Wearing clothes with foodstains on them: Acceptable?

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Right, last night I lost control of a pizza slice and now have a small area of tomato sauce residue on my [black] jumper. Being a busy poor lazy smelly student I am wearing it nevertheless.

You have a problem with that?

― Graham, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic cuz birlgoy you fancy has stuffZoR to nuzzle and lick BEFORE you whip kit off

― mark s, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I generally say, if I'm going out it's not acceptable, if I'm staying in and expecting guests then it's just about acceptable (speshly if I've been cooking for them) and if I'm staying in and not expecting anyone then it's totally acceptable.

Graham said a "small area"...how small is small? So small that a person would actually have to rest their nose against your jumper to spot it, or small so it's only 20% of jumper area but can still be seen from t'other side of the road?

I remember dropping some pale coloured food on some dark trousers quite close to the crotch area, then saying "sod it" and going out to the pub and noticing a girl staring at my trousers with a look of total disgust on her face. I think I changed my views on this matter quite significantly after that.

― MarkH, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i walked into work today with a big GRAVY stain on my sweater. muy embarassment.

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Small small, say, the inferior cross section of a penguin biscuit.

― Graham, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic if it was chicken gravy, Jess.

― Tom, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it was a combination of beef and chicken, oddly enuff. (jess polished off the remaining meatloaf and stovetop last night. mixing gravys = c or d?)

― jess, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

wash your bloody clothes, tax dodger. ;-)

― chris, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am quite selectively fastidious, food spills on my clothes are a thing that bugs me all to hell but wearing dirty stinking clothes is OK if you can't actually see encrustations of crud. Being a absent minded intellectual type slob who spills food on one's clothing can be kind of cute in absent minded intellectual type people of course.

― duane, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

worx for me, you never know when you might get hungry.

― Geoff, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aw, being a student is no excuse to become vile and filthy. Standards should not be allowed to slip. Clothes should be clean. Hair needs regular washing too. Saucepans should be left to soak and cleaned with 3 days maximum. Work surfaces should be kept clear and preferably disinfected regularly. Floors should be hoovered/ swept weekly, at least. Dustbins emptied before they colonise that area under the worktop making it really bloody difficult to remove without wearing a gas mask. On no account try to clean the oven though. That particular dirt has been baked into place and trying to remove it will only result in More Mess. There is nothing wrong with charcoal flavoured food. Rooms should be aired. Duvet covers changed more than twice a year and washed too. Flannels boiled, maybe in lavender oil. Obsessive flatmates should be mocked, however, if they display any sign of Turning Into Your Mum. Starry, I am turning into Lucy Lesbian, please help me. When I get home I want you to hide the hoover. This is not a euphemism.

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Lixi, my jumper is otherwise clean and fresh, this is my dilemma.

And shouldn't she hide the hoover before you get home?

― Graham, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

red foods are acceptable on red clothes, blue foods on blue clothes etc. Also, hand the turkey. Buck the boy

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

She's not allowed near the hoover without adult supervision. They're very dangerous. I am not really a very clean person anyway.

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At the first sign of post-it notes I shall slap you with the hoover. When are you getting home? I AM BRINGING THE KETTLE AND TOASTER HOME TONIGHT. That is if I do not die of boredom.

Graham is sounding like a Levellers fang, to me. WATCH OUT. Scrubbing at foodstains is good enough. Then again you are speaking to the gurlie who had to dry her tshirt with a hairdryer before visiting the ICA on Sunday cos I couldn't be arsed hanging out/up my washing ahem.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That has reminded me, I need to buy more pillows/cushions. I like to think of duvet covers in a special category of ITEMS ie ones that do not need to be washed. I am ridiculously disgusting. I think I need to call the FUMIGATORS heh I am haffing amusing mental images of crocs/gators wearing dust masks and making tch tch noises at Sarahs messy abode.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll be back early evening. Can you buy some loo roll on your expedition? Can we get chinese? Also, why IS our flat full of fruit flies? I can't find anything rotting. Apart from the pumpking in the bathroom bin, of course, but the flies are downstairs. If I was a lizard I'd eat them with my long thin tongue. Sadly, I do not have this skill. My tongue is quite little.

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No no no, this is all very awful. Dirty bodies lead to dirty minds lead to dirty wife. Some houses don't even have soap. Disgraceful!

― Ally C, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm afraid I gave all my fruit flies your address, Alix. They needed a change of scenery.

― Tom, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh Tom. You bastard. You knew I'd only just got rid of that flea infestation. I ate a fly once, accidentally. It was rather nice, surprisingly.

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally C, have you been at the ale this afternoon?

― RickyT, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have disposed of rotting bathroom pumpkin also I bought loo roll on Sunday hah! ANDREX TOUCH ME in PINK I do not know where I put it though. Maybe the flies were hovering round the bing, also your CARROT? They will go soon I am sure, I have TACTICS. Yes, we can surely get Chinese. Arlet is coming round to drop things off and buy hem hem SYSTEM OF A DOWN tickets from the Academy so we can have Chinese yums and perhaps some Midori.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Argh why am I typing here I have shitloads to type before briefing goes out at 5 arrghh help oh god fingers don't fail me now ect ect.

― Sarah, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I threw those carrots out a while ago. It is best *not* to hide the loo roll after you buy it. Where the point in that, eh? It's not under the sink. Well done for throwing that pumpking out. This looks terrible. It looks like we are the willing proprietresses of House Of Decomposition.

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally C is having a dig at me, we don't have traditional bars of soap in our house, when I wash my hands I do it with anti bacterial face wash.

Bars of soap = nasty slimey things, especially that jelly you get underneath them.

― chris, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Swarfega! My only true friend!

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.deb.co.uk/Swarfega.html oh my. they don't just do swarfega....

― alix, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Fred Flintstone look.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ewwwww! Tomato sauce stains = hive of bacilli!

Actually, I just like saying 'hive of bacilli'. If the stain isn't smelly and if it doesn't show - then go for it. It's more environmentally friendly. Tell yourself that you're some kind of green activist.

― Kim, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ah, nature's wine. sweet boredom.

― Ally C, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

People who DON'T spill food on their clothes are irritating, unless they are devil may care live on the edge types in whom this aberrant fastidiousness is charming

― maryann, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

only wear it if its my black jersey that i don't like to wash too often, and then i pick the crusty bits off.

i don't really notice when other people wear crusty clothes. as long as they pass the sniff-test, its all good.

― di, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have small child - foodstains on clothes, everything etc not just acceptable, but UNAVOIDABLE. They are not tidy eaters. In phact, they are not tidy anything. Gnnn tidy up living room floor, see it returned to similar state in less than 10 mins etc. All breakable objekts must be out of reach (NB when they learn to push chairs & climb on them nothing is out of reach anymore) and so on. Thus I have nop problem w/Graham's pizza stain. I have seen much worse.

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd like to announce that my black trench coat that i wear EVERY DAY still has vomit on the collar from a wicked party a year ago. Thank you.

― Ally, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

if you spill food on your clothes, have piggy eat clothes. mix it up. let the food harden to a god damn brittle fucking disgracer. Slide ass

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rubbish! Food stains on men are disgusting and i'msorrygraham but you must not wear things with them on. It's really, really rank. The sign of a man who has given up on life. Women with food stains: more complicated. Can be EVEN MORE REVOLTING or can be indicative of a hellishly saucy insouciance that has the capacity to drive me wild.

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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