I just find it incomprehensible that he will lie even about something that people can see with their own eyes.
Most people aren’t as great about guessing weight as many of them think they are. So he may be relying on that. Or he may just be going on his usual principle, that if he says anything firmly enough that’ll make it true.
– I hang the currently-in-use kitchen towel from the handle of a wheeled cart that lives in the space originally intended for the dishwasher which I haven’t got. That places it very handily right next to the sink; which is where I want it, as it generally gets used to dry my hands when I’ve been using the sink.
I don’t keep a dish towel. I don’t know why I would. I keep a dish sponge, see below. There’s a spongy part and a scrubby part, and I diligently squeeze it out of water when done and lay it next to the sink and it dries. A dish towel is inherently gross as hell, a mildew and mold trap. GF keeps one, hangs it on the kitchen spout, and it’s always a bit damp and I shudder when I pick it up. Ew, ew!
I don’t have a word for “the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street” because if this isn’t worded poorly with the wrong thing in the “between” position, I’ve never seen it before. The only thing between the sidewalk and the road is the curb.
Our towel hangs on the dishwasher handle.
Okay, are we thinking of the same thing when we discuss a “dish towel”? Because I have several; I use them to dry dishes that I don’t want to leave to drip dry, to dry my hands on, to grab a jar lid with, and (although I should be using one of my many oven mitts so I won’t burn the back of my hand again) to grab hot things from the oven with. I generally have two in use at any given time. At the same time, I also use bar towels (dishrags to those who weren’t trained out of using the term by a restaurant manager) for washing dishes and wiping surfaces. I don’t like sponges because they get mildewy, but I also keep Scotch Brites for scrubbing pans and sinks and one of those puffy woven plastic scrubbers for nonstick surfaces. The bar towels get tossed into a net bag in the laundry room at the end of the day and I use a clean one the next day. The kitchen towels get changed out every couple of days.
I used to keep a kitchen towel on the refrigerator door, but I started keeping it on the oven door after we got a new fridge without a loop handle. Then we got a new oven without a lower broiling rack, so the towel would end up dangling onto the floor when I opened the oven door. That’s when I got a little towel rack and installed it on a cupboard door by the sink. Somehow, there are always a couple just hanging around on the counters as well most of the time.
Dish towel = used dry to dry things off.
Dish rag = used wet to wipe things.
I sometimes use a dish towel as a dish rag, but if i do, it goes into the laundry. I use a sponge to wash dishes, and a dish towel (on the fridge door) to dry my hands, and similar.
We have a strip of dirt between the paved sidewalk and the paved road. I think it’s called the tree lawn because traditionally they planted shade trees there, to shade the sidewalk, but that’s discouraged these days, since the roots chew up the sidewalk and can cause other issues with utilities.
Dish towel (used dry to dry things off.) hangs on a hook suctioned to the fridge door.
Dish rag (used wet to wipe things) hangs over a wire rail on the side of a cupboard
close to the kitchen sink
Hand towel (used to dry hands) hangs over the oven door.
Dish sponge (like squeegee’s, used to wash dishes) sits on the drainer along
with a washing up brush .
Another towel used to dry washed salad vegetables hands on a purpose made peg.
I don’t care how much trump weighs, he’ll always be a fat bastard to me.
Like apparently many others, I don’t see your point. They’re two separate things with separate purposes.
GF keeps a dish towel like this. It gets gross.
Any other towel in the kitchen, like for drying dishes, is called a “towel”. I hang one on the dishwasher handle and use it for drying my hands after washing them. It only ever touches things that are already clean.
I call this a dish cloth. We get out a fresh one each day and put it on the counter to the left of the sink. The old one goes on the counter to the right of the sink.
There is always a dish towel hanging from the dedicated hook near the sink. This is the one I normally use to dry my hands. There is usually a dish towel laying on the counter across from the sink, which is where I put clean pots, etc. which have been hand washed. I do not have a dish rack separate from the dishwasher and I normally do not dry dishes by hand - I just let them air dry.
There is usually a dish towel to the left of the espresso machine which catches errant milk foam.
Sometimes there is a dish towel hanging over the steam oven and if I’m using a lot of dish towels I’ll have another one hanging on the normal oven. These are the damp dish towels which would have been used to dry dishes. I only do this when I need to use the dish/pot/pan/spatula that I just used and I need it to be dry.
I dry my dishes with paper towels.
I keep a towel, used mostly to dry hands but occasionally to dry dishes (I usually let them dry on their own); a dishcloth, which gets used mostly to wipe off stove, table, and countertops; a scrubber thingy which is a sponge coated with nylon scrubbing stuff, which is used to wash the dishes; a long-handled brush for washing out cans etc before putting them in the recycling; and Brillo steel wool pads to use if needed (not very often) on the sort of pan they can be used on if the scrubber’s not up to the job; though usually a little while soaking plus the scrubber will do it.
The towels and dishcloth get thrown in the laundry. The scrubber gets thoroughly rinsed out after use and set to dry. The steel wool pads get rinsed after use and thrown out when too far gone. The recycling-cans brush gets a fast rinse, but I don’t worry about it too much, because it only gets used for those cans.
Oh yes, there’s also a vegetable brush. Which only gets used to scrub vegetables, and is rinsed out afterwards.
The towel hangs on the cart handle, the dishcloth hangs on a spout which is a remainder of previous plumbing systems and has no other current use, the scrubber and steel wool pad each have their own soap dish of the two-layer draining type, and everything else hangs from hooks on the bottom of the top kitchen cabinet next to the sink.
We use something called a Swedish dishcloth in lieu of a sponge. We hang it over the faucet like @squeegee’s GF does, but it dries completely in just 20-30 minutes.
(No, it’s not just a regular dishcloth that ends all of its sentences with “Bork bork bork!” 
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It’s encouraged here, for shade and other ecological benefits. [ETA: you can see recent plantings in the photo below.]
A grassed area between sidewalk and street is very common around here; generally small towns to small cities, and an area of the country where grass grows well.
Like this, though sometimes a wider strip (picture taken from random listing):
Are you in a big city, or a very dry area?
My wife is vegetarian but I am not. I don’t hate the meat substitutes but I’ve never been fooled. Even the Impossible and Beyond burgers still have a very distinctive non-meat flavor. Again I don’t dislike them, in fact I actually prefer the Impossible chicken patties to the “real” ones that are most likely made of “pink slime.”
Somewhat ironically, the “raw” Impossible chicken looks exactly like pink slime, but I actually think they taste better than those cheap frozen breaded chicken patties.
I’m a vegetarian mainly because I don’t like meat, so I would be unlikely to eat something that mimics meat well. But I’m also the person who buys the groceries and cooks for two meat-eaters, so if they found it acceptable and it was really cheaper and more environmentally friendly, I would 100% buy it instead of real chicken.
On the pee issue (30 minutes before alarm) I said “go back to sleep” as the most appropriate. In reality, I guess I’m pretty rare that I never pee between going to bed at night and getting up in the morning.
It might be interesting to know how many 60+ year old males are like me. I also wonder if over time I’ll change.
On the fake chicken issue, I’d prefer not eating real chicken, knowing what I know about chicken farms. I’d pay more for that.
I’m 58, and I still manage to nearly always sleep through the night without having to get up to go to the bathroom. But, I, too, figure it’s just a matter of time before I can’t.