A Man and his Penguin

Customer: How does the water rating sticker work? Is it "more stars is better"?
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Me: You know, a year ago nobody looked at the water and energy rating stickers.

Customer: I’ve ALWAYS looked at them.

Oh yeah. They didn’t even know whether more stars was better, yet they’ve always made a point of looking at the rating. Or, if they’re totally honest, they’ve been looking at the water and energy rating stickers ever since Al Gore’s movie "The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Carbon, The Weather and The Warming".

As if I would be so stupid as to believe that she’s "always" looked at ratings, when she virtually admitted that she knows nothing about them.

If somebody decides to buy a washing machine because its competitor is much less efficient, that’s not so bad. It’s rare, but not so bad (because washing machines use much more water). What I really detest is that ALMOST EVERY customer who comes in and looks at dishwashers, quibbles over fucking 200ml of water difference in usage. Who cares if it’s quiet and does a good job of washing dishes, as long as it uses a tiny bit less water than the one next to it?

People go and buy a washing machine without checking the ratings, and then they buy a 1-star-energy-rating clothes dryer, and then they closely examine the ratings on dishwashers. I even had one fucking idiot check the numbers on our gas heaters. The things are all 5.9 / 6 for gas efficiency… they could only be more efficient if they had an Einsteinian total matter-to-energy converter, yet this guy decided to try and save himself 5 millijules per year by choosing one with slightly lower numbers.

Gas convection heaters are more popular this year. It’s got nothing to do with their set-and-forget operation, nor their nice modern looks, nor their remote control, nor their safety features. No, it’s because people get confused between inverters in air-conditioning; and convectors in gas heaters; and they think that convector heaters are more efficient.

All the people who obsess over the slightest carbon emissions should stop breathing - that way they would no longer emit carbon dioxide, and the world would be rid of one more fucking religious-climate-change cunt.

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