I lived with a friend once who was more than a little obsessive about cleanliness...
Multiple examples could fill this post, but best of all was before vacuuming she'd walk around the house sprinkling handfuls (hands full?) of uncooked rice all over the carpets and floor, then after vacuuming she's inspect. A single grain of rice meant she'd not done a decent job in that room so she'd start again.
( difficultchild, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 2:01, 4 replies)

Hands full
implies she was scattering severed hands about the place, each one full of rice.

*pedant who reads this sort of stuff in the back of New Scientist magazine.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:17, closed)

OK then...
And this is now way intended to be sarcastic or righteous, I genuinely don't know...
If you're talking about the plural of the drink Brandy Alexander is it Brandy Alexanders or Brandys Alexander? I've tried dozens of people to get to the bottom of this and had equal arguments both ways. The drink itself is a Brandy Alexander so two would be Brandy Alexanders, but the drink is also a Brandy, done Alexander style so two would be Brandys Alexander. It's like the old Governors General rule... and it's driving me fucking mad!
(heard an old barman say it one day and it stuck in my head).
( difficultchild, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 5:51, closed)

Seems like a waste of good rice to me.

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:03, closed)

If you're going to live with someone with OCD...
It may as well be someone who compulsively cleans, therefore meaning you don't have to do any!

Better than one of those "useless" OCDisorders, like someone who has to flick the lights on and off 52 times before they enter a room.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 17:41, closed)