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MeTa post:
Stinking of gin...
loquacious, even if they don't drink in class that day-after smell is nasty. It's like all the smokers who are convinced no one can tell because they washed their hands and ate a mint. It's fine with me if people drink and smoke (or eat a lot of soy products), but if they think no one can tell they're fooling themselves.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 2:39 PM on May 27, 2008
That said, I never care if anyone drinks or uses in class. Yes, I have contempt for them, (or pity, depending on how they act), but it's never occurred to me to rat them out or feel personally affected.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 2:42 PM on May 27, 2008
I had a couple of undergrad teachers who taught large classes well, (they had clearly drawn the short straw) but the reason they were so good is that they were performers. Since then I've felt it's unreasonable for a school to EVER require students to sit through Anything 101 taught by someone who isn't a performer. There is no excuse.
Of course, when you get into something more esoteric, you need an expert even if his teaching skills are nil. Those classes are... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 8:50 AM on May 28, 2008
I beg to differ too.
I hated school by the second grade, even though I was good at it. There is no reason for a 6 year old to hate school unless the school's doing something wrong.
To this day I have to override resentment and obstinance anytime I'm in a classroom. It's Pavlovian or something.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:15 PM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Creepy Dutch TV Host + Paedophilia Thread.
Just quit with the "Fixed that for you" crap already, would you all?
It's not witty. It's annoyingly passive-aggressive and makes you look like the kind of person that still goes "neener neener!" and "la-la-la I can't HEEEEAR you!!" during arguments.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 11:56 AM on April 24, 2008
And, The Light Fantastic, do you think you have some sort of inside track on people abused as children? In my circle, at least, it'd be safe to say more people were than weren't. So save the self-righteous "If You Knew What I Know" tut tutting. Jeez. Nothing gets me more riled up than people claiming an inside track on common truths.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 12:01 PM on April 24, 2008
ob, I totally agree with you, except I didn't take the anti-Dutch reactions as serious either. I mean, who hates Dutch people? That's just weird.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:39 AM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
I'm not convinced she's a fake and I'm sorry she left.
If she was a fake the harm she did was minimal. If she wasn't she no longer has metafilter to run things by, and I think that's possibly a pretty big harm to her. I hope I'm wrong.
I have used metafilter and other online groups for major support when I didn't feel like I could trust the perceptions of the people in my immediate circle. Losing that resource would have been a significant loss.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:53 PM on March 10, 2008
Sock puppets are great for AskMe when you have a question you don't want attached to your meatspace identity.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:26 PM on March 11, 2008
Though, due to a combination of cheapness and laziness I've just used the "anonymous" feature instead.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:30 PM on March 11, 2008
roast beets + tangerine + onions + arugula + balsamic viniagrette = yum
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:10 PM on March 12, 2008
I like paulsc a lot. I haven't read last night's contribution, but I like his contributions more often than not, which isn't a ratio that applies to most posters, even the ones I like. He does have experience and background that other people on metafilter don't have. When he was gone I missed his input.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:27 AM on March 27, 2008
I will have to disagree with you there, Miko. If there are a lot of people of his background, age group, and ... je ne sais quoi (heh)- joie de vivre maybe? they haven't bothered to write as expansively and entertainingly as paulsc has. Metafilter discussion seems very echo chambery and anemic when there aren't enough participants who've lived according to different value systems. I may like paulsc because his seem similar to the one I was raised with. I've very deliberately chosen to live a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 10:35 AM on March 27, 2008
Well, a couple of mine have been, but maybe they just sucked.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 11:05 AM on March 27, 2008
heh
malfeasiest
heehee
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 3:51 PM on March 28, 2008
MeTa post:
On we sweep with thrashing oar...
Full Moon!
I probably can't come, though- I'm busy til 9. I will come if I'm not wiped out.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:19 AM on February 8, 2008
sambosambo- is that the one on Solano in Berkeley? Or the Zachary's in Oakland?
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:20 AM on February 8, 2008
Hmm, I showed up at 9:15 and didn't see anyone and figured everyone wandered off to a bar or something. I second the rematch motion.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 10:18 PM on March 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Can I have a shiny new pony tomorrow?
I miss occhiblu.
There have been a few threads where I thought "and now occhiblu will come and smite this idiotic line of reasoning or set of assumptions!" and then... nothing.
I am completely unable to fill her shoes and so sit in shameful silence. Or, very occasionally, wade in and botch the whole thing.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 3:38 PM on March 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Sit, ubu, sit.
What whir said. I'm always grateful when someone else (like thehmsbeagle) brings up something that bothers me but I'm too lazy to complain about, because I know it'll turn into a shitstorm.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 1:26 PM on January 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
Y'all don't have "recruit suits" in the US?
If that woman had DD size breasts, they'd be subject to the same difficulty that led to this discussion. No matter how conservative your attire, big breasts are big.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 7:43 PM on January 23, 2008
Standing up to inappropriate behavior is Fragile Flower Feminist behavior? Looks like I've acquired a new descriptor, then.
I don't think Metafilter is a boyzone, which is why I hang out here, and why I'm not about to passively let it turn into one, either. I'm grateful for thehmsbeagle for posting this and I'm sorry she's left. I hope she'll be