What do you do when the washing up takes over the house?
Why, leave the planet of course!
Okay, so that’s bizarre, but we were discussing this on h2g2 this morning, and someone suggested something also very bizarre, but much more plausible: fill a bath with hot soapy water, put the washing up in it and throw in the neighbour’s cat or dog. In their thrashing efforts to escape, they’ll get most of the grime off the dishes.
Brilliant! Bit hard on the cat though. Leaving the planet’s probably a preferable option though, not only do you then not even have to touch the dishes, you also get to avoid having hear anything more about a war where there are more casualties caused by accidents and friendly fire than by enemy activity. It might be funny if it wasn’t real.