I hate

Do you have a dog?

Had this discussion with a mate last night. She loves horror but can't stand clowns (ie. IT)

This is good if you don't mind clowns :)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GmkPs8fOd1o

We've implemented a militant, check your socks at the door policy. Helped by underfloor heating / slippers but Ayla takes her socks off at the door, at the same time as shoes, as soon as she gets home from nursery.

They're put in a separate washing bag thing that gets zipped up and put in the machine.

We haven't lost any socks in 6 months now.

That is pretty impressive.

No underfloor heating, but;

No.1 usually takes their socks of randomly to pick their toes (they have done this since they were little).

OH sometimes randomly takes their socks off, but does not pick their toes.

No. 2 occasionally takes one, possibly two socks off.

So Idk if we could implement such a policy.

You must have a defective washing machine because that's where they normally disappear

No dog, but we do have a cat.

I normally take the socks off and put them in the laundry basket, so feck knows what happens.

We just have one of these by the front door and put the socks in it, zip it up and shove it it the machine with the rest of her stuff.

If the washing machine swallows one of these, we've got bigger problems :-D

The 70’s looked great

Savage

It fucked me up last week. And this week I have fucked a disc in my back.

Covid fucked me up last week. And this week I have fucked a disc in my back.

I hate double posts

RE missing socks, maybe it is like the errant biros Douglas Adams theorised (hitchhiker's 1 maybe?)

Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.

My thoughts exactly.
I've been living in two houses for the past couple of years and occasionally clothes have to be moved from one to the other. When I find odd socks in one place I take them to the other but it's very rare I ever manage to match them up.

I’ve never lost a sock since I started doing my own laundry…

Your sock obsession could be why you're doing your own laundry.

Watching the clothes go round is better than tv

If you see revolving eyes, you have also washed the dog/cat/hamster. But at least they'll come out lovely and fluffy, if somewhat quiet.

I can see how that saying “out, damn spot” might have arisen

'Snowy' post rinse cycle....

Losing a credit card.

Must have dropped it at the station or on the train home as I'd touched in at Vauxhall and it was gone by the time I needed it at Putney.

Froze it straight away and no-one has tried to use it (the only declined payment was to TfL). Last time I did this (again, half pissed coming home from the pub after 5-a-side) there were 4 attempted uses of it within 15 minutes of me dropping it (luckily declined as I'd frozen it by then).

The way my wife puts lids on things or rather doesn't.

She'll rest them on the top of the bottle / container and put them back in the cupboard/fridge or leave on the kitchen top. I then pick up the item, often by the top, and the lids comes off.

Clearly my fault for not adapting and only picking up from the main container.

See, I get told off for doing this... but at least actually put the stuff back in the fridge at all!!*

*this may be a trigger issue for me

this happens in my house as well. infuriating.

Good that it's not just me. Why the fuck do they do this?

Clearly my fault for not adapting and only picking up from the main container.

That's where I am. The worst is the bubble bath. About 1 in 10 times I drop it and have to spend a few minutes cleaning up spillage. I should be adapting but I'm not.

I spent years working in catering and there many certain things that were drummed into me, stuff like:

• The sink is to be kept empty so that it is ready to be used for washing up OR food use (draining pasta, rinsing stuff, etc) at any time. Nothing more annoying that having a sink full of dirty stuff and you need to drain pasta and boiling water will crack glasses/etc that are in the sink.*
  
• Stuff gets put away with lids on tight, or wrapped/covered in cling-film (or foil if item is oily)
  
• Bin bags are never left on the floor, if you take the bin bag out of the bin then you take it out to the outside bin(s) straight away. Similarly if the bin is full you don't start a new bin-bag just propped up next to the bin - you deal with it properly. The recycling bin ends up being a Jenga like game balancing greater and greater amounts of stuff on top.
  
  

I often get questions like "I thought you were going to start cooking, why are you putting it off by emptying the bins and loading the dishwasher?"

* Less of a problem in a commercial kitchen as you generally have 3 types of sink with dedicated uses (hand wash, food use, washing up) and misuse is punished.

Yeah, I can't start cooking until the kitchen is tidy. My brain just refuses to deal with it. Also washing up, where possible, as you go. So that after the meal there is only the real end of the process stuff to deal with. I also like that this enables using little bowls for mise en place type stuff, since they are just going to be rinsed as you go, not added to the pile of post eating washing up.