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It can be quite easy to misuse objects if you're not familiar with the design. Even things that are obvious in hindsight – for example, the tab on a soda can being used to hold a straw, are rarely known until they are pointed out.
However, some things are obvious full stop. Like chucking your clothes in a microwave to dry, or ironing a cheese sandwich. This list, compiled by Bored Panda, is a series of times when people totally misused common household objects, either knowingly or not, with hilarious consequences. Scroll down below to check out what we mean, and tell us your own stories in the comments!
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#1
I once had a friend casually say “you know how when you run out of toilet paper, so you just use a sock or whatever?” No the f**k I do not, Sandra, Jesus Christ.
Tiffany Marie 6 years ago (edited)
I have had to cut up old shirts & stuff when I couldn't afford toilet paper. It works. I also had to s**t in bags & p**s in cups when I didn't have water in my trailer a long time ago. Made me less afraid of things the experience & stronger for it. I also had to bike ride all my trash to a dumpster because I didn't have trash can. I had a job too & worked my butt off in a nursing home. I lived in a trailer outside my family's home. It was rough & sad. I left everything behind & moved out of state. Life is better now.
Mina Molnar 6 years ago
Yeah, gross. But what would you guys do, in case you run out of toilet paper? Better the sock than the hand...
bee pot 6 years ago
if im home? hop in the shower or use Kleenex or paper towel lol. if im in a public restroom? do 1 of 3 things, ask someone in the restroom for tp, text someone you know is nearby to come get you tp, or do the awkward crab walk to the next stall and pray it has tp lmao.
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Bored Moogle 6 years ago
Shamed to admit it but when we were younger, me and my brother were forced to do that because our crackhead parents rarely bought toilet paper.
Michelle Chevalier 6 years ago
I had a roommate that would only use the bathroom right before he showered just so he didn't have to buy toilet paper. I was so happy when he moved out.
shado 6 years ago
I always had a 20-question application-list I went through before deciding on a room-mate ... far better as well as much safer - and that was back in the 80s!
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#2
Coworker decided to boil her sausages (her lunch) in the office's electric kettle, therefore causing it to overflow, to leak on the electrical outlet and to cause a blackout for our whole entire floor (150 people). Not to mention the murder / baptism (?) of our brand new carpet.
Final score:
170points
Andrea Delden 6 years ago
Gross! I would never want to make tea with water from the sausage cooking kettle, even if it was rinsed out a million times!
#3
I was doing a internship in a small office and the engineer (yeah he is engineer) needed to take out the trash from the trash bin (it had a plastic bag with the trash) . He open a new plastic bag (I though it was to replace the old full one) and asked my help to hold it while he threw all the trash from the bin to the new plastic bag instead of just take the trash from the old plastic bag and replace for the new one. I was so confused...
JP 6 years ago
I work in an engineering office. Quite a few engineers are stupid about everyday things, extremely smart about engineering. I've seen things...things I can never forget...
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
Not until they go back to the drawing table and consult other engineers to get a stamp of approval .
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Serbob 6 years ago
Reminds me of the time I watched a person picking up after their dog. Instead of using the bag to "scoop the poop", he bent down, grabbed the poop with his fingers and put it in the bag. Shudder...
Saulo Frota 6 years ago
As an engineer, I always say that the most valuable lesson we learn is how to think before we do anything. There's always a better way.
Kim Pongpaet 6 years ago
The reason warning labels exist. Like plastic bag “do not put over head”. Who was the first fool that tried? Suddenly, warning labels.
#4
I did not witness it but my grandma had used a vibrator as a massaging stick for her back pain because the box had stated 'massage stick'. The way we found out was hilarious though. When we visited her one day she started telling how she went to the shop where she bought her massage stick and asked the boy to change the batteries. She did not understand why the boy had refused and why he acted weird. Then she asked my mom if she could change the batteries and gave my mom the vibrator. I still feel sorry for the kid behind the counter at the shop.
Kaisu 6 years ago
I mean, the Hitachi magic wand (which is nowadays used as a vibrator) was originally meant to be used to alleviate sore muscles in the neck and such in the 60s, but women who bought them used them for completely different things
Foxxy 6 years ago
They still sell ones similar in some shops and shopping catalogues. I first thought they were vibrators until I read the description.
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Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
One of those mail-order catalogs aimed at seniors (Carol Wright or Dr. Leonard's) cracks me up because among the tea cozies and orthopedic socks, they have a double-page spread of the must lurid 'adult novelties'! Granny has a secret life!
Rob Spear 6 years ago
i actually bought a hitachi and used it as a massage wand. they do actually work for that. My roommate at the time looked at me so weird. Its funny how items can become type cast for a single job. Young women that cant got to sex shop love electric toothbrushes from what I understand.
Kaisu 6 years ago
Yes I can confirm that electric toothbrushes are great if you're too young or too nervous to go to a sex shop
Load More Replies... Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
Even 100y ago vibrators were advertised in normal family magazines as 'massagers'. (Helped against 'hysteria', which like 'hysterectomy' refers to ladyparts -- you see the thinking...)
fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
Well, nowadays one gadget need to be used for many purposes. I mean, all the stuff you get it's expensive, if you can use one "gadget" for two different purposes, it's a "win win" situation LOL
#5
Walked into my sister's room and she had maxi pads laying everywhere with Barbie's on top. She's like, look at all these Barbie sleeping bags I found.
Yvonne Bernal 6 years ago
TRUE STORY - My nextdoor neighbor and I were at the fence talking, when her 5 yr old son came running out of the house. "Look mom, I'm a pirate!" We both turned and saw little Jeffrey running into the yard with a maxi pad over his eye. She was horrified, I was laughing.
Naomi Armitage 6 years ago
You should see the stuff kids think feminine hygiene products are on "America's Funniest Home Videos". Pads with wings are "airplane stickers", and tampons are "dynamite" (that one actually won the $10,000--two little boys were caught in the backyard trying to light the "fuse").
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Oh, I loved the one with the airplane stickers. I was just going to post this, thank you.
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Suzi Gauthier 6 years ago
I remember Paula Poundstone, a comedian, talking about her little brother using her pads as ships & shooting her tampons out like torpedoes. My 3-year-old daughter used them as "stickers" once in the hallway. She said she was fixing "mommy's yiddle piddows."
Master Markus 6 years ago
The problem with kids using maxi pads and tampons for fun isn't some ... prudish thing due to the products being associated with genitals, but that they are EXPENSIVE and if your kids use them up and you don't have them when you need them, that sounds like a pain in the a*s.
Donald Holder 6 years ago
Well, sounds like it's time to have that mother daughter talk with your sister.
#6
I caught a friend of mine rubbing one of the antibacterial hand wipes from KFC all over his friends chicken. The little packet said 'a hint of lemon' on it, and he thought that he was meant to flavour the chicken with it...
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
If this was at a KFC in the US, the chicken was most probably chlorinated to begin with. Apart from the lemon scent, I fail to see very much of a difference. That is why the USA can not export chicken to a large number of countries, besides the rather awful industrial-scale animal husbandry also playing a role.
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#7
Using my fabric shears to cut wire and plastic packaging. And now he's butthurt that my new fabric shears have a padlock through the handles.
