more a complete lack of common sense than ignorance, but hey ho!
I used to share a flat with some slovenly ex schoolfriends. The most disgusting them would just pour his left over food straight down the kitchen sink, somehow believing it to be a magical waste disposal unit like what he had 'seen on the american tele'. Eventually the pipe became blocked with assorted crap and we insisted he try to unblock it. He unscrewed the pipe from beneath the sink and discovered that it was full of rice and fried onion. He must have thought to himself 'boiling water will shift that!!' and pours an entire kettle of the stuff through it, whilst holding it over the sink with some old bbq tongs. whilst barefoot.
To be fair to the nurse that treated his feet for burns, she didn't take the piss out of him at all.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Tue 23 Mar 2010, 18:02, Reply)