What household tasks do you dominate?

eet fuk · 11-05-2016 09:35PM #1

I'm a dishwasher man myself. I can load it with maximum efficiency and then put everything away in no time.

I don't know why I've taken to it so much - I'd say partly due to my obsession with having immaculately clean cutlery and also my mistrust of other people to wash things properly.

How about you? Are you a divil with a hoover? A contender for polisher of the year? Or maybe you fold sheets like no other?

me_irl · 11-05-2016 09:37PM

Is this you?

tomwaterford · 11-05-2016 09:37PM

Making tae....everyone else is pure shtie at it

Also toast....why do people burn it

Hunchback · 11-05-2016 09:37PM

I truly excel at channel selection on the telly - my remote control game is STRONG

the evasion_kid · 11-05-2016 09:40PM

Chopping wood...I'm some man with an axe

eet fuk · 11-05-2016 09:40PM

me_irl wrote: »

Is this you?

Hmmmmm

stoplooklisten · 11-05-2016 09:43PM

I lead the delegation team

Fiery mutant · 11-05-2016 09:47PM

Vacuuming. I'm like Leonardo Da Vinci, and the vacuum is my paintbrush. I could charge people to come into my house to watch me work, and they would pay.

Whenever I pick up the vacuum, time slows down, and background music plays.

Sacrifice of Angels.

maudgonner · 11-05-2016 09:48PM

eet fuk wrote: »

A contender for polisher of the year?

That's quite a competitive category, I hear.

AnonoBoy · 11-05-2016 10:00PM

Polishing. Especially knobs and knockers.

Tell you what I can polish a knob like you wouldn't believe.

ygolometsipe · 11-05-2016 10:04PM

Cleaning the bathtub, I always find its best done as an inside job.

Despite how relaxed I look, I am not enjoying the bubbles!

Ruu · 11-05-2016 10:08PM

CKonetheonlyone wrote: »

I truly excel at channel selection on the telly - my remote control game is STRONG

My pause button game is very weak, how do you find it? I'm just not there on the day.

11-05-2016 10:12PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Polishing. Especially knobs and knockers.

Tell you what I can polish a knob like you wouldn't believe.

:pac:

mansize · 11-05-2016 10:13PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Polishing. Especially knobs and knockers.

Tell you what I can polish a knob like you wouldn't believe.

I bet you're rusty on the knockers though

eet fuk · 11-05-2016 10:23PM

Guys. I get the feeling you're not taking this seriously.

FizzleSticks · 11-05-2016 10:24PM

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eet fuk · 11-05-2016 10:26PM

FizzleSticks wrote: »

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I used to live with a girl who basically just ran things under the tap. Ugh.
My dad once used his thumb to scrub the cups. Uuuugggghhhh.

Filmer Paradise · 11-05-2016 10:29PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Also toast....why do people burn it

To escape the tyranny that is Warm Bread! :pac:

tomwaterford · 11-05-2016 10:33PM

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

To escape the tyranny that is Warm Bread! :pac:

To such an extent they need to scrape crumbs off??

No way is that doing it right....and then bits of bread in the butter :mad: :mad:

Rogueish · 11-05-2016 10:37PM

Putting Flatpack together!!

AnonoBoy · 12-05-2016 08:54AM

mansize wrote: »

I bet you're rusty on the knockers though

No knockers go rusty when I'm around Sir!

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 12-05-2016 09:08AM

I love cleaning. The level of cleaning intensifies depending on how stressed out I am. I've often been up in the middle of the night scrubbing the oven clean to work off some frustration.
I lived in a house share before with a load of lads, that oven was filthy. They boasted how it hadn't been cleaned in 7 years, and not to use the grill part because it would go on fire. I spent two days trying to clean it. They stood around it, laughing at how it'll never be that clean again.
I cleaned the bathroom too, washed walls, scrubbed that STI pit jacuzzi bath, scrubbed the shower. It was looking and smelling like a normal bathroom. "I heard the bathrooms clean! I'll have to see this!" said one of the lads as soon as he came home from work. Pigs.

Cleaning is definitely something I've got much more into in the past two or so years. I don't like leaving anywhere untouched. Even the tops of the kitchen units. Hate thinking they're dusty on the top.

Speedwell · 12-05-2016 09:15AM

I rinse dishes. I hate washing up but I do it. What in the great green hell is up with people not rinsing the dishes around here? I can't get my Irish husband to rinse a soapy dish. "That's how my mother does it" so if I ask him to do it differently I am apparently disrespecting him AND his mother.

People, the object of doing the washing-up is to have clean dishes. Maybe that's just an American thing. :P

uck51js9zml2yt · 12-05-2016 09:15AM

I dominate the sky remote ...an arduous task if ever there was one , trying to defend myself against peppa pig and paw patrol.!

Autonomous Cowherd · 12-05-2016 09:41AM

I do like washing me a wooden floor I have discovered. Weird, I know. Hands and knees job, like. Earphones on and music full blast so the world stops, and all that exists is sound, wood, hot bubbles and swishing cloth. Zen-Sweat therapy.

12-05-2016 10:23AM

I live with two girls. Light bulbs do not get replaced unless I do something about. I'm convinced they suffer from this to degree. The fuse box went one day and they freaked out; it wasn't fixed until I got back. I flicked all the switches on/off till everything was back on. They were utterly amazed at my electrician skills. I have no such skills whatsoever. They don't understand how the clock for the immersion works either. I've explained it a few times. Its as if they refuse to attempt to understand it.

Speedwell · 12-05-2016 10:31AM

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I have live with two girls. Light bulbs do not get replaced unless I do something about. I'm convinced they suffer from this to degree. The fuse box went one day and they freaked out; it wasn't fixed until I got back. I flicked all the switches on/off till everything was back on. They were utterly amazed at my electrician skills. I have no such skills whatsoever. They don't understand how the clock for the immersion works either. I've explained it a few times. Its as if they refuse to attempt to understand it.

Ugh, I'm afraid I looked like that once. When my husband brought me, an American, to his home in Ireland less than three years ago, I had to learn how to use a string mop (I'd always used a sponge mop on my minuscule flat's kitchen), drive a manual transmission, figure out why I had to turn on a switch at the plug socket, understand the switches marked sink/bath and off/on (the immersion, which I mostly don't use), work an electric shower, use the heating timer, plan heating oil use so we didn't always run out, hang wet clothing on the line (grew up with clothes dryers, and I cannot say I have yet completely mastered the art of line drying), and keep houseplants alive.

The Sidewards Man · 12-05-2016 01:21PM

I'm an expert at deleting memory on the sky plus.

MarcoAntonio23 · 12-05-2016 01:27PM

I dominate all things culinary & cocktail mixology in my household.

Dr Crayfish · 12-05-2016 02:11PM

Washing glasses. No one gets them as pristine as me. I actually enjoy cleaning kitchens and bathrooms. Hate hoovering. Changing bedsheets and duvet covers would give me a stroke.

Ciaran_B · 12-05-2016 03:03PM

Ironing. I properly enjoy starting with a big pile of clean clothes and standing at the ironing board for an hour - jump forward an hour and I've a pile of freshly ironed and folded shirts. I find it very relaxing.

Brillo-pad work. Give me a brillo-pad and I'll have any metal surface in the kitchen shining; taps, sink, pots etc.

What household tasks do you dominate?

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