Domestication
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:46 pm
Arguably the most important poll ever.
A group for contestants and lovers of the Channel 4 game show 'Countdown'.
http://www.c4countdown.co.uk/
Part of my chores is hoovering, so guess what I chose?Charlie Reams wrote:Arguably the most important poll ever.
I don't think you've thought the poll options through very carefully, to be frank. I enjoy cooking, which isn't listed; but maybe something you enjoy is ipso facto not a chore? That aside, I hate pretty much all chores, but I hate some less than others. In the end, I clicked Other [please specify], but this option did not work as advertised since there was no way to specify what other chore I'd selected, so now I'm thoroughly confused and miserable.Charlie Reams wrote:Arguably the most important poll ever.
These are exactly my thoughts on the matter. Everything's just ten times better when all my items are at right angles.Matt Morrison wrote:What the fuck, how can I be the only one who has said tidying?
Tidying rules, I remember from university the huge difference in mindframe that a tidy and a messy room can have when trying to work.
Tidiness helps you relax and be at ease in your surroundings, I'm deadly serious.
And the actual process is pretty cathartic, I'd especially have thought it popular among Countdown types as you get to do vaguely analytical stuff like 'sorting' and 'categorising' with it too.
This is perhaps the biggest case of IAWTP in the history of my life.Matt Morrison wrote:What the fuck, how can I be the only one who has said tidying?
Tidying rules, I remember from university the huge difference in mindframe that a tidy and a messy room can have when trying to work.
Tidiness helps you relax and be at ease in your surroundings, I'm deadly serious.
And the actual process is pretty cathartic, I'd especially have thought it popular among Countdown types as you get to do vaguely analytical stuff like 'sorting' and 'categorising' with it too.
You overlooked the full extent of the Countdown/OCD interaction: my room never gets untidy enough to need tidying.Matt Morrison wrote:I'd especially have thought it popular among Countdown types as you get to do vaguely analytical stuff like 'sorting' and 'categorising' with it too.
I don't think cooking is really a chore, any more than "going to sleep" or "inhaling" is a chore. I don't consider something to be a chore if it's necessary for basic survival. I realise this is a pretty debatable definition but at least I was consistent.Phil Reynolds wrote:I enjoy cooking, which isn't listed; but maybe something you enjoy is ipso facto not a chore?
I love washing up. Just chuck everything in the machine, press the button, and sod off to golf.Martin Gardner wrote:I find that washing up is quite good 'down time' for just staring out of the window and getting lost in your own thoughts.
The full extent of OCD manifests itself as a tendency to see patterns in the untidiness one creates, and as a sufferer of this I simply must leave things to pile up on the floor of my room lest I be deprived of the sublime, complex beauty that is my mess.Charlie Reams wrote:You overlooked the full extent of the Countdown/OCD interaction: my room never gets untidy enough to need tidying.Matt Morrison wrote:I'd especially have thought it popular among Countdown types as you get to do vaguely analytical stuff like 'sorting' and 'categorising' with it too.
Me too. Only instead of the machine, I just use the wife's face.George Jenkins wrote:I love washing up. Just chuck everything in the machine, press the button, and sod off to golf.Martin Gardner wrote:I find that washing up is quite good 'down time' for just staring out of the window and getting lost in your own thoughts.
Haha. I didn't know what IAWTP stood for, so guessed at "I am walking the plank". Genuinely. Just googled it and... oh dear!Dinos Sfyris wrote: This is perhaps the biggest case of IAWTP in the history of my life.
I disagree. My other half irons while we're watching TV and it really annoys me as he misses so much. Sometimes if we're watching a good comedy I'll suddenly burst out laughing because of some subtle visual gag or nuance of physical expression and he'll go "What?" because he was folding something and missed it.Junaid Mubeen wrote:Ironing! You can do it whilst watching TV and not have to compromise on either.
It's all about technique, Phil. Usually takes years of practise to achieve that crucial balance. Took me just a week as I am a gifted ironer.Phil Reynolds wrote:I disagree. My other half irons while we're watching TV and it really annoys me as he misses so much. Sometimes if we're watching a good comedy I'll suddenly burst out laughing because of some subtle visual gag or nuance of physical expression and he'll go "What?" because he was folding something and missed it.Junaid Mubeen wrote:Ironing! You can do it whilst watching TV and not have to compromise on either.
That's why I chose the top oneHoward Somerset wrote:Otherwise, I have difficulty deciding between options 1 and 8. Although they're worded differently, to my mind they have exactly the same meaning.
The only good thing about ironing is that I can play poker online at the same time. Or I could until we rearranged the front room anyway...Junaid Mubeen wrote:Ironing! You can do it whilst watching TV and not have to compromise on either. Plus there's something rather nice about seeing creases disappear.
That's only the second time I have ever heard that word . . . the first was in "The Days of Pearly Spencer".Ian Volante wrote:(I live on the second floor of a tenement...)
Tenements are great. I used to live here, right on the top floor.Derek Hazell wrote:That's only the second time I have ever heard that word . . . the first was in "The Days of Pearly Spencer".Ian Volante wrote:(I live on the second floor of a tenement...)
How intriguing... are all Ladbrokes blue in Scotland, or is this a special one?JimBentley wrote:Tenements are great. I used to live here, right on the top floor.Derek Hazell wrote:That's only the second time I have ever heard that word . . . the first was in "The Days of Pearly Spencer".Ian Volante wrote:(I live on the second floor of a tenement...)
The Playstation version of Doom has a level called "Tenements" too. Level 44 I think.JimBentley wrote:Tenements are great. I used to live here, right on the top floor.Derek Hazell wrote:That's only the second time I have ever heard that word . . . the first was in "The Days of Pearly Spencer".Ian Volante wrote:(I live on the second floor of a tenement...)
I'm sure I must be on somewhere, I remember seeing the car go past.