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Jobs you never imagined having but whch you love anyway
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"Or go completely over to the darkside, like me, to the point where you cannot poop at all without it, but poop glorious poops with clock-like precision when you do get it...." [
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"You should not use Canola oil, ever. It is considered a "healthy" oil because of its cholesterol content (by 15 year old standards). BUT it is very bitter when pressed, so it is almost always treated by heating and deodorizing, which..." [
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6 days ago
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"The first step to financial well being is understanding what you spend. I think in the past this required keeping your checkbook well annotated and keeping receipts and writing shit down. blah blah blah paper ink blah blah.
Nowadays all it..." [
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6 days ago
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"First, be smart from the very beginning. Pulverize all teeth, burn off fingerprints, and disfigure the face. Forcing a DNA test to establish identity (if it ever comes to that) might introduce the legal/forensic hurdle that saves your ass down the..." [
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7 days ago
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"The concept of "the unmarked category" comes to mind. Because whites are the predominant ethnic class in the US, things relating to them are just considered "regular." Meanwhile, other ethnic groups identify everything that's..." [
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8 days ago
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"You shouldn't know this fact in the first place. Whoever told it to you put you in this crappy position." [
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12 days ago
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"I hear that Skype has all kinds of language-practice-partner community stuff set up. As in: fire up Skype and talk to someone in a language you're trying to learn. It doesn't sound like total immersion is an option for you although it would obviously..." [
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13 days ago
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"Sounds like normal breakup remorse. If you like someone enough to date them in the first place, it's not going to be easy letting them go. Having some lingering feelings can be quite normal, I think. After all, right now she is the most unattainable..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Animals like cats and horses have the relationship with humans that they have because they are able to adapt to it and thrive. There is a reason no one rides zebras on the weekends: they would never put up with it.
Are horses cowed into..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I thought everyone agreed
You just gave me this horrible image of standing around a giant vagina with all of MetaFilter, each of us holding one of those tiny ice cream tasting spoons, screwing our lips to one side and looking upward while we think...." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I want my friggin royalties...." [
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Last month
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"I don't want to make Jessamyn's birthday too much into Metafilter's birthday, but I would like to mention here just how fucking incredibly much Jessamyn has proven herself under fire here and how much I admire her for that. We all sort of know this..." [
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Last month
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"If people not following the rules bugs you, I suggest you travel a bit, to a country where people follow the rules even less. I don't know what country you live in but as an American, one of the things I always enjoy most after coming home (from..." [
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Last month
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"Pick up stuff via Freecycle and put it on eBay.
No.
Remember it costs a listing fee to put something on eBay at all, and not every eBay listing will sell, particularly used household items. You could actually lose money trying this. So setting..." [
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Last month
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"I don't even have any justifiable reasons for wanting to end the relationship
No? You must. Think about it until they become clearer. Part of your problem seems to be that you HAVE reasons but you don't think they're legitimate. Well, I can't say..." [
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Last month
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"I would check out some relaxation self-hypnosis resources. Once you get good at this, you can pretty much banish all tension from your body in a minute flat and center your mind, both of which will help you doze off.
I'm sorry, I know an About...." [
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Last month
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"When someone sees you at your worst and still wants you above all others." [
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2 months ago
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"I wished I'd know how much she liked porn earlier." [
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3 months ago
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"Yeah, the ""Tourette's Impulse" is not bad, although T's does not cover all the things you might feel an impulse to do. Jumping off a cliff has nothing to do with T's, for example.
It does cover, however, my own Crazy Sparkle,..." [
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3 months ago
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"Jobs doing labwork at biotech/pharmaceutical companies aren't necessarily all that lucrative
Depends on what you call lucrative. My brother started there, grew with his comapny, is now in regulatory 15 years later, with many lucrative stock grants..." [
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3 months ago
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"Go vegan. Despite massive subsidies to the industries that produce them, dairy products and meat are some of the most expensive items on the average grocery receipt.
An incredibly cheap and delicious vegan recipe:
1) Cut up several sweet..." [
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3 months ago
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"This might not be on your immediate list of to-dos, but I have found polarized sunglasses really helpful for urban bike-riding. If your "urban" area is anything like mine, you have to do a fair amount of riding alongside a row of..." [
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4 months ago
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"I am soooo in your exact situation. It sucks. If I hear you correctly, you're not creatively blocked, you're just having trouble getting disciplined about working. In this light, it seems to me that taking a break to go out and smell the roses is the..." [
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4 months ago
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"This is another example of the principle that anything recognizable as any kind of pattern becomes detestable instantly (to some on MeFi).
I've never quite gotten that. I think it's related to the all-too-American need to be a special individual..." [
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4 months ago
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"On what grounds do you intend to ask her to leave? It sounds like you want her out because she's unpleasant, which I can certainly understand. But all you have to go on is a verbal 30 day notice from her to you, which is not required or binding by..." [
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5 months ago
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"Okay, enough of this. In the interest of "winning" this thread, I'm going to kill John Kenneth Fisher, and if any of you wankers can find his corpse, I'll concede that he was right, and I should have tied him to a balloon sometime in the..." [
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5 months ago
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"ITS NOT A BLACK NAME. ITS OUR RANCH. ITS OUR HOME. WE ARE FREEEEEEE" [
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5 months ago
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"Good suggestions, dobbs, except for someone who must be on the web for work.
Alcoholics are well-advised not to tend bar for a living. Either move on, professionally, or face and overcome the destructive behavior.
Of course, I only mean this..." [
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6 months ago
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"Hell, my grandfather is fond of telling us all that he married grandma because the family needed farmland.
The must un-romantic comment I ever heard from that generation was a friend's grandfather, on the occasion of his own wife's..." [
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6 months ago
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"Sure, tell him, BUT be aware of your own responsibilities in that situation.
My first piece of advice is to wait a day or two and give your initial gut reaction time to pass before you do anything. Even if you still decide to bring it up after..." [
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6 months ago
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"I'm with RussHy on this one, at least in spirit.
Okay, be with him in spirit, just don't do it in the Green. We gotta, gotta remember that the Green is a service site where people come to get helpful answers to the questions they ask. It is not..." [
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6 months ago
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"I tried jumping out of a plane and I recall there was no big SNAP recoil when the parachute opened. I believe it unfolds and inflates in stages over the course of a couple of seconds, which results in a more gradual slowing down than the movies make..." [
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6 months ago
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"Matt has all the data so that someone could indeed see if there is a seasonal variation in posting patterns.
Hey Maaaatt, can you crunch everyone's usage pattern nightly and put a little mood icon next to all their posts?..." [
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7 months ago
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"not being logged in helps that out. It also helps me from posting knee jerk comments, joining in pile-ons, keeping the signal to noise ratio...
Fwhew! I mean, kudos for trying to do the right thing. But this has gotta be the biggest example of..." [
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7 months ago
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"the economy above subsistence-level farming is moribund due to the lack of infrastructure and capital
There's a great TED talk about how the infrastructure that's missing is market infrastructure. Due to a lack of communication technology,..." [
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7 months ago
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"Tell him you'd like him to text.
Yeah this is a simple point but a good one! Ask for it as something you desire and appreciate. Don't tell him it's something he should already know he's supposed to do.
Be very careful to stay on the correct..." [
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7 months ago
