#1239

I really like that bathmat.
I bought a STUNNING bath mat from Homesense which is white with HUGE monstera leaves on it. Loved it I did. Then washed it and the green ran out into my bedsheets…then washed it several times more and it’s still running!! But I love it too much to part with it.

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#1240

That’s nice. Looks like it could be a bathmat appearing in Midsommar…

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#1241

Recent favourite: whenever we’re in the big supermarket in the cookware section, I’ll go full David Byrne and give it a “Take a look at these pans!”, “There’s a tumbler!” quite animatedly

Started to wheel it out wherever else I can, such as in the beer aisle (“cans”), vegetables (“yams”), etc. Haven’t cracked my partner yet, but it’s only a matter of time

(come to think of it I think I spoke about this with jezza_irons at the boozer? did I nick it off him? lol)

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#1242

I do this but I’m not trying to be annoying :upside_down_face:

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#1243

I guess it just comes naturally to me

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#1244

Can’t remember if there’s an annoying your child thread but I’ve been rolling out all the things that my dad did to annoy me as a kid, as an example changing the words to theme songs so My Little Pony becomes Skinny and Bony, and tyring out some of my own - Poo Patrol instead of Paw Patrol for instance…and lads, she laps it up!

Her lack of reaction, or joyful rather than annoyed reaction then annoys me instead. What a little punk.

Why isn’t she reacting to these tried and tested methods my dad finely honed on me?!

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#1245

I think you need to find the right song that she holds dear, or the right corruption that she’d find objectionable. It’ll come, I’m sure.

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#1246

I don’t know. Even universally irritating things seem to just egg her on, my dad used to wobble my bottom lip with his finger when I was talking and it made me so annoyed. I do it to her and she’s like ‘do that again! Mum, can I ask you something? Will you do that all the time?’

I think I’ve met the future queen of this thread.

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#1247

its your own fault for raising an absolute legend of a child

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#1248

yikes

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#1249

Another annoying your kid crossover. I’ve been reading a book (How much poo does an elephant do) of random facts to my boy (10) at bedtime recently rather than fiction, his choice. I’ve taken to slipping in the occasional made up fact to wind him up, but now it’s become a game where he tries to spot them. I’m helped by some of the facts being so crazy that they make mine seem normal (dinosaurs didn’t eat grass because it didn’t exist then? WTF?). Here are some I’ve tried and whether they got past him or not.

  • A man taught his parrot Gerald to recite the entire bible :ballot_box_with_check:
  • The largest rabbit on record was 12 feet long :negative_squared_cross_mark:
  • All male dolphins are called Kevin :negative_squared_cross_mark:
  • Gravity is 10% more effective over sea than on land :ballot_box_with_check:
  • A baby whale is called a whiffle :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Longest sausage ever made was 6 miles long and was laid along the side of the A4 near Bath :ballot_box_with_check:
  • The longest anyone has spent alive in a whale’s stomach is 6 days :negative_squared_cross_mark:
  • The most common boys name in the world is Sinbad :negative_squared_cross_mark:
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#1250

[Citation needed]

#1251

she says we need to keep getting a little bit of cows milk just for her tea cos the alternatives won’t do. been putting oat milk in her tea for a week now without telling her.

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#1252

Big fan of this one.

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#1253

Using the Google home pod to play ‘Elita’ by Gary Barlow or ‘Strip That Down’ by Liam Payne as we get ready in the mornings is a new favourite

#1254

Not my partner, but my kids are currently annoyed at me for cutting their tails off when they were born. Youngest in particular seems cross he can’t use it to swing from trees.

I’m in pretty deep with this one so think i may get them to adulthood thinking they were born with tails which is, great i guess.

Telling them the ice cream van plays music to let you know it’s out of ice cream has made them livid at ice cream van drivers over the summer also.

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#1255

Quite lucky living with my partner as we never really nag each other about doing things but there is one thing he DAILY “tells me off” for and he doesn’t think he’s “telling me off” but it’s when I put cutlery in the dishwasher, I put the top of the knife, fork or spoon down into the cutlery basket. This is because I was raised with a mother that thought if you put the stuff pointing upwards, you will fall over when the dishwasher is open and impale yourself to your unfortunate death.

So I’ve just started recording myself every time I put cutlery in the dishwasher the way he wants it more as evidence in case I do die from falling onto the open dishwasher.

  • HIBU and defo telling you off
  • HINBU and justified telling you off
  • Cutlery pointing down into the basket
  • Cutlery pointing up to the sky
  • Not on dishwasher book

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#1257

Cutlery pointing up to get a better clean and because nobody has ever died falling on a fork. Anything with an actually sharp point facing down.

#1258

Oh, haven’t they?

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#1259

Ok, once, in 1898, one person was killed by a fork. I stand corrected.