For those who can’t decipher the hieroglyphs on clothing care labels, now there’s one that suggests a helpful alternative.
En detalj som fÃ¥r mig att le – är det viktigt? [Henrick's TankegÃ¥ngar]
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it will be nice if that site was in ENGLISH!!
Ah! Yes! I got really excited to decipher my H & M clothing labels
Google chrome will translate automatically
machine wash warm, no bleach, medium iron, dry clean OK (do not use trichloroethylene), do not tumble dry, dry flat.
I’m not sure, is this irony? Irony police around?
medium irony, dry flat
“Sexist…” – David Brent
Instructions for balancing a checkbook:
Take your statement balance, subtract debits not yet cleared, and add deposits not yet credited. This should match the balance in your ledger.
Or give it to your father. He knows how to do it.
Why is one acceptable and the other not?
Seriously?
That’s not acceptable either. They’re both sexist.
pathetic…
bigoted…
One is blue collar and the other is white collar.
Too bad he quoted the boss from the British version of The Office. David Brent is like Michael in the American version of the show, only even more lacking in common sense, self-awareness, or empathy. I think agent 47 was being “ironical”, only his reference material was a little obscure for the non-BBC-watching crowd.
I caught the reference. I read it as a sarcastic claim of sexism. But I have not seen the British version (I knew of the characters), so my interpretation might be off.
I commented because I thought the joke could be construed as sexist. I don’t have thin skin when it comes to such jokes. I have an issue with the double standard of acceptance.
I’d say your example is sexist because it assumes your father is the one balancing the checkbook. My mom does the checkbook and my dad does the laundry.
Honestly, that’s pretty funny, unless your mother is dead.
Or mentally incapacitated, or physically disabled to the point where she couldn’t do this, or abusive, or if she abandoned you.
Or if you have two fathers, or you’re an orphan, or if you lack a sense of humor for jokes that most people will get.
Or if you don’t have a mom or if your mom is just bad at doing laundry.
That’s about right… I hate laundry…. I just toss everything in at once…. pull it out, toss it in the dryer, high heat for like… an hour… pull it out, throw it on the chair for later use.
Laundry. LA LA LA LAAAUNDRAY.
that is kind of me; I separate roughly by “light” “dark” and “bright” … though I tend to dry on medium-low heat. I air-dry only a few things, like the shirt I am wearing now… because it is a complicated garment of multiple layers and weirdness, and if I stick it in the dryer, it becomes ridiculously tangled and impossible to wear.
Does it look sort of like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straitjacket-rear.jpg
I jam everything in the washer and dryer, break them, then use the microwave to dry it, when I’m not interrupted by my cougar neighbor.
Ok, so you wash this garment in hot water, you can iron, and you can also park on it without getting a ticket.
But what the hell do the pyramid and boxes mean?
Well the box thing means you can’t stick it in the dryer, I think. The pyramid definitely means that you can’t wear this if you are Pyramidhead.
Pyramid Head would have to wear cardigans because he could never get that thing through a crew neck.
Is the triangle (2nd to left) a drying rack?! yes?
One of those means that you should totally wear it to a Hollywood premiere; those are searchlights, right?
OT but I love your avatar.
The triangle is for bleach and the box is for drying.
So for the tag in the photo, do not use bleach, do not machine dry, dry flat. Having an X-ed out box is redundant: the box with the line through it which indicates dry flat also means don’t machine dry.
+1 truthiness
Damnit, I saved this into my favorites on my RSS reader before realizing that it was pretty much a joke picture.
wash all clothes in cold water, dry only old clothes and preshrunk clothes everything else hang dry.
use very little detergent. Double Rinse for towels.
Been doing laundry since I was 12. My mother always shrank my clothes, so she told me “if you don’t’ like it do it yourself”
I had a similar experience except for that when I was roughly 11 my family moved in with another family and their daughter was a plumper young girl, but somehow wore a lot of the same or similar clothes as me, and my mom would mix them up and then when my stuff got back to me it was all stretched out. So I started doing it myself to keep my own clothes. Besides, someone else wearing your underwear is really creepy.
Laundry related – anybody use that new Shout product, “Color Catcher”, yet? I saw an ad on TV that says you throw one in, and don’t have to separate whites and colors. If it’s true, I put it right up there with fire and the invention of the wheel. However, I’m assuming the “too good to be true” rule has to apply here.
It’s not new. I use one or two when my wash includes new things with strong colors (I don’t separate whites/colors usually, and newer items have a stronger tendency to bleed). Seems to work alright.
Cool, thanks! I saw it advertised on TV this week, and assumed it was new. I think I’m going to give it a try.
yeah your mother really knows how to do it! OH!
giggity
The symbols, the text on the label, that’s all fine. I just kinda had a problem understanding “En detalj som fÃ¥r mig att le – är det viktigt?”
While funny…it’s also quite a nice portrayal of how we learn and function in America. Unless it’s a prepackaged food, hardly any of us could Feed ourselves either (save the hunters).
Joke’s on us, America.
yep… that’s probably why they are listing the temperature in CELSIUS!
“It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”
I have a MTV shirt, and on the tag is says “Don’t be a hippie, wash your shirt”.
Or, you can give it your wife, like this tag says.
http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/671/wifewashclothesjob.jpg
Yeah, cos we can all read fucking Swedish. At least I think that’s Swedish.
http://www.trendsetteryarns.com/symbols.htm
It’s for yarn but the same symbols are used for fabrics.
Thats useful, thanks.
I learned to do my own laundry as a kid after it became clear that my mother never bothered with little details like water temperature and proper dilution of bleach. Made for a lot of new clothes, anyway!
Same here. I did my own wash starting at about age 14 because I couldn’t take the bleach marks
There’s was another one like this:
http://www.antilogic.co.za/images/misc/top-gear-clothing.jpg
Tested on animals. They didn’t fit.
Lessee… Use 40 cups of detergent, Stop Aliens from landing on pyramids, Also watch out for Aliens peeking, Parking Allowed, Stop Aliens from making crop circles too, and… Have no idea what the last would be.
Watch out for alien examination tables, of course!
This is a better resource: http://www.textileaffairs.com
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/sp519.pdf
I use this.
I found the “Give it to your wife, it’s her job” one far more offensive.