Analyn Lahr 6 years ago
As a former fabric cutter, and someone who likes sewing, my mom would have a fit.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 6 years ago
My spouse steals my stuff all the time. I bought myself a dental cleaning kit and he took it to clean out his pot pipe. Marriage is awesome, by the way.
Time Itself 6 years ago
I've caught my mom and sister using my fabric shears for things other than fabric and they still don't quite understand why I say "stop using them" and "these are ONLY for cloth"
#8
When I was a kid, my mother used a pasta spoon to clean the cat litter box. I thought this was normal because it was the only way I'd ever seen it used. Then, years after our cat died, I was eating dinner at a friend's house when the mom grabbed the same kind of utensil to serve spaghetti. I freaked out and shouted "why are you serving food with a poop scoop?!" They were so confused and I couldn't eat my dinner because I was so disturbed.
kathryn stretton 6 years ago
I eat pasta frequently. Never owned a pasta spoon. Millions probably haven't.
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Master Markus 6 years ago
Why wouldn't she just have a cat litter scoop? It seems like a spoon would be a lot harder to actually ... grab poop with.
Leisa Farrow 6 years ago
hahaha! We have done that as a joke, actually. Note to Self: Buy a new litter scooper.
Donald Holder 6 years ago
So what did you use for a pasta utensil? did you never have spaghetti in your home?
Victoria Duncan 6 years ago
My mother used a flat Turner with slots in it to clean out the litter box. I use what can be a pasta server to clean out mine. They are sold in the stores in the pet supplies.
#9
I caught a roommate cleaning our bathroom counter top with the toilet brush. He's a doctor now.
Queen Jackson. 6 years ago (edited)
Caught my sister scrubbing her booty with my mom’s toothbrush.
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Time Itself 6 years ago
some folks were really book smart but when it comes to common sense, they don't got a single braincell workin in that department
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Lenny Vos-Groenendijk 6 years ago
I clean small surfaces with toothbrushes. Old ones, specially safed for that purpose.
Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 6 years ago
To be fair, if you don't leave s**t on the brush but rinse it after every use and there is disinfectant in its bowl, then it's the place with the least amount of germs and bacteria in the whole bathroom. But still gross to see it. But toilet brushes are gross to see even in their box and wrapped in plastc from the place you buy them.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Yes, I regard toilet brushes as disposable. One use and they're out.
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Man, I threw a major fit when I saw a visiting relative get my $100 chefs knife to screw a screw. What's the big deal? - he asked. Well... if you gotta ask...
kathryn stretton 6 years ago
Ye. Get this. Been married twice, and both husbands twisted the sharp pointy ends of ALL my best sharp kitchen knives. I know I am not alone here. We did have toolkits, but they had to go to the shed. ALL THE WAY TO THE SHED. Lol. Memories eh?
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
And thats why we keep basic tools in the junk drawer.
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Kiss Army 6 years ago
Or when someone uses your expensive knives to open a package. AAARRRGGG!!!!
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Filipa Menezes 6 years ago
I had a professor in college who was very annoying. One day he asked me for my pocket knife to cut a thread. I opened it with a flick of wrist as if it had spring (it didn't and it would be illegal if it had) and the professor was very impressed and tried to do the same. I told him "Please don't try it that way, you'll break it, let me teach you". He refused... and broke it. When I looked at him shocked he told me "Oh boo-hoo, I broke your knife. Don't expect any kind of compensation for this". Then he flunked me :)
D. Pitbull 6 years ago
Interesting. I had a comment on here... i was notified there was a response to said comment - and now the comment and response are not here. I thought if I was deleted I would at least get a notice "Your comment was deleted"?
L McN 6 years ago
Bought a knife set for the wife, about $90 per piece. Wife has used each and every one of the knives to pry, screw, or turn something. Some have broken tips, some are cracked. Warranty wont cover the replacements b/c they were washed in the dishwaser, despite the clear warning to hand wash that I gave her. (The irony is that her damage would be covered, but the dishwasher is not)
Leisa Farrow 6 years ago
betcha it'll be a long time before that relative is invited to your house again.
#11
My wife once watched a girl at work stick a ball of aluminum into a microwave with her instant ramen during a break. She said, "the Sparks are just because it's heating up faster," as if it were common knowledge.
Magpie 6 years ago
I am a terrrible cook! terrible. But I even know not to put *any* metal in microwave. And only put eggs without their shells in there.
Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
Yes but that's just not true... put a little teaspoon in there and nothing happens normally. The sparks are on pointy thin alu things (cut out a neat flat round and probably nothing happens); it has to do with electrical charge building up. Not trying to trick or anything, but a teaspoon in a mug of tea is 100% fine.
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
So after they deducted the cost of the new microwave form her check, she stopped.
Cheryl Fontaine 6 years ago
One always has to wonder how that kind of stupid gets hired anywhere.....
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Does anyone else get zapping noises and a burnt spot on broccoli? No other vegetable, just the broccoli. It's happened a bunch of times, so it's not a twist tie or something.
#12
My mom's coworker (or maybe even her ex boss) used the plastic page protectors for office binders in a wrong way. The page protectors have only one opening on top as everyone knows, but she would always turn them upside down and then used a billion of paperclips on the bottom to prevent papers from falling out.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 6 years ago
I had a coworker who did this. I thought to myself, "Logic... does it really even exist outside my own head?"
Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
It protects them from the rain if you store the binder upright on a shelf? Maybe very leaky ceiling? Hm.
Donald Holder 6 years ago
Elevator doesn't reach the top floor scenerio. You right, he was probably the CEO of the company.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I use them to protect my paintings and drawing. Those or 1-gal. zipper bags.
BusLady 6 years ago
I use the large zipper bags to store my clothes patterns.
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#13
Girlfriends brother using my $125 chef's knife to chop ice. I did make a scene. got rid of both.
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
I'm imagining a gruesome kitchen knife murder now. Was this written from prison?
maryhadalittlelamb 6 years ago
Got of both using......the $125 chef's knife? =x
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Eliyahu Rooff 6 years ago
I understand this completely. I've been known to throw a fit at someone putting my cutlery in the dishwasher.
#14
This was a story that a colleague told me that happened on the day I was off back in the day I used to work for a hotel. Apparently some Chinese guests came to reception to complain that the microwave wasn't working. We didn't have microwaves in the room, so when coming to inspect the problem, she found out that they were trying to microwave a pizza... in the room's safe.
Binxyminxem 6 years ago
But even if it was a working microwave, wouldn't it make the pizza soggy?
Val Izhakevich 6 years ago
Open the microwave. Dial the cooking time. Close the door. Don't disclose the time...
fernando garcia fragoso 6 years ago
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!! well, that's why I always read the room details! LOL
#15
Using a microwave to dry clothes... There were flames
varwenea 6 years ago
Nowadays, microwave. Previously, it was using the oven to dry clothing. Same result.
Mirek Hotový 6 years ago
Using oven to dry clothes actually makes logical sense (dry heat blowing actually) while using radio micro waves is very far from any logic when used for drying purposes.
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Binxyminxem 6 years ago
Lol remind me if Seinfeld when kramer wants toasty warm clothes so he ends up having his clothes put in a pizza oven!
