5701

More MSG, and presumably more crap on your fingers to wash off.

This just defeats me. A taco shell is a fucking SHELL! ITS JOB IS TO HOLD THE CONTENTS. It’s like if a burger chain announced “We didn’t think our burgers were interesting enough, so now: powdered Heinz® ketchup all over the bun!”

GAH!

/rant

5702

That was the thing - it generally looked the same color as nacho cheese doritos, but there was no noticeable powder and the taste didn’t stand out.

5703

So I went in for a consultation with an oral surgeon about getting my wisdom teeth out, and in the process of examining my jaw/mouth she rams her fingers into my gums (or so it felt; she was actually trying to be gentle) and noticed that I practically screamed in pain.

“Damn, you’ve been biting the hell out of that.” Well, next thing you know (more like half an hour later, but who’s counting, right) they’re pulling out my upper two wisdom teeth, with the bottom two to be done under general anaesthesia two weeks from now.

So they give me all sorts of dire warnings about how I shouldn’t rinse for a day at least, I shouldn’t spit too hard or suck on anything, especially not straws, otherwise I’ll get dry socket complications, and now I’m being all neurotic about it. How hard is too hard? How long do I have to go without relaxing about the goddamn business? And why am I so loopy (probably pain) when I’m not even on any painkillers (probably pain)?

5704

Jesus, extemperaneous dental surgery is a bad thing except when there’s an abcess. Just keep rinsing with salt water and deal with not eating for a while.

H.

5705

Well, I’m not supposed to rinse with salt water until tomorrow!

Also, they took them out because the top wisdom teeth, which had cavities anyway and which were apparently really really easy to extract, were grinding on the inflamed gums around my lower wisdom teeth, causing GARGANTUAN pain.

Good times, good times. Oh, probably TMI, huh.

5706

Why yes, that really IS my VERY VERY hot sauce, which I put 3 drops of into a pot of chilli. No, no, I’m amused that you used it and your head’s on fire. This is about the worst thing a housemate’s done in the 18 months I’ve been here as well, so hey :)

Also, ouch. Pleased I had some teeth pulled to make space for wisdom tooth as a kid.
(Well, I have an amazingly-crooked wisdom tooth, but it doesn’t cause my pain whatsoever and I’m TOTALLY willing to ensure I don’t get food trapped in the gap rather than have it out!)

5707

Vicodin will lead to adventure.

5708

And often, vice versa.

5709

I hate Lexus commercials and I really really really hate the guy’s voice that does them.

5710

The Pope is so loved by the world that he needs a bulletproof car.

5711

George RR Martin wrote Sandkings? How did I not know this?

5712

I hate my fucking selfish, stubborn, messy wife these days who sees all of my faults but none of my good points. She doesn’t act like she’s perfect but at the same time can never admit when she’s wrong.

She doesn’t work but spends 4 days a week with her girlfriends volunteering at our daughter’s school and the fifth day sipping lattes with them at the coffee shop and then gets angry with me because I bitch about the house being messy!! WTF???

5713

Sounds like you guys should talk about who should be doing which chores and when. Maybe institute a chore wheel. Volunteering is work that doesn’t pay in cash money. It’s great she gets to do it with people she likes. You didn’t marry a maid; you married a woman.

5714

Guess I left out a detail: I currently do about 30% of the housework. Aside from laundry, I do everything else. I had two heart surgeries in the last year and a half, and even with a 9 to 6 job, sternum ache and palpitations, I help out. Im not expecting a maid, just to be able to relax on my days off without having to break out the broom and mop because I cant just sit and play a video game when the place is a mess. Oh and on my days off (weekends) she’s out with the kids or her friends, so im the fucking cInderella scrubbing the floors. On my day off.

5715

You sound really upset, and I think there’s more to it than just housework. Hire someone to scrub the floors and clean the house. At best, feeling like you have to be the one to do it is putting undue strain on your relationship, and at worst it’s taking a toll on your health. Either way, it’s not worth it.

5716

Hey. Looks like memepool is updating again.

5717

lol… April 2008 to March 2012. Well, one is an occurrence at any rate. Bears watching, thanks for the heads up.

5718

Or, as it seems, not.

5719

Pathfinders are pretty boxy. Not as boxy as Jeeps, but pretty boxy.

5720

Well all it takes is one hater.