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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #75 on: September 12, 2006, 04:50:19 pm »

also, chemistry major isn't necessarily == "I have intimate knowledge of brewing mead."
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #76 on: September 12, 2006, 04:59:03 pm »

also, chemistry major isn't necessarily == "I have intimate knowledge of brewing mead."

No, but anyone who has taken a very basic Biology course and is familiar with the process of alcoholic fermentation could tell you that there is a strong possibility that the bottles containing the fermenting mead will explode.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #77 on: February 11, 2007, 07:56:15 am »

I had to go to the landfill again today. I really should have brought my camera. The garbage was quite spectacular.

Inside the baler building, they usually have two large metal bins for household refuse. These get picked up with little bobcat-like loaders and dumped into the baler, where they are compacted into rubbish-cubes for deposit into one of the landfill cells.

Today... oh god.

There was a huuuuge mountain of rubbish. Fifty cubits high, and a hundred cubits wide. The garbage juice that flowed was disgusting. I pranced around, trying not to splash any onto my jeans. Later, when I got home, the contamination was so bad that I took off my jeans in my entryway, put on some other #####, and then went to the little outbuilding that houses the boiler and the washer/dryer.

Where were the bins? Why was I forced to throw my bag of rubbish into the huuuuuuge pile? Jesus. I really wish I had my camera, because you guys would not have believed it. I have no idea how many loaders it would take to scoop all that garbage into the baler.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #78 on: February 12, 2007, 10:19:14 pm »

I call that juice "garbage tea". I used to horrify my brother by smooshing the trash bags (pre recycling days - kitchen waste, lawn clippings, 11/12ths empy beer bottles and all) and dribbling the tea from the bottom of the bag into a plastic tumbler.  I'd then chase him while droning in a Boris Karloffy Frankenstein's monster way "Gaaarbage Tea, Scott.  Garbage Tea!", and sloshing it menacingly.  Its a wonder we never got hepatitis or something.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #79 on: February 13, 2007, 03:32:52 am »

I call that juice "garbage tea". I used to horrify my brother by smooshing the trash bags (pre recycling days - kitchen waste, lawn clippings, 11/12ths empy beer bottles and all) and dribbling the tea from the bottom of the bag into a plastic tumbler.  I'd then chase him while droning in a Boris Karloffy Frankenstein's monster way "Gaaarbage Tea, Scott.  Garbage Tea!", and sloshing it menacingly.  Its a wonder we never got hepatitis or something.

Oh maaaan... You had better be glad that you're not my brother. I would be scared of garbage reprisals if I were you.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #80 on: February 13, 2007, 11:45:19 am »

Oh man, the second that nasty shit started pouring from a garbage bag I'd be running  to drop it as fast as humanly possible so as to wash my hands. I admit, I'm a bit squeamish with things like that... I know not why, I just don't like to be covered in skanky, disgusting things. If I ever meet Courtney Love, I'll be safe.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #81 on: February 14, 2007, 03:32:54 am »

Oh man, the second that nasty shit started pouring from a garbage bag I'd be running  to drop it as fast as humanly possible so as to wash my hands. I admit, I'm a bit squeamish with things like that... I know not why, I just don't like to be covered in skanky, disgusting things. If I ever meet Courtney Love, I'll be safe.

That's why I hate going to the landfill. It's unavoidable. I have to go once a week to drop off the rubbish, and it sickens me.

I wish I was married so that I could just force sweetly ask my DH to take the rubbish to the landfill.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #82 on: February 16, 2007, 06:11:52 am »

I hate hate HATE folding laundry. I don't know why, but I just do. I do the laundry without a care, but then it sits in the basket, all clean, the whole week. I just simply can't stand folding it. It's quite irrational, really.

Most other chores don't bother me too much, although I generally dislike chores that put me in close contact with bacteria (despite my extolling bacteria's virtues in another thread, for things like cheese and beer... bacteria for things like staph is a definite thumbs down). Washing toilets (even with a brush, and a bleach-heavy cleaning solution, I just feel like the bodily function bacteria are just going to leap out at me and take me down), taking out the garbage, and cleaning out the fridge do not rank high on my list. Thankfully, Mr. Muse handles all of the "gross jobs" and the laundry folding, and I pretty much do the rest; food shopping, cooking and dishes are pretty evenly split between us though.

I love food, and I love to cook, and grocery shopping is a source of great joy for me, except for having to deal with other humans and their young. Circumstances have forced me to shop at a supermarket rather than the small specialty shops I prefer, so I generally try to go at bizarre hours when I know that the helmet-headed suburban moms, and their wailing masses of unfortunate genetic material, are fast asleep in their beige houses, and the only people fondling the produce and looking for wheels of gouda are restaurant workers coming off shift, or potheads with the munchies.

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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #83 on: February 16, 2007, 07:16:37 am »

I really dislike doing laundry.
Which is a problem, because somehow I suddenly only have 6 pairs of socks.
And getting to Target to buy more has never worked out.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #84 on: February 16, 2007, 07:47:09 am »

so I generally try to go at bizarre hours when I know that the helmet-headed suburban moms, and their wailing masses of unfortunate genetic material, are fast asleep in their beige houses, and the only people fondling the produce and looking for wheels of gouda are restaurant workers coming off shift, or potheads with the munchies.

I know a lot of people who work or own restaurtants.  I know a lot of potheads.

They are the same people.  In fact, I am pretty sure that every drug in a college town has been through a restaurant, especially coke.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #85 on: February 19, 2007, 03:26:14 am »

Heh. You have a point, Keith.

I know quite a few chefs and restaurateurs myself.

I stand corrected.

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And a can to you, sir, for being so astute.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #86 on: February 19, 2007, 04:09:17 am »

Dammit. DAMMIT! I have been so busy with preparations for V-day that I missed my weekly trip to the awful landfill yesterday. They're closed on Sundays, and I'm 99% certain that they're closed on Mondays...and tomorrow is a holiday, so they're certainly closed. AUGH!!! Now I'm going to have to sandwich in a landfill trip this week, which is going to be a NIGHTMARE..not only do we have rehearsals, but the play starts on Friday night, I have to work Saturday because of my obsessive-compulsive boss, and then Saturday night is the play again. god dammit.
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Re: Most-hated chore/responsibility?
« Reply #87 on: April 02, 2007, 04:35:38 am »

Well, I made my weekly landfill trip yesterday (Saturday), and I just cleaned the hell out of all my drawers, cabinets and closets... i'm still not done, but I have four huge garbage bags in my Pathfinder to take to the landfill on Tuesday.

I need to cull the herd and get rid of some of this shit. I need to be more ruthless and just throw (almost) everything out.
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