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

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PrimitivePerson · 18/08/2024 17:12

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?

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floatingislands · 19/08/2024 02:25

PrimitivePerson · 18/08/2024 17:24

That makes sense, though, kitchens can get messy and stuff can get spilt.

Well, the same applies to hotel rooms and the remotes held by porn watchers...

DiscoBeat · 19/08/2024 02:28

TorroFerney · 18/08/2024 18:24

ive never washed meat and also never washed any fruit or vegetable or salad item ever. Cannot see the point. Will knock soil off if there is a bit in there but to be honest supermarket stuff doesn’t tend to have much on. Also eat raw carrots without peeling them.

also find having a washing up bowl very weird. They are really small and the actual sink is perfectly adequate and designed for washing up.

I use a washing up bowl. Because we have an enormous single Butler sink which would take forever to fill and then wouldn't be able to rinse/empty anything while washing up going on.

treacledan71 · 19/08/2024 02:29

Used to work with a youngish girl in the early 90s who had her own section in the kitchen with a kettle, saucepan (we had a cooker in the Office), own plates etc and worried re germs and also hardly never used loo at work (she asked if could have her own toilet cubile but told no) but.... she had lots of one night stands. Used to talk about it and we saw her go off with people when out. Just didn't get why she could be so intimate with strangers but not share a toilet etc.

DiscoBeat · 19/08/2024 02:30

blueshoes · 18/08/2024 18:53

I've always thought the UK practice of handwashing dishes in a basin in a sink to be a bit odd, when we have running water coming out of taps. I appreciate most people use dishwashers these days but I still get the basin in UK Air BnBs.

Also, it uses less water.

coxesorangepippin · 19/08/2024 02:31

He also punched lots of holes in the bottom of a pot noodle, rather than buy a watering can.

^

God how long did it take him to water the garden??!

DiscoBeat · 19/08/2024 02:35

KittenQuibbles · 18/08/2024 19:49

Oh yes, I'm a mushroom peeler too! Gets rid of all the soiley bits without having to get them all soggy when cleaning in water. Far better!

You need a mushroom brush. Also very satisfying to use!

floatingislands · 19/08/2024 02:39

TorroFerney · 18/08/2024 18:24

ive never washed meat and also never washed any fruit or vegetable or salad item ever. Cannot see the point. Will knock soil off if there is a bit in there but to be honest supermarket stuff doesn’t tend to have much on. Also eat raw carrots without peeling them.

also find having a washing up bowl very weird. They are really small and the actual sink is perfectly adequate and designed for washing up.

Cannot see the point in removing some pesticide residue, and/or urine or faecal matter from animals, birds, and workers picking and packing the produce?!

Salumthecat · 19/08/2024 02:52

My neighbours sit outside their front door almost every waking minute. They have put a little table with two chairs there and it drives me and DP crazy because it’s next to our front door.

They both work opposite shifts with weekends off together and one or both of them is outside no matter what the weather conditions are with no shelter.

I get up in the night for a drink and they will be sat there, DP goes to work early morning and one or both are there, I get up to go out STILL there…
They occasionally go inside to eat but then come straight back, I had to mute my doorbell notifications but I worked out this weekend apart from a brief period between 3 and 5am the space was occupied.
They have young children who visit on the weekend but they just stay inside whilst their dad and stepmum sit at their table smoking and on a weekend drinking all day.
It can be pouring with rain but they don’t care, I have no idea why they pay for a property and don’t just live in a tent with a portable table and chair set, I saw a huge tv delivered once which was a waste of money.
On a separate random note I’ve never seen them bringing their shopping in, or any other neighbours.

The weirdest thing about this is that there is a huge beautiful garden they could sit in and have and give privacy, they don’t entertain that idea though!

I have many little quirks including - rushing into the house shouting “I came as soon as I heard!” Whenever I return home and DP is in.

Lifting the cat up and singing “circle of life” and presenting him to DP when he comes in for his dinner in the evening.

Both DP and I do the “cha cha slide” together sometimes randomly in Asda.
We both occasionally get Alexa to announce disrespectful phrases or quotes from films “keep the change you filthy animals” or “your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries” when we are in separate rooms or out of the house to make each other jump.

If DP pisses me off I put random little things in his shoes like buttons, little stones or gravel, potpourri etc…
It’s my little passive aggressive revenge so when he puts his shoes on he knows he’s wronged me.

I have OCD (diagnosed) I’m very conscious about germs but I wouldn’t wrap a hotel tv remote in a plastic bag because the rustling would drive me crazy. I do take a pack of antibac wipes to a hotel though and wipe down the remote and a few other areas.
I take any cushions and top covers off the bed and wear slippers instead of walking barefooted on the carpet. I’m usually drinking if i’m staying in a hotel though and too busy having fun to bring cleaning equipment or worrying about the kettle or doing my washing like some people mentioned!

mumedu · 19/08/2024 03:05

Hotel TV remotes are disgusting. Gross! I don't like touching them but I've never put them in a bag. Maybe used wipes to clean them.

mumedu · 19/08/2024 03:09

Salumthecat · 19/08/2024 02:52

My neighbours sit outside their front door almost every waking minute. They have put a little table with two chairs there and it drives me and DP crazy because it’s next to our front door.

