The only non-offensive solution to all this is to make Maddy a polyandrist so she can live happily ever after with princes of several ethnicities.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:20 AM on July 23, 2008

picea: Why have the www? Why not just mcdonalds?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:30 AM on June 27, 2008

Aren't religious prohibitions like this somewhat responsible for the advancement of medical science? Or is that just an oft repeated lie?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:17 PM on June 23, 2008

I would think an 'atheistic' book wouldn't have angels and God in it as beings who exist.

Maybe I should give them another go, but it seemed that by the end I was reading just to get it read.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:25 PM on June 23, 2008

J-Hova?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:14 AM on June 21, 2008

They didn't even offer us a firearms safety course, much less roll out the "guns are bad, m'kay?"

We got a bit of a gun talk in high school. This gun safety guy came in and part of his presentation involved passing a gun around the room followed by a loaded mousetrap. More people were willing to handle the gun, if I remember right.

He then showed us that the gun was loaded. The message being that we should treat all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:58 AM on June 13, 2008

I had heard that spinach was high in iron, but not iron that your body can use (or something weird like that). Have any reading on it on hand? If not, I'll look around for info when I get home.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:50 PM on June 10, 2008

Isn't this sort of gambling illegal in the US?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 2:57 PM on June 9, 2008

Ah, it goes to charity.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:01 PM on June 9, 2008

tadellin: That's what we do as humans, we compare things to see where they are relative to each other.

Perhaps you meant equate?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:40 AM on June 6, 2008

Sorry. I'm being irritable this week. Ignore my snark please, tadellin.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:45 AM on June 6, 2008

Right now I'm on a 20GB (up + down) plan for around $80 (I forget exactly how much). I get a bit of a discount off of that for bundling digital cable.

This is a recent change. It used to be that 10GB for $60 was the max you could get. I have a friend who had two cable modems and had to physically switch them mid-month in order to have double the usage. We pay $15 per gig a month for any overages.

The cable company here is owned by the phone... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:39 AM on June 4, 2008

I refuse to watch any series until it's been on at least two seasons. I'm serious. Been burned too many times.

It's better to burn out than fade away.

I think people who think that never really "got" Buffy, to be honest. I've heard this complaint from those who particularly enjoyed the first three seasons and it just illustrates to me that many people can't handle the evolution of a t.v. show. They just want... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 8:36 AM on June 3, 2008

Holy crap. Those pictures are horrible.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:30 AM on May 22, 2008

Also, I much prefer sequels and remakes to those fucking clip shows.

Trail of the Pink Panther was way worse than anything Steve Martin could come out with (Unless they do a clip show of his remake... hmm....).
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:39 AM on May 22, 2008

oaf: Are you serious? Transubstantiation is pretty much the defining belief of Catholicism as I understand it. If you don't believe in that, you might as well be Protestant.

dnab: I can't wrap my head around what you're saying. If most Christians view the virgin birth and resurrection as simply an allegory then what makes them Christians and not Muslim or Baha'i or whatever else?

Explain to me the "Profession of Faith" or Confirmation.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 12:08 AM on May 22, 2008

Eh, we go on tangents a lot. It's not like there's a comment limit.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 12:28 AM on May 22, 2008

Why do you keep coming into these threads to yell, Artw?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:05 PM on May 8, 2008

You think a company is going to put serious money and effort into an ad campaign and not ensure that the ads look their best?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 7:54 PM on May 8, 2008

Thank goodness for us that they had the time and means to shave their armpits.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 12:29 AM on April 26, 2008

I'm still skeptical of the existence of peanut allergies.

Seriously? You're skeptical that peanut allergies exist? Maybe you mean the apparent ubiquity of potentially fatal peanut allergies?

I'm still puzzled as to how peanuts have been a widely available foodstuff for a century or so and yet it seems only recently there is this sudden crisis where people are swelling up and such.

My... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 2:27 PM on April 25, 2008

Peeing Calvin stickers are already illegal though, right?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 7:54 AM on April 25, 2008

Am I smelling a ground-floor opportunity here?

No. That's definitely not what you're smelling.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 11:24 AM on April 25, 2008

The golf course here is pretty much all sand (except for the greens). You carry some fake fairway along with you.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 2:42 PM on April 24, 2008

What's wrong with the word steampunk?

All this reminds me that I've yet to play Arcanum. Looked interesting when it came out. Should be fairly cheap these days. I wonder if it's on Steam.

lol, steam
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 11:55 AM on April 23, 2008

loquacious: The majority of the West is wealthy* and white. Is it surprising that the majority of any sub-culture therein also shares these characteristics?

Having never spoken to a steampunk (or whatever), I can't really speak to their political leanings.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 6:56 PM on April 23, 2008

What's with flickr comments lately? It seems packed with stupid award links. Is it a type of spam?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 1:38 PM on April 19, 2008

being worshipped as a goddess should help with that.

