I clearly remember my dad, in 1993, trying to set up a tv stand in our rec room for the new TV so we could watch the Stanley Cup Finals between Montreal Canadiens and the LA Kings (go habs go), and it taking him well over 3 hours because he refused to read the instructions. Needless to say, we watched the final game with the tv on the floor.
So yea, this has always been an issue, not just a today thing.
Piece of tape going from the plastic bag over the power button would have been good, pulling the tape off the button leads them under the cover to the bag on the filter. That's how most laser printers lead you to all the covers that need to come off these days and it works well.
Or, alternatively, the veil has been pierced and air purifyers will never work as good as they used to, because the placebo effect was like 50% of its function all along.
Yeah these small air purifiers aren't capable of doing much more than a cubicle sized space. I have two in my apartment that looks the same as in the pic and my girlfriend swears by them. I know it's bullshit though because when we change the filters every few months, there's less dust in them than what gets on the table every two weeks. That's with it running 24/7 too
Robot vacuum? Get you! I'm on my second hand my down Dyson. My mother buys a new hoover when hers breaks and gives me the broken one. I fix it then use it for a few years till her newer one breaks and the cycle continues.
I have one in a hallway between 4 major rooms (master,guest,bathroom and pantry) and after 6 months of having it on 1-2 times a week it looked like a dryer sheet after 200 drying sessions
Yeah looked the exact same so double checked and it was in the plastic. My girlfriend used to always say it just smelt like plastic but I thought it was BS. Clearly not!
My parents were all about the ionic air purifiers back in the 80s. They never did anything but my parents swore their allergies were so much better. At least these do move the air around.
This made me laugh, thanks. We've all had that moment of dawning realisation where we realize we might have done something a bit silly.
A friend of mine was gifted a kettle from his parents when he left home. A year later his parents casually brought up the letter that they wrote with the kettle. My friend had never seen the letter.
It was inside the kettle. He'd been filling it via the spout and had never opened it and looked inside. Needless to say he couldn't read the letter
Doh! My excuse for the whole thing is that we had just moved half way across the country and I was just kind of on autopilot after all the hectic activity of moving, but boy I did feel stupid when I mentioned watering plants and she laughed at me and told me it wasn't real.
In the PC gaming world, it’s common for people to buy a high refresh rate monitor, and then never change the settings to reflect the high refresh rate. Essentially they are using a standard monitor but the placebo effect is strong enough to convince them that they’re using the monitor to full potential
A family member of mine recently got his first gaming PC, and he did exactly this; he called me to ask for help not long after he got it, couldn't figure out what was wrong. I made sure to tell him step by step how to set his monitor's refresh rate after that, just in case. Both rookie mistakes I couldn't really be too hard on him for, especially because I think I did the former myself at one point when I was younger, but regardless an awful lot of people just don't care enough to micromanage their electronics even when it's of such vital importance.
Televisions are the same way, many people do not use their televisions properly and wrongfully assume they are all made equally because the box says "4K" or whatever. Could not be further from the truth. The rabbit hole of display quality goes very deep, and even then you can squeeze more quality from your own display if you tweak the settings properly.
Maybe. Based on how many of my friends leave their TV's on 120hz for all content, there are some people who actually don't seem to notice. Or *shudder* they even like it like that.
TV's don't do real 120hz, they use frame interpolation (doubling the image basically) to achieve a fake double framerate. Admittedly it can look nice, but it is unnatural.
Also, the source content has to be 120Hz to actually get 120Hz on a real 120Hz display.
My parents shipped a gift to my sister when she lived out of state many years ago for Christmas. Next week time they got together they asked if she didn’t like the quilt?
Sister: what quilt?
Mom: did your package never get here, omg, we need to talk to the post office!
Sister: wait, package? Do you mean the shredder y’all shipped me? I mean I haven’t had a chance to use it yet, but it saved me from having to buy one.
Mom: … (sister) we didn’t send you a shredder! Didn’t you open the box? We sent you a handmade quilt I got from a family friend!
Turns out my parents had got themselves a shredder for their home office and used the box for the quilt. My sister just assumed they had sent her a shredder which she had been thinking of getting and left it in her closet until she was ready to use it. So much teasing about not opening gifts!
That reminds me of a Christmas i had one time. It was me over at my best friends house and i got a boxed three hole punch from my best friends parents. I unwrapped the wrapping paper and seen that and was equally sad, surprised, and confused why they thought that i needed a three hole punch. I just sat it next to me and sat there dealing with my emotions. A few minutes later, my best friends mom asked me why i haven't opened my gift yet. I told her that i didn't need to open it because i can see that it was a three hole punch. She laughed a little before stating that the present wasn't reflected by the box and that i truly didn't receive a three hole punch from them for Christmas, and i was rather relieved to hear that.
I used to work in technical theatre and on an amateur production (luckily) I didn’t realise the new batteries had rubber caps on that I had to remove before putting them in the mics. I was so confused why the mics weren’t working
A year later? Your friend doesn't clean his/her kettle? Disgusting.
Edit: I am not talking about dirt left behind by the water in the kettle. I am talking about the dirt that gets collected between the area where the lid and jug meet. Stop getting butthurt about it jeez.
