# Eeeeehhhh, eh, eh-April...Yeah, life sucks, still... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836 "2019-04-01T03:42:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/141 "2019-04-18T15:37:17Z")
I haven’t had grapefruit in months! What in the hell did I eat to make my burps taste like grapefruit? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/142 "2019-04-18T17:30:52Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > 7:30am - Construction guy on a lift outside my bedroom window wakes me up. I pull the covers around me, go to the bathroom, take a shower, very very angry. > > 7:50am - Come out of the shower, peek into my room, he’s not there. I start getting dressed. About half-way through, he comes back up. I scream at him. He doesn’t move. > > 9am - Talk to the complex manager, who takes me to the construction site supervisor. Asshole smiles in my face and says it is allowed because they’re not _inside_ my unit. > > Call the police. Sorry, unless there’s intent to invade your privacy, they’re not breaking the law. > > Call the apartment management company. They’ll get back to me. > > Call the construction company to complain about it. Higher up asks me if they gave me any notice they would do this. Nope. Says he’ll talk to his people and get back to me. > > Me: “Your people have plenty of other things to do. They have no reason to be outside ANYONE’s bedroom window at 7:30am”. > And yet I’m certain that if I was female, the entire tone of this conversation would be quite different and they would actually be taking it seriously. > > :mad::mad::mad: Blinds/draperies/_window coverings_ ??? Sorry, I have a ‘thing’ about people being able to look into my living spaces. I would live in a bunker if it were possible. Sorry, ptsd from being stalked, I don’t like being watched especially if I don’t know about it or am not in a public space. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/143 "2019-04-19T04:15:39Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Ouch. Man oh man! > You’re gonna be sore tomorrow. Maybe a hot bath and wine? actually wasnt sore after a few advil heres how my evening was crapped on … major bad language tho [https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874273](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=874273) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/144 "2019-04-19T13:21:47Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I haven’t had grapefruit in months! What in the hell did I eat to make my burps taste like grapefruit? What food combos are you eating? Mandarin oranges, followed approximately a half hour later by a tiny piece of peppermint candy (made with real peppermint oil!), results in an afternoon of bourbon-flavored burps. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/145 "2019-04-19T13:25:47Z")
I don’t know if this is a rant… don’t think it is worth a thread either… but I really wish we could decouple the word “saving” from the concept of “spending less money”. If you have two equal items, one is $2,500 the other $2,300, you didn’t “save” $200. You just spent $200 less. Imho, this matters as people are bad enough at managing money that we don’t need to muddy the waters over the concept of “saving”. If you want to save, don’t spend the money! If you want to spend, spend the money - just spend as little as you can. But don’t call “spending as little as you can”, “saving money”. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/146 "2019-04-19T14:48:34Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > I don’t know if this is a rant… don’t think it is worth a thread either… but I really wish we could decouple the word “saving” from the concept of “spending less money”. > > If you have two equal items, one is $2,500 the other $2,300, you didn’t “save” $200. You just spent $200 less. > > Imho, this matters as people are bad enough at managing money that we don’t need to muddy the waters over the concept of “saving”. If you want to save, don’t spend the money! If you want to spend, spend the money - just spend as little as you can. But don’t call “spending as little as you can”, “saving money”. > > Thank you. A rant that I can completely agree with! A local car dealer commercial states, very loudly and ad nauseum, “If you don’t come see me today, I can’t save you any money!” Oh yes I can. If I don’t come see you, I will save thousands of dollars. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/147 "2019-04-19T14:59:46Z")
PROTIP: If your bank account went down because you spent $ on consumerist items, you didn’t save anything, no matter how little you spent. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/148 "2019-04-19T15:07:20Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I haven’t had grapefruit in months! What in the hell did I eat to make my burps taste like grapefruit? This quite obviously would make a great sig line. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/149 "2019-04-19T15:45:01Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > What food combos are you eating? Just my usual breakfast when I posted: chocolate-flavored instant SlimFast and coffee. Never had that come back as grapefruit before! ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/150 "2019-04-19T15:57:30Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I haven’t had grapefruit in months! What in the hell did I eat to make my burps taste like grapefruit? Yesterday I had Indian for lunch. A couple of hours later I burped and (yes) tasted Indian. Totally expected. Totally \*unexpected \*was the abrupt burning sensation in my sinuses that smelled like the Indian food. How in hell did the spices get into my nose?! ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/151 "2019-04-19T17:10:59Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Blinds/draperies/_window coverings_ ??? > > Sorry, I have a ‘thing’ about people being able to look into my living spaces. I would live in a bunker if it were possible. Sorry, ptsd from being stalked, I don’t like being watched especially if I don’t know about it or am not in a public space. I’m a very private person and their remodel of my apartment interior was extremely stressful. Having someone hanging outside my window while I’m sleeping makes me feel very murdery and requires a lot of reminding myself that I don’t have any desire to end up in jail. Otherwise I’d have probably shot that person the very first day they hung out there for an entire hour while I was in bed. I have blinds on my bedroom window, but I also have plants in there and I’m on the third floor. So my blinds are set to allow some light in from above but block the view from below. They also have holes in them from CATS. But when someone is outside the window on a lift, of course they’re going to be able to see in. And this stress might have contributed to me having an incident at work yesterday that caused me to have to leave and go to urgent care to ensure that I hadn’t just experienced a minor heart attack or stroke, and being ordered to rest and not work for a couple of days. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/152 "2019-04-20T02:53:26Z")
[Okay, this “feeling cute” meme can fuck off and die, now.](https://me.me/i/feeling-cute-might-piss-off-a-liberal-later-idk-found-78d3910cd6e5485c84202297204663da) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/153 "2019-04-20T02:59:12Z")
Bottom line; If your entire goal in life is pissing people off for personal enjoyment, you are a despicable person. You’re not a good person, you’re not a person of quality or character. You’re a bag of shit in human form. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/154 "2019-04-20T12:52:13Z")
My $40 piece of sea bass for a dinner celebration last nite was gone off. Safeway will hear about it later. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/155 "2019-04-20T20:36:30Z")
Oh, Yay! I get to dye Easter eggs with the granddaughters. Ah–gain. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/156 "2019-04-22T04:57:06Z")
There’s a textbook and flashcards for the English class. For the letters, they have the letter, the sound and a Word that begins with that letter. For example for “n”, the word is “nurse.” The text teaches the short vowel sounds. The CD has the short vowel sounds. The text has “apple”, “elephant”, “igloo”, and “umbrella”. All good. But for the love of Og, who the fuck thinks “orange” starts with a short “o”? The chant on the CD goes “letter, letter, letter, sound, sound, sound, word, word, word”. No one listened to it? Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/157 "2019-04-22T05:58:32Z")
I’m on vacation this week. This is my spring “taking care of the house” week and I have a list of things I need to get done. I try to get those things out of the way early in the week so I can have some fun later. So tonight when I was taking out the garbage, I slipped and sort of slid down the porch stairs. Nothing broken. I skinned my left elbow pretty badly. But now my left leg and right foot are really starting to hurt. Shit. I guess I’ll have to move the things on tomorrow’s list to later in the week. I don’t think I’m going to feel so great. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/158 "2019-04-22T07:12:23Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Yesterday I had Indian for lunch. A couple of hours later I burped and (yes) tasted Indian. Totally expected. > > Totally \*unexpected \*was the abrupt burning sensation in my sinuses that smelled like the Indian food. How in hell did the spices get into my nose?! Same way the flavor molecules got into your mouth. Is that a real question? 😕 And **TB** , it does… depending on which dialect we’re talking about. Your gripe isn’t with whomever prepared the text, but with whomever cast the voiceovers and with the English language in general. **aurora marie** , I have bad news: you may actually have broken something. I hope you have access to decent medical care. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/159 "2019-04-22T13:30:23Z")
I have a cold. I should be at home in bed, but instead I’m at work. Not because of work though. My child has a day off school and my wife is home to watch him so if I stayed home it would actually be less restful than going to work. And while I’m at it, what the fuck is up with my paid-for-with-taxes non-parochial school being off for Good Friday AND the day after easter?? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eeeeehhhh-eh-eh-april-yeah-life-sucks-still/831836/160 "2019-04-22T13:41:22Z")
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