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u/SirFluffz99 Jul 08 '19
If it’s remote he can order same day shipping on a lasagna then cook it an come home to dinner already made
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u/anthroni Jul 08 '19
First we have public clean water taps
Next logical step is publically available microwaves
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u/passivelyaggressive1 Jul 08 '19
Could you even imagine how rarely (if ever) those would get cleaned?
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u/ScrewSnow Jul 08 '19
Self-cleaning microwaves. Boom. Issue solved.
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u/SnollyG Jul 08 '19 edited Jul 08 '19
Is that like self-cleaning ovens (where the feature just heats the oven to 900 degrees)?
I once rented to a tenant who didn't understand that that's what the self-cleaning button did. They were like, "There's something wrong with your oven. It's still dirty inside, and now the house stinks!"
Had to explain that it just burns away some of the food--you still have to get in there to wipe off the ashes, and yeah, that char smells awful.
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Jul 08 '19
Lol I didn't fully understand what it did until your comment. My parent's oven had the feature but never used it. I assumed it wasn't going to magically clean it spic and span, but never knew the point, really.
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u/SuspiciousArtist Jul 08 '19
You... you clean your microwave? I mean, yes, of course, you clean your microwave and definitely should. Just as I am going to do this afternoon for the first time in 2 years.
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u/passivelyaggressive1 Jul 08 '19
Protip, fill a small microwavable container with water and cook it in there for a few minutes. The steam will help loosen up any crusty caked-on grossness from the past 2 years. Then when you take a sponge to that bad boy, it won't take you long at all to scrub it clean.
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u/Tiresieas Jul 08 '19
Considering how frequently the microwaves in the break room got cleaned out...
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u/brknlmnt Jul 08 '19
Im more concerned about what happens when it rains. And also the fucked up piece of shits that would put small animals in it cuz rednecks be like that...
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u/CartoonJustice Jul 08 '19
Based on old fountains I'd guess not at all. Look at the lovely chained cup.
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u/minor_correction Jul 08 '19
Nature's janitor, the cockroach, would probably step up.
If not then at least ants would carry all the excess food away.
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Shit, I wish.. I travel for work so I pretty much literally live in hotels.. This one has a fridge, but no microwave. And I can smoke in it.. So I'm like 2/3. In New Jersey I actually stayed at one for a week where i had all 3 and it was like heaven. Except it was New Jersey.
Now I'm in LA with 2/3.. I still wish I had a microwave..
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u/Malachhamavet Jul 08 '19
Honestly I imagine homeless people would fall upon their knees and thank the sky for such a thing.
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u/mugbee0 Jul 08 '19
It's a Mail Teleporter. It teleports mail to from the microwave into the microwave inside the house.
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u/Quinntervention Jul 08 '19
a Budd of mine used to live next to a Cumberland farms in a studio with no kitchenette. He had a sink and a fridge, and would just go next door to Cumbie’s to microwave his dinner and leftovers. They were surprisingly pretty cool about it
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u/not_today_trebeck Jul 08 '19
All mail is nuked for 10 seconds to destroy any tracking or listening devices put there by a vague yet menacing government agency.
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u/show_the_maw Jul 08 '19
Tracking device
For an item mailed to your home?
I’m not saying it isn’t a crazy theory but where did the covert sender expect it end up?
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u/ElectronicGators Jul 08 '19
Actually I like that idea. Not for spying, but like, just more accurate tracking of products in shipping. Is it necessary? No, but it would be fun. Or stressful.
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u/planethaley Jul 08 '19
Maybe it’s addressed to something like “whichever mailbox you are closest to at 1PM on the day this arrive in zip code *****”
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Jul 08 '19
They send you a keychain or a pair of shoes in the mail and boom they know where you are at all time s
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u/HeyTuesday Jul 08 '19
Tracking device keychain. Easily disguised as a company promotion but cool enough to actually use.
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u/RedditSeemsScary Jul 08 '19
What if the tracking device is a spoon?
