Just a little thing came to mind tonight.
Being poor pensioners, we share a bathroom. It's a fairly modern type with wall cupboards,worktop with sink, hidden flush, etc. There are 5 small drawers......SWM has the top one and I have the second for items like razor, shaving brush and other manly things.
Now, I opened my drawer tonight, prior to having a bath and found, in there, my aerosol deodorant which I'd left on the worktop by the sink this morning.
I've noticed this before, razor or brush mysteriously migrating to the drawer......why ?
A count after getting out of the bath showed no less than 15 different bottles of her unguents and creams on display with, perhaps, another 30 in the cupboard !
My deodorant isn't offensive, it's not ' Old Dung ' or ' Attractasheep ', it's just a regular, off the peg, one from the supermarket or chemist.
Anyway, I've left it out again, so I'll see if it disappears again by the morning !
Maybe the girls on could throw some light on this.
I wonder what the reaction would be if I stuffed all 15 of her things into her drawer and left my one can of smellies out !
Ted
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>> I wonder what the reaction would be if I stuffed all 15 of her things
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If you do more than wonder you are very brave or totally insane. :-)
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>>A count after getting out of the bath showed no less than 15 different bottles of her unguents and creams on display with, perhaps, another 30 in the cupboard !<<
Poor?? you don't know the meaning of the word Teddy!
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I'm getting my own back,using her razerblades nice pinky colour and they work.
Woman and hairy legs.>:)
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Any man who genuinely understands women and writes a book on the subject will not only have a worldwide best seller, but also make a fortune.
The bets are that it will never happen...:-)
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And when you have made your fortune the woman will spend it.>:)
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It's quite easy to understand Ted.
She's waiting for your aim to improve.
Men can point, but notoriously cannot manage to hit a hole at least 18'' wide...why not?
Once you've mastered that you get 'shelf status':)
Why do men come in from the garage, or the garden with filthy hands then stand bolt upright at the sink and proceed to rub them vigorously to clean them?
Result, clean hands, dirty splashes up the wall and tiles:(
Why not just bend over the sink?
It's so easy to keep a woman happy, just turn all of your discarded clothes right way through when you get undressed, instead of leaving them for her to do.
I don't do it anymore, I just iron them and put them away inside out...that works and it rarely happens now:)
Pat
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It's a battle here with Mrs F and two teen girls. The side of the bath and all worktop space would be covered with 75% used bottles of stuff if they had their way. I just require one shower gel left out. So it was my habit to scoop up all their potions and randomly stuff into two cupboards.
In this temp house the bathroom has been refitted with custom units and has 15 drawers/7 cupboards. So far the novelty of all this storage has kept the place tidy... but for how long?
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Why not just bend over the sink?
Seven little words with so much to contribute to domestic harmony. The bruises have just about disappeared since the last time I tried them.
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My friend's grandfather had a pupose built cottege when he retired.
Features included a triple width garage with lots of wrkshop space, but the best bit was a small corridor between the garage and house, with a loo, wash area and even a shower so that after working in the workshop or garden he could clean up before coming back into the house.
I'd love to have the same. Maybe one day!
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>> before coming back into the house.
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I built a simple outside compost loo in a shed in the garden, with washbasin and water fed from a rainwater butt. It's really useful having facilities you can tramp into in muddy boots, and a sink you can splash greasy swarfega splodges over or rinse off mud.
It has a house-relegated old towel that doesn't matter messing up, and a stock of rags to use instead of handkerchiefs.
It's a boy's paradise really - all the indoor rules operate in reverse.
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>> Men can point, but notoriously cannot manage to hit a hole at least 18'' wide...why not?
The beer gut obscures the view.
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>>Being poor pensioners, we share a bathroom.<<
Who with? The neighbours?
Or is one bathroom per resident the norm in the UK these days? I've been away a long time...
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Apparently the four-bedroom house we bought last year had stuck on the market for a while because of its lack of 'an en suite'. Didn't bother us, once we'd negotiated a decent chunk off the asking price.
