How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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When I ws a filthy studentNot a patch on most of the stories here.
Moved into a house in Croydon, which had a seperate shower and bath. A few weeks after I moved in, a bee popped his clogs and fell in the bath. As everybody used the shower, the bee became a permanent feature.
I lived there for two years, and every time my mother came to visit, she would check on the bee, and comment. When I left, I thought about taking it with me as a souvenir, but I got stoned instead, and forgot.
And just to balance the story, fast forward 20 years or so - a few months ago my brother and I were mooching around my mothers kitchen for something to eat, and found a pot of mixed spice that was 14 years past it's best by date.
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Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:02,
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Please tell us that you gave the bee a name, surely?I think as women get past a certain age they seem to stop throwing old food out. Once, back in maybe 1997 or so, I came home and went into the cupboard to find something to eat. There were a few extra packets.
"Oh, my mum gave me a few things for the cupboard" my wife said. (we were quite skint at the time).
There was a packet a Paxo bread sauce mix and as I took it out to have a look, my first impression was "Haven't they changed the packet design at all, it looks really dated."
That's because it was. It's best-before must have been Feb 1988. The worrying thing is that I didn't immediately throw it out and in 6 months time, I wrapped it up and gave to my mate for his birthday.
Even more worryingly is that I got it back for my birthday 2 years later.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:12,
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Wellno, we didn't name him.
To tell the truth, it was a rather hazy smoke filled couple of years. On a normal day we'd struggle to remember our own names.
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Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:23,
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WaspI have a wasp who lives (well... lived would be more accurate) in my rear brake light. He's quite dead now but I've named him Geoff.
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