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Master Switcfc

Does it control these?

Submitted by: peterharp via Engrish Funny Submissions

Master switch in 4 star hotel room, Shanghai

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  1. Mr. Frykas says:

    CFC’s will leave you sterile as well…

  2. Meowth says:

    Turn it off!

  3. PoodleGroomer says:

    The knob on the left adjusts the size of the hole in the ozone.

    • JohnB says:

      Haven’t you heard? The hole in the ozone is gone, in what is one of the few positive ecological developments in at least a century.

      • Somepartsareme says:

        I really can’t tell if that’s a joke. :S

        • la conejita says:

          It’s because of his serious looking face avatar. We try to tell him to change it. He’ll try a few other faces, but keeps coming back to this one. I recommended the plastic surgeon that worked on my face, Dr. Gravatar and he doesn’t want to go.

          All of us here at Engrish will try to chip in a few bucks, $0 bills to pay for the operation.

          • JohnB says:

            That time I actually was not joking. The limitations on aerosol CFCs and changes in the use of refrigerants has allowed the ozone layer to rebound significantly. So my looking less serious here would not have been an advantage.

            • la conejita says:

              John, just remember to warn us when you are being serious.

            • theskepchick says:

              CFCs & HCFCs may be banned in some countries, but the ban is not worldwide. Also, since chloroflorocarbons are extremely stable, they hang around for a century on average. A single pound of CFCs can annihilate seventy thousand pounds of atmospheric ozone. CFCs are also ten thousand times more effective than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. So, in short, they’re still a problem, and a big one at that.

              Also, to clarify–the only positive thing I’ve heard about ozone depletion was that it was SLOWING DOWN, not that it was making a full recovery. Maybe that’s what you meant (although it’s not what you said), but maybe there’s a new study I haven’t heard of. If there is, can you post a link? Thanks.

              • JohnB says:

                My understanding is that a “hole,” in the sense of there being an absence of the ozone layer near the Antarctic, is no longer there. I did not mean to imply that all ozone depletion had stopped.

                • Droll not Troll says:

                  I’m pretty sure there was never a true “hole”, implying complete absence, in the ozone layer. The “hole” is an invention by the media- you know how they love to talk in absolutes!
                  There was, and still is, a thinning of the ozone layer near the Antarctic, to a varying extent. A true hole in the ozone layer would let in all kinds of nasty radiation from the sun, killing many life forms unlucky enough to be under the hole.

      • PoodleGroomer says:

        The rocker switch is the heat/cool switch for global temperatures.

      • dr handle says:

        We’ve still got rather an impressive one over The Antipodes – if you ever come to visit Down Here, DO NOT forget your sunscreen and hat, especially from November to March.

  4. la conejita says:

    The Master will now provide us with light.

  5. JohnB says:

    I’ve always preferred switches that do exactly what I tell them to do, when I tell them to do it: that is, slave switches. Just because this one has a couple of extra letters in its name doesn’t give it the right to be getting all uppity on me, but that often seems to happen with degrees and titles and such.

    • la conejita says:

      Slave switches? Do you hit them with a whip when you order them?

      • dr handle says:

        Sounds like a job for the Studmaster.

        • JohnB says:

          From top to bottom.

          • Droll not Troll says:

            The Studmaster has added switches to his collection of implements. He heard that some people are turned on by them.

            • JohnB says:

              He has also added switches to his collection of assistants. After all, some of them want to use you, and some of them want to get used by you, and some want to take turns.

            • blueJade says:

              I collect them! I love those little Bakelite switches from the fifties.

              • Droll not Troll says:

                The well-designed toggle switches from that era were always my favourite kind, then they changed to rocker switches, which IMO was a step backward. Try turning the rocker switches we have Down Here on or off without using your hands!

                • paws4thot says:

                  Can’t comment on Aussie rocker switches, but Brit ones work with an elbow, or sometimes a shoulder.

                  • dr handle says:

                    Nah, the ones we have Down Here are mostly tiny tiny little things, requiring a well-aimed bony elbow, although you can teach a dog to turn them off if you are prepared to put up with the gouge marks in the wall while you’re teaching them.

              • PoodleGroomer says:

                I love the rotary bat handled round switches from the turn of the last century. They need fabric insulated wire in ceramic standoffs on the wall for the steam punk radical dangerous new technology look.

                • Droll not Troll says:

                  And for the full effect, a little man called Igor, lurking nearby.

                • blueJade says:

                  That steampunk look is hard to resist, the chicks just dig it!

                  • paws4thot says:

                    Really? This is relevant to my interests!

                    • bluejade says:

                      Well, I can’t speak for all of us! Sounds like DNT and PG have been using it, let’s ask them. And you’re certainly going to get attention from someone, even if it’s only the vice squid.
                      I do like the weird blend of art, technology, and, victorian sci-fi.

                • lexan D says:

                  I actually have two of these in my house. One still works, the other is no longer connected to anything.

                  • JohnB says:

                    So since the one that doesn’t work still claims to be a master switch, it apparently has delusions of grandeur. You might try giving it a little antipsychotic medication.

                  • PoodleGroomer says:

                    I have a light in a socket that is not connected to anything. Turn your switch a few times and I’ll watch and see if my light turns on and off.

                    • JohnB says:

                      We have at least three switches in our house that, to the best of my ability to determine (and we’ve lived there two years), don’t turn anything on or off. I’ve often wondered if one of my neighbors is trying to figure out why one of their lights keeps going on and off…

  6. dr handle says:

    Master Switc Football Club, ra ra ra!
    *shakes pom pom*

  7. Somepartsareme says:

    Halo 4: Master Swicfc

  8. daedreams says:

    It all started out so well. Then someone got lazy.

    “Okay, let’s see… Master. We got that. Now, the next word is S. w. i. and then, you know, some letters after that. Whatevcfc”

  9. Queen o'sarcasm says:

    does he know my Almighty GardenFilter!?


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