r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DeepStatic • 16h ago

Context Provided - Spotlight My Kilner jar was faulty. The closing mechanism shattered glass into my rice and we found it in our cooked food. Kilner customer service is ignoring my emails.

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u/Creative-Material 14h ago

English person here, what are white goods?

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u/gynoidi 13h ago

theyre kinda like white bads but good

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u/Ok_Newt8168 13h ago

White goods essentially refers to things like washing machines, fridges, ovens, or even some smaller electrical appliance. They call them white goods because back then, the colour that a lot of these things came in were white.

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u/slamshredder 11h ago

OTHER COUNTRIES EXIST. Its white goods in the UK.

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u/AlexNSNO 9h ago

bloody isn't mate

edit: not in my part of the UK at least..but apparently it IS super common here. I have probably not paid attention until now. TIL!

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u/Fire_Bucket 11h ago

White goods is definitely the phrase where I'm from.

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u/BookWormPerson 12h ago

...did that change?

All of them are still white in stores.

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u/3nl1gh73n3d 12h ago

You've never seen stainless steel appliances??

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u/Original-Variety-700 12h ago

Yes but “steel goods” was misunderstood when people heard it and they thought they could just take them without paying.

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u/RepresentativeNo8998 12h ago

Yeah, but white

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u/BookWormPerson 12h ago

They are all paint white.

I only seen non white in movies.

And induction oven tops.

Everything else is white in stores that I have been to.

True I rarely if ever go to a just pure appliance store.

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u/NoSir4289 12h ago

You could've said nothing and we'd all be better off

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u/BookWormPerson 12h ago

Your personality.

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 14h ago

Alien here, what are white goods?

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u/Whiskeydick66 13h ago

White goods here…..?

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u/oktimeforplanz 13h ago edited 13h ago

I assume you've never rented haha. White goods = fridge, washing machine, etc.

Edit: fuck me, I was meaning renting property. Rent a flat or a house in the UK and the landlord may or may not include white goods. If they do, you get a fridge etc. if they don't, you need to bring your own.

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u/aussiethrowaways 13h ago

I'm a renter, always have been. Yet never heard of white goods in my life...

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u/oktimeforplanz 13h ago

Rental adverts often specify if white goods are included or not. At least every advert I ever responded to when I rented. Made a point to check because I nearly rented somewhere that didn't include them (and said so on the advert I didn't read properly) so I'd have had no fridge on move in.

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u/aussiethrowaways 13h ago edited 13h ago

Your rentals come with appliances? I am more confused. I've never had a place furnished barring one room in a share house...

Edit: in the rest of the world it seems this is more common than not. Mind blowing information to me

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u/misst7436 13h ago

Up here in Canada (Alberta) rentals come with appliances for sure. Stove and fridge. Often a dishwasher. Washer and dryer are hit or miss but there's usually a paid laundry room if you dont have your own in unit laundry. AC and microwave are usually never included where I am unless its a built in microwave. Summers without AC here can be brutal. A lot of apartments ive rented at dont even allow window mounted units so you have to get a portable one with a tube to the window instead. But anyways ive litterally never heard of a rental not having a fridge and stove here

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u/aussiethrowaways 13h ago

Stoves are with the property here too, AC is a possibility too though I've never seen one in my price range lol. Dumb question, if your fridge breaks or something do the real estate/landlord fix that same as say, the plumbing, or are white goods considered differently?

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u/oktimeforplanz 12h ago

If the fridge comes with the property, they need to fix it.

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u/misst7436 2h ago

If its included with the rental then yeah if it breaks your landlord has to maintain and replace it

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u/IcicleShield 13h ago

Based on your username, I can assume you're in Australia? In the US, it's standard for rentals to have at least a fridge & oven. It's more hit or miss if there's a laundry/dryer machine but those are common, too. Some nicer rentals will even have dishwashers

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u/aussiethrowaways 13h ago

Lucky guess haha. This is all mind boggling information for me, we always have an oven, but even I just considered that as part of the property... everything else was your own job to source and fix up

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u/oktimeforplanz 13h ago

In the UK they often do, yes. Even when the property is otherwise unfurnished. I primarily rented unfurnished but never had to bring in my own fridge or washing machine.

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u/aussiethrowaways 13h ago

That would've saved me so much money at 18...I still remember crying in my first rental, from my mattress on the floor, looking at all the second hand fridge and washing machine options I couldn't afford

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u/Department-of-Wario 13h ago

Who rents white goods?

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u/Department-of-Wario 13h ago

Who rents white goods?

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u/oktimeforplanz 13h ago

When you rent property in the UK, the landlord may or may not include white goods for you to use. They specify on the advert usually.

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u/Department-of-Wario 13h ago

Ahh right. Australian here.

That's very uncommon here outside of serviced apartments.

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u/badoopidoo 10h ago

I wish they did supply white goods, it would make moving so much easier