July 11, 2014
Microwave Ovens:
Anyone noticed the insides of their GE Microwave Oven? Our new home came with a GE 1.1Cuft microwave oven dated 2011. The oven has been in use for about 3 years now. We use it mostly for re-heating food and not for cooking. The oven itself is painted white on the inside. The inside top paint started peeling and the peeling paint was getting deposited in the paint. Alas, GE claims it is not a manufacturing defect.
It appears that GE wants us all to die of food poisoning. If the paint is peeling in a seldom used oven, it is a manufacturing defect. GE does not want to admit this as their problem. So no more GE appliances in the house from now on!
We dumped the oven in the garbage -- other than the paint peeling it was a perfectly usable oven. The pride of place in the kitchen has been awarded to a Panasonic oven!
Drug de Farce:
The Tour de France is in full swing. At one point we used to follow this event in all its glory. But for the last few years, we have stopped following this event. My son calls this event the "Drug de Farce". He claims that all the professional cyclists use drugs. Many of them claims that they have a "quack's certificate" to use PEDs. The anti-doping rules are so liberal that by one account more than 85% of the so called athletes use them! Is this number real? Who knows? Who cares? Bottom line is as a family we stopped following the sport of cycling..... The rules should be really simple. If you use drugs you are banned for 10 years from all sport related activites...... This will act as a deterrent and will set an example to high-school kids during their impressionable years. No excuses, no quack's (doctor's) certificate, no nothing.
While we are at it, the rules for all international meets need to change. At the beginning of the event and also at the end, all athletes to be tested. Wonder what will happen to the Chinese swim and dive teams if these rules are enforces!
FIFA WorldCup.
Does anyone notice that the football players from many of the European Nations are black or negroid in appearance? It seems the rules for representing a country in the World Cup is pretty vague. The jokes going around in soccer circles is, if you are good and if you ever wore green at any point in your life, you can play for Ireland. This is absurd! Many of the players who represent the various European teams are no more citizens of that country than I! The rules for World Cup representation should be simplified. If you are allowed to "vote" and stand a chance, even though it could be 1 in 100,000,000 to be the head of government, then you can play for the country. Otherwise, call this what it is and say it is just like the IPL -- the highest bidder gets the best players......
It has also been fun to watch the games. No instant replay, no DRS, and then there is endless debate on the best actor -- the player who had the best faked fall in the penalty area!
Microwave Ovens:
Anyone noticed the insides of their GE Microwave Oven? Our new home came with a GE 1.1Cuft microwave oven dated 2011. The oven has been in use for about 3 years now. We use it mostly for re-heating food and not for cooking. The oven itself is painted white on the inside. The inside top paint started peeling and the peeling paint was getting deposited in the paint. Alas, GE claims it is not a manufacturing defect.
It appears that GE wants us all to die of food poisoning. If the paint is peeling in a seldom used oven, it is a manufacturing defect. GE does not want to admit this as their problem. So no more GE appliances in the house from now on!
We dumped the oven in the garbage -- other than the paint peeling it was a perfectly usable oven. The pride of place in the kitchen has been awarded to a Panasonic oven!
Drug de Farce:
The Tour de France is in full swing. At one point we used to follow this event in all its glory. But for the last few years, we have stopped following this event. My son calls this event the "Drug de Farce". He claims that all the professional cyclists use drugs. Many of them claims that they have a "quack's certificate" to use PEDs. The anti-doping rules are so liberal that by one account more than 85% of the so called athletes use them! Is this number real? Who knows? Who cares? Bottom line is as a family we stopped following the sport of cycling..... The rules should be really simple. If you use drugs you are banned for 10 years from all sport related activites...... This will act as a deterrent and will set an example to high-school kids during their impressionable years. No excuses, no quack's (doctor's) certificate, no nothing.
While we are at it, the rules for all international meets need to change. At the beginning of the event and also at the end, all athletes to be tested. Wonder what will happen to the Chinese swim and dive teams if these rules are enforces!
FIFA WorldCup.
Does anyone notice that the football players from many of the European Nations are black or negroid in appearance? It seems the rules for representing a country in the World Cup is pretty vague. The jokes going around in soccer circles is, if you are good and if you ever wore green at any point in your life, you can play for Ireland. This is absurd! Many of the players who represent the various European teams are no more citizens of that country than I! The rules for World Cup representation should be simplified. If you are allowed to "vote" and stand a chance, even though it could be 1 in 100,000,000 to be the head of government, then you can play for the country. Otherwise, call this what it is and say it is just like the IPL -- the highest bidder gets the best players......
It has also been fun to watch the games. No instant replay, no DRS, and then there is endless debate on the best actor -- the player who had the best faked fall in the penalty area!
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