I explained this to one of the junior Beests, whose considered response was: "So if one of you has a poo at bedtime the other has to lie there and smell it?" Bright boy; he'll go far.
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When I moved to the North East about 20 years ago, some of the pit village houses still had an outside toilet.
The more developed ones had a roof on it.
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>>I explained this to one of the junior Beests, whose considered response was: "So if one of you has a poo at bedtime the other has to lie there and smell it?" Bright boy; he'll go far<<
Funnily enough, I'm not too keen on on sweets either, LadyDog and I have separate bedrooms
(just between me & thee Beest) and she has had 'en suite' facilities for the past umpteen properties we've owned,
I much prefer not having a bog in my bedroom, thanks.
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LadyDog and I have separate
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Yeah, me too , Doggy. I don't sleep with married women ! Mainly due to mutual snorage problems.
I don't see why Mrs Ted has to have the larger room, though. I've got far more ' stuff ',
Railway books, computer, model cars, motorbike kit, CDs, DVDs, Videos and lots of other essential mangear !
Important stuff...she only has clothes, shoes and a load of trashy detective paperbacks.......and even more bottles of body stuff, of course.
The one good thing about all her bathroom smellies is that you can easily find a spray bottle of scent to negate the effects of a particularly evil dump !
Ted
Ted
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>>Yeah, me too , Doggy. I don't sleep with married women !<<
Oh, I'm not so fussy Teddo ... Eh in's bedroom is twice the size of mine, it's the clothes as you say!!
more clothes (and shoes) than zaza gabor I reckon,
I'm happy in my little cot though ~ PEACE!
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We used to have a potty in our bedroom as kids,so did adults if my memory is right.
Come to think of it outside toilets are hygenic,bit cold in winter do.
In our village the outside bogs where collected once a week by horse and cart stinky bussiness.>;)
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...In our village the outside bogs where collected once a week by horse and cart stinky bussiness.>;)...
Same happened in the North East.
The toilet was at the far end of the back yard.
It was emptied via an opening in the wall which faced the back lane, so no need to enter the property.
The coal was dumped through a larger opening in the same wall, the coal opening was higher to match the level of the cart.
In some properties, you can still see where the openings have been bricked up.
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>> Apparently the four-bedroom house we bought last year had stuck on the market for a
>> while because of its lack of 'an en suite'.
Mrs F used to complain about lack of en suite at previous abode, so was happy to move to our current place last year which does have such a facility. I wasn't that bothered, but was quite looking forward to having to walk less far during the night - you know how it is as you get older.
Anyway, it appears I'd mis-understood. It's not our en suite, it's hers :)
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>>>I explained this to one of the junior Beests, whose considered response was: "So if one of you has a poo at bedtime the other has to lie there and smell it?" Bright boy; he'll go far.
He'll go even further if educated in the provision of a correctly sized extractor fan with timer and sensor activation. I was interested to read the spec of one such sensor the other day which stated that once activated if it detected no further motion in 5mins it would turn off.
Ideal for the toilet then...
Our current rental is an odd design with two bathrooms but no en-suite. Takes the pressure off two teens and Mrs F getting ready though.
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No one heard of a quick squirt of anti smell stuff before going to the loo, or using the short flush at the correct moment.
We recently had our main bathroom and en suite stripped out and fully refurbed, in both cases we had the extractors put on separate switches, damned annoying the things running on when you're trying to get back to sleep again, and they certainly don't need to fire up for a pee, unless you've been on the asparagus..;)
Incidentally whilst on bathrooms and personal hygiene, we got rid of the separate bidet in the main bathroom, and installed 'bum guns' or 'shattafs' in both rooms, thermostatically controlled mind, not brave enough for an ice cold blast up the nethers..;)
Would thoroughly recommend them for anyone interested, the amount of loo paper we now use is minute.
Why do women need half a roll of loo paper each time they pee..:-)....that's it i'm off.
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>>Why do women need half a roll of loo paper each time they pee.
