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?

No, I just use the same one for everything.
I’m also not worried about hotel rooms, washing vegetables, anti baccing everything. Definitely a case of out of sight out of mind for me. I barely get colds and can’t remember the last time I a stomach upset.
Each to his own however.

I think she means the mixture she’s made, not some pre made mix. Because yes, that would be weird !
Although Iceland did sell frozen omelettes for a while which did seem unnecessary to me !

Not the point i know but thats a daft thing to do anyway as hot water sets stains, cold soak is best!

Mushrooms really can shrink a lot but spinach is worse.

I'm scared to cook spinach and mushrooms together because they just might shrink so much they'd cause a black hole.

Takes acres of the stuff just to cover a piece of toast.

Back on the original topic of weird things - 😄 I just passed a bin-washing van. Why do people pay monthly to get their bins cleaned, and when did this become a thing? Isn’t it just creating a need where none existed like vaginal deodorant?

Does she pile each colour combo up until theres enough for a wash or do they all go in the machine together?

Ha ha, quite, although man’s evolution has been approximately 6 million years. Pedants corner.

Why do people leave it until their medicines have run out before ordering new meds. Surely they can see they’re all their last strip of medicines, and think, ‘time to order new meds’.

I can explain that one - because their doctors won't let them. Especially with certain types of controlled drugs like Tramadol.

They will say "oh well you (should) have 7 tablets left, so they will do you a week so you don't need to ask for more until 2 days before you run out". Which would be all very well, but it often takes the surgeries longer to process the prescriptions, and then the pharmacies take ages to dispense them. It just leads to more and more people going into the pharmacies to ask for an emergency supply.

The answer would be to say ok our processes take a week and then the pharmacy needs a couple of days so we'll let you reorder 14 days before you run out.

But nope. That would be too sensible. My mum has this All The Time.

Edited: in fact this is a factor that puts me off going on HRT. I don't want to have to speak to a GP, get a prescription, go and queue in a pharmacy and then be told they've run out. I don't especially need it (yet) but dread the day coming when I do.

I think most people don't.

In my family's case our GP doesn't let you order your repeat meds until 7 days before you run out. They aim to issue it within 5 working days. If there's a bank holiday or an admin error or your nominated pharmacy has run out and the prescription needs admin approval for it to be released back to the spine for another pharmacy to dispense it, you can easily end up running out or being on your very last day of meds, through no fault of your own. Both our GP and our nominated pharmacy are very strict. We've had prescriptions ordered 8 days before (due to holidays) rejected.

Cross-post! At least my mum's surgery will let her order early if she says it's for holidays, but she has to go in and ask, rather than using the NHS app.

Haha yes, cross posted! My Mum can't use tech...so she handwrites a letter (as our GP "won't accept medication requests over the phone", and she's housebound) and one of us has to take it in, but the receptionists "won't accept medication requests in person", so then she has to wait "up to 7 days for the letter to be scanned onto the system for the practitioner to see"...so she needs to start the process about a month before we take her anywhere! No last minute cruise deals haha!

It took me over a month to get an urgent,
life saving, heart medication from the GP, issued by the surgeon at the hospital because of the GP's ridiculous process. The consultant and their secretary reported the practice to the CQC over it! Nurse Practitioner's response to me was, "I'm afraid if it's that important to you, you should pay to see your consultant again privately and pay for a private script from him as well as the cost of the private medication, otherwise you'll just have to wait like everyone else. We are rather busy and there's a two week back log between us and the hospital for new medications to go on repeat." The heart surgeon's PA did her nut when I phoned her to ask for help and I got the meds within the hour once she got involved!

No sense, whatsoever. How dare I be trying not to die in my 30s.

Yes, we're not allowed to order until a date quite close to running out. I always submit it on the first possible date, but still worry I won't get it in time.

I've cleaned hotel rooms in the past (before Covid) and we had to clean all surfaces with antibac spray/wipes - light switches, door handles, toilet seats, remotes, tea trays, side tables, mini bars, desks, the table used for room service, trouser press, hairdryers, soap dispensers, toilet roll holders, chairs. People would complain if there were smears, water stains and fingerprints left on anything. I even got told I should do the coat hangers but I didn't because I thought it was too ridiculous. My Mum cleaned caravans at a very well known family brand site and she was instructed to do the same, and they had terrible turnaround times and inspections.

The thing I'd advise being cautious about if you really want to avoid contact germ transfer is anything soft that hasn't been obviously laundered e.g. curtains, coverlets, runners and cushions that make a bed look 'pretty' as these aren't laundered often. I always strip my bed of these in a hotel because they are usually things that get 'stained' in my experience [sick] otherwise I do think most hotels have decent standards of hygiene because customers soon point out otherwise and it's in their financial interest to maintain their rooms.

Has your mum quoted the Equality Act to the receptionists? Doctors surgeries have to make reasonable adjustments, so they can't just insist that you use tech or get a friend of relative to do it for you - THEY, the surgery, have to make the reasonable adjustment, eg making an appointment in person instead of using the online triage, or accepting written prescription requests.

My mum had this argument with them. She uses the NHS app to order prescriptions but doesn't use the triage because it's too confusing (it is, I've done it a couple of times for her) and just goes in to speak to them. They don't like it, but they have capitulated.

it's outrageous for them to say you should go private instead of them doing their jobs properly.

“The answer would be to say ok our processes take a week and then the pharmacy needs a couple of days so we'll let you reorder 14 days before you run out.”

Used to work in a surgery, and we always advised people to order a week before for that reason.

My inlaws won't have bins in the house. Everything has to be taken out. Last time we were there the bin was emptied halfway through our visit. After that we weren't allowed to put anything in the bin in case it got too full, according to MIL. So I had to gather up my 6 month old's nappies and dispose of them when we were out.

Spamham · Yesterday 13:27

Ha ha, quite, although man’s evolution has been approximately 6 million years. Pedants corner.

But life has existed for 4 billion years.

😁

Lol
It's life Sin Jim but not as we know it. 😁

Nope.

“But along the track of our direct ancestors, the developments were rapid and profound. 5.6 million years ago, the first truly bipedal ape, Ardipithecus, arose. “

www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/15/what-was-it-like-when-the-first-humans-arose-on-earth/

And we have evolved and are now busy devolving

Spamham · Yesterday 13:41

Nope.

Our more distant ancestors also had immune systems.

It's not odd at all. It's not about the bacteria, it's about washing the grit and other stuff off it. Sorry but the better known types of cuisines do wash their meat and those that don't well you know them too. Those who think salt and pepper are seasoning.

Say what now?
What kind of meat are you buying that involves grit and “other stuff”?

My MIL found when her kids were young they always got ill because she literally has like 1 bacteria in her house. Her sister (according to her) lived in a "shithole" and her kids were fine