# The picture in the dictionary next to "TMI"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 30, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980 "2014-06-30T04:35:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980/1 "2014-06-30T04:35:26Z")

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WARNING: TMI FOR REAL!!! STOP NOW IF SQUEAMISH.

But I just have to get this off my chest. Eeew, no pun intended.

I work as an in-home assistant for elderly and disabled people. One of my clients is an older woman who is just big all over: tall, very overweight, big-boned, square jawed. She knows that I don’t watch broadcast television at all, and that I find a blaring TV kind of disrupts my concentration when I’m trying to work efficiently.

Normally, she listens to it at a high-normal volume, within the range of tolerable. However, she has this thing she does that just frikkin sucks. She will turn the TV up **really really** loud, knowing that I will come into the room to ask her to turn it down –

:eek:And see her with no underwear and her dress pulled ALL THE WAY UP!:eek:

In case you’re wondering, no her door isn’t shut to knock on. “It’s too hot” in there to shut it. In the winter, “it’s too cold in there.”

I know it’s on purpose because the volume will be normal for hours and then suddenly go up. The worst part is, it’s infrequent enough that I seem to fall for it every time. Aaargh.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980/2 "2014-06-30T14:31:28Z")

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That might be the picture, but the definition is the thread title I just saw on my BabyCenter birth club board (which I did NOT click on but kinda wanted to). Now I realize that we’re all due around the same time and we all have similar questions and concerns, but:

**Mucus plug?! (Pic included)**

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980/3 "2014-06-30T18:44:01Z")

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And I was expecting bot flies.

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-picture-in-the-dictionary-next-to-tmi/691980/4 "2014-07-01T01:09:15Z")

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I’m going to vote for goatse.