Do you own an appliance that's smarter than you?

I would have to say my computers ,just when I think I have them figured out ,they surprise me with something new.

For household appliances ,I have them under control for now,but I hate when we have to get a new one ,then the battle starts all over again.

I hear you, @SQUEEKY2, and new computers are the WORST!

I have appliances that ‘think’ they’re smarter than me. But…..ha ha ha, if I can’t figure them out, I just pull the plug. Smarter than me my butt. I’ll just let them sit there for awhile and not get used and see how smug they feel.

The blender has apparently got something on me. Many times while I am washing those pointy blades which do all the chopping, it will bite me. OK, I realize that’s just me being dumb, not the blender being smart.

But I swear that every time it happens, I can hear a little metallic snicker….

None are smarter than me, the second any begin to think so i’ll smash the bastards to piec…no wait!

@Skylight you crack me up. You got the jump on me though, I was going to say mostly the same thing. I have a vcr that’s been on time out since 1996. It had those individual tuners for each channel! AAArg!

What is this “VCR” which you speak of…..and what does it do…??

No, but I am concerned about my Roomba. It insists I call it HAL.
I should ask my toaster, Ultron for advice.

I think maybe my husband’s fishing pole is smarter than him.

Of course.
My graphing calculator is better at maths than me.
My computer is better at calculating 3 dimensional, near photorealistic images 100 times a second. It is better at en/decoding audio and video files, and compressing/decompressing archives.
Imagine if I had to do it all by hand. I would not see the end of it.

Doesn’t mean it’s “smarter” than you. Just faster with the calculations. But it only has one task to do at a time. Even if all you had to do was the calculations, there would be hundreds of other tasks you’d be performing at the same time.

My car. Too many damn bells and whistles. I disabled the alarm because it always went off at the slightest little jiggle of the sensor in my purse or pocket. Once, I was in the middle of a wash cycle at a car wash and the display started ringing with the ” trunk ajar” notification.
WTF!

I guess I bumped the key ring and popped the trunk or?
Yeah, it was “Ajar” alright, took a week to dry it out. Pffft!

None of my gadgets or appliances is smarter than I am, but if I don’t use some of them regularly I forget how to use or change certain features. There IS something in my house that never fails to befuddle me, and it isn’t an appliance—it’s my duvet, or specifically, how to put a freshly washed cover on it. Despite watching half a dozen or more YouTube how-to videos, it takes me FOREVER to do it every time!

“duvet” would’ve fit nicely in that “cool word” thread as well….

Yes, @OneBadApple. It’s so much cooler (so to speak) than “comforter.”

@Skylight & @Jonesn4burgers How’s that whole ‘time out’ thing working for you?

@Skylight wouldn’t it be great if wwe could do that with some people. :-)

@Jonesn4burgers You not only still own a VCR, but one that hasn’t done a day’s work since 1996.
WHO’S smarter?

@OneBadApple Are you admitting to being dumber than a blender part? Or, perhaps you’re using the blender for a little frozen inebriation? ;-)

@ucme Are we to assume you have few intact household appliances? :-P

@cookieman Best in show! Bravo!

@Dutchess_III Maybe you should just get him a pool stick. Apparently you don’t believe he’s bright enough to know the difference. lol

@ragingloli Yeah, what @Dutchess_III said!

Now, @Coloma, I LIKE lots of bells and whistles on a car. Mine doesn’t have enough.

No..I got him this fishing pole last year for Christmas. It has lights and sirens and dispenses beer, does everything but catch fish!

My phone is smarter than me. It now runs my life. I just have to make sure it is kept charged.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room I think duvets can be wilier than appliances. I mean, an appliance comes with instructions and once you master it, you’re pretty much good.

Oh, okay, @Dutchess_III. I thought maybe you believed your husband to be really dim. ;-)

I’ll stick with my dumbphone, @flutherother. After 7–8 years, I’ve figured out everything I need to know about it. :)

@ibstubro You may arseume what you wish.

@ibstubro, thanks for understanding. I have a video that demonstrates what they call “burrito” style and that worked on the first try the last time I did it. But this time it took me almost ALL DAY of trying various methods. I think what makes the videos look so easy is that they’re using much smaller duvets and covers—mine is king-size. Anyway… it’s now on…

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room you need a friend with benefits who considers helping make the bed the benefit.

