Really weird stuff people do that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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Someone I know puts hotel TV remotes in plastic bags before using them, because she once heard a standup comedian talking about men wanking on them while watching porn.

WTAF?

What weird things do people you know do that make absolutely no sense at all? Anything as odd as that?

"X exists in abundance, therefore X is not something one should be taking precautions about" is a fallacy. You could make the same argument about any risk. For example; "Crime on the streets of St. Louis, Missouri is rampant. Therefore I will not worry about it and will stroll down the worst streets at two in the morning, heedless to any danger, and take no precautions at all and you're just paranoid if you won't do that."
Put that way, doesn't it sound silly?

Paranoia is a mental health condition involving a false sense of persecution. It is not fear of germs. That, if it is indeed unreasonable, out of proportion fear, would be a phobia.
I have supplied facts which fully support that it is not unreasonable to fear potentially harmful bacteria and viruses in hotels.

Not me but my grandfather. He used to boil his vegetables for dinner then transfer the vegetable water to the kettle for his tea “so he didn’t loose any nutrients”. Idiot. Most of the nutrients are water soluble so they have no nutritional value anyway 😂

I don't eat fish anymore, but I used to pull out the little round black bits in cans of tuna, because I thought that they were the tuna's eyes. I didn't realise how big tuna actually are 😳

In our domestic science class we were not allowed to dry saucepans with the tea towel but use the dish cloth!! I used a tea towel to dry a saucepan one day and got caught by the teacher and made to feel like I was some sort of a dirty hallion. That was more than fifty years ago and I take great pleasure today drying any saucepans with a tea towel which doesn't happen very often due to the dishwasher

https://theconversation.com/the-dirty-truth-about-your-phone-and-why-you-need-to-stop-scrolling-in-the-bathroom-203988

It’s been a while since I ate meat or fish but - what little round black bits? I’m sure when I last had tuna it didn’t have those….

Not in my world (you nutter)

I think it was just oxidative browning, but it was like very small roundish bits that I thought were eyes 🤣. It's been 8 years since I've been vegan, and like I mentioned, I didn't realise how big they actually are. I always thought they were very small fish. How embarrassing 🤫

I do but it's odd numbers for me

Is it not just a messy fried egg if there is no milk added?

I didn’t know it was possible to peel a mushroom.

My mum peeled mushrooms. She'd start off by removing the stem, and then under the head of the mushroom there would be loose skin that you could pull up to the top of the mushroom. I did this into my early twenties and then thought sod this.

She used to put a little X in the stem of each brussel sprout too. Wtf? 😂

@Bodeganights and @HarlanPepper I mix the eggs, spot of milk, seasoning and whisk vigorously - then sieve into a buttered pan. Cooked eggs are smooth and delicious without vile white bits. Sieve contains unincorporated jellied albumen from egg white that is never totally whisked in. I can’t eat scambled egg without doing this. It must be really weird - been quoted and questioned on this thread multiple times! 😁😁

Being immunocompromised is not the reality for most people, so why are you bothering to argue with people who aren't about what they should or shouldn't do.

Now that really is weird!

Incidentally, your personal experience is not the sum total of all experience either so there is no need to act superior.

No, it's nothing like fried egg. It's all in the length of time you cook it and how you cook it.

Can't believe I am posting this at 1.20 am but mushroom peeling is something I find quite satisfying. Seriously. Flip out the stalk then the loose skin peels off perfectly. I haven't bought mushrooms for ages but think I shall have a mushroom omelette tomorrow.

🙂🍄

I also have a numbers thing but it's a bit too complicated to explain at this hour and I'm tired 😴

@AuntieMaud it is very satisfying tbf, but also absolutely time consuming. I decided to just rinse them 😂

My mum would always iron pants. She would also iron pillowcases and then fold it in half and iron again so it has a line and then fold it into quarters and do it again. The end result being an ironed cross shape on the pillow 🤔

@InkyPinkyPonky24 🤣🤣

I always dettol wipe the remote in hotels and use the dettol spray on the door handles and light switches. I think i did it when my son was very ill after a trip but I think it was something he caught on the plane 11 hour flight. I was very nervous during lockdown thankfully neither me my hubby or children got it. Lots of family members did more than once and I was a little over the top. My adult son worked in retail lots of customers I made him take his shoes off and wash his hands straight away when he came home. I also did use wipes on food items delivered even the carrier bags I do not do this now.

I rinse dishes and give them a quick scrub before putting them in the dishwasher, which seems perfectly sensible to me, but my DW and MIL think I'm odd.

I'm not am I?

Ohhh you rebel you 😉😂

Well you either store water in the fridge or you store squash mixed with water in the fridge (if you like cold drinks which I do as warm squash is repulsive).

It makes sense to make up a jug of squash and then it's cold and ready to go when you fancy it.

I used to do that for my Dad so he had cold squash with filtered water ready to go in the fridge.