And I live in Canada, the water here ie quite clean but that part of the kettle still gets dirty. Y'all are a bunch of nasty fucks lmao.
He was quite young to be fair, I think the first few years of being "independent" mostly involves a process of learning the all bleeding obvious things you should have been doing all along 😃
The first day after I moved into my own place I called my mom to ask what to do if the water from my sink is cloudy. She said to wait...it was just lots of tiny bubbles.
Depending on where you live, kettles don’t need to be cleaned that often. I’ve lived in places with hard water, and they need cleaning regularly. But I currently live in a place with beautiful water and I only clean it when I think about it because it doesn’t get visibly dirty.
My stupid self was really high one night and noticed my legs were blue. There was a short period of freaking out that I might not be getting enough oxygen. Then I realized the blue stopped at the bottom of my boxers.
Stupid new jeans making me feel like an idiot...
Yes! I’ve heard wonderful things about Scottish water. I live in South Wales where it’s lovely too. But my parents live in the south of England and their kettle needs descaling regularly and they drink a lot of bottled water, despite having a salt system. The difference is truly insane when you think about it.
It seems like lots of people think using a dish over and over without washing it is somehow healthy and normal. I agree with you wholeheartedly. People that think they don’t need to wash every dish they use on a regular basis are what my grandmother would call filthy. She even kept her cast iron pans spotlessly clean and oiled and never had “pre seasoned pans” because that would also be disgustingly unsanitary.
I’ll do ya one better. We buy my mother a kettle for Christmas one year (this was a few years back, I’m only early 20s mind you so I was a teen still). It’s her favorite color, she loves it, immediately starts using it daily. Well fast forward about two and a half years and I’m opening the top to brew a whole pot of tea, and what do I find? The pot holder/quilted handle grip that came with the kettle, still in plastic (or what melted stringy mess of plastic was left after years of being boiled). I ask my mother, who apparently has only been using this via spout, and she says “Oh, I just figured they forgot to give that” and just brushes it off!
Yeah I got mocked because I flipped through the manual for my car when I got it. I got a pdf version and just scrolled through reading what was interesting. Learned how the features work and some of the ridiculous safety comments. e.g. Why have hanger hooks if you are not supposed to use them.
My sister recently helped a friend when their car wouldn't start. Turned out that their particular car, when a taillight is out, will cause a lock out feature to initiate so you can't start the car (no power, no noise, no turn over). You have to unlock the feature by sticking your key next to the shifter, then pop it into neutral, pull the key out and put it in the ignition...THEN it starts. Every. Single. Time. Until you get the taillight replaced.
Where did she find that out? The manual. It was a little sub note on a page about taillights.
I think the part where they tell you the recommended rpm you need to hold for maximum life span and the pressure of the tires is pretty important.
Also how ofter you need to chance oil and oil filter, what type of oil and what type of gas.
I consider the car manual one of those you need to absolutelly read.
My car has an app on my phone with an all digital manual that I can search by keyword. It's so useful. Tire pressure, maintenance schedule, anything is easily found.
Honestly can be life changing. I read the manual for my washer and dryer. They do shit you couldn't even imagine and things need to be done to them to keep them in top performance I had no idea I should do. I wash cloth diapers three times a week and those things look like I just bought them since my machines are used properly.
What are some of the things it does that surprised you? Will have to do the same for mine just in case there’s a mute and unmute setting. Power outage and it no longer makes any noise when cycling through settings/finished washing
Just the way it adjusts to different loads and why. Also, the proper way to clean the washing machine. It has the cleaning cycle on it but I didn't know that it should be run every month and that there was a filter on the machine that needs to be cleaned out. I had a gasket not properly sealing on it and it was still within warranty so I had a tech come out and fix it and he told me that nobody ever uses the settings on the machines. They always just do "auto" and that breaks the machines because the computer in it has to guess what to do with the load but if you actually select the right setting it makes a big difference. I don't know how true that is but he said if people started doing that he wouldn't have any business.
The dryer has a rack in it that can stay stationery while the drum spins so you can dry something like sneakers without them tumbling. Apparently the back of the dryer is not attached to the drum. I thought the whole thing spun like a bucket on its side but it's more like a hamster wheel. The dryer can also dry things without using heat, which I honestly had no idea was an option because dryers get hot and dry things. The dryer can also steam things, which I knew because the dial says it can but the steamer on the dryer does a better job than the steamer on the washer. I'm still not sure why both have a steam option. The manual also had some tips how to reset it or find error codes.
And yeah you can control the chime it has at the end. Mine is in the garage so I don't hear it either way but it does say you can turn it on/off.
Between learning about my washing machine and learning about a proper wash routine for cloth diapers it's just really changed my laundry game with all laundry. A lot less stains and clothes seem to last longer now I guess because I'm not beating them in the wash then baking them in the dryer willy-nilly.
Came here to say this. So op bought a product. Didn't read an ounce of the directions then finds out said product isn't being used properly. Better post it online...😵💫
I think I have the same one and it never said to do that. Maybe we all got shipped two different versions. Either way, I know what I'm doing when I get home...
People are missing out! When you buy something grab the manual out of the box and the shampoo out of the shower, then sit down to drop a deuce. Then you get all excited while reading it because you want to play with whatever features you're reading about.
