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Has my fridge found religion?

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RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 18:41

I have a NEFF fridge. It is less than a year old. Today I went to get water and ice from the dispenser and it won't respond and it says Sabbath on the display panel. no mention of this in the instruction booklet.

Is this some fridge religious epiphany? Whilst I welcome religion in any form, I just am rather frustrated by the fridge observing the day of the lord (esp when it's Thursday rather than Sunday).

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SaffronCake · 01/12/2011 21:56

A shrine!!!!

RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 22:00

I'm not going to start keeping bloody gourds in it.

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smackapacca · 01/12/2011 22:05

Well if you've washed any of your baby's muslins recently I'd keep the fridge and washing machine well apart.

Think of the carnage.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 01/12/2011 22:06

My fridge moos, could it be the sacrifice ?

DMChristmasCakes · 01/12/2011 22:10

Thank you for this thread! Am loving the religious tolerance being shown in your kitchen.

Where does the toaster stand on these matters?

breatheslowly · 01/12/2011 22:10

I googled it too. I think your fridge is broken, but at least it has a twin broken fridge.

LittleWhiteWolf · 01/12/2011 22:10

Nothing constructive to add to this beside ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
DH keeps giving me looks and I seem to be making it worse by trying to explain the thread...

Honeydragon · 01/12/2011 22:11

Maybe its finally comfortable enough with you to share its Judaism with you?

I got rid of our fridge when it started sounding like people were having sex in it through the night - never caught them at it though.

DMChristmasCakes · 01/12/2011 22:13

LittleWhiteWolf My DH is equally bemused. Although it's the cat that keeps giving me looks.

RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 22:14

Toaster is totally anti-Wiccan judging by the amount of burning it does. Must place it away from the oven.

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LemonMousstletoeandWine · 01/12/2011 22:17

Toaster sounds rather Baptist - hell fires and brimstone and all that.

JollySergeantJackrum · 01/12/2011 22:18

Heh, I've also been trying to explain this to DP and getting funny looks.

Have you tried changing the date OP? Although I can imagine it would get a bit arsey having to change the date every week so as to not allow your fridge a weekend. I want to know how it knew when sunset was.

From wikipedia: Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until a few minutes after when one would expect to be able to see three stars in the sky on Saturday night.

fedupofnamechanging · 01/12/2011 22:21

Thank you so much for this thread. It's really cheered me up this evening.

SaffronCake · 01/12/2011 22:21

No the sink is baptist- obv.

... Perhaps the sink converted the toaster?

smackapacca · 01/12/2011 22:23

Baptist? Taptist surely?

RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 22:30

OK - have spent the last half hour compiling an Xmas carol playlist full of hearty Christian anthems whilst I switched the fridge off at the wall. Am about to turn it back on - lets hope it's done the trick.

Taptist sinks. I mean come oooonnnnnnn.

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QuintessentialyFestive · 01/12/2011 22:31

You might have to plaster your fridge in Christmas cards for it to get the hint....

JennyPiccolo · 01/12/2011 22:34

my fridge moos as well! Can't believe there are two of them.

RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 22:37

hmmmm. it didn't work. Will leave it 24 hours and then get tough. Gggrrrrr.

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Jamdoughnutfiend · 01/12/2011 22:43

Ok can't go to sleep until I know if the carols have brought about a conversion, although still laughing a freezus of Nazareth (blasphemous)

RattusRattus · 01/12/2011 22:45

Jamdonut - go to sleep safe in the knowledge that the carols did not cause a conversion.

Am fully expecting to come downstairs tomorrow morning to see the tumble-dryer wearing a turban.

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Ihavewelliesbutitssunny · 01/12/2011 22:51

I wanna nominate this for classics. Do you think that having a 'religious fridge' would help one get into a faith school

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animula · 01/12/2011 22:56

Sadly, for RattusRattus and her off-spring, I think it only qualifies the fridge for a place at a faith school. And it seems that the local faith school is RC, while the fridge is Jewish. hmm. A thread in education, asking about the requirement of faith schools to admit children fridges of other faiths is beckoning, I feel.

BonzoDooDah · 01/12/2011 22:58

You're doing it all wrong... you don't want to play it carols or Black Sabbath you need some REM...

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ObviouslyLovesTinsel · 01/12/2011 23:02

You could bring it here. My house is in an Eruv. Apparantly God can't see what you do in here.

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