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[jay-ell]

Denouement?

This seems like a situation where an existing word could be applied in a new way, to great effect.

Also, I'm so sorry, Smells. How sad for you. I hope you can find peace before the denouement reaches its conclusion.

[Bobby Isosceles]

... when you are at a bar, and every time you have to break the seal, you see the same guy in the bathroom. Not that he's always there; just that his bladder is in time with yours. You are drinkronized.

[side_show]

... when you are at a bar, and every time you have to break the seal, you see the same guy in the bathroom. Not that he's always there; just that his bladder is in time with yours. You are drinkronized.

But this happens in a non-bar environment too, like at work, which is extra creepy.  How about pissaligned?

[jay-ell]

Bladder buddies? Potty Pals? Co-Citizens of the Urine Nation?

Nah, my vote goes to drinkronized. Less of a catchall than smells', but catchier.

Pissaligned sounds a little new-agey for my taste.

[side_show]

Pissaligned sounds a little new-agey for my taste.

"After Bikram class, Sage and I went for wheat grass smoothies and realized we're not only karmically balance, but also pissaligned, so we're totally going to do a cleanse together start on the next full moon."

[jay-ell]

Hm. Maybe we need a word for the phenomenon where women who spend a lot of time together sometimes synchronize menstrual cycles, too. Hormonaligned?

[side_show]

Hm. Maybe we need a word for the phenomenon where women who spend a lot of time together sometimes synchronize menstrual cycles, too. Hormonaligned?

There are already a couple of terms for that, although, among my lady friends we just called is "synching-up."  When I worked in sexual health all my coworkers and I ended up synching, and because I was the only one who was on the birth control pill, my cycle didn't change, but all four of their did to match mine.  I fell pretty powerful for being the leader in that way. 

[linnea]

Mel, I am really sorry to hear about your kitty.

As far as words, I feel there should be a new set of words devoted to fuck*ng stupid email lists. Like the conflicted feeling of annoyance and obligation when one of your friends is selling something, and you subscribe to her email list, but the stuff she is selling is expensive and you are already living on a shoestring, and the emails are obnoxious yet you don't want to unsubscribe because you like her and don't want to hurt her feelings because she is so nice.

Conversely, you want to unsubscribe from the knitting store email updates that you always get; however, when you scroll to the bottom to find the "unsubscribe" like, your jaundiced eye happens to rest on the "subscriber since September 7, 2005" and you realize that it has been a constant in your life longer than any relationship you have ever had.

[wombat]

Aw, that is the saddest thing... but I hope it's OK that it also made me giggle.

I'm waiting for the milestone where I've been on this board for longer than I've ever managed to stay in the same job. I think we've got about a year to go.

[theinevitable]

Oh man, I am already so far ahead of that. Whoa.

[wombat]

FLAMING CHEETAH FUCKS

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

[side_show]

Hey it turns out it isn't my elderly cat who leaked stinky anal fluid on me and the couch,  but my young pup. The confusion arrose because both were on my lap, then on the couch. Today though the dog was alone and oozed a bit more of the stink. Apparently some dogs just need their anal sacks expessed from time to time?  Especially if they're stumpy legged?  Anyway, I'm about to make a fairly gross visit to the vet to find out for sure.

[jaydub]

I was wondering about that, because I know dogs have anal glands, but I didn't know whether cats did.  My mom gets her poodles groomed about 4x a year, and the groomer expresses their anal glands as a part of that routine.

[wombat]

One of my dogs needs it done once a month. I have implemented all the diet advice that is supposed to minimize this problem and it hasn't made a damn bit of difference.

I could do it myself, but the Tech Staff is not a good vet tech and it takes two people. Fortunately the pugs love to visit the vet.

[side_show]

Well, this was one of those things where the mystery of a rescue dog comes into play, because that dog of ours, based on his non-reaction, appeared to have had his sacs cleaned before.  He was totally fine with the vet getting all up in his business, and primarily focused on the little treat I was holding.  The vet said he was full, but not the worst he's seen, and he's got a clean bill of health.  Now that I know he doesn't have an infection or cyst or anything, if this comes up again, the vet gave me the green card to take him to a groomer to get it done in the future.  We have a really good vet who is amazingly inexpensive because he runs his practice out of love after retiring as a large and wild animal vet.  Considering how inexpensive and gross dealing with this is (it got all over the floor and took two pairs of gloves and many a paper towel for the vet to clean), I'm more than happy to have him or a groomer deal with it.