My poor tights. ;_;
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
made kraft macaroni & cheese, started boiling the noodles until i realized i was out of milk, so i added an extra tablespoon of butter to "compensate"
― latebloomer, Monday, November 14, 2011 5:00 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait ... there's technically nothing wrong with that, is there?
i know a lot of chefs who use mostly butter, some stock or noodle water and a skosh of cream
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
i guess you end up with cacio e pepe without the pepe
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
-brought a bag of chips into the bathroom with me
caught myself at the last minute though
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
pro-tip: just wipe your ass with the bag, save paper
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
next time anybody criticizes you for eating on the toilet, tell them you're reenacting dante's vision of hell, or maybe that scene from pantagruel and gargantua
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
foil doesn't catch well though
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
gantagruel and perpetua
― the arm (NZA), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'm wearing one of those pairs of smelly tights today, because I didn't have/take the time to rinse w vinegar and re-dry them. Every time I move I can smell a waft of mildew.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
― the late great, Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well, it was kraft mac and cheese. there's protocol to follow.
― adolf jingle bells (latebloomer), Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Every time I move I can smell a waft of mildew
eh ymmv but ime that's been pretty much standard since i turned 32
― the late great, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
did you try febreezing them??
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
pretty stoked because i've seen more dead cockroaches than living ones in my place lately― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, October 8, 2011 7:36 PM (5 months ago)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Saturday, October 8, 2011 7:36 PM (5 months ago)
cockroach situation in my place has been really, really good lately. very few sightings, considering they're everywhere on this island.
however, this morning, my only clean work clothes were a wrinkly disaster (via dirt bag style). so i got my iron and ironing board out, only to discover that four or five cockroaches were living INSIDE THE WATER TANK OF MY IRON (it is a translucent tank so i could see them). already late for work (via dirt bag style) and left with no other choice, i heated up the iron and decided to get the wrinkles out of my clothes as fast possible.
but the ~*STENCH*~ of hot, steamy, cockroach shit/piss/bodies/etc that blasted my face was one of the most horrific things i have ever experienced in my entire life (made worse by the fact that due to high winds lately, all my windows were closed for the first time in years).
gotta buy a new iron after work.
thank god my clothes didn't retain the smell (i think).
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
omg
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
my iron is on the floor nearby and i'm just staring at it
I've heard of roaches being INSIDE THE MICROWAVE DISPLAY WINDOW but never inside an iron. I can't...think about your post in too much detail without losing my shit so I'm going to pretend it happened in a story instead of irl.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
reminds me of stories i've read of ants infesting automatic coffee makers, living in the reservoir for the water. tossed my coffee maker and never looked back after that.
― wmlynch, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
it gave a friend goosebumps when i told him
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha so this happened a while ago but under my sink was just this crazy cockroach nest so I sprayed a ton of bug spray and the sound of dozens of them dying was sorta like popcorn popping. cleaning that up was fun.
― iatee, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
the only cockroach i saw in my old apartment was nice enough to waddle to the middle of my foyer and die there overnight--thanks buddy, there was no suspense with you.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
the mere thought of ironing cockroach stench into my clothing
ugh
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I have seen a total of about two insects inside my home, and one was a friendly spider.
Apparently there was one mouse but I never knew it until the cat found it for me
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
you guys should see my place these days it looks like a model home
of course much of that is due to me figuring out that one way to cope w/ the teeth-grinding anxiety of my possibly-ex-GF suddenly moving out is to windex and wipe all of the surfaces in the house, over and over again
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
it seems really counter-intuitive but daily cleaning is a lot more fun than cleaning once a month then letting everything go to hell
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
sorry to hear abt your girl probs, TLG
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
that is an all time dirtbag post gr80 ty
xp not the one about cleaning obv
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
torch it all, start from scratch, promise to start up a cleaning routine in the new world
tlg, I feel for your anxiety and teeth. Try not to chip them. I've done that before..
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
wait i was supposed to clean like all day today
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
approximately the most horrendous thing that has ever happened in the history of clothes. plus it is generally possible to turn the steam off?
― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
it all happened so fast
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
i was lost in a fog
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
the fog of, er, cockroaches
― contenderizer, Thursday, 8 March 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
you emptied the tank out first, right
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
i can't decide if it's true horror or not largely due to that
i have substituted an easter egg for at least one meal each of the last five days and i am starting to feel really sick as a result. oops
i did that last yr
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
having reread the thread that's not all that dirtbag
the place i live in we had to wait extra days for the landlord to get cleaners in because of the state the previous inhabitants had left it in. notably they decided cleaning the bathtub was enough of a non starter that instead they put in a new one. mainly things were fixed by the time we got here however several weeks later i had cause to move the bed away from the wall to look for something, and discovered not just a patch of used condom wrappers but also used condoms, also a used tampon buried in several layers of toilet roll
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
Wait, so was it a furnished place that came with the bed? Otherwise, how did you not see that stuff when moving in the bed?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
yes, it was a furnished place that came with the bed
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
this is surely not a thread in which we own furniture
true dirtbag style is sleeping on a borrowed futon mattress, no frame, on the floor
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
I slept on a mattress on the floor for over a year
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
the cheap metal bed frames are pretty easy to come by, but they take box springs... and who the fuck wants to lug around or even own those?
― valleys of your mind (mh), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
the first one was just a cheap foam mattress that folded 3 ways. one day I was cleaning, picked up the edge, and realized that the entire underside was sopping wet. I had had a fever w/ nightsweats a few days ago and apparently the water never evaporated from the mattress.
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
I sleep on a matress on the floor no frame, but, uh, it's on a boxspring or w/e
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 9 March 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
My car has broken glass in the passenger-side foot place. I guess my wife brought a mason jar of iced tea into the car and then left it to get sucked up by all the rest of the junk there. Then I set something down on it and now it's a pile of junk full of broken glass.
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've heard of roaches being INSIDE THE MICROWAVE DISPLAY WINDOW...
Similar thing happened in this really cool but really gone-to-shit former hotel/apartment I lived in for a bit. In bed watching the Fox late night lineup on the tube and see movement to my left. Take a glance at my radio alarm clock and crawling on the inside of the display window was this two-inch long, hundred-legged prehistoric looking motherfucker of an insect. Really gave me the heebie jeebies. That place had a huge bug problem. I can't see how I tolerated it, looking back. Kept one of those pistols that shoots suction cupped missiles by the bed for shooting roaches on the wall across the room.
― andrew m., Friday, 9 March 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
― desperado, rough rider (thomp), Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:39 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Most apts I encountered in England came furnished which would explain Thomp's flat with bed. That is not the case in the US. Nearly all apartments here are unfurnished.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
I would love a bed that wasn't on the floor.
― tanuki, Friday, 9 March 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
xp: You have to use the same furniture as the last tenant?
― beachville, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Friday, 9 March 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link