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""No, really, why is worth students' time to insist that they learn crap that adults don't use worth their time? Specifically and non-rhetorically, why is it worth students' time to insist that they learn the most efficient pencil-and-paper..." [
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favorited by delmoi on
September 6, 2008 5:55 PM
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"If someone from London came to you and introduced themselves to you, would you immediately say, "I hate Britain" in response and feel it wasn't rude? See, in other contexts it is clearly obnoxious. But when you're talking to someone from LA..." [
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favorited by marble on
September 6, 2008 4:40 PM
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"It amounts to far more than that - she quotes directly from the authors:
The authors of Everyday Mathematics do not believe it is worth students' time and effort to fully develop highly efficient paper-and-pencil algorithms for all possible whole..." [
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favorited by lupus_yonderboy on
September 6, 2008 3:20 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by FuzzyVerde on
September 6, 2008 2:59 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by chicainthecity on
September 5, 2008 10:21 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by palomar on
September 5, 2008 7:43 PM
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"It's refreshing to hear that women WOULD sleep with men they consider very good friends, but isn't this coming from a self-selected audience of women who 1) are on MeFi, 2) are against the theory and felt they wanted to voice this?
If you came in..." [
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favorited by Nattie on
September 5, 2008 5:23 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by nooneyouknow on
September 5, 2008 4:48 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by Skybly on
September 5, 2008 4:14 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by orrnyereg on
September 5, 2008 3:44 PM
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"You need to meet this person, stat.
1. If you wait too long, you will get all squirreled up over his emails, and then when you do meet, you've increased your chances of coming off as psycho, rather than just interested.
2. Emails can be edited,..." [
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favorited by misha on
September 5, 2008 3:37 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by Laura in Canada on
September 5, 2008 2:29 PM
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"I certainly am not a shining example of a healthy lifestyle, but I'm conscious of it and intend to eat kind of well and be active as I grow up.
Seriously, if I was dating someone and they said this to me: "I've noticed that you put on some..." [
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favorited by Dolukhanova on
September 5, 2008 1:44 PM
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"It's refreshing to hear that women WOULD sleep with men they consider very good friends, but isn't this coming from a self-selected audience of women who 1) are on MeFi, 2) are against the theory and felt they wanted to voice this?
If you came in..." [
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favorited by johannahdeschanel on
September 5, 2008 1:24 PM
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"But he's 19 and in college. Isn't this the time for sexual experimentation? To get jiggy with it and all that? So how can I help him have sex?
Whether or not you think these things, this is what it's going to sound like if you make any attempt to..." [
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favorited by ifjuly on
September 5, 2008 9:33 AM
MeFi comment:
"Complaining about TV is like complaining about movies that fail the Bechdel Test. I mean, yeah, pick a movie at random, and it probably fails the Bechdel Test. But think about it for a while, and it's not hard to think of movies that pass the test..." [
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favorited by chesty_a_arthur on
September 4, 2008 7:01 PM
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"But he's 19 and in college. Isn't this the time for sexual experimentation? To get jiggy with it and all that? So how can I help him have sex?
Whether or not you think these things, this is what it's going to sound like if you make any attempt to..." [
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favorited by Coatlicue on
September 4, 2008 5:31 PM
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"But he's 19 and in college. Isn't this the time for sexual experimentation? To get jiggy with it and all that? So how can I help him have sex?
Whether or not you think these things, this is what it's going to sound like if you make any attempt to..." [
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favorited by hot soup girl on
September 4, 2008 4:23 PM
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"To me, writing someone back to tell them "Thanks, but no thanks" is like waving over a bum on the side of the freeway to tell him you're not going to give him money. To me, it's rude to write back. For like 3 milliseconds, you get my hopes..." [
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favorited by smackfu on
September 4, 2008 9:53 AM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by mippy on
September 3, 2008 6:02 AM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by Coatlicue on
September 2, 2008 2:43 PM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by inatizzy on
September 2, 2008 12:27 PM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by KAS on
September 2, 2008 11:13 AM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by sondrialiac on
September 2, 2008 10:43 AM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by coizero on
September 2, 2008 6:18 AM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by chicainthecity on
September 1, 2008 10:01 PM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by tyrantkitty on
September 1, 2008 9:27 PM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by MaryDellamorte on
September 1, 2008 9:24 PM
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"If you must do something
If you feel you must do something, then you are being very selfish. She shouldn't have to think about you on her birthday if she doesn't want to. Her birthday shouldn't be about you reminding her that even though you broke..." [
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favorited by Nattie on
September 1, 2008 9:19 PM
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"These are pretty bad. Here's some more bad ones to add to the list:
When you see a cute baby, said to someone who's not the parent: Awwwww, what a cute baby. Help me steal it.
