What ever you do, don't wash 'em.
And if you do. Dry them, piece by piece.

I had a housemate at one time named Leonard. Much like myself and probably many of you, Leonard had spent much of his twenties studying and working and living in shared houses.
As most of you may remember - these shared abodes often had kitchens that were eclipsed in their size only by the broom closet.
Which often meant that washing the dishes was a cramped and uncomfortable affair frequently involving more than 1 person. Usually one person washing and at least another grabbing cutlery/crockery off the draining board and hurriedly drying it and putting it away in order to provide more room for the washer to place items.

That's if you could be fucked doing the dishes and didn't simply throw the mounting pile of dirty dishes in the bin to be replaced by some from the local op-shop the following day. Charity begins at home, right?

Well having got married and with his missus growing a genetic composite of the two of them in her womb, Leonard moved into a house with - luxuries of luxuries - a dishwasher!
Around this time Leonard also inherited from his parents his older brothers Lego collection. Amongst many other things that the family had been hoarding over the years and of course with Leonard being the youngest and last to 'move out' - he got dumped with all the left-over detritus.
Leo of course (not quite being a new parent, yet) thought that the Lego would be great for his young son (or daughter) to play with once they were born.
Once his missus and quite a few other people had explained to him just how dangerous Lego could be to a newborn, the issue was also raised that the Lego would have to be cleaned anyway before it was given to a child.
Leonard struck upon an idea!
Why not wash the 3 rectangular lego brick buckets full of Lego in his newly acquired dishwasher?
Which he did.
Dousing them in Miltons and using a "you-beaut" new dishwasher tablet.
On the Pot setting.

Then he chucked them all in a pillow case to dry them, threw them into his shed and promptly forgot about them as he went about learning how to be a new dad.

A few years later he found them. As he picked up the pillow case the bottom fell away and he was left picking up hundreds of mouldy Lego pieces. This was a thick grey-green mould coating most of the pieces that appeared to have grown to the point of almost reaching sentience. Yet Leonard wasn't perturbed.
In this time his families' finances had improved somewhat and altho they were still living in the same place they had replaced much of their whitegoods - including their old dishwasher for a brand new, top of the wozz "Miele" dishwasher.
Despite the strong smell from the Lego, Leo remembered what a good job the last dishwasher had done. And he chucked all of the manky, mouldy Lego into his brand, spanking, new dishwasher.

Despite their attempts (both commercial and old skool - like bicarb, lemon juice etc.) Leonard and his missus never quite got rid of the smell of the mouldy Lego bricks from their dishwasher.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 8:22, 11 replies)

Mould, dishwashers, sheds, pillow cases and Lego
Its got everything!

Let's see what the virtual rapist Albert Arsemellow can do with this one.
(bad_advice QOTW survivor from the first trollocost!, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 11:20, closed)

I need to provide him with more opportunities
to highlight his urophilia really.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 11:57, closed)

Jesus
That was boring
(wrigglesworth, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 12:20, closed)

oh, you're for it now

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 15:12, closed)

One day he'll claim that these years of posting deadly dull non-stories and being endlessly butthurt was all a giant ruse.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 6:53, closed)

One day he'll claim that these years of posting 10's of thousands of snide comments, no stories and being endlessly negative was all him being an internet troll.
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 8:28, closed)

He didn't even piss in his face
( cs1ca, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 15:31, closed)

Jesus!
That wasn't "tl;dr".
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Sun 27 Oct 2013, 21:04, closed)

I suppose it was beyond them to buy a specialist mould and mildew deteregent.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 17:24, closed)

Australians are hardly renowned for academic rigour.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 18:39, closed)

Oh you clever
lateral thinking Poms!
(s0ckpuppet logging out to reply to you if you're not careful, Mon 28 Oct 2013, 19:43, closed)