:)

@ibstubro They come with what?

Tell you the truth, @ibstubro, I’d settle for a friend whose only benefit was covering my duvet. Anything more would be icing on the cake (as it were).

@ibstubro Don’t confuse beeping and flashing lights with smarts, that’s nothing more than wishful thinking!

@Adagio The beeping is timing me, but I know not for what. The flashing lights have to do (at least in some modes) with how hard you’re pressing on your teeth.

Obviously inanimate objects are not ‘smarter’ than us, but they can have an agenda (for my health, in this case) beyond easy understanding.

@Pachyderm_In_The_Room Why can’t you fold the duvet in quarters, right to left, then top to bottom. Tuck the folded duvet into the bottom left corner of the cover. Pull the top up, then the side over. The hardest part is the right bottom, but you can climb into the cover and make Snow Angels, if necessary.

Folding my towels annoyed me for decades. I want them to stack up neat, and mine seldom did. The trick? Seam to seam, brother. Seam to seam.

What is a duvet? And what on EARTH are you guys fretting about?

@Dutchess_III a really fancy sleeping bag cover.

@ibstubro A little OCD with those towels ey?
Do you iron them too? lol

@Coloma Everyone knows the most important thing is your towel.

ibstubro is one frood who really knows where his towel is

I hate putting covers on my bed. I fought with my bed for like 30 minutes last night trying to get the sheets on it. >_<

Did we just recieve instructions on how to fold a towel? LOL!

@Coloma Why should the towels feel neglected? lol

I have 6 towels. Green, beige and off-white. I fold them identically and stack them alternating. There aren’t a lot of things I’m that way about, but… :-)

@Dutchess_III Yes, Dear. And it was high time someone injected something intelligent into this thread!

@ibstubro I like things tidy but…you should see my pajama trunk.
I have a giant wicker trunk in my closet and just throw all my jammies and nighties in randomly. It’s always a adventure in clown PJ’s for me. Last night I grabbed a pair of blue plaid flannel bottoms and a pink flowered top, add black and pink striped socks….viola…clown morning! lol

Please tell me you didn’t go to the convenience store that way today @Coloma! :}~

@Coloma I leave my clean socks in the laundry basket, and pick out 2 that match as needed. Sorting some short socks sounds so stupendously stupefying!

IMHO

@Coloma Please tell you did go to the store that way!

@ibstubro My mom, who was a stay at home mom while we were growing up, and kept a perfect house, once chided me because I didn’t match and fold socks together. I always simply bought the same brand of white socks, for my self and the kids, and just threw them all in a dresser drawer. My mom thought that was scandalous! I was a single working mom. I didn’t have the time or the inclination for doing silly stuff.

OK, you can go to the store that way @Coloma but DON’T buy candy and crap!!

@Dutchess_III I think that’s how my non-sock-sort started. I worked in a factory for 20 years and I wore the thickest tall white socks possible for many of them because of steel toed boots and concrete floors. I just bought enough of them to fill the washer, and washed them all at once. When then started to thin, I gave the lot away and bought all new. Nothing to match.

@ibstubro You bet I have!
I’ve lived on rural properties for years and yep, would go to the local stores in my jammies,
Marlboro woman fleece vest and mud boots on many occasions. ( Hey it’s feed store cotoure lol )
I’m one of “those” woman that can transform from hippie farm chick to fairly glam easily. :-)

Now I’m back living on the edge of town so don’t go to the store in my jammies anymore. I miss it!

The latest Mercedes Benz S Class can basically drive itself.

Engage all the safety modes on the newest Infiniti M and it will follow a straight road hands off.

I’m sure some motorists will be thrilled.

But it makes this driver kinda sad.

The above said, the typical low tech automatic transmission is NOT smarter than me.

Or should I say they cannot collect as much (visual) information as I can and make determinations on what is seen ahead.

If I approach a line of cars starting to return to speed after a traffic signal turns green I can select the proper lower gear to slow down and then speed up in that one perfectly chosen cog, brake pedal never consulted.

Most Autos it will simply do nothing or engage a shorter gear combination in response to my letting off the throttle assuming I intend to merely drive more slowly.

The appliance of science is smarter than me, it even fucking rhymes.