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People might have things bad, but they're nothing compared to what's happened to me today.

It's New Year's Eve, and the dishwasher has packed up.  We've had to resort to washing up by hand. 

FML.

you lucky bugger timed that right for the january sales didnt you

Sod the January sales.  Did some research online, and then ordered one today.  Will be with us by the 4th Jan.  Which isn't bad, but what the hell are we meant to do until then?  Wash up by hand?

Use paper plates for 4 days,and bar-b-q so no dishes.

I was thinking restaurants FTW.

What do I do about my hands.  The hot water has played havoc with them.  Can they be repaired?

let it pile up, research shows that dishwashers work best when full - what better way to find out?

What's all this 'we had to wash up' business?

I thought you were married?

Invite the mum/mother in law round and let them offer to wash up after dinner.

hire chiprich i heard he spent christmas in grimsby so he cant be very flush at the minute

Spoken like a true bachelor!  I put in a shift (it wasn't much of an effort, but it passed).

Good man.  That's my plan if I don't make it through the weekend...

Dish washers ... biggest fkin waste of money ever ... you still have to rinse plates and load the dishwasher, put your tablets and salt in ... then 2 hours later you have to unload it.

Get some rubber gloves if you are worried about you hands ya big poof.

Ps. we have one and it is working perfectly ;)

FYP

Not that Kev would know, he hasn't even loaded it for the last year!

get some rubber gloves and apply hand cream liberally before putting them on.  The hot water will help the moisturiser absorb and when you've finished washing up you'll have hands like a baby's bum :)up

You don't bloody rinse before loading!  That's like having a dog and wagging its tail.  In fact, dishwashers work better if you don't rinse.

My dishwasher packed in once so I went on holiday for a few days. 

I agree with Kin, you don't know what you're missing Kev. Ginger is telling you porkies mate.

Listen to a language CD while washing up,  20 minutes per day will have you speaking another language to add to English and Japanese. 

gtfo

This has happened to us though, pretty weird.

[  ] we will do a lot in a an attempt to repair it

lololol, we will be shopping for new plates soon imo, f washing up by hand. its too hard.

place in garden and jet wash.,.,.,.,

I'm with Kev on this one...

F dishwashers. Ours broke a while ago and we haven't replaced it. Collosal waste of money and time and they don't work properly anyways..so feck em.#

I do all the dishes in our house, don't mind doing them and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to do them yourself..and it's less effort than having a dishwasher.

MrsB - get off MrB's account please!

Dishwashers don't work properly?  They do if you don't buy a cheap Matsui one.  As a German you should know better.

There's always crap left in the bloody thing!..Dishwashers are disgusting and they smell!

Why spend £500+ on a decent dishwasher when you can do them yourself? There's only me and MrsB in this house (though she does create an awful mess...something about "The stress of having to put up with me") doing the dishes takes about 5 or ten minutes and the job gets done properly that way.

Seriously, it's like using a bloody microwave for cooking, it's disgusting!

You don't need to spend £500+ to get a decent one. 

Dishwashers clean the dishes better than you can by hand.  You don't have to dry them with a bacteria-ridden tea-towel either.

No they don't..I've yet to see any proof of that...in fact I regularly see cups that aren't clean or a bit of crap left on plates in the dishwasher after it's been used (we have one at work) so don't see how the dishwasher does a better job really.....and you could use a clean towel..or not dry them at all.

Dishwashers are evil.

Normally the missus does the washing up but today I stepped up.  I enjoyed it tbh, put the radio on and watched the world go by, I find it quite relaxing, I dont think I'll ever get a dishwasher!

Good man!

Just load the dishwasher as badly as poss then you dont get asked to load it again  ;)

You must have crap dishwashers up there, that's all I can say.  Dishwashers heat the water to over 63 degrees, and that's a lot hotter than the water you'll use to wash dishes by hand.  63 degrees is a very important temperature.

You don't wash your clothes by hand in the sink any more, why wash dishes this way?

pffffffffffffft, why is 63 degrees an important temperature? I don't wash clothes by hand as it quite clearly doesn't work as well as using a washing machine.

I have yet to see any evidence that a dish washer is a better way of doing the dishes than doing them by hand. Add to that that; It's more expensive, it uses more energy and probably more water, so it's not environmentally friendly.

I just think dishwashers are OK for restaurants and maybe big families (but I don't have kids so what do I know about that?) but for couples or single people it's just because they are lazy and can't eb arsed doing the dishes...and about nothing else.

lazy bastard imo

Boldie is spot on with this when there is just 2 of you it makes sense to wash by hand,

but then jeeves has been his dishwasher.

No shit sherlock...

...keep digging Watson.

Some people I know BUY dish washers just to get out of doing the washing up !!!

TBH we have a strict routine in this house

Mon - Sat .. Jane cooks, I eat it, kids take turns to do the dishwasher

SUNDAY.. Jane cooks, I eat it, and as Sundays are my day for dishwasher, I flick a £1 coin at one of the kids to do it for me :)

ahaha. When i was at Uni we use to let everything pile up and i mean every possible resource and then bung in all in the bath for a soak LMFAO. ahhhh great days!

That plate in your sig still has shit on it.  Maybe it needs a longer soak?

;)

Who would do that?

how old are they kev?

 and do they scrape n wrinse all the pans and things 1st?

Still young enough to do it for a quid on Sundays ;)

12 & 15 ... Little one is just 8, will give her another year til she joins the slave trade i reckon ;)

And yes, they scrape and rinse.

Paper plates and plastic knives and forks until the new magical machine arrives.

I remember always arguing who done the drying up

 what do they argue over now who rinses?

Not now they don't. We still had the 'rinse and fill' argument but that soon ended when I changed the chore to different days instead. So now Jen does it all on her own one day, Ashley the next, no bickering... for 10 minutes.

FYP

It is impossible to get dishes as clean by hand as in a dishwasher - its just you cant see the bits that washing by hand leave behind. That plus its just time efficient to use a dishwasher.

FML Part II.  The fridge/freezer has just packed up.  I'm getting fat eating everything before it goes off.

Sigh...

http://www.fmylife.com/

LOL - mine doesn't seem so bad now.

:D

shouldn't laugh really, but......

Yeah the blue martian is my favourite too.

the electric toothbrush one and the virginia one one the first page of 'top FMLs' both pretty good too!

My favourite,
Today, my religious girlfriend of 8 months finally lets me have sex with her. She invites me over, and just when we are about to do it, her dad comes home from work 3 hours early. She said it is a sign from God that we have to wait. FML

I agree Claire the electric toothbrush is very funny as well. It's great that putting FML after nearly anything makes it loads funnier.