# I pit my client's awful landlady. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 1, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279 "2018-06-01T20:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/61 "2018-06-05T16:42:04Z")
Hey, we can only make suggestions. If Brujaja doesn’t have the time or interest in attending to what can reasonably done, then we’re just at YET ANOTHER thread where the OP asks for advice then dismisses everything. Not like we haven’t seen that 1,000 times in the past on this board. Usually those go several pages before the Mods step in and close them. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/62 "2018-06-05T16:45:59Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hey, we can only make suggestions. Which nobody asked for. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/63 "2018-06-05T18:10:17Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hey, we can only make suggestions. If Brujaja doesn’t have the time or interest in attending to what can reasonably done, then we’re just at YET ANOTHER thread where the OP asks for advice then dismisses everything. > > Not like we haven’t seen that 1,000 times in the past on this board. Usually those go several pages before the Mods step in and close them. He is doing what can reasonably be done. Just because you think reporting the problem is the righteous thing to do doesn’t mean it’s actually a good suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/64 "2018-06-05T18:13:27Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Which nobody asked for. Yeah, gosh, horrible that someone posts their own standalone thread and gets suggestions on how to deal with it, right? :rolleyes: If she wasn’t asking for suggestions, this should have just gone into the June mini-rants thread. Good thing you’re here to be the OP’s champion white knight. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/65 "2018-06-05T19:01:43Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Hey, we can only make suggestions. If Brujaja doesn’t have the time or interest in attending to what can reasonably done, then we’re just at YET ANOTHER thread where the OP asks for advice then dismisses everything. > > Not like we haven’t seen that 1,000 times in the past on this board. Usually those go several pages before the Mods step in and close them. :dubious: > [@brujaja](#): > > **Chimera:** Sorry if I took too long to answer you. > > \*\*I was busy making dinner and cleaning up for the little old disabled lady I told you about. > \*\* > [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah, gosh, horrible that someone posts their own standalone thread and gets suggestions on how to deal with it, right? :rolleyes: > > If she wasn’t asking for suggestions, this should have just gone into the June mini-rants thread. > > Good thing you’re here to be the OP’s champion white knight. Yes, and it’s a good thing you’re here to guide us as to which forum we should put our threads. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/66 "2018-06-05T19:24:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Yeah, gosh, horrible that someone posts their own standalone thread and gets suggestions on how to deal with it, right? Nothing wrong with making suggestions. But this thread was clearly a rant, not a request for help. Getting bent out of shape because unsolicited advice isn’t immediately acknowledged or accepted is silly. > [@](#): > > If she wasn’t asking for suggestions, this should have just gone into the June mini-rants thread. What? Why? The Pit is, among other things, the place for ranting. Those mini-rant threads( that didn’t exist until a few years ago )don’t have any official status for anything and there is no accepted practice about them. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/67 "2018-06-05T19:28:16Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Nothing wrong with making suggestions. But this thread was clearly a rant, not a request for help. Getting bent out of shape because unsolicited advice isn’t immediately acknowledged or accepted is silly. Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/68 "2018-06-06T01:02:15Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Nothing wrong with making suggestions. But this thread was clearly a rant, not a request for help. Getting bent out of shape because unsolicited advice isn’t immediately acknowledged or accepted is silly. Exactly \*2. Additionally, it was shitty advice, which was explained before you posted your oh-so-helpful advice a second time. You obviously have absolutely no clue regarding Section 8 housing, especially in a tight, overpriced market. And you seemingly know shit about elder care, else you might understand both the physical and emotional toll that **brujaja** ’s client would likely undergo should the apartment be declared uninhabitable. But boy, would that show the landlord. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/69 "2018-06-12T13:44:15Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > I don’t know why Chinese people yell so much: there must be something cultural about it. There is. Both Mandarin and Cantonese, the two Chinese languages Americans are most familiar with, are tonal and as such, it is very important that ia conversation be loud enough that the pitch can be easily distinguished. They carry this over when they learn English. One project I worked on had a Chinese immigrant engineer. I couldn’t count the number of times in the lab the phone would ring, whoever answered it would put the receiver to their ear only to recoil, yanking it away to slowly bring it back until it was about six inches away. “What’d Feng want now?” ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279/70 "2018-06-13T03:32:14Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > There is. Both Mandarin and Cantonese, the two Chinese languages Americans are most familiar with, are tonal and as such, it is very important that ia conversation be loud enough that the pitch can be easily distinguished. They carry this over when they learn English. Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Punjabi, and Navajo are tonal languages, but I’m not aware of speakers of these languages yelling a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-my-clients-awful-landlady/815279.md?page=3)