Washing machine un-level again \u2026 wife perturbed \u2026 must \u2026 resist \u2026 temptation \u2026 to Google it. Must \u2026 resist \u2026 temptation \u2026 to watch \u2026 rubes \u2026 on YouTube \u2026 who \u2026 know \u2026 less \u2026 than \u2026 strained \u2026 carrots \u2026 <\/p>\n
AHHHH! Can\u2019t do it! <\/p>\n
Me: Google, find me morons who know why washing machine goes un-level. <\/p>\n
Google: I have just the moron for you!<\/p>\n
And so it goes \u2026 <\/p>\n
I hate appliances. I used to think the problem with appliances is you can\u2019t buy cheap. So, I started buying more expensive ones. It was then that I realized something very important: Expensive appliances are just higher-priced cheap ones. They break the same amount, but the repairs cost more.\t<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when the DIY-er in me comes out. The urge. The pull. The tractor beam that calls me to the light. Or the Dark Side. Or whatever the heck makes very dumb people with questionable repair skills think there must be a cheap and easy solution within our grasp. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s called: YouTube!<\/p>\n
Have you heard of this fairy tale land? It\u2019s where the desperate and the deranged go to find solutions to their problems. It\u2019s a place where any so-and-so can record a video and proclaim their expertise at being expertly stupid.
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But we go there. And we watch them. And we think they have the solution because \u2026 well \u2026 they\u2019re on YouTube! It\u2019s always some guy who sounds relatively knowledgeable and competent. He explains how he is having THE EXACT SAME problem as me and that he came across the PERFECT solution. Now we\u2019re talkin\u2019! I sit on the edge of my seat listening in anticipation as he gives his magnificent hack: \u201cSo what I did here is I \u2026 uh \u2026 stuffed a bunch of my wife\u2019s bras around the inside of the washer tub. See? Works great.\u201d <\/p>\n
OK, wait a minute \u2026 WHAT!?!? I just watched a 12-minute video to hear some guy tell me he stuffed his wife\u2019s undergarments in the machine!?! Does he realize how much those cost? She\u2019s going to kill him!<\/p>\n
Video after video goes on like this. I stopped trying to decide whether I could trust the solution and instead began rating the reliability of the person giving the advice. Can I put my faith in a guy with a hole in the shoulder of his shirt? I mean, how do you even rip a shirt way up there? <\/p>\n
Or this guy who sounds smart enough, but keeps running out of the frame and then I hear a giant inhale and a big puff of smoke wafts by. <\/p>\n
Or this guy. He has the COOLEST dog EVER!!! Sure, he\u2019s recommending using butcher\u2019s twine and a baby spoon to replace the washer suspension rods, but could a guy with a dog that amazing really steer me wrong?<\/p>\n
YouTube, why do you do this to me?!? You fill me with both confidence and fear. You paralyze me with indecision. You make me seriously consider stuffing bras in household appliances. Forget the fire hazard \u2013 that could be pricier than buying a new expensive (cheap) washer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washing machine un-level again \u2026 wife perturbed \u2026 must \u2026 resist \u2026 temptation \u2026 to Google it. Must \u2026 resist \u2026 temptation \u2026 to watch \u2026 rubes \u2026 on YouTube \u2026 who \u2026 know \u2026 less \u2026 than \u2026 strained \u2026 carrots \u2026 AHHHH! Can\u2019t do it! Me: Google, find me morons who know why washing machine goes un-level. Google: I have just the moron for you! And so it goes \u2026 I hate appliances. I used to think the problem with appliances is you can\u2019t buy cheap. So, I started buying more expensive ones. It was then that I realized something very important: Expensive appliances are just higher-priced cheap ones. They break the same amount, but the repairs cost more. That\u2019s when the DIY-er in me comes out. The urge. The pull. The tractor beam that calls me to the light. Or the Dark Side. Or whatever the heck makes very dumb people with questionable repair skills think there must be a cheap and easy solution within our grasp. It\u2019s called: YouTube! Have you heard of this fairy tale land? It\u2019s where the desperate and the deranged go to find solutions to their problems. It\u2019s a place where any so-and-so can record a video and proclaim their expertise at being expertly stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,563,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-nutshells","category-houses","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutshellcity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}