Full Version: Annoyances
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| QUOTE (winesonoma @ Feb 22 2005, 12:02 PM) |
I only go for the Nitrous oxide. And cause my dental plan says use it or lose it (the coverage).  |
I go for Nitrous too. But I've never had it at the dentist's
Hollywood
I'm so sorry
Come by and have a glass with me sometime.
My dentist has the affect of Mr. Rogers. This has the effect of putting me to sleep even when he is drilling me. Of course, I also have the ability to fall asleep while having an MRI.
| QUOTE (ranitidine @ Feb 22 2005, 08:57 PM) |
| My dentist has the affect of Mr. Rogers. This has the effect of putting me to sleep even when he is drilling me. Of course, I also have the ability to fall asleep while having an MRI. |
how are you in court?
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Feb 22 2005, 11:01 PM) | ||
how are you in court? |
Loud and obnoxious.
| QUOTE (Cathy @ Feb 22 2005, 09:08 PM) |
| Amino acids, maybe? I believe molasses will curdle milk because the proteins break down. |
That makes sense. On the other hand icecreams made with honey are not uncommon, and the recipe was written by someone I know and trust who has evidently made it plenty of times. We'll have to wait for a scientist to come along.
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My dentist, whom I've had since I had teeth, is extremely hot. Whoo! He hasn't aged a bit. Even his fingers taste good.
I love going to the dentist.
I love going to the dentist.
yes because you feel oh-so-sexy while you are drooling all over his fingers and he's scraping 6 months worth of crap off of your teeth.
My dentist is a nut. About six months ago I showed up for an appointment wearing olive green pants and a t-shirt with a camouflage pattern. "Ooh, look at you," he said, "working that Lynndie England look!" He does understand that I need massive amounts of nitrous and drugs, so I am happy to continue the relationship.
Having to practically knock over two co-workers (I said 'excuse me' twice but they didn't budge) to get to the fruit salad at lunch today because they were parked in front of it having an apparently engrossing conversation about Paris Hilton.
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Feb 23 2005, 12:49 PM) |
| ... having an apparently engrossing conversation about Paris Hilton. |
Is there any other kind?
Client blew off conference call which throws off audio schedule, which throws off production schedule...
The 2-4 inches of snow that the DC area is supposed to get tomorrow which will:
a) shut down the whole city for the rest of the week
b) cause all of the idiots to flee work at the sight of the first snowflake. Thus, they get on the roads before the salt trucks have gone around and the roads are at their slickest. Thus, there will be several accidents that will further delay the salt trucks and back up traffic to an even greater degree.
c) cause everyone to head to the grocery stores to do panic shopping as if they were going to be stuck in their houses until April and not just a day or two.
d) (not meant to kick a dead horse) cause all of the SUVainiacs to forget yet again that 4 wheel drive helps you go better, not stop better. Especially when your vehicle weighs twice as much as most things on the road. It's called basic physics people!
a) shut down the whole city for the rest of the week
b) cause all of the idiots to flee work at the sight of the first snowflake. Thus, they get on the roads before the salt trucks have gone around and the roads are at their slickest. Thus, there will be several accidents that will further delay the salt trucks and back up traffic to an even greater degree.
c) cause everyone to head to the grocery stores to do panic shopping as if they were going to be stuck in their houses until April and not just a day or two.
d) (not meant to kick a dead horse) cause all of the SUVainiacs to forget yet again that 4 wheel drive helps you go better, not stop better. Especially when your vehicle weighs twice as much as most things on the road. It's called basic physics people!
I am an extremely sound sleeper. Trucks, sirens, military jets screaming up and down the Hudson a block away,a cat walking on my head---nothing fazes me and I slumber on. I think that I may, however, have met my nemesis in the mourning doves that have taken up residence in my apartment building courtyard. They start in with their infernal, incessant cooing at the merest hint of first light, which this morning was 5:30-ish. I am most emphatically not a morning person and that's a bit early for my taste. If I had a gun I'd start shooting the little fuckers. 
We have a lot (probably just the two) down our way too. Hardly the bird of peace are they?
Let me see: backache, sore arthritic hip, slightly congested lungs, general exhaustion. Lovely.
| QUOTE (yvonne johnson @ Feb 24 2005, 12:12 PM) |
| We have a lot (probably just the two) down our way too. Hardly the bird of peace are they? |
They're Mourning Doves, as in funeral, not peace.
Just back from the dentist.
