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noveldevice at 12:07pm on 22/08/2011
noveldevice at 12:07pm on 22/08/2011There are many things in this world I do not understand. This is, I feel, right and proper. Life is full of things no one could understand.
For example, I saw a young woman clearly bent on clubbing wearing a jersey-knit strapless drop-crotch jumpsuit. The pattern was tiny blue and purple flowers on a white ground, and the fabric had a vaguely fuzzy flannelette appearance. I don't understand that. I defy anyone to understand it. It was a fashion don't.
However, one of the things I don't understand is dishrags. Now, before you hit "reply" and start telling me about the wonders of dishrags, let me tell you that I have heard it all before. In fact, I grew up in a dishrag household, so I have used them. This is why I'm a sponge person. I have never gotten good results from washing dishes with a rag or cloth, and I find them foul to handle and have around. Over time, no matter what colour they began, they subside into a sort of mildew-grey that I find decidedly unappealing, and as they get old, they texture they become when wet is almost more than my hands can bear to touch.
I know that there are six million arguments in favour of dishrags and how they're so much better than sponges, etc etc. However, I don't want to use them, and that should be the end of it. Except, for so many dishrag users, it isn't. H_D and naturalliving occasionally subside into rag vs. sponge wars, and generally speaking what it ends up being is a lot of people declaring that the thing they don't use is gross (this is normal and expected, because if you didn't think it was gross, you'd be either indifferent or using whatever it is), but then the rag users all start predicting dire outcomes for the sponge users if they refuse to switch.
Sponge users, by and large, are pretty inoffensive types. We like what we like, we use what we use, and while we will discuss at length our reasons for using a sponge, we don't insist that everyone switch to sponges. We recognize that sponges are not for everyone.
Rag users, however, are proselytizers. Everyone has to use a rag! Rags are so much better that there is no comparison! Sponges will kill you. They are killing you, right now. Turn around, the sponge has a dirty knife and it's coming for you! THE SPONGE IS CALLING FROM INSIDE THE SINK.
This is the thing I don't understand. It's sort of like those people who clean their houses using nothing but hot water and baking soda. It can't just be a personal choice--it's a fucking crusade. Everyone must touch the filthy dishrag. Well, I say, NO. PUT THE RAGS ON JULIA.
And I'll go on using my sponges. I buy them in packs of three.
For example, I saw a young woman clearly bent on clubbing wearing a jersey-knit strapless drop-crotch jumpsuit. The pattern was tiny blue and purple flowers on a white ground, and the fabric had a vaguely fuzzy flannelette appearance. I don't understand that. I defy anyone to understand it. It was a fashion don't.
However, one of the things I don't understand is dishrags. Now, before you hit "reply" and start telling me about the wonders of dishrags, let me tell you that I have heard it all before. In fact, I grew up in a dishrag household, so I have used them. This is why I'm a sponge person. I have never gotten good results from washing dishes with a rag or cloth, and I find them foul to handle and have around. Over time, no matter what colour they began, they subside into a sort of mildew-grey that I find decidedly unappealing, and as they get old, they texture they become when wet is almost more than my hands can bear to touch.
I know that there are six million arguments in favour of dishrags and how they're so much better than sponges, etc etc. However, I don't want to use them, and that should be the end of it. Except, for so many dishrag users, it isn't. H_D and naturalliving occasionally subside into rag vs. sponge wars, and generally speaking what it ends up being is a lot of people declaring that the thing they don't use is gross (this is normal and expected, because if you didn't think it was gross, you'd be either indifferent or using whatever it is), but then the rag users all start predicting dire outcomes for the sponge users if they refuse to switch.
Sponge users, by and large, are pretty inoffensive types. We like what we like, we use what we use, and while we will discuss at length our reasons for using a sponge, we don't insist that everyone switch to sponges. We recognize that sponges are not for everyone.
Rag users, however, are proselytizers. Everyone has to use a rag! Rags are so much better that there is no comparison! Sponges will kill you. They are killing you, right now. Turn around, the sponge has a dirty knife and it's coming for you! THE SPONGE IS CALLING FROM INSIDE THE SINK.
This is the thing I don't understand. It's sort of like those people who clean their houses using nothing but hot water and baking soda. It can't just be a personal choice--it's a fucking crusade. Everyone must touch the filthy dishrag. Well, I say, NO. PUT THE RAGS ON JULIA.
And I'll go on using my sponges. I buy them in packs of three.
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