ew ew ew my washing machine stopped working so i just undid the filter to see if it was blocked and now my kitchen floor is swimming in fetid fluid

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also blimey i once went to an ivor cutler show and the suopprting artist read a poem the burden of which was I KNOW GOD IS GOOD BCZ HE CAN SEE WHAT IS DOWN THERE BETWEEN MY COOKER AND MY WASHING MACHINE AND HE DOES NOT SMITE ME

delete me now

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haha the law of having ppl over is THAT IS A DUSTBUNNY BEHIND THE DOOR NOT YR PET PUPPY but this is beyond wacky humour

i hf put on a merzbow CD and a japanese industrial face-protection mask: i will be offline all day i think

ew ew ew

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Who'd have imagined that Mark wasn't a leading DIY expert and washing machine repairperson?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

it is neva a good sign when you have to resort to using a stanley knife when cleaning the lino

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the thread title read 'fetal fluid' and I was wondering what David Cronenberg was doing living with Mark S.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

brundlefly

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

um, once the cable thingy connecting the washing machine to the water supply did break off at 2 am i think. thankfully i was awake otherwise there would have been a flood.

i've got an exam at 2pm tomorrow (a chat abt my report but i'm really fucking nervous), which is why i post now.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, Mark, you have to drain the machine first using the hose next to the filter. Just being helpful!

― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 6 October 2002 20:12 (twenty-three years ago)

there isn't one!!

and the filter wasn't blocked so something more weird is wrong with it

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 20:17 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302181755.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― jones (actual), Sunday, 6 October 2002 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

New answers!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 October 2002 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 7 October 2002 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

See what happens when you allow these dangerous washing devices in your home?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 October 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

When I got home on Saturday afternoon, the entire kitchen had been covered in fire extinguisher powder. Everything looks like someone has dribbled toothpaste over it: The floor, worktops, table, chairs, crockery, kettles, toasters, TVs etc etc. And not just stuff that's been left out, it's got into the cupboards too. My flatmates say that the window was laft open and at about 6 am someone from the upstairs flat came in and hosed the place down. Our flat's extinguisher is still sealed, so this seems believable. We haven't made contact with them upstairs yet, I don't think.

a) Is this stuff poisonous? Should we be using stuff that's been slimed, even after washing it?
b) Any ideas on cleaning it off? If you get it wet it just forms a paste.
c) What should we do about the people who did it?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

You mean your flatmates?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham HOOVER it up! and report/maim those responsible.

― katie (katie), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not powder, or if it was it's been got wet, so I don't think you could hoover it. It's horrible, though t'internet tells me it's not poisonous except in large doses.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 16 December 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to advise you to take large doses of it too, but now I withdraw that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

eighteen years pass...

― ffolkes (map), Monday, 21 December 2020 20:50 (five years ago)

Mark'll sink us

― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 21 December 2020 22:51 (five years ago)

watermark

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 21 December 2020 22:53 (five years ago)

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