Originally published at: Here are the many amusing ways people wait for the anxiety-provoking microwave beep | Boing Boing
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Sometimes i just let it run for a minute, and then let it beep and do the reminder beeps so I feel wanted/needed…
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here at work we have two not very new or fancy microwaves of different brands whose beeps just happen to have ever-so-slightly different pitches. When they happen to beep at the same time it’s a special kind of feeling.
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Oh great, now I need to get a Furby Something and circuit bend it to stand in for beeps. Or blow $7-13 on an Arduino successor and something with extra bass and dub in frustrated puppy noises.
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You know that “life hack” of microwaving your dishwashing sponge for a minute periodically to kill bacteria?
The difference between 1:00 and 10:00 is between making the sponge very hot and calling the fire department because your microwave burst into flames…
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Why not just have a standing Furby? “Look it’s standing, warmed over fried fish is done”.
I don’t know what a Furby is.
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I try to press stop so either the display shows 0:00 but the beeper doesn’t go off, or the beeper starts but the display is still showing 0:01. Or other disagreements between the clock and the spinny motor, lights, etc.
I’ve never succeeded. ~40 years of trying, dozens of microwaves, hundreds of attempts. Yet I keep trying.
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I had a microwave oven that beeped SEVEN FUCKING TIMES when done, EVEN IF YOU OPENED THE DOOR AT THE FIRST BEEP it would KEEP FUCKING BEEPING!! Also it was red. I no longer have a microwave oven.
Someone at work keeps taking their food out with SEVERAL SECONDS LEFT on the timer AND LEAVING IT LIKE THAT. What kind of FUCKING MONSTER does that?!?
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One time put some TJs orange chicken sauce in a bowl and put it in the microwave so it was out of the way while the chicken cooked. I thought I had set the timer function to 20 min but had in fact turned on the microwave.
It took a while for the smoke to dissipate and dear wife had to use some steel wool to recover use of the bowl.
Our chicken was a bit bland that evening. But she got a story to tell.
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You’re just saying it wrong.
Better now?
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Ooh, yeah, that’ll do it.
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