You can still do this in Waterfox, FYI.

I’ve not used Firefox in years (just various forks), specifically because of Mozilla’s insistence on changing the UI and not allowing you to change it back.

I’m just picturing one of those episodes of M*A*S*H where they leave Frank Burns in charge.

From what I understand, they don’t normally bother producing service manuals for individual models. It’s a case of ‘they all work on the same basic principals, so the repair person should be able to figure it out’.

My guess (based on my repair of a couple of aging treadmills that would suddenly jump to full speed!) is that there’s a sensor on the motor that’s malfunctioning and feeding the controller wrong (or no) information. It sounds like it sends power to the motor, doesn’t receive the expected speed info back, stops and tries again a couple of times, then gives up.

This thread may be related (in terms of general info): https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/beko-washing-machine-motor-problem.616682/

If it is the sensor, they seem to be pretty cheap (assuming compatibility), though I don’t know how easy it is to get the old one off and replace it:

https://www.bekospares.co.uk/washing-machine/motor-tacho-coil/product.pl?pid=1345582&path=110919&refine=motor

I remember reading an article in the early 90s where they opined that ‘the thing that would really date TNG was the presence of a therapist on the ship’.

Mental health - a total 80s fad, right?

I suspect that they were trying to reference the ‘bright young things’ of the 1920s. I doubt anyone at M&S even considered that:

(a) that reference wouldn’t be obvious to everyone, or

(b) what it may seem like without the context.

Toads are actually a subspecies of frog, so they’re technically correct - even if by accident.

England - never been a line. The only thing I’ve ever had to wait for is for the bod manning the polling station to find my name on the list and hand me a voting slip. In and out in a couple of minutes.

It comes from bonehead, iirc - a boneheaded mistake.

I had a hunch that the original image would be Nyarlathotep related, aaaand:

I think someone’s been feeding them Call of Cthulhu game module plots. I hope they do Beyond The Mountains of Madness next.

The problem with knowing any amount of history is that any time anything happens you’re just like:

‘Oh. This again’.

It’s somehow both tedious and horrifying.

When your hobby becomes your job!

Parents would find their baby child had been replaced by odd beings who were almost but not quite human.

However strange appearances aside it was their behaviour that marked them out - changelings were said to be either extremely badly behaved - constantly crying and prone to violence, or at the other end of the spectrum strangely docile, often mute and seemingly unable to comprehend anything about the human world they had been left in.

https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_changelings.html

Yep, totally a brand new thing that hasn’t appeared throughout human history.

Wake up about 15 minutes before I have to be out the door. Just enough time to go to the loo, brush my teeth and chuck some clothes on.

If I give myself more time than I need, I just get sidetracked by something and end up making myself late.

I saw an early screening of that episode at a post-con event at a Star Trek pub in London.

When that scene came on a ripple of ‘FFS - really‽’ laughter went round the room, just because of how blatant it was.

Clearly they used methane.

Crowds of farm labourers during flood season, all lined up just waiting for their turn to fart into the balloon.

“The mudbloods are stealing our magic!”

That’s Fergus Wilson - frankly, I’d prefer the leech.

You joke, but crop milk is a thing:

Crop milk is a secretion from the lining of the crop of parent birds in some species that is regurgitated to young birds. It is found among all pigeons and doves where it is also referred to as pigeon milk. Crop milk is also secreted from the crop of flamingos and the male emperor penguin, suggesting independent evolution of this trait. Unlike in mammals where only females produce milk, crop milk is produced by both males and females in pigeons and flamingos; and in penguins, only by the male. Lactation in birds is controlled by prolactin, which is the same hormone that causes lactation in mammals.