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Seriously, is there some Finnish cultural bias against HAVING DRY GODDAMN CLOTHING?

Seriously. YOUR DRYERS SUCK. THEY FUCKING SUCK. It's like they're manufactured to not dry anything if more than two pieces of clothing are placed in them. In my latest laundry odyssey, my clothes were WETTER from being steamed up in the dryer than they were when they came out of the centrifuge (why the fuck don't the washers here spin the clothes? Do people here really like spending ALL DAMN DAY in the laundry room?)

And the drying rooms... what a wonderful invention that is. I've never heard of such a thing before moving here. What a concept. It's a clothesline, indoors, and to fool people into thinking anything dries there, there's a "heater" and a fan there. Now, the clothes directly under the fan, they get dry... eventually. Any clothes that are not in front of the fan, well, sucks to be you, especially when you only have a 5 hour slot in the drying room. More fun are the clothes that are dry on the side facing the fan, but still all damp on the other side.

In the first place I lived when I moved here, there was no drying room. Or dryer. So my ex set up this clothes rack in one of the rooms and draped the clothes over that. That would take a couple days, so there would be a room half-filled with wet clothes that just made the entire apartment humid. It seemed like the apartment was never without a drying rack of clothes making everything humid.

And it's not one place. I've lived in 5 different places now during my time in Finland, and none have had any easy laundry situation. When I lived in Atlanta, laundry would take less than 90 minutes from the time I gathered my clothes to the time I put them away, completely dry. And that wasn't in just one place - I lived in over half a dozen apartments in that city, and none of them provided a laundry nightmare. In Florida, it took about the same time but sometimes I let things sit because it wasn't an apartment building and I didn't have to worry about people dumping my stuff on the floor so they could do their laundry.

How do people with jobs do their laundry in this country? I don't see how it would be possible unless they wanted to devote one of their rare days off to it. Or is this why people wear the same set of clothes 2-3 days in a row? Because doing laundry is too much of a pain in the ass? My new goal is to make enough money so I can buy enough clothes so instead of washing clothes after I've worn them, I can just throw the fuckers out. Cleaning them is really not worth the effort.

Seriously, of all the things I need to worry about in my life, encountering major stress because of laundry, all the time, every time it needs to be done... it's really stupid. There has to be a better way. This isn't the third world. Why doesn't this work right?

Alone

by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were---I have not seen
As others saw---I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I lov'd, I loved alone.

Then---in my childhood---in the dawn
Of a most stormy life---was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold---
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by---
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

Where will you be tomorrow?
Really I don't care
I have seen the future, rising everywhere
Look into the mirror, tell me what you see
Piece by piece you'll vanish
Until you disappear!

Now I'm doing what I say
No more fooling anyway
Beyond this hell, there is a better life to lead
You're all undone, emotionless
It's not the way for me

Now I know there's a better way
Let my heart ride out for a brighter day
Now it's time to breathe in the open air
With a mind so free, anyway
It's time for a change...
It's time to break free!

Had enough of fooling, had enough of lies
Hypocrisy, intriguing, right before my eyes
Had enough of hound dogs, barking all the time
I agree with Elvis, you ain't no friend of mine

Apart from this there is a better life I know
You're all undone, emotionless
It's time for me to go

Now I know there's a better way
Let my heart ride out for a brighter day
Now it's time to breathe in the open air
With a mind so free, anyway
It's time for a change...
It's time to break free!

Now I know there's a better way
Let my heart fly free to a better day
Now it's time to breathe, it's the only way,
let my mind ride out, anyway...

Now I know, there's a better way
Let my heart ride out for a better day
Now it's time to breathe in the open air
With a mind so free, anyway
It's time to break free!

It's time to be me, free.

-

Gamma Ray (Land of the Free, 1995)

... would anyone actually care (and read, and comment) if I started using this?