MeFi comment:
"When I read comments in this thread, I mentally ignore everthing that follows "as a parent" or "I cannot imagine."
You are not specially qualified because you are parents, and you need bigger imaginations...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Dreama, grapefruitmoon, The Light Fantastic
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Heh, I like their blog's formulation better:
The Royal Society of Chemistry Yorkshire Pudding
Ingredients
85 g polysaccharide powder, kitchen grade (flour)
1 g sodium chloride, NaCl, table grade (salt)
1 egg
Solution of 230 cm3..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"I find smoked paprika is an excellent replacement for smoked cured pig in this kind of dish. I can buy it here in New Zealand, so I'd be amazed if you couldn't get it in Australia. Where people are recommending chipotle, it should provide a similar..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"It was noticeable enough in my mid 20s that I cut my lovely, shiny, glossy, two-foot ringlets, lest I end up like one of those sad bastards with a grey greasy ponytail and a hairline that starts at the top of the head.
It hasn't actually..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"menstrual seclusion
I have read feminist interpretations of seclusion customs, which point out that if you're cramping and irritable, retreating to a quiet place and being exempt from physical labour and being in a state where men can't bother you..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by emyd
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Is there a right wing in New Zealand?"
Socially, the dominant party right of our centre is about as right wing as the US Democrats. Economically they are fervent free trade advocates and monetarists.
On another note, for the last few..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by you're a kitty!
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"In private, practice imitating the hateful voice. Record yourself and compare your results with the real thing. Let the miracle of method acting create sympathy. And admire the ease with which your interlocutor has mastered something so difficult...." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by betafilter, Netzapper, aeschenkarnos, sondrialiac
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Occasionally i wonder if he's purposely throwing the election.
Stop that. Stop that right now. The idea that your opposition would throw the election is a symptom of internalised defeatism.
If it made sense to throw a presidential campaign, it..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by RussHy, sondrialiac, ShawnStruck, Senor Cardgage, Nattie
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Apropos the three-legged dog sympathisers: look, I don't want to mock a three legged dog either. But this three-legged dog is potentially next in line to be President, and volunteered to be there. If a) shaming them out of it or b) shaming their..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jayder
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Another thing is that most people have a finite amount of will power. So it's probably easier to tackle this incrementally. So spend a couple of weeks just substituting apples for candy bars. Then maybe set a budget that constrains your takeout..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, Lesser Shrew
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I try and avoid going into shops because I know I will spend money I can ill afford.
Good. Excellent. That is not some kind of crazy behaviour. It is how sensible people live all the time. We don't go into shops unless we have a clearly identified..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by liquidindian, chicainthecity, different
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"A friend of mine is a martial artist and a scholar of dance, and working on his PhD right now.
His theory, boiled down, is that martial arts are codifed as traditions precisely as the skills they employ are becoming obsolete. Then the aesthetic..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by nihraguk, jlbartosa
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"When did Chris Matthews get the balls?
When it became obvious who was going to win, of course.
Not to get all Paglia on you, but he's not a worshipper of the flight-suit codpiece because he likes cock, but because he likes masculine power,..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by pineapple, five fresh fish, Your Time Machine Sucks, Miko
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Apropos bailing to NZ: in the last couple of years, we've been mostly accepting refugees from Burma and Afghanistan. In the event that you reach that level of fuckupitude, we'll consider you too. In the meanwhile, you'll have to get in line with..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"yhbc: the climate is sufficiently mild here, and the country sufficiently small, that the range of frozen vegetables is quite small: green beans, sweet corn and spinach are the main kinds available. Brassicas like broccoli grow all year round...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The Hollywood angle?
See, "Muslim terrorist" was covert for "nigger."
"Hollywood" is covert for "faggot."
There doesn't need to be any logic, it's just that having failed with one kind of mud, they're..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Last month
Ask comment:
"I wish I hadn't dropped five grand on a septoplasty, which hurt a lot, disfigured my proud Jewish honker, and didn't really improve my quality of life. This wasn't the surgeon's fault, but just remember that you can be in small percentage of people..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by chicainthecity, dinger
Last month
Ask comment:
"Hell, I have been in the male half of that situation because in the back of my mind, I feel it's creepy to make friends with a woman on a platonic basis and then suddenly make a move. That's violating a kind of trust. So my advice is: as soon as you..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by PhoBWanKenobi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ha. Well, New Zealand may be almost "nowhere", but our current Prime Minister is a woman. An agnostic, childless, pro-choice, homely woman who could still out-think Sarah Palin after a litre of gin and a frontal lobotomy. And we elected her..." [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by mazola, Mental Wimp, Dormant Gorilla, SuperSquirrel, Jilder, Sonny Jim, Kato
Last month
MeFi comment:
"He should have brought a effigy with him and see if he could get anyone to set fire to it.
Actually, I think that would be an excellent thing for an agent provocateur to do. It is probably the only thing that would force the McCain campaign to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by BeerFilter
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Boy, it sure worked out well for him, didn't it?
What does that mean?
Unless you think Nazis shouldn't have the right to free assembly, of course.
Free assembly? Sure. Open and violent intimidation, which is their MO? No.
