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Daily Chat 8th Feb

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  • Needcash_3
    Needcash_3 Posts: 145 Forumite
    wydsiwyrg wrote: »
    Morning all,

    Wife woke up this morning to find her car had been nicked. Bit of a shame, but fortunately we bought another car for me last week, so she could use that today. Feel a bit gutted though.

    Found the car round the corner, with the passenger door bent and broken.

    T

    What goes around comes around .... you will receive good fortune in other ways x

    Gypsy NC (lol)
    Lightbulb moment: 1st Jan 2008
    -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x

  • lauradora
    lauradora Posts: 1,371 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Trying to get job apps done again...Boooo!
    On a mission
  • immoral_angeluk
    immoral_angeluk Posts: 24,506 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    OMFG just had the scare of my life! :eek: Was doing the girls some beans on toast... took the beans out of the microwave and closed the door... it hadn't finished so started up again and then it started sparking and popping like there was tonnes of metal in there!! But there was nothing in there at all.. jumped out of my skin and chucked beans everywhere before turning it off at the wall!!!!
    I'm still shaking.. and covered in bean juice.... :doh:
    Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
    Que sera, sera. <3
  • lauradora
    lauradora Posts: 1,371 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I'm sure you could write a really good song about that
    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
    On a mission
  • lauradora
    lauradora Posts: 1,371 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    :think: Thats happened to me before though. On xmas week aswell!!! Its maybe just given up the ghost
    On a mission
  • immoral_angeluk
    immoral_angeluk Posts: 24,506 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    lol thanks for the sympathy :rotfl:
    Seriously though it was like a sketch out of final destination.. I flung the beans and they went all over the ON microwave and the ON toaster:eek:
    Could just imagine it... microwave blows up, I throw beans.. get electrocuted by toaster... fall backwards onto a knife and then through a plate glass window or something! :rotfl:
    Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
    Que sera, sera. <3
  • immoral_angeluk
    immoral_angeluk Posts: 24,506 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I'm not going to end up with radiation poisoning or something am I? lol!! That would really top off the final destination sketch!
    Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
    Que sera, sera. <3
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    If the microwave has nothing to heat, then it will struggle when it's turned on.
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
  • immoral_angeluk
    immoral_angeluk Posts: 24,506 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ZTD wrote: »
    If the microwave has nothing to heat, then it will struggle when it's turned on.
    it was literally only on for a second though!!! So why the sparks and the buzzing/popping and the scaring the crap out of me!! :eek:
    Total 'Failed Business' Debt £29,043
    Que sera, sera. <3
  • ZTD
    ZTD Posts: 24,327 Forumite
    The food absorbs the microwave energy. Without the food, the energy builds up quickly until the air/water vapour in the microwave starts to absorb the energy. As you will appreciate, there's very little of that (by weight) inside your microwave, and 600-800W is a hell of a lot of power to be absorbed by less than a gram's worth of "stuff".

    There's less than a gram's worth of tungsten in a 60W lightbult - and look what happens to that...
    "Follow the money!" - Deepthroat (AKA William Mark Felt Sr - Associate Director of the FBI)
    "We were born and raised in a summer haze." Adele 'Someone like you.'
    "Blowing your mind, 'cause you know what you'll find, when you're looking for things in the sky."     OMD 'Julia's Song'
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