MeFi comment:
"I assumed the shotgun was for hunting the poor. I mean, what do you guys use yours for?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kryptondog
Yesterday
MeFi post:
Sitting With Fire
favorited 10 times, recently by keds, fiercecupcake, googlebombed, hecho de la basura, skepticbill, lysistrata, madamjujujive, digaman, desjardins, rtha
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Hi everybody, editing the wiki is very easy. You just hit the "edit" tab near the top (you may need to create an account first). I've often wished that the boyzone page there was a little more substantial, and I would encourage other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lord_wolf
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"For a little background on the boyzone stuff for users who may have missed the epic threads of, uh, last November, there are a few links on the wiki that attempt to summarize what was a long and sometimes contentious discussion - that page could..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Additionally, it is quite a disingenuous rhetorical technique to say "I could talk about what a liar this person is, and I could trash them, but I won't."
Thanks to AskMe, I happen to know that the formal name of this particular..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by waxbanks, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, smackfu, klangklangston, Skorgu, MikeKD, delmoi, nomisxid, krix, bonaldi, UbuRoivas, drezdn
3 weeks ago
Ask post:
What is the Latin name of this rhetorical device?
favorited 18 times, recently by Smallpox, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, batgrlHG, MikeKD, brent_h, Kattullus, Cucurbit, misozaki, maryh, PinkButterfly
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"you wouldn't find it at all odd or inappropriate if the Pope came out with a "position" on fingernail clipping?
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by MikeKD, pyramid termite, treepour, cashman, msconduct
Last month
MeFi post:
"No fixed pushers, and no magnet skateboards."
favorited 12 times, recently by Telf, johnjreiser, Wood, rtha, limeonaire, sillygwailo, Ambrosia Voyeur, bunnytricks, MaryDellamorte, delmoi, loquacious, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"premortem: when I've got multiple tabs open and I close the one I'm on, it will automatically go to the tab listed to its left.... not the last tab I was using.
That's the way I prefer it, personally, but if you install the Tab Mix Plus extension,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by motty
Last month
MeFi post:
6 Differences
favorited 24 times, recently by mr.curmudgeon, macguffin, agregoli, Defenestrator, pwally, 0kjosef, BrotherCaine, pantufla, macrowave, rollbiz, limeonaire, etaoin, Dave Faris, shoesaphone, booth, lupus_yonderboy, the biscuit man, sir_rubixalot, Bummus, shoebox, mudpuppie, logicpunk, rooftop secrets, dawson
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Class Goat, once you get to level five you will see the swoondles. It takes a little while to get past level one, you sort of need to think laterally but not overthink it. Just keep trying...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by From Bklyn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I have found that the show is immeasurably more irritating now that I've read this post about the Lost writer's script style from MeFi's own Matthew Baldwin. Also: McSweeney's handy synopsis (spoilers ahoy).
In regards to the main article, I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Locative, merelyglib, bettafish, peppito, Rhaomi
Last month
MeFi post:
The Last Stand 2
favorited 14 times, recently by eustatic, Fiasco da Gama, Midnight Rambler, hecho de la basura, Freaky, mduda, vrakatar, extramundane, RavinDave, SentientAI, jon_kill, WalterMitty, ewkpates, hot soup girl
Last month
MeFi comment:
"do you have any fucking idea how hard it is to smoke beer?
I don't think you're using that beer bong correctly." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kryptondog
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The most useful thing I've found about Last.fm is that you can easily get your information out of it via RSS, so you can export that information to something like SonicLiving, which can email you if a band you listen to is about to play a show nearby...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nthdegx
Last month
Ask comment:
"I agree with everything orthogonality said. MySQL does have the advantages that it's more user-friendly, plus it's got much better docs (last I looked) and a larger userbase (meaning a more active user community, helpful when you have questions, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I just wanted to drop in and, apropos of nothing, declare that this SF Bike Coalition slogan bugs the hell out of me. One fewer car! FEWER! Damn you, bike advocates!
On the other hand, I think every FPP post I've ever made has at least one typo..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'm drunk, but the simulation link just shows me a blank screen and some music playing in the background. Do I need to start peeing on my monitor to start the game?
please answer..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Bathtub Bobsled, Ziggurat
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"David Hadju was recently interviewed by (mefi's own) Sound of Young America. I haven't read his book, but it sounds pretty interesting; among other things it dates the moral panic arising over comics back to their early origins in the late 30's,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What are the economics of bike stealing anyway? Why do people steal them, and what do they do with them once they're stolen?
Here's a somewhat interesting article from a San Francisco alt-weekly about this topic: Chasing My Stolen Bicycle. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"If you want to rely on your semi-obscure MetaFilter fame (and I would, personally) I don't think you could do much better than a stencil of the wolf from Be Safe and Smart on Metafilter. Seems like it would be easy enough to either photoshop out the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"For the Loma Prieta I was in a video game arcade in Berkeley and probably a good 1/2 of the patrons just kept playing their games, blase as could be. I thought it was fun, personally, though that's undoubtedly because nobody I knew personally was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, limeonaire
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"batmonkey, I'm sympathetic to your point and I don't like to see the word used in a rhetorical context - eg, "raping the earth" or whatnot - but in this case the man on trial had been convicted of a literal act of rape, and I don't really..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"whimsicalnymph: As a piece of fiction, this thing fails.
I was just thinking that. I think part of the problem I have with this is that it reminds me strongly of bad fiction, like a Very Special Episode of Family Ties or something. Something..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I thought the cover of the New Yorker last week was actually a pretty hilarious take on this whole 3am red phone kerfuffle." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phire
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Would it be possible for 24 hours to elapse before we started to declare the (ok, admittedly rather good) speech "historic"? And less snarkily, the old guideline that MeFi is about the links seems like a good one to apply here. FPP..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's probably the best he could have done, given that he depended on slaves for his survival.
I'm an admirer of Jefferson in a lot of ways, but I think it's a mistake to gloss over his racism; the fact that it was common at the time doesn't give..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by wheat, fuse theorem, matteo, nasreddin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Skwirl, I see where you're coming from, but I think you should be careful with the equivalences of "likes horror movies" and "does not examine the reasons for this," or "likes horror movies" and "has a fantasy life..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Was this really the right Beatles song to broadcast?
Words are flying out like
endless rain into a paper cup
We are a weak species
which has barely mastered nuclear fission
Pools of sorrow waves of joy
are drifting thorough my open..." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by flatluigi
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Surely I'm not the only one who thinks that building computational machinery which is powered by drinking blood is a profoundly bad idea?" [
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favorited 8 times
4 months ago
