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^^Giggles at Ube^^ lol have you ever done the washing at home Ube ?? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

No. I've put clothes from the washing mashine to the dryer, and pused the button, but that's about it. And I never got the terms in English <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. And I don't feel like guessing, that's why I'm asking.

Übereil

@ Üb
Fabric softeners are fluids that you can add to your laundry to make it softer and let it smell nicely. But when you use a dryer it's not necessary anymore to use them. And besides they are not soo good for your skin and for environment.
Then you have also the anti-calc products: they are needed to protect your washer from the inside against calc. If you don't use them and your water is very hard, your machine will be broke in less then a year.
If you want to buy yourself some washing products, make sure you buy them Fosfate-free (I hope I say this correct?), fosfates are very bad for the environment too, most of them are already fosfate free, but check first.
If you want to know more about those kind of things, feel free to pm me, or any other woman here, I'm sure they can all help you out with household advice.
You will have to learn them anyway some day, you can't stay at your parents for ever, right?

Some household tips:
-When you have/had something smelly in your fridge like cheese or onions, cut a lemon in half and put it in your fridge next to the smelly stuff, it will absorb all the smells.
-When you had garlic in your last meal and your partner doesn't, eat some parsley. Your breath will smell a lot less.
-Don't throw away old clothes, they make excellent cloths to clean your shoes with.
-when you have leather boots, and you use black polish to make them shiny, add some of the paste on your shoes, rub it in a little and then use a lightner and go over the paste. Don't let the flame to long near the seams, or your shoe will fall apart. the paste will melt a bit and it will be better to make your boots shiny. (a little trick I learned when I was in the army) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Never heard about the anti-calc products. Makes sence though. I wonder what they contain <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />. And why was I never good at chemistry... (OK, I was in grade 7-9, but when I got further (meaning now)...)

And since I go Nature science I know a lot about overfeeding of our seas and lakes. And floods. And etc. So you don't really have to tell me about not useing fosfate-free washing products. Oh, and we shouldn't bathe, our DNA contains fosfates <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />!

Übereil

Good Idea Gal. Here is a link for alternate uses for everyday household items

Drat!!! they forgot the Fry pan and the Noodles <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Appearently, there is a lot you can do with only one can of coke. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

The strangest bedroom laws <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
Hongkong: A woman can kill her husband by law if she does it with her bare hands. She can also kill the lover of her husband. To kill the lover, she can use a weapon .

Riga, Latvia: It's forbidden for couples to have sex while arguing. Also arguing while having sex is also forbidden. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Krakau, Poland: Sex with animals is forbidden, if you get caught for the third time, you risk death penalty.

Guam: On this little island in the Great Ocean, young women can not marry if they are still a virgin. To help desperate girls, there are interim offices that send out young men to "help" those young girls from their virginity.

Ecuador: Here the women have to be still virgin, the new husband can send his bride away back to her mother if she appears not to be a virgin anymore.

Fillipines: In some parts of the Fillipines, a husband has to prove his manhood, so he has to sleep with the sister of the bride first.

Willowdale, Oregon: Men are forbidden to curse while having sex, women can curse <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Bahrein: Gyneacology is a strange profession in this Gulf state. Male doctors may check on women, but they cannot look at their private parts.

Cali, Columbia: during weddingnight, the mother of the bride has to be a witness of the actual act.

Remind me, to never get married there.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

This thread exists.

@ Cleglaw
In a land far far away, ther was a great thread... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Remember the fact that Lady Sarah wrote about the filter of a dryer? Well, after you rinced it with water, it's more difficult to get the dust from it. Now I have to use my vacuumcleaner to get it completely clean again. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />

@ Jurak
Never marry in those countries too:
Arizona: It's not allowed to have more then two sex toys in the bedroom. (there is no law against it if you keep more of these elsewhere <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> )

Kanus, Lithuania, If the husband wants to have sex with his wife, he is allowed to kick the mother in law out. (great law!!)

Plovesti, Romania: De civilians of this little town are not allowed to surrender to their lusts by day. The city prescribes that only during the evening hours and at night, you can have sex.

Austria: Newly weds are allowed to cheat on each other in their first year of marriage. After that, they have to be faithful.

Cambodia: A man is allowed to kill his wife's lover, but only if the adultery was inside their home, if the wife and her lover were doing it somewhere else, the husband cannot kill him. In that case, the husband can still cool his anger on his wife. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Dresden, Germany: A man can only stare, wink of whistle to his own wife

Minsk, Russia: After two weeks of sexual abstention, the husband is no longer allowed to refuse his wife in bed.

Kuwait: It's illegal for men to stare at nude female statues or female animals.

Cleveland, Ohio: It's forbidden by law for women to wear shiny shoes. The reflection can give a rather emberrasing look under women's skirts.

Ames, Iowa: In this American state, men are not allowed to drink more ten 3 gulps of beer if they are in bed with their women...

Guess who's here with his odd-ball facts? Me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

I'll start with a small one:

Did you know that the colour blue atracts flies twice as much as any other colour?

So if you get irritated by flies, wear a colour other than blue and it'll help a bit. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/xmassmiley.gif" alt="" /> Maybe red (but watch out for bulls <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ).

You've just been facted by:

Killerzzz

P.S.:


Actually Killerzzz (me <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />), its not really the colour red that causes a bull to attack. When you see the guy in the ring waving a red cloth in front of the bull to make it attack, its the movement of the cloth that gets it going; not the colour.

The more you know. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The edges of a dime (10¢) has 118 bumps on it. Actually, its 117 bumps, since there are 118 craters. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

I gotta go, so thats all for now.

You've just been facted by:

Killerzzz

P.S.: I've got a good one comming. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Yay! A thread that's all for me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

...

I'm lonely here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

Oh well, <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" /> here's another fact that you probably didn't know, expect to know, care to know <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> :

How many fireflies does it take to screw in a lightbulb? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I don't know, but I know that it takes approximately 14 826 000 000 000 to make the equilivant light of the Sun!
<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasEek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/XmasEek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/stupid.gif" alt="" />
(thats 1.4826 x 10^13, or 14 826 billion)

You've just been facted by:

Killerzzz