To think the Ozzies are mad (washing question)

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Living in Oz and renting. Our beautiful and expensive flat comes with a cold fill only washing machine!

(OliPolly's recent thread re washing her smalls by hand made me think about this)

My neighbour was in the other day and shocked to see me filling the washing machine with hot water from the shower (carrying buckets!). Most of the people I know here are happy to wash in cold water and says it protects their clothes and the environment. I say it can never clean clothes properly.

Am I being unreasonable to think that a cold water wash can never clean properly? My neighbours here think so.

I have two words for you Bubba Carbon Tax

Is Granny still alive? I bet she feels vindicated!

She's not, but wherever she is I bet she's wearing a great big told-you-so smile!

Peter Russell Clark!! I used to watch him every day. I was a sad child.

CUB's - I like it. I do think it is a WA term but I shall use it here in QLD.

There is a little sports stand in the stadium in Toowoomba called the 'E.S "Nigger" Brown' stand. They tried to have it changed but since the Nigger Brown bit was the name of a shoe polish it is considered historical not racist!

Boganway! Forgot about that.
What about:
Conception Bay
Disgraceville
Slutwyche

I think they dropped the offensive bit of the stadium name a few years ago.

BTW, have you seen the Peter Russell Clark blooper reel on Youtube?

I wondered how a thread about washing machines was going on so long, but I see we are just talking about living in Australia now.

My MIL asked for a "N-gger brown cardigan" for her birthday a couple of years ago. She's only in her early fifties; far too young to be using that word, let alone wearing brown cardigans.

Quite apart from which, I have exactly no clue what shade of brown she meant.