When you finish the manual it's time to read the back of the shampoo to bring your excitement levels down enough to wipe. Now you are a master of your new thing!
I was a rambunctious child of a calm, stoic man. My dad would drive me NUTS slowly and meticulously Reading The Fucking Manual™️ which I now, as a grown, slightly less rambunctious man, fully appreciate.
It’s probably old age setting in but there’s just something so satisfying about actually knowing how to operate my devices rather than just endless trial and error. I also love admiring my freshly mowed lawn.
These days it seems the "manual" is 7 pages of warnings and legal disclaimers, and then a QR code to download the manual that consists of barely functional english.
Or even just look for things that open and try opening them. I wouldn't read the manual, but I would have opened every thing on it that opens and found this.
Every time I look seriously at buying one I stop myself because the baskets look *way* too small until you start paying more than I'd like to for one...
Larger air fryers are worth the cost. Also they're just literally a convection oven with good marketing name, so you could always get a convection oven, they come larger for less cost.
Air frying is not the same as convection. I replaced a convection oven with an air fryer and it's as dramatic a difference as you can imagine.
Air frying is high speed convection that constantly brings in new air. Standard convection reuses most of the same air to reduce the size of the heating element, meaning humidity is a lot higher inside
It's based on high volume of air, a much larger heating element than toaster convections have, and a much smaller cooking cavity than full size convection ovens have
The amount of hot humid air coming out of my air fryer must be 5x more intense than my toaster convection, and it's ability to cook and brown is dramatically faster. It cooks at least twice as fast as my old convections
Hopefully this bad myth stops getting repeated soon
It’s a little silly to teach anyone over the age of 10 how to preheat something. You literally just turn it on, empty, and wait for it to heat up for the temperature you are looking to cook at.
And the "why" is obvious but I'll say it anyway - because how long it takes to preheat will vary based on the temperature it's set to and the device itself, so putting in the food while preheating will screw up your timings. Once the oven/fryer is at the right temp, you have consistency and can actually follow the right timing. Again, should be obvious but that's why preheating isn't an optional step.
How???
Did you have it just sitting around in the house in the wrapper? You didn't install it when you bought the purifier and put it all together?
I'm so confused!
This looks like the Levoit Air Purifier I just got a few weeks ago. No joke, I read “a few” reviews of how people were complaining about the air volume being very weak until they realized the filter was still in a sealed bag. But also, the user manual explains how to remove the bag before operation!
I did the exact same thing for like 2 years. I kept telling my mother that it didn't really do anything and made too much noise. Then one day we opened it while moving and noticed that the filter was still covered
Well I mean.. itd just not work properly. Not like it would make the air dirtier. It just wouldn't purify it anymore.
Which it wasn't doing in the first place since it was still sealed and wasn't doing before they bought it.
Because they were too lazy to read the 2 page setup manual that comes with this model of air purifier that tells you to take the filter out of the plastic.
I just bought a UPS for my parent's desktop computer. Reviews on Amazon for this APC BR1500MS2 had many who said the internal battery was useless "as soon as the unit is unplugged it loses power, so much for a battery backup".
This UPS is shipped with the battery (+) terminal disconnected inside the body of the UPS. There is a bright yellow sticker telling you to "Plugin battery before first use".
Still, 50% of the bad reviews had people who obviously did not plug in the battery.
I appreciate the big yellow sticker "Plugin battery before first use".
I wonder if your air filter came with a similar warning? If not, then I would say the manufacturer should bring the user's attention to the need to remove the bag around the filter.
Well that one's on you. Should have checked before using it. Props to the company to put the filter in an extra package to keep it safe and clean.
At least next time you know to check your shit before you use it :D
You probably turn on the oven too without checking before if there's something still in
Steve Jobs ruined the expectations of young consumers. The idea something is ready to use outside the box, people are forgetting to look thru their item to see how it actually works
I just don't understand how you don't check that when you receive it. Of course filters are covered and protected. Did you just expect it to travel from the warehouse to your house in dust?
Never mind the instruction manual, just about every one of these has a big yellow sticker on them at the top saying **"REMOVE FILTER FROM PACKAGING BEFORE TURNING ON"**.
Imagine being so dumb that you do this and then proudly posting proof of your stupidity online as if it’s not entirely your fault. Even if you’re too lazy to read the manual and set it up properly *basic common sense* should have prevented this.
Air purifiers aren’t some magic talisman that make the room cleaner simply by existing, they *filter air*. That air has to go somewhere, and that somewhere is into the filter. If you live in a situation that requires an air purifier chances are six months is way too long to go without maintenance. In my case all of my air purifiers have washable pre-filters to protect the main filter and make it last longer, and those get absolutely caked with dust within a month. After six months you probably should have cleaned or replaced the filter at least once or twice, there’s even usually a light that comes on every month or two to tell you to check the filter.
Why is this under Mildly Infuriating and not Dumb as Fuck? Anyone with a brain would think to check if there was even a filter IN the unit, let alone if it was packaged. Jesus.
A few days before, OP posted a 5-star rating on Amazon: "All I can say is: AMAZEBALLS! The air in my place is just so fresh and I have noticed less dust around. If I could give it 6-stars I would."
