Popped into local supermarket to pick up a couple of large spuds for dinner. No loose ones so forced to buy a couple in a bag. Wasn't until Significant Other opened the packet that we noticed there were cooking instructions In case we'd changed our minds there were also instructions on how to boil them.
Note to self . . . . check bread wrapper in the tomorrow to see if there is a recipe there for toast.


Just had dinner, potatoes were fine

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I've boiled the eggs for 20 minutes & they are still not soft! Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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My drunk brother inlaw once put an unopened pot noddle into the microwave. Microwave caught fire and died.
Idiot.

When I shared a house with a couple of workmates years ago we decided to try making a meal instead of eating curry or chips every night
The guy assigned to make mashed potatoes took the potatoes out of the bag, stuck them in a pan and started trying to mash them up raw

Why the hell are items with their own wrapping put in bags?

This is question which bothers me daily!! ( Yes, I am getting help Dave )




 If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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My other half's brother-in-law has never done a thing for himself. He's now 48 and has only recently learned to make himself a cup of tea By his own admission, why should he do something for himself when someone else has always done it for him ? A very sad individual indeed.
Sadly the millenial generation seem to be the same. Unfortunately for them, their phone can't cook for them - but it can be used to order takeaways, which is virtually the same, isn't it ? I'll check on insta or facetimebook, or whatever. I'm sure it can be used to tell me a recipe for a delicious curry using an egg, red sauce (tomato ketchup ) , a can of orange fanta and some Nutella, "cos that's all I got in the fridge".

Bloke I worked with made some chips and decided to have a boiled egg so he dropped the egg in the chip pan and it exploded sending hot oil all over him and the kitchen. His wife who was away and due home the next day was a "clean fiend". I think she did more damage to him than the hot oil.

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JulesK wrote:

Why the hell are items with their own wrapping put in bags?
This is question which bothers me daily!! ( Yes, I am getting help Dave )

RealBeale wrote:

My other half's brother-in-law has never done a thing for himself. He's now 48 and has only recently learned to make himself a cup of tea By his own admission, why should he do something for himself when someone else has always done it for him ? A very sad individual indeed:

Sid - thats the same where every you go, every place ive ever worked that provided kitchen facilities for us to use, was always abused and left in a bad state every day.
Id hate to see the home kitchens and bathrooms of some of these scummy people

JulesK wrote:

Why the hell are items with their own wrapping put in bags?

Rog I used to work in one such place and being a tad OCD it used to kill me and to keep asking folk to wash a single plate or even rinse a mug which was to much hard work.....

Until the day I left when I decided to have my own Greek night





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Same at BCC. Big sign above both sinks in the kitchenettes either end of the building "Please do not leave dirty dishes to soak in the sink. It is unhygienic and prevents others from using it." The sinks and draining boards were always full of "soaking" dishes. Some even personalised with their names, but it's never theirs, someone else must have used it. Oh, and the cutlery supplied by BCC would always go missing, so in the end they stopped supplying it. The fridges were always full of penicillin too where people were too lazy to throw away left overs - I know, put it in the fridge instead of the bin. Also constant blanket emails because once again someone has had their sandwiches or Red Bull nicked from the fridge - you really couldn't make it up !!!

I am amember of the Scottish Youth Hostels and what really me of is despite the noticec behind the sink telling people to wash and dry dishes and pots after use the sink and draining boards are full of dishes
The biggest culprits are foreign visitors

I once knew a fellow called Nigel Mansell, (not the) he came in from pub , hungry for chips and bobbed the chip pan on. anyway he must have dozed off for a while, he returned to kitchen thinking he hadnt been long and tested the fat temperature with his finger, deep frying his finger in the process.  At work
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