Jenn Unicorn Popping 6 years ago
ahhh I was just about to say this- it worked for Kramer... well, sort of... ;)
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Miss_H84 6 years ago
My mum did the same thing but with a mobile phone she dropped in a glass of booze. She was drunk of course.
Bob Beltcher 6 years ago
I delivered pizza for several years while in college. I hate when people ordered and it was raining hard out. In between deliveries I would place my shirt on top of the oven. The material was so thin it only took about a minute on each side to dry. Pizza ovens are kept at 550 (about 300 Celsius).
#16
Not really an everyday thing unless youre a tradesman, but ive seen wayyy too many people try to pound screws in with a hammer.
StinkyMonkey 6 years ago
I once caught my sister trying to hammer a screw into a wall using a plastic hair brush.
Aaron W 6 years ago
You can hammer it most of the way in, as long as you give it a turn at the end it's all good.
Kenny Kulbiski 6 years ago
Yep, as long as it's not finish work. An old carpenter told me the threads were just for getting them out. Thought he was kidding until I watched him.
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Edgar Rops 6 years ago
Well, a screw pounded in with a hammer still holds better than a nail driven in with a screwdriver
Filipa Menezes 6 years ago
nooot quiite... It would depend on the flexibility of the material
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Tony Barron 6 years ago
I saw a guy hammer screws into softwood. He called it a Georgia screwdriver.
Meri Kassner-Gomez 6 years ago
I’ve also seen people using a screwdriver handle AS a hammer....I work in construction safety.,..
Fabian Meresse 6 years ago
It's a french carpentry technic, specifically from Paris area, as it's called ''vissage à la parisienne'' ("Parisian screwing", please don't troll that lol), I shockingly learnt this while I was an apprentice in furniture restoration
#17
My friends kid decided to make a grilled cheese sandwich with an iron on the couch. Burned a nice iron shaped hole in the couch. Kid was 15 at the time.
Kaisu 6 years ago
I'm failing to understand this, I need a better explanation. Are you saying that they put the sandwich on the couch and the iron on top? Why on earth would you do that on the couch of all the places?
Magpie 6 years ago
I suspect there was a bit where he put the iron on the couch " while it was warming up". ..and immediately forgot it.
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Flash Henry 6 years ago
I used to prep grilled cheese sandwiches with an iron (to get the cheese properly melty) before putting the sandwiches in the frying pan. My roommates (who could not cook at all) said they were the best grilled cheese sandwiches they've ever had. I think cheese is disgusting so I cannot confirm their reviews, but I was very proud.
SykesDaMan 6 years ago
A neighbor of mine ironed a shirt while she was wearing it... You guess where this is going: She had a nice burn below her neck... She was lucky the surface was small, and the burn superficial. I guess she too, was a teenager at the time.
Leisa Farrow 6 years ago
Well, at 15, it probably seemed totally logical. I'd give him an E for Effort, at least.
#18
When I was very young I used to think that you had to wedge your entire butt into the toilet seat when you have a s**t. Moment of learning came when we went on holiday somewhere and were exploring the house, I saw the toilet with a much smaller seat than ours and said "that's so small, how am I gonna fit in that to poop?" Needless to say it provided some enjoyment for my parents
Dwreck726 6 years ago
Two of my brothers thought the seat you put down to sit on was "the girls seat"....they sat on the bare rim until the early 20's when it came up at a party. Hardest I have ever laughed in my life. They were embarrassed at the time but grateful now they can poop in comfort.
Master Markus 6 years ago
EARLY TWENTIES!? F*****g hell, you'd at least TRY the other one, no? That sounds like some wet-tissue-paper masculinity there.
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Jane Dorothy Warner 6 years ago
My small grandson has to strip to poop, then sits on the rim like a gargoyle. I have no idea why.
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
That story is a pile of, well you know what. there's no way anyone could have reached any age where they were old enough to use the toilet on their own without being told that was wrong.
#19
A friend of mine was a first generation migrant to my country and her parents had a dishwasher in their house, but due to never having had one in their home country, saw it as a wasteful appliance to use. So they stored clean pots and pans in it, just like another cabinet.
Emma B 6 years ago
My grandmother hated her dishwasher because it made so much noise, so she never used it and stored her clean pots and pans in it.
debrina blackmoon 6 years ago
sometimes my husband uses it to air dry dishes and things
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varwenea 6 years ago
I use mine as a dish drying rack. I even own a higher end one. Actually use it as a dishwasher about once every two months.
Kiss Army 6 years ago
Our dishwasher broke but we never used it much anyway so now we use it as a drying rack.
Load More Replies... kathryn stretton 6 years ago
Not so unusual. Done it myself. Same as using oven to store stuff.
Aria Whitaker 6 years ago
Funny they saw it as wasteful when dishwashers use around 3-5 times LESS water than doing dishes manually by hand.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 6 years ago
Studies have shown that newer dishwasher actually use less water than hand washing.
María Hermida 6 years ago
And how much electricity? I don't use any electricity to do the washing up. Also, the soaps you need to use are extremely harmful for the environment AND they also destroy the plates, glasses and cups. You can't wash good stuff in the dishwasher.
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Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
We currently do this with the dishwasher in our rented apartment since it doesn't work just like half the equipment. It's one of those dumb tiny dishwashers that stop working after 3-5 years if you are lucky. We decided that if we ever buy a dishwasher again, it would be from the large ones you turn on only once a day or so, since their producers seem to be more environmentally responsible and they don't make their products so that they crash after 6 months of use.
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
“Only“ once a day?! How many people live in your household? 10?
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I used to live 2 doors down from the neighborhoods "crazy lady' and she would often vaccuum her grass after it was mowed.
Corine McMillan 6 years ago
I had a neighbor who used to power wash their gravel. At night. It was the weirdest thing....
Ivy Crawford 6 years ago
Maybe she liked the fresh cut grass smell while using it inside her house...lol
Mindy Keys 6 years ago
I may or may not have taken the Dyson handheld to my moss garden to get up tiny seeds in the autumn...
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
I've seen that- in 2019- I was on the bus and bus stop- there was a some kind of venue and 2 young girls hoovered the grass... Well, maybe quicker than picking stuff up like confetti? Made me laugh tho.
#21
I didn't witness this, but I read it in a newspaper article a few years ago. It was this article about life-hacks, and such, and basically what happened was, there was this "hack" going around about how, if you put your toaster on its side, slide in two slices of bread with cheese on top and toast them, you get toast and grilled cheese all at once. Apparently, this lady tried it and the melting cheese set her toaster on fire. The whole thing went up and nearly burned her entire house down.
Kaisu 6 years ago
Also if you put the toaster on its side and don't watch it and take the toast manually out, then the toaster will shoot your toast out on the floor or something
Bill 6 years ago
You never played toaster artillery as a kid? You put tea saucers on the floor as targets and use things to change the angle of the toaster
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Linda Harms 6 years ago
I tried this -- once. When the toast w/cheese on top was done, it got shot out of the toaster like those guys used to get shot out of a cannon in the circus. And, of course, it landed cheese side down.
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
I feel this might work with a small amount of cheese and if you watch it the entire time for melting cheese dripping into the electricity parts.
