There are plenty of factors that can make shopping an unpleasant experience, and any effort to counteract that will always be appreciated.

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He was also careful about where play dates would occur, especially after an unpleasant experience at the house of one of our daughter's classmates.

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Most current STD check-ups for women involve taking a swab from high inside the vagina, which is not only an unpleasant experience for the patient, but an unreliable method of testing.

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"We shouldn't think that just because we know women who can 'handle themselves' and, who while being disgusted by an unpleasant experience, get past it, that one might as well put up with a culture where complaints are ignored or not looked at, and serial sleazeballs are seen as 'characters', " he says.

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Given that odours can cue recall of a memory - an "earthy" flavour might evoke the joys of the hills and valleys to one person, but an unpleasant damp-in-the-basement experience to another.

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It's become a very unpleasant business and running against Mitch McConnell would be an extraordinarily difficult and grueling experience.

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