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Feb 24 2005, 11:56 AM) |
| I am an extremely sound sleeper. Trucks, sirens, military jets screaming up and down the Hudson a block away,a cat walking on my head---nothing fazes me and I slumber on. I think that I may, however, have met my nemesis in the mourning doves that have taken up residence in my apartment building courtyard. They start in with their infernal, incessant cooing at the merest hint of first light, which this morning was 5:30-ish. I am most emphatically not a morning person and that's a bit early for my taste. If I had a gun I'd start shooting the little fuckers. |
You should seriously consider breaking out the shotgun. Jacques Gastreaux and I had a very positive experience a while back with a brace of these roasted and served au jus over seared fois gras, sauteed swiss chard, toasted brioche and some cipolines.
| QUOTE |
| VANESSA Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2654 Member No.: 12 Joined: 15-March 04 Can anyone explain why heating honey with fresh milk should curdle the milk There goes my honey & cardamom icecream |
Happened to me once, too. Just add the honey after the milk is boiled.
| QUOTE (JPW @ Feb 23 2005, 06:17 PM) |
| The 2-4 inches of snow that the DC area is supposed to get tomorrow which will: a) shut down the whole city for the rest of the week b) cause all of the idiots to flee work at the sight of the first snowflake. Thus, they get on the roads before the salt trucks have gone around and the roads are at their slickest. Thus, there will be several accidents that will further delay the salt trucks and back up traffic to an even greater degree. c) cause everyone to head to the grocery stores to do panic shopping as if they were going to be stuck in their houses until April and not just a day or two. d) (not meant to kick a dead horse) cause all of the SUVainiacs to forget yet again that 4 wheel drive helps you go better, not stop better. Especially when your vehicle weighs twice as much as most things on the road. It's called basic physics people! |
My SUV is perfect for when I run out of cigarettes and red wine.
It's only you suburbanites who panic. We city peeps have quite a party, at least until the cops drive us off all our best sledding hills
annoyed by people whining about DC'ers in the snow. I lived in Denver, and they suck in snow, too. And their snow removal plan is just as bad as ours.
| QUOTE (Busboy @ Feb 24 2005, 05:28 PM) | ||
Happened to me once, too. Just add the honey after the milk is boiled. |
Thank you Busboy - invaluable advice.
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Discovering the pilot light of the boiler has blown out just after running a bath with 20 minutes to go before having to leave the house. 
clb
clb
Overly smug city dwellers.
| QUOTE (Daisy @ Feb 24 2005, 08:56 AM) |
| I am an extremely sound sleeper. Trucks, sirens, military jets screaming up and down the Hudson a block away,a cat walking on my head---nothing fazes me and I slumber on. I think that I may, however, have met my nemesis in the mourning doves that have taken up residence in my apartment building courtyard. They start in with their infernal, incessant cooing at the merest hint of first light, which this morning was 5:30-ish. I am most emphatically not a morning person and that's a bit early for my taste. If I had a gun I'd start shooting the little fuckers. |
Daisy, somewhere upthread is a similar post by me, minus the "I'm an extremely sound sleeper" part. In addition to the mourning doves, we also have two great horned owls to contend with.
It's like listening to an avian version of "Who Let the Dogs Out"? all night long. And then the doves take up in the morning when the owls retire.
I feel your pain....maybe moreso as I often have insomnia. I use those orange foam earplugs when I don't have to get up early.
| QUOTE (Rose @ Feb 24 2005, 12:18 PM) | ||
They're Mourning Doves, as in funeral, not peace. |
Right. That's what I said.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Feb 24 2005, 01:02 PM) | ||
Daisy, somewhere upthread is a similar post by me, minus the "I'm an extremely sound sleeper" part. In addition to the mourning doves, we also have two great horned owls to contend with. |
I'll see your owls and raise you a pair of rutting hedgehogs.
| QUOTE (JPW @ Feb 24 2005, 06:00 PM) |
| Overly smug city dwellers. |
Shouldn't you be queuing for bread and toilet paper instead of playing on the Internet?
PS, how smug am I allowed to be before I'm "overly" smug?
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Feb 24 2005, 10:06 AM) | ||||
I'll see your owls and raise you a pair of rutting hedgehogs. |
Are they right outside your window, or are you using the stealth eavesdropping equipment from Sharper Image?
I can't even imagine what rutting hedgehogs sound like...well, not without tapping into that special Ron Jeremy commemorative DVD, I can't.
| QUOTE (tanabutler @ Feb 24 2005, 01:23 PM) | ||||||
Are they right outside your window, or are you using the stealth eavesdropping equipment from Sharper Image? I can't even imagine what rutting hedgehogs sound like...well, not without tapping into that special Ron Jeremy commemorative DVD, I can't. |
Not outside my current window, but outside my parents house many years ago. They grunt at a volume that is entirely out of proportion to their size.
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Feb 24 2005, 01:28 PM) | ||||||||
Not outside my current window, but outside my parents house many years ago. They grunt at a volume that is entirely out of proportion to their size. |
The same proportion of volume to size is present in the mourning dove.
You'd grunt too if your partner was covered with spikes.
| QUOTE (Wilfrid @ Feb 24 2005, 02:13 PM) |
| You'd grunt too if your partner was covered with spikes. |
Could be good grunting or bad grunting, wouldn't ya say?
