If you'd made that joke Astra, he'd have been down on you like a ton of left wing bricks, with JOT backing him up and 'liking' every post. Like I said, one word, Sicko.
Good god, man. You are so obsessed with throwing out accusations of irony that you've forgotten what it means. Haven't you? You can't use it as a blanket excuse for everything you say. You do know this?
Guess what appliance I have? Yep, a Hotpoint fridge/freezer. And it does make the strangest noises you can imagine - tick-tock-tick - every 10 seconds or so, and then a long groaning sound every couple of days. I'm used to the 'ticking' part - quite relaxing actually.
The tick-tock-tick every 10 seconds is no doubt as you say coming from the fridge. The long groaning sound every couple of days is probably a number of us on here whenever you start a new thread.