to think we should have a 'dull' section on MN?

[madmomma]

Just seems like there's always something you need or would like to know but it's so incredibly boring you'd be ashamed to put in chat or any other section.

At least if it was seen as a given that everything in that section was boring, people wouldn't feel embarrassed about asking dull questions. I know there's pedant's corner but that seems more geared to discussions about how highly educated the pedantic posters are and how thick everyone else is. Just a thought. I'd love to see a place on the forum where everyone can be their most boring selves with impunity.

And did you?
Recycle the patio heater, I mean?

No because I truly didn't finish the sentence.

It is still sat outside, and since it fell over in the storm it's top got all bent. So it stands there wearing a jauntily angled hat, mocking me silently.

I think I'll wander out and kick it actually.

I love this thread, if we had a whole section I'd probably never wander on to AIBU unreasonable again. I'm going to try some of those ponky Lenor things

Cailleach at my last place we had green grout in the bathroom, I got a paintbrush smothered in white paint, whapped it on, then wiped it off immediately with a wet kitchen towel. Got it off the tiles but it clung to the grout et voila! Clean looking grout.

We've already got a dull section.

It's called Dadsnet.

cail I got fed up with my grubby trout; so I took the tiles off and just painted the walls with kitchen paint-really easy to wipe clean, even behind the cooker. Who, the hells idea was it to put tiles in kitchens??

That would be grubby grout not trout

Cailleach - have you tried a sodium bicarb paste? Just make it up really thick and smear it on, leave overnight and see what it's like in the morning. If bicarb can whiten teeth, I reckon it can do grout. :)

Feak - can you not still buy Bounce or other "freshening" tumbledry sheets? Other than that, I'd say yes, your thing might be running too hot.

For a short while we had a "wholesome dullards" thread - but that didn't last.
I think really it doesn't need its own section, just Chat will do for asking the sort of questions you want to, and the advantage is that they disappear after 90 days so no one will remember you asked...

But surely no one would be visiting the boring section to answer your questions, because it's too boring.

no dizzy boring is great oh dear god I forgot what I'm doing in this section...

I have made a careful note of all grout-saving tips and am now sitting in my chair on a Saturday night making a list of things I need to buy tomorrow in Tescos in order to try them out (the paint thing is genius, may have to do that if all else fails).

If you had told me at 16 that I'd be this boring at 35 I honestly think I'd have just nipped off and discreetly shot myself.

Hey ho...middle age beckons...

I know I belong in this section, because another conversation with my DH ended with me enthusing on how great "Barkeepers Friend" was at cleaning the grease stains off a baking tray.

"you just mix up a paste, apply with a cloth and leave to soak.....blah blah "

I sounded like one of those 5am informercials.

truly wonders why her husband stays with her

However I really can recommend the product,and it will work on your grout!

I wouldn't apply to any fish based cleaning emergencies though

I feel like this is what has been missing from my life.
Clean washing on the line makes my day.
How the hell did that happen??

Talking of infomercials - does anyone have, or know anyone with an Ahhbra?

As I'm exposing my dull but curious side?

I thought the housekeeping section was the boring section (apologies to anyone who hangs out there), most of the boring questions asked so far relate to housekeeping anyway.

InnerGoddess if your patio heater is made out of metal, you needn't just recycle it, someone will pay you for it as scrap!

i would have though the hot biscuit smell was because you left the dryer on too long feak, though could be wrong

happens to my towels too but i tend to leave dryer on for hours

Sadly not, as I live in Switzerland and have to recycle it. Or leave it propped up in the corner wondering why someone bought us the bloody thing.

MyinnergoddessisatLidl they sell AhhBras on QVC .
They are £52.44 + p&p for 3 (1 each black/white/skintone).

406 reviews. Average * 1.6 out of 5 (so not good)

Not that I have ever bought one you understand.
I did try Breezies. Within 10 washes of the bra, my boobs were round my waist.

Was that boring enough

Cailleach have you tried one of these?

Looks a bit faffy, a bit like posh tippex, but may be worth a try.

And I like to put Bounce sheets on the radiators in the winter, house smells of clean washing, mmm.

Oooh I love a bit of Bar Keeper's Friend, makes my taps come up lovely.

Love the idea of putting Bounce sheets on your radiator I am going to do this. Doesn't matter if all my clothes smell like old biscuits if my house gives off the impression of laundered freshness

On a food-related note of dullness, those new Asda ready made stone-baked (allegedly) pizza bases (x2 for £1.12) are quite good but keep breaking up in the packet on the way home.

Are we meant to wrap them in tissue paper, and gently float them homewards? I asked my DD (16) but she wandered out of the room, too.

Re the knickers problem. Dry them on the washing line.
I have sent myself to sleep now. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I find mould & mildew spray takes care of grubby grout.

I have never smelled my knickers though.

I'm not a pant sniffer, but when you open the door of the tumble drier the waft absolutely smacks you in the face.

(It's not just my undercrackers btw, it's anything we tumble)

I think you're all right and the cycle is too hot and too long, but as it's the only one it offers I think I'll ever have to live with it or get some of those Lenor thingies.

Re: pizza bases. Take some bubble wrap with you. Solved!