[QUOTE=Rigamarole]
Is this supposed to be a lot or something? I pay $875 (not including utilities) for a studio and it pretty much is a shantytown. Shopping carts in my front lawn and hobos diving in my dumpster are really the least of it. Nice 1-bedrooms are $1200 and up.
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Eh, depends on where you live. We have a fairly nice 3-bedroom 2-bathroom for about the same as he’s paying..
[QUOTE=even sven]
In any case, a nice FRIENDLY sign, maybe illustrated with how to do it and the consequences of not doing, would help.
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I see a contest coming up
[QUOTE=Uvula Donor]
You’re a real fucking asshole, Johnny Dildo.
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That was rather unkind, Uvula Donor.
Most dildos have been inside a vagina, giving pleasure. Why defame them that way?
You could always just empty the lint trap and live on, smugly secure in the knowledge that you know the average color of your neighbor’s clothes!!:eek:
That’s called being in a position of power, my friend.
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon]
You never heard of Pubic Housing? It’s for people that are on Pubic Assistance, so they have extra.
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Indeed! All of the bashing that Britney took was unwarranted. She shaved down there and donated her pubes to those less fortunate. Won’t anyone think of the poor children with no pubes of their own?
[QUOTE=danceswithcats]
Won’t anyone think of the poor children with no pubes of their own?
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Pedophiles?
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon]
Also agree that the one starting the dryer cleans out the lint trap. If it’s full, then your clothes are going to take a long time to dry, and could start a fire. So you should check it before you start it. And if you’re going to be taking it out, then you can clean it. Sounds logical to me.
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While checking the trap before drying your clothes is a good idea, when you’re using communal laundry facilities, it’s part of your job to clean YOUR lint out after your clothes are done. It’s just the polite thing to do.
Your clothes, your lint - clean it out.
[QUOTE=Sapo]
Ignorant buffoon! it is “la trampa de los lintos”
I don’t get the OP’s beef. He says it himself, you clean the lint trap BEFORE you put your load in. He has to do it anyways.
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Seems pretty simple to me. If he is cleaning out the lint trap and finding inordinately thick masses of lint therein, then others are not. Consequently, the persons not cleaning the traps are putting the building in danger of fire. It’s not the imposition of having to clean out the traps as such; it’s the fire danger.
Why are these people washing their pubic hair in the washer and dryer?
Back in the day, we had to wash ours on the washing board and it was still attached!
Immigrants, these days.
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer]
Seems pretty simple to me. If he is cleaning out the lint trap and finding inordinately thick masses of lint therein, then others are not. Consequently, the persons not cleaning the traps are putting the building in danger of fire. It’s not the imposition of having to clean out the traps as such; it’s the fire danger.
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c’mon, we immigrants don’t need a dryer to burn your building down. Our stinky curries and deep fried tostones are a lot more likely to get the Fire Department rattling someone’s white suburban fantasy than a dryer fire. And don’t get me started on our hair products and appliances. I am sure this will summon a couple of anecdotes from horrible linty napalm, but I don’t think the danger of a lint trap catching fire is the thing that should be keeping people awake at night.
[QUOTE=Sapo]
c’mon, we immigrants don’t need a dryer to burn your building down. Our stinky curries and deep fried tostones are a lot more likely to get the Fire Department rattling someone’s white suburban fantasy than a dryer fire. And don’t get me started on our hair products and appliances. I am sure this will summon a couple of anecdotes from horrible linty napalm, but I don’t think the danger of a lint trap catching fire is the thing that should be keeping people awake at night.
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Now, I know you’re joking, but what you’re doing is exactly what Hildo did in the OP, except you’re doing it from a body with a different skintone that was born in a different part of the world, and I don’t see that being a reasonable excuse.
Either ethic humor can exist or it cannot – its degree of self-deprecation is irrelevant, i.e., just because you’re a minority doesn’t give you license to make ethic jokes.
Either this, or everyone can just lighten the fuck up and share a good laugh.
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
Why are these people washing their pubic hair in the washer and dryer?
Back in the day, we had to wash ours on the washing board and it was still attached!
Immigrants, these days.
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That’s right, yet the washboard was ribbed, for her pleasure. 
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
Now, I know you’re joking, but what you’re doing is exactly what Hildo did in the OP, except you’re doing it from a body with a different skintone that was born in a different part of the world, and I don’t see that being a reasonable excuse.
Either ethic humor can exist or it cannot – its degree of self-deprecation is irrelevant, i.e., just because you’re a minority doesn’t give you license to make ethic jokes.
Either this, or everyone can just lighten the fuck up and share a good laugh.
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Replace every instance of ethic in the post with ETHNIC, please. Thanks.
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
Replace every instance of ethic in the post with ETHNIC, please. Thanks.
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I was wondering
I agree with the closing of your post. I think I have been consistently unserious throughout the thread.