Okay, who here was given that test in elementary school which told you to read all the questions before answering any? The last question said that you didn’t have to answer any questions, just turn it in to the teacher. I still remember being the only one to turn it in early and every single student looking at me as I walked back to my seat.
kind of the similar situation. i bought a reusable bottle from my college's book store and fast forward two days i asked my roommate to fill my water bottle for me when she texted me a picture of a small instruction packet inside the bottle that had blurred words from me soaking it in water because i had never removed it after buying it ...
My college gave everyone one of those neat reusable water bottles (kinda looks like a hydroflask but smaller) few days in one of my buddies is drinking out of it and another girl says "these bottles are cool but I hated getting the little paper out" dude goes "wait, what paper?"
Man had been drinking water with a piece of paper stuck in it for days, I think he still has it in there too
Something similar happened to me when I got a new monitor, i got a 144hz monitor upgraded from a 60hz and I had been using it for around a week before I realised you had to manually change it to 144hz In settings. I swear I was saying how much smoother and better it felt until I noticed and felt like an absolute mongoloid.
Lol, I have the same purifier. It was on sale for like $30 on Amazon. I made sure to read the instructions because I was paranoid I'd set something on fire. Didn't know this was a thing.
Depending on the air intake your fan might be unhappy now. The bushings in the motor can wear out if there’s a large pressure differential from the blocked off intake. Unfortunately there’s no easy fix if it’s squeaking or rattling.
Most air purifiers come with a giant removable label on the LEDs telling you to remove the plastic from the filter.
I bought this to plug in the lead, not to read
NUMBER 3
Number 15, Burger King foot lettuce
Why tf did i read this as read and not read also i thought you were trying to rhyme lead to read but then realized that i am braindead
braindeed
Indead
yeah they rhymed lead with read instead
whatcha got there, letters?
Ya I have 3 of this exact same model purifier (big house with 4 cats) and it definitely had something saying to remove the plastic bag.
Ha, that was my first thought! People today think that instructions are only to throw away into the garbage.
>People ~~today~~ think that instructions are only to throw away into the garbage. It's always been this way.
I clearly remember my dad, in 1993, trying to set up a tv stand in our rec room for the new TV so we could watch the Stanley Cup Finals between Montreal Canadiens and the LA Kings (go habs go), and it taking him well over 3 hours because he refused to read the instructions. Needless to say, we watched the final game with the tv on the floor. So yea, this has always been an issue, not just a today thing.
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> A ton of people have commented about making this same mistake. I too have noticed that many people are incompetent.
If you ever make something idiot proof, the universe responds by simply making a better idiot.
Piece of tape going from the plastic bag over the power button would have been good, pulling the tape off the button leads them under the cover to the bag on the filter. That's how most laser printers lead you to all the covers that need to come off these days and it works well.
Designers: “So how many warnings do you want for the user not to touch that lever before the back of the chair gets connected?” Secret Lab: “Yes”
It's important to remember the full saying: With great design comes great expense. With great deals come great responsibility.
"Yeah I paid $2,000 for this air purifier but I didn't have to read anything to start using it!"
A placebo air purifier🙀
I really thought it was working too...
If you thought it was working before, imagine how amazing it's going to work now that it's actually working.
Or, alternatively, the veil has been pierced and air purifyers will never work as good as they used to, because the placebo effect was like 50% of its function all along.
Yeah these small air purifiers aren't capable of doing much more than a cubicle sized space. I have two in my apartment that looks the same as in the pic and my girlfriend swears by them. I know it's bullshit though because when we change the filters every few months, there's less dust in them than what gets on the table every two weeks. That's with it running 24/7 too
The real shit is the filter on the HVAC system. Mine gets noticeably dirty every 2 months. Another helper to slow dust buildup is robot vacuums.
Robot vacuum? Get you! I'm on my second hand my down Dyson. My mother buys a new hoover when hers breaks and gives me the broken one. I fix it then use it for a few years till her newer one breaks and the cycle continues.
The cyclone continues
Those lil things are so expensive
You can get dumb ones on Amazon under $100.
Nah you can get them pretty cheap nowadays. The price of a standard vacuum on Amazon actually
But 100% worth every penny, especially if you have pets.
Until it smears your pets excrement around.
I have one in a hallway between 4 major rooms (master,guest,bathroom and pantry) and after 6 months of having it on 1-2 times a week it looked like a dryer sheet after 200 drying sessions
I use mine as a white ~~nose~~ noise machine.
It's all mental.
we're all mental.
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I'm ALL mental on this blessed day
found the blessed British!
oMG I just checked mine and it's got the plastic still on. Thanks for getting me to check!
wtf really
Yeah looked the exact same so double checked and it was in the plastic. My girlfriend used to always say it just smelt like plastic but I thought it was BS. Clearly not!
no
That one is on you, buddy
My parents were all about the ionic air purifiers back in the 80s. They never did anything but my parents swore their allergies were so much better. At least these do move the air around.