StinkyMonkey 6 years ago
You're supposed to put greaseproof paper around it to prevent the melting cheese fire. Even so, I still wouldn't do it.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Yes, I've seen something like that in the supermarket - sort of a Kevlar baggie that you put all the ingredients in.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 6 years ago
I think most newer toaster have a "kill switch", so if it gets knocked onto its side it automatically shuts off.
#22
My high school spanish teacher would use her computer’s disk tray as a shelf for her coffee mug
#23
I once witnessed a dude washing out condoms and hanging them to dry.
ADHORTATOR 6 years ago
In the past, condoms were made of sheep bowel (hope it is the right word) and very expensive so they were used many times....he used perhaps a family heirloom :-)...
Kristy P 6 years ago
Don't forget... for every man washing condoms, there's a woman saying "wow, that is SO smart". Lol
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
Technically speaking you can use them as often as you want, but the outcome might not be desirable.
Load More Replies... TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
He’s trying to save the environment! Hundreds of children each year try to blow them up at the beach thinking they’re balloons and are humiliated for the rest of their life
Ivy Crawford 6 years ago
That is so disgusting. He might have invented the easiest way to spread yeast infections, and any other "down there"" issues.
#24
My dad's old boss asked a dishwasher at work to wash his car. One hour later the boss goes to look at his brand new BMW and the guy had used a pot scourer ( that metal thing used to clean stuff dunno if that's right word " Needless to say my dad's boss screamed and that guy ran so far he was never seen again.
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
Some people just don't know how to say "no" with words, so they find other ways.
María Hermida 6 years ago
Your dad's old boss was an entitled idiot who deserved what happened to him. A dishwasher washes dishes, not cars. If he needed to wash his car he should have taken it to a car wash and pay accordingly.
Lousha 6 years ago
When I was a live-in nanny the parents I worked for (both doctors so you'd think they had two brain cells between them) used to buy a new fancy car each every few months. The mom's new BMW was usually parked under a big tree with lots of birds so it got ample "gifts" that then got scorched by the sunshine. One day she decided to wash it because having it washed would be a waste of money. She didn't tell anyone just went to do it. Then walked in and asked me if we had a wire brush. Not knowing what it's for I told her where it was. Later I went outside for something and saw her hard at work on the caked on s***. All over the car there were huge, deep scratches in sort of X shapes as she tried to remove spots. She didn't even notice she was concentrating on the task so hard...
N S 6 years ago (edited)
One of my uncles got a brand new car once when I was a small kid (like 2 or 3), so me and my slightly younger cousin decided to "wash" his car using sponges soaked in water and then sand (seeing we were playing in a sand box prior to that faithful decision). Needless to say, uncle was not amused when he saw that we were basically sandpapering his shiny new car :D
#25
Saw a woman using an Oyster card (it’s a London bus pass the same size and material as a credit card) as a sort of spoon to eat a lasagna out of a Tupperware on the bus
Marcellus the Third 6 years ago
Let's not overstate it, it's flat plastic --- easy to clean. Cleaner than your toothbrush, probably.
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Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) 6 years ago
Well, oyster is food I suppose... (having lived in London myself)
#26
I have a tiny computer that is extraordinarily powerful, fits in my hand, and has access to the sum total of all human knowledge since the dawn of time, and I use it to watch funny animal videos.
Suzi Gauthier 6 years ago
That's a line from a comedian, but he said we using it to watch funny cat videos & porn.
Jaded Queen 6 years ago
There is a lot of information not available on internet and a lot of wrong information
Naomi Armitage 6 years ago
Jimmy Kimmel had Michael J. Fox on as a guest back in 2015--the 30th anniversary of "Back to the Future"--so Fox and Christopher Lloyd showed up in the DeLorean in costume and character (to much well-deserved applause), and Kimmel showed them his smartphone. They were amazed that everyone owned a "miniature super computer" and figured the world's ills must conquered by now. Kimmel's like, no, but we take great pics of our food and ourselves making duck faces (or something to that effect).
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
It doesn't actually have access to all human knowledge. Quite a lot of it hasn't yet been digitized or isn't available to the general public.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
That's because actual research and knowledge aquisition strongly benefits from a large screen and a keyboard.
#27
My wife routinely uses butter knives as flat screwdrivers. I once caught her using an ice cream scoop as a hammer. We've talked about it, I bought her tools. Now she keeps an old shitty butter knife in the back of the drawer for fast easy battery changes and uses a hammer as a hammer.
TheExtremeSmell 6 years ago
It’s the best. Clearing jams in the toaster works well
Load More Replies... BG 6 years ago
Whip out a flathead screwdriver at the dinner table and butter your roll with it.
Parmeisan 6 years ago
Butter knives, paper clips, duct tape, and towels. All the things you should never leave home without.
Load More Replies... Nicola Roberts 6 years ago
I've just used a metal holding clip from a ring binder to tighten the handle on my office drawers!
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I have a few butter knives for that purpose (free from the 'swap shop' at the dump) - so handy!
Suzanne Harris 6 years ago
Back when I actually carried a purse, I always had a screwdriver in it.
ADHORTATOR 6 years ago
Knives are tools too, but they are for cutting, not screwing :-)
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Ann Abdelzaher 6 years ago
hehe I have a butter knife to unstick our closet door... the track is bent and the roller gets stuck... so nobody better move my closet knife
#28
Used to work in a hotel as well. Several times we had Asian guests hang their clothes to dry from the fire sprinklers hanging from their room ceilings... this sets the sprinklers off and caused thousands of dollars of damage to multiple rooms each time it happened. One family was mad at US and wanted compensation for all their wet clothes and electronics. Maybe not applicable here, but we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room.
Cactuar Jon 6 years ago
"we also had a foreign guest call 911 because they were out of tea bags in their room" - here in the UK, that's totally acceptable. But the question is... Did he get his tea bags???
N S 6 years ago
Pursuant to the Tea Act of 1773, the British Parliament ruled that it is a criminal offence to run out of tea bags.
Load More Replies... Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) 6 years ago
Why are the springlers even designed in such a way you can hang things on them?
Gingergirl 6 years ago
I work as a hotel maid and every Asian person uses the face washers as drink coasters, even though we supply drink coasters 🤷🏼♀️
Porto DaMartinica 6 years ago
911: D.bags ?? got you there fam, sending a car with up to five of them in it
Calypso poet 6 years ago
I had reserved a room with a balcony for my husbands birthday but couldn’t get that room because the men from a bridal party on the top floor hung their tuxes from the sprinklers and flooded all 11 floors and the ones with balconies were deemed unsafe. Apparently this is a common problem because now we always notice rooms with warnings not to hang things from sprinklers.
Master Markus 6 years ago
How does this happen? Does the weight pull it open somehow?
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When was the last time you put gloves inside the gloves box of your car?
Truxxton 6 years ago
Me! Gloves/surgical gloves, plastic bags, ziplock bags, phone charger/cable, scissors, small notebook/pen, traveling toothbrush/toothpaste/floss, a set of utensils, chopsticks, reusable straws, anti-acids, N-95 masks, tapes, flashlight, bottle of water and car manual. And yes, all fit in that tiny little gloves box! Baby wipes and toothpicks go in arm rest compartment.
Dr John A Truman 6 years ago
I keep medical gloves in my glove box in case I roll up on an accident somewhere.
