One of the nice things about our ridiculously inefficient washing machine is that if you’re washing overnight, you can delay the cycle so it’s done at approximately the time you wake up so that you can pull the clothes out whilst they’re still hot and thus reduce your ironing time. Of course, it never actually has any effect on the ironing time, but it’s fun to pretend.
There is also lots of complicated math involved: hour(s) to delay cycle = hour at which clothes need to be done – (washing time (dependent on temperature and cycle speed) + drying time of my choice (also affected by cycle speed)), bearing in mind the wacky 2400 time that my brain is now using approximately 38% of the time just to keep things interesting.
(Incidentally, this is about the same percentage of time that my brain uses the British “dd/mm/yyyy” format, which means I have given up on trying to keep track of whether a given date is dd/mm or mm/dd and instead default to using the actual name of the month or figuring it out from context.)
One much nicer thing that never fails to make me laugh: The apparel of Monkey, a sock monkey featured in PG Tips commercials, who in one such commercial sports a tank top (singlet? vest?) reading “I facebooked your mum.”
And somehow infinitely funnier than facebooking someone’s mom.
