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Dog poo knife

178 replies

Cantunscrambleanegg · 15/10/2021 18:04

DH has ‘dared’ me to post this, so convinced he is you’ll be on his side…

DS stood in dog poo, DH said he scraped it off using a dinner knife out of the kitchen drawer. I said wtf - hope that knife’s in the bin now?! No says he - dishwasher, or actually kitchen sink, waiting to go in dishwasher.

AIBU to think this is a shitshow and he should have put it in the bin (if it makes a difference our knife collection is on the ‘eclectic’ side so it wouldn’t be mucking up a ‘set’ to chuck one), or is he right that a quick wash and then back in gobs 🤢 is fine?!

OP posts:
Dontjudgeme101 · 15/10/2021 23:12

@thefirstmrsrochester

Oh that gives me the heave, and I have pretty low standards. Up there with my mum who served up roast potatoes on Christmas Day a few years ago from a glass bowl formerly known to be as the ‘sick’ bowl of my childhood. She’s not short on fucking bowls, yet there it was, something me and my three siblings had yakked our guts up into when we were wee, right there on the dinner table 🤮
I just love this!! You have just made my night. This is hilarious!, l can’t stop laughing at this.
rainyskylight · 15/10/2021 23:12

Honestly I find dog poo so horrendous that I struggle not to throw the shoes out when this happens. My DH has to sort them out because I retch whilst trying to clean them. I absolutely despise dogs because their poo is so disgusting. It’s everywhere. I hate hate hate it.

Mymapuddlington · 15/10/2021 23:12

Sick spoon, spoon for medicine? We have a sick bowl, can’t imagine what a spoon would be used for other than meds?

DoleWhipFloat · 15/10/2021 23:14

Dear God.

Mr. Cantunscrambleanegg, you are a sick, sick man.

Djifunrsn · 15/10/2021 23:16

Fucking hell I’d stick the knife in DH’s bloody neck if he did that. Beyond filthy.

If he wanted to clean the shoes, he should have done it with some sort of antibacterial stuff and a toothbrush, which would have needed immediate binning.

Mymapuddlington · 15/10/2021 23:19

Does anyone remember the thread about the poo knife kept in the bathroom that the op thought was perfectly normal?

KayKayWat · 15/10/2021 23:21

It would certainly never feel right using it for nutella!

lovablequalities · 15/10/2021 23:37

Yous are all weird.

Ideally, of course, he would have used a stick. That's what normal people would do. But he didn't. So. Whatever. Wash it several times, very hot. It's fine. It's made of metal not sponge. It won't retain shite. It will be fine and totally clean.

worriedatthemoment · 15/10/2021 23:43

@Mymapuddlington it must be for medicine surely ? Although mine just live in the drawer

ErrolTheDragon · 15/10/2021 23:49

Yous are all weird.

No, disgust is a normal reaction to potential sources of disease. (We have different sensitivities to different things, so it's also not weird to not be disgusted by the thought of using the previously shitty knife).

Jiggyjigsaw · 15/10/2021 23:50

@Mamamamasaurus

I'm slightly baffled by the replies on here. SOO many posters admitted washing their dog's bowls in the dishwasher but find this gross.

I KNOW this is poo we're talking about but dogs lick themselves and then eat. So there's probably poo crumbs on their bowl. Or the plate you're let them lick clean. That's fine to go in the dishwasher though?

This! Grow up, it's only shit. Wash the knife, put it in the dishwasher and let him use it the next times until you forget about it. It's not that bad, no one is going to get sick of it!
Angelou79 · 16/10/2021 00:12

No one should be putting any knifes in gobs!

TheChip · 16/10/2021 00:20

@Angelou79

No one should be putting any knifes in gobs!
What if its caked in Nutella though?
ThinWomansBrain · 16/10/2021 00:24

But you never know what previous uses a restaurant or hotel knife has been put toHmm

Lovealovestory · 16/10/2021 00:56

🤮

whatshouldIdoo · 16/10/2021 02:24

That is disgusting. I'd be raging that he has put it in the sink. Utterly grim.

Soubriquet · 16/10/2021 02:57

I would use it again…if it’s been cleaned why not?

mygenericusername · 16/10/2021 03:11

Jesus Christ. I thought I’d read everything on here. How wrong I was.

This is a serious enough reason to LTB.

Soubriquet · 16/10/2021 03:25

Anyone else get the urge now to break into everyone else’s house and randomly dip a single utensil in dog poo before washing it and putting it back in the drawer? Grin

LoveFall · 16/10/2021 03:35

@Lostmarbles2021

LoveFall

Surgical instruments are sadly incinerated - found that out recently.

The metal ones are not incinerated. They are processed to clean and sterilize then assembled into kits wrapped in sterile cloths. Maybe some are incinerated but definitely not all.
Rubyupbeat · 16/10/2021 03:36

Reminds me of the cockfields, they kept a breadknife next to the toilet to chop up unflushable poos.

Dhcfisssifjrsnxfjds · 16/10/2021 04:40

Get a grip - just douse with detergent, pour over boiling water, give a wipe with some paper and then straight in dishwasher. Simples

MimiDaisy11 · 16/10/2021 04:44

I think it’s more a psychological issue as a dishwasher I’d imagine would be high enough temperatures to remove and clean it completely. Still I wouldn’t want to use it.

PurpleFlower1983 · 16/10/2021 05:00

If it’s been cleaned and sterilised there’s no reason why it can live out it’s days in the shed in case of another such occasion but back in the kitchen?! No way!!

Haveyoubrushedyourteethtoday · 16/10/2021 07:03

@ThinWomansBrain

But you never know what previous uses a restaurant or hotel knife has been put toHmm
Precisely! Once known, it can’t be unknown.

Bin it!