FGS!!! Come and tell DH that toilet brushes are DISGUSTING

[thebrownstuff]

I know that we've had this toilet brush conversation numerous times....but, Please come and let DH know that I am not being unreasonable to have put our toilet brush in the outside shed.

The sight of toilet brushes makes me feel sick. I bought those clip on flushable toilet brush thingys which I think is the more hygenic and pleasant approach to getting rid of the shit as it were DH claims that everyone he knows owns/uses toilet brushes

Namechanged for this as I don't want DH (yes you) to know my regular name. Go easy on him as the argument has come up while he's making himself useful cleaning the bathroom, so it's not all craziness from him.

Not me. my house is otherwise a heaving pile of dust and debris

Toilet brushes though.

Singers you must have missed the last loo brush thread - half the posters had kids chewing, licking or playing with them - it was very BOAK worthy!!! Hilarious in its own way though

Aviatrix & MrsHighwater - yes, that's a part of it, but surely another advantage is not inserting tampons/tampax thus eliminating getting TSS. Condoms were once re-usable, surely your aren't advocating going back to those

Minxie - come on, say what you really mean

Yes I have a poo stick :) I try to only have things in my home that are

A) Neccesities,

B) Beautiful,

( preferally both )

AND!

C) Have a dual function.

So I have a very pretty shit stick, which should I ever have a burglar in my home I shall menace him( or her ) with it :)

Waaay better than a shot gun IMVHO

I use washable nappies to make up for my corrupt loo brush ways

but the bleach thing - it doesn't work...not on what my dh leaves behind in the toilet. I need my toilet brush.

He needs to go to a doctor AnyFule

How do you know he does this? Shouldnt he be cleaning it off himself immediately?

Lol @ disposable mooncups.

Yes loo brushes disgusting, that's why you put them away out of a small child's reach - and if you have the sort of friends who'll think you're (whispers) working class for having one, you'll hide them also.

I leapt at the chance to get rid of mine when those disposable ones came in a few years ago, but it felt like a soggy baby wipe on a stick and fell apart without giving me any purchase on the shit limescale.

And I realised it was just another way for Proctor and Gamble to make money out of us (and grow the landfill piles) by creating a need where there simply isn't one.

Fall for it if you like, but don't kid yourself it makes you superior or more classy.

Loo brushes are disgusting. If someone does a yukky skiddy poo and then uses the brush without lifting the seat, it drips old and new shitjuice over the seat!

I will hover rather than sit if I suspect this might happen in a loobrush house.

Does nobody else get down on their hands and knees and scrub the whole thing with a wee scourer and long rubber gloves? I find it therapeutic

I just don't understand those posters who say a good squirt of bleach removes stubborn stains.

Seriously? What about those occasional ones that sit above and/or below the waterline- they need scrubbing surely?

Or are you all lucky enough to never be faced with these stubborn ones?

You can remove the stubborn ones with tissue paper and cleaner/bleach.

And what about under the rim? Can't get bleach to squirt up there.

Of course you can - do you think toilet duck is that shape for the fun of it??

my loos shine and smell fresh - i would happily vomit into my own bowl

not so if kneeling next to the 'beast on a stick'

What about when you are hovering between the denial of thinking you'll "be okay in a minute" and the "sod it, I just need to vomit, then I'll feel better" acceptance that is the early stages of a tummy bug - the loo brush would help then.

You could just do quick glances at first, then if nothing happened, a great big stare at it - hell, you could even smell it to get things really moving...

"Hello, my name is diddl, and I own a toilet brush"

Generally we all clean up after ourselves straight away if necessary with tpaper.

The brush is really for guests who might not want to do this.

Well done Diddl, you have taken the first step, now dont worry we will have that toilet brush in the shed very soon!

Just take it one day at time.

Oh no, I´m not ashamed!

I rather have that than those twee plastic stick things with tissue on the end!

You can get lovely crocheted covers for your toilet paper so you don't have to look at that either.

And no visitors would have to know you actually wipe your arse.

We cant help, unless you want to help yourself Diddl!

Those who have disposable things in the bowl, or something that pours blue/green liquid down the bowl every flush, it is so wasteful and damaging for the environment.

How do you justify that?

I have a toilet brush. It is cleaned after each use. It lives in a cupboard on a high shelf with the bleach.

I have a toilet brush. When I'm not using it to scrub the loo with neat bleach it is being soaked in bleach in its container so is practically sterile.
I can guarantee that you will find far more germs on your average hairbrush than your average loo brush as the bleach kills practically everything.
People who use disposables have more money than sense and probably some kind of anxiety issue imo.