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My Roommate's Junk Smells

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:27:55 -0800

My roommate smells, and it's not just typical BO. Help! I live in a typical (read: small) college dorm room with one other person.

In the past few weeks, I've noticed that my roommate has developed an odor. It's not bad breath, or typical BO. It smells distinctly... cheesy. In a really nasty "this isn't a good smell" kind of way. Specifically, I've noticed the smell when he removes his jeans as he is going to bed. My desk is very close to his bed, and after repeated instances of this, I can say with some assuredness that the smell is eminating from his pelvic area. It's very noticeable, and it can be pretty hard at times not to comment on the sudden foul odor that has started assaulting my nostrils immediately following the removal of his jeans.

What finally drove me to make the AskMe question I've been putting off about this is that I came back to the room after going to lunch, opened the door, and hit a wall of the odor. I discovered my roommate taking a nap in his bed, the air absolutely saturated with the repugnant smell in question. I opened my window and door to get air moving, went out into the hall, and found the smell was strong enough to seep into the hall and smell just as bad. I borrowed air freshener from the people in the next room, and even THEY noticed the smell coming from the hallway! That just isn't right!

He used to be pretty sexually active, with many a partner, due mostly to the lowered inhibitions/standards caused by drinking excessive amounts of alcohol (I'm not juding, really, he's admitted this to be the case multiple times). But I've noticed he has been completely abstinent lately (to my knowledge), and it coincides rather neatly with the debut of his new fragrance.

I have two main questions. First, what is up with my roommate's junk? Why does it smell the way it does? Answers from personal experience, educated guesses/conjecture from "I am not a doctor," "I'm a doctor but not YOUR (ROOMMATE'S) doctor," and the like are all welcome.

Second, what can I do about this situation? Should I put up with it since the end of the year is quickly approaching? Maybe a buy a ton of febreeze? Should I bring it up? If so, how?

I can be reached at anonymousmefi@gmail.com if you have any questions. If I have followups or new information I'll try and get in touch with one of the mods to have them post it in the thread.

Thanks for any and all help you can offer.

Help me be awesome.

heavenstobetsy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:08:53 -0800

Where can I get my picture taken in this specific and hilarious fashion? Example here. Is this something I could do myself? Or is it possible to go somewhere and have it done in the Toronto/Ontario area?

Help me with these french lyrics!

jtoth — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:28:07 -0800

AMgoldFilter: On Rod Stewarts classic um.. deflowering mantra "Tonight's the Night", what is Britt Ekland saying in french at the end? It's not like I'm a huge fan of the song but I heard it on the radio and now I'm curious to know what the french bit translates to in english.

Everything I do, I do it for you.

yeti — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:21:31 -0800

What are some ridiculously cheesy lines I can say to a girl? I’m not looking for cheesy pick-up lines, but rather overly melodramatic or sentimental phrases to say to someone I’m already seeing. For instance, once when we were saying goodbye, I looked her deep into her eyes and sighed, “I never want to let you go. Don’t ever let me.”

The more ridiculous the better. Others I’ve used, also saying farewell, “I miss you already. But don’t think of this as ‘Goodbye,’ think of it as ‘I’ll see you later.’” *Cue soft lens* When we were both tired of walking one night, I offered, “I’ll carry you. I’d carry you through the Bering Straight. I’d settle a whole continent with you.”

What are some more I can whisper to her when she’s locked in my embrace and make us both crack up?

Help me find a horrible old "hacker" video!

tehgubner — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:48:23 -0800

I'm looking for an old video that I think I saw back in the early 90s. It was a two part video about computer ethics. The first part was about piracy, the second was about the "evils of hacking". My Google skills have failed me. Does anyone out there remember this? So the first part of this video was about a couple of highschool kids who developed the game "Oil's Well".

After months of effort (including passing up a date to the prom with one of the "hottest girls in school"!), the two kids who wrote the game are about to sell it to a publisher. But in a serious lapse of judgment, one of the kids gives "just one" copy of the game to a friend. Within days, pirated copies of the game have spread worldwide, and the publisher has canceled the deal that would have made the kids rich. Also, as an added bonus, the kids meet the leaders of the local piracy ring, and are threatened with thier lives!

The second part of the video was about some kid who was hacking into a hospital. This part of the video was rather reminiscent of "Wargames", if I recall correctly. Anyways, the salient point to this story was that the kid had logged into the hospital's mainframe. As he was showing off his "mad skillz" to some girl he typed "IV feed me chocolate" into the terminal. Cut to the hospital, where a patients life support system has suddenly shut off. The words "IV feed me chocolate" appear on the nurse's terminal. The patient doesn't make it.

Can anyone give me a hint as to what this video was called or where I can find a copy of it? I've been searching for weeks! I think I saw this in the very early 90's, but even at the time it seemed horribly dated and silly.

Indie / rock covers of ABBA's "Dancing Queen"?

Lush — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:39:56 -0800

I recently admitted to myself and to the world that I really, really love ABBA's Dancing Queen! Are there any interesting indie / rock covers of it to be found online? Links would be nice, but not necessary. I just want to listen (and know that such covers exist) to many, many variations of it, and it would be interesting to hear other artists' (esp. in other genres) take on such a glorious pop song.

The best solution may just be to throw it in the nearest dumpster.

Monstrous Moonshine — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:41:50 -0800

Why won't my Yamaha DX11 make any noise? There's The synth worked fine just a few months ago...I used it as a midi controller and as an example to my friends of a bygone era of synthesis. Now when I attempt to play it, there's no sound signal out of any of the audio-outs. I'm not very knowledgable with hardware synths, so my real question is...what are some of the settings on the synth that could be causing it?

For instance, is it possible that all the midi notes could be at a fixed velocity, which happens to be set at zero? Or is there an option that turns off all MIDI signals from the keyboard? There are many options like this on the synth, and it's made more frustrating by the fact that there's absolutely no sound, making all the parameters equally unobservable.

It is an older synth, so the possibility of it being broken is there...I just figured I'd throw the question out here. It's so frustrating sitting in front of this thing, knowing there's some simple combination of keys to hold to reset one option or another... anyway, thanks in advance for the help.

Inspirational Quotes

chiababe — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:11:48 -0800

I need some inspriational quotes. I need some relatively short but inspirational quotes that I can fit on a 4" x 6" card to hang in frames at a housing community my company is managing. Just for some reference, the project is a housing community that promotes independence for persons with severe physical disabilities that require use of a wheelchair. Avoiding blatantly religious overtones is probably a good idea, but those in a general spiritual nature are ok. Suggestions for pleasant readable fonts would be nice too.

What Otis Redding Songs Were in "Heaven Help Us"?

Edible Energy — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 17:58:07 -0800

Does anyone know the names of the Otis Redding songs that were in Heaven Help Us?

Question number 15132

Gucky — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:37:02 -0800

What bad movie(s) do you love? Not in an MST3K way, but you actually enjoy unironically, even though you know they're bad (or considered bad by the majority of humanity)?

Question number 14765

odinsdream — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:52:32 -0800

Name that ubiquitous, cheesy elevator music:
duuuuummmm....dedeee da duuuuummmmm....
de deeee da DUUuuuummmmm da Dooo.....
...da de DUUmmmmm da doooo.... da de duuummmm