Yeah, cause that worked out so well for Jesus.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:20 PM on April 18, 2008

$40 every two months for heat!

I paid $700/mo through the winter.

It's probably not possible to live a low impact life up here. Which is strange, given the number of environmentalist types that live here.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 8:22 PM on April 18, 2008

I was just in Richmond, BC for the weekend and was often the only white guy in the room/mall/restaurant/etc. It was an interesting and cool experience.

Are there not predominately non-white communities in the US?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:06 PM on April 18, 2008

Uh, yeah, I guess I am.

It just seems impossible that a community of "ethnicity X" would have trouble with most of that list. If the community is mostly "ethnicity X" then you can be sure you aren't being singled out because of your race, you have no trouble with the stuff on that list.

If that's what this whole thing is about, then forgive me for misunderstanding.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:52 PM on April 18, 2008

grr, the second "with the stuff on that list" was going to be me listing some examples like buying posters with people of your race on them, getting pulled over because of your race, etc.

Not sure how I messed that up.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:53 PM on April 18, 2008

I don't understand the word limited in situations like these.

It's like when I go to a 7-11 in the middle of the night for snacks and the cash register has a sign on it that says "limited cash on premises" and then I stand there thinking about a hypothetical cash register that could hold unlimited cash and whether there are thieves that that rob convenience store after convenience store in search of this bottomless cash register destined to be forever... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 3:33 PM on April 9, 2008

I was drinking with some friends and this older drunk came over to our table and started talking to us. We noticed he had some obviously homemade knuckle tattoos, but they didn't seem to spell anything. When asked about them, he interlocked his fingers to display the words LETS FUCK.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:21 AM on April 9, 2008

Yeah, authors will simply stop writing. Then teenagers will stop awkwardly groping each other and bees will stop making honey.

I recently read The Count of Monte Cristo on my handheld and enjoyed it immensely. Now I'm looking for even more books. If publishers could sell me books I'm interested in reading in rtf or txt at a reasonable rate then I'd be all for it.

Also, what the hell does this mean:
Google... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:11 AM on April 2, 2008

You sure you should be reposting that without permission, ArkhanJG? ;)
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 12:51 PM on April 2, 2008

I didn't want to get into that for the obvious reason that it can't end well.

but, I thought you were for the war?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:52 PM on March 23, 2008

I wasn't bashing his opinion at all. Just making a bad throwaway joke on his phrasing. No offense meant and hopefully none taken. I'll duck out now.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:57 PM on March 23, 2008

Don't stairs have to be "to code" or something?

Or is that only when you sell a house?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:38 PM on March 23, 2008

And I'll echo mjjj's comment. Thanks for the links!
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:55 PM on March 23, 2008

Have their been non-English questions on AskMe? Obviously besides translation questions.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:24 AM on March 20, 2008

I know all rap sounds the same, kolophon, but those are covers of a different song. :P

I also want to go swimming with Lorenzo.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:20 AM on March 18, 2008

The review featured on the IMDB page right now is a little strange.

It starts off with: This is the wrong way to promote harmony between genders.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 12:27 PM on March 15, 2008

Oh, how I wished we still had the .img tag!

That picture is soooo fake. That's definitely not a machine gun. :(

Also: I'll echo the "wtf no slashdot?"
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 8:40 PM on March 12, 2008

Prose and Cons is a pretty cool name for a prison newspaper.

Thanks for the article. Frightening read.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 1:36 PM on March 6, 2008

Here's how seizures are done in Canada.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 9:47 PM on March 6, 2008

Having never read the book, I still saw the zombie-girlfriend connection and loved the fact that Neville couldn't see it. He was disappointed that the dude displayed a disregard for his own self-preservation and took that to mean he was becoming less human. When confronted with the loss of a loved one, how is that not human?

Haven't watched the alternate ending, but I'm not really interested. Didn't really care for the original ending either ("Thank God for Vermont!").
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 10:22 AM on March 6, 2008

Love makes you do stupid things.

It's interesting reading about these alternate interpretations of the film. I'm always amazed when I see a film with a friend and find out, talking afterwards, that we both took completely different meanings away.

*snif*, takes me back to my intro to mass media course.
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 11:59 AM on March 6, 2008

SPF 50?
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 1:50 PM on March 6, 2008

Can we just admit something that is like the biggest truth ever. Women are beautiful.
... even gay dudes appreciate feminine beauty.

Yeah, this is a bunch of bullshit. Ever seen Michaelangelo's David? Sure, women will be more often airbrushed and stuck on some magazine or billboard as some sort of ideal, but if you look at actual real live women alongside actual real live men, I can't see how you can come up with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ODiV at 11:50 AM on March 6, 2008