...about wee in the kitchen sink?

[stoopstofolly]

Genuinely don't know who is being unreasonable in this situation! I was visiting neighbour. We all live in tall terraced houses, with no downstairs loo. Her DD is potty training, so there was a potty in the kitchen, on a mat. DD used the potty- then her Mum emptied it in the kitchen sink and washed it away with water.
I was a bit (shock). She saw my face, and explained that wee is actually sterile when it comes out, which explains why you can drink it (if you want!) and that she puts bleach down the sink every evening, and doesn't ever use the sink for anything except getting water, as all dirty pots go in dishwasher, and she doesn't do handwashing! Plus- it was only a little girl fairy wee....
I felt that although it's not something I would do, I could see her point. However, when I told DP he was appalled, and is now refusing to go round there next weekend for the BBQ we've been invited to. Says he wouldn't enjoy the food! I've pointed out that it's unlikely she'll marinade the sausages in the sink, but he won't be budged.
So- is she unreasonable for tipping wee in the sink?
Am I unreasonable really not to care?
Or is DP unreasonable for being horrified and refusing to go round?

DP has agrees to listen to Mumsnet jury!
Thanks for reading!

[limitedperiodonly]

Someone objected to my saying 'lace panties'; will no one object to the far worse word 'lovejuice'?

[THERhubarb]

So long as you rinse the lovejuice along with the fairy wee from your lace panties what's the problem?

[TunipTheVegedude]

I wouldn't put wee in the sink but I had a related dilemma last Saturday.
The bags of just-bought shopping were on the kitchen floor. While I was upstairs putting away the bathroom things, my potty-training 3yo did a wee on the shopping.

I came down to find wee on/in several of the bags and the rest sitting in a puddle of urine. £86 worth of food.

I wondered about ditching the lot but in the end I just binned the soggy baguette, wet lettuce etc and wiped everything else down. It's amazing how much of your food comes plastic wrapped.

[usualsuspect]

It wouldn't bother me
Your DP sounds a bit ott,I'd go to the bbq without him.

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

Sorry but lace panties is worse that lovejuice

It just is.

I have learnt from this thread that I have no standards by the way. None at all.
I would happily eat the BBQ and apparently we have all been brushing our teeth in shit for years.
Lovely.

But do I care? No.
Did I go out and buy toothbrush covers and 10 gallons of bleach? No.

Have I got visions of washing my hair in jizz? Yep.

I'm not going to do it by the way.
But I did find myself thinking I have quite long thick hair and wondering how much I would need to actually wash my hair.
And whether it goes off? I mean if you need loads of it can you collect it up over a period of time or does it have to be fresh?

It made a pleasant escape from the 62 emails and 4 phone messages and random other stuff I should be doing at work.

[HollyBerryBush]

Do I have to rread the whole thread?

I'm sure it has been covered but urine is sterile and you can drink it - it isn't particularly nice tasting. There is a whole batty American line in drinking your early morning urine >boak< to get the nutrients out of it (I'll stick with a balanced diet) and there are many stories of people stranded without fresh water supplies having to drink their own urine to survive.

Just stick this into google "benefits of drinking urine" and it brings up a whole heap of studies, none of which I can be bothered to open.

A dribble of pee in the sink wouldnt bother me.

[DialsMavis]

I know some people who drink their own wee, they are quite evangelical about it, the water of life apparently. They swear by it as a hangover cure. Even if I could bring myself to do it (which I can't), the first piss after a night out is about the least appealing I can think of.

[usualsuspect]

Drinking the first wee after a night out would probably get you pissed again.

[ArthurSixpence]

If you drink your own urine doesn't it just get stronger and stronger until in the end you are pissing out yellow pellets?

[limitedperiodonly]

Sorry but lace panties is worse that lovejuice

Really, tantrums? Really?

Where do you stand on the word cum?



But I do agree that my standards of hygiene are woefully lacking by MN standards, though superficially I'd pass muster.

[Buddhagirl]

Waffle squashing! Love it.

Wee down the sink and cleaner to wash it out fine, washing it out with just water : gross.

[VenusSurprising]

Wow you're all missing the obvious point, that there is a potty training toddler in that house.

No doubt the whole place is covered in shit and pee!
The sink is the least of your worries!

On a serious note, please dispose of milk down the toilet, as its grows bugs like you wouldn't believe, and the sewerage system for the loo is best suited to it.

Enjoy your BBQ, and rest easy, so long as the food is cooked properly, you are unlikely to pick up anything. Make sure rats didn't piss on the beer bottles though. You can get quite sick from that. Rats piss isn't naice at all. Better to use a glass bring our own.

[VenusSurprising]

Personally, I find the word "gusset", gives me the heaves.
I don't mind lace panties so much.

Pantyhose is another heave inducing one though.

[limitedperiodonly]

I hate boob.

Breasts, tits, anything but the coy 'boob', or worse 'boobies'

And 'on the boob' for breastfeeding makes me cringe.

[limitedperiodonly]

Booby juice. I might die now.

[TimeofChange]

I think toothbrush covers are not good.
Surely it the germs breed faster than if they are exposed to the normal air.

In the same way that a damp dishcloth festers if left in a heap, but is fine if hung over the taps.

Bleach isn't good for the environment either.

[stubbornstains]

"Pussy". Ack.

And as someone upthread has just pointed out, any house containing a potty training toddler is bound to have every surface coated in invisible wee spores. Just embrace it, and think of the exercise it's giving your immune system.

[TantrumsAndBalloons]

Ok, booby juice is worse than lace panties.

And I am not a fan of the word cum either.

Especially when people use it the wrong way on FB etc.
for example my cousin.
Do you want to cum shopping today?

All wrong.

[cunexttuesonline]

I did this when DS was toilet training if I couldn't be arsed to walk upstairs and bleached sink daily.

[limitedperiodonly]

cum shopping

Another reason why it's a good idea to avoid facebook.

Wee spores and poo particles. Nooooo

[Ubermumsy]

In a similar vein, do the easily shockable know about what might be called "foreign matter" tolerances for food? As in, the allowable quantity of stuff like bird droppings, rat shit, insect appendages etc in chocolate, or flour, or peanut butter etc. Good ol' Wikipedia entry here

Bearing in mind that much of it is invisible to the naked eye. So you don't even know you're eating it.

And don't get me started on faecal contamination of meat, especially mince. If cooked thoroughly then it's not hazardous, but you're still eating cooked cow pats.

Bon appetit!

[Fuzzymum1]

I wouldn't like it and I'm not sure I'd want to eat there even though I know t's unlikely to cause a problem. What horrified me was an obsessive very house-proud person I knew who spent about 6 hours every day cleaning her house emptied her son's potty down the kitchen sink, rinsed it with water, then dried it with the dishcloth and continued wiping down the draining board! I never ever went to her house again!

[curlew]

So. You go to the fridge, and find that there is some forgotten beef stock you made that's gone off. What do you do with it and where do you wash the bowl it was in?