why do women have to clean EVERYTHING?

[danny_galaga]

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

[Ed_McCarron]

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

Danny, you are missing the point.  She's cleaning.  Don't argue.

[JackTucky]

Bend her over.  Make her yours

=J

[danny_galaga]

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

Danny, you are missing the point.  She's cleaning.  Don't argue.

well, i wish she'd clean my car. im keeping THAT...

[ChadTower]

It probably means she's expecting a guest.  A dirty carpet leaves more rugburns.

[RayB]

be thankful. Better to live with someone who over-cleans than one who lives like a pig.

[tommy]

Sounds like someone has a problem with women to me.

[Howard_Casto]

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

You obviously don't know how the female mind works.  See there will be people in the house installing new carpet.... looking at it... judging her with it.  It must look like new carpet when you throw it out so that the other women don't talk about her behind her back.  It doesn't matter if any women, or any women she knows will be involved with removing the carpet, because obvioously any men working on such a dirty carpet will be so shocked that they immediately go home and tell their wives/girlfriends as us men actually care about such things. That is women logic. 

Of course men logic is: 

Of course the carpet looks awful!  That's why we are getting new carpet!  Anyone seeing it during this process will know that.  If it could be cleaned to the point that it looked new, we wouldn't need new carpet in the first place.

Obviously our way of thinking is wrong and we should listen to them.  That is of course, it's wrong if you intend to continue living with her. 

[danny_galaga]

Sounds like someone has a problem with women to me.

so you are telling me that if you were going to rip out your carpet in a week, you'd clean it? make it all spic and span for the land fill? are you a woman? 

[Chris G]

When they pull up the carpet, there's probably going to be a fair amount of dirt, sand, etc that has made its way through to the subflooring.  Be sure to remind her of that so she can have her broom and dustpan at the ready before the new stuff goes in.   

[Kaytrim]

When they pull up the carpet, there's probably going to be a fair amount of dirt, sand, etc that has made its way through to the subflooring.  Be sure to remind her of that so she can have her broom and dustpan at the ready before the new stuff goes in.   

You got that right CG.  When we pulled up the old carpet to lay down tile there was a ton of sand and dust and the old pad had been ground to a powder in places.  I will never install wall to wall carpet again.  It is tile or wood floors from now on.

[Chris G]

I love wood flooring, however, I also enjoy having some rooms with nice, thick, high-quality carpet.  Rugs aren't quite the same...

[ChadTower]

I may have to tear up the floor in my living room soon... old hardwood flooring that has warped over time from humidity.  Not looking forward to it.

[Chris G]

You must mean the replacing part.  Tearing stuff up is fun!

[boykster]

You must mean the replacing part.  Tearing stuff up is fun!

yeah, but if its nailed down flooring, it's a ---smurfette--- to get each and every last little fastener up...grueling work.

Using a 48" crowbar to pull the boards up, now thats FUN!!!!   

[danny_galaga]

When they pull up the carpet, there's probably going to be a fair amount of dirt, sand, etc that has made its way through to the subflooring.  Be sure to remind her of that so she can have her broom and dustpan at the ready before the new stuff goes in.   

You got that right CG.  When we pulled up the old carpet to lay down tile there was a ton of sand and dust and the old pad had been ground to a powder in places.  I will never install wall to wall carpet again.  It is tile or wood floors from now on.

thats the tradesmans job. and yeah, im a fan of tiles myself. if it were my place i certainly wouldnt be replacing carpet with MORE carpet...

[shardian]

I bought my wife a vacuum for her last birthday...and she liked it!

It was a Roomba BTW. Those things kick ass. Every time she uses it I get a thank you, especially with the baby taking up most of her time.

[ChadTower]

My wife keeps breaking vacuums.  We barely even have any carpet, too, but somehow she manages to break the vacuums.  Passive aggression at its finest.

[Chris G]

How do you even go about breaking a vacuum?  Sucking up loose pinballs?

[shardian]

How do you even go about breaking a vacuum?

When I was a kid, Bloodsport was my favorite movie. Remember when Tang Po hold the guy up, then kicks him in the knee and turns it inside out? Well I was playing around imitating that scene using the vacuum and accidentally kicked for real and broke the upright handle in half. I tried putting it back together with scotch tape and hoped noone would notice.

[ChadTower]

Let's see... she sucked up the cord in the spinning brush, which completely stripped it and shorted it out to itself... she ran one without changing the bag for months and burned out the motor... this last one, I'm not sure, I won't bother looking at it.  I just see her using it pushing crumbs around the floor that aren't moving.

[polaris]

i can just hear her ' well you dont mind fixing those bloody pinballs do you '   

[boykster]

Well if Chad would stop picking up the free vacuum cleaners offa freecycle she might have a chance.....

 

[ChadTower]

Heh.  I should do that.  Both of the vacuums we've had have been new.

Now that I think about it I've never seen a vacuum on Freecycle.

