Toast popping up

[Elbonio]

When toast pops up from the toaster does it make you jump?


I was explaining i have this problem to Steadders and he admits he has the same problem


no matter how much i calm myself and sit watching the toaster, telling myself it's going to pop up so dont be alarmed, i cant help but jump


i'll be like "ok.. it's going to pop up soon........... any minute now.............. very soon................ stay calm.............. any miBAM! HOLY COW!!!!!...... DAMNIT!"




anyone else have this problem?

[Steadders]

just a quick side question, does anyone elses toaster make a short wirring sound a split second before it pops up? mine does, but it still makes me jump,

so its more of a..

wrrrr....BAM

[Elbonio]

mine gives no warning


one minute its sitting... silently... glowing a warm, loving red (to lull me into a false sense of security) andthenitgoesWAHBAM!

[Steadders]

yea but the wirring is even worse because YOU KNOW its coming.

but its so close to the actually BAM that you dont have time to brace yourself, you just kind of think:

...wrrrr..oh no, its wirring, that meansBAM

[Elbonio]

could make one of those flash movies that are supposed to scare people


"LOOK CLOSELY AT THIS TOASTER AND YOU WILL SEA A REFLECTION IN THE CASING OF SOMEONE PLAYING THE PIANOBAM!"

[Guigsy]

hehe
doesnt make me jump that much. but yeah.

[dcoder]

Mine makes a wrrrrr'ing noise just before it pops and no it isnt scary as im usually doing somthing like making a cup of tea.

[Killy]

i usually put the toast in and wander off to do something else, come back and it's done :p:

[Strych]

Ditto. The "Leaving The Room" strategy is tried and tested.

[Boffykins]

Similarly waiting for the needle to fall on the vinyl and start playing:

Wrrrrr it's moving over and BAM CRACKLE ARGH

[oxy]

erm .. no ..

[no friends]

I walk away from toast, come back and its done......

Or i usuallyt have music on and don't hear it pop up..... 'It's a visual thing'

[Flufball]

I did with my old one, it used to make such a loud sound that I could hear it from upstairs*, both when it got half-way and when it finished.

* = Not Literaly, but I could usualy hear it through walls.


The new one I have now is quieter, so I can at least leave the room.

[KingDaveRa]

Sometimes I jump a bit. A few times it actually managed to launch said toast onto the plate in front of it.

Depends how alert I am in the morning I think.

[Elbonio]

Originally posted by dcoder
Mine makes a wrrrrr'ing noise just before it pops and no it isnt scary as im usually doing somthing like making a cup of tea.

me too


i jump whether im watching it or doing something else :(


god im a wimp

[Er00]

I don't even own a "proper" toaster. But whenever I'm bored and make toast at school or at someone else's house etc I jump...it's really odd...I know it's coming, and keep tell myself that, but I still jump, the weirdest thing is I always manage to let down my guard and think "argh, it's gona be ages" JUST before it pops up :/

[10G0]

I have toast lauching skillz now

I can get about half a foot in the air.

Toast H4X

[Elbonio]

you should make a skillz video


Toast done quick

i guess that would involve h4xing ways to make toast in 10 seconds flat


You could get a bicycle pump, fire it at the ground and jump at the same time (pump jump), bounce off the wall, grab the bread, blowtorch it and then pick up a spoonfull of jam and throw it at the toast



such h4x

[Er00]

or someone could just build a contraption like in Wallace and Gromit...:p

[Cabe]

I dont think I could stand being covered with a sticky white lumpy goo first thing in the morning.