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FaviFake: {{ping}} fyi is often used on Wikipedia, where it exists.

2025-09-13T11:12:40Z

{{ping}} fyi is often used on Wikipedia, where it exists.

42.book.addict: ping?

2025-09-10T19:58:27Z

ping?

172.71.150.14: added comment on my own microwaving

2025-04-03T03:45:47Z

added comment on my own microwaving

Bb777 at 01:08, 25 March 2025

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172.70.91.142 at 12:17, 9 July 2023

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172.70.86.154 at 12:15, 9 July 2023

2023-07-09T12:15:05Z

ConlangGuide: Actually, the V was just a shortcut key and was never used in handwriting. I'm now using a new keyboard.

2023-07-09T09:12:46Z

Actually, the V was just a shortcut key and was never used in handwriting. I'm now using a new keyboard.

Dansiman at 14:08, 26 August 2020

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Yamaplos at 14:12, 24 June 2020

2020-06-24T14:12:55Z

Yamaplos: 9 is not the least used key

2020-06-24T14:09:43Z

9 is not the least used key

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 If your microwave is connected to your home network you should accept that GCHQ have probably broken all your codes.[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 20:03, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
 I'm lazy and like to use repeated digits rather than have to move my finger along to find the next one - thus 33, 55, 66 get used a lot. I also find that for most items, longer time at lower power settings is more effective at even heating, so I do a lot of 66 at 50% rather than 33 at 100%. Our current oven only has 10 power settings, unlike a previous one that had two digit power settings resulting in 66 sec at 55% being a fairly commonly used setup. Interestingly, the logic of every microwave oven I have encountered treats 99 entered in the seconds display the same as if one were to have entered 1minute and 33 seconds. Thus 99:99 would be 100 minutes and 33 seconds. [[User:J-beda|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda|talk]]) 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 :I have never seen a microwave that treats 99 as 1:33. Treating 99 as 1:3'''9''', however, is quite common. Why would a microwave run for 93 seconds when 99 is entered? [[User:Dansiman|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman|talk]]) 14:08, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

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 : I think it's a reasonable assumption that a the 1 gets bumped into the minutes column, otherwise all times would have to be entered in seconds or some other untidy interface would be necessary [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.65|141.101.99.65]] 14:13, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
-::{{ping:Marklark}} has the right assumption, however ''141.'' turns out to be right in fcats, at least in my machine. My microwave will accept an entry like '99', which is seen as 1 minute 39 seconds, but the first digit of a series of three, as in '159' will be interpreted as being minutes, not hundreds of seconds.[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
+::Marklark has the right assumption, however ''141.'' turns out to be right in fcats, at least in my machine. My microwave will accept an entry like '99', which is seen as 1 minute 39 seconds, but the first digit of a series of three, as in '159' will be interpreted as being minutes, not hundreds of seconds.[[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 :::that being said, I can't approach the microwave without thinking of this so-called comic. Rather a tragic, if you ask me. Likewise, the Roomba is not a pet, but a creature of the wild captured. sigh [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

