MeFi comment:
"Today I began moving about 10% of my assets into a risk-free mattress-based fund. Literally, I have a wad of 20s under my mattress and will have more tomorrow because if I'm doing this I might as well put it in the lulzy stereotypical place.
Given..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amuseDetachment
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, if only it were as easy to know whom to vote for as whom to vote against...
I can only advise to hold one's nose and vote for whoever has the best chance of defeating the Conservative opponent in your riding...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meagan
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
CDSs and you.
favorited 24 times, recently by johannahdeschanel, almodis, googly, weston, umop-apisdn, manguero, poxuppit, LobsterMitten, jeffburdges, up in the old hotel, Xoder, SeizeTheDay, highrise, radiobishop, millipede, OldReliable, billyliberty, yarrow, Burritos Inc., ornate insect, lunit, punkfloyd, Rykey, dlanznar
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Back in 2001 or 2002 I was talking with a friend of mine and he seemed of the opinion that the plan for the Bush administration was to spend such astronomical sums of money that the country would be basically bankrupt and rife to be bought piece by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marla Singer
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sec. 10. Increase in Statutory Limit on the Public Debt.
Why bother having a debt limit at all if it keeps being raised whenever the debt gets to the theoretical limit?....." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by manguero
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I should also have included there that the $85B bridge loan made to AIG might not be enough to save the insurer after all." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeffburdges
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you want a Liberal majority, vote for the Conservatives.
If you want the War on Drugs, the DMCA and a gradual end to reproductive freedom in Canada, vote for the Conservatives...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Meagan, zarah, beautifulcheese
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I guess I just don't generally think very much of someone -- be it a man or a woman -- who wants a couple to become like one person. Granted I'm not a young man and this may color my opinion, but if each partner has gone 20-30 years before meeting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"dios writes "In the end, who cares? Guy messes around with sock puppets and gets banned. "
Step 1 -- try to dismiss the whole thing as irrelevant.
dios writes "Oh, and one more thing, I am amazed you refer to usernames of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Maybe you should sleep around with more girls without taking it too seriously. It doesn't sound like a good answer to the question, I know, but I've recently been in a situation where I took things too seriously too quickly and the woman involved..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was thinking of Bush's image as a guy people might wanna have a beer with, and then sort of that John Bolton might be fun to drink with in that funny cynical asshole kind of way
Come on now. You just know that Bolton would be exactly like Begbie..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by imbecile, Free word order!
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The vitriol here makes me want to vote for her just to spite MetaFilter.
Whenever I read something like that I'm glad that people who (claim to) use this sort of logic when voting generally don't even bother to vote at all...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel terrible at not previously being aware of National National Awareness Month Awareness Month. I will make sure to be aware of my awareness or lack of awareness of it in the future...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Frankly if this is a fundie viral I'd find it very hard to fight the temptation of putting a rock through one of the involved church's windows were I to find myself near the building. "Bearing false witness", and all that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe she can be brought around and back to appreciating life by experiencing the crisp, refreshing taste of Pepsi Blue(tm)!
I think the consensus is that it's either simple attention-whoring or the most appallingly tasteless viral ad in history...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is there a website that helps execs manage dozens of relationships in various area codes and time zones?
That's the entire business model of my "CEOhelper.com" web 2.0 venture...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So. It's fine-and-dandy for the police and the prosecutors to misinform the public and attempt to sway public opinion of the accused outside of a courtroom, but heaven help you if you let the facts of the case speak for themselves.
That's just the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, T.D. Strange, vsync
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe sexual orientation should join circumcision and pet neutering in the list of subjects which one would be wise to not bring up on MeFi..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by batmonkey
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"no no no, in Libertopia, corporations hold corporations responsible.
It works out so well when police investigators look into accusations of crimes leveled against officers police officers! Nothing whatsoever could go wrong with that approach...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't imagine what a libertarian convention must be like
There's a reason for that. All libertarians want freedom, so no two of them can agree about where and when to have those darn conventions...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In the best case scenario the Ron Paul political newsletters existed only to make money and therefore included the racist bits, which (let's assume) Paul himself didn't agree with (although he did agree to have them published in his name, let's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smart Dalek, orthogonality
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have to say, it's fun to see a post ABOUT Ron Paul get derailed into a completely different subject, for once." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting that Barings was brought down by losses of less than a billion pounds. I'll bet you the outgoing heads of Chase, Citi and Bear Sterns would look at this and think "Amateurs!"...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Asparagirl
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I like the Macbook Air. It *might* be the computer that makes me an Apple owner again. But I'm still hesitant -- do the Mac people now have to tithe to Steve Jobs?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lodurr
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Call me a control freak if you like, but if I had a newsletter published that had my name on the front of it I'd make damn well sure to at least have a cursory look at what's in it before it goes out.
