Why would anyone ever put dirty dishes in the sink when there is a dishwasher near by? This behavior confounds me. Why the fuck would you put dishes in the sink when you are simply going to have to remove them later?
If they need to soak, that’s one thing, but leaving them out when nothing prevents their immediate emigration to their dirty dish graves is an inexecusable crime whose proponents are worse than Hitler.
Pffft, at least you have a dishwasher. In my apartment, my room-mates cook and then leave the dirty dishes for weeks. ALL the dishes are dirty and my girlfriend and I are cooking tonight soooo we had no choice but to clean a whole sink-load. I guess we could have cleaned just what we needed, but you know how you get into cleaning and you dont want to stop? In any case, the rage meter is rising…
Well, I don’t have a dishwasher. Never have and probably won’t for a while. If I’m in a kitchen with one, then it’s not mine. In that case though, I’d probably ask what I should do with the dishes. But I wouldn’t just stick them in the dishwasher? What if the host has a system? What if I load it incorrectly? What if they are quirky and prefer to wash by hand first? Those are the kind of thoughts that preclude me from just sticking the dishes in a dishwasher.
a) the dishwasher has clean dishes in it still
b) they’re “non-dishwasher-safe”
c) the user doesn’t believe in dishwashers and intends to do them later by hand, or
d) the person is a lazy bum.
You pick 
Because they can. I know of no rule that states " DISHWASHER IN THE HOUSE"
This behavior confounds me. Why the fuck would you put dishes in the sink when you are simply going to have to remove them later?
If they need to soak, that’s one thing, but leaving them out when nothing prevents their immediate emigration to their dirty dish graves is an inexecusable crime whose proponents are worse than Hitler.
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Because they can. I know of no rule that states " DISHWASHER IN THE HOUSE" means no dishes in the sink EVAR!!!
Moved by you? Or others? That makes a difference. Lazy is fun!
Hitler mixed a with dishwasher is more than I want my brain to soak on.
We have a dishwasher, but all of my roommates prefer to clean by hand. Fine.
What burns me is when one of my roommates leaves both sinks full of dishes for days. Hey Jackass, that means that none of the rest of us can do our dishes, or use the sink for anything useful. This past fall he was leaving dishes for so long we developed an infestation of fruit flies. It got to the point where I was starting to be afraid to cook food in the kitchen before I finally managed to eradicate them.
Sometimes he’ll even go home for the weekend leave a sink or two full of dishes behind. Gah!
I suppose I shouldn’t complain too much: at least his does clean his dishes eventually. That’s more than I can say about any of the other chores that need to get done.
Oh, just stop friggin’ whingeing will you? I’ll get last night’s dishes OUT of the sink and into the dishwasher shortly, OK?? :rolleyes:
Because it’s full already with clean dishes.
Because I have a system for loading, and trickling in one dish at a time makes me have to start all over when something doesn’t fit. And besides it’s my house and I’ll do what I wanna.
Great, that’s the second time today I’ve been compared to Hitler. 
Simply handing them to my wife would invite trouble, so I put them in the sink, where she washes them later.
That’s the deal, I cook, she washes. There’s no point in being rude about it.
Or you could just clean them … in the sink!
Why the fuck do you have a sink when you have a dishwasher?
The only thing I find useful for a sink in my kitchen is to clean cutlery and crockery.
Oh and yes, I would to put the plates in the sink if I was a guest.
Yep. Loading the dishwasher a few things at a time is an exercise in frustration for me – I end up moving all sort of things around in order to fit other things as they arise. I’d far rather keep a few neat stacks of things in the sink until I have most of a load and then drop them all in easily.
Because I live by myself. Running a half-full dishwasher is wasteful, and I don’t like to leave dirty dishes sitting around for the two or three days it would take to fill it.
e) the person’s preschooler: just peed on the floor/has a “horrific” boo-boo/is about to launch air rockets in the living room/is screaming “MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM!!!” which may indicate anything from “I’m bored” to a severed limb.
(OK, and a little bit of lazy bum, too. But I always *mean *to put them in with washer before my husband gets home.)
I finally got my husband to put dishes in the sink instead of leaving them all over. I ain’t gonna ruin it by reminding him about the dishwasher. (He might stop cooking and grocery shopping if I get all bitchy about a plate in the sink.)
f) the dishwasher is broken. Ours died 6 months ago and we were using it as a drying rack until we got a new one, which was installed Tuesday.
I don’t load the dishwasher as I use dishes because it already has clean dishes. I don’t unload the dishwasher all at once, I take dishes out as I need them, which then get piled in the sink. Yeah, I’m a lazy bum, but I live by myself, so who gives a shit? *
This is what really shines my brass about the scenario I describe. After the fourth or fifth dinner plate, the second bowl, and the third glass, THERE IS NO GODDAMN ROOM IN THE SINK and you cannot even use it.
Because the person whose job it is to unload the dishwasher is sitting on his ass watching football?
Place half the dirty dishes in roommate’s bed. Preferably under the covers.
Returning roommate: “Dude, I came home and there was this pile of dirty dishes in the bed! Fuck. The. What???”
You: “Sorry, man, I really needed to take a leak and the bathroom was too dirty. I thought I put all your dishes back in the sink afterward but I guess I forgot a couple. Sorry!”
Genuine reasons for leaving dishes in the sink: in our household, it’s Invisible Dish Syndrome (primarily affects tweens / teens though I’ve occasionally had minor bouts of it myself). My kids will not voluntarily put their dishes in the dishwasher even when it’s got plenty of room. They will do it if we remind them. However, as an example, just last night I told me daughter to load the various dishes that were on the counter (left there because the dishwasher had not yet been emptied - another task that is done only upon parental demand). She put a couple in and dashed off to watch TV.
Mom: “Moon Unit, I asked you to load the dishwasher”.
Moon Unit: (whining) “I diiiiiiid!”
Mom: (pointing to dishes directly next to the sink) “Then what are those?”
Moon Unit: “Oh”.