Depends who your partner is.
The last time I visited the Prospect Park Zoo the porcupines were mating. Talk about "things that make you go hmm...".
| QUOTE (fantasty @ Feb 24 2005, 07:54 PM) |
| The last time I visited the Prospect Park Zoo the porcupines were mating. Talk about "things that make you go hmm...". |
how do porcupines mate?
very carefully.
(I know, it's a groaner, but fantasy was just setting up for that.)
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Feb 24 2005, 03:02 PM) | ||
how do porcupines mate? very carefully. (I know, it's a groaner, but fantasy was just setting up for that.) |
Coulda been a "hmm... that could be interesting...."
XML. 
| QUOTE (g.johnson @ Feb 24 2005, 11:28 AM) |
| Not outside my current window, but outside my parents house many years ago. They grunt at a volume that is entirely out of proportion to their size. |
but who doesn't?
| QUOTE (JPW @ Feb 23 2005, 01:17 PM) |
| The 2-4 inches of snow that the DC area is supposed to get tomorrow which will: a) shut down the whole city for the rest of the week |
Just wait until peanut goes to school
You live in the county that ALWAYS closes (at least compared to DC anyway).Annoyance: they have not canceled class yet tonight which means I may actually have to get out of my pjs
Inlaws.
| QUOTE (whippedkeptboy @ Feb 24 2005, 05:46 PM) |
| Inlaws. |
is this a response to the question of who doesn't make a grunting sound out of proportion to their size while rutting?
Okay, so I saw the above post, and scrolled up for the one it was referring to, and spent a panicky minute or two thinking the discussion was about gj hanging around outside his parents' window listening to them rutting loudly, before I worked it out
| QUOTE (Kikujiro @ Feb 24 2005, 05:59 PM) |
| Okay, so I saw the above post, and scrolled up for the one it was referring to, and spent a panicky minute or two thinking the discussion was about gj hanging around outside his parents' window listening to them rutting loudly, before I worked it out |
which is not to say he didn't/doesn't do it.
| QUOTE (mongo_jones @ Feb 24 2005, 07:55 PM) | ||
is this a response to the question of who doesn't make a grunting sound out of proportion to their size while rutting? |
Nah. But for what it's worth you have made me remember this huge rugby player who roomed across the quadrangle in college and used to bellow like a wounded ox when in extremis. One night, five or six public spirited, drunken neighbors kicked his door down and threw him and his protesting companion into the river. Good times.
| QUOTE (whippedkeptboy @ Feb 24 2005, 08:28 PM) | ||||
Nah. But for what it's worth you have made me remember this huge rugby player who roomed across the quadrangle in college and used to bellow like a wounded ox when in extremis. One night, five or six public spirited, drunken neighbors kicked his door down and threw him and his protesting companion into the river. Good times. |
Was his body ever found?
Snow
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London public transport in the snow.
| QUOTE (Ms J @ Feb 25 2005, 11:26 AM) |
| London public transport in the snow. |
Not much better than private transport in the snow
It took me 45 minutes to drive my 15 minute journey to the office this morning. Most of that was due to the worrying fact that so many drivers were terrified of actually making their cars move forwards What worries me is that these people, reasonably enough, have no idea how to drive in icy conditions, and so they become a menace to everyone else. People who aren't confident should simply stay at home for everone else's sake.
Wilfrid is right- we need a thread that covers perfectly-horrible-no-good-very-bad events, not just annoyances.
I was kicked out of my apartment for 2 weeks so my landlord could redo the electrical wiring in the walls. (totally kicked out- have to pack everything up, take everything off the walls, and move out of the apartment kicked out.) They moved us to an empty apartment in the building. 2 weeks turned into 3 when "while they were banging around part of the ceiling fell in". Landlady is moving me back in today while I'm at work. I agreed to this under the condition that the apartment would be completely cleaned on thursday so that I could move all the fragile things myself (paintings, violin, computer, personal files, etc.). I walked into the apartment last night and the entire place is filthy- dust EVERYWHERE, so there was no moving and I spent 3 hours just cleaning surfaces. My landlady promises it will be cleaned today before the move, but I don't think there's any way they can do it well so there will be a lot of scrubbing this weekend and I'm stuck moving the fragile things tonight. She kept saying "I don't think I can clean it to your standards." Is it unreasonable to want to put my hand on the countertop and not have it come away white from the dust? AAARGGH
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Feb 25 2005, 02:47 PM) |
| Wilfrid is right- we need a thread that covers perfectly-horrible-no-good-very-bad events, not just annoyances. |
we don't want to throughly depress ourselves do we?
| QUOTE (Tamar G @ Feb 25 2005, 09:47 AM) |
| Wilfrid is right- we need a thread that covers perfectly-horrible-no-good-very-bad events, not just annoyances. |
Yes, we could call it The Sorrow and the Pity or something.
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