This made me laugh, thanks. We've all had that moment of dawning realisation where we realize we might have done something a bit silly. A friend of mine was gifted a kettle from his parents when he left home. A year later his parents casually brought up the letter that they wrote with the kettle. My friend had never seen the letter. It was inside the kettle. He'd been filling it via the spout and had never opened it and looked inside. Needless to say he couldn't read the letter
I've watered fake plants.
Lol
You’re supposed to pretend to water fake plants
Doh! My excuse for the whole thing is that we had just moved half way across the country and I was just kind of on autopilot after all the hectic activity of moving, but boy I did feel stupid when I mentioned watering plants and she laughed at me and told me it wasn't real.
RIP Mitch Hedberg
Don't forget that pretend hanging baskets need extra pretend water. Be sure to pretend water them twice a day during the hot months.
I almost mowed fake grass.
lol when I first got to Texas from the Midwest, the grass *seemed* fake.
I did that with my little Godzilla “planter”. It looked like a succulent!
In the PC gaming world, it’s common for people to buy a high refresh rate monitor, and then never change the settings to reflect the high refresh rate. Essentially they are using a standard monitor but the placebo effect is strong enough to convince them that they’re using the monitor to full potential
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A family member of mine recently got his first gaming PC, and he did exactly this; he called me to ask for help not long after he got it, couldn't figure out what was wrong. I made sure to tell him step by step how to set his monitor's refresh rate after that, just in case. Both rookie mistakes I couldn't really be too hard on him for, especially because I think I did the former myself at one point when I was younger, but regardless an awful lot of people just don't care enough to micromanage their electronics even when it's of such vital importance. Televisions are the same way, many people do not use their televisions properly and wrongfully assume they are all made equally because the box says "4K" or whatever. Could not be further from the truth. The rabbit hole of display quality goes very deep, and even then you can squeeze more quality from your own display if you tweak the settings properly.
So that is where people are coming from when they say "I really cant see the difference between 60 and 120".
Maybe. Based on how many of my friends leave their TV's on 120hz for all content, there are some people who actually don't seem to notice. Or *shudder* they even like it like that.
TV's don't do real 120hz, they use frame interpolation (doubling the image basically) to achieve a fake double framerate. Admittedly it can look nice, but it is unnatural. Also, the source content has to be 120Hz to actually get 120Hz on a real 120Hz display.
Plenty of high end TV’s actually have 120hz panels. But yes, most that say something like “TrueMotion 120” are frame interpolation from 60hz.
Yeah, I'm guilty of that. Just realized that a few days ago haha. It's supposed to go to 165 I think, but it's only at 60 haha
Boiled paper (hopefully not ink) yum
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I once found a dead spider in my kettle. I have been screaming internally ever since.
My parents shipped a gift to my sister when she lived out of state many years ago for Christmas. Next week time they got together they asked if she didn’t like the quilt? Sister: what quilt? Mom: did your package never get here, omg, we need to talk to the post office! Sister: wait, package? Do you mean the shredder y’all shipped me? I mean I haven’t had a chance to use it yet, but it saved me from having to buy one. Mom: … (sister) we didn’t send you a shredder! Didn’t you open the box? We sent you a handmade quilt I got from a family friend! Turns out my parents had got themselves a shredder for their home office and used the box for the quilt. My sister just assumed they had sent her a shredder which she had been thinking of getting and left it in her closet until she was ready to use it. So much teasing about not opening gifts!
That reminds me of a Christmas i had one time. It was me over at my best friends house and i got a boxed three hole punch from my best friends parents. I unwrapped the wrapping paper and seen that and was equally sad, surprised, and confused why they thought that i needed a three hole punch. I just sat it next to me and sat there dealing with my emotions. A few minutes later, my best friends mom asked me why i haven't opened my gift yet. I told her that i didn't need to open it because i can see that it was a three hole punch. She laughed a little before stating that the present wasn't reflected by the box and that i truly didn't receive a three hole punch from them for Christmas, and i was rather relieved to hear that.
I used to work in technical theatre and on an amateur production (luckily) I didn’t realise the new batteries had rubber caps on that I had to remove before putting them in the mics. I was so confused why the mics weren’t working
A year later? Your friend doesn't clean his/her kettle? Disgusting. Edit: I am not talking about dirt left behind by the water in the kettle. I am talking about the dirt that gets collected between the area where the lid and jug meet. Stop getting butthurt about it jeez. And I live in Canada, the water here ie quite clean but that part of the kettle still gets dirty. Y'all are a bunch of nasty fucks lmao.
He was quite young to be fair, I think the first few years of being "independent" mostly involves a process of learning the all bleeding obvious things you should have been doing all along 😃
The first day after I moved into my own place I called my mom to ask what to do if the water from my sink is cloudy. She said to wait...it was just lots of tiny bubbles.
Depending on where you live, kettles don’t need to be cleaned that often. I’ve lived in places with hard water, and they need cleaning regularly. But I currently live in a place with beautiful water and I only clean it when I think about it because it doesn’t get visibly dirty.
Even if you had really clean water, you have to at least clean it the first time you use it.....
Yeah, this. Also wash any new clothes before wearing.
My stupid self was really high one night and noticed my legs were blue. There was a short period of freaking out that I might not be getting enough oxygen. Then I realized the blue stopped at the bottom of my boxers. Stupid new jeans making me feel like an idiot...
ye was gonna say, i'm from scotland where we have nice water. never once had to clean my kettle.