Hamlets twin 6 years ago
All I have in there is my manual, proof of insurance and some pepper.
Foxxy 6 years ago
The glove box is the pull down compartment in front of the passengers seat.
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Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
The glove box was originally for your driving gloves, early cars necessitated goggles gloves etc as the driver was exposed, and early steering wheels could get veeeery hot
#30
One time I saw someone eat Cheetos with a fork. Does that count?
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
I eat many things with silverware to avoid getting dirty fingers, even though most people wouldn't do so, so why not cheetos?
Kristy P 6 years ago
Because you eat Cheetos with chopsticks, not forks. Duh!!
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athornedrose 6 years ago
chopsticks! eat cheetos with chopsticks to avoid getting the powder on your fingers!
Karen Fernley 6 years ago
I was with a friend on friday at a garden centre cafe, when i saw a woman using a knife and fork to eat a cake
Daniel Degnan 6 years ago (edited)
Damn skippy. Fork >> licking Cheeto dust off fingers before you type. Chester gets it, you should too.
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
Actually brilliant. Chopsticks too. You're fingers get so disgusting and if you don't want to lick them...
#31
Not sure if it counts but I've seen a person to use his phone to take a picture of a comment on his youtube video, take a screenshot of the picture, print it and use his webcamera to show the print of the comment in another youtube video, made solely to reply to said comment. My brain still hurts
Demi Zwaan 6 years ago
I don't believe this at all. Someone with all that knowledge would know how to reply to a comment. Even if he was stupid enough not to know how to reply, he's still have no need to screenshot and print, because he could film the picture on his phone. Neh, this is just too much.
Pepper Sergent 6 years ago
At work : someone wrote an email adresse on a piece of paper (new email adress for a new division at work), took a picture of the piece of paper, sent that picture as an attachment in an email to the whole department (150 people) telling us that we were to use the new email adress. Yes our departement includes an innovation and IT department. Yes the person who sent this gem had been working there for 10+ years.
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Using a microwave to "dry" a smartphone. After running said smartphone under tap water to clean it (this was like 7 years ago, I dont think the phone was waterproof). Person who did this was good academically but had no common sense whatsoever it baffled me
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
Cleaning with water can work if it's not turned on until it's completely dried again (and the battery is removed beforehand). I've seen people do this sucessfully with desktop computers. Microwaving however... no chance of survival.
Chris Mugea 6 years ago
"I've seen people do this sucessfully with desktop computers." Why in the name of everything that's tech and holy would anybody ever do something like this? Just why?
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tuzdayschild 6 years ago
If this person is good academically then he should have a better understanding of microwaves and cell phones.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Yes, and when they say 'put it in rice to dry out' - that doesn't mean while the rice is cooking!
rhyan lumilay 6 years ago
Well. . .I saw some videos and pictures where people washes their laptops and air dries them.
#33
I've seen quite a few times people re-dip knives as spoons in a Nutella jar and obviously lick it. It always grosses me out and once I see it I start refusing invitations for meals.Not that uncommon but utterly yucky!
Final score:
19points
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 6 years ago
i ate several times at a friends house, she puts her dishes down for the dog to lick. i can handle that, but the day i saw her putting them back into the cabinate , telling me the dog had cleaned them. was the last day i ever ate there....you have GOT to be kidding??!!
Celtic Pirate Queen 6 years ago
My husband kept using the peanut butter knife in the jam jar, I've seen him lick the PB knife. When he ran out of jam (I don't care for PB&Js) I told him I would only buy more if he agreed to use the spoon as I requested. He said he would. Sure enough, I went to put jam on my toast and there were smears of peanut butter in it. Jam went into the garbage. "Where's the jam you just bought?" Knowing full well he was in trouble. "Someone contaminated it with peanut butter, so I threw it away". Never happened again. (Yes, I wasted a jar of jam. A licked peanut butter in the jam is just as bad as crumbs in the butter).
hungergames 6 years ago
crumbs in the butter is the worst finally somebody understands me!
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Melissa Dowling 6 years ago
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey... That's actually a very old joke (I believe it's origin was Reader's Digest). The homeowners put the plates back in the cupboard after being licked by the dog just so the guest would see it & never come back for dinner. Obviously the family you were eating with were either sick of you coming over @ meal time & eating their food when you probably have perfectly good food at your own house or didn't know a nice way of telling you they didn't like your company. Either way, if you are the person who initially submitted that story to RD, which I highly doubt, you'd be extremely old by now & not likely to be posting on Bored Panda. Give credit where credit is due, don't try to make the story about you. See example of how to do this in #21's post.
Jennifer Sacrison 6 years ago
My friend uses a spoon to spread her peanut butter on her bread...drives me nuts!!!
Craymoss 6 years ago
Whats so weird about that? You can scoop out more of a larger amount with a spoon and it spreads just as well with a spoon.. Jam is even better to scoop & spread with a spoon also..
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Once while camping I witnessed a family getting set up. Connect a hose to their car tail pipe and fill up their air mattress with the exhaust.
John Holmes 6 years ago
Just press an old , folded cloth to the end of your exhaust. You'll be stunned how much pressure it generates.
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martin734 6 years ago
That is not a bad idea. You can buy car Jacks that are basically air bags you inflate from your exhaust pipe.
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
Yeah, but you're not sleeping on that. If your air mattress springs a leak in the night it'll be releasing exhaust fumes into your tent.
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Little brother tried to microwave a spoon so it would be warm enough to cut through the ice cream.
Emily Ashcraft 6 years ago
you could set the microwave on half power and put the ice cream in for 3 seconds or so and it will soften
#36
We have a concrete putty knife at work that is used to cut brownies with. I hear that blade scream in pain with every chop. I hear you blade, and I feel your pain. ... I've secretly used it to do some minor sheetrock work, so it remembers what it was intended for.
Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
I had a brownie with some weird stuff in it once.
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Parmeisan 6 years ago
But is it a special brownie-knife, or a special-brownie knife?
Load More Replies... #37
My stationary / exercise bike makes a wonderful place to hang clothes ( on hangers) to dry.
Final score:
15points
tuzdayschild 6 years ago
They should just call it Exercise Equipment/Clothes Hanger because that's how 90% of us use it.
Magpie (Submission author) 6 years ago
Trying to remember where I saw approx: "called my dog 5 miles, so i can say every day i walk 5 miles."
Load More Replies... Magpie (Submission author) 6 years ago
Somewhere I saw a tiny block of wood for sale. like about 2 inches. With big sheet of instruction. approx: Put the block on the floor. Walk around it a few times. Count. You have now walked around the block X times today;P
#38
Roommates in college used laundry pods in the dishwasher for like a week? I handwashed my dishes, so it did not affect me. They only noticed because I asked why they always left their laundry pods on the kitchen counter.
Martha Meyer 6 years ago
I think the ingredients in those two products are probably not so radically different. The laundry pods must be less aggressive though, so I wonder whether they actually cleaned dirty plates?
Kururi.Orihara 6 years ago
The college probably charged to use the laundry room, and this was less expensive
#39
We had a housemate who used to get home very drunk and try and cook himself elaborate meals, which always resulted in a lot of mess and noise. To combat this I turned the oven and electrical sockets in the kitchen off when he went out one night. Foolproof The fool cooked himself steak in the living room with our clothes iron at 3am.
