MeFi comment:
"I relate so much to that Carlos kid. Like him, I was a gifted Latino kid. So gifted that, yes, people often asked me whether I was really Latino.
I am. My parents grew up in a village in Mexico and came to the United States as immigrants. I grew..." [
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favorited 52 times, recently by Baby_Balrog, Huw, painquale, k8t, ryansara, Cool Papa Bell, dhruva, LoriFLA, vernondalhart, roboppy, jokeefe, iamkimiam, yeoz, Atom Eyes, Xoebe, Commander Rachek, infinitefloatingbrains, spec80, melissa may, weathergal, Nerro, duvatney, jabberjaw, cybercoitus interruptus, dancestoblue, WCityMike, concreteforest, lunit, cadge, khaibit, Floach, kliuless, CunningLinguist, joyceanmachine, designbot, Chomskyfied, Jofus, naju, weebil, the_bone, Stynxno, decoherence, cashman, Forktine, BinaryApe, griphus, Anderson_Localized, fishfucker, Jacqueline, bunnytricks, BrotherCaine, kid ichorous
Almost 7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"An interesting followup note is that I got Harvard just as a fellow Mexican-American there was getting arrested for armed robbery. Yep, armed robbery.
The judge, who could have imposed a maximum 15-year term, was asked by the defense to consider..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Stu-Pendous
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I'll go ahead and add my two cents.
Everything the author of this article says is true.
I know that there are people in this thread who have tried to explain how these precepts are not universal and how they are not like that, or their friends..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by divabat, pjern, invitapriore, Crabby Appleton, oaf, jb, Snyder, TheWhiteSkull, limeonaire, grouse, languagehat, jonmc, maxwelton, lunit
3 days ago
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"And every third girl is waxed bald now too. That had to have come from porn.
But also a lot of this porn wasn't just invented out of the blue. The Brazilians have been waxing themselves for a long time (to fit into their skimpy bikinis for one)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by limeonaire, nadawi, Forktine
4 days ago
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"The Portuguese FSI Language course is one of the best ones out there, and free. I used it myself, successfully. The focus is on becoming conversational as quickly as possible.
Also, keep in mind that almost all Portuguese classes in the US are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sevenyearlurk
10 days ago
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"OED says yes:
[Shortened form of SHONICKER.]
An offensive name for a Jew. Hence {sm}shonky a.1 (see quot. 1951).
1938 W. MATTHEWS Cockney Past & Present v. 153, I diffidently suggest the following words as the most familiar slang..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
10 days ago
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"To followup on what raedyn just asked, I was going to suggest something slightly different than the "get them to talk about themselves" strategy.
I love to observe brilliant conversationalists in action. One thing I've noticed is that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yohko
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Because of the current "first post stays unless the poster of the first post requests his gets taken down" policy NewsFilter is going to be dominated by single link news site posts. Though I haven't thought of a better policy for this kind....." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CunningLinguist
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I thought it was fun, if a bit silly. I'm not seeing how female breasts equate with sexism.
But then again, what do I know, I'm the European admin. I see many more breasts than this on a trip to the beach. And I'm sure everyone there is also......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, Zambrano
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""Get out if you don't like it", here, at Metafilter?
Sort of seconding what prefpara said. There are a few assholes in this thread. But there are assholes in every metatalk thread, unfortunately.
I think reasonable discourse also......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, grobstein
2 weeks ago
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"Here you go." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by agent99, serazin, Dizzy, grouse, Grither, regicide is good for you, cashman, Nickel, loiseau, k8t, meerkatty, DevilsAdvocate
2 weeks ago
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"The public areas of the Barbican have free wifi and outlets. The place is also very quiet on weekdays." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kirjava
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"[insert your username here] is a young-ish, white, middle-class, English-speaking male who works as a web-designer/programmer. I think he lives in the U.S., although Great Britain and Canada seem also likely.
He listens to a wide range of music......" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jtron
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's be great if Stewart and Caterina started a GNE that in the end didn't turn out to be vaporware, because that 'alpha' was fun as hell.
They turned it on briefly a couple months ago and got everyone excited. That code and IP is, I am..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yeoz
Last month
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"Let's say you're meeting a bishop and you're not Catholic. When would this form of salutation and address be necessary and when wouldn't it?