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	most of the time i just do 77 secs so "As neglected as every other number on the microwave". --[[User:Bb777\|[insert signature here]]] ([[User talk:Bb777\|talk]]) 01:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)		most of the time i just do 77 secs so "As neglected as every other number on the microwave". --[[User:Bb777\|[insert signature here]]] ([[User talk:Bb777\|talk]]) 01:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
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		+	i'm often weirdly precise on mine -- 23 seconds is a meaningful CHOICE i make different than 24, and occasionally I pine for a 23.5. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.150.14\|172.71.150.14]] 03:45, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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	:American English tends to {{wiktionary\|-ize\|use the Z a lot}}, actually. But being British myself (notwithstanding the Oxonian styleguide being Z-orientated/-oriented) I grew up with the {{wiktionary\|-ise\|alternative}} and still think the Z-versions (and derivatives) of such words look odd (ditto: "-or" for "-our" / "-er" for "-re"; it's still "sulphur" and "aluminium" for me; as it should be "programme" in every case but that of computer code, etc), even if I appreciate the current/historic rationale for the distinction.		:American English tends to {{wiktionary\|-ize\|use the Z a lot}}, actually. But being British myself (notwithstanding the Oxonian styleguide being Z-orientated/-oriented) I grew up with the {{wiktionary\|-ise\|alternative}} and still think the Z-versions (and derivatives) of such words look odd (ditto: "-or" for "-our" / "-er" for "-re"; it's still "sulphur" and "aluminium" for me; as it should be "programme" in every case but that of computer code, etc), even if I appreciate the current/historic rationale for the distinction.
	:Though hard to believe you don't ever use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Z for Undo, at all, alongside the trifecta of Cut/Copy/Paste. Unless your localised(/locali'''z'''ed) keyboard doesn't have ZXCV... as its bottom line and thus is also locally mapped with different Ctrl-codes for such things. If I had a handy way of uploading a photo, I'd show you my 'old faithful' keyboard with many keytops wiped blank from frequent use (and some keys even worn down enough to have small ''holes'' in the keytops, where the plastic has worn through). Though the lesser-used keys highlight themselves by looking a bit grotty, with skin-oils that accumulated and yet were less frequently redisturbed, and I suspect I should also vacuum up the hairs/etc that have settled between the keytops and that might not be considered particularly pleasant if anyone else is fussy about such things. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.154\|172.70.86.154]] 12:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)		:Though hard to believe you don't ever use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Z for Undo, at all, alongside the trifecta of Cut/Copy/Paste. Unless your localised(/locali'''z'''ed) keyboard doesn't have ZXCV... as its bottom line and thus is also locally mapped with different Ctrl-codes for such things. If I had a handy way of uploading a photo, I'd show you my 'old faithful' keyboard with many keytops wiped blank from frequent use (and some keys even worn down enough to have small ''holes'' in the keytops, where the plastic has worn through). Though the lesser-used keys highlight themselves by looking a bit grotty, with skin-oils that accumulated and yet were less frequently redisturbed, and I suspect I should also vacuum up the hairs/etc that have settled between the keytops and that might not be considered particularly pleasant if anyone else is fussy about such things. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.154\|172.70.86.154]] 12:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
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		+	most of the time i just do 77 secs so "As neglected as every other number on the microwave". --[[User:Bb777\|[insert signature here]]] ([[User talk:Bb777\|talk]]) 01:08, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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 This also happens in the English language. The letter Z is one of the rarest letter. By contrast, my native language uses Z a lot, probably even more than F, R, and V. I remembered once that I was going to type a word with "Z", but when I reached for that key and tried to press it, my finger slipped by accident, and the key bounced up and then landed on the ground. I didn't realize that the key was already broken as I haven't typed in my native language for a long time. The Z seemed forgotten. [[User:ConlangGuide|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide|talk]]) 09:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
-:American English tends to {{wiktionary|-ize|use the Z a lot}}, actually. But being British myself (notwithstanding the Oxonian styleguide being Z-orienated) I grew up with the {{wiktionary|-ise|alternative}} and still think the Z-versions (and derivatives) of such words look odd (ditto: "-or" for "-our" / "-er" for "-re"; it's still "sulphur" and "aluminium" for me; as it should be "programme" in every case but that of computer code, etc), even if I appreciate the current/historic rationale for the distinction.
+:American English tends to {{wiktionary|-ize|use the Z a lot}}, actually. But being British myself (notwithstanding the Oxonian styleguide being Z-orientated/-oriented) I grew up with the {{wiktionary|-ise|alternative}} and still think the Z-versions (and derivatives) of such words look odd (ditto: "-or" for "-our" / "-er" for "-re"; it's still "sulphur" and "aluminium" for me; as it should be "programme" in every case but that of computer code, etc), even if I appreciate the current/historic rationale for the distinction.
 :Though hard to believe you don't ever use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Z for Undo, at all, alongside the trifecta of Cut/Copy/Paste. Unless your localised(/locali'''z'''ed) keyboard doesn't have ZXCV... as its bottom line and thus is also locally mapped with different Ctrl-codes for such things. If I had a handy way of uploading a photo, I'd show you my 'old faithful' keyboard with many keytops wiped blank from frequent use (and some keys even worn down enough to have small ''holes'' in the keytops, where the plastic has worn through). Though the lesser-used keys highlight themselves by looking a bit grotty, with skin-oils that accumulated and yet were less frequently redisturbed, and I suspect I should also  vacuum up the hairs/etc that have settled between the keytops and that might not be considered particularly pleasant if anyone else is fussy about such things. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.154|172.70.86.154]] 12:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

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	This also happens in the English language. The letter Z is one of the rarest letter. By contrast, my native language uses Z a lot, probably even more than F, R, and V. I remembered once that I was going to type a word with "Z", but when I reached for that key and tried to press it, my finger slipped by accident, and the key bounced up and then landed on the ground. I didn't realize that the key was already broken as I haven't typed in my native language for a long time. The Z seemed forgotten. [[User:ConlangGuide\|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide\|talk]]) 09:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)		This also happens in the English language. The letter Z is one of the rarest letter. By contrast, my native language uses Z a lot, probably even more than F, R, and V. I remembered once that I was going to type a word with "Z", but when I reached for that key and tried to press it, my finger slipped by accident, and the key bounced up and then landed on the ground. I didn't realize that the key was already broken as I haven't typed in my native language for a long time. The Z seemed forgotten. [[User:ConlangGuide\|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide\|talk]]) 09:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
		+	:American English tends to {{wiktionary\|-ize\|use the Z a lot}}, actually. But being British myself (notwithstanding the Oxonian styleguide being Z-orienated) I grew up with the {{wiktionary\|-ise\|alternative}} and still think the Z-versions (and derivatives) of such words look odd (ditto: "-or" for "-our" / "-er" for "-re"; it's still "sulphur" and "aluminium" for me; as it should be "programme" in every case but that of computer code, etc), even if I appreciate the current/historic rationale for the distinction.
		+	:Though hard to believe you don't ever use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Z for Undo, at all, alongside the trifecta of Cut/Copy/Paste. Unless your localised(/locali'''z'''ed) keyboard doesn't have ZXCV... as its bottom line and thus is also locally mapped with different Ctrl-codes for such things. If I had a handy way of uploading a photo, I'd show you my 'old faithful' keyboard with many keytops wiped blank from frequent use (and some keys even worn down enough to have small ''holes'' in the keytops, where the plastic has worn through). Though the lesser-used keys highlight themselves by looking a bit grotty, with skin-oils that accumulated and yet were less frequently redisturbed, and I suspect I should also vacuum up the hairs/etc that have settled between the keytops and that might not be considered particularly pleasant if anyone else is fussy about such things. ;) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.154\|172.70.86.154]] 12:15, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

