Sorry Granddad, "What's a laundromat "?
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OT: What's the point of a laundry basket?
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It's what Americans call a launderette.
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Really? What part of the US calls them that?
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Everyone I've met in the central U.S.
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when I typed it i, the spell checker wanted to correct it to spelling with a capital
I presume that somewhere in the world it's the name of a chain store
But FTAOD, I wasn't picking on the exact choice of word for this item of historical interest
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The way I've usually seen it, a hamper is a non-mobile container in a bathroom or bedroom, that is supposed to hold clothes until washday. They are then transferred to the basket to carry them to the washing machine.
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In an NTSC video signal, the synchronization pulses are "blacker than black".
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Something the Zoomers aren't familiar with since they don't wash their clothes.
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a hamper is what you put a picnic in, for transportation.
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I'd be wary of eating food that had been in a hamper.
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I've always heard that called a picnic basket.
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Are you sure the food isn't supposed to smell like dirty socks?
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Only if it's gorgonzola...
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I remember a story where an accident in an institutional kitchen leaves a man buried under a big pile of stinky cheese. This was called a "feta worse than death".
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Reversed roles, be very wary of that.
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Surely that was making a lot of money for the casino. I doubt they like drunks popping into the casino.
Oh my god that really sux.
And yes I did used to like watching clothes go round. When I was 6!
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That reminds me of someone who installed a swimming pool in the back of a truck (as in the American meaning of truck).
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Is the extracter a hose you hold in the tub to suck water out?
Ours was just a big top loading tub with a few buttons. "Heat", "pump", and "pulsator". Heat made the water warmer. Pump emptied it through a hose which you directed into a nearby sink. Pulsator spun a 6 finned plastic thing around on the side of the inside of it. Never found out what would have happened if someone engaged the pulsator while someone else's hands were in it reaching for washing. My gran had the fancy version, there was a spinner attached to the side.
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Modern dyes don't bleed, you don't need to sort anymore, HTH.
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We had no black teachers, they wouldn't have ben able to control a white class. We had one Iranian boy, in my class. He got taken the piss out of all the time, and was shoved against a wall by a teacher for daring to say he wanted to be an American football player when he grew up. He's now an American football player.