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AIBU?

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to say 'no' to skid marks!

101 replies

cookieraymond · 27/01/2011 14:26

Was having a conversation with some girl friends about potty training - we all have DS's approaching 3yrs - and I casually commented that when i met my DH I 'banned' skid marks as lazy behaviour and would be teaching my sons the same!

T'was said light heartly but I do mean it in the sense that I think it is lazy

But they both were quite suprised and acted as if to imply that they tollerate it quite often (from DH i can only assume, or themselves?!? Surely not?!?) and would not be actively stopping their son doing them (once they are old enough to know better obv.)

AIBU?? Surely it is just laziness and not a male (or female?!) necessity??

I am intrigued to know if I am in the minority!

OP posts:
Ladyofthehousespeaking · 27/01/2011 15:12

Urrrrrgh! I would actually vomit on myself if I found a skidmark in the washing pile, no fucking way would I be cleaning them!

Mumsnet campaign on skids??

Honeybee79 · 27/01/2011 15:15

YANBU.

Erm, who tolerates skiddies from an adult? Though my DH cunningly only wears black pants which no doubt hide a multitude of sins. Vile and no excuse for it.

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/01/2011 15:16

I couldn't even pick up on of those hoses.

I am always a bit Hmm at the hatred of loo brushes shown on MN. So what do people do then? Put their hand down the loo and scrub with a j cloth? So does that mean that everyone just leaves their skid marks on the loo and you have to scrub them off? Urgh.

Just buy loo brushes and throw 'em away every so often.

iwanttolearn · 27/01/2011 15:17

Oh and you do not stick the hose, up your arse Shock

You turn the water on and just rinse it...

In many countries, you can't thrown toilet paper down the toilet and many people can't afford it anyway. I don't understand why everyone is disgusted by using a hose. It's not like a garden hose, you know!....

It's small hose...

Ladyofthehousespeaking · 27/01/2011 15:20

What's wrong with a loo brush?!

Butterbur · 27/01/2011 15:20

I can't believe running a bit of water over your arse is going to leave it half as clean as a good scrub with Andrex!

melikalikimaka · 27/01/2011 15:23

It's a design fault with the male physique, I think. Wink

Needanewname · 27/01/2011 15:24

PML - only on Mumsnet!!!

Needanewname · 27/01/2011 15:24

And can I nominate Butterbur for quote of the week?

bubblewrapped · 27/01/2011 15:25

Cant say I would know if my husband is guilty of this trait.. because I dont inspect his boxers before I throw them in the machine!!!

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/01/2011 15:27

No, I couldn't holiday in Greece for instance as the last time I went you have to put your dirty loo roll in a little bin which is emptied every other day.

Not very clever in August.

Still, can't see how a rinse with a hose with a cystitic flow would be any good either. And how do you dry it? I mean you must have to wipe yourself dry with a tissue )which must come off a bit pooey anyway). Or do you just sit there for 10 minutes and drip dry, or get up and do a hoola hoola dance to assist the drying?

SecretNutellaFix · 27/01/2011 15:27

I use disposable toilet duck thingies after an Incident with DH and a toilet brush

melikalikimaka · 27/01/2011 15:28

My DS years ago, disputed his skids were only tiles! He got the nickname 'Tiles r us' for ages, he was only 3yrs. It still makes us all laugh. Grin

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/01/2011 15:28

What happened?

iwanttolearn · 27/01/2011 15:28

Butterbur: I much prefered using water than throwing dirty toilet paper in the bin for staff at hotels to throw away...

Ugh... One job I'd hate to have.

I have a friend who was on a tour in Halong Bay in Vietnam. She threw the loo paper down the toilet and later noticed it was floating around in the sea. Grin After that she used water!

Honeybee79 · 27/01/2011 15:29

Secret - what on earth did he do?

I just use a loo brush and buy a new one quite often . . .

SecretNutellaFix · 27/01/2011 15:30

I use the downstairs loo only and he uses the upstairs.
so he is responsible for cleaning the upstairs and me the downstairs. Fair enough.

Except he is a skidder. So I decided to do a deep clean of the upstairs bath room, went to pick up the toilet brush and threw up. He hadn't been washing it off properly

Aimsmum · 27/01/2011 15:34

I'm with GOML, how do you dry after you hose? With a towel? Is there a special bum towel? Or is it the hand towel? Then you wash you hands and dry them with arse water?!

I don't really like the idea!

Also, can someone link to a toilet hose...I can't quite imagine it!

melikalikimaka · 27/01/2011 15:36

This thread is really making me chuckle! Smile

TooImmature2BMum · 27/01/2011 15:37

Ewww! At Christmas, my nephew (age 4.5) called out to DH to help him wipe his bottom as his parents were out. DH, revolted, refused and said he was a big boy now and could manage on his own. I went into the bathroom later and there was poo all over the seat! God knows what his pants looked like. I apologised to SIL because thought she would be appalled when she undressed him, and in the course of the conversation, it transpired that he is expected to wipe his own bum at nursery - the staff don't do it for him, so he comes home in a mess quite frequently. SIL seemed pretty unfazed by this and said she thought he was too young to manage on his own. AIBU to think that if the nursery staff expect a 4.5 year old to be able to wipe himself, SIL ought to be at least attempting to teach him? Think of all the other kids who have to use the toilet too!

iwanttolearn · 27/01/2011 15:37

Introducing...The Toilet Hose. Grin

www.associatedcontent.com/article/1877917/how_to_use_the_bum_gun_toilet_hose.html

gobbledegoop · 27/01/2011 15:37

yes will someone please tell us how you dry???

Butterbur · 27/01/2011 15:39

Our last trip to Greece we took a roll of nappy sacks so each person could deal with the shitty loo roll problem in privacy.

And I want ot hear the asnwer to GOML's drying problem.

Arse water! Grin

Aimsmum · 27/01/2011 15:42

Ah, it is much more discrete than I imagined. Thanks! Still think it is a bit of a carry on when toilet roll does the job!

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/01/2011 15:46

See, I would be paranoid about microscopic shite particles all over the showhead, which would then be sprayed onto my nether regions.

Someone else's shit on my bum. No ta.