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	From a scientific standpoint, we moved into a new house last year which has a well-used (probably 20+ years) Amana Radar-range, so lots of button pushes. The buttons for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 0 are WELL worn with the rest nearly untouched. [[User:Cosumel\|Cosumel]] ([[User talk:Cosumel\|talk]]) 07:27, 12 May 2020 (UTC)		From a scientific standpoint, we moved into a new house last year which has a well-used (probably 20+ years) Amana Radar-range, so lots of button pushes. The buttons for 1, 2, 3, 5, and 0 are WELL worn with the rest nearly untouched. [[User:Cosumel\|Cosumel]] ([[User talk:Cosumel\|talk]]) 07:27, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
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		+	This also happens in the English language. The letter Z is one of the rarest letter. By contrast, my native language uses Z a lot, probably even more than F, R, and V. I remembered once that I was going to type a word with "Z", but when I reached for that key and tried to press it, my finger slipped by accident, and the key bounced up and then landed on the ground. I didn't realize that the key was already broken as I haven't typed in my native language for a long time. The Z seemed forgotten. [[User:ConlangGuide\|ConlangGuide]] ([[User talk:ConlangGuide\|talk]]) 09:12, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

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	I'm lazy and like to use repeated digits rather than have to move my finger along to find the next one - thus 33, 55, 66 get used a lot. I also find that for most items, longer time at lower power settings is more effective at even heating, so I do a lot of 66 at 50% rather than 33 at 100%. Our current oven only has 10 power settings, unlike a previous one that had two digit power settings resulting in 66 sec at 55% being a fairly commonly used setup. Interestingly, the logic of every microwave oven I have encountered treats 99 entered in the seconds display the same as if one were to have entered 1minute and 33 seconds. Thus 99:99 would be 100 minutes and 33 seconds. [[User:J-beda\|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda\|talk]]) 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)		I'm lazy and like to use repeated digits rather than have to move my finger along to find the next one - thus 33, 55, 66 get used a lot. I also find that for most items, longer time at lower power settings is more effective at even heating, so I do a lot of 66 at 50% rather than 33 at 100%. Our current oven only has 10 power settings, unlike a previous one that had two digit power settings resulting in 66 sec at 55% being a fairly commonly used setup. Interestingly, the logic of every microwave oven I have encountered treats 99 entered in the seconds display the same as if one were to have entered 1minute and 33 seconds. Thus 99:99 would be 100 minutes and 33 seconds. [[User:J-beda\|J-beda]] ([[User talk:J-beda\|talk]]) 17:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
		+	:I have never seen a microwave that treats 99 as 1:33. Treating 99 as 1:3'''9''', however, is quite common. Why would a microwave run for 93 seconds when 99 is entered? [[User:Dansiman\|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman\|talk]]) 14:08, 26 August 2020 (UTC)

	Oddly (apparently) my microwave has only 3 buttons (10 minutes, 1 minute, 10 seconds), though I do feel sorry for the 10 minute button.		Oddly (apparently) my microwave has only 3 buttons (10 minutes, 1 minute, 10 seconds), though I do feel sorry for the 10 minute button.

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 :::that being said, I can't approach the microwave without thinking of this so-called comic. Rather a tragic, if you ask me. Likewise, the Roomba is not a pet, but a creature of the wild captured. sigh [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
-;:::besides the fact that the assumption in this comic is wrong. Because being used to max out certain options, '9' is not the least used digit in a touch button microwave interface, "7' or '8' are, '1' to '6' being options to ''reheat''. This fact, because of the previous comment, requires eternal vigilance so proper non-discriminatory, fair allocation of keypresses are the norm in this household. Fair we is, fair we stay, yay! [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
+::::'''besides the fact that the assumption in this comic is wrong.''' Because being used to max out certain options, multiple comments in this thread confirm that, '9' is not the least used digit in a touch button microwave interface, "7' or '8' are, '1' to '6' being options to ''express cook'' and ''reheat'', thus used more often. My microwave key pad is actually worn from "1" to "4". This fact, because of the previous comment, requires eternal vigilance so proper non-discriminatory, fair allocation of keypresses are the norm in this household. Fair we is, fair we stay, yay! [[User:Yamaplos|Yamaplos]] ([[User talk:Yamaplos|talk]]) 14:09, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 Am I the only one that uses "99" whenever the instructions say something close to "1 minute 30 seconds"? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.49|108.162.216.49]] 15:11, 26 February 2016 (UTC)BenDanTomJack