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

Mine won't. The separate rinse & spin option only runs at 1200rpm. The final spin at the end of the cycle is 1600rpm. I can't see the point in allowing the washing to spin at 1600, wetting it again, and then spinning at 1200; they'd be wetter than before and therefore take longer to dry.

Unless you are confusing the suggestion of doing an extra rinse & spin with simply doing another spin only at the highest speed available. I've heard of people doing that, usually when their chosen wash cycle spins at less than what the machine is capable of doing.

Ditch the shower gels and use old fashioned bars of soap if there are stinky perimenopausal and puberty armpits in the household.

I know someone who doesn't use a loo brush but don't know them well enough to ask how they clean the toilet without one.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Well, I will use a cloth & a pair of rubber gloves when I'm cleaning the bathroom, but even then I need the brush to shove out the water below the line, so as to avoid tidemarks, so no, I don't know how they manage without one. I also scrub the toilet bowl with the brush at least once a day.

"But they're full of germs!", people say. I don't know how, not when used with bleach and all that scrubbing action to boot. But even if they are, I'm not known for taking the brush & cleaning my cups and plates with it, it simply goes down the bog and back in the pot. And even if bacteria does survive, it can't jump off the brush and run round the house - bacteria can't move; WE are the ones that move it.

That using bleach is immoral

I had no idea that newborn babies were to be locked up at home for 3 months to allow for bonding and no one, especially paternal Granny on her broomstick should be allowed to visit.

24 hours after DS was born, pretty much our whole family had visited, had a cuddle, shared their holding the baby photo, got bored and left me in peace!

I don't have a bog brush, gives me the boak but I do have a Toilet cleaner claw thing (think community service litter picker style) that you use flushable cleaning pads with. Think it's the same brand as Toilet Duck.

I can think of nothing less sexy than having my knickers infiltrated. 🤣

On the hot setting or cool?
Seems counterintuitive if hot....

OMG I never knew that about Argos. Totally explains why my MIL had a tantrum when she needed new curtains and I mentioned buying some nice ones in the Argos sale and she went nuts shouting "I'm not buying filthy old rags" god knows what she must have thought of my house 🤣.

I had a friend, past-tense. A friend no more. We had a lot of common ground, hence the friendship. We also had a lot less in common, hence the friendship eventually ending. He neither watched ITV nor shopped at Argos, though he was far from the first person I'd met who refused to do either.

It still tickles me, as his attitude to both ITV and Argos was consistent with his attitude to a great many other things too...he was one of the first people I met who'd only ever shop in John Lewis given half the chance, and yet could never articulate the reason for doing so.

That, if you did any form of sleep training (personally I let mine cry it out in the modern age of 2018) you’ve irreparably failed your emotional children. Mine are fine. They cried. They slept. Hate me

I have Weetbix (that's what it's called here) with water, and dry with nothing on it! I can't stand milk so Weetbix with milk sounds horrendous to me.

Off to have a dry Weetbix for afternoon tea

I never heard of the following before joining mumsnet:

1. Leave the bastard (LTB) 👋
2. The script (cheaters play-book etc) 😔
3. Grey rock someone 🤔
4. A penis cage 🍆

And lastly, you can microwave a swede apparently, although I'm yet to try it. 🤷‍♀️

Why,🙄 I’m thinking waste of electricity and water?

That people let the ‘stress of airports’ put them off exploring the world. I’ve literally never come across anyone who thinks like that in my 36 years.

Until I was TTC I had absolutely no idea about this either

I've been quite shocked to realise how many people are on massive salaries. I never realised just how poor I was before coming on here.

Works for me about 60% of the time. When it doesn't, it can be very messy!

I hold this view but always thought I was sthe only one to feel this way…! I didn’t inwi it was a thing!

I've learned that just about everything is a symptom of perimenopause, or that perimenopause is an excuse for anything.

That if condoms are found in a male partner’s possession, a “posh wank” needs to be ruled out before accusing said partner of anything untoward.

Until MN, I always thought a posh wank was something invented by cheating men when their partner’s found their Durex and I still think it is

I use bleach.

I do have a loo brush in the shed in case I need to do a big de limescale.

I learned corn & vinegar are good with tuna.

Yes I am thinking drain and spin, which I suspect the person who suggested it meant.