I haven’t had grapefruit in months! What in the hell did I eat to make my burps taste like grapefruit?
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.
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
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.
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.
PROTIP: If your bank account went down because you spent $ on consumerist items, you didn’t save anything, no matter how little you spent.
This quite obviously would make a great sig line.
Just my usual breakfast when I posted: chocolate-flavored instant SlimFast and coffee. Never had that come back as grapefruit before!
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?!
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. 
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.
My $40 piece of sea bass for a dinner celebration last nite was gone off. Safeway will hear about it later.
Oh, Yay! I get to dye Easter eggs with the granddaughters. Ah–gain.
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.
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. 
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.
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??
Seriously? It’s a 4-day weekend, that’s why.