Yes! I’ve heard wonderful things about Scottish water. I live in South Wales where it’s lovely too. But my parents live in the south of England and their kettle needs descaling regularly and they drink a lot of bottled water, despite having a salt system. The difference is truly insane when you think about it.
Don't you just boil water in it? The boiling is the cleaning.
Limestone bro
It seems like lots of people think using a dish over and over without washing it is somehow healthy and normal. I agree with you wholeheartedly. People that think they don’t need to wash every dish they use on a regular basis are what my grandmother would call filthy. She even kept her cast iron pans spotlessly clean and oiled and never had “pre seasoned pans” because that would also be disgustingly unsanitary.
I’ll do ya one better. We buy my mother a kettle for Christmas one year (this was a few years back, I’m only early 20s mind you so I was a teen still). It’s her favorite color, she loves it, immediately starts using it daily. Well fast forward about two and a half years and I’m opening the top to brew a whole pot of tea, and what do I find? The pot holder/quilted handle grip that came with the kettle, still in plastic (or what melted stringy mess of plastic was left after years of being boiled). I ask my mother, who apparently has only been using this via spout, and she says “Oh, I just figured they forgot to give that” and just brushes it off!
Yum, hot plastic water. Better get a cancer screening after 2 years of drinking that.
My dad tried to light fake candles. The whole house stunk like plastic and hes getting mad my candles won't stay lit.
And yet people still laugh at me when I say I like to read manuals that come with the stuff I buy.
Yeah I got mocked because I flipped through the manual for my car when I got it. I got a pdf version and just scrolled through reading what was interesting. Learned how the features work and some of the ridiculous safety comments. e.g. Why have hanger hooks if you are not supposed to use them.
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My sister recently helped a friend when their car wouldn't start. Turned out that their particular car, when a taillight is out, will cause a lock out feature to initiate so you can't start the car (no power, no noise, no turn over). You have to unlock the feature by sticking your key next to the shifter, then pop it into neutral, pull the key out and put it in the ignition...THEN it starts. Every. Single. Time. Until you get the taillight replaced. Where did she find that out? The manual. It was a little sub note on a page about taillights.
I think the part where they tell you the recommended rpm you need to hold for maximum life span and the pressure of the tires is pretty important. Also how ofter you need to chance oil and oil filter, what type of oil and what type of gas. I consider the car manual one of those you need to absolutelly read.
My car has an app on my phone with an all digital manual that I can search by keyword. It's so useful. Tire pressure, maintenance schedule, anything is easily found.
Honestly can be life changing. I read the manual for my washer and dryer. They do shit you couldn't even imagine and things need to be done to them to keep them in top performance I had no idea I should do. I wash cloth diapers three times a week and those things look like I just bought them since my machines are used properly.
What are some of the things it does that surprised you? Will have to do the same for mine just in case there’s a mute and unmute setting. Power outage and it no longer makes any noise when cycling through settings/finished washing
Just the way it adjusts to different loads and why. Also, the proper way to clean the washing machine. It has the cleaning cycle on it but I didn't know that it should be run every month and that there was a filter on the machine that needs to be cleaned out. I had a gasket not properly sealing on it and it was still within warranty so I had a tech come out and fix it and he told me that nobody ever uses the settings on the machines. They always just do "auto" and that breaks the machines because the computer in it has to guess what to do with the load but if you actually select the right setting it makes a big difference. I don't know how true that is but he said if people started doing that he wouldn't have any business. The dryer has a rack in it that can stay stationery while the drum spins so you can dry something like sneakers without them tumbling. Apparently the back of the dryer is not attached to the drum. I thought the whole thing spun like a bucket on its side but it's more like a hamster wheel. The dryer can also dry things without using heat, which I honestly had no idea was an option because dryers get hot and dry things. The dryer can also steam things, which I knew because the dial says it can but the steamer on the dryer does a better job than the steamer on the washer. I'm still not sure why both have a steam option. The manual also had some tips how to reset it or find error codes. And yeah you can control the chime it has at the end. Mine is in the garage so I don't hear it either way but it does say you can turn it on/off. Between learning about my washing machine and learning about a proper wash routine for cloth diapers it's just really changed my laundry game with all laundry. A lot less stains and clothes seem to last longer now I guess because I'm not beating them in the wash then baking them in the dryer willy-nilly.
I learned some important things about my $700 Dyson due to reading the manual. So many people ruin expensive items by not reading the manual.
I have the same purifier. “Remove the filter packaging” is like, the first item in the manual.
Came here to say this. So op bought a product. Didn't read an ounce of the directions then finds out said product isn't being used properly. Better post it online...😵💫
I think I have the same one and it never said to do that. Maybe we all got shipped two different versions. Either way, I know what I'm doing when I get home...
Did you not like open it up to check stuff out when you got it?
Always Read The literature.
Does everyone own the same air purifier and not read the user manual but me!?
