Aibu to be VERY pissed off with ds(12) whos just come to my room and casually told me...

[loopylou6]

I owe you a colander because I used yours to clean the bark from the lizards tank. I mean WTF? I'm gobsmacked, he's doing some unbelievable stuff recently, he's normally so well behaved. :(

If you want to use a washing machine to make beer/whisky, doesn't it have to be one of those top-loading single tubs, like the one my mum used to have?

www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8427654/Trail/searchtext%3ECOLANDER.htm

You can also find them in Poundland etc if you fancy saving 99p........but to be honest, a boil wash will clean up your current one just fine!

Suncottage Bloody Hell I don't think I need to ask why he is your ex, that would be grounds enough in my book.

SDTG - you can do, whisky too....?

but I still want to know - do you put your beer through a 30deg wool cycle, or is it effectively just a bucket with a pump?

OP, you're NOT being unreasonable. You have specific things for cleaning the tank, your son had no business using kitchen utensils. I'd be annoyed too.

I'd make him replace the colander, let him have his 'lizardy' one, and give him strict instructions not to use things without asking BEFOREHAND again.

My brothers always did this, left stuff lying around too, never clearing up whatever they'd been doing. Perhaps I'm traumatised from them making 'bruises' on their arms out of my eyeshadows? Possibly... anyway, if your son needs to find a solution for something in future, he can do it with his own things or go and buy what he needs.

Come on, I need to know about the beer...

YAB a little U - he told you which may be a sign that after he did it he realised maybe it wasn't such a good idea!

I'm more concerned that at nearly 7yo I thought my DS would get past this stage - seems not.

Meat and eggs can also carry a small risk of Salmonela.. if you don't clean things properly after use using soap and hot water....

Just thought i'd throw that one in there.

Bit of a non-issue. He implied he would replace it, I think poundland do colanders.

Wash the colander.

My dog pee'd up my pans, we just bought some Milton

Just stick in the dishwasher!

PS: He's shifting into a teenager. They start to do unusual stuff- a lot more unusual than this. Just warning you.

For fuxsake. Just wash the fucker.

I can't stop laughing at how this thread looks above another one on the front page

Aibu to be VERY pissed off with ds(12) whos just come to my room and casually told me

To sell my eggs in the US?

Yabu

Your household needs two colanders - one for the kitchen and one for the tank. That's all your son's done - shown he's a tool-user like the rest of us.

Loopy,
this morning I got up at 6am to one soaking wet bed, all bedding and pyjamas not to mention child covered in wee, a kitchen with 13 broken eggs absolutely everywhere, one loaf of bread eaten, tin of beans, 2 frying pans completely wrecked, the oven on full blast and two rings on top...
He's 12.5
One day he will manage to burn the house down.

Hope this puts a colinder into perspective a bit!

I would be sooo grateful if my son was able to clean out a lizard tank with no help and then come and articulate what he'd done. I'd be made up and throw a party to celebrate his achievment.

SarahStratton - I couldn't wait any longer for someone to explain so I googled - washing machine beer

haven't looked for whisky yet...

Haven't clicked that link, but I assume that the single tub washer is useful because it can warm the mash (the mix of barley and water and stuff).

In the grand scheme of things it is hardly the crime of the century now is it.

Worra

Blardy hell dd cleaned her rat cage in the bath this morning and it didn't even occur to me to be annoyed

I now have the image of a rat frantically treading water.

Sarah - when I was a teen my older brother and friend made a LOT of beer in a wheelie bin and put it in coca cola bottles. Although they sterilised it first the taste was a delicate flavour of wheelie bin wasn't wonderful but lots of teenage schoolboys got a lot of homebrew down their gullets.

Actually, I'm not sure if bins even had wheels then... (racks brains)

wow this kid sounds out of control