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MeFi post:
Ram, gang, ram!
Zombie movies became popular when we stopped knowing our neighbors names and participating in community building the way shows like Happy Daze idealize.
The people outside in our own personal bubbles become nameless homunculus shuffling around our space. And with the media constantly feeding us scare stories from cancer causing fruit to spontaneous acts of violence on the bus, we assign these others with malicious intent towards us.
But I've... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:17 AM on November 10, 2008
MeFi post:
For use on slow zombies only.
The hilarious thing about my generation is that if an actual war broke out on our home soil, we would probably run around like chickens with our heads caught off. Yet we're prepared for a zombie invasion.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:41 AM on October 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Don'tgive me no jibber-jabber
The man wrote a book where he thought Alien chest-bursters weren't gross enough and had hosts shit aliens. I can't take him seriously.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 7:49 PM on October 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Mormon vampires?
I hate this series so much, more so because there are teachers and librarians and women who are supposed to have two brain cells to rub together, who are recommending this book to teenage girls. I think if caught, these women should have their vaginas revoked.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 11:35 AM on September 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Will no one think of the zygotes?
Iirc, I got this graphic from a women's rights thread here on Metafilter. But I keep it and post it in my own journal when I speak about women's reproductive and sexual rights.
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/805/prolifebeliefchartjq6.gif
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:22 AM on August 10, 2008
It's not the rich women married to the policy makers that will suffer these consequences. Those that can afford to have a baby will be the ones with enough money to travel to those willing to give them birth control or abortions.
The women who will suffer are the ill educated and poor, unable to get to those that can provide for them. And the pro-lifers who have the money to support protests (and bombings and policies) will not be adopting house fulls of abandoned... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:26 AM on August 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Past Present Future Me You Someone Else
There's a love of zombies in popular culture today because of how the way we live is changing.
Sorry, I know what I mean in my head, but it's hard for me to explain it out loud.
See, we're all in this connected disconnect where we would rather talk to someone across the room via IM than turn around and engage in actual conversation. We're shrinking our world to the few feet around our own two feet. So the people outside in our own neighborhoods... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 10:45 AM on August 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Espresso on Ice is Not Okay
Man, don't fuck with people and their coffee. That way lies danger.
In the morning I pour it in my husband's mug, push it into our room with the end of a broom handle, and then clear out until the caffeine hits his system. He, in return, does not speak to me or look me in the eye until I've had at least two cups of the stuff.
I think baristas should be protected behind shatter proof glass and forced to pass the cups through a cut out by the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 1:34 PM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Is Day Care a luxury or a benefit?
I can't really warp my head around day care that costs $54K a year per child.
It depends on the care provided. I know the state pays just over $40,000 a year for my son to attended a program for kids on the autistic spectrum.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 3:44 PM on July 5, 2008
MeFi post:
My my my
Whatever happened to the origin story: "A bunch of dudes sat around a recording studio smoking pot and noodling around on instruments and made a record and now are out promoting the damn thing"?
Panic at the Disco?
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 12:12 PM on June 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Martha's Daughters
These are the craft blogs I read every Friday. They're all run by amazing and creative women.
craft forumsnot martha
allsorts
angry chicken
HELLOmynameisHeather
Molly Chicken
Posie Gets Cozy
Wee Wonderfuls
magpie & cake
ART TEA LIFE
whipup.net
How about orange...
My Paper Crane
Crafty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 6:19 AM on May 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Very chummy
My heart is pounding just reading about this. I can't imagine actually being there, I'd probably have a stroke. People can be insane.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:05 AM on April 29, 2008
MeFi post:
The Open Source Boob Project
ew
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 11:00 AM on April 23, 2008
aeschenkarnos, the man you're defending over the Boob post is also the same man who said (bolding mine):
"Angered guys may try to humiliate the women, or they may enter a spiral of asking repeatedly* because God forbid their ego has to deal with a rejection. The idea that every woman in the world must be sexually attracted to you is ridiculous.
Some women asked whether there's a good way to turn idiots like these down - "fuck off"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:27 PM on April 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Birthday Girl
I'm surprised you didn't link to any of the controversy.
They apparently recorded the song and video with the intention of including it on their new album and using the video to hook in the Pete Wentz guyliner crowd to expand their fanbase and cross into a new market.