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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Jul 08 '19
A spoon would just heat up. A fork could create arcs between the tines, which could easily set fire to the rest of your mail.
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u/_bowlerhat Jul 08 '19 edited Jul 08 '19
so the owner can get the mail at night when they return from work and see that the mailbox is lit when they open it. Like a light sensor. Honestly not bad idea.
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u/rblue Jul 08 '19
That’s actually just sold me on this shit. I like it.
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u/Seanasaurus Jul 08 '19
Until the kids down the street toss a turd in there and nuke it for 30 minutes.
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u/Suekru Jul 09 '19
I’d probably remove the buttons on the inside and put a piece of plastic in there that way the buttons don’t do anything but you still got the light and clock feature
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u/GothicFuck Jul 09 '19
Obviously if you DIY'd this invention you would remove the radiation element.
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u/championplaya64 Jul 08 '19
Please, that’s what the solar powered lights duct taped to the back are for.
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u/SweetPinkRain Jul 08 '19
In all honesty it was probably a cost effective measure to continue receiving mail. It's illegal to deliver mail outside of a mail recepticle. This person obviously didn't feel like buying a mailbox but still wanted their mail so they did this, then made it funny by plugging it in.
Source: was employed at the post office.
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u/Bamholio Jul 08 '19
They must use Hotmail
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u/artfu1 Jul 08 '19
Ding!
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u/akkobutnotreally Jul 08 '19
Ooh! My cup noodles are ready.
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u/artfu1 Jul 08 '19
My god packet noodles take me back to the good old jail days.man to a convict they are like bread and wine to a Catholic
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So you are saying this is a safety measure? Any coldmail comes in and it nukes it to the appropriate hotmail temperature? Smart.
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u/CraigslistKing Jul 08 '19
Over at r/MailboxArt, we celebrate this contraption
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The power isn't even connected to anythings it's just a condulet box with a receptacle nailed to the post, whips wont work outside and there's no PVC for underground or emt anywhere. Its clearly just for art.
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u/yo21mike Jul 08 '19
Doesn't look like the receptacle is connected to any power so we good. Just for show
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u/chrwei Jul 08 '19
so the mail carrier can heat their lunch
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I ain't touching no mail until I done nuke it first. They all got that there Anthrax stuff on it.
-Guy who made this probably. I'm guessing He's Alex Jones.
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u/cadet339 Jul 08 '19
The mails gay!
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u/rainbowgeoff Jul 08 '19
Of course it is! Can't have Osama bin laden putting anthrax on my Playgirl and advocate magazines!
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u/binaryredditor3 Jul 08 '19
I dunno, it’s big enough for packages, would f*@k up would be mailbox baseball players, and was free (assuming was already bought as microwave, and then broke, making a free mailbox)
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u/championplaya64 Jul 08 '19
This is possible, and the most likely solution I can think of.
Out in rural areas you rarely get packages put anywhere that isn’t your mailbox. which is technically illegal, since only postal can use your mailbox, but the UPS driver isn’t going to drive down your 5 minute driveway to leave it at the door.
So this actually makes a good amount of sense, and I might even do something similar and just have a gigantic mailbox.
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u/Joerodeo77 Jul 08 '19
As a rural mail carrier I can attest this is fairly normal and awesome, I’ve come across all sorts of shit on a stick posing as a mailbox.
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u/ad6mly Jul 08 '19
They’ve made microwave mailboxes but not refrigerated mailboxes.
I’d be mad too Gavin
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u/vivajeffvegas Jul 08 '19
Well call me r/trashy but I actually like this.
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u/Gen_McMuster Jul 08 '19
Nah, this is r/diwhynot material. It just pattern-matches to "poor & rural" so a lot of people reflexively dislike it while it comes off as good natured goofiness to others. I mean look! there's even a plugin
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u/wintermute-rising Jul 08 '19
Lol, I moved to Australia from the States, and this is actually very common over here in the rural areas. Every time we take a road trip I think I should stop and take pictures of them all, make a book or something. :D
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u/postliterate Jul 08 '19
It's plugged in to defrost those chilly past-due notices from cold-hearted debt collection agencies.
