so the roommate dumps dishes in soapy water and calls then cleaned …

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  1. Turns hot tap over a full sink.
    Add drops of soap.
    It becomes a grease hot bubbly soup.
    Remove and put to dry.
    Clean 10/10

  2. What’s also annoying me is how they seem to think that these glasses and the cup are going to dry while on a totally flat surface. Where’s the moisture on the inside going to go?!

    So so so so glad I live alone at this point.

  4. Fun fact: I had a roommate that used to do this all the time or worse still not tidy up and or take out the bins.

    It got to a point where worms congregated around the bins.

    That same person ended up in Fontaines D.C

  10. A dishwasher is a 100% essential kitchen appliance.

    If I’m the only one living there, I can make do with hand washing, but I’d still much prefer a dishwasher

  11. Lads ah lads it is a sign of maturation that you’re living out there in the world on yer own lads but grow up and talk to your roomies about it not posht it all over the sub. There’s nothing more useless than a ‘my roomie blah blah moan moan’ post.

  12. I used live with people who would put all the kitchen knives at the bottom of the sink and then pile all their dirty dishes on top so when you tried to shift anything you had to worry about possibly cutting your fingers off. They’d also leave them there for 3-4 days unwashed so no one else in the house had anything to eat off. Gotta love house sharing.

  19. These are the same people who don’t wash their hands after taking a shite.

    These are the same people who put on a wash and then forget about it and then the washing machine smells of stagnant water.

    They can’t be trusted.

  20. I know this will sound weird but when I lived with others, I had one plate, one cup, one glass, one set of cutlery. I cleaned them as I used them and kept them in my room. Never had to worry about half cleaned dishes, full sinks of dishes..they weren’t mine! It also slightly guilted the other lazy gits to wash their shit that was in the sink. Unorthodox, maybe even weird but it worked a charm for me.

  21. I used to live with someone who washed them and then let them dry covered in suds. everything tasted like fairy liquid.

  22. I’m sorry to say, but the only reliable way to remedy this is the nuclear option.

    You’re going to have to tell his Mammy.

  29. How does your roommate expect the spoon to dry out with a lake of soap sitting on the spoon? Do they like the taste of washing-up liquid in their food/drinks?

  30. MY DAD USED TO DO THIS ALL THE TIME. he would say it made the dishes shine, I still call bullshit.

  31. My mother used to do this, so I grew up doing this too, although we used to dry them with a tea-towel while still suddy.

    I later changed to rinsing them off completely. My older sister, though, still leaves them covered in suds and dries them with a towel, or leaves them to drop dry on a rack.

    Many people do things because that’s what their parents did. Few ever question it.

    There are a lot of things my sister does that my mother did, none of which I do anymore.

  39. Per my experience this is actually fairly common in Ireland. I used to leave in a bnb turned into long term accomodation so there where 15ish people and a few where doing this.

    Also, back in 2009 I remember seeing something similar in a restaurant too. Someone was washing a countertop and then they left it to dry with the soap on it.

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