If you're talking about etiquette, then its necessary when its expected and unnecessary when its not. In..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, rokusan
Last month
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"The interesting thing I guess is the steampunk angle.
But my nephew builds and competes in low-rider bike competitions. Nowadays the winners in these things tend to look....well...like this...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Powerful Religious Baby
Last month
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"Everything is wonderful! It's a stellar relationship, certainly one of the best I've had, and so far we're both happy and excited by our seemingly ideal "fit"
If thats really the case, I say keep her. It doesnt sound like its a big..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by climalene
Last month
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"One other funny thing that struck me, reading this thread, is that from my experience, the West coast doesn't really spend all that much time thinking about the East coast. If you say you're from New York, you'll get a "Oh great! NYC is a crazy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by interuptus
Last month
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"Why is Einstein our cultural touchstone for great intelligence, instead of Shakespeare, da Vinci, or Beethoven? Considering the breadth of human intelligence and creativity, Einstein worked in a rather narrow field which itself is constrained by..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nooneyouknow, Monochrome, thedaniel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I also agree with Pastabagel's point: we don't simply think within the boundaries of logic - sometimes applying it "correctly" and othertimes applying it "incorrectly" - we're very much experiential organisms, and we use the past..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jason's_planet
Last month
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"I seem to be the only one so far that thinks there is some problem that you guys were drawing straws to begin with.
In similar situations, among family, someone usually happily volunteers and says something like "Oh twin beds are fun! We'll..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by eponymouse, sondrialiac, like_neon, ifjuly, b33j, tomboko, minus zero, hot soup girl, cabingirl, contessa, Forktine, FuzzyVerde, Jurate, Lentrohamsanin, DevilsAdvocate, melissa may
Last month
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"so I guess I'm looking for a course that progresses relatively quickly and doesn't include the standard go-slow caveats (eg I don't need to be told what past/present/future tenses are)
The FSI language courses pretty much fit that description...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gt2
Last month
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"I think I'd agree with Maastriction that, generally, between is exclusive, except when picking numbers or dates. As grumblebee himself points out, 'between Monday and Friday' is inclusive. I would believe 'between the 1st and the 15th of this month'..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by myrrh
Last month
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"Someone must have been in the situation I am in, how did you deal with it?
Yes, I have. But I must say I dealt with it entirely differently.
You say you are all close friends, but did your close friends never volunteer to use their connections..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dhruva
Last month
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"I work for a tiny company with just six employees. We just discovered that three of us have the same birthday! What are the odds?
The odds that three people in your particular company share the same birthday is exactly 1...." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last month
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"Well, I defer to you Miguel. This time I did stay put in an apartment in Principe Real. There's a great little cafe right in the Principe Real park which has Internet access and stays open until 11pm.
Principe Real is walking distance from the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sotalia
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm just glad it's a US expat and not a real foreigner.
posted by mullacc at 3:35 AM on May 19 [+] [!]
I can't argue with that. If it helps, I'm American born but spent my early formative years in Mexico. Spanish is my first language. I also......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, Wilder
2 months ago
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"Perhaps health is the common factor, not age. My great-grandfather was one of the happiest people I've ever known, up until he died at 106. Of course, up until 104 or so, he would wake up at 6am and walk several miles, out of joy more than anything..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by carabiner, thewalrusispaul, Nattie, pardonyou?
2 months ago
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"One of the best newspapers in the world right now is, I think, the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
They have a weekly literature supplement Babelia which is fantastic. And their regular columnists/reviwers include writers like Enrique Vila-Matas!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"There's an Internet phenomena I like to call the Tragedy of the Weak Link (TWL). Basically it says that if there's a chance, however small of "something obvious and stupid" being said, then it will be said. Thats because the potential......" [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Uther Bentrazor
2 months ago
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"Have lived in NYC and San Francisco. As smackfu says its not that hard:
1. Bars. Leave an extra dollar on the bar after you've paid for the drink.
2. Restaurants. Leave an extra 15%.
3. Taxis. Give them a couple bucks. More if its a larger..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by anthropoid, Koko
2 months ago
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"I'm going to suggest something slightly different: Learn a Latin-based language.
You'll find that many words in English which you are looking for have their counterparts in Latin. Since learning Latin itself may not be tempting, it might be better..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by signal, ceri richard
3 months ago
