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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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Fixitwithwine · 26/11/2015 23:11

Ah my iron bless it, will beautifully steam and and smooth everything until I get to a nice crisp white top, then it chooses that moment to gurgle and spit out a load of brown scale onto the top. Fucker.

acsec · 26/11/2015 22:31

The cutlery drawer often sticks, so you push it in, it goes a little way then stops. But it doesn't just stop, it either manages to catch a finger or my thigh will bash the poky handle, or my wrist will jar. I know the drawer sticks if not pushed in slowly but still I fight with it most mornings and evenings and end up injured.

Masterpiece1 · 26/11/2015 22:29

Bed sheets... They never stay in their place! They want to be free.

I have a theory that bed sheets are made from material not good enough to be clothing, which is why they're constantly trying to break free and lerave the bed...

StillYummy · 26/11/2015 22:27

Bastard airers. Lurking in the dark. They sre the furniture equivalent of spider webs

TheCunkOfPhilomena · 26/11/2015 22:24

Every Single Packet of tablets I have ever had have all possessed the magical skill of transferring the patient information leaflet to the end I open and thereby covering the tablets and making me open the other end.

It happens every fucking time.

I currently have about 5 packs of tablets in the medicine cupboard with seriously scrunched up leaflets sticking out the end from where I get so pissed off I ram the bloody tablets back in forcefully whilst saying 'Take that you mother'.

I am normally so serene too.

MovemberSucks · 26/11/2015 22:07

My electric shower heard me talking about revamping the bathroom a couple of weeks ago and went into a strop and stopped working. So three adults and two smelly, sporty children were using the shower in the other bathroom that comes from the hot water tank. That's when we found out that the reason the en-suite had an electric shower in the first place was because the hot water tank is too small for two hot showers in a row, it needs time to re-heat.

ScoopyDoo · 26/11/2015 21:57

There was a comedy invention show on the radio a few years ago and some genius came up with a punishment box for recalcitrant inanimate objects. So for example those car keys that find a portal to another world in your handbag so you have to use the 'non-bleepy-key' only to reappear when you have parked (late and frazzled) at your destination, would go in the punishment box for special key torture at the earliest opportunity. As I say, genius.

I have yet to source such a punishment box, but when I do, the fecking evil bastarding cooker hood that came with this house, the stealthy corners of which are determined to split my skull on a daily fucking basis, is going straight in there. Whatever is waterboarding for cooker hoods, it's getting it.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 26/11/2015 18:12

I once happened to mention on another thread ages ago about how I had lost my temper with some random fucking object and thumped it. All the do-gooders descended on me and solemnly told me that I had anger management issues. Clearly none of them have seen this thread yet, they'd implode with self righteousness.

LollipopViolet · 26/11/2015 17:39

I'm adding my sewing machine to the list. Stupid, idiotic, moronic, pile of bolts that it is, deciding to CONSTANTLY jam up today, so I struggled to get my sewing done.

I may have asked around the house if we had something to cover it with, as I was too angry to even look at it. I may have also told it to get in the corner, and behave.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 26/11/2015 15:29

Can I just say that I am loving the Dyson hatred on this thread? Dh said it was just me, but clearly not!
I'm going to add my Mums old oven to this list, the over-priced useless piece of tat.
It couldn't even do toast, unless you happen to like toast that is burned in one corner and the rest vaguely dry bread. The top left corner of the oven burned everything, the rest didn't get hot enough. The temperature was a total guessing game.
Its final quirk was its ability to turn itself off. You could set a time for the oven to go on and off - if you want to start cooking a turkey at 3am. Fine, except that if you press the "set" button it would turn off the oven automatically if you happen to be already using it.
I may have brushed up against it accidentally. It may have been an over inquisitive toddler. All I know is that the bloody chicken wasn't cooked and I have no idea how long the gas was off. It was literally a bloody chicken. The Sunday roast was ruined thanks to its frankly stupid design.
I nearly cried tears of joy when she said she'd finally had enough of it and was getting a Stoves. The raw chicken was the last straw, but I think in all honesty she'd had enough of me telling her how crap her oven was.

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murphys · 26/11/2015 14:56

I hear him quietly cursing the "sodding useless clagnut wanker, doorjam humping pervert, stupidlegs, wontstandup tossfucker

bumble I really had a good laugh at your dh's expense.

Another vote for classics.... Wink

PassiveAgressiveQueen · 26/11/2015 14:32

ok, thanks

SladeGreen · 26/11/2015 14:31

murphys Bloody hell, a body in the boot would have been a lot less trouble, by the sounds of it! ShockGrin

Cedar03 · 26/11/2015 14:01

Depends on the woodburner. Some also allow you to burn coal. We had one installed the other year and could have paid a bit extra for a part which allows you to burn coal.

PassiveAgressiveQueen · 26/11/2015 13:59

Every time I open the door of the wood burner, some burning coals fall out

Are you meNt to put coal in the wood burner?

Bumblesquat · 26/11/2015 13:27

I have wept with laughter reading this thread.
I might be one of only a handful who adores her Henry, it hates DH and he hates it though. I snigger with glee every time I hear him quietly cursing the "sodding useless clagnut wanker, doorjam humping pervert, stupidlegs, wontstandup tossfucker".
Henry is my favourite.

murphys · 26/11/2015 12:38

Slade

Crying over laundry reminds me of a post I made on here way back when. Dd very kindly decided to vomit all over my bed one night, including the down king size duvet. Not to worry I thought at 3am, ill just run the bath, shove it in for now, take her duvet for the night and sort it out in the morning.

