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I am just wondering what people think it might be. It would be wonderful, if people can and want to do it, if they can make their answer personal. I realize "honesty", "loyalty", etc. are all important, but what, specifically for you, would make, or be an indication that a relationship very meaningful?
Personally, I like it when people are so in tune with eachother, they hardly need words anymore to communicate. They understand eachother's moods, nuances in body language, etc. Before you roll your eyes, and decide I am a hopeless romantic (which I can be, but do realize its inherent limitations) - keep in mind that I realize that it is also very dangerous to ever assume you "just always know" what a partner is thinking. But it is kind of nice, I think, when they know eachother that well. At least for me, it makes me feel secure - like there is someone out there in the world who truly "gets me".
For people to get to this point, I think they have to be willing to get to really know eachother, and put themselves out there, so to speak. There are people out there who actually are not willing to get to know someone. And if this meets their needs, then fine. But I doubt, personally, that's going to lead to any life-altering, rock-their-world relationship. But, whatever people want is fine, of course.
Any thoughts? What makes a relationship so special for you, that is just rocks your world?
- Susan
What one thing most makes for a good reliable toaster?
Some people might say steel, because you need a material that can contain the bread and stand up to the intense heat required to toast it. But maybe there are somespace-age materials that would actually work even more reliably than steel. Some kind of high tech ceramic deal or other.
Others will post to say that it is the electricity, because without that you wouldn't have the heat. But then if it is reliability you want, how reliable is your electric toaster in a power failure? Are batteries, surprisingly enough, the most important element of a good reliable toaster?
But even batteries will run out eventually, and maybe before the power failure is over. And then where are you? Sitting there with untoasted bread, that's where.
So how about a toaster that burns natural gas or wood or coal? Or Vodka. You have to figure that even after the apocolypse when all the electric utilities and natural gas pipelines are gone, and all the coal mined and all the trees burned, someone will still be making vodka out of something or other (maybe with a still made partially of old toaster parts,) so a vodka-burner may be the key to the ultimately reliable toaster.
But really, how often does the average joe run into an apocolypse? Maybe our answer is better found without considering the less likely possibilities. Maybe we should concentrate on more likely scenarios.
How about safety? Is safety a thing and if it is a thing is it a thing you really need to have to have the ultimately reliable toaster? I mean if your attempt to carmelize your pop-tarts burns your house down, where's your reliable toaster gonna end up then, smart guy?
Is it the thermostatic thingamajig that lets you select your degree of done-ness? I mean what good is a toaster that reliably makes a breakfast side dish that is chronically too light or too dark? Who cares if that shit is reliable?
Is it the heat itself that is the one thing you need for a good reliable toaster, then, whether it comes from electricity or coal or the incalaesced flatulence of monkeys trained to squat over your waiting slices with Bic lighters at the ready? No. I guess maybe cool soft bread might be preferable to the use of some kinds of heat. And anyway, the sun has lots of heat, more than anything else in my neighborhood I think. But those slabs of whole wheat I left on teh windowsill yesterday aren't looking so appetizing even after an all-day sun treatment. So it can't be the heat.
And so it isn't metal either and it isn't thermostatic control and it isn't electricity (or monkey farts) and it isn't heat and it isn't safety.
I ask you again, what one thing most makes for a reliable toaster?
An easily cleanable crumb tray? Good springs on the picker-upper? An ergonomically designed handle? Plastic? Chrome?
I have to admit after more than two minutes of soul searching that I don't know what the one thing is that makes for a good reliable toaster. In fact, upon reflection I think it is a stupid-ass question. What is needed for a good reliable toaster is a bunch of things like design and safety and heat and control and adequate materials and maybe a whole bunch of other stuff and not just those things but their effective coordination, not to mention bread.
I think that if we sat all the toaster engineers in the world at a big table to decide what is the one thing that you need for a good reliable toaster you'd get a wide range of unsupportable opinions, a lot of frustrated engineers, and toaster production would soon come to a halt worldwide.
I've been around the block a few times and the impression I take away from my travels is that an intimate human relationship is at least marginally more complicated than a toaster.
If what someone really cares about is a good reliable toaster, sometimes the best thing you can say to her is: "Ask a different question."
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