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yes, I'm in denial

randomstriker — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:03:37 -0800

What would my mother be using KY Jelly for other than the obvious? She gave me an antique dresser. In one of the drawers was a bottle of the stuff. She phoned me and asked if it was there, and asked for it back.

Now maybe I should just be an adult about this, get over my squeamishness and accept it might be for what it's for. But please give me plausible reasons to at least hope that it was for something else, so that I don't have all these icky images in my head.

My Room Smells Disgusting. Help?

DMan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:22:01 -0800

What is the absolute best/strongest/still-smells-good air freshener that money can buy? So my roommate at college moved in, and due to a myriad of factors including his apparent dislike of personal hygiene products and love of oats, our room now smells disgusting. At this time me and the other two guys in the room aren't willing to approach the problem directly because we don't think this guy will care or listen to us. So we need some kind of amazing air freshener.

Things we are doing now: I leave the window open in the bedroom that I share with him pretty much continuously, and it does seem to help a bit but it won't solve the problem. We also use Glade and Febreze as often as possible, but they wear off pretty quickly.

So, MeFi: What kind of air freshener can I get that will make my room smell better? I'm looking for some kind of "fire and forget" system that I don't have to remember to spray every hour or whatever. I'm fine with turning it off at night and on in the morning.

Almost forgot: We can't have real candles, but we can use candle warmers. This is in a dorm.

Thanks for the help that is sure to come!

Wow. That was fast.

contessa — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:32:19 -0800

My curiosity has gotten the better of me. Somewhat gross bodily function question inside. How is it possible that after eating something that isn't...quite right...its' rush toward the back-door exit is almost immediate?

Last night I went out to eat at an otherwise reputable chain-ish sit down restaurant. I had a chicken dish. The food was alright - tasted propery cooked, anyhow - and I didn't feel sick while eating it, but within minutes of getting into my car to head home I definitely felt it was not going to turn out well, and soon. Mad, rumbling stomach cramps. Up until that point I had been feeling 100% perfectly fine and healthy all day. Luckily it was a short drive.

What's been boggling me since then is:

(1) If the food made me sick, oughtn't I to have puked it up? It should have still been in my stomach, not in my intestines, right?

(2) How is it possible for the food to have gotten from Point A to Point B so quickly? My knowledge of human digestion is admittedly limited, but it seemed like this happened fast. The time elapsed from when the last bite was consumed to when my meal...reappeared...was, at most, about 30 minutes.

I must know, am I some kind of freak of human digestion?