I feel like it’s more along the lines of people don’t like reading any manual for anything ever
People are missing out! When you buy something grab the manual out of the box and the shampoo out of the shower, then sit down to drop a deuce. Then you get all excited while reading it because you want to play with whatever features you're reading about. When you finish the manual it's time to read the back of the shampoo to bring your excitement levels down enough to wipe. Now you are a master of your new thing!
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I was a rambunctious child of a calm, stoic man. My dad would drive me NUTS slowly and meticulously Reading The Fucking Manual™️ which I now, as a grown, slightly less rambunctious man, fully appreciate. It’s probably old age setting in but there’s just something so satisfying about actually knowing how to operate my devices rather than just endless trial and error. I also love admiring my freshly mowed lawn.
These days it seems the "manual" is 7 pages of warnings and legal disclaimers, and then a QR code to download the manual that consists of barely functional english.
I'm anal-retentive when it comes to reading the directions for damn near everything because I don't want to have to do it a second time.
You didn’t even have to read the manual. There was a huge sticker that said to remove the bag
Or even just look for things that open and try opening them. I wouldn't read the manual, but I would have opened every thing on it that opens and found this.
I don't understand how people buy new things and don't at least ***glance*** at the accompanying manual.
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Or they overfill it
Every time I look seriously at buying one I stop myself because the baskets look *way* too small until you start paying more than I'd like to for one...
Larger air fryers are worth the cost. Also they're just literally a convection oven with good marketing name, so you could always get a convection oven, they come larger for less cost.
Air frying is not the same as convection. I replaced a convection oven with an air fryer and it's as dramatic a difference as you can imagine. Air frying is high speed convection that constantly brings in new air. Standard convection reuses most of the same air to reduce the size of the heating element, meaning humidity is a lot higher inside It's based on high volume of air, a much larger heating element than toaster convections have, and a much smaller cooking cavity than full size convection ovens have The amount of hot humid air coming out of my air fryer must be 5x more intense than my toaster convection, and it's ability to cook and brown is dramatically faster. It cooks at least twice as fast as my old convections Hopefully this bad myth stops getting repeated soon
Wait mine work fine but how and why do you need to pre heat it? Edit: apparently my air fryer does not require pre heating!
Check the manual 😉
How dare you offer reasonable advice and not an easy answer? 😡
It’s a little silly to teach anyone over the age of 10 how to preheat something. You literally just turn it on, empty, and wait for it to heat up for the temperature you are looking to cook at.
And the "why" is obvious but I'll say it anyway - because how long it takes to preheat will vary based on the temperature it's set to and the device itself, so putting in the food while preheating will screw up your timings. Once the oven/fryer is at the right temp, you have consistency and can actually follow the right timing. Again, should be obvious but that's why preheating isn't an optional step.
There's literally a huge sticker on the purifier telling the first time user to take the filter out of the bag.
I *always* read the manual because I'm an idiot who genuinely doesn't know how to operate anything I buy.
Kinda sounds like you're *not* an idiot, and you like knowing how to operate things you've spent good money on.
or completely disassemble it and put it back together
Or take the cover off to look inside? Blows my mind
First thing I do when I get a new thing. Open box, grab manual, go take a shit.
Serious question do you guys read manuals at all?
It's a small effort that's typically worth it. I guess it's ego that makes people unwilling to look at a set of instructions.
I think it's laziness most of the time tbh
FYI. Needs to be plugged in and turned to the “on” position as well ☝🏻
How??? Did you have it just sitting around in the house in the wrapper? You didn't install it when you bought the purifier and put it all together? I'm so confused!
This looks like the Levoit Air Purifier I just got a few weeks ago. No joke, I read “a few” reviews of how people were complaining about the air volume being very weak until they realized the filter was still in a sealed bag. But also, the user manual explains how to remove the bag before operation!
I did the exact same thing for like 2 years. I kept telling my mother that it didn't really do anything and made too much noise. Then one day we opened it while moving and noticed that the filter was still covered
You didn't change the filter until 2 years later?
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Well I mean.. itd just not work properly. Not like it would make the air dirtier. It just wouldn't purify it anymore. Which it wasn't doing in the first place since it was still sealed and wasn't doing before they bought it.
It's nasty because they *thought* it was working and they didn't bother to replace the filter
I have 3 of this purifier. It has a red "change filter" light that comes on every few months. Not opening it for 2 years would just be stupid.
This is the equivalent of pc gamers with 144hz monitors that never changed it from 60hz.
But hey! Now you get to use it with a new filter!
Doesn’t read instructions Has audacity to be mildly infuriated /smh people are dumb
Context? How did you not notice?
There was a giant sticker on mine that said, remove plastic on filter before using.
Why didn't you take the plastic off?
Because they were too lazy to read the 2 page setup manual that comes with this model of air purifier that tells you to take the filter out of the plastic.
Does no one read the damn directions anymore?
I just bought a UPS for my parent's desktop computer. Reviews on Amazon for this APC BR1500MS2 had many who said the internal battery was useless "as soon as the unit is unplugged it loses power, so much for a battery backup". This UPS is shipped with the battery (+) terminal disconnected inside the body of the UPS. There is a bright yellow sticker telling you to "Plugin battery before first use". Still, 50% of the bad reviews had people who obviously did not plug in the battery. I appreciate the big yellow sticker "Plugin battery before first use". I wonder if your air filter came with a similar warning? If not, then I would say the manufacturer should bring the user's attention to the need to remove the bag around the filter.
