It'd be nice if the thing had instructions.

[bktheirregular]

My new washing machien has one major problem: I can't figure out what eighty percent of the controls are meant to do. As is my habit, I checked the manual; it was printed in something like eight different languages, none of which told me what most of the symbols on the control dial meant.

I'm hoping that it's just that I'm stupid, and that the controls are blindingly obvious to other people who care to look?