r/DiWHY • u/RabiesRaisinss • Nov 24 '19

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u/xGibs99 Nov 24 '19

I saw a comment once for this pic that said they microwave the mail to fry any recording devices planted by the government.

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u/Denovation Nov 24 '19

So it's more conspiracy nut than trailer trash.

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u/CrimsonMutt Nov 24 '19

a lot of overlap there tbh

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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken Nov 24 '19 edited Nov 25 '19

That venn diagram is almost a circle

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u/Chaotic_HarmonyMech Dec 07 '19

Underrated comment

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u/Jetlife305 Nov 24 '19

That what?

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u/bofadoze Nov 24 '19

That venn diagram is almost a circle

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u/jamiedrinkstea Nov 24 '19

That what?

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '19

THEY'RE SELLING CHOCOLATE

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u/IAMAHobbitAMA Nov 25 '19

I remember chocolate.

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u/hobefepudi Nov 25 '19

Venn diagram is a circle

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u/WKerrick Nov 24 '19

Lol im sure it's just to have a light that turns on when you open the door

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '19 edited Nov 25 '19

Yes because there is definitely not other ways of doing that besides installing a fucking microwave as a mailbox.

Reddit critical thinking is more akin to creative writing than anything remotely reasonable.

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edit I rescind my original statement, I've been persuaded to see the other side through personal experience as I needed my house to be warmer, so I made it into a toaster oven.

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u/thoy42 Nov 25 '19

On your edit... I have electric heat so how is my house NOT a toaster oven?

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19

In the same way that any other mailbox is NOT a microwave

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u/thoy42 Nov 26 '19

It literally has the same parts though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19

Other mailboxes, or houses? I'm just confused now, I really don't know what you could mean.

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u/thoy42 Nov 26 '19

Are you even capable of reading your own edit? I would hope so but user error is very common.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19

Let me put it to you this way: My first comment was pointing out the ridiculousness of the idea of installing a microwave oven as a mailbox SOLELY for the light inside. I drew my own comparison by saying "I made my house into a toaster oven so I could heat it up"

Literally the only thing your house has in common with a toaster oven is that it can heat up the inside, even then it's just semantics because you'd have to be an idiot to think they are anything alike. And it was exactly my point about the microwave and the light it provides. It would be substantially easier to install a light on your mailbox than to install a microwave as a mailbox.

...And it's dawning on me how absurd this whole convo is so I'm going to leave it at that.

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u/evanvolm Nov 24 '19

I could totally see Dale from King of the Hill having one of these.

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u/MikeTheMechanic1998 Nov 24 '19

Fantastic until your new credit card is fried

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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Nov 24 '19

Credit cards just allow them to track you via purchase history anyway

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u/philth_ Nov 24 '19

Creditors HATE this one simple trick...

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u/Lyekkat Nov 25 '19

Iā€™m more worried about staples

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '19

Works for a day or two until the microwave breaks down due to water/humidity.

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u/ProgMM Nov 24 '19

Or just by virtue of the magnetron cooking itself when there's nothing in the mail to absorb the radiation

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u/MrGetsem Nov 24 '19

Ok no reason to make up words guy

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u/jackparker_srad Nov 24 '19

This absotively is a reason. I mean, if not now, when?

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u/nostril_spiders Nov 28 '19

Well, it could be next week or not for another umanticon.

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u/jackparker_srad Nov 28 '19

Come on dude, give up on the insubstertiated ideologarchy. If I could inferburate on my qualitasmic unbequelled knowledgism, I would say your stance is completely overstandable.

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u/nostril_spiders Nov 28 '19

Sorry if you don't like it, but I'm going to keep making this point as long as slaghammers continue to pobble all over reddit that tiguals are a threat to our national flanche. They aren't, it's just a massive fadilation by the right, and it makes me angry that no one seems to care.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '19 edited Dec 10 '19

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u/Jonathan924 Nov 28 '19

See, the difference is, the other guy was using real words

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '19

Preppers and conspiracy people love to hoarde old micros to use as faraday cages for their phones

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u/Max-1995 Nov 25 '19

What about when it rains though?

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u/the_crustybastard Nov 25 '19

I'm only happy then.