They both work opposite shifts with weekends off together and one or both of them is outside no matter what the weather conditions are with no shelter.

I get up in the night for a drink and they will be sat there, DP goes to work early morning and one or both are there, I get up to go out STILL there…
They occasionally go inside to eat but then come straight back, I had to mute my doorbell notifications but I worked out this weekend apart from a brief period between 3 and 5am the space was occupied.
They have young children who visit on the weekend but they just stay inside whilst their dad and stepmum sit at their table smoking and on a weekend drinking all day.
It can be pouring with rain but they don’t care, I have no idea why they pay for a property and don’t just live in a tent with a portable table and chair set, I saw a huge tv delivered once which was a waste of money.
On a separate random note I’ve never seen them bringing their shopping in, or any other neighbours.

The weirdest thing about this is that there is a huge beautiful garden they could sit in and have and give privacy, they don’t entertain that idea though!

I have many little quirks including - rushing into the house shouting “I came as soon as I heard!” Whenever I return home and DP is in.

Lifting the cat up and singing “circle of life” and presenting him to DP when he comes in for his dinner in the evening.

Both DP and I do the “cha cha slide” together sometimes randomly in Asda.
We both occasionally get Alexa to announce disrespectful phrases or quotes from films “keep the change you filthy animals” or “your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries” when we are in separate rooms or out of the house to make each other jump.

If DP pisses me off I put random little things in his shoes like buttons, little stones or gravel, potpourri etc…
It’s my little passive aggressive revenge so when he puts his shoes on he knows he’s wronged me.

I have OCD (diagnosed) I’m very conscious about germs but I wouldn’t wrap a hotel tv remote in a plastic bag because the rustling would drive me crazy. I do take a pack of antibac wipes to a hotel though and wipe down the remote and a few other areas.
I take any cushions and top covers off the bed and wear slippers instead of walking barefooted on the carpet. I’m usually drinking if i’m staying in a hotel though and too busy having fun to bring cleaning equipment or worrying about the kettle or doing my washing like some people mentioned!

Yes, this. Gross, unwashed covers and cushions must go off. They are rarely washed. (I'm not OCD though. This is basic hygiene).

mumedu · 19/08/2024 03:11

Differentstarts · 18/08/2024 18:17

I do this I thought everyone does

Fear of fire?

Porridgeislife · 19/08/2024 03:26

dadtired · 19/08/2024 01:59

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?

Not odd as such but modern dishwashers have sensors to establish how dirty your dishes are. By rinsing them you are inadvertently telling your dishwasher they’re cleaner than they actually are.

You should scrape excess food into the bin though.

DreamTheMoors · 19/08/2024 03:53

This family moved to our town when I was little. The dad was a big important guy in the school system.
The daughter was in my class & we became friends.
I went to their house because she was never allowed to go to anyone else’s house to play.
They never owned a tv or even a radio. This was decades before the internet.
When we’d get there, her mum would sit us down and have “devotions” with us — these weird, ultra religious lessons & prayers that lasted about 20 minutes. Then we were allowed to go play.
I’d go home & tell my mum how weird & uncomfortable it made me, but I guess Mum figured a little religion wouldn’t hurt me.
But every time I went over there, Mrs. X got weirder & nuttier and the lessons got further & further “out there.” She began to look crazy, too, as if she was slowly going crazy. It was frightening to me as a little kid.
I finally stopped going of my own accord.
A few years later they sent my friend away to some strict religious private school - she told me because they thought she wasn’t behaving. She was always perfectly polite and well behaved in school.
Anyhow, fast forward to adulthood — the mum intentionally drove herself into a irrigation canal and drowned and about 45 days later the dad remarried.
Weirdest family I ever saw. Weirdest I ever had anything to with.

TheOriginalEmu · 19/08/2024 04:16

shuggles · 18/08/2024 19:32

People who drive excessively large cars when they only use their vehicle for commuting and errands (there are valid reasons for owning a larger car, such as being disabled or being a handyman character who moves lots of shit around, but these reasons do not apply to the overwhelming majority of people).
There's rarely a valid reason for owning a large car- people think it's normal to sink huge sums of money into cars, just because they think they are impressing people that they don't even like.

Some people sit in their cars with the engine running. Why? The AA and RAC have advised this damages the car's engine, and that car engines should be switched off when vehicles are stationary. So why leave the engine running?

Personalised number plates. Or people putting that stupid plane wing on the back of their car. Getting "twat" tattooed across your forehead would achieve the same thing.

Lying sprawled out on the grass, or on a beach, on hot days. This quite literally serves no purpose. It is something that people only do because they have seen other people doing it.

