Comments on: Can you hear me now, biotch?

By: Brett Bretterson

Brett Bretterson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:38:35 +0000

Hm, I wonder if she goes to the same college I do. We have a rather annoying suite system in the dorms where neighbors share a bathroom. The bathroom has two doors, neither of which can be locked and neither of which muffles any noise whatsoever. Always great when the neighbors drink themselves sick and spend an hour puking in there…

By: pony girl

pony girl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:51:40 +0000

I think Santa needs a vacation.

By: p.s. you’re not invited to my birthday party, either!

p.s. you’re not invited to my birthday party, either! — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:13:59 +0000

[...] related: i can hear everything [...]

By: blondinkaya

blondinkaya — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:47:44 +0000

This is an excellent review.

By: Sdanektir

Sdanektir — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:09:58 +0000

Woohoo! Hope they heal quickly! Aside from the fact that they haven’t healed yet, how do you feel about the job this go around?

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:58:34 +0000

It depends on the plumbing. Most city plumbing can handle them. And the packages of tampons I buy say they’re flushable. The only times I’ve had trouble are when the plumbing is old (more than 10 or 15 years). And of course if you’re living in the country on a septic system, flushing is a definite no-no.

However, since rooomie is leaving her tampons in the toilet anyhow, she may as well flush them, since I can’t think of a single person in the house who’d be willing to reach in and grab it.

By: Seanette

Seanette — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:49:33 +0000

Actually, I’m told tampons are not good for the plumbing and should not be flushed (check the box or instruction leaflet).

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:28:42 +0000

I’m going to print this note off and put it in our bathroom. Because nothing ruins “the mood” like hearing your roommates peeing.

Also will add a line about flushing used tampons instead of letting them sit in the bowl. And about flushing bowel movements.

I have nasty roommates.

By: Margo

Margo — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:15:00 +0000

“And it’s not even his chair! It’s, like, MTV’s.”

By: synergy

synergy — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:56:07 +0000

haha! I was thinking the same thing!

By: DC

DC — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:05:51 +0000

This was sort of poetic, actually. It could work on Poetry Slam Open Mike Nite at the local coffee house. I’ve actually lived on the other side of a bathroom in a place with thin walls and no amount of water-running would have helped THAT situation.

By: KatieMB

KatieMB — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:26:15 +0000

3 times a day.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:24:16 +0000

Glo,

August 31, 1999

mustache

S.C. Dixon wrote:

I have always been curious about the origin of the word “moustache,” which I understand is singular, the correct plural form being “moustaches.” Any input?

First, that the standard spelling in America is now mustache, though moustache remains the usual form in Britain.

The word mustache usually refers to the hair growing on the upper lip of a human, and especially to such hair deliberately cultivated by men, often trimmed in any of various styles. The transferred senses are relatively straightforward, and include ‘hairs or bristles growing near the mouth of an animal’ and ‘a stripe of color, or elongated feathers, on the side of the head of a bird’.

Mustache, first recorded in the sixteenth century, is most immediately a borrowing from Middle French moustache. The standard British spelling preserves the unaltered French form, though some of the early British dictionaries (such as Dr. Johnson’s) preferred the Anglicized form mustache. Pronunciationwise, “MOO-stash” is occasionally heard, and in British English the stress is usually muh-STASH.

The French word was borrowed from Italian mostaccio, which, together with Spanish mostacho, gave us the English word mustachio, which refers to a usually large mustache. Ultimately the word is from Greek mystax ‘the upper lip; mustache’.

The word’s plural is indeed mustaches (or moustaches), if you want to use it in a sentence such as “Many of the men had mustaches.” But I assume you may be asking about the use of the plural in reference to an individual man’s lip hair. Occasionally mustache is used to mean ‘the hair on either side of a man’s upper lip’, with the entire upper-lip-hair being called mustaches or a pair of mustaches. This is not very common, but should you choose to use it, the spelling is the same as the normal plural.

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990831

So my answer is: No. I meant what I wrote.

By: Stupid Sexy Flanders

Stupid Sexy Flanders — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:08:35 +0000

GK, that was brilliant, made me recall the Polanski masterpiece Repulsion. (arino)