Well, do you think that I could get the fucking duvet out of the bath the next day. It took ds and I (who was about 8 or 9 at the time) all our strength to get the sodding thing out of the bath, note that at this point although I had let out the bath water after doing a standing on grape squeezing type clean on the bloody thing, it was still full of bits of sweetcorn and carrot you get the idea I am sure Wink

So we eventually dragged the bloody thing all the way through the house, dripping wet and got it outdoors. Then, I thought to myself, now what... we had to get the water out so attempted to get the wanking thing onto the washing line to get some of the water to drip out. Again we just managed to get it over two of the three lines.... and this point I was so bloody exhausted and ds was none too charmed either, as now he was full of watered down vomit too....

I walk indoors. I hear a crack. The fucking washing line had broken in half, and the fucking wankbadging duvet is lying on the grass again! At this point, the real rage sets in, ds storms off and says he is no longer helping.... I drag it again and sort of fling it over the dog kennel. Ah, but my name isnt Murphys for nothing..... oh no, what happened then. It started pouring with rain. Kennel was broken and about to be chucked out so wasnt undercover.... so I stand there watching the rain pelt the duvet. Ah well I think, at least it will give it a bit of a rinse off. When it stops raining I go out to find the duvet is now is darker shade, the colour had seeped through from the wood into the duvet.

I though deep and hard about leaving the fucker there to live forever, and then remembered that I had only just bought it a few months before, and the price of it..... yes well, it wasnt the cheapest duvet in the shop. Shock

So I could stand it no more.... I go back out and haul it off the kennel, ripping part of it along the way. Poor ds, who by this time has managed to get some of his strength back, gets hauled out again too. I pull the car around and reverse up to the globule of duvet and we start to pour it into the boot of the car, yes its still dripping....

I get into the car, drive to the laundry and walk in. I see the owner and I fall into the chair sobbing my eyes out. She runs over probably thinking I have just been mugged or seriously injured, and I manage to hand over my keys to her and say...its in the boot.... What must have been going through her mind as to what may have been in said boot, I dont know. She could have expected a dead body by my entrance....

It took four of them to lift it out and do another drag across the road to get it inside the laundry!! The owner sat me down, brought a box of tissues, as I relayed my story of the fucking fucker duvet and the fact that I hadnt had a wink of sleep the night before....

She phoned me a couple of days later to say i could come and collect fucker duvet.....

Imagine my response when she walked around the corner with a lovely square in yellow plastic, which she held in her two arms, not a muscle was strained, no tears streaming down her face. I just could not believe that something so heavy two days prior nearly was the end of me..... I was now able to carry in one hand!

So, morale of story. Always take your duvet to the laundry no matter what!!! Wink

Orangeanddemons · 26/11/2015 12:16

Wow, Tupperware lids in folders! Absolute geniusShock

Cedar03 · 26/11/2015 12:01

My Dyson often will not unclip properly so that the cylinder dust part can be emptied. Other times it will randomly unclip the bottom of this part before it has been taken out of the vacuum cleaner which then drops all the dirt all over the cleaner and the floor. Which means I then have to clean the vacuum cleaner itself and then clean the floor. Again.

I've sorted the tupperware lids though. I bought some plastic folders from WHSmiths and store the lids in those. It means I only have to wrestle with a couple of folders than 500 random lids none of which match. I sadly very excited when I first did this.

This year the radiators hate me. Small crack in pipe leading to bathroom radiator. Plumber comes, drains system to fix pipe. No problem. A few weeks later I notice small drip from daughter's bedroom radiator. Plumber comes, drains system, replaces radiator. A few weeks later I notice a leak from our bedroom radiator. Plumber comes, drains system, replaces radiator. Now the pressure gauge is not working properly on the boiler. So the plumber will be coming tomorrow to fix that. This year has definitely been the year of the radiator problems.

SladeGreen · 26/11/2015 11:33

Also, I once cried my eyes out because the washing machine door was stuck on lock, and wouldn't open for love nor money. I was desperate to get my washing out so I could dry it before work.

I'm talking a proper, inconsolable sob, complete with snot running down my chin. I think I ended up kicking the shit out of it before it popped open Blush

Sunnybitch · 26/11/2015 10:31

Ive come up with the theory that the teaspoons have run away with the odd socks and that one shoe that you can never fucking find, has limped into a dark corner completely devastated by the socks betrayal Hmm

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 26/11/2015 09:56

See that's what I love about my new washing machine, it gives a gentle beep to let you know that it's finished, in case you want to be getting stuff dried, and then it switches itself off and sits there all nice and quiet. Perfect.

TuckingFablet · 26/11/2015 09:33

My Hoover has an extendable wire. Does it extend when I need to move further from the plug? Does it buggery. Instead it pulls the plug out of the socket so I have to go put it back in before pulling the lead out a bit myself and carrying on with the hoovering. It also keeps getting blocked. I hate that bloody Hoover.
Oh and the washing machine can piss off too. I CAN HEAR THAT YOU HAVE FINISHED THE CYCLE THERE IS NO NEED TO BEEP EVERY TWENTY SECONDS UNTIL I OPEN THE DOOR. I WILL GET TO YOU WHEN I AM READY

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 26/11/2015 09:22

Fucking fucking Honda wiper motors. "What shall I do today? Start at random, refuse to start, refuse to stop, park wherever I want? I know! I'll do all of it!"

It is truly a shitegobbling spunktrumpet.