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Saucepan lid horror

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YesPleaseMary · 30/12/2020 20:27

I have just done the washing up and noticed that one of the saucepan lid knobs seemed a bit loose. So I tried to tighten it but went the wrong way and the whole knob came off in a dismantlable way, knob then big washer thing and screw and metal disc and underneath it was... well the lid is glass and there was a circle in the middle that was looked like a weasel had spunked on it and then rubbed peas in it [boak]

There are three saucepans in the set, the other two were the same, I am horrified and disgusted with my slovenly saucepan lid habits.

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statetrooperstacey · 30/12/2020 20:42

Sympathies, but while your on a roll unscrew your toilet seat and look under the hinges🤣🤣

farawayplanet · 30/12/2020 21:10

That's nothing. We stripped the bed yesterday and something has been living inside the woollen duvet. There was chewed bits everywhere and the duvet cover is also all chewed 😱😱😱

mynameiscalypso · 30/12/2020 21:12

DS once threw his lidded water cup in such a way that all the various bits came apart to reveal a large amount of black mouldy disgustingness. I'm telling myself that it has helped to build his immune system (and promptly bought a load of new and eat to clean supply cups)

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justaweeone · 30/12/2020 21:15

🤣

saffire · 30/12/2020 21:19

@farawayplanet

That's nothing. We stripped the bed yesterday and something has been living inside the woollen duvet. There was chewed bits everywhere and the duvet cover is also all chewed 😱😱😱
😱
LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 30/12/2020 21:19

@mynameiscalypso

DS once threw his lidded water cup in such a way that all the various bits came apart to reveal a large amount of black mouldy disgustingness. I'm telling myself that it has helped to build his immune system (and promptly bought a load of new and eat to clean supply cups)
@mynameiscalypso I was just going to say, have you ever taken a lidded cup apart? I binned mine all that day and DS never went near one again. Boak.
saffire · 30/12/2020 21:19

Posted too soon! Oh my god what do you think was living there?

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YesPleaseMary · 30/12/2020 21:21

Oh god I can’t face unscrewing the toilet seat, I’m not nearly drunk enough and I have a vague and disgusted recollection of an article (prolly in the grauniad) about the insides of all the Sophie the Giraffes

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TheChineseChicken · 30/12/2020 21:21

This is amazing. Thanks for the giggle

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YesPleaseMary · 30/12/2020 21:21

Duvet inhabitants [sick]

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Iwonder777 · 30/12/2020 21:22

I have found my tribe 😁

farawayplanet · 30/12/2020 21:23

I think it is insects rather than a mouse. Dh has put the duvet outside. It's a shame because it was expensive. There was brown powder stuff on the mattress cover, dh said it was probably poo 😱

Gunpowder · 30/12/2020 21:24

I’m traumatised by the duvet comment

umpteennamechanges · 30/12/2020 21:24

@farawayplanet

That's nothing. We stripped the bed yesterday and something has been living inside the woollen duvet. There was chewed bits everywhere and the duvet cover is also all chewed 😱😱😱

Moths!

Fuckers have chewed through my Harris tweed cape

Plonque · 30/12/2020 21:25

@statetrooperstacey

Sympathies, but while your on a roll unscrew your toilet seat and look under the hinges🤣🤣

God, I hate my regular wrestling match with the toilet seat lid. You can see that nasty under the hinge, but can I find anything small enough to poke it out? 🤢

Badabingbadabum · 30/12/2020 21:25

We had a pair of silicone tipped kitchen tongs for years. One day I looked properly at them and saw a bit of something along the edge of one of the holes. A thin sharp knife scraped out years of encrusted grease from each one of the silicone. A washing up sponge was clearly not effectively cleaning the holes

LagneyandCasey · 30/12/2020 21:30

Our saucepan lids get crap inside them too but are glass so it's visible. I take them apart to clean when it gets really gross.

Someone posted a video of gross Sistema bottle lids a few years ago. Luckily ours were ok but I know a lot if people that said they were truly disgusting 🤮

TimeToCloseTheDoor · 30/12/2020 21:31

Ugh hob crust.
It’s a thing of true horror. Running the thinnest knife around the edge...

whereisthejoy · 30/12/2020 21:32

We moved into new house two months ago. How to rued the toilet seat inside rim of dark muck???

🤮 thinking about it. Also hope I'm not derailing the thread.

whereisthejoy · 30/12/2020 21:33

*rid

farawayplanet · 30/12/2020 21:33

Moths are the very likely culprits, yes. I had been using the duvet as a mattress pad on top of a woollen futon, so that might be getting eaten as well. I can't face investigating at the moment.

Somanysocks · 30/12/2020 21:34

If you don't use a dishwasher, sometimes the bit inbetween fork tines can collect 'stuff'.

GoudaGirl · 30/12/2020 21:34

@Plonque- I use a steamer on my hinges .. (that sounds very Gwyneth Paltrow..)

Iamthewombat · 30/12/2020 21:36

THANK GOD you did not mean this!

It is a terrifying song called ‘This is a song for tiny little people’ performed by The Saucepan Lids. Your sub-knob detritus is nothing compared to the sheer terror of this song.

justanotherneighinparadise · 30/12/2020 21:37

Am I a sick individual in that I don’t find any of these stories very shocking? 🥴

If you’d found a worm burying out if your cornea I’d have been pretty grossed out. But dirt under your saucepan lid knob? Nah, I’m sure there’s far worse somewhere in my house.