Men taking photographs of themselves. I'm ugly. Most men are ugly. Taking a photograph of yourself doesn't change that.

The really weird duckface pouty-lip facial expression that people do in photographs. This one is disgusting.

Seeing dozens and dozens of men flocking to a woman's photographs on social media and all of them telling her how wonderful she is. Cringe.

People listening to shit and generic music in the charts just because everyone else listens to it, and they think that's what they are supposed to like. There's nothing wrong with liking different music.

I sit with the engine running so I can run the aircon because I have a disability that means I can’t regulate my body temperature.

PrimitivePerson · 19/08/2024 05:52

mumedu · 19/08/2024 03:05

Hotel TV remotes are disgusting. Gross! I don't like touching them but I've never put them in a bag. Maybe used wipes to clean them.

In what way are they "disgusting"?

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WithnailOnTour · 19/08/2024 05:58

AuntieMaud · 19/08/2024 01:25

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 😴

How many mushrooms satisfy both requirements?

deviantfeline · 19/08/2024 06:29

MattSmithsBowTie · 18/08/2024 18:24

I think it’s ok to do odd things like put a remote in a bag as long as you realise it’s a bit odd (does sleeping in the hotel bed not bother her?) it’s when people do odd things but don’t realise it, like a friend of mine won’t let you dry your hands on a tea towel, apparently they’re only for dishes, so you’re supposed to walk from the kitchen to the loo to wash your hands if you’re cooking 🙄

I once got an absolute bollocking in a Home Economics lesson in the 1980s for doing this. The teacher went absolutely bananas and screeched 'would you dry your hands on tea towel at home, I don't think so!'
I thought 'well err yes I would!'
Apparently I was expected to dry my hands with paper towels and not the tea towel.
I've roundly ignored that for the last 4 years and dry my hands on tea towels with impunity.

Inspireme2 · 19/08/2024 06:31

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 18/08/2024 18:22

Three. I do it too. I turn the microwave and oven off at the wall so that there are no red lights winking away in the kitchen at night. It's not OCD, it's just habit.

My mother suggests i turn off the oven at the wall, the washing machine, the microwave, tv, anything becuasenit saves power.
Yes it is a generation thing.
I can easily fall alseep with half the house alight tv on.
Tv remotes are cleaned in places in my country....really germaphoic to worry about hands getting germs nowdays is beyond me

scalt · 19/08/2024 06:50

My grandmother used to lock all the internal doors in her house at night: she had colour-coded keys on a piece of string. Her thinking was that if burglars entered through a window, they would not be able to get any further than that room.

She did not worry about fire. She used to do her own electrical DIY, very capably, and point-blank refused to replace the round two-pin plugs in her house: she would instead fit a two-pin plug on any new appliance, even if it needed an earth.

Thepeopleversuswork · 19/08/2024 06:52

@XChrome

if I had to guess, it might be due to pollen allergies in the household. The pollen gets on the clothes and it gets spread around the house.

Its not that it’s germ phobia. But utterly ridiculous because there are so many millions of microbes around you at any given time and no such thing as a sterile environment. So making people change into “indoor” clothes is a total waste of time.

autienotnaughty · 19/08/2024 06:55

Teanbiscuits33 · 18/08/2024 17:21

Some people won’t use hotel kettles as apparently people piss in them or worse. Don’t know how true but it wouldn’t surprise me 😂

I've worked in hotels. I've found underwear in kettles (more than once) always check the kettle before you use it!!

autienotnaughty · 19/08/2024 06:59

LindorDoubleChoc · 18/08/2024 17:57

My inlaws have no kitchen bin. Any rubbish, recycling or food waste has to be taken to the outside bin after every meal. This is out through a back boot room, across a patch of grass, and into one of the garages. At least 3 times a day every day.

I know someone who hangs a carrier bag off a cupboard door. Not only does it alway smell but there's constant food stains on the floor and door from it

parkrun500club · 19/08/2024 08:06

onwardandupwards · 18/08/2024 20:30

My next door neighbour pegs her washing out a couple of items at a time, walks back down the garden, goes back in collects more, pegs that out, goes bk in gets 2 more items over and over ( no disabilities ect ), same with getting it in. Better than the other side whose washing has been hanging out for almost a month.

Do you live next door to me? I do that to get my steps up :)

Katemax82 · 19/08/2024 08:10

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 18/08/2024 18:22

Three. I do it too. I turn the microwave and oven off at the wall so that there are no red lights winking away in the kitchen at night. It's not OCD, it's just habit.

When my stepson was about 13 he stayed with us for a few weeks and every morning I would find the tv, did player and virgin box all unplugged. Did my fucking head in

Differentstarts · 19/08/2024 08:14

mumedu · 19/08/2024 03:11

Fear of fire?

No, I do it so I know the kids can't turn it on but also I know iv definitely turned it off properly to

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