Prejudices against innocent everyday items

[PolkaDotMankini]

I realised when picking a substitution yesterday that I consider lemon-scented cleaning products "common". I have no idea why I think this, but I've always avoided them. I now have over 100 lemon-scented dishwasher tablets that I'll be hiding from visitors.

Anyone else have weird prejudices against innocent everyday items?

Growing up in a middle class family we always had green top semi skimmed milk and for some reason got it into my head that blue top full fat milk was working class and therefore just not something we had. Have no idea where this came from ??!! or if it’s true but my mum’s a massive snob so best guess her. Now I have a three year old who guzzles milk by the pint we obviously only bother getting the full fat stuff in and it is SO much nicer for tea, coffee, cereal, porridge, everything. Can’t believe I was missing out with stupid watered down milk all that time 😂😂😂 whole thing makes me cringe now obviously

Some cheap long charging cables can lose too much voltage (it's called 'voltage drop') and increase the charging time.

OK, I'll let you off, but I don;t know if I am 'normal'... 😀

I meant don't, of course

I always think 'body butter' sounds vaguely salacious. Kind of like 'tummy custard', if I can say that here.

@SinnerBoy ,

@PolkaDotMankini , I have an unopened bottle of zoflora lemon zing

I also have eyelet curtains.

DM has a deep rooted loathing of ITV as it's "common".

In my case it's the Sun newspaper

Oh and inlaid spotlights anywhere except kitchens and bathrooms.

@Vitriolinsanity - my mum would have agreed with yours about ITV. Growing up, we were never allowed to watch commercial television - so our only choices were BBC1 and BBC2 - which had less than 2 hours of programming for children each day.

Funnily enough, when Channel 4 arrived, and my mum discovered the joys of Countdown, all of a sudden commercial TV was acceptable - for her.

@Snowontheroof , I once bathed a dog* of ours in Brut shampoo (bought for the purpose - pongiest thing I could think of) after he’d rolled in a dead turtle on the beach (not in the U.K.)
The stink was horrendous - like the worst of rotten meat and rotten fish combined.
The sodding Brut didn’t work.

*He was a lovely boy, though - RIP 🐶

It took me a while to work out that you didn't bathe your dog in champagne @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER!

Ah yes. You realised Brut is a brand but brut is a French adjective meaning 'dry' (said of wine).

My parents watched ITV and BBC but only bought the BBC's Radio Times which didn't cover other channels like it does now. Luckily the TV schedules were in the Daily Express (father) and Daily Mirror (mother).

Absolutely dead thanks to 'tummy custard' 😂

I once saw an advert in Bristol for a product called 'Milk of Man' which was some kind of oat drink made locally. I went 'Yuk!'.

Mr Fart is a HGV driver. A few years he ended up stranded on the motorway because of flooding. He had to sleep on the bed behind his seat. This wasn’t planned and he had no sleeping bag etc.
He had to use a news paper as a bit of a cover. He could only find a Sun paper.

the trauma, the upset. He couldn’t bring himself to use it!

tbh he is the biggest snob I know - he comes from one of the roughest council estates in the country but it is like living with Mrs Bouquet.
i am posh apparently and I am the total opposite but like some others I wasn’t allowed to watch ITV. But I used to walk to my mums friend after school and she had itv on the telly - Michael Bentine’s potty time and Magpie!!!

CharlottenBurger· Today 17:10

°I meant don't, of course!^

😀

And tummy custard...

If you really are posh, you don't have to bang on about it, because you don't need to prove anything. It's the jumped-up K Bucket types who do that.

I once bought a pair of curtains and matching Duvet set from my neighbour, (she was having a clear out). She’d used Bold washing powder and blue Lenor fabric softener on them. I put them on the bed and could smell them as soon as I walked upstairs. It took about a week for the smell to disappear.

I know they're not really seen nowadays, but back in the late eighties, early nineties when dried flower arrangements were all the rage, I couldn't stand the dusty things.
They were usually accompanied by bowls of pot pourrie.
My neighbour had them all over the house with bowls of that stuff to try and make you think they were real flowers with real scent.
You can't fool me Shirley!

Plug in air ‘fresheners’. They make my lips tingle, my nose itches, and I end up with a headache. Neighbour mentioned above had them in every unused socket. I could smell them from the end of the path and through her closed front door.
She brought me a plate of chocolate brownies in when I’d been ill, I was very grateful and looked forward to having one with a cuppa…until I lifted it to my lips and took a bite, it tasted of air freshener.

Vanilla scented things that aren’t a cake with actual vanilla in it.

Soap/shampoo that is fruit scented. I use a papaya (I think) hair food masque purely because it’s the only sulfate/silicone free one I could find locally, and I hate myself every ten days or so when I use it. I’m a quarter of the way down the pot. (Am open to recs for non fruity/vanilla silicone and sulfate free deep conditioners!)

Most synthetic scents because many trigger migraines for me, which makes me distrustful if the rest of them. Brains are great like that :/

Plug-in air fresheners because they hurt my ears. The whine they emit is so painful! My mum used to bloody love them, and I’d have to sneakily turn off the ones in the hallway and living room when I visited, and try to remember to turn them on again as I left.