#40
My best friend uses scissors to cut his pizza. I always imagine Italians screaming when he does that.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
There are kitchen scissors specifically to use on food. Nothing wrong with this if you dont have those fancy pizza cutters
BG 6 years ago
I have never before considered pizza cutters to be "fancy". Thank you. I feel so high-class now!
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Monday 6 years ago
This is pretty convenient when you're sure your scissors are clean. I use scissors to cut open the top of hot dog buns since it's less messy when the sausage and sauce go in the top.
Master Markus 6 years ago
I use scissors to cut bacon strips for pizza toppings and stuff like that.
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Matthias Florian Walz 6 years ago
Actually had pizza with friends near Torino, Italy not too long ago. And guess what they used to cut their pizza? That's right, freaking scissors :) #ifitworksitaintstupid
Aunt Messy 6 years ago
Thin crust pizzas are ALWAYS cut with scissors in Italy. Knives mash the toppings and smear them around on the crust.
Ben Churchill 6 years ago
Actually....Roman style pizza, they cut it with scissors. When I was there, the pizza is in large sheets, and they ask you how much you want, and then pull out a pair of appropriate scissors and cut your slice.
#41
We weren’t allowed hot plates or microwaves in the college dorms, so one of the girls on my floor cooked bacon with a hair straightener.
Kaisu 6 years ago
Is this in America? Why aren't you allowed hot plates or microwaves? How the hell are you supposed to cook your meals? Can someone American enlighten me
Akucdota 6 years ago
In many European countries we have "kitchen rooms" where you have all the neccessary equipment. Not neccessarily with microwaves - regular stoves, ovens etc. are a much healthier alternative.
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Craptavaganza 6 years ago
If you use the hair straightener only for the bacon (and clean it) it's not even that bad, you gotta eat bacon..
#42
I saw a video once where a woman was using a drill. Nothing weird right? Well instead of, you know, drilling she took a hammer and put the drill in the wall and started hitting the back of the drill with the hammer.
Time Itself 6 years ago
no, it's real. Surprised there's someone who hasn't seen it yet
Load More Replies... #43
Forgot to defrost a Thanksgiving Turkey. Morning of Thankgiving threw frozen turkey in the hot tub
CrunChewy McSandybutt 6 years ago
Dear god, now that you say this, I'm praying they didn't just throw a raw turkey into the hot tub.
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#44
One of my roommates used a pair of pliers to flip bacon. He did it pretty regularly.
Steve Barnett 6 years ago
If bought from new and only used for that purpose then that seems okay to me; it grips the bacon rather having it slide all over a spatula.
#45
This reminds me of the time my bf decided to make homemade lemonade. He was in the kitchen when i heard him struggling and cursing at this lemon squeezer. I came in and saw him then asked what was wrong. He started to rant about this dumb lemon squeezer and how shoddy and ineffective it was. And that these "decorative holes" at the bottom arent doing anything to let the juice flow out. I sincerely had never laughed so hard in my life. He had the lemons in the lemon squeezer in backwards so it wasnt getting any pressure squeezed into the lemon. I took mercy and showed him how he was supposed to position the lemon in the squeezer. Of course he got much more juice out of it then. I think he felt kind of dumb but to be fair he is korean american too. His family probably never made lemonade growing up.(or used lemons in general since its not used much in korean food) Although now anytime something doesnt seem to work one of us will ask if it has "decorative holes."
RaroaRaroa 6 years ago
Im having trouble picturing this. What kind of lemon squeezer is this and how can you put a lemon in backward?
Master Markus 6 years ago
I can't really picture this. Is it like... one of those hand-held lemon squeezers that look kind of like a garlic press? It doesn't seem to be the one I'm more familiar with that's like a spike you grind the lemon on.
Parmeisan 6 years ago
I had to go look up a video for proper use of lemon squeezer, because this made me suspect that I've been using it wrong, too. I've always gotten plenty of juice but had to turn it sideways because the holes never seemed to work. Turns out, yup, wrong. We had lemons in food growing up, but nothing so fancy as a utility made just for them. It seemed reasonable to assume that the dome-shaped objects fit into the dome-shaped hole, but... huh.
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
A bit rude to insult people like he did... 'he felt kind of dumb but to be fair he is korean american'... wtf?
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
...so lemonade is probably not a thing in Korean-American families. She's not saying "He's dumb because..."
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Not extreme, but TWO of our graphic design juniors using caps lock for a single capital letter. I had never seen anyone do this and they both joined within a space of a month. Will never understand how or why they can work like that
Diego Cabrerizo 6 years ago
i notice that very often here at the office where i work, it seems to me that those people find easy to fast press caps lock t wo times instead of holding shift.
Monday 6 years ago
You use the same finger for both buttons when typing anyway...not a big deal.
Load More Replies... Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
My Right Shift key is busted, so I've been learning to rely on the left one. Well, I bought a new keyboard but that's a different story.
Victoria Pitt 6 years ago
It's because they were fresh out of school. As a graphic designer of 15 years, I can say once you actually have to churn out tons of work under tight deadlines you learn allllll the shortcuts and key commands.
Color Dots 6 years ago
Welp, I´m a Graphic designer and i do that everytime (i just did it to write the first word)
#47
Anything that is NOT an ashtray, used as an ashtray
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
And if you have a cool ashtray but you don't smoke, they make a perfect paper-clip holder. I had a cool boomerang-shaped one from some liqueur brand, regret leaving it at my old job.
#48
I got on a bus and a woman was eating a pint of Ben & Jerry's with a pair of safety scissors.
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
Makes sense. My sister, on her way home after a college final, bought a roll of cookie dough and tore into it with her car keys.
Victoria Pitt 6 years ago
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Although normally if I can't find a clean spoon I just use a fork. lol
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I have been known to line a dish with foil. Not often, but I have.
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About 9 years ago a co-worker hammered a paint tin lid back on with the handle of my torque wrench, still mad at that guy.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
Clearly you don't understand how seriously that activity can harm a torque wrench.
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#50
Several years ago I worked for natural nail salon as a receptionist. One of my duties was to sweep the floors regularly so clients don't step on nail clippings on their way in/out. There was a new hire, and my manager was never really around to train her. The other receptionists and I trained her. One day, I asked her to sweep the floors. I showed her where the broom and dust pan was. She was in her early 20s and living on her own - I assumed I didn't have to teach her how to use a broom. She took the broom, and fanned the nail clippings into the dust pan. She didn't drag the broom across the floor to sweep it - the broom never touched the floor. I tried to show her how to sweep properly. She never took my advice, and I kind of gave up. She left after six months. She still couldn't sweep, but she could finally calculate tips at least.
Tomáš Mesároš 6 years ago
There is fine line between can´t and playing dumb because you do want to
Chantel Atwell 6 years ago
I'm not sure what is meant by "fanned the nail clippings" - with her hands, maybe? not using the broom for anything? or something else?
