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to be annoyed about the state my toilet was left in...

493 replies

Lillamyy1 · 01/06/2015 06:18

I spent quite a while cleaning the bathroom yesterday morning, which made me even more annoyed, although I always keep the toilet clean...
A friend came round for a few hours and when her DP came to pick her up he went to use the bathroom and was there quite a while. When I went up there 10 or so minutes later I was hit by the most godawful stench, although to be fair to him we haven't any air freshened and he had opened the window, but oh my god the state of the toilet bowl! Skidder central. It was absolutely rank.
Surely it's common curtesy to flush a couple more times and pour some bleach down to try and get rid of the evidence if you've had a massive skiddy shit at someone else's house (and in fact your own house!) We have one of those toilet duck brushes with disposable heads which is in the cupboard so he couldn't have known it was there but the bleach is right next to the bloody loo!

OP posts:
BertrandRussell · 01/06/2015 08:00

"Yadnbu, surely he could have held it in till he got home. He comes to pick his DP up and decides to have a shit in your toilet as soon as he gets there. What absolutly brilliant timing."

Where do you suggest he has a shit? In the birdbath? That is what toilets are for, you know. I do hope that doesn't come as too much of a shock to you!

merrymouse · 01/06/2015 08:11

In my experience work toilets don't have toilet brushes - how do people cope their? I know from various group emails that some people don't clean up after major events but I thought most people did.

MrsMook · 01/06/2015 08:17

If there's a toilet brush available I'll use it to clean after myself and the DCs. I'm not wasting half a tree and the production impacts of converting it into toilet paper to smear the dregs of poo further around the toilet pan, as the damp paper disintegrates.

If you're daft enough to not have an accessible toilet brush, you've created your own problem. If your toilet is allegedly clean enough for me to stick my hand in it, it's clean enough to have a toilet brush to do the job properly.

sanfairyanne · 01/06/2015 08:18

probably didn't even look and has a wifey at home to clear up his shit stains. male entitlement.

Songlark · 01/06/2015 08:20

Where do you suggest he has a shit?
Not in someone else's house if he isn't prepared to clean up his mess after him. I don't believe he has any problems with his bowels that causes him to not be able to hold it in. Otherwise he'd be well used to ways of cleaning up after himself.

Outwith · 01/06/2015 08:20

sanfairyanne, he probably has a toilet brush that he uses to clean up such things at home Grin.

Stealthpolarbear · 01/06/2015 08:21

Midnite you've summed up perfectly how I feel about toilet brushes. Never understand d why someone thinks it's more hygienic to stick your hand into the pooey water!

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 01/06/2015 08:25

In my experience work toilets don't have toilet brushes

Every place I've ever worked has had them! As has everywhere I've lived - because I wouldn't expect someone, or myself, to hover over a toilet wiping shit off the pan with rapidly disintegrating loo roll - MINGING!!!

wowfudge · 01/06/2015 08:26

OP - it's a toilet and that's what they are for. You are getting far too worked up about it. We all have bodily functions and none of them smell of perfume.

merrymouse · 01/06/2015 08:26

I think that the small amount of additional loo roll required to efficiently clean up skid marks after a poosplosion is dwarfed by the amount used to wipe the related bottom.

(And you are more likely to experience poo contact while wiping your bottom).

On the other hand my dog would very much like to eat a loo brush, given his interest in other bathroom paraphernalia.

WeAreEternal · 01/06/2015 08:28

Only on mumsnet are loo brushes verboten.

I don't know a single person IRL (who's house I have been to) that has a toilet brush and pretty much everyone I have ever discussed it with thinks they are utterly revolting.

Bleach then another flush clears away any marks I have ever seen, and if it doesn't I don't see what is wrong with a quick wipe with some toilet roll, it's far less unhygienic than a toilet brush, assuming the person plans to wash their hands.

Rikalaily · 01/06/2015 08:34

We have a black loo brush(which has a bit of bleach in the little pot it sits in and it gets cleaned with bleach and in flush after use) kept behind the loo next to a little bin, there's bleach and antibac cleaning wipes on the window sill too. I'd be mega pissed if an adult left skids in my toilet.

Can't complain though if you don't keep a loo brush handy.

whois · 01/06/2015 08:35

People who don't have toilet brushes, then bitch about people leaving skid marks are strange.

Either provide a toilet brush which people can use, it don't. It's really horrible to have to try and use toilet roll to wipe off marks. Gross.

Toilet brushes are 50p from Ikea. You could have a new one every week at that price.

gamerchick · 01/06/2015 08:39

I love a toilet brush thread me, gives me a fuzzy feeling inside Grin even if the op dropped and ran.

diddl · 01/06/2015 08:39

I'd have looked in the cupboard!

It's not unusual for cleaning stuff to be there so I'm not sure why that wouldn't occurto someone tbh.

Stealthpolarbear · 01/06/2015 08:42

A black loo brush doesn't appeal. Surely it just covers up any sticky poo?

merrymouse · 01/06/2015 08:44

It's really horrible to have to try and use toilet roll to wipe off marks.

But really no different to wiping your bottom.

londonrach · 01/06/2015 08:45

I dont understand the mn hate of toilet brushes.they there to be used and thrown.seriously they cost less than 50p in lkea.abit of bleach can be put in the bottom.throw and replace when needed...

Bunbaker · 01/06/2015 08:50

"I don't believe he has any problems with his bowels that causes him to not be able to hold it in."

Do you know him personally then?

I agree that he could have used bleach/toilet roll to clean up afterwards, but you don't know this person's bowel habits or whether he has any problems so I think it is unreasonable to say that he shouldn't have used the loo. That is what they are there for.

merrymouse · 01/06/2015 08:50

Problem with toilet brushes:

  1. Hazardous around inquisitive pets and children.
  2. no guarantee user will clean.
  3. unnecessary
  4. unattractive.
Fluffyears · 01/06/2015 08:50

My brush had a ceramic holder which I fill with bleach and hot water to clean my brush weekly. Revolting is not having anything to effectively clean your loo!

Stealthpolarbear · 01/06/2015 08:51

But you don't wipe your bottom with soggy falling - apart toilet roll with your hand submerged in poo soup

Bunbaker · 01/06/2015 08:52
  1. No small children or pets in our house
  2. Agree
  3. Disagree
  4. Agree
Grin
MrsNextDoor · 01/06/2015 08:53

Stealth you don't actually submerge your hand! You wipe ABOVE the water line...bleach removes anything below.

KoalaDownUnder · 01/06/2015 08:55

Well said, MrsMook.

People on this site are pathetic about toilets and brushes. Of course it's grosser to wipe around a toilet bowl where everyone else's poo has also been, than to wipe your own arse! You can't expect a guest to do that! Shock

Put a damn brush behind the toilet, where people can look if they need one, and just never use it yourself if you're that bothered.