Page 11 | Really weird stuff people do that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

PrimitivePerson · 2024-08-18T16:12:32+00:00

Someone I know puts hotel TV remotes in plastic bags before using them, because she once heard a standup comedian talking about men wanking on them while watching porn. WTAF? What weird things do people you know do that make absolutely no sense at all? Anything as odd as that?

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PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 13:29

Kittynoodle · 19/08/2024 13:27

Ok thanks for that!
i’ll be buying my books elsewhere from now on!

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Have you been hiding under a rock? This has been plain to see for decades. Amazon are about the least ethical company on the planet.

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Kittynoodle · 19/08/2024 13:27

PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 13:25

Seriously?!?

They treat their staff like absolute dirt, make astronomical profits but pay virtually no tax, sell absolute junk, drive decent businesses under, snoop on you and sell on your data for huge profits, deliberately manipulate customers to make them buy more... that's just off the top of my head.

See also: Uber, AirBnB, Deliveroo etc.

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Kittynoodle · 19/08/2024 13:22

PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 13:10

Yup, I haven't touched them for years. When my mother in law gave me a £100 Amazon gift card a few years ago, I returned it to her.

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Can someone tell me why Amazon are vile???

MistyGreenAndBlue · 19/08/2024 13:18

Oceangreyscale · 18/08/2024 22:57

My aunt covers her TV every night before she goes to bed with a large lace cloth.
Not even to hide the TV presumably as it's visible in the daytime. Just at night. Like it's a caged parrot or something.

I might start doing this. Not lace though. Maybe something in a nice crushed velvet 😂

IdLikeToBeAFraser · 19/08/2024 13:11

I agree with @BernardBlacksBreakfastWine - it's fine for people to have different preferences, but I find it odd that people are so outraged about, for example, remote controls but can't see that in fact, the rest of us are NOT falling over dying every 5 seconds.

I also use tea towels for hand drying and plates (well, we don't dry up a lot, but if we do) but I'm a bit obsessive about washing them. No tea towel is used in my house for more than about a day. Similarly, dish clothes for wiping surfaces are left to soak overnight in bleach every night and rinsed the next day and washed at least every few days (i'd wash more often but I like to put them in a hot cycle with towels).

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PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 13:10

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 19/08/2024 12:39

Are you me? Amazon is vile. I don't buy anything from them.

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Yup, I haven't touched them for years. When my mother in law gave me a £100 Amazon gift card a few years ago, I returned it to her.

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Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 19/08/2024 13:04

MangoMadness999 · 19/08/2024 12:46

Are you not just washing dishes in dirty water then?

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I live alone, so it's two dishes max. And there's nothing left on the plates by the time they hit the water, so no. Plus they get a rinse in cold water before they go onto the rack to air dry (yes! I also air dry my dishes - it's a wonder I haven't already got typhoid and cholera!)

HMTheQueenMuffin · 19/08/2024 13:00

Jjiillkkf · 19/08/2024 10:06

My MIL is like this too, lives in a flat and instead of a bin has a bag on her counter top, I don't understand this

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I don't like a kitchen bin in the kitchen personally, so it's kept in the utility room. Which is right next to the kitchen and neither have doors so that doesn't make sense really. (Except inside my own head).

I have a couple of friends who despite having quite large houses and utility rooms keep their cat litter trays in the kitchen. That makes me feel really sick tbh. Once we are over for lunch and the cat had done a stinky poo in it's spot next to the oven and it really turned my stomach. I guess it's just habit though, because objectively I can't see how it makes sense to keep it in the kitchen and not somewhere else.

MangoMadness999 · 19/08/2024 12:46

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 18/08/2024 18:25

I have a washing up bowl. My sink doesn't hold water otherwise. No dishwasher so I wash all my dishes by hand, but the sink plug lets water trickle out and there's nothing left by the time I get to the last bowl.

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Are you not just washing dishes in dirty water then?

toadinthebucket · 19/08/2024 12:45

LindorDoubleChoc · 18/08/2024 17:57

My inlaws have no kitchen bin. Any rubbish, recycling or food waste has to be taken to the outside bin after every meal. This is out through a back boot room, across a patch of grass, and into one of the garages. At least 3 times a day every day.

I used to work with someone who wouldn't have a kitchen bin. Said they were disgusting. Instead she had a carrier bag hanging on the door handle for waste which she'd take to the wheely bin before bed.

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 19/08/2024 12:39

PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 11:17

Amazon are an absolutely vile company, and I refuse to buy anything from them. I also have absolutely no need for an Alexa, and there's no way I'm having something in my house that snoops on every word I say, in order to sell me crap I don't need.