When you see a cute girl: There goes my future ex-wife.
When you..." [
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favorited by Jaltcoh on
August 29, 2008 6:00 PM
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"At the end he wrote that "reputation, posterity and cool = fear"... on one level I can see that as being true, yet would it really be a good idea to abandon those things?
And then he wrote: "there is no them."
While that..." [
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favorited by themaskedwonder on
August 29, 2008 12:12 AM
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"To me, writing someone back to tell them "Thanks, but no thanks" is like waving over a bum on the side of the freeway to tell him you're not going to give him money. To me, it's rude to write back. For like 3 milliseconds, you get my hopes..." [
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favorited by chicainthecity on
August 28, 2008 11:27 PM
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"To me, writing someone back to tell them "Thanks, but no thanks" is like waving over a bum on the side of the freeway to tell him you're not going to give him money. To me, it's rude to write back. For like 3 milliseconds, you get my hopes..." [
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favorited by palomar on
August 28, 2008 3:17 PM
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"To me, writing someone back to tell them "Thanks, but no thanks" is like waving over a bum on the side of the freeway to tell him you're not going to give him money. To me, it's rude to write back. For like 3 milliseconds, you get my hopes..." [
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favorited by porn in the woods on
August 28, 2008 2:09 PM
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"To me, writing someone back to tell them "Thanks, but no thanks" is like waving over a bum on the side of the freeway to tell him you're not going to give him money. To me, it's rude to write back. For like 3 milliseconds, you get my hopes..." [
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favorited by nasreddin on
August 28, 2008 1:19 PM
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"This game is really stupid sounding, but it's fun. I think I made it up, but someone may have made it up before me without my knowledge.
Plus One:
Gameplay: Plus One is a two-player game. Player A says a number between 1 and 10. Player B has to..." [
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favorited by Korou on
August 28, 2008 9:25 AM
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"Do have a tattoo yet? Get one." [
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favorited by sixcolors on
August 27, 2008 10:22 AM
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"He admitted to me that he often feels lonely not being able too talk about his ideas without them being "attacked", and pleaded with me to try to just "go with it" when he has some idea he wants to discuss... For example, last..." [
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favorited by mjao on
August 27, 2008 12:50 AM
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"Why is everyone pretending it's not about physical attraction.
If there's no attraction then it's not flirting and you can't flirt to create attraction.
To be blunt, it seems to me he was attracted to her and not to you.
Flirting is..." [
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favorited by oceanview on
August 26, 2008 10:15 PM
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"He admitted to me that he often feels lonely not being able too talk about his ideas without them being "attacked", and pleaded with me to try to just "go with it" when he has some idea he wants to discuss... For example, last..." [
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favorited by for_serious on
August 24, 2008 8:06 PM
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"He admitted to me that he often feels lonely not being able too talk about his ideas without them being "attacked", and pleaded with me to try to just "go with it" when he has some idea he wants to discuss... For example, last..." [
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favorited by Alison on
August 24, 2008 7:09 PM
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"He admitted to me that he often feels lonely not being able too talk about his ideas without them being "attacked", and pleaded with me to try to just "go with it" when he has some idea he wants to discuss... For example, last..." [
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favorited by johnstein on
August 24, 2008 6:46 PM
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"He admitted to me that he often feels lonely not being able too talk about his ideas without them being "attacked", and pleaded with me to try to just "go with it" when he has some idea he wants to discuss... For example, last..." [
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favorited by okokok on
August 24, 2008 5:12 PM
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"She is very messed up
Respectfully, you seem very messed up, too. You are choosing to engage in all this wacked out behavior, and then act surprised when you can't take it any longer. You're willing to increase the drama factor significantly, when..." [
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favorited by Phalene on
August 24, 2008 1:41 PM
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"She is very messed up
Respectfully, you seem very messed up, too. You are choosing to engage in all this wacked out behavior, and then act surprised when you can't take it any longer. You're willing to increase the drama factor significantly, when..." [
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favorited by Sidhedevil on
August 24, 2008 1:34 PM
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"An old lady gets on a bus. She sits in the only available seat, next to two guys with thick accents. She can't help but overhear the conversation:
"Emma comes first. Then I come, by two asses. Next, I come again, with the two asses. Then, I..." [
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favorited by grandsham on
August 18, 2008 9:10 PM
