Time to put bleach down the toilets. Part of me sometimes feels sorry for those germs

[Emily1583]

Exactly that really. Gonna put bleach down the toilets before bed. Not been done since Sunday. Those germs are probably minding their own business not knowing the bleach is coming for them. Sometimes feel sorry for those little blighters.

Yep weeds are harshly done by. Who decided what's a weed and what's a flower?

Yep a lawn mower must be terrifying for insects. Remember that scene of the lawn mower in honey I shrunk the kids?

Lol at the top of the pops 😆 oooh that is interesting though. They say things like plants and weeds aren't sentient but how much is that in sentient to our level of sentient? Maybe plants and weeds just have their own level of sentient but it's still sentient to them. How can they possibly know what height to grow to adapt to the surroundings. And how many times have I just said sentient? 😆

I haven't used bleach to clean my toilet for years,mainly because the smell of it made my cat freak out! But over the last few years,I've begun to realise that it's very harmful to the environment. I use a bit of washing up liquid and a sponge scourer. My toilet bowl is gleaming.

You're all mad.

I get you OP. But not re germs. The little fuckers.
I get sad about something else. Occasionally in the corner of my eye I see an object that for a second I think is a person. (Our brains are wired to do this .) I then get sad for the person who didn't exist, (because they are an object) and wonder who they might have been.

I've been like this since a child.

I can't say I've ever worried about germs being killed (I probably will now) but I'm not far behind you. Objectively it's nuts, but I don't know how to stop it, I've been like it my whole life.

Any soft toy 'on its own' - a single lonely one left on a shelf with no identical buddies, I can't walk past. I have to take them home.

It could become a new marketing ploy - put huge expensive soft toys out singly and people like me will buy them.

I felt bad when I realised I was killing all the little Yakult bacteria by drinking tea after taking my Yakult in the morning. I just never bothered to read the instructions so I didn't know until someone told me.

I always try to make sure all the Popcorn has popped in the bottom of the pan, so that every kernel can fulfil its salty destiny.

When I was little I always paired up an orange TicTac with a green one before eating them, so they could die with their spouse.

I had to do Dds nits on Xmas eve (an ongoing thing, thanks to all the other parents at her school who don’t bother).

The thought did cross my mind that I was ruining Christmas for them. That poor mother nit that had got into dds head in the days before, laying her eggs, getting ready for Christmas and then along arsehole me comes with the conditioner and the nitty gritty and her life is gone, her babies are gone.

I got a bit teary.

Then I realised that I opened the wrong bottle of wine earlier. I haven’t drunk alcohol in years, a friend gave me a bottle of non alcoholic Prosecco to try, only I’d had two glasses of MILs normal one by accident.

I don’t worry about the poo germs but as a kid I felt bad for those headlice. I loved them, especially the babies.

Oh god I was so bad at this. I would always choose the ‘tester’ toy because it looked more battered. 😂

Me too I always keep a wild area free.

I've found my people!! I had to buy the green water bottle the other day cos it was the only one of that colour left on the shelf and I didn't want it to feel lonely. If there's 2 things I want but can only afford to buy one I apologise to the one I can't buy and baked beans. Yep every one gets scraped out of the tin.

I noticed that domestos no longer says "kills all known germs - DEAD"

then I was thinking wow doesn't it? Are there germs unkillable by bleach? Then I scared myself so I thought of puppies instead

Reminds me of a book my DS has - The Runaway Pea:

"I've changed my mind," said the runaway pea.
"I'll get back on the plate & be ready for tea."

"You won't," said the grapes, "cos you've been on the floor.
Runaway pea, you're not loved anymore." 🥺

We've decided not to mow our lawn anymore; it's gradually reverting to a more wild meadow type, with different grasses & wild plants. We had goldfinches last year eating the dandelion seeds!

My people!!!

Yes: weeds, single beans/peas, cuddly toys, clothes being taken to the clothing bank... and don't get me started if I accidentally kill a greenfly. 🫠

@Emily1583 i think the term weed is just ignorance about ecosystems, the effect of pollutants humans emit into them and the use of fertilisers 🤷‍♂️

The book wilding has an interesting example of what happened when they let a "weed" rip, much to the frustration of neighbouring land. Eventually the abundance attracted wildlife that feasted on it. I forget the fine details, but what it shows to me is humans don't understand natures timelines are different to humans, a year or even a few isn't long in the history of a landscape evolving naturally. What's even thousands or millions on a bit of rock this old? To change a landscape, without too much maintenance, you first have to understand it

That sounds quite spooky and not something I quite understand where you are coming from as I don't think I've ever had that experience.

I always feel sad when I see a lost cuddly toy perched on a wall or something. A child obviously dropped it and a passer-by places it in view of hopefully the child's parent retracing their steps to claim the cuddly toy.

I don't do Yakult but what's the deal with drinking tea after Yakult?

Never thought of the two types of Tic Tacs in one container as spouses. I bet there was always an odd number of one of the colours so you get a few of one colour with no spouse though.

It wasn’t lonely, it was special! It was a big fish in a little pond! You meanie you!

Lol love it the green water bottle 😁