{"id":1789,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/op-ed-im-already-annoyed-by-my-roomates-laugh-track\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:33","slug":"op-ed-im-already-annoyed-by-my-roomates-laugh-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/op-ed-im-already-annoyed-by-my-roomates-laugh-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: I’m Already Annoyed by My Roomate’s Laugh Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By David North<\/a><\/h6>\n
Aug. 1, 2016<\/h6>\n

I\u2019ve been sharing a studio apartment with Todd Henderson for a couple <\/delete> of <\/insert>weeks now. I am writing this op-ed to recount my experiences living in this personal hell. Todd is a nice guy and all, but he has this quirk I just can\u2019t get around. I could deal with his crippling social awkwardness and aggressive masturbation habits, but the one thing I can\u2019t stand is his constant laugh track.<\/p>\n

\tDon\u2019t get me wrong, Todd has his funny moments, but his laugh track is inordinately frequent. He\u2019s a walking live studio audience. Every joke is met with boisterous<\/insert>furious<\/delete> laughter no matter how subtle it was intended to be. How am I expected to carry the normal flow of conversation if I have to wait for every one of his “<\/insert>\u2018<\/delete>jokes“<\/insert>\u2019<\/delete> to land and settle in with the “<\/insert>\u2018<\/delete>crowd“<\/insert>\u2019<\/delete>? <\/p>\n

Our lease is for a year, so I’ll probably have to just wait it out. I would find a subletter, but everyone has been avoiding me ever since I got my own theme music to follow me around, and I can’t figure out why.<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David North Aug. 1, 2016 I\u2019ve been sharing a studio apartment with Todd Henderson for a couple of weeks now. I am writing this op-ed to recount my experiences living in this personal hell. Todd is a nice guy and all, but he has this quirk I just can\u2019t get around. I could deal with his crippling social awkwardness and aggressive masturbation habits, but the one thing I can\u2019t stand is his constant laugh track. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Todd has his funny moments, but his laugh track is inordinately frequent. He\u2019s a walking live studio audience. Every joke is met with boisterousfurious laughter no matter how subtle it was intended to be. How am I expected to carry the normal flow of conversation if I have to wait for every one of his “\u2018jokes“\u2019 to land and settle in with the “\u2018crowd“\u2019? Our lease is for a year, so I’ll probably have to just wait it out. I would find a subletter, but everyone has been avoiding me ever since I got my own theme music to follow me around, and I can’t figure out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}