<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">I once visited friends who lived on a rather large property in Arizona. It was about 50 degrees Celsius, but they still took their clothes out of the washing machine and into a drier. They would have dried almost as quickly if they left them in the basket. I enquires, and it seemed that air drying just did not figure as an option in their minds. To me, it seemed crazy.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">A girl was watching her mother in the kitchen while she prepared a roast. The mother took a knife and cut off the end of the roast. The girl asked her why she did that, and the mother said it was the way they always did it, but asked her mother about it, and she said the same thing, so they asked the great grandmother of the girl, and she said 'Why, to get it to fit the pot.' People get in a rut and miss the obvious alternatives and even why they are doing what they are doing. Custom is strong. Why, for instance, peel carrots? You are missing a lot of the vitamins. Ditto potatoes.</font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w p.s. dryer drying does take out wrinkles - air doesn't </font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:27 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_8663981349608204078WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] big rip in washing machines<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 4:54 am, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">You said anything less than four figures is OK to buy for you and your wife without consultation. But have you looked at prices lately for washers and dryers? You can spend well into the four figures at Home Depot. I almost always use the cheapest dryer available.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">The sun. Best at getting rid of mites on linens. You are probably banned from doing that, eh?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I once visited friends who lived on a rather large property in Arizona. It was about 50 degrees Celsius, but they still took their clothes out of the washing machine and into a drier. They would have dried almost as quickly if they left them in the basket. I enquires, and it seemed that air drying just did not figure as an option in their minds. To me, it seemed crazy.<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Stathis Papaioannou<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Ja. I used to live in Southern California, out in the desert. I had a clothesline there. You could go down the line hanging, then as soon as you finished a couple minutes later, you could go back where you started and take down perfectly dry clothes. It really only took a coupla minutes when there is a scorching dry breeze and perfectly clear skies.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It was cool having a nuclear fusion powered dryer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I still do: even if you dry indoors, the same fusion source warms the air.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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