeah but he's also a professional chef and knows that most kitchen gadgets are either total grifts or intended for people with compromised motor ability, and don't work as well as a generalized tool regardless.
Alton Brown has done the 15 Milky Way Bars copypasta in real life
https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/2dno8e/i_saw_ryan_gosling_at_a_grocery_store/
thank you. But also, curse you because I went to reddit and I saw them freaking out about the I forgor/I rember meme. They wanna act like the most sophisticated, smarmy ironic geniuses on the planet but can't take an instagram meme. I almost forgor why I stopped using that site, so thanks.
yeah ofc it's just bullshit to say "yeah, well, you don't have a tumble dryer and I didn't even WANT free healthcare anyways :wojak-nooo: "
how bad at numbers do you have to be to trade university tution for an icecube machine??? :agony-shivering:
American exceptionalists use some of the weirdest shit to justify their exceptionalism. Remember reading someone that complained that European cities didn't have enough malls and chain restaurants.
Ironic, I consider dining and shopping to be a much more pleasant experience in Europe. Like the town my parents are from has a small pedestrian only area which is where a ton of shops, cafes, and restaurants are located, which I've always thought it just so much better than pretending that the Starbucks on a busy intersection is a pleasant location.
Me, 150 years ago, stomping on water in the bathtub for 6 hours every morning, until my cold feet finally cooled the water enough to produce 3 ice cubes. My family will survive another day.
household appliances are modernity
Lmao. My grandma once told me that the household washing machine was one of the greatest thing that ever happened for women's freedom and that shit was pretty awful beforehand, but any of this other stuff? Unnecessary. I've never had a dishwasher or this fancy (and presumably fictional) american icecube machine, and i've lived without a dryer, but somehow, wildly enough, I survived.
Anyway, its weird, fucked up, and awful for the enviroment/soul how americans have been taught to only contextualise the world through consoooomerism.
Americans don't clean the ice cube maker in their fridges, it's genuinely gross
The ice cube maker takes up 1/6th of your freezer storage area and breaks down within 2 months of owning it. Filling an ice cube tray takes literally 30 seconds and 1/10th of the freezer space of an ice cube maker.
breaks down within 2 months
The ones in the door, maybe. The ones that are just in the freezer are pretty reliable.
As with any comparison the only way to make America seem good is to make comparison to the absolute poorest country you get away with rhetorically. He's banking on Americans not knowing there's a difference between Germany/France/Sweden and Spain/Greece/Albania.
I mean in Greece most people don't have tumble dryers, but it's not because we're poor (although we are), rich people often don't have them either because it's just not one of these things people often think necessary. I think Americans tend to have more of a knack about these sorts of things. Might also have to do with the fact that houses are larger there on average so you can put more mildly useful stuff in them.
I like how he's doing a Reddit-esque "I freaking love science" diatribe but for this lazy mundane bullshit that saves maybe 10 minutes of work per week for your average abled person.
I agree both of those things are awesome.
...But I'd still trade em' for healthcare without a second thought
86% of American homes
The last time I lived in a place with in unit laundry or a fucking dishwasher was with my fucking parents. But also no healthcare.
h, but if a guy cleans his ass, he might turn gay, and women don't poop and vaginas are magic. So obviously bidets are unnecessary. Unless it gay. Are you? Fucking commie ******.
Brought to you by American public education.
To paraphrase every man who's ever refused to take no for an answer, and there have been so very many: how do you know for sure you won't like it until you try?
Another dastardly plot foiled by American public education!
Does he think Europeans don't have freezers? That's what he's talking about, right? Or do Americans have some kind of coal or gasoline powered carbon monoxide spewing contraption with a v8 engine stuck on it they only use to make ice cubes
Some fridges can be hooked up to the waterline and have a little ice dispenser, also there are apparently independent ice cube machines (which someone proudly posted in the replies). Like the fridge thing is a fine convenience, the stand alone device is insane to me. It just uses up space and energy to fulfill the purpose of an ice tray.
Live in the empire, havent had either since childhood. Haven't even seen one in like eight years.
My experience is the exact opposite. Ice cube makers (just the thing in the freezer, no dispenser on the front) have been a standard feature in every (new build, suburban Texas) apartment I've lived in since leaving the nest.
There are good parts.actually, even the time I lived (rented room) in a suburban house, there was no ice maker or dish washer. Huh.
I think it's because Texas is just built around the same kind of ideology that produced this tweet.
Look how good we got it here, an ice maker in every apartment!
Also you have space and gadgets and free public toilets and pretending you're not a cyberpunk dystopia whose overlords literally wank to 'neuromancer' instead of a thin vineer of society and trees without queer and/or brown people hanging in them that we have.
I think he's talking about that thing on the front of bougie fridges that spews out ice when you put a glass in it
You mean the thing they have at the soda dispenser at Burger King? Colour me thoroughly unimpressed
It for real takes me 1 minute to fill up the ice cube tray to give us all the ice we need in the place for a week, I live in :amerikkka:. No ice cube making fancy ass fridge.
Ice cuber makers usually imply a through-door dispenser, which constantly leak cold air and fuck up the efficiency of the refrigerator. This also usually implies a divergence from the ideal setup, which is freezer-on-top designs. All others are also far less efficient, requiring either a dedicated ice-only freezer portion just for ice or a side-by-side design with inefficient lateral transfer of cooled air.
In short, we should all be getting "normal" refrigerators at a systemic level, barring reasonable exceptions for things like disability. An ecosocialist planned economy would mandate this, among other things.
Those damn things also break within like 2 year of purchasing the fridge too
Yeah they're very common points of failure. And you have to deal with water line filters and shit.
100% behind this comment, and not just because I'm too lazy to set up a waterline to my fridge.
Hell yeah water lines are annoying as shit, too. Aside from them breaking fairly often, you've now gotta buy proprietary, monopolized water filters.
Also unless you're using a bunch of ice every day they melt and refreeze into an evil network of ice globs.
Aren't the most efficient ones the ones that are like a chest on the floor?
That's the most energy efficient consumer community freezer option, definitely. If you want both a freezer and refrigerator, then I'm not sure because we would need to account for the additional production and redundant cooling systems vs. energy savings from the better cool air retaining abilities of both (and whether they're top opening vs side opening). I would suspect that your standard freezer-top combo is probably the best if it has enough space for your needs and then adding a top-open chest freezer if you need more freezer space.
True enough. Those are pretty reasonable, only needing additional insulation on the water line.
Clothes in US: :sicko-speeeeen:
Clothes in Europe: :sicko-beaming:
YOU CAN HAVE BOTH.
THERE IS NO COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE TWO, ENTIRELY UNRELATED THINGS!
AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
YOU CAN HAVE BOTH A PLATE TO EAT YOUR FOOD ON... AND... FOOD ON YOUR PLATE!
No, in the so called greatest country in the world, we cannot have both. No, I will not explain