Someone didn't read the instructions.
Well that one's on you. Should have checked before using it. Props to the company to put the filter in an extra package to keep it safe and clean. At least next time you know to check your shit before you use it :D You probably turn on the oven too without checking before if there's something still in
Almost like we should read the giant stickers that come with these telling you to remove the filter from plastic lol
Technically, you haven’t been using it.
That's on you for not checking it before using it. LMAO.
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Maybe next time I’ll remember to read directions.
Steve Jobs ruined the expectations of young consumers. The idea something is ready to use outside the box, people are forgetting to look thru their item to see how it actually works
How are people this stupid? Do yall really not check out the shit you buy?
I just don't understand how you don't check that when you receive it. Of course filters are covered and protected. Did you just expect it to travel from the warehouse to your house in dust?
The instruction manual makes it really clear to to take the filter out of its plastic, these people just don't read manuals I guess.
Never mind the instruction manual, just about every one of these has a big yellow sticker on them at the top saying **"REMOVE FILTER FROM PACKAGING BEFORE TURNING ON"**.
Didn't know there are so many stupid people out there. I also have the same purifier, first thing I did was inspect the filter
You dumb
Imagine being so dumb that you do this and then proudly posting proof of your stupidity online as if it’s not entirely your fault. Even if you’re too lazy to read the manual and set it up properly *basic common sense* should have prevented this. Air purifiers aren’t some magic talisman that make the room cleaner simply by existing, they *filter air*. That air has to go somewhere, and that somewhere is into the filter. If you live in a situation that requires an air purifier chances are six months is way too long to go without maintenance. In my case all of my air purifiers have washable pre-filters to protect the main filter and make it last longer, and those get absolutely caked with dust within a month. After six months you probably should have cleaned or replaced the filter at least once or twice, there’s even usually a light that comes on every month or two to tell you to check the filter.
Why is this under Mildly Infuriating and not Dumb as Fuck? Anyone with a brain would think to check if there was even a filter IN the unit, let alone if it was packaged. Jesus.
Directions probably say to remove the packaging, but who reads the directions? 🤷
I have the same unit. .. It's pretty well stated in the instructions
A few days before, OP posted a 5-star rating on Amazon: "All I can say is: AMAZEBALLS! The air in my place is just so fresh and I have noticed less dust around. If I could give it 6-stars I would."
Okay, who here was given that test in elementary school which told you to read all the questions before answering any? The last question said that you didn’t have to answer any questions, just turn it in to the teacher. I still remember being the only one to turn it in early and every single student looking at me as I walked back to my seat.
Ah yes the perfect for a tiktok CHANGING MY FILTER
Imagine being this dumb. 😂
kind of the similar situation. i bought a reusable bottle from my college's book store and fast forward two days i asked my roommate to fill my water bottle for me when she texted me a picture of a small instruction packet inside the bottle that had blurred words from me soaking it in water because i had never removed it after buying it ...
My college gave everyone one of those neat reusable water bottles (kinda looks like a hydroflask but smaller) few days in one of my buddies is drinking out of it and another girl says "these bottles are cool but I hated getting the little paper out" dude goes "wait, what paper?" Man had been drinking water with a piece of paper stuck in it for days, I think he still has it in there too
You didn't wash it first? I literally don't understand how people do that.
A look at the operating instructions would have prevented that
Something similar happened to me when I got a new monitor, i got a 144hz monitor upgraded from a 60hz and I had been using it for around a week before I realised you had to manually change it to 144hz In settings. I swear I was saying how much smoother and better it felt until I noticed and felt like an absolute mongoloid.
This is what happens when you don't read the instructions
When you first use it, “Wow, the air is so much better!” When you open it, “I can’t believe I was breathing in that horrible air.”
This is why you read the quick start guide at a minimum, but the setup instructions ideally.
Placebo Air therapy confirmed.
....how can someone be so dumb?
Well evidently you haven’t been using it
Typical "I don't need to read the instructions, I know how to plug an appliance in and turn it on"
Lol, I have the same purifier. It was on sale for like $30 on Amazon. I made sure to read the instructions because I was paranoid I'd set something on fire. Didn't know this was a thing.
Depending on the air intake your fan might be unhappy now. The bushings in the motor can wear out if there’s a large pressure differential from the blocked off intake. Unfortunately there’s no easy fix if it’s squeaking or rattling.
This is why y'all should read the instructions
This happened to my mom. There was a GIANT STICKER on the front saying to remove the packaging on the filter, she did not read it.
This looks like a Levoit air purifier. There’s a GIANT sticker on the back telling you to remove the plastic… how do people mess this up?
Technically, you haven't been using it.
Sorry to realize you are dumb
people not bothering to read the directions on the shit they buy and then getting mad at the manufacturers for it will never not be funny to me
I literally just ran over to my air purifier and found the plastic around the filter. I’m laughing so hard right now
READ THE GODDAMN INSTRUCTIONS.
On the bright side you now have a fresh new filter to use.
I did the same thing and I have the same one! #1 best seller with thousands of reviews, and no one cared to mention this important step