The middle aged thread

Any suggestions for a good dishwashing brush.. I was thinking silicon or something. One that will last, and that can go through the dishwasher when needed.
I’ve got an hour pencilled in to browse the Lakeland catalogue this afternoon but first-hand experience appreciated.

Dishwasher proof would be a game changer. Am in.

I'm going the other way. Organic materials that don't last particularly well but will decompose after use. I favour the coir bristles with no handle but at end of life you are left with a little twist of steel wire.

Ditto.

Silicone is utterly rubbish for washing up. Even a cheap £1 plastic brush is better (and all that anyone needs to wash up).

And all 3 can be put in the dishwasher.

Lakeland have discontinued the excellent 2 pack brushes they used to do and the replacement 'professional' brush is really shit. Avoid.

Is there such thing as an ear and nose hair trimmer extension that goes on an electric toothbrush, or do I need to invent one?

Careful, iirc the golf club administrators believe Lakeland browsing qualifies you membership.

do I need to invent one?

If you do, I'm in.

That does the job while you’re brushing your teeth?
I thought the whole idea of middle age was you had time to spare (well, to spare aside from quietly fuming at the world)
This sounds like a time-saving device
Mind you, it would be useful
I could be shouting at the radio instead of wielding tweezers

RE nasal trimmer, my FiL got me this one Christmas, partly as a joke, but it does a better job than the beard trimmer attachment I previously used

The Joseph Joseph one works quite well:

https://www.johnlewis.com/joseph-joseph-edge-washing-up-brush/grey/p454598?s_ppc=2dx92700071666987481_mixed_home_BAU&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItri9nfGr_QIVh7TtCh0bNwc1EAQYAyABEgLwt_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

(post link to John Lewis, go straight to the middle aged/golf club threads, do not pass Go)

Missed the link to a previous question and immediately wondered how the hell you trim your nose hairs with that.

Time to spare? What, after you are done with going for a pee three times as often as you used to, going back upstairs again for the thing you forgot last time you went upstairs (- again cos you forgot the first time) and spending three times as long putting your shoes on cos they get harder and harder to reach every day.
Oh, and nose and ear hair grows faster than bamboo.

grows faster than bamboo

Huge if true

For reasons too arcane to go into here, me & Mrs Jangle found ourselves listening to the Thunderbirds Theme this morning.

There is a hell of a lot going on in this piece of music.

Do yourself a favour and immerse yourself in your youth for two and a half minutes:

https://youtu.be/UuRkAyRfz_c

The late Barry Gray.

https://youtu.be/w168wi8B1xk

Probably posting elsewhere..

If you grew up in London 70s/80s this might resonate.

The questions is ‘did we get away with it’

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/male-menopause-is-real-claims-controversial-new-study-10425784.html

not a recent article, however I am convinced that I had a lot of these symptoms in my late 40s

Jfc

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Where can I leave my kids?

Silver Mists - is that the misdirected rage that brought about brexit or the brain fuzz that causes you to forget why you're looking fridge?

forget why you're looking fridge

I always know why I'm looking fridge. White, chunky, with a 2 year warranty of very doubtful value. Totes fridge.

That was a obvoiusly a foolish attempt to try and sound young in the middle age thread rather than a fat-fingered lost my reading glasses typo...
As my 16 Yr old son sometimes replies when asked where he's going, "I'm just going shop."

Another compelling headline from the undisputed king of middle-aged banality:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/13/do-you-suffer-from-shop-blindness-ive-struggled-to-locate-coconut-milk-for-years

I just don't understand whether these articles are some kind of self referential ironic commentary on guardian readers or just basic bitch lifestyle content. Either way, they're shit and not funny.
See also the guy who writes vapid stuff about his family in the bucolic home counties, Tim Dowling.