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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MeTa comment:
"Man, the noise in Ask Me really annoys me.
Call me a hard-liner but I think if N number of your comments get removed from Ask Metafilter, there should be an instant week-long timeout perhaps with an accompanying email: "It looks like rather..." [
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MeTa comment:
"That reminds of the New Yorker article about Wilson's 1969 Congressional testimony about particle physics funding linked in the CERN thread:
Senator John Pastore, of Rhode Island, wanted to know the rationale behind a government expenditure of..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Here are the last rites from the Book of Bokonon:
The Last Rites of the Bokononism [ 99 ]
(Each line is said once by the person giving the rites and then repeated by the dying person.)
God made mud.
God got lonesome.
So God..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I sort of skipped to the end on a couple languages I know - and it didn't take you that far at all.
I still recommend the FSI Language courses to everyone. They're also free. And they're intensive and advanced, and provided in the form of reading..." [
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Ask comment:
"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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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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MeFi comment:
"I agree with everything he says. He sums up precisely why I despise Los Angeles." [
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Ask comment:
"Well, civility is not something you move past, is it? From the sound of your post, it seems as if you are the one who is more likely to bring up politics or religion.
Mutual toleration and understanding is the key here. Not "fundies" or..." [
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Ask comment:
"I had a discussion with my wife about this. I'm American. She's European (Portuguese). I thought it was a bit horrid. She couldn't understand what the fuss was about. But she talked me into her way of looking at things, much like the OP I suppose...." [
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MeFi comment:
"I love this from the Slate article:
"You try to get a salad within 20 minutes of our location; it's virtually impossible," says the Community Coalition's executive director. Really? The coalition's headquarters is at 8101 S. Vermont Ave...." [
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Ask comment:
"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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