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Pointless soul destroying ongoing fights with inanimate objects

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HoneyDragon · 24/11/2015 19:36

The compost bin provided by the council. The bastard. I spent a painful 5 minutes trying to wrestle that fucker shut today before I realised the handle had slipped under the hinge. I won in the end but the fuckers still looking smug in the utility room.

And EVERYTHING in my understairs cupboard works on a rota to pick a fight with me. Sometimes the vacuum and ironing board work together to get me.

What intimate object regularly picks fights with you?

Have you ever finally emerged victorious?

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Roystonv · 24/11/2015 20:14

The vacuum which always falls on top of me when I am using the hose attachment and the boiler which always turns off just when we are butt naked and ready to step under the shower.

sciaticasucks · 24/11/2015 20:13

SellotapeSad

AuntieStella · 24/11/2015 20:11

The printer!

My DC still recount (all too often and all to gleefully) the precise nature and startling duration of Mummy's language the day I needed something really urgently one morning and attempted to print it before the school run.

And that's just one skirmish in the low-grade guerrilla war it has engaged with me.

LollipopViolet · 24/11/2015 20:08

My bed - the corner constantly smacks my knee... :(

I've found my people on this thread, it's not ME, it's EVERYTHING in the house!

BumbleTalking · 24/11/2015 20:06

For me it's my washing up gloves, the bastards always cause me a lot of aggravation Angry

Not to mention trying to put a pizza box etc into a bin that's already mostly full...

carbsfoundme · 24/11/2015 20:06

The cooker hood; I bang my head against it every time I cook. I've lived in this house for nearly four years but still twat my forehead every time.

Weird thing is, I'm not sure if the resounding hollow thud is my head or the cooker hood Confused

RealHuman · 24/11/2015 20:04

pina, your bra and mine must be in the same union. I require a large strong man to assist me in fastening mine.

Goodbetterbest · 24/11/2015 20:03

Tuppawear (or any brand of plastic boxes with lids).

I fucking hate it. It's out to get me.

WHERE IS YOUR CORRECT LID YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT? why? Why? Won't you stack up tidily in the drawer? Everytime I open the cupboard, you LUNGE at me, scattering over the kitchen floor. I hate you. I actually hate you. SadSad

BeeRose30 · 24/11/2015 20:01

We had Henry's cousin James at work and all he did was block and belch out clouds of dust.

A friend thought it would be cute to have a Hetty Hoover when she moved into her first flat, but she turned out to be a lazy slut.

RealHuman · 24/11/2015 20:00

All oranges have a tiny juice sac just beneath the skin, precisely angled to project a thin ßtream of acid directly towards my eye.

Also my phone hates me and inserts random German characters occasionally.

LittleFishBigOcean · 24/11/2015 20:00

My dishwasher leaks randomly. If I put tupperwares under it, the fucker doesn't leak but if I forget it knows and leaks skanky water all over the floor and then I go and paddle in it and get soggy fucking socks.

ifyoulikepinacolada · 24/11/2015 19:59

I am large of boob and small of ribcage, and the only sports bra that can keep them under control during bouncy exercise is one with about seventeenfriggingmillion straps. It's like a fucking octopus and practically requires tranquilising if i'm to get it on or off with both arms and breasts still attached. I still wear it though. It's like i have sports bra stockholm syndrome. the bastard.

MiddleAgeMiddleEngland · 24/11/2015 19:58

All the poor abused Henrys on this thread Sad

We have a rug which just won't stay still. It moves diagonally, even when nobody has walked on it. Even when nobody is at home. I'm beginning to think we have a poltergeist with an interest in rugs Grin

My chest of drawers has stood in exactly the same place for 24 years. DH still walks into it regularly Hmm

RealHuman · 24/11/2015 19:57

Yoghurts regularly ejaculate on me when I pull the lid off.

RealHuman · 24/11/2015 19:56

I quite like ducks tart TBH.

HoneyDragon · 24/11/2015 19:55

Uppity fuckstart, not upity Ducks tart

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HoneyDragon · 24/11/2015 19:55

My boiler wants me to go out and get a job. No matter how many timers I set the sod to a seven day program that upity ducks tart reverts to a five/two day program and refuses to heat the house from Monday to Friday between 8:30am and 5pm. It maintains its smug innocence by heating the house on Saturday and Sunday when everyone's home Angry

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RealHuman · 24/11/2015 19:54

My parents also have a false drawer front just below the kitchen sink. The handles of their kitchen drawers are horizontal metal bars, attached further towards the middle of the bar, with the ends sticking out, if that makes sense. The handle is at exactly the right height to surreptitiously hook itself in my beltloops while I'm washing up and tether me, all unsuspecting, to the kitchen. I only notice when I attempt to move and can't.

And their kitchen cupboard doors are always slightly wider than I think so I hit myself in the face.

Also, my bras hate me and I regularly hit myself in the face while attempting to restrain my (admittedly voluptuous) bosoms.

Savagebeauty · 24/11/2015 19:53

Yes quiero and hollinhurst
I am not alone.
He won't die.

donajimena · 24/11/2015 19:53

real I have a bed like that. Every time OH stays over I warn him to watch the corner of the bed every time he gets in or out. The bastard always gets him though and I frequently hear 'fuck' or 'oof'

sugar21 · 24/11/2015 19:52

B!oody shower, it has a nasty nature it's name is shifty fecker. Push the button to start it and zilch, try again and zilch. Stand in cubicle to reach up and get the spray head down to check it and the bastard sprays cold water all over my head. Then it grins at me, smirky type grin. Called its bluff by decapitating it and cleaning out it's innards.
Now its working but I swear it's smirking and waiting to attack!

TheImminentGin · 24/11/2015 19:52

My oven. I even started an AIBU thread about it. Turned out it was. It is a bastard.
I got an oven thermometer and that can read 210degrees while the knob is set at 125. Excellent.
Items in there cooking usually end up burnt on the bottom. Not pleasant I'm sure we all agree.

Kacie123 · 24/11/2015 19:52

Have a heart people! He's only doing his job Grin

hollinhurst84 · 24/11/2015 19:51

Henry the bastard went to live with my dad who loves him Hmm and pets him
I kicked him for the last time after he fell over going in a straight line

Kacie123 · 24/11/2015 19:51

Not sure about all the Henry the Hoover abuse on this thread Shock

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