Petty annoyances
- Pham Nuwen
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I admit I use the term "airlock" as the entrance to my house from the driveway, even though it is technically a vestibule, because if we don't open/close one door at a time and one of our dogs gets through both, it's an hour-long chase through the neighborhood.
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While yakety sax plays?
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- dead_elvis
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Good doggies know how to properly operate airlock.
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13/10dead_elvis wrote: ↑18 Jul 2018, 18:25Good doggies know how to properly operate airlock.
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I would use vestibule (or airlock) if it’s enclosed and one door goes outside. For me foyers have to be open. Our building has a vestibule but our apartment has a foyer.
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if it's not air tight it's not an air lock. Generally speaking there should be a large pressure differential for it to be an air lock, though a clean room entry could also qualify.
Foyer is a snooty word, and I think regionally disfavored as well. When I was growing up, entry or entryway were used until we moved.
Foyer is a snooty word, and I think regionally disfavored as well. When I was growing up, entry or entryway were used until we moved.
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Of course!
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More compelling than Sandra Bullock.lunchstealer wrote: ↑19 Jul 2018, 03:2913/10dead_elvis wrote: ↑18 Jul 2018, 18:25Good doggies know how to properly operate airlock.
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Although I'd snuggle either.Jasper wrote: ↑19 Jul 2018, 10:52More compelling than Sandra Bullock.lunchstealer wrote: ↑19 Jul 2018, 03:2913/10dead_elvis wrote: ↑18 Jul 2018, 18:25Good doggies know how to properly operate airlock.
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And more plausible than the movie.Jasper wrote: ↑19 Jul 2018, 10:52More compelling than Sandra Bullock.lunchstealer wrote: ↑19 Jul 2018, 03:2913/10dead_elvis wrote: ↑18 Jul 2018, 18:25Good doggies know how to properly operate airlock.
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Two sets of doors are only as modern as climate control, so there's no fancy word for it. I would say vestibule because that's where you would don or doff your outer layers, in New England we call it a mud room. The foyer sits inside the front door and is a space where you can receive people without having them come formally sit in a room, although the foyer became the sitting room in many places when homes reduced in size but not traditional function.
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Apparently Jeff left a couple sticks of foil-wrapped gum in the pockets of one of the garments he threw in the laundry hamper. Unfortunately, I did not discover this until I took a freshly washed load of laundry out of the dryer.
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Jeff's the one who'll be stuck cleaning the dryer, because (as I confirmed multiple times last night), while my arms are long enough to TOUCH the back of the drum, I cannot do so in a way that I can apply useful scrubbing/scraping pressure to it. I tried saturating an old towel and then running it in the dryer for 20 minutes -- hoping of course to make the inside of the dryer steamy enough to soften the gum so I could scrape it off-- nope. But Jeff was poking around in there just now and said the gum should come off easily enough; it'll just take elbow grease.
However, certain garments might be destined for the ragbag if not the dumpster, because of the gum stuck to them.
However, certain garments might be destined for the ragbag if not the dumpster, because of the gum stuck to them.
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In case anyone needs to know this: if you have gum stuck all over the inside of your dryer, a combination of water, Windex wipes and a stiff wire scrubbing brush seems to be the most effective way of getting it off. That said, it is far easier and more convenient to simply NOT add chewing gum to your laundry loads in the first place.
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Our clothes washer will stop and complain when a load is out of balance for spinning... once. If you try to fix it, and it's still unbalanced, it'll just refill with water and go back to the beginning of the last rinse. So you sometimes end up with the load that goes for 3 hours and won't fucking just let us fix it until it is balanced enough. Just refill and reset. So then my wife decides to just put the clothes in the dryer... which then takes another 3 hours because they're completely drenched.
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Okay, I've learned to tolerate the local ice cream trucks playing tinny tinkly nursery-versions of Turkey in the Straw and The Sting, but the one outside right now is playing -- Silent Night.
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People who create flashcard decks for words in gendered languages and don't bother to indicate the gender of the word. It would help not to say things like "I would like to eat the Pope", you know?
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Sorry; should've said The Entertainer, the old ragtime song made famous in The Sting.
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I have had to increase the text size on my cell phone. THERE, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, AGING? I HAVE A LARGE-PRINT CELLPHONE NOW. PLEASED WITH YOURSELF, AGING?
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- lunchstealer
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I am about to the point where large print cellphonery doesn't get the job done.

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"We can't confirm rumors that Lynndie England is in the running to be Gina Haspel's personal aide." - DAR
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With readers or with denial?
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Denial, duh.
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"We can't confirm rumors that Lynndie England is in the running to be Gina Haspel's personal aide." - DAR
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