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Are you me? Amazon is vile. I don't buy anything from them.

HowAmITheCatsGranny · 19/08/2024 12:37

MidnightMeltdown · 19/08/2024 11:04

I have a human tea towel and a cat tea towel that is specifically used for drying cat dishes. Not sure if that's weird or not, but I don't like the idea of drying my hands or dishes on the cat dish tea towel and it freaks me out if I catch guests using it!

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I usually dry the cat bowls with kitchen roll or else air dry! I do have a separate sponge for cat dishes and human dishes, and pet bowls don’t get put in the dishwasher (even though logically I know they won’t contaminate anything else lol..)

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 19/08/2024 12:37

PatsyStonesBeehive · 19/08/2024 11:31

I don't know about pee, but my friend is an air hostess and she told me she works with several girls who use the hotel kettle to wash/boil clean their knickers when they do overnights. 😐

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I don't believe that.

You (general you) don't boil knickers in a normal wash (although given the levels of mind boggling bonkersness on here no doubt some do)

Any sane, normal person would either have enough clean knickers or wash them in the bathroom sink.

HRTQueen · 19/08/2024 12:31

My friend eats KFC with a knife and fork so lots of chicken is wasted

this was at home so easy access to a wash hands after

she does eat burgers with her hands but not KFC

floatingislands · 19/08/2024 12:28

MidnightMeltdown · 19/08/2024 11:43

Really? Has no one ever got sick after being on holiday? I think it’s reasonably common actually.

@Newsenmum Not from a tv remote control! 😂

Germs don't survive that long outside the body and they are only really likely to make you sick if you're touching something, say 10 minutes after someone else.

Flu and cold viruses survive on hard surfaces for 24 to 48 hours, some say longer - up to 3 days.

Ebeneser · 19/08/2024 12:22

Mercedes45 · 19/08/2024 09:26

There was a post on here a while back about people washing their moon cups in the flush of the toilet. Personally thought that was disgusting to the point I think about it quiet alot. There were so many people agreeing that they do it too. So we can't have a toothbrush NEAR a toilet but we can wash a mooncup inside a toilet and put it back inside us.

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Ugh that’s vile. I rinse mine in the sink, which some people probably thinkmis disgusting, but toilet flush water - no thanks! The amount of crud under the toilet rim is just asking for a UTI

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 19/08/2024 12:21

Newsenmum · 19/08/2024 11:38

Really? Has no one ever got sick after being on holiday? I think it’s reasonably common actually.

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People are going to spread disease, of course.

If you want to avoid this, I guess you’d self-isolate. But if you are going to go on holiday, stay in a hotel etc, you just have to accept that people are there and they will touch things.

There are obvious, basic points of hygiene that most of us would agree on (wash hands before eating, after toilet, give someone having a sneezing fit a wide berth), and these generally suffice. But it is odd to randomly pick one thing (eg remote control) and put it in a sandwich bag! The people who touched that also presumably touched the lift buttons- are you out there dettol- ing those? Yes, I can see wanting to wash your hands more frequently when you’re away from home, but treating the hotel carpet as if it’s too toxic for your feet seems a bit much.

Ebeneser · 19/08/2024 12:15

AutumnBride · 18/08/2024 20:33

Who's putting milk in scrambled eggs ??

Me? I’ve used double cream before now as well 🤣

thenightsky · 19/08/2024 12:14

fliptopbin · 18/08/2024 22:52

Are we related? Me and my DM are the only mushroom peelers I have ever met!

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<<raises hand>>
Another mushroom peeler here too.

chaosmaker · 19/08/2024 12:13

fliptopbin · 18/08/2024 22:52

Are we related? Me and my DM are the only mushroom peelers I have ever met!

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I'm another peeler of mushrooms. It's quite satisfying:)

Memyaelf · 19/08/2024 12:10

Katemax82 · 19/08/2024 08:37

I'm not keen on anyone drying their hands on tea towels. I end up chucking them in the wash as soon as they get damp. I end up washing about 6 tea towels a day

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I do this! I must have 60 tea towels lol 😂

BernardBlacksBreakfastWine · 19/08/2024 12:06

Newsenmum · 19/08/2024 11:38

Really? Has no one ever got sick after being on holiday? I think it’s reasonably common actually.

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People frequently get sick on holidays, I’m sure. But it’ll be from mixing with loads of new people, eating unfamiliar food, exposure to different bugs etc. Not from a hotel carpet.