In the event..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by vivelame, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
Ask comment:
"My 13 year old daughter is reading it because it is the sequel to the equally turgid yet popular Eragon, which she loved at 11.
I think it has the same appeal as most children's fantasy: undetailed main character that the reader can identify with..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Wolof, thebrokedown
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the US will be looking for real leadership.
What is real leadership? Is it competent management, or persuading people to follow you, or keeping a cool head in a crisis?
Speaking as an observer from another country, this is what I see.
Obama..." [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by shitcock, Miko, Mental Wimp, amyms, contessa, RussHy, dog food sugar, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, blueberry
Last month
Ask comment:
"Agomphious.
Anodontic = suffering from the condition anodontia, which is congential toothlessness." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by furtive
Last month
Ask comment:
"I was just about to post what 0xFCAF said.
hal_c_on, you seem to be making an assumption that the insurance company needs to arrive at an accurate figure for the individual. But they don't. They insure sufficiently many people that their errors..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Meatbomb, peacheater
Last month
Ask comment:
"Can "Clavier" connote something different from "Keyboard?"
Sure. It connotes old-fashioned usage. If I read a passage that refers to a clavier, I know immediately they don't mean a synthesiser, and quite possibly that the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Please someone tell me I'm very very wrong about this.
OK.
Look, since the campaign began, it's been tempting to see every Republican move as a devilish masterstroke - but not a one has turned out that way.
Remind yourself of the..." [
more]
favorited 10 times, recently by interrobang, effwerd, RussHy, shiu mai baby, Lentrohamsanin, blueberry, nudar, fourcheesemac, Bookhouse, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
Ask comment:
"It worked out really badly for me. Or rather, things worked out badly, and this may have been a cause or a symptom or both, it's hard to tell.
After having got married in my early 20s, some years later my spouse proposed that perhaps an..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by velvet winter
Last month
MeFi comment:
""I ghost wrote letters to the editor for the McCain campaign". (Salon link, sorry).
"I spent a morning in John McCain's Virginia campaign headquarters ghost-writing letters to the editor for McCain supporters to sign. I even..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by schyler523, cashman, dejah420, blueberry, Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Quite topical at the moment.
I found this article interesting...
Until about 1960 the complex origins of the Jewish people were more or less reluctantly acknowledged by Zionist historiography. But thereafter they were marginalised and finally..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"bread doesn't need sugar
Point of information: yeah, old school, hand made bread doesn't. But sugar has significant effects on the structure of the crumb and the keeping qualities of the loaf which are important in industrially-produced bread...." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by misha, Turtles all the way down, stet, hattifattener
2 months ago
Ask comment:
""And employers have the right to terminate them over it."
Sure. But ratting out someone who isn't actually hurting you so that they get fired is not what I would call classy behaviour.
The classy thing to do is to tip them off, via a..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chez shoes
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I have enjoyed muffins made with a dollop of cream cheese in the middle, which is a delightful sour dairy counterpoint to fruit etc. Not sure how you get the cream cheese in there though......" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mjao
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Discovering Machiavelli was the best thing that ever happened to my school life. That was when I learned the value of implied threats, the importance of careful planning when it comes to matters of revenge, and why it is always better to be feared...." [
more]
favorited 25 times, recently by Hactar
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"This is a problem I have had in the past, so I relate.
OK, so everything works when you masturbate. Has it been while since you got laid last? If you usually masturbate vigorously or without lube, you may be "acclimatised" to the rougher..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by modernpoverty
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"cashman wrote: "You know how for years a lot of you (and I) thought we were living in enlightened times? You'd learn in school about some messed up thing that happened in earlier centuries and shake your head at how corrupt things were. Shake..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Yeah, if you don't have a partner with unimpeachable credentials, this will look like a blackmail attempt.
In fact what you have described sounds like blackmail already. I'm a CEO, and some guy sends me a letter that amounts to "I know where..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by the christopher hundreds, Lentrohamsanin, davidmsc
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What he did was stupid. On the other hand, it was the result of a cascade of decisions. Haven't we all thought "I've come this far, I might as well take the next step?"
Also, in 1996, cellphones were expensive and many people didn't own..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Deathalicious, adamt, BrotherCaine
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I never knew a kid who got bullied that didn't have either some kind of home problem or very poor socialization."
Heh, well fuck you too, pal.
I never knew a bystander who watched from their smug little safety zone who was..." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by MythMaker
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Wikipedia has a mutually intelligible languages page which points to articles that shed light on this question." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by krautland
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Another study from Hong Kong:
Methods: Using local data, we estimated active and passive smoking-attributable mortality, hospital admissions, outpatient, emergency and general practitioner visits for adults and children, use of nursing homes and..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Does smoking increase or decrease lifetime health care costs? The answer isn't intuitive to me."
I believe that here in New Zealand smokers save the state money by a small margin, partly because of their early deaths placing less load..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"What Meatbomb said. The reason that class is only two hours is that two hours is all takes to get the basics.
If you are angling for positions that require certification, get the certification. Otherwise, lie. When you get to something that you..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by josher71
3 months ago
