don't wake me, I plan on sleeping

[freckles_and_doubt]

Grumpy today. Grrrr. Toe throbbing. Arguing with EL about tiles¹. Really, really tired. You know that bit where it's been completely mad for a month and things start calming down, and suddenly you realise you're actually dead and have simply been shuffling around going through zombie motions for the last week or so? That. Warning, Zone of Imminent Collapse, Please Wear Hard Hat At All Times.

I had to go forth and find medicinal linkery in a determined effort to cheer up and not actually bite students, or at least only the ones who really, really deserve it. Fortunately I found this:

Watch on YouTube

Courtesy of Pajiba, whose psychotic assaults on the manifest stupidities of Hollywood keep me sane. As do my friends, so thank you.

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¹ Not on aesthetic grounds, since really it's his house, but on practical, since I'm the one who ends up doing as much cleaning as is not done by Margaret, Ace Cleaning Lady, and I'm extremely dubious about excitingly textured faux-stone surfaces and the likelihood that they'll collect greasy kitchen dirt in the same way Pigpen does. (Obligatory Peanuts reference, nothing to see here, move along). Tile people think I'm right! Come on, EL, see the logic! are you German or not?!

Comments

[schedule5.livejournal.com]

Textured tiles, while often pleasingly non-slip, are pretty much impossible to clean, barring with a major scrubbing effort. We had textured tiles once, and my mom swore never again.

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Get your mom to write down her complaints, bablefish them into german and send them to the EL. Perhaps he'll be convinced.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Hah! vindicated again! non-slip is not an issue, unless the EL has been dancing on the walls when I'm not looking - these are wall tiles, including the backsplash above the stove, hence my fears about texture.

Since we have now established that the EL reads this blog, hopefully the whole Babelfish/Schedule5mother route won't be actually necessary, although conversely it would always be amusing.

[tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com]

You definitely want as smooth as possible for that, otherwise you end up with layers of grease, I would imagine. Tell EL to think hospital, operating theatre, for the use of.

[scrumisscrum.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

FWIW, our kitchen floor tiles in the previous house were textured which was a significant tactical failure. Then compounded by using 'superduper' cleaning product inexactly lent a certain variance to the tile colour. May not be such a big issue with wall tiles, but then I am not a fan of tiled walls.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

We've been given Serious Talkings-To by various tile vendors about the things you do and don't use on tiles (not Handy-Andy or anything abrasive, apparently, since it does exactly what you describe above to the colour). I'm not madly into tiled walls either, but I do think it helps to have a small section tiled above kitchen surfaces, I'm a somewhat ... enthusiastic cook.

[mac1235.livejournal.com]

Yes. Practicality FTW!

Steel

[first-fallen.livejournal.com]

I quite like the brushed aluminium/steel plating you can get for splash-back bits. It looks very professional and is also easy to clean. You can scrub it with bleach and sand and it will still be ok.