However, the video hit the forums and the Roots fans hated it and called the group sell outs. The fan reaction was so hot that they turned around and said the song wouldn't be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 2:30 PM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Knuckle tattoos
Two knuckle tattoos that amuse me are Andy Hurley's (Fall Out Boy drummer) FUCK CITY in reference to the television show Arrested Development, and the blogger at My Paper Crane, who has CAKE FACE.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 6:41 PM on April 8, 2008
I just found the CAKE FACE post.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 6:43 PM on April 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Mr. Mom
why they didn't just adopt.
There could be many reasons.
Adoptive parents have to go through a background check and sign contracts that the information that they provide is the truth. If he says nothing about being transgendered and the information comes out later, then the couple could be accused of trying to deceive the state and rejected. However, if they're upfront about the information, they could face the same... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 3:39 PM on March 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Equal Opportunity Geeks
I wasn't being mean or [r]ude. I just find geek girls cute. ...I understand women...on with the pics.
Wow.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing, the fact that you're a socially retarded sexist, or that you are unaware just how much of a socially retarded sexist you are.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:51 AM on February 20, 2008
Could the prude and the sexist fuck off
You acknowledge what he said was sexist, and because I called him on it and speak up for myself as a woman that makes me a prude, meaning ... if I could just get myself fucked by some man, I wouldn't care when someone said something sexist?
Seriously?
Christ, sometimes I really hate this site.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:43 AM on February 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Very cool spiders!!
HOLY SHIT I'M NEVER GOING IN THE WATER AGAIN!
Or putting my feet under my desk, or dangling my legs over the side of my bed. I may just walk around in a suit of armor for the rest of my life.
Now I have to go wash my hands. Ickickick.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 4:15 PM on February 19, 2008
MeFi post:
NO FATTIES
A friend of mine made some really good points after looking at the link, so I'm just going to drag them over here.
The idea that this is about "the health of Americans" is false. It's about a perceived drain on the healthcare system.
If you believe that the majority of obese persons are lower-income and it's about class, then you have to accept that the 'health issues' that this bill is supposedly going to help them avoid... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 1:33 PM on February 1, 2008
MeFi post:
The OCD Post
I've always had little weird tics and rituals, but nothing really intrusive or noticeable by others until I was in high school. My food couldn't touch. It got so my mom bought a divided plate.
I grew out of the divided plate when it morphed into eating one thing at a time before moving to the next. If I have chicken, green beans, and corn on my plate, then I eat all the green beans, then all the corn, then all the chicken. If I make a mistake or leave the table, I drink... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:19 PM on January 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Heath Ledger dies
It's weird now because before it was older actors dying and my mom saying things like, "I remember their first role." Then she'd tell me about some commercial or movie that this older actor appeared in.
Now it's people I've seen come up. Remember the television show Roar and how terrible it was? From there to Brokeback Mountain seemed a second.
I'm starting to feel old.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 2:14 PM on January 22, 2008
MeFi post:
The Devil (and Joe Quesada) Made Him Do It
Quesada has said on more than one occasion that he hated the Parker marriage and that he thought marriage defined the character too strictly, and that more could be done plot-wise if Peter Parker were single.
When Fangirls Attack have been linking to a lot of commentary on that.
My opinion is that it's pretty sad that a stable of writers can't sustain interest in a marriage, when the marriage itself is only one part of a multifaceted character... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 12:57 PM on January 4, 2008
But it wasn't a divorce or annulment here.
What happened here was one man hating a fictional marriage so much that he wiped it out entirely so that it never happened, enabling him to clean slate any character development made since the beginning of the character to go backward into a place Peter Parker has already been.
Fans already read through the Spider-Man awkward years where he lived with his aunt. Instead of being allowed to mature, maybe... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 2:06 PM on January 4, 2008
MeFi post:
Scoutmaster
Another alternative to boy scouting is your state park system. I'm not sure what the programs look like in other states, but New Jersey has activities for all ages that have to do with the environment and scout-like activities. There's a fee attached to a lot of them, but the most they've asked of me is $40, which was well worth it for the couple hours of crafting and hiking that my husband and I did with our four year old.
Most parks have pamphlets with activities and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 1:27 PM on December 20, 2007
MeFi post:
Amnesty International ad campaign against FGM
What is the sense in a sexism flag for derails and trolls of that nature, if the offending material is just left in the thread despite the flags?
Never mind. Just gonna go get my bingo card and settle in.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 9:06 AM on December 2, 2007
Unless you've gone into minor surgery and woken up without your penis and a bunch of doctors trying to diminish your outrage and a court system letting everyone off the hook, then this discussion is not about you.
posted to MetaFilter by FunkyHelix
at 8:42 AM on December 3, 2007
