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    Default Re: Woohoo! No more cleaning!

    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    Oh ffs LIVE the crisis. Are you really going to clean your own house when you can pay 20 euro a week to have it done. It's also fun, I used to have a Marrocan housekeeper and I insisted she would always give my plants water. It weren't real plants so all the water immediatly dropped on the floor and she had to mob it up again, and now I know how to curse in arab, it took her 4 months to realise the joke I pulled on her. Yes I am cruel.
    It's probably my upbringing, but I consider it a form of laziness. I was also raised with the (perhaps crazy) idea that people who pay people to do typical household jobs, have an attitude of feeling too good to do it themselves (I'm not saying that is true, it's just the idea that was hammered into me).

    Scrubbing toilets on my knees every week helps in keeping my feet on the ground and to prevent me from starting to walk next to my shoes and to feel better than somebody who cleans for a living. It helps to remind me to respect all kinds of work. I don't know about the rest of Europe or the US, but in our Belgian education system, children (and parents) are pushed towards higher education and there's this general atmosphere that working with your hands is something you shouldn't do if you can avoid it, as if that kind of work is inferior to let's say an office job (and the result is that nowadays, you can't find a decent plumber, since everyone being a bit intelligent was/is social pressured into studying for lawyer or psychologist or accountant or whatever that is not working with your hands). I despise that attitude because it leads to a society in which a lot of people (but probably not a large majority) who don't work with their hands think they are better than those who do get their hands dirty. If a guy with an IQ of 140 prefers plumbing, cleaning or carpenting, then let him. He doesn't have to be an architect or an engineer if he doesn't want to. And he shouldn't be talked into feeling miserable because by becoming a carpenter instead of an architect, he failed to get the most out of his life. I'm not sure if it's a typical Belgian thing, but if it is, apologies if this sounds a bit weird.

    Regardless, it is my firm believe that everyone in a high paying job should be forced to clean toilets at least once a week.

    Since TinCow admitted he doesn't clean his toilets at home, he'll now be forced to clean the staff toilets. Fragony can clean the membership toilets ().

    Besides, even if I wanted a housekeeper, it's hard to find one these days
    Last edited by Andres; 11-14-2012 at 11:22.
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