I think we've all seen what it's like when..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I just had a look at it... it seems almost as much of a joke as the famous Brass Eye Paedogeddon special." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by juv3nal
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Of course, we all know Rothite, which when rubbed, ejects... ah, never mind.
Is that another name for cummingtonite?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Alex404
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The "yelling 'fire' in the crowded theater" is a poor example 99% of the times it's used." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, yeah...smokers. The world is not your ashtray.
The fuck it isn't. By tossing my cigarette butt on the street I am extending to the world the very same courtesy it extends to me by chasing me out of every place that has shelter and warmth. Fuck..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by olya, Uther Bentrazor, Meatbomb, amberglow, nasreddin
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"so, uh, what exactly am I supposed to do with my new flower-scented wang?
Presumably this product is so wonderful that after using it all you'll want to do is stay at home and smell your own penis...." [
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favorited 38 times, recently by moonbird, shavenwarthog, TheGoldenOne, pushing paper and bottoming chairs, pinothefrog, cobra_high_tigers, perilous, iamkimiam, acid freaking on the kitty, tehloki, ekstasis23, merelyglib, IronLizard, whir, bugbread, Blazecock Pileon, flatluigi, sebastienbailard, greytape, Krrrlson, Poolio, Skygazer, MikeKD, thisjax, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, arcticwoman, delmoi, scrump, MetaMan, lattiboy, AstroGuy, idiotfactory, nzero, fleetmouse, The Great Big Mulp, lumensimus, Goofyy, 0xFCAF
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A WHOIS says these domains are owned by Synerfied Capital Inc. Of their four divisions: Healthcare, Development, Restaurants and Pictures the only market offering they have is NodorO.
I for one can't wait to see their restaurant ideas...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 235w103
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Imagine that, the Iranian military engaging in maneuvers in the vicinity of... Iran. And making sure their presence is known to a large Navy ship from a country that's spent the better part of last year saber-rattling towards Iran... Clearly there's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Clearly, the only lesson he learned is that being a loud, obnoxious prick will ensure you get free stuff.
That's a lesson you learn early on if you grow up in a family where you're not the "problem child". It's the squeaky wheel that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Why is it that people can't be quiet without being considered grumpy? We're not all extroverts who feel we have to talk all the time in order to ascertain that we're still alive, you know...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by CwgrlUp, honeydew, acid freaking on the kitty, Dr-Baa, DevilsAdvocate, sondrialiac, agregoli, litlnemo, dantsea, kpmcguire, zabuni, MikeKD, IronLizard, spinning jennie, konolia, mysterpigg, nzero
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So if bruce gets attacked by some nutter tonight we should feel free to ignore it because his posts on public internet forums mention "thug life", and thus was indirectly asking for it.
Yeah... to quote MXC "it all makes sense in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"We could have had a perfectly good discussion about Larouche, but then the poster went and involved Ron Paul, insuring that the conversation would be completely taken over with this latter subject. Good job there......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, orthogonality
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"maybe you should have signed up as "dumbshark".
Wow! You're the first person to rip on the handle! Congratulations! No one's ever done that before! Actually that's usually the one line of attack on sites such as Fark. Perhaps that's the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, grouse
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But what if you were on a plane on a conveyor belt and you needed to either take off or jump out? We still don't know what we should do if THAT happens!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kableh, misha
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That's like naming a college bar "The Library".
My favorite bar when I lived in Quebec City was called "The faculty of beer" (in french of course). The BA was a pint, the Master's was a larger glass stein, and the doctorate was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, electric water kettle
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"What Givewell is doing is fine. The actions of Holden on this and other websites? Not so much.
That's giving the benefit of a reasonable doubt. Holden runs Givewell, a charity, but he seems to think nothing of engaging in a blatantly dishonest way..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
9 months ago
