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Those Wacky Swiss
I saw this the other day but it didn't explain how it itself was cleaned. Anyone know?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 1:54 PM on July 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Which Barbapapa are you?
WTF? You people are responding as if you've never heard of Barbapoppa. Is this possible?! I've hated these things for on 35 years.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 10:04 AM on July 25, 2008
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Proof & The Pro-Family Pudding
Wait one bleeding minute... are you pointing out the hypocrisy or a Christian? Where did you find the time to research this rarity?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 10:17 AM on July 21, 2008
MeFi post:
The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show
I have always hated Dana Carvey but I laughed at every one of those sketches (though the first link doesn't work in Canada).
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 8:38 PM on July 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Leopard Vs Crocodile.
No, zardoz. I've been watching everything for a very long time and I can assure you that this is the first ever leopard attack on a crocodile.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 9:12 PM on July 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Espresso on Ice is Not Okay
I'm with the blogger on this one. I can't stand poor customer service and have gone off the deep end a couple times in the past when treated poorly. You regret it later, but sometimes, in the heat of the moment, it drives you a bit nuts. Here's my most ridiculous experience:
Once, I was seeing a movie at the Paramount Theatre in Toronto when the film broke in half and they said it would take 45 minutes to repair. This was the second time in two days it had happened--I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 1:49 PM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
China's plan to tame Tibet
It was a huge relief when we lost
I think this every time Toronto loses its bid for the Olympics and hope they never come here.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 3:41 PM on July 13, 2008
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"Loaded with soul...under control"
"No one told me there would be unremitting noise every Saturday for the rest of my life.”
I'm a renter and before I move to a new place I hang out there, sometimes for a couple hours--in the parks, on the street, asking passers-by if they live there and what they like and dislike about the area. I specifically ask them and the landlord about noise. You spent a million three on an apartment and you didn't go check out the neighborhood? You're a fucking a moron.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 9:41 AM on July 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Ines Brun rides a track bike
She also has her own site but I had difficulty loading it.
This is also neat.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 4:30 PM on July 7, 2008
Were the BMX bikes fixies?
No, not usually. But the tricks aren't exactly the same. The fixed gear enables the rider to ride backwards and forwards via their own power whereas BMXers are forced to go backwards via physics only (for instance, go forwards, bunnyhop 180 and coast backwards on the transferred energy--or ride up a hill, stop, and then coast down backwards). I'm not saying one is any better than the other, just that they're different. BMX... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 5:07 PM on July 7, 2008
Nice links sophists. Are those guys riding brakeless or with coaster brakes?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 8:39 PM on July 7, 2008
Yeah in my day we rode front and back hand brakes or front with a coaster. This was early-mid 80s. Some of the frames I had in those days were GT Performer in 84 or 85, PK Ripper in 84 I think and a Redline before that that I forget the model of.
Flatland was just called Freestyle or street riding back then and there were very few people who were excellent at it--no one was doing anything near what the kids are these days. I think pegs came out in 86 or 87 just as I was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 10:01 PM on July 7, 2008
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'Rejected' Dark Knight script
Thanks for the laugh... but I mean, Batman movies? Every one that's been released so far has been shit so it's an odd thing to spoof (though I guess they're really spoofing Bay). The last one had multiple endings (none of them good), multiple bad guys with zero charisma, and a chase that had a 12k pound vehicle driving on a clay roof. Repeatedly people said it was the best of the four released so far. That's not saying much.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 2:35 PM on July 7, 2008
There have been six, no?
Only if you count the 1966 one and the Schumacher ones.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 2:56 PM on July 7, 2008
if you can't see the difference between a Christopher Nolan film and a Michael Bay film, I don't know what to say to you.
I didn't say that Batman Begins was the same as Michael Bay's films--I said that it's a pretty shit movie just like the previous Batman movies. I quite like Nolan's other films but the things they have going for them (strong characters, rising action, well-shot, and compelling, believable action) are not present in BB.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 4:22 PM on July 7, 2008
dobbs are you sure it's a shit film or could it be you just don't like genre films?
