Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Lex!

that said i'm far happier about random flatmates annoying me like this than i would be about a boy/girlfriend à la dog latin :o

my tip for getting on top of washing up = don't cook, don't create the mess in the first place, prevention is better than cure

you will be happier when you no longer do this

nah i'm easy about that, i am by nature fairly lazy about these things (which really says something about how filthy the flatmates are). it's not like i ever have a ton of horrible washing up.

i guess it's relative

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Google employees have the cleanest kitchens for that reason.

Apart from those that live with other people. But they don't cook, so don't go in the kitchen, so don't care about the mess.

UGH roommates. What an unpleasant trip down Memory Lane :( I do get the feeling from some of people's comments about washing up in five minutes that these people don't actually cook. I usually wash up around 9.00pm on week nights unless there is a show I want to watch and then I'll wash up earlier. It certainly takes more than 5 minutes. And I prefer to relax at least a little while after eating rather than start the washing up immediately. I do try to wash things up as I go along while I am cooking but naturally you can only do that so much.

I don't like your roommates!

it's a shame because in every other respect they're pretty much exactly what i want in roommates

i feel like there's undue focus on the washing up - i really wouldn't care if they left their pile of washing up next to the sink for, like, several days. it's everything else i mentioned, the little things that surely even the laziest person knows to do.

i get really mad at my parents for keeping v. v. expired medicine in the cabinet. 'in case we need it - you never know' and even when i explain it can turn poisonous and doesn't, like, just lose potency or fade or whatever, they are dismissive and defensive. we have a bottle of tylenol from '79 upstairs, as well as some doxycycline from '84 that they're keeping around for some impossible eventuality. this isn't irrational anger, i know, but ugh.

when I encounter stuff like that in my parents' house, I just throw it out and tell them they need more

The best wasn't medicine, but a large box of dried split peas that cost them 15 cents when they bought it; I found this circa 1994?

NOTE TO PARENTS: there is no need to keep food that is older than your children

(esp. your ADULT children)

oh the ancient dry food. you'd think they were raised in the great depression.

Jesse, tell ILX about the pudding.

in fairness, their parents lived through the Great Depression and imprinted a lot of frugality onto them, but still

lex is 100% OTM about washing up. Greasy lip stains are the vilest things to encounter.

You know, on a comparative internal scale, I think washing-up breeds more day-to-day pain, heartbreak and malcontent among the general populace than anything happening in the news.

The food cupboard at my parents' house contained until well into the 2000s some item or other with a price tag ending in ½p. The halfpenny piece was withdrawn from circulation in 1984.

My dad probably still has some unopened French fish soup sachets he bought on holiday in 1987, my mother kept trying to throw them out and he'd protest that they looked interesting and he was going to get round to them eventually and he was sure they were still fine but nobody else had to eat them if they weren't sure

as late as 1984? wow... I thought it was some time in the seventies for some reason.

I think washing-up breeds more day-to-day pain, heartbreak and malcontent among the general populace than anything happening in the news.

and to think, that there is a way around it

not eating isn't a viable option, Tracer

Yes, please enlighten me Tracer, your previous post didn't make sense.

I don't care about dishes left in the sink, I don't even care if some are left on the counter, what I DO care about is "washed" dishes that are still greasy and in fact have giant lip-stick marks on the rim.

Part of the problem, though, is the newish eco-friendly dish soaps that don't cut grease unless you pour on half a cup. Look, I'm sorry about the earth and everything, but No.

who do you know who snogs the rims of plates?

Did I say plate? It was on a mug.

So very true. Laundry detergent also. Eco friendly is great but the product has to WORK.

fuck a trader joe's cleaning products, btw

You people are savages, my plates and clothes clean up perfectly well with modern products

incidentally - if anyone's an expert at this -the conditioner drawer on our washing machine appears to be blocked as it keeps filling with water. How do I fix this?

Conditioner?

But the answer is probably filling all the receptacles with white vinegar and running the machine while empty.

Also

http://dawndishsoap.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dawn-dish-soap.jpg

<3 u 4eva

Jesse, tell ILX about the pudding.

― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Thursday, July 7, 2011 10:02 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

When I moved last year I found a box of pistachio pudding mix that expired in 1997, and I did not immediately throw it out. When I told Jenny and friend this, they were appalled and adamant about my throwing it away. Their strong reaction led me to my increasingly obstinate dismissal of expiration dates, and ultimate refusal to acknowledge that pudding could ever actually expire. I made the pudding and it was, in fact, legitimately expired.

Now on the other hand that box of wild rice in my cabinet at home.....

xp- Maybe "conditioner" means rinse agent? Or maybe dog latin meant "headwasher" instead of dishwasher.

I think he meant "fabric softener"

also what did that pudding smell/taste like

I believe that is referring to Fabric Softener.

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was it expired in terms of taste or texture?

Oh, I read "washing machine" as dishwasher. I would like to think I could have figured out "conditioner" had I read the rest of the question correctly.

Tip! White vinegar makes a great fabric softener/conditioner. You can put it in a Downy Ball (is that a strictly USA thing?) and it is cheap and works great and doesn't clog anything.

The pudding tastes musty.

xp - OH! I read it was dishwasher, too!

age 24 or so is about the last legitimate age to leave dishes unwashed overnight.

*turns the post upside down*

Oh, 42. Good, I'm still within the age limit.

i get really mad at my parents for keeping v. v. expired medicine in the cabinet. 'in

I once found a bottle of sixty year old laudanum in the back of a client's medicine cabinet.

I have a friend who recently ate some yoghurt that expired in May 2010. She was so determined to prove it was still OK that she kept offering it to everybody, and then spent the next day haranguing Yoplait over the phone for putting too-early expiry dates on their food. But she has a lot of other problems, too, so this is fairly normal behaviour for her.

i am aware that expiry dates err way on the side of caution but i still can't let myself go over them beyond maaaaybe a day if i'm feeling particularly risky

fuck a trader joe's cleaning products, btw

i don't know if this counts as a "cleaning product" but i'm a fan of tj's "tea tree tingle" body wash.

except they'er not all terribly cautious, or even accurate... deli items and meats particularly, are /often/ marked to the very last date, or even falsified. (xp)

so those chicken breasts i got for half price might be a little elderly?

yeah, there are all sorts of butcher's tricks to make meat look fresh: CO2, saline, ash, etc., (/former meatcutter)

Isn't that the difference between 'best before', 'display before' and 'use by', though?

20/20 did a hidden cam investigation of North Carolina grocery chain Food Lion in which they caught some people repackaging and selling expired meat after washing it with bleach water, or dousing it with BBQ sauce and labeling it as a convenience item. I worked at a Food Lion a couple years later and there were always those shoppers who were angry about something unrelated to meat who would go, "Oh yeh? Well you sell spoiled meat!"

I can't remember if it was in the same investigation that a systematic wage theft was exposed. Managers made employees clock out at their scheduled leaving time, but they weren't allowed to leave until side work was done.

Still, they had the best benefits of any employer I had in my 20s.