Not So Dishy Rishi

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Chutney Spoon replied

8 October 2021, 18:45
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

How do you open the jar?

One is subcontracting to a jar-wallah who does the needful
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d000hg replied

8 October 2021, 18:19
Originally posted by Chutney Spoon View Post

I am very limp wristed and your post has caused me great distress. I demand much chutney in compensation.

How do you open the jar?
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Chutney Spoon replied

8 October 2021, 17:52
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

I have never heard anyone say that. I have heard lots of people say "I'm a bit OCD" about things and nobody has ever taken offence, including the people I know who actually have suffered from OCD.

OCD like Autism is a spectrum so you can quite accurately suffer from it slightly.

People should get a grip.

I am very limp wristed and your post has caused me great distress. I demand much chutney in compensation.
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d000hg replied

8 October 2021, 17:36
Originally posted by ladymuck View Post

All he had to do was say, "I'm very particular about how I load the dishwasher". It's not that hard.

I have never heard anyone say that. I have heard lots of people say "I'm a bit OCD" about things and nobody has ever taken offence, including the people I know who actually have suffered from OCD.

OCD like Autism is a spectrum so you can quite accurately suffer from it slightly.

People should get a grip.
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ladymuck replied

8 October 2021, 16:37
All he had to do was say, "I'm very particular about how I load the dishwasher". It's not that hard.
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xoggoth replied

8 October 2021, 16:16
Glad I'm not a politician. Impossible to make a joke about anything.
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Paralytic replied

8 October 2021, 15:29
Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

Journalist Flora Gill wrote: ‘Can we please stop using the term “OCD” like it’s just a quirky personality trait! It’s a disorder that can have huge impacts on people’s lives and wellbeing.’

I bet she's always saying that.
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SueEllen started a topic Not So Dishy Rishi

8 October 2021, 15:27
Not So Dishy Rishi

He's annoying people on how he fills his dishwasher.

I'm so angry he used the term OCD - I need to go and lie down.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/08/rishi...sher-15385994/

And now the chancellor has also got himself into some hot water – by talking about his dishwasher.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Rishi Sunak was asked whether he helps out with the household chores.

He laughed and said: ‘You should get my wife here. I have a very OCD approach to dishwashers, which she’ll tell you.

‘There’s a way to optimise how much stuff you can get in a dishwasher. My dad had it, I have it. I take great pride in that.

‘There’s a particular way I like beds to be made and things like that.’

Although clearly intending it to be a light-hearted comment, his words have attracted heavy criticism.

Jess Austin, who has OCD, wrote on Metro.co.uk today: ‘If Rishi had said, “I have to stack my dishwasher in a certain way because I worry if I don’t, something bad will happen to the people I love,” then I’d believe it. But on first glance, it seems like he’s just using the same lazy stereotype of the illness.

‘Public perception of OCD is so often about just being clean, tidy and putting things in order. In reality, it’s a whole lot more complicated.’

Marina Lussich, who works in strategy and sustainability, tweeted: ‘The chancellor Rishi Sunak doesn’t seem to know that OCD is a life-changing mental health condition.

‘You don’t have “a very OCD approach” to dishwashers, that’s disrespectful of people living with real OCD.’

Journalist Flora Gill wrote: ‘Can we please stop using the term “OCD” like it’s just a quirky personality trait! It’s a disorder that can have huge impacts on people’s lives and wellbeing.’
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