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Absolute madness

75 replies

Inparadise · 26/09/2025 19:32

Just had a conversation with a friend, she told me that her and her husband don’t have their own side of the bed, they literally just get in whatever side, and sleep.
madness. I love my side of the bed 😂
any odd things you know People do? Or is this not odd 🤔

OP posts:
SafeSex · 26/09/2025 22:38

OP, are you Sarah Keyworth?

Toddlerteaplease · 26/09/2025 22:40

Rexthesnail · 26/09/2025 19:45

Im single in a kingsize bed, I sleep both sides. Do other singles just sleep on one side?

I always sleep on the same side! Even if the cat steals my pillow I scrunch up next to her, rather than moving to the other side. Quite odd now I think about it.

thistimelastweek · 26/09/2025 22:41

I'm Dec, he's Ant.
Doesn't matter what the layout, I'm Dec.

AmyDuPlantier · 26/09/2025 22:44

My partner and I don’t have sides, and we have very similar toothbrushes and often forgot who’s is whose.

Oh no. We’re a weird couple 🤣

RedRec · 26/09/2025 22:45

inamo · 26/09/2025 19:42

My bedside table is like a stall at a car boot sale. His side is immaculate with a book and a phone charging up.

My pillows are like marshmallows. His like concrete blocks

My side is nearest the loo.

No "side" hopping for me.

Like a stall at a car boot sale 🤣🤣🤣
I will think of that whenever I look at my (similar) side now.

Original poster
Inparadise · 26/09/2025 22:45

SafeSex · 26/09/2025 22:38

OP, are you Sarah Keyworth?

Who’s that?
maybe she was having me on, but she looked dead serious about it.

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SafeSex · 26/09/2025 22:48

Inparadise · 26/09/2025 22:45

Who’s that?
maybe she was having me on, but she looked dead serious about it.

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She's a comedian and she does a bit about this exact topic.

Mum2twoandacockapoo · 26/09/2025 22:49

I’ve been single for over 2 years and I still only sleep on “my” side of the bed … I don’t know what I would do if I get a new person who also likes “my side” 😱

Original poster
Inparadise · 26/09/2025 22:49

AmyDuPlantier · 26/09/2025 22:44

My partner and I don’t have sides, and we have very similar toothbrushes and often forgot who’s is whose.

Oh no. We’re a weird couple 🤣

So do you just decide on the night which side you fancy?
where do you put all these stuff you need? So many questions!
what about your pillow???

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CissOff · 26/09/2025 22:52

This is by far the most fucked up thing I’ve read on here 🥴

AmyDuPlantier · 26/09/2025 23:10

Inparadise · 26/09/2025 22:49

So do you just decide on the night which side you fancy?
where do you put all these stuff you need? So many questions!
what about your pillow???

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Well yeah…it’s just my phone really, it can go anywhere! And pillows are…just pillows, I don’t have a special golden pillow or anything 🤣

Dreamhigh · 26/09/2025 23:53

I've always had my side of the bed since a child I like to sleep next to the wall or I can't sleep.

katieDidIt14 · 27/09/2025 00:36

I’m deeply traumatised reading this OP. I’m going to need therapy. I don’t even let him breathe on my side of the bed. 😳

WithIcePlease · 27/09/2025 00:37

This is very very strange

There was a woman on here last year and her family didn't have their own spaces at meal times, they just sat anywhere. That was very strange too.

Blindbobisagreatcat · 27/09/2025 00:50

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 26/09/2025 22:30

I think they must be heathen anarchist shape-shifting lunatics and you should wear both real and metaphorical armour next time you see her @Inparadise .
And report back. We need to understand the possibilities of such alien ways of living. They could hold the keys to saving humanity for all we know. 😂

I don't know about shape shifting lunatic but I'm a heathen anarchist who is very much attached to her own side of the bed, thank you very much.

SnowFrogJelly · 27/09/2025 00:58

Weeeeirrrd Hmm

susiedaisy1912 · 27/09/2025 01:54

SeaAndStars · 26/09/2025 21:31

DH and I went camping and something about the orientation of the tent addled my compass and I got in his side of the bed by mistake.

His level of surprise and confusion hasn't been matched in 40 years.

🤣

Wellfuckme · 27/09/2025 02:10

No, just no. DH and I sleep in separate rooms now but I am still on the left and he is on the right. I couldn't cope if he starting sleeping on the left as well even in a different room.

It throws out the cosmic universe.

MarxistMags · 27/09/2025 02:11

@PegDope ummm, what is a penis beaker. ?

DaisyChain505 · 27/09/2025 02:15

PegDope · 26/09/2025 19:38

That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard.

Imagine not having your own pillow! Where do their books live? What about his penis beaker???

I have so many questions.

Penis beaker??

Devilsmommy · 27/09/2025 02:23

@MarxistMags @DaisyChain505 there was a thread, I'm sure it's in classics now where the op's partner had a glass of water on his side of the bed for dipping his wang into after sex. Hence, penis beaker was coined. Hilarious thread😂

DaisyChain505 · 27/09/2025 02:34

Devilsmommy · 27/09/2025 02:23

@MarxistMags @DaisyChain505 there was a thread, I'm sure it's in classics now where the op's partner had a glass of water on his side of the bed for dipping his wang into after sex. Hence, penis beaker was coined. Hilarious thread😂

Wow. Not what I needed to read at 2.32am when I can’t sleep 👀

Heaven forbid the OPs friend slept on the wrong side of the bed and woke up thirsty! 🤣

Devilsmommy · 27/09/2025 02:36

DaisyChain505 · 27/09/2025 02:34

Wow. Not what I needed to read at 2.32am when I can’t sleep 👀

Heaven forbid the OPs friend slept on the wrong side of the bed and woke up thirsty! 🤣

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🤣 sorry. You should read the thread, it's bloody hilarious 😂

Darragon · 27/09/2025 02:51

DaisyChain505 · 27/09/2025 02:34

Wow. Not what I needed to read at 2.32am when I can’t sleep 👀

Heaven forbid the OPs friend slept on the wrong side of the bed and woke up thirsty! 🤣

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OMG that’s next level hilarious.
”My water tastes… musty… I wonder why…”

Darragon · 27/09/2025 02:51

I couldn’t imagine swapping bed sides at home. We do re-visit “which side do you want” whenever we stay anywhere. I would literally need to wheel my bedside table complete with car boot around the other side of the bed if we swapped at any point after the first night somewhere.