What random nugget of information were you completely unaware of before you discovered mumsnet?

[777holyandsinless]

I’ll start

it being a commonly held idea that itv is uncouth and bbc is the classy alternative

I prefer paper.

Well it's all about choices. Any fine particles of poo trapped in the bristles of a bog brush that have been scrubbed against the toilet bowl with thick bleach worry me a whole lot less that anything which has just left someone's arse, ditto dirty arses and underwear. If I sat and thought about it, I'd never take a seat on a chair that anyone else had previously sat on. There's no knowing what might have seeped through.

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My toilet brush does not have visible pieces of shit on it, thanks very much. That's because it gets cleaned properly. Nobody comes into accidental contact with the bristles of a brush inside a container. And so what if there are tiny droplets of water/shit on the toilet rim? I don't eat my dinner off it, and you get droplets every time you flush it anyway. Even with the lid down, which I assume most people do when flushing anyway.

So you use rolled up toilet paper and bleach - what with, your bare hands?😂

The people don't open their doors unless someone has appointment 😂

For those that don't wash pet bowls in the dishwasher, what is the reason? Dishwashers wash dishes and do it very well. Clue is in the name

Surely it is better if all the faecal matter stays inside the toilet. If we're advised to close the lid before flushing, then how does it make sense to use a brush, thus potentially transferring matter out of the toilet bowl? Nope. Not for me thanks.

We don't have a dishwasher. If we had a dishwasher I wouldn't use it for pet bowls because it's easier to just wash them by hand as soon as they've been used. We have a plastic washing up bowl for our own items but do pet ones in the metal sink. They have separate sponge and tea towels. Multi pet household with both cats and dogs.

I've been wielding a toilet brush for over half a century and haven't come to any harm yet.

Life is genuinely too short to be obsessively paranoid about this non-issue.

That so many people had no idea about king/super king duvets going across the cover and had been sleeping with Ill fitting bedding for years.

Despite the mega-hygiene displayed elsewhere, my ghast is flabbered by the number of people who think it's OK to share your bed with a dog.

@RescueMeFromThisSilliness My toilet brush does not have visible pieces of shit on it, thanks very much. That's because it gets cleaned properly.

I have never seen a toilet brush that doesn't have shit on it.

Nobody comes into accidental contact with the bristles of a brush inside a container.

But the brush is in your bathroom. So in principle, it presents a contamination risk so long as it's there.

And so what if there are tiny droplets of water/shit on the toilet rim?

You misunderstand. If a bristle touches the rim, or any other surface, it gets flicked. So the water and shit gets flicked to another part of your bathroom, where it can end up on your hand if you touch that surface.

you get droplets every time you flush it anyway.

I prefer to minimise the spread of shit though.

So you use rolled up toilet paper and bleach - what with, your bare hands?

The toilet paper is rolled up between my hand and the shit, and I let go before anything soaks through, so the shit doesn't get on my hand.

I feel like that about sitting on a sofa that a dog has sat on. Bare dog arse 💩

Sorry - I should have been clearer. I am an Irish person and don't find English people using the phrase offensive because I'm quite sure none of them understand the derivation.

What I did find offensive was being an Irish national going to school in London in the 1970s and the many, many 'jokes' about my family being terrorists.

That new parents need a whole month for their little family to ‘bond’, so no visitors, not even grandparents - how dare they think they’re entitled? Especially any ( obviously) evil MiL.

Not only have I been wielding a toilet brush for over half a century, I also don't put the lid down before flushing and I am rarely ill (and never with anything related to my loo).

Honestly, I don't know how people can give head space to such trivial matters.

God, so so much. I’m a British citizen but live overseas. I still have the right to vote. I base my vote on the news, my family and friends and - probably more than family and friends because they’re all pretty much from the same socio-economic class - MN. All the benefits system stuff; state school education; NHS; all the flag bullshit - there’s a diversity of opinion on here which is really useful to me. Before anyone comes at me I know MN is social media, it’s not the gospel truth. But I’m old and wise enough to be able to sort the bots from the people and discern agendas, and it’s also only one resource.

How would that be possible? I could understand if you just spin it again, but if you make it all wet again, how does it help?

yup, no kids here but my late dogs had fleas twice ever. Once when I brought them into the house from a home visit, I used to work in the NHS. The second time my husband picked them up from a taxi. He used to travel a lot for busness and the company always used the same firm. The driver, who we knew well phoned to apologise as a previous customer had infested the cab and he had to have it treated. Yes my pet dishes have always gone in the dishwasher.

the cooking type is delicous swirled on soup too.

You can what now?

Agree. It’s a pit for man hate most of the time .

Because the example was a hypothetical situation with a burning building, a dog and a human baby? And if you seriously think a pet, however loved, should be saved and a baby left to burn. Well, there are no words frankly.

(BTW this is MUMSNET. A site primarily (but not exclusively) for MUMS. Of actual babies. Ffs)

No is a complete sentence.