María Hermida 6 years ago
Probably fanned the clippings with the broom, instead of sweeping them
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A fridge being used as a clothes cupboard
Jenica Thomas 6 years ago
I actually vaguely remember reading an article about storing your denim in the freezer. Something about how you should rarely/if ever wash it and that freezing them killed any odor causing bacteria... not my cup of tea though. I'll wash my denim even if it means it doesn't last quite as long.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I agree - they debunked that method a while ago too. Anderson Cooper did a thing about it.
Load More Replies... Daniel Degnan 6 years ago
THAT'S ME! Actually, I use the big fridge as a linen closet, and to store warm Fresca's. BachelorMan don't give a s**t, prefers a mini-fridge. Added bonus, assures I remain single.
Lenka Smetanová 6 years ago
We have a TV sitcome at czech, and there was a really poor family and the children had a fridge as a clothes cupboard
#52
We had microwaves, but no stove in our dorms. One of my floormates ended up putting ramen + seasoning in a Gatorade bottle and then microwaving that
Cassie 6 years ago
When I was in college, we'd buy the cheap Gladware containers. They were both dishes to eat out of and dishes to store stuff in and they were the perfect size for microwaving a packet of ramen.
Load More Replies... Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
PET-bottles shrink if you put them in contact with hot water. Could get interesting in the said situation.
Finn Fickle 6 years ago
Boiling water would distort the bottle. So they probably didn't add water
Monday 6 years ago
Person who lives on the same floor as you but in a different dorm room.
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I once had a roommate who didn't know how to sweep or mop. I thought he was f**king with me. Nope. He straight up did not know how brooms and mops work. Watching him try to clean was like watching a monkey try to f**k a football.
Gina Kingsbury 6 years ago
I was showing an apartment with a wood-burning fireplace to two college girls. One asked blankly, "Where's the remote?" and was astonished when I explained how a real fireplace works. She also phoned the office when their oven needed cleaning. Turns out the housekeeper had always done it, do she just assumed one informs the staff and the oven turns up clean. Said "she wouldn't be doing that."
Uwe Theiss 6 years ago
Some parents don't realize that it is a bad thing to protect your children from the world. Cause there is one point, where the "kids" have to care for themselves.
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My (adult!!!) BIL once used steel wool to scrub his parents' oak dining table. That still floors me after like a decade...
Ann Abdelzaher 6 years ago
ROFLMAO this reminds me of my husband asking me if he can wash our sterling silver with S.O.S pads, I screamed NO and he's like oh ok I only used it on a small spot...SMH
#55
I had an extreme itch in my ear and no q-tip. The closest small object that would fit in my ear was a screwdriver, so I used it. I ended up cutting my eardrum and had to go to the doctor. I can’t say I regret it though, it was satisfying to finally get rid of the itch.
Erik Lawrence 6 years ago
Satisfying to get rid of the itch, but you did enough damage to require medical care.... How satisfying was that pain?
#56
Heating underpants in the microwave on a cold morning
#57
I used to work at a golf course doing lawn maintenance. We had a fella on our crew that was older and well, not the brightest. He was kind of a loner so we just let him be most of the time. One day, I saw our guy mowing some large berms with one of our push mowers. To save time, I guess, he left the mower running; then picked it up to put in the back of the truck. He still had all his fingers but the truck tailgate took a good hit.
Final score:
7points
Cassie 6 years ago
I haven't met a push mower yet that wasn't designed to cut off when you let go of the handle. Home ones, you have to hold the little bar up. Commercial ones like Gravely mowers have squeeze handles (that are huge and used to give me blisters trying to hold them down the whole time). The commercial ones aren't generally "push" mowers, either, they are self-propelled walk-behind mowers. Either way they have a safety mechanism built in, so for this to have happened, the mower had to have been modified to avoid the safety mechanism. Once had a kid on my job who was on work release doing community service who used heavy duty tape to hold the Gravely handles and lost control of it going down a hill and tried to run in front of it to stop it. He lost his legs. Don't bypass the safety on your mowers, people.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
the first clue that this story is garbage is talking about doing lawn maintenance on a golf course. No one who works on a golf course calls them lawns.
Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
I have a coworker who pulled out grass of her mower when it was running. Lost the tip of her finger.
#58
My grandma smoked in her bedroom and used a bunch of decorative vases as her ashtrays. We never went into her bedroom so we never found out until after she passed away. It was an absurd amount of vases in all different sizes.
Person2638 6 years ago
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#59
Bought a can of butane gas and only looked more closely when I got it home and saw that someone had used it as a hammer. The underside was covered in little dents, like it had been used to hammer in a nail or something.
Naomi Armitage 6 years ago
"These blockbuster bombs don't go off unless you hit them JUUUUUUUST right."
#60
My sister used my tampons to make tiny ghosts for her barbie Halloween party.
Final score:
7points
#61
My mom used the handle end of a spoon today instead of a knife to spread some mayonnaise. The spoon was clean and not used for any spoon-like activities either. There were other knives to use..
Monday 6 years ago
I do this too, but I use the same spoon I used to scoop the mayo out in the first place.
Master Markus 6 years ago
I feel like it being the handle end is the weirdest bit. Like "Oh, I'll use the spoon instead of a knife, but not the spoon bit with more surface area!"
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I've seen my grandma open a scissor all the way and use it to carve stuff like a knife.
Monday 6 years ago
scissors generally work better for carving than regular non-carving knives do....and they were a saviour in school if you had no sharpener xD
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An old roommate put a strainer inside of a pot of boiling water and flipped both. Boiling went all over the place, but she said "that's the right way to do it, I seen on Instagram "
Kristy P 6 years ago
To strain pasta (or whatever was in the water) I am guessing. So, instead of pouring the contents of the pot into the strainer, they decided they wanted burns.
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Naomi Armitage 6 years ago
There's some product out there--it's like a pot with a rotating strainer built in, so you're basically cooking your pasta/whatever in the strainer, in the pot of water. When you flip the pot OVER THE SINK, the strainer stays upright and VOILA! Strained whatever. Maybe she was thinking of that?
Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
Well - water has a tendency to go through strainers. What was her plan?
#64
I sometimes use shampoo as body wash
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
I also do, but I'm an exceptionally hairy man so it can't be all that wrong.
Suzi Gauthier 6 years ago
A little dish detergent works as shampoo in a pinch. Bar soap, not so much.
Magpie 6 years ago
If you mean T-Gel the anti itch shampoo? yes that stuff is wonderful! all over.
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#65
I used to have a manager who would always use a pen off his desk to stir his money coffee. And he would use whatever kind of candy was in the department to add sugar to his afternoon tea.
Final score:
4points
Nikki D 6 years ago
Huh, for some reason I thought coffee drinkers and tea drinkers were mutually exclusive. No clue why I thought that.
Koalamonster 6 years ago
Both are great at different times of the day or depending on what you're in the mood for. Good news is you can put whiskey in either (depending on the kind of tea.)
Load More Replies... meow point1 6 years ago
When I was seven, I'd put marshmallows in everything... including juice and water. SMH
#66
My roommate once poured hummus into a pot of marinara sauce. He's also mixed together a bunch of different types of barbeque sauce and left them out for days. Then he ate it and tried to get the rest of us to eat it.
