What kind of monstrous traveller boils their underwear inside a hotel room kettle? This was the question on many people's lips last year when a Twitter user asked their followers whether the practice was commonplace.

This curious query raised many more. Namely, "What have you done to your pants that necessitates the application of boiling water?", "Are you too dense to realise that putting your knickers in the sink and then pouring on the boiling water is far more logical?" and "Have I drunk tea from a kettle that was used to clean somebody's Y-fronts?"

Medical experts even weighed in. Dr Heather Hendrickson, a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biosciences at Massey University in Auckland, said: "It is super super super super gross." That's actually the scientific term. She added: "Your friend is unlikely to have a large number of highly heat resistant pathogens in his dirty undergarments but we do not know what he does have in there or how sick he might be." Oh, there's definitely something not right.

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