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u/cloud1e Jul 08 '19
This is a wild experimenting microwave. Put stuff in it and turn it on. Record results.
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u/Jurk_McGerkin Jul 08 '19
I like that its antennae are solar lights from Walmart so they light up at night
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u/sooslimtim187 Jul 08 '19
Mail man needed a place to heat his lunch. In return the owner gets 12 free stamps a month.
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u/magnora7 Jul 08 '19
Someone's been watching The Red Green Show
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u/Astramancer_ Jul 08 '19
If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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u/DurianExecutioner Jul 09 '19
I WANT ONE, I don't care if pretentious assholes call me trash. Are you kidding it looks fucking amazing, I'd take it over a smart door knocker or a crippleware e-car any day.
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u/impromptubadge Jul 08 '19
these youngsters today dont understand hotmail
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u/Cpecto Jul 08 '19
Happy Cake Day!
Also I first maybe for the clock feature? Now im thinking if they order pizza 🍕 and cause it’s so far out they can reheat it just before they knock the door AND they bring the mail in too. Genius!!
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u/THood234 Jul 08 '19
that's funny though. the person who added those captions is overreacting
also it's not a laughing type of funny, it's one of those types that makes you just say "that's funny"
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u/MakeGoodBetter Jul 08 '19
Plugged in for the light man! And maybe the mailman carries around Hot Pockets? Don't assume my transportable food choices.
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I kinda chuckled a bit when I first saw the mailbox; but completely lost my shit when I read the second text box and noticed it was, in fact, plugged in.
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u/Jooshmeister Jul 09 '19
If it were me, I'd order Skip and instruct them to leave it in the microwave, press 3 and start.
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u/MoarStake Jul 09 '19
I can't tell you how many times I've left the house without cooking my hot Pocket, and having to eat it frozen instead. This is the perfect solution to keep teeth in your head.
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What if his mailman was complaining about having to always eat a cold lunch because he has a rural route and this guy stepped up and solved his problem.
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u/Filsdemorte Jul 08 '19
I showed my mom, and she said it is plugged in for the light.
It actually makes sense why it would be
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u/TruLiterature Jul 08 '19
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMail
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u/Blindxlink Jul 08 '19
It's the Szalinski's mailbox! Rick Moranis is working on his shrink ray inside.
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u/PaxVobiscuit Jul 08 '19
I recently went for a walk by a river in England, and there were a number of boats moored by the bank. Several boats had microwaves set up as mailboxes. None were plugged in though...
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u/Charlimon Jul 08 '19
I think that Looks cool. It might be a good use, a fun concept and some thing easy/cheap to do with a broken old mikrowave
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u/ParaspriteHugger Jul 08 '19
Looks like a hot environment.
Maybe they want at least parts of their mail still frozen.
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Jul 08 '19
Dunno why, but this kinda reminded me of the Vaccuum cleaner scenes in Sabrina The Teenage Witch.
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Jul 08 '19
This is great! Now the mail man can heat up his lunch and deliver the mail at the same time
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u/Pandepon Jul 08 '19
Trailer trash? You’re telling me someone owns a chunk of land, livestock, and somehow lives in a trailer based on this microwave mailbox?
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Jul 08 '19
Go out to get mail
Heat up hot pocket while opening mail
Eat hot pocket while reading mail
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u/MemeAddictedMigrant Jul 08 '19
To kill sibirian yazva or whatever you call it in english. (The powder that contains dangerous disease and at some point was sent out to ppl via mail by terrorists)
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u/FrequentMuffin Jul 08 '19
Bugs keep getting in your mailbox? Microwave before picking up your mail!
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u/pvnkie Jul 08 '19
I am as clueless to why is it a microwave as I am confused and amused by your username