Blooming scatter cushions

Kittylester: I'm always spoiling for a fight in my old age as I find most people deadly boring. Unlike Gransnetters, they seem afraid of talking about anything that matters, or expressing their true feelings. I'm a blunt northerner; I find myself baiting bores just to get a response. What an evil bit-h I am!

Just to lighten the debate and seeing the talk about basins brought to mind a joke.

Q: What's the difference between a bison and a buffalo?

A You can wash your hands in a bison.

(Sorry folks!)

I dislike scatter cushions per se. Perhaps being large, I find chairs etc, perfectly comfortable without them.

How about when you discover that you are carrying around your own cushions? Some time ago, (well quite a long time actually) when I thought I was reasonably slim I sat down to read and thought that I had sat on something! When I delved down the side of the chair, guess what? it was me and not anything else.

Those cushions on the bed really are annoying and, to my mind, extremely unhygenic, especially in hotels. I couldn't bear the thought of sleeping directly on one or even cuddling it.

Relax. It's just cushions.

No, it's huge nests of bacteria!!

WE seem to be obsessed with bacteria on a couple of threads, how did us oldies survive childhood.?

Lordy..what alot of hot air over CUSHIONS!!
What bacteria..what are the statistics that I have missed re illness/death by scatter cushion????

DH & I have a cushion each on our bed in addition to 2 x rectangular pillows and 1 x square pillow. We use the cushion as extra support behind the head when reading in bed. We then put it on the floor (clean!!) by the side of the bed when we put the light out. In the morning they go back on the bed. It really is not a major problem!

pompa I think I would win the award for Slattern of the Year on GN. I don't care about bacteria and other wotnots nearly as much as a lot of other GNetters.

I can't see the point of several small ones cluttering up a bed - so often on the hard side and in shiny/sparkly material so no use at all for comfort. If you want to lie on the bed to watch TV you need big fat soft and squashy ones.
It does irritate me in hotels, when you have to chuck sundry cushions and a throw thingy on the floor, or find a chair to put them on. Only to find them all carefully arranged on the bed again later. One day I will actually ask them very nicely to take the *** things away and not bring them back till I'm gone.