To ask for another annoying things about other peoples homes thread?

[balihai550]

This one two years ago made my christmas... can we have another? 🎄 🙏

DdraigGoch yes everything has a set time for cooking and there's no point trying to suggest otherwise as they're so set in their ways. My FiL is a terrible know-all who preaches on about stuff that we know more about than he does and we just nod, with a glazed expression on our faces!

@TheEchtMeaningofChristmas

The no books comments says more about those saying it This entire thread is about how people observe and react.

People can be educated or like to read without any visable display you can see

Who said they weren't edited, it's a marker that mean something to those for whom it has meaning

Tbh, I only buy very special books now, that are stored in my office. Otherwise I use my kindle. It is better for the environment

Is it ?

Which is more important than looking clever to visitors

Has anyone actually proposed this, or has any book loving person required it?

Hamlet:Act III Scene II, l 219

Hamlet reference, vair high brow

@RaraRachael

DdraigGoch yes everything has a set time for cooking and there's no point trying to suggest otherwise as they're so set in their ways. My FiL is a terrible know-all who preaches on about stuff that we know more about than he does and we just nod, with a glazed expression on our faces!

I understand having set times for cooking. I chuck some chips into the oven and shout "Alexa: set timer, 30 minutes" followed immediately by another timer for 12 minutes (so that the burger goes in for 18 minutes). I just don't get how someone can overcook something to that extent. Vegetables should be just-threatened with the steamer (8 minutes unless large quantities which need stacking) or roasting for half an hour. I'd never stick peas in for that long, you lose all the flavour!

Toilets that don't flush properly and then take an age to refill so you can't quickly have a second flush if needed.

@fishykettles if you have a child under 5 you can ask your utility provider to put you on their Priority Register (they have to do this). This may include (depending on your provider) free insulation and heat retaining measures for your home. There are also grants available to pay for your heating like The British Gas Energy Fund ( you don't need to be a customer of British Gas to apply) have a google as there are others too.

Doors that don’t shut all the way
Doors and door frames which have years worth of layers of gloss on them so they are all miss-shaped and weird
No bathroom door lock
People who don’t empty any food residue from the sink when they’ve done washing up
Mouldy/mildew/damp smell
Smokers houses; even when they ‘smoke outside’ - you can still smell it
Crusty, dirty hand towels which stink when you dry your hands
Too hot houses
Crap toilet flushes & no shower!!

@thetaleunfolds

My mum has those sensor-activated air fresheners at face height and they drive me mad. Every time I walk to the cloak room or kitchen SPRAY right in the face

My exMIL does that. If anyone moves it slightly to direct the spray away from people's eyes she will have moved it back within minutes of the toilet being vacant. She also insists on all her cleaning products being lined up on the bathroom floor even when inquisitive dgc are visiting. She has her way of arranging things which takes precedence over any safety considerations. Her dc find it very stressful taking the dgc to visit.

Never had a bathroom bin! Don’t wear contacts, use miscellar water to take off makeup in bedroom and put cotton wool in bedroom bin then wash face in bathroom. Carry empty loo rolls, shampoo/conditioner bottles either into bedroom bin or straight downstairs to the bin in the kitchen. Really wouldn’t want visitors seeing waxy ear deposits etc whilst using my bathroom🤢