[DrewKaree]

It probably means she's expecting a guest.  A dirty carpet leaves more rugburns.

Chad gets rugburn so often, I'm betting there's something to his theory.  Listen to him on this one danny.

Sounds like someone has a problem with women to me.

so you are telling me that if you were going to rip out your carpet in a week, you'd clean it? make it all spic and span for the land fill? are you a woman? 

He just knows how mother likes to keep the house, and he appreciates it after coming home from work.  If it weren't for her, the basement would be a dank and smelly place to live, instead of the stylish pad he and his friends can hang out in playing scrabble till the wee hours of the morning.

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

Not to live like a pig for the next week?

danny, put PBJ between your hands and give him a spin.  He looks funny when his hair is all effed up.  Oh, and put some clothes on him too.  Nobody needs to see a nekkid troll.  NOBODY

[ChadTower]

Chad gets rugburn so often, I'm betting there's something to his theory.  Listen to him on this one danny.

Nice one.   

It's not my fault yrmom insists on being on top.  It is a $20 surcharge, though.

[DrewKaree]

Chad gets rugburn so often, I'm betting there's something to his theory.  Listen to him on this one danny.

Nice one.   

It's not my fault yrmom insists on being on top.  It is a $20 surcharge, though.

ZING!

[danny_galaga]

its sunday morning. its 9am. my housemate is vacuuming the carpet. thing is, the carpet is going to be pulled up and thrown away next week! what is the freaking point?

You obviously don't know how the female mind works.  See there will be people in the house installing new carpet.... looking at it... judging her with it.  It must look like new carpet when you throw it out so that the other women don't talk about her behind her back.  It doesn't matter if any women, or any women she knows will be involved with removing the carpet, because obvioously any men working on such a dirty carpet will be so shocked that they immediately go home and tell their wives/girlfriends as us men actually care about such things. That is women logic. 

Of course men logic is: 

Of course the carpet looks awful!  That's why we are getting new carpet!  Anyone seeing it during this process will know that.  If it could be cleaned to the point that it looked new, we wouldn't need new carpet in the first place.

Obviously our way of thinking is wrong and we should listen to them.  That is of course, it's wrong if you intend to continue living with her. 

dunno how i missed this one. you are spot on of course. i just wish it werent so.

carpet is coming out tomorrow. ive almost finished moving all my ---IRS taxing collectable baseballs that arent sold yet and thus have no specific value--- out of the room. i wonder if she'll give the carpet one more going over tonight before they come...

[ChadTower]

That's an awesome autocensor.   

[danny_galaga]

dagnammit. housemate got a call this morning. the carpet layer guy was bashed last night and is now in a coma  . im sad for him. but this now means all my crap from my room will now be in the loungeroom for another week  so now in back to using internet cafes. at least my post count will subside a little...

[geomartin]

Once you marry them you know why...It's so they can tell you they are too tired for rugburns.

[danny_galaga]

well, dude and his sidekick came to do the carpet today. its a public holiday in brisbane (show day) today. so i left him with a spare key and here i am at an internet cafe in surfers paradise where its not a holiday. he had a nice shiner. i dont feel so sorry for him now. looking at him you can see he just got really drunk, said something stupid about some rugby players girlfriend, and then paid the price  .

went to an arcade here (main reason i came here, too cold for the beach). they have stacks of mostly new games. and some old ones. played one called 'ice cold beer' where you have to raise and lower a bar with a steel ball on it and guide the ball into the appropriate holes. each turn is a higher hole and more 'dead' holes. you get more redemption tickets the higher you get. well, 'virtual' tickets anyway, since all the games are on a swipe card thingy- even a 1970s quick draw gun game! funny, cos the swipe mechanism would be magnitudes more complicated than the game! also played house of the dead 4 and family guy pinball. if you havent seen family guy pinball its really cool. it has a mini pinball game in the top right hand corner. not so unusual i guess but this is scaled down. so the flippers and balls are about half size. very cool (",) just had lunch, check my emails and then im back to the arcade...

[Singapura]

I can soooo relate to this! I came home yesterday after a days hard work to find my wife looking like 
She had suddenly decided to clean the whole house and blamed me for the hard work. It's not like our apartment is dirty or anything (we have a housekeeper) but she absolutely had to dust everything twice and blamed ME for making the dust! I offered to help but she said that she had to clean twice if i did that    I don't like a dirty house myself but I don't want to live in a hospital grade cleanroom either 

[Trebeck]

strangest..
topic..
ever..

[DrewKaree]

strangest..
topic..
ever..

Suck it, Trebek!

[Howard_Casto]

It's not like our apartment is dirty or anything (we have a housekeeper) but she absolutely had to dust everything twice and blamed ME for making the dust!

She must want a wax statue for husband then.  See  around 90% of the dust in your home is dead skin cells.  Seeing as how all humans shed skin flakes it's kind of impossible for a home with actual live people in it not to get dusty.  Just for the record though, since you are human, it WAS your fault!