Suicide Is Painless
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Not my biggest disappointment in my life, but the biggest since I've been in Oz.

We ordered a bread-maker. One of those lovely bits of kit where you pour in the ingredients and it makes spiffing, tasty bread. They're cocking great.

So the bread-maker finally arrives and I unpack it and install it in the kitchen. I admire it's clean slick lines, marvel at the array of recipes and finally get down to making my first loaf.

I carefully measure out the ingredients, pour them in the correct order into the bread-maker and set the control panel. Off it goes with a wee whirry noise. So I retire to my study and get back to work.

In the distance I can hear the bread-maker going through it's robotic motions. Stirring the ingredients, kneading the dough and getting ready to deliver some lovely crusty bread. Then.....

CRASH!!

I leg it into the kitchen to find the bastard machine had committed suicide. During the kneading process it had kind of walked forward with infinitesimal little steps and hurled itself off the kitchen bench. There was dough and flour all over the bloody place and sitting in the middle of the floor, sparking gently, was my lovely bread-maker.

I was gutted.

Hadn't even had the thing an hour and I'd broken it. Bastard.

Still, we've got a new one now and, this time, the bastard is nailed to the kitchen bench. It's not going anywhere.

Thought I'd share.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 6:28, 1 reply)

Breadmakers rock!
Nothing like waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread.

As a bonus, use the "Cake" setting should you want to build a new house and need a cheap supply of bricks.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 8:59, closed)