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

I can explain that one - because their doctors won't let them. Especially with certain types of controlled drugs like Tramadol.

They will say "oh well you (should) have 7 tablets left, so they will do you a week so you don't need to ask for more until 2 days before you run out". Which would be all very well, but it often takes the surgeries longer to process the prescriptions, and then the pharmacies take ages to dispense them. It just leads to more and more people going into the pharmacies to ask for an emergency supply.

The answer would be to say ok our processes take a week and then the pharmacy needs a couple of days so we'll let you reorder 14 days before you run out.

But nope. That would be too sensible. My mum has this All The Time.

Edited: in fact this is a factor that puts me off going on HRT. I don't want to have to speak to a GP, get a prescription, go and queue in a pharmacy and then be told they've run out. I don't especially need it (yet) but dread the day coming when I do.

Why do people leave it until their medicines have run out before ordering new meds. Surely they can see they’re all their last strip of medicines, and think, ‘time to order new meds’.

Ha ha, quite, although man’s evolution has been approximately 6 million years. Pedants corner.

Does she pile each colour combo up until theres enough for a wash or do they all go in the machine together?

Takes acres of the stuff just to cover a piece of toast.

Back on the original topic of weird things - 😄 I just passed a bin-washing van. Why do people pay monthly to get their bins cleaned, and when did this become a thing? Isn’t it just creating a need where none existed like vaginal deodorant?

Mushrooms really can shrink a lot but spinach is worse.

I'm scared to cook spinach and mushrooms together because they just might shrink so much they'd cause a black hole.

Not the point i know but thats a daft thing to do anyway as hot water sets stains, cold soak is best!

I think she means the mixture she’s made, not some pre made mix. Because yes, that would be weird !
Although Iceland did sell frozen omelettes for a while which did seem unnecessary to me !

No, I just use the same one for everything.
I’m also not worried about hotel rooms, washing vegetables, anti baccing everything. Definitely a case of out of sight out of mind for me. I barely get colds and can’t remember the last time I a stomach upset.
Each to his own however.

I wash my hands at school constantly after getting impetigo on my face when it was going around. 😩 I know someone that caught scabies from holding a child’s hand too.

A colleague of mine uses a clean piece of loo roll to open public loo doors...then throws it on the floor as she leaves. I get not wanting to touch the door but the throwing it on the floor baffles me

Leave their driveway empty and park on the pavement. Out this morning and lost count of the amount of people who had an empty driveway and were parked half on the road and half on the pavement.

Oh and I'll happily eat cakes and biscuits from school bake sales, which seems to horrify some people!

I'm with you on the hygiene stuff, OP. I never give germs a second thought. I wash my hands after & before preparing food and after going to the bathroom. That's it. I don't use antibacterial anything, and my house is not spotless. I have a dog and a cat and spend all day in not-very-clean classrooms full of frequently sneezing and coughing students, probably with sticky fingers!

I agree, I don't believe they do it in the kettle either. Last year I was away for about 10 days and didn't want hold luggage so travelled as light as I could so I handwashed knickers and running tops a few times. In the sink :)

I'm not upset. I'm just bored with the broken record posts making the same pointless objections to what are just facts.

I was called "paranoid" several times, then "bonkers." Insults from randos on the internet don't mean jack shit to me, but I do reserve the right to return the rudeness. If people dish it out they should be able to take it.

Yes, I do see that some people might take factual information personally and make all kinds of assumptions based on their personal prejudices. People often do that. However, it's not my problem and I have no obligation to walk on eggshells.

Sorry to hear about your OCD. I do understand where you're coming from. Thank you for explaining that.

This reminds me of a funny ‘Goodness gracious me’ sketch from years ago. They moved into a new build ‘Bharat Homes’ house which still had the plastic covers on the carpet / sofa / tv remote, which they left on indefinitely.
IYKYK (if you know you know) 🤣🤣

@fliptopbin it's one of many memories of her that I will always hold dear. I also think it is quite satisfying peeling mushrooms...I just could no longer be bothered, especially when mushrooms tend to disappear when you cook them 🤣. I've never seen a pan jam packed with anything else that literally shrinks beyond reason.

It dawned on me a few months sgo that the only reason that I peel mushrooms is because its the way I learned to cook!

Poster is obviously only messing

If not, I'm glad they found their soul mate 😁

I am very sorry this has upset you so much. I really did not see anyone insulting you? So this has surprised me:

Did you see what that comment was in response to? I've been directly insulted multiple times in this thread

I have had a quick flick back through the thread and I honestly can’t see you being attacked or, indeed, repeatedly telling us you’re immunocompromised. I’m sure you did, but that’s not how most people read the thread (I don’t make up a profile of each poster as I go).

Anyway, I take your point about it being sensible for you to clean certain items, but it not being general advice for everyone. But you must see that if you come into a thread like this and explain the reasons people might clean those things (even if you’re only presenting facts), it will be interpreted as direct opposition to those people saying it is unnecessary in general practice.

Sorry if I’ve upset you. I probably am touchy about it as (I repeatedly stated!!) I have (mostly) recovered from quite debilitating germ-related OCD and people championing what is often excessive cleaning is possibly a bit close to the bone.

Why though?

Excuse me? Did you see what that comment was in response to? I've been directly insulted multiple times in this thread, including by the person that was in response to, and for what? Posting facts. Nothing more. So spare me the faux outrage.

I'm fine with robust discussion. There has been very little of it directed my way, but instead a lot of fallacious reasoning and name calling. So if you have a legit disagreement with something I actually said, fire away. Please direct your questions about what other people have said about remotes directly to them. I am not the torch bearer for a Remotes are Agents of Evil protest rally.
They are just one of multiple areas where pathogen counts tend to be high.
The "you should be sterilizing everything or nothing at all" argument fails. Most surfaces are relatively pathogen free. Others not so much. That was the point. Moreover, I don't give a shiny shit what other people choose to do. Have I somehow failed to make that clear?
It's baffling that some people are reacting as I'm the one being judgemental, all the while calling others names for the harmless things they do, just because it's not something they personally care about.
Hypocrites, every one of them.

Not being the type to worry about hotel remotes and all the other potentially hazardous stuff when away from my own home has made my immune system as tough as nails.

No wonder there is so much infection going around, people can be TOO clean conscious. It isn't necessary for most things. Kids should eat muck and dirt and insects too. I did and I never turned into a caterpillar.

I’m very sorry that you’re immunocompromised, but, with respect, I believe the discussion was about general behaviour regarding remotes etc. Your situation is different; I respect that.

Multiple people have cited the remote as a particular source of horror; that’s what I was addressing. Your comment was just the latest one to pertain to germ hotspots or whatever. And you were being pretty rude, so I felt you were fair game for robust discussion, having just said this to another poster:

You sound like a perpetually cranky sort with a stick lodged firmly in your rectum, but you do you baby girl

Very mature. So I think it’s a bit rich for you to talk about me making up ‘nonsense’ 🤷‍♀️

The fact is, all things being equal (and not in the case of immunocompromise), there is no need to single out germ hotspots in public places or hotels and clean them. For one thing, it is fairly arbitrary- the same germs from the remote will be elsewhere too.

Of course cleaning things will reduce pathogens. You could remove pretty much all of them if you sterilised everything- but normal hygiene and hand-washing is enough in the vast majority of cases.

I have read the thread (assuming that’s what you meant by typing FTFT?). I just didn’t memorise your medical history. It wasn’t mentioned in the post I quoted. Hardly unreasonable.