Cleaning I blame Trinny and Susanna. There seems to be a new trend in television in which two experts on a subject grab an unsuspecting member of the public and subject them to unmittigated embarassment in order to educate them into realising how stupid they are. The very worst example of the is the BBC show, To Catch A Thief in which two reformed cons case a respectable village or district until they find a vulnerable house and then invite the owners to be terrorised as they watch it actually being burgled to show how easy it is to burgle their house. It's one of the most shocking things on tv.

The latest is the Channel 4 show How Clean Is Your House? in which two cleaning experts find someone living in utter squaller and try and get them to change their ways. In the first programme they found a chemistry teacher who hadn't cleaned ever and really should have known better and described to him how germs and bugs can be carried about his house. It's almost as though the once minority facing channel is actively looking for things they can take clips from for their annual new year TV Treats programme. Any this is all pre-amble for an article from The Guardian in which the two harridans are let loose on their offices (although surprisingly they don't bump into John Simm and Kelly MacDonald while they are -- sure off chasing a conspiracy no doubt)...
"Kim Woodburn is standing in the shower room of the ladies' toilets on the second floor of the Guardian office building, ordering me to sniff a damp green towel that has been left to dry on the radiator by a (fortunately for her) unidentified staff member. "Do you know what that smells of? Dirty bodies. They're using it on their lower bits and their face, and that's totally unhygienic," she huffs. "They think it doesn't matter because they keep it at work, and it hasn't seen a wash since Napoleon."
I'm looking around my bedroom right now and I know it isn't perfect with its piles of clothes and cds, but I'm pleased to say do have a good mug cleaning regimen.

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