I think more of them scrunch, not fold the stuff. It certainly applies to my three.
Engineering back ground and all that, the thicker the paper, the less likely you are to stick a finger through it.
How do these bints with damn great long fingernails manage?
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They problaby use their fingernails.
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>> They probably use their fingernails.
Mindbleach, please!
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My sister in law and her daughter have a reputation for blocking toilets +, probably something to do with the sheer volume of bog roll they get through.
As I don't know the swedish word for bog unblocker, the last time they visited I put a notice up in the bathroom. It rear: POO - FLUSH, WIPE - FLUSH, WIPE - FLUSH.
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I'd put one underneath saying 'OK, just as long as you pay the water rates'
Pat
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Talking about poo.
Came back from holidays and the lads where left in charge.
From 11pm untill early morning unblocking the toilet.Had to take pipes off everything was blocked.Manage to clear the system hands on job .Kids.!
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>From 11pm untill early morning unblocking the toilet.
About 20yrs ago, on our first sailing holiday in Greece we did the flotilla thing with five or six other yachts. One of the other boats was crewed by a young solicitor with his wife and two kids. He soon became a real PITA - a loud, obnoxious know it all who demanded to be the centre of attention all the time.
One morning, after the usual briefing, we all set sail for our next destination. About half an hour later we heard a call over the VHF from the solicitor telling the flotilla skipper that he could not pump out his holding tank. The skipper replied asking him for his position and telling him that they would meet him and get the flotilla engineer to take a look at it.
Talking to the skipper over a beer that night it seems Mr Solicitor had decided that he couldn't wait and he would fix it himself. When the lead boat arrived they found him covered in carp cleaning out the bilge with beach towels.
Somehow took the wind out of his sails for a few days :-)
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Nice story Kevin.
I remember I wasn't pleased that night,we just came back from Majorca to Manchester freezing cold in the UK.
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Ha, lucky I have free water from the well.
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just a note on toilet etiquette, i was told all through my child hood to ' lift the seat before you go' eventually it became second nature, then just when i thought everything was ok came the chilling words from my first wife ' why do you always leave the seat up when youve used the loo?' women.....you just cant win
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Women just don't get that men take years to house train. She wanted the seat up before, and the lid down after, within five years?
Men, understand 'em.?.............Nah.
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In my childhood that was the correct thing to do. Never flush the loo with the seat down because it splashes a little bit, and that leaves the next user faced with little specks of liquid to sit on, which may or may not be ...
So that's what I have always done, explaining to anyone who is interested that I was a well-brought up child, not just a thoughtless male.
Those silly pink fluffy lids hadn't been invented then.
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I know someone who always leaves the seat up because the dog drinks out of the bowl.
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Surely you blokes have cracked the ultimate get out of trouble excuse for leaving the seat up by now?
'Sorry dear, I do it so you won't sit down and find a huge spider lurking on the under side...'
Pat
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Look you want the seat lifted when we got to the loo? Its proof we did.
Like it or lump it.
Last edited by: VxFan on Wed 5 Oct 11 at 00:57
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There speaks a man used to covering his ar.....back:)
Pat
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not at all, simply choices.
What do you want, an Up seat or a wet seat?
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I still have to get down the stairs before the flush finishes.......if I don't, the Loonies in the Loo will get me.
At least, that's what me ole Mum always told me !
Ted
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But it looks neater with the seat and lid down....
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Hides the splashes around the rim!
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Yuk:)
I hope you have to clean it out Roger.
Pat
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More like men, understand 'em.?...........Nah.
Here's a thread entitled "Women, understand 'em.?...........Nah." and it's been turned into a discussion about toilets.....
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" or using the short flush at the correct moment."
Ah, surfing the sausage!
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>> " or using the short flush at the correct moment."
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To get rid of ' Billy-no-mates '...........the one that stays in the pool when all his friends have gone to the beach !
Ted
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Women, understand 'em.?...........Nah. - Old Navy