Wha? I love genre films. I love any film that's well written. I was at the first midnight screening of BB. It was a snooze fest--if I hadn't been laughing at the ridiculousness of it I'd have fallen asleep.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 5:49 PM on July 7, 2008
Could you give an example of a well writen genre film, or just a genre film you think was good. Just curious.
There are gazillions of them. Cat People, Blade Runner, just about any Hitchcock movie, the Kingdom, Miller's Crossing, Unforgiven, the Killing, Easy Rider... Some of the best films ever made are genre films. Hell, Men In Black is a better-written genre film than BB as is Darkman and Buckaroo Banzai. Most will disagree but I'd say Ang Lee (a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 7:21 PM on July 7, 2008
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Little blue pills of cheer.
Slap*Happy, of the dozen or so people I know who take SSRIs only one also goes to therapy. The one-two combo of drugs-therapy may be the intention but by no stretch of the imagination is it the practice. How these pills are supposed to be prescribed (with therapy, you seem to be saying) is not how they're marketed. If you don't think it's important or necessary to address the science of the meds the way they're used in the real world... well, then it's a good thing the discussion is going on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 10:43 PM on July 6, 2008
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Jezebelism
Huh? Didn't Jezebel.com used to be the blog of one of the Heathers or something? I thought it was a personal site for some female web trailblazer. When did Gawker get its filthy hands on it?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 2:30 PM on July 6, 2008
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Regrets? I have a few, but then again...
They forgot to ask him what he's gonna do when his mom dies and he has to move out of her basement and start paying rent.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 1:12 PM on July 4, 2008
And why does he have Texas tattooed on his left arm?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 1:15 PM on July 4, 2008
MeFi post:
...if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
The only way that something like this could be useful is if Rush or O'Reilly were kidnapped and subjected to the same thing. Only then would right wing morons agree that it was torture.
A number of years ago in a great magazine called Gadfly, there was an article by (I think) a soldier of fortune who volunteered his services to kidnap Oliver North and bring him to any country who agreed to charge him with war crimes. To my knowledge, no country agreed. However, perhaps... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 9:39 AM on July 2, 2008
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Wow-e: Malthusian Fear Mongering Can Be Annoying
This is great news. It'll show Disney and the other producers that right wing windbags crying boycott and shite doesn't effect the bottom-line.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 11:52 AM on July 1, 2008
Wait, we're not destroying the earth? We're not fat lazy slobs?
You are, sonic meat machine. We aren't.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 11:58 AM on July 1, 2008
How fitting that her name ends with ass.
Hey now! I know several people whose asses are the smartest part of them. Don't be dissin' the ass!
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 12:04 PM on July 1, 2008
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Bicycle Lock / Planter - get your bike out of the hall
Yeah, that does seem to be a whopping great flaw in their plan. I mean, who cares how heavy and strong the thing you lock your bike to is when pretty much every commercially available bike lock can be snapped/sawn through/unlocked with a ballpoint pen/&c.?
I think you folks are being pretty ridiculous. Obviously these things are for people who can't bring their bikes inside so they've got to lock it to something. If the lock is cheap, the thief is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 8:06 AM on July 1, 2008
If you lock to the post and they get the ring off, they have your bike.
These thieves aren't removing the ring to get the bikes, they're cutting through them. If you lock to the ring they only have to cut through one thing to get the bike. If you lock to the post they have to cut through both sides of the ring or the substantially larger post. If you look closely at the photo, the left side of the ring even says "Lock your bike to the POST" right on it.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 9:02 AM on July 1, 2008
MeFi post:
A new jug ships clean
I don't think I've had milk in 30 years--certainly not a drink of it (I'm sure it's been baked into stuff I've eaten). I can't believe people still pour this stuff in a glass and drink it. It's nasty. WTF is wrong with you people?
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 2:36 PM on June 30, 2008
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night people vs. day people
I'm gonna go against the tide and say that this guy is a bloody snooze. I can't even finish listening to this. I'm just over a quarter into it and he still hasn't started the story. Instead this guy's rambling on about 18 million tangents. As I hit close on the window he's bragging about inventing the term "night person". The guy's a self-congratulating windbag who thinks he has to explain everything 4 times because no one's smart enough to understand his "complex" ideas.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 3:28 PM on June 29, 2008
