MeFi comment:
""Just when the police are trying to focus on beating knife crime and making the streets safe"
Knife crime! See what happens when you outlaw guns? You get messy knife attacks. Reading that sentence while I sit in American feels like..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, sevenyearlurk
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If you charge $50 per bullet, people will reload them using spent brass and you'll create a black market for bullets.
I had a friend who was give a .410 shotgun by his dad because it was safer than a .22, insofar as the shot wouldn't travel as far..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It made me sad when she wanted to play a boardgame and he declined." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Asymptote, turgid dahlia, RedEmma, availablelight, tzikeh, loiseau, pravit, DMan, Rubbstone, batmonkey
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Metafilter: The residents are old, and many are frail, but they're not done growing, they're not done learning, and they're not done with the messy business of love and loneliness and rage and joy that defines the human experience...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nebulawindphone, mek, turgid dahlia
Last month
Ask comment:
"I don't want to brag or anything, (ok, I actually do) but I live around the corner from this guy. He made his own tools for hollowing out bowls with small openings, etc. From what I can gather he is a rock star of bowl making. Also, here in Utah..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
Last month
Ask comment:
"Being a tall, white, cheerful male in a suit with conservatively cut, slightly graying hair can get me into all sorts of potentially lucrative situations. When my hair is long, however, and I am wearing sweats and a ratty t-shirt I can almost feel..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's amazing how much time and mental horsepower mefites spend thinking about metafilter." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ludi
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Anki is the freeware, user-friendliy version of Supermemo.
http://ichi2.net/anki/
The palm version is free. Do I get a favorite Amirite?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Watched disk 1 of "Apocalypse Now". Shep tried to explain why Robert Duvall is always wearing the black cavalry hat, but being a Navy guy, he's not sure he understands it either.
It's like twitter, for astronauts. Twitternauts!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oxford blue
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"We all reached out like zombies trying to break through a door to get to those breasts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by reventlov
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The site appears to be down. Somebody stoke the Apache boilers with more coal." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Minus215Cee
3 months ago
MeFi post:
Everybody must get stoned.
favorited 12 times, recently by Crabby Appleton, Prospero, johnasdf, tarantula, LobsterMitten, adipocere, Sticherbeast, jeffburdges, Sukiari, not_on_display, scblackman, gingerbeer
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Now when I tell my son something true but weird, he'll often pause, look at me and say "Really?"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here is an example of youtube being used by an intelligent woman who also happens to be rather attractive, not that it matters or anything:
Queen Rania...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hadjiboy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have a sister who worked as a nanny for a family in our neighborhood when she was about 12. The family had lost an infant. She spent more and more time there. When she turned 21, right before she got married, she had herself adopted by the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ugh, extrabox
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"You can do home carbonation cheaply, btw.
Also, getting married to him is a pretty fantastic gift." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bigmusic
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I guess this post would feel more relevant if you told us that "Two days ago, while campaigning in Texas, John McCain said..."
Even so, this is either going to turn into an argument about McCain or an argument about vaccines, or possibly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Regardless of his creepy laugh in that crackle thing, their Letterman appearances are pure gold. It is a joy to watch cynical Dave get legitimately freaked out on live tv...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by flatluigi, mistersquid, davemee
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I will pay the snarkiest person on metafilter $5.00 to just post nice, sweet things for a day." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
5 months ago
MeFi post:
The Psychology of Snarkiness
favorited 10 times, recently by graventy, babybuns, nicolin, melorama, rmm, librarina, limeonaire, jeffburdges, flod logic, chrismear
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"TTIWWP
Oh wait, I thought I was at Fark...
It's the convergence of all community blogs: FarkFilterDot" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yahoo: the advertising subtlety of Nascar, paired with the proprietary culture of Microsoft. Two great tastes that can best be represented by that youtube of the reporter who gets bird poop in his mouth...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That wired article is excellent and beyond creepy. I'm making my students read it this semester. I'll figure out a justification later." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Captain Sunshine
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Claudia and I had been in denial about the state of our marriage—we loved each other, somewhere, but we had lost the romantic connection. Our life together was about diapers and chores and being sure not to wake the baby. We were irritable and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pomegranate, LobsterMitten, huskerdont
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"William Gibson on the demise of big studios, circa 1999:
The Garage Kubrick.
The Garage Kubrick hates everything that Sundance, let alone Hollywood, puts people through, and he won't have Slamdance or Slumdance either, or any of the rest of it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thecaddy
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I really missed about three shows but netflix and other activities have filled that spot now. The cravings are now gone. Except for Lost." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Big_B
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the most stressful of their careers. Screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways. Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jjwiseman, bonaldi, Jimbob, Brandon Blatcher
6 months ago
