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?

A hotel maid once told me she found a turd had been fried up in the kitchenette of a suite.
It makes pissing in the kettle seem sane by comparison.

If your username is a clue to your nationality then I have never met an Australian who doesn’t rinse their dishes after washing them. Everyone has 1.5 or double kitchen sinks for precisely that purpose. Not rinsing your soapy dishes is grim.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Last time I looked, hotels had bathrooms with washbasins and soap and towels and everything. Now I know why they installed them - it's so you can wash your hands after changing channels.

I'm not an Australian, and I don't live there. While some new houses here might have double sinks the average house doesn't. Therefore we must all be "grim" (how I hate the way that word is used in that context).

Try it without, way nicer.

DH has some peculiar rituals regarding the dishwasher.

1. He'll empty it but only cutlery and plates gets returned to the cupboard. Everything else, cups, glasses, pots and pans get stacked up on the bench near to the cupboard where it lives on the basis that it needs to 'dry off properly and they'll make the cupboards damp'. Firstly they are dry when they come out and secondly we have tea towels. That doesn't seem to occur to him and then he can't remember what is clean and what's used and they get mixed up with used stuff so they end up getting washed again 'just in case'.
2. He will watch me fill the dishwasher and then rearrange it in his preferred format. It drives me mad.

He also leaves tea bags in the sink because 'hot wet things can't go in bins'. My parents also do the same but leave teabags balanced on teaspoons near the kettle... DH's mum has got a special 'hot wet teabag' receptacle near the kettle and she always commandeers a small bowl for the purpose when she's here exclaimed she also can't find the 'spoon rest'. Becuase we don't have one! Just spoon in the dishwasher rather than leaving things around! What IS the issue with putting a teabag straight in the bin?

So you want me to offer a subjective personal anecdote when I have already presented objective evidence that these pathogens are present?

I agree that most people have sufficient immunity that it's not a big concern. All I was doing was explaining why it isn't actually crazy to want the remote and other hot spots to be cleaned, whatever your immune status may be. It's smart not to take a needless risk when all you have to do is use an antibacterial wipe.
Why common sense would be controversial to some people is a mystery to me.

Maybe some of us would rather enjoy our stay in a hotel without wasting time doing needless tasks in the name of "hygiene". I don't stay in a hotel to do the cleaning. Honestly, you sound bonkers.

Okey dokey. It takes perhaps three minutes to wipe all the hot spots, but I guess it's possible you might greiviously miss the three minutes you could have spent counting the minibar snacks or whatever.
You sound like a perpetually cranky sort with a stick lodged firmly in your rectum, but you do you baby girl.

Hotel rooms are gross. Same rag used to clean multiple surfaces in multiple rooms. Have seem tv programmes about this. I always use Lysol wipes to clean surface and bathroom. Have done so for years. Guess I'm in the freak group. 💁‍♀️

No, hotel rooms are not gross.

Wrapped ours in cling film, as the family liked to leave it in puddles of water and consequently break it.
Thank goodness for eBay, cheap compatible remote controls

Hotel room surfaces are gross 🤢

Nope. They're not gross either.

https://www.rd.com/list/gross-things-hotels-do-to-save-money/ 🤮.

To each her own, I guess. 🤷‍♀️
And I still need to think of something re your original question. 🤔

I seem to remember a bloke a few years ago, who went to casualty, to have a remote control removed from his rectum. Makes you wonder how many do that without accident...

It makes a load of condensation in the bin - my mum won’t put them straight in for that reason. 🙂 My nan used to keep them in a bowl and then empty the tea leaves out to put on her plants.

I do this! I really hate bins, hate cleaning them and they always end up with a smell about them whereas a carrier bag never does!

Eating off soapy dishes is still grim no matter where you live 😀

This. We stayed in a hotel I'm Malorcs last year that was just refurbished so everything was brand new. The cleaner sterilised the kettle and cups everyday, but, they drank of the bleachy stuff she used, so although germ free, we had to rinse and boli a couple of kettles to get a brew we could drink.

But no one has been able to explain why everywhere isn’t a hazard - just the remote?

Those fellow guest who you find so repulsive have presumably also touched:

• buttons in the lift
• the curtains
• the chairs (both in room and at breakfast)
• all the breakfast buffet stuff like tongs, juice jugs etc
• the room key/card (can’t imagine those are cleaned)
• the coat hangers
• the hairdryer
• the menu
• the world

Do you have to take your dettol wipes to breakfast too? In the lift? I mean, you’re obviously free to knock yourself out, but don’t kid yourself you’re doing it out of good sense.

This is why they are close to millionaires. We aren't, but have enough for the rest of our lives, barring an unexpected disaster, but growing up in the austere 50s set many habits for life. DH worked for a large multinational grocery supplier in Marketing. Having seen that product development, new recipes etc was mainly done to make more profit (round teabags were not made to fit the cup better as they advertised at the time, but because they bought a machine that could produce more teabags quicker and more cheaply than the older square cut machine, marketing's job was to sell the change as a product benefit.) He now rarely buys branded product, saying most things reached their peak decades ago and most own label is better than the leading brands.

Kids today have it easy, but don't realise it. When I checked expenses in an admin job back in the 80s, hotel bills often listed the films the guests has booked to watch in their rooms. There were not many family friendly films rented. The more experienced workers stayed in smaller hotels that just gave an un broken down bill. 'One night bnb plus evening meal.'

I don’t know if a PP has shared this yet but I saw a “hack” posted online (with photos!) of a woman boiling her period stained undies in her hotel to get tue stains out. Never used a hotel kettle again 😬