Soooo....

[mousepod]

Peeing on a church roof in Disneyland.

It just blows my mind.

[Capt Jack]

ditto, but actually I was looking at aging some copper parts for an art project Im doing...however saline wasnt working right (nor anything else I could come up with for that matter)...

so now........

[Ponine]

Dont you own dogs? Couldnt that help you somehow?
I have a chemical used to color copper at home, I'll try to get the name of it for you.


In other news..... wth??

SHANGHAI, China -- A 77-year-old Chinese woman shot by Japanese army troops 64 years ago has finally had the bullet removed from her head.

A newspaper reported that Chinese doctors took four hours to remove the more than 1-inch-long, rusty green bullet from the woman's skull earlier this month. She left the hospital in good condition.

The Shanghai Daily reported that one doctor said that while the surgery wasn't that difficult, it was unbelievable that she survived so many years with a bullet in her head.


The woman was shot as a 13-year-old in 1943 while delivering food to her father, a guerrilla fighting Japanese troops.

She survived under her mother's care, but the bullet apparently went undetected.

Her family became concerned about a possible tumor because the woman suffered from periodic headaches and fits and arranged a scan.

[wendybeth]

It looks like Monstro is getting some dental work done.

[Snowflake]

So, it's official, my downstairs neighbors are insane.

About a month ago, the downstairs neighbors complained to the manager about cat litter and cat poo odor in the master bath (directly below mine). Tango does her business in the box in the tub. The manager came up to our apartment, and my roomie took her into the bathroom, no smell in our apartment. My bathroom is clean and I clean the box twice daily (or more as needed). She advises we move the box to the other (public) bathroom, no way and I have not.

Last week, I come home to find a note under the door, "Dear Neighbor: Your white noise machine or fan is keeping us up at night. We can't sleep and ask that you not run it since it keeps us awake and some nights whatever you are using requires us to move and sleep in our sunroom. We suggest that maybe if you are using a fan to open the windows, it keeps our apartment quite cool." I took it to the manager and showed her, she said ignore it, they're a pain in the ass. I asked, rhetorically, between the street noise, the trash and recycling truck, the construction going on around the building and the garage door opening and closing at all hours right under their (always closed I might add) windows, how the hell do they hear me? The fan I was using is on a carpet and when the apartment is 85 at 3:00am, I am using it, to hell with you, it's hot. Besides, this same fan was running, 24/7 last summer on the hardwood floor right in the doorway to my room. They were under it then, why no complaint of the fan on the hardwood?

So, my roomie calls me today to report that they have now complained that when I flush the toilet, it causes theirs to "bubble." The manager comes into our apartment with the plumber and a secondary plumber downstairs and they flush away and flush away.

If it were not so ridiculous, I'd be angry. I mean, let's be realistic, we all live in an apartment building, it is an old building too, built in 1940. If they think I'm bad, they should live under our upstairs neighbor. She's 80 and and makes more noise than a 3 year old. Heck, her maid makes more noise and drops furniture twice weekly as she moves it to vacuum the dog hair. Hell, I could complain about their BBQ (which is illegal), but I'm an adult and realize this is apartment living and you just have to deal and I close the windows for the half hour it takes for the BBQing to be done.

Clearly this is my month to be on their ****list, literally today. They're nuts.

[blueerica]

Visible mojo for Snowflake.

Apartment neighbors can be a strange and tricky thing. Both upstairs and down. Ugh.

We got some store brand "ready light" BBQ briquettes for a hibachi and they smelled awful, and made us almost gag. We tried to put it out, and the neighbors upstairs nearly had a conniption. We felt bad, so I made brownies. I think we're cool now.

Oh, and the constant noise seems to be not the neighbors above us, but the ones above them. Figure that one out. (Kinda makes sense, since they're the ones launching cigarette butts, soda cans, plastic bags and miscellaneous trash from their balcony.)

Ugh.

[katiesue]

Oh Snowflake. So sorry. I lived downstairs the whole time Maddy was small, because hello I thought it would be nicer than having her running around like mad making the people below us insane. However I've found most other upstairs neighbors don't give a hoot about that.

I'm upstairs now and I worry all the time about bothering the nice couple below me. I've told them to just let me know anytime anything's bugging them. They said in the 15 plus years they've lived there I'm the quietest ever. One guy regularly did pottery at all hours, slamming the clay on the floor to get the air bubbles out. Maddy's dad, who isn't a small person, is on the second floor and got a treadmill. I can't imagine the racket that makes when he's running on it.

I'm pretty understanding of others. You are in close quarters and there's not much you can do about most stuff. One neighbor tends to blast his stereo occasionally but honestly it's not that bad and it's always during the day. The one thing I hate is smoke drifting in. But luckily no one near me is a smoker right now.

Oh best upstairs neighbor story. Maddy was having a birthday/sleepover party when we were on the first floor. Our upstairs neighbor was really quiet for the most part but he had a deep booming kind of voice. So the girls are settling down and for a couple it was their first sleepover so I was staying in the living room with them until they fell asleep. Well of course as soon as they quieted down the noise from upstairs started. Oh yea he was getting lucky up there and the booming voice was yelling "yes yes yes" and so on. I was panicking trying to think of what to tell the girls cause I knew someone was going to say something. They were 6 or 7 at the time. Luckily no one said anything and they all fell asleep.

[BarTopDancer]

Our upstairs neighbors do laundry at midnight and walk around like there is no one under them. And they only do it at midnight on weeknights.

[Prudence]

This is why I won't live in apartments any more. I always seem to get stuck between someone below who thinks I shouldn't flush the toilet between 8pm and 10am and someone above who is running a discotheque/brothel/daycare.

[Capt Jack]

I managed an apt complex for a short while (no break in the rent was worth that). yeah, some serious freaks livin in some of those apartments. (I wont even get into the 60 year old hooker I had to evict)

next time they leave a note, tell them youre trying to get caught up in your taxedermy classes and youre sorry for the smell but it cant be helped.

they'll either leave or CMS will be out to collect them within a week