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?

Are you saying ‘yes’ because you have to repeatedly change, or ‘yes’ because you agree with the question being asked. Ie. Do you have to change?

Yes, I change when I get home (within reason). If I'm not leaving again, I change into my house clothes. If I anticipate leaving later on or if I'm doing cooking, then I may not change right away.

Bed bugs come from indoors, not outdoors. It's possible to have them get in your jeans if you sit on somebody else's furniture who had an infestation, but still unlikely. Usually they come back with you from your travels, through things you buy (usually used, but sometimes new) or get in your home because a neighbour is infested.

Seems a bit pointless doing it like that. If you get home and change in the house then you could have already brought in the bed bugs .
I'm waiting for someone to say they have a decontamination chamber on the drive .

Exactly. Unless you throw them in the wash right away, it makes no difference if you change out of them or not.
The idea that bed bugs come from outdoors is also wrong. Bed bugs can only live for a short time outdoors. They are indoor pests.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard in my life.

Wait, what you mean you don't have a decontamination tent on your drive !
How are you still alive ?
I am trying to get everyone on my road to get together and pay for one at each end of the road so everyone that walks along our road is clean 🤣🤣🤣

Well, you started the thread. Do I win a prize?

If there was a thunder storm my dad used to switch off and/or unplug everything electrical, including the lights, and then we'd all sit there in the dark waiting for the storm to pass.

I do this - because I have 5 year old twins and wouldn’t put it past them to turn the hob rings on when there’s something sat on the top of the cooker.

I have a friend who eats sandwiches with a knife and fork - at home, even when she’s made it herself. She also never buys the components of a salad and makes one herself, she buys tubs of prepared salad at least 3 times a week. Lastly, she doesn’t do a weekly shop but will only buy for the next 3-4 days so has 2 supermarket deliveries a week. She isn’t rural or a long way from the nearest supermarket, it’s less than 5 minutes walk from her house; nor does she have issues with storage such as no freezer, quite the opposite, it’s permanently almost empty.

But you are drying clean hands, the same hands that will touch the dishes. So to extrapolate out you shouldn’t touch dishes with your hands.

My Dm used to do similar - getting all the ‘bits’ out of any egg before using. She was very squeamish, and didn’t like ‘eggy’ eggs anyway 😂 - though we never did find out exactly what made any egg ‘eggy’.

Oh my dad does that- goes to the supermarket 5/6 times a week.

He grew up very poor, where feeding everyone was a stress.

He said his goal in life when he was young was to be able to walk into a food shop and buy anything and everything he fancied eating without any worry.

So even though he made it there decades ago, it still makes him happy to do it.

I don't get any white stringy bits ever and am v confused by this.

My dH adds milk to make it 'silkier' but not me.

I can’t see that it’s odd not to do a weekly shop. I hardly ever do now (older with more time) so will walk 15 or 25 minutes to a supermarket to get enough for the next 2-3 days - and get the bus back - it’s a steepish uphill walk back. I only take the car if I know I’m going to have a lot of heavy shopping, which is not often now.

She doesn’t even go to the supermarket for her twice weekly shopping, she orders online for delivery. She then gets her husband to buy the salad on the other day she has it as part of a main meal.

She was one of those people who put her shopping into “quarantine” for at least 3 days during Covid and also her post; she even bought some American wash thing for her fruit and vegetables!!

Oh God, I could not be bothered. Ever. Mine only come out from under the counter when they are broken and I need a new one. Not even when I move house do they come out.
I have a friend who has all those and the fridge and her cooker on wheels. She pulls everything out every week to clean behind.

I guess if something had died behind an electrical item, I'd pull it out to clean then. But otherwise, nope, not bothered.

For all those who's scrambled eggs involve no milk, you are eating omelette.

Mushrooms that come clean enough to just cook are a relatively (well to me, I am 70) new thing. Mushrooms used to come with actual compost on and needed washing or peeling if you didn't want a gobful of grit or earth. Actually its only about a month ago that I bought mushrooms in waitrose that had growing medium on which needed removing before they were cooked, but I think that was an oversight and not usual. Washing does tend to make mushrooms soggy and the usual advice to "wipe with damp cloth or a kitchen towel" is a real faff, so you used to generally peel.

no I am not, its in small pieces in a creamy binding "sauce", not a whole item with a set exterior and a baveuse interior.

I think I’m more surprised not by people putting or not putting milk in scrambled eggs but by people being wildly shocked that anyone does it differently! All this “I’ve never, ever in my life heard of anyone adding milk!!” Really?? Where have you been?

The sieving the eggs before cooking them is weird. Sorry, but if you get white bits in the cooked egg you're not cooking it properly.

the bits are called chalazae and are cords that hold the yolk in the middle of the egg. I fish them out with a bit of egg shell before I cook the egg. https://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/poultry/poultry_eggparts.html#:~:text=In%20a%20fresh%20egg%2C%20we,the%20center%20of%20the%20egg.

oh I know folk who add milk, also those who don't. I prefer not to.

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