In honour of the 80s night I attended last night, here’s top tune of the night, and probably the only one I knew all the words to, too. It was unfortunately played only briefly due to being “obscure” (pah!), but here it is in full.
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…and so, we return to the continuing low-water mark of Shinypixel life that is the lack of laundry luck in the world of netizen Phil.
Tense developments abounded after a new handle arrived from the bowels of an Indesit warehouse. Whether through cackhandedness of co-ordination or subtleties of shape, it just didn’t seem to fit.
By early afternoon today, it didn’t look good… Tensions were running high:
hopefully me dad can fix the new handle on cos i’ve given up
The air hung heavy with atmosphere and Lenor for a couple of hours. Then:
fixed!
successfully opened the door after a load as well!
A happy ending for all concerned.
On a related note, Anthony notes that if Phil was in America, this is very unlikely to have happened, as most washing machines in the US are top-loading. Something I certainly didn’t know, and if you’ve bothered to read down this far, then hopefully you’ve learned something too!
Got anything tedious I can write about? Let me know at rik at shinypixel dot co dot uk!
No time for an exciting update today, so here instead is that rare of things, a funny “Motivator”:
Sorry.
In what I’m hoping is going to become a watermark towards the lower-end of Shinypixel’s editorial “interestingness” scale, I’m fulfilling a (perhaps foolhardy) promise to erstwhile netizen Phil by blogging about his problematic Indesit.
The other day, the handle snapped off his washing machine door with the clothes still inside. Quel horreur! Some thinking (and a Facebook status update) later, he retrieved the clothes with judicious use of screwdriver and pliers.
Unfortunate laundry situation thus averted, he’s currently awaiting a new handle from the manufacturer. How will it all end? Tune in soon for Part II!