Mica Fiverline 6 years ago
Reminds me of the time I was forced to eat Lahmacun (turkish Pizza, simply put) with Pesto and Yoghurt... Was really disgusting and I still hate Pesto^^
#67
My uncle had never used a Keurig before, and it seemed to him one would remove the top of that little k-cup so’s the hot water could get to the coffee...surprisingly big mess!
#68
My landlord uses the same rag to wipe off the counters, in and around the sink, etc, that he uses to dry the dishes.
Suzi Gauthier 6 years ago
Actually, the dish sponge is probably nastier than the counters, unless you're cleaning up meat or chicken blood. But most of the germs are removed when you rinse anyway - and without anything to feed on, most germs die naturally fairly quickly on a dry surface, so unless you use them right away, they will die of natural causes.
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
Yeah, no. You don't use the same rag to wipe the counters and then use it to dry dishes. Disgusting.
Load More Replies... Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
A friend of mine uses the sponge she washes the dishes with to do that too. Grosses me out
Dorothy Parker 6 years ago
I hate restaurants where the busperson wipes the tables and seats with the same rag. Most do that.
Suzanne Harris 6 years ago
People talking about sponges - you can dishwash them if they get dodgy.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Also if you get the store brand, they're cheap enough to throw out more frequently.
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I travel all the time for work. In my travels I bought myself some really nice travelpro suitcases ($300+ ea). My parents don’t travel so much and have old luggage that’s just falling apart. I changed up my main travel bag for something more practical and brought one of my travelpro bags to my parents. I told them “hey use this when you go somewhere”. My dad works in the electrical business, the first thing he asked me is if he can load the bag up with extension cords and take it on job sites. My mom tells me she had to stop him from doing this a few times. I eventually took the bag back home with me.
Suzanne Harris 6 years ago
I don't see anything wrong with this. You gave it to them, don't dictate what they can do with it. You even said they don't travel much, so he's probably trying to get your money's worth out of it.
Parmeisan 6 years ago
All true. It does seem like a pretty bad idea though - if this is like the luggage bags that I own then they're covered in cloth and would get real grimy at a job site. And be hard to clean. But really, if this is the best thing that the guy has for a toolkit, let him use it.
Load More Replies... Erik Lawrence 6 years ago
Storage and transporting extension cords has always been a pain in the a*s, makes sense to make the most out your discarded luggage, and use it the best way for him.
#70
This guy frank uses a knife to cut hit toenails. He calls it his toe knife. When he frequently botches the job he then used socks or trash basically whatever is around to stop the bleeding when there is not a glove available, he calls them cut gloves. Really weird dude.
#71
Using anything that isn’t floss to get that annoying bit of food out of your teeth.
Bianka Howwess 6 years ago
Oh yes. I just loVe using loose sweater strings as floss!!!!!!! It's defiantly not grOss to the people around me!!!!!!
Victoria Pitt 6 years ago
I use business cards or post-it notes when I'm in a pinch lol. Like just the corners of them .
#72
Tea towels are for drying clean dishes, not for mopping up the pasta sauce you spilled on the counter.
#73
Coworker decided to boil her sausages (her lunch) in the office's electric kettle, therefore causing it to overflow, to leak on the electrical outlet and to cause a blackout for our whole entire floor (150 people). Not to mention the murder / baptism (?) of our brand new carpet.
Final score:
-4points
John Holmes 6 years ago
I don't believe it, unless there is something terribly wrong with the electrical installation. A leak on a single outlet could cause a blackout in a small area, but THE ENTIRE FLOOR? No way, Jose.
Jennifer Prescott 6 years ago
Nah, not true. We've had a single tiny space heater take out an entire office. If the building is old... yeah, it happens.
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#74
My Grandmother in Law has been staying with me and my partner this past week. I love her but OH MY GOSH. The toilet rolls are the wrong way round. All the chopping knives end up in the drawer instead of the very obvious knife block.
What do you think ?
Daria Z 6 years ago
I used my boyfriend's razor to cut the pilling off my hoodies. The razor blunted and I had to get him a new one :)
Kusotare 6 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, everything else begins to look like a nail.
Cassie 6 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, you need to get a few more tools. XD
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Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
Sometimes I wonder why we have developed so slowly as a civilisation, then I see things like this and remember.
glowworm2 6 years ago
Not really a misuse of anything, just somewhat odd. We have a second bathroom downstairs with a closet in it. We store food in it. So whenever you're on the toilet, you can stare at bottles of salad dressing and cans of chick peas.
Cassie 6 years ago
Flushing the toilet causes and aerosol effect, landing fecal matter up to six feet from the toilet. I hope you all always close your toilet before flushing and the food is far enough away to avoid contamination.
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Pacifico Fernandez 6 years ago
I brought an electrical kettle at work. My only colleague (I really had only one person to work with) made a homegrown herbal tea (i.e. big herbal branches) directly inside it. Then, he left the tea there for the whole weekend. Did not even apologize.
KT Trondsen 6 years ago
I work in an ER, we have had patients call 911 to complain about the wait times
Cassie 6 years ago
I was once a patient in an ER across from a guy in because he had two fishhooks in his hand. He had tried to remove the first fishhook with the second fishhook.
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Alexandra Hughes 6 years ago
I had a roommate in college who asked if you had to empty the water out of the toilet to clean it. I was so very tempted to say yes....
Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
Funny how people use coca cola for all sorts of things other than drinking. There are products made for cleaning toilets and removing rust that work a lot better!
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
It probably makes u eat it slower too so it'd be more filling....I wish I had your level of self control Lol!
Load More Replies... Daria Z 6 years ago
I used my boyfriend's razor to cut the pilling off my hoodies. The razor blunted and I had to get him a new one :)
Kusotare 6 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, everything else begins to look like a nail.
Cassie 6 years ago
When the only tool you own is a hammer, you need to get a few more tools. XD
Load More Replies... Tiny Dynamine 6 years ago
Sometimes I wonder why we have developed so slowly as a civilisation, then I see things like this and remember.
glowworm2 6 years ago
Not really a misuse of anything, just somewhat odd. We have a second bathroom downstairs with a closet in it. We store food in it. So whenever you're on the toilet, you can stare at bottles of salad dressing and cans of chick peas.
Cassie 6 years ago
Flushing the toilet causes and aerosol effect, landing fecal matter up to six feet from the toilet. I hope you all always close your toilet before flushing and the food is far enough away to avoid contamination.
Load More Replies... Pacifico Fernandez 6 years ago
I brought an electrical kettle at work. My only colleague (I really had only one person to work with) made a homegrown herbal tea (i.e. big herbal branches) directly inside it. Then, he left the tea there for the whole weekend. Did not even apologize.
KT Trondsen 6 years ago
I work in an ER, we have had patients call 911 to complain about the wait times
Cassie 6 years ago
I was once a patient in an ER across from a guy in because he had two fishhooks in his hand. He had tried to remove the first fishhook with the second fishhook.
Load More Replies... Alexandra Hughes 6 years ago
I had a roommate in college who asked if you had to empty the water out of the toilet to clean it. I was so very tempted to say yes....
Jesper Rasmussen 6 years ago
Funny how people use coca cola for all sorts of things other than drinking. There are products made for cleaning toilets and removing rust that work a lot better!
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
It probably makes u eat it slower too so it'd be more filling....I wish I had your level of self control Lol!
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