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Why do people install expensive hardwood flooring in their kitchens, the place where you are most likely to drop food, cutlery, spill liquids, etc? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by golden_zealot@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Seems like a terrible idea to me.

You make one mistake one time and bingo, you cost yourself a few grand to have it sanded, leveled, varnished, and polished.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Welcome to the 70's-80's when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.

Fun story ... my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he'd dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.

And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.

Gotta love kids!

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I have 3 kittens in their puberty, that's already more then I can handle. I'm skipping kids.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 16 hours ago

I am British, lived here for 35+ years (all my life) and I’ve never seen carpet in a toilet or bathroom.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Hey it's not me experiencing urine leakages often enough to develop such presumption, buddy

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You think flushing doesn't sprinkle toilet water everywhere?

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 3 points 17 hours ago

Yup, just shut the cover before flushing

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever a man is peeing standing up, droplets will spread around the toilet. Over the years, the buildup will be horribly unhealthy and disgusting. But for Brits who already never wash their hands, it may not be such big of a deal.

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Then just don't pee standing up, I'm a dude and when I'm at comfort of my home I always choose to sit on my toilet. It's so much better that way, much more comfortable and less messy.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I always sit down, but can you be certain every other man peeing in your toilet does the same?

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 12 hours ago

well fuck you for making me realize that my carpet after all may be stained with fluids that never left my belly.