I am normally ok with ethnic humour. The “locals” do get to get away with a bit more than outsiders, but there is nothing to stop outsiders to make good ethnic jokes, provided they are not deliberately and terribly inflamatory or on topics that are too sensitive.
And there is a line that separates ethnic humour from hate speech, of course. One has to at least try to pretend one is being funny.
And humour aside, I stand by my point. The danger of a lint trap fire is negligible next to a kitchen or an electrical fire. I believe the warning comes from the feverish mind of overzealous lawyers more than from reason (horrendous anecdotes to the contrary)
[QUOTE=Sapo]
And humour aside, I stand by my point. The danger of a lint trap fire is negligible next to a kitchen or an electrical fire. I believe the warning comes from the feverish mind of overzealous lawyers more than from reason (horrendous anecdotes to the contrary)
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Think again. The following is courtesy of the NFPA:
Dryers and washing machines were involved in an average of 13,300 home structure fires per year between 1999 and 2002. These fires caused an average of 10 deaths, 280 injuries and $97 million in direct property damage per year.
Clothes dryers and washing machines were involved in 4% of the home structure fires reported between 1999 and 2002.
Clothes dryers accounted for 93% of the fires; washing machines 4%, and washer and dryer combinations accounted for 3%.
The leading cause of home clothes dryer and washer fires was failure to clean (30%), followed by unclassified mechanical failure or malfunction (19%). Sixteen percent were caused by some type of electrical failure or short circuit.
Almost one third (31%) of these fires started with the ignition of clothing. In one quarter (24%), dust, fiber, or lint was the first item ignited.
I used to live in a house with 8 other people (9 people, 10 bedroom, 1 guy had 2). We had one washing machine. The one guy who always complained about the smallest things, well small enough that he was probably unfit for this living arrangement, even though he had lived there for 10 (yes 10 :eek: ) years (TOGWACATSTWSETHWPUFTLAETHHLTF10(Y10 :eek: )Y) was complaining about how some people did not clean the lint trap in the dryer, and how it was probably so-and-so upstairs, and I couldn’t help but think:
“Seriously? It’s a fucking lint trap. Why should I care if I have to spend an extra 3 seconds cleaning it out one a week? I’m going to check to make sure it’s clean before I dry, anyway. Fie upon that extra effort of lifting my non-dominant hand up to the lint screen and scraping away that fuzz! With that wasted time and energy I could’ve scratched my nose!”
What had happened was this: In general TOGWACATSTWSETHWPUFTLAETHHLTF10(Y10 :eek: )Y was a nice guy. But 10 :eek: years of living in this crowded house had left him all peevey and had stolen his sense of perspective. He desperately needed to move out and find a place of his own. And a month after I moved out, he did as well. And I’m sure he now looks back on living in that house and chuckles.
Johnny Hildo, you sound like TOGWACATSTWSETHWPUFTLAETHHLTF10(Y10 :eek: )Y. You need a fucking sense of perspective. The lint trap should not register on your annoy-O-meter. It is beyond petty.
Yes, it could start a fire, but it is getting emptied once a week, at least, no? Maybe you could leave a note or talk to the immigrant families? Maybe you could make friends who could tell you about the wonders of some place you’ve never been,while simultaneously educating some people who have left everything to live in a strange land about some of their adopted customs or about technologies which they might never have seen? Or are you determined to be a jerk about it? It’s your choice, man.
That was well put.
Also, I’ve been a communal launderer for years, and I swear I have seen signs in some of the many and varied facilities I’ve used that inform you that you are to clean the lint trap before using it, not after.
If touching someone else’s clean laundry lint even registers on your annoy-o-meter, man, you must have a low threshold.
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon]
That was well put.
Also, I’ve been a communal launderer for years, and I swear I have seen signs in some of the many and varied facilities I’ve used that inform you that you are to clean the lint trap before using it, not after.
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The reason it says to clean the trap before you use it is so that your load isn’t the one that starts the fire. It isn’t there because that’s the way it should be done, it’s there for safety because they know that most people could give a rip about cleaning their own lint out of the lint trap.
[QUOTE=danceswithcats]
Think again. The following is courtesy of the NFPA:
Dryers and washing machines were involved in an average of 13,300 home structure fires per year between 1999 and 2002. These fires caused an average of 10 deaths, 280 injuries and $97 million in direct property damage per year.
Clothes dryers and washing machines were involved in 4% of the home structure fires reported between 1999 and 2002.
Clothes dryers accounted for 93% of the fires; washing machines 4%, and washer and dryer combinations accounted for 3%.
The leading cause of home clothes dryer and washer fires was failure to clean (30%), followed by unclassified mechanical failure or malfunction (19%). Sixteen percent were caused by some type of electrical failure or short circuit.
Almost one third (31%) of these fires started with the ignition of clothing. In one quarter (24%), dust, fiber, or lint was the first item ignited.
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So 13 thousand horrible anecdotes per year. got it 
Hey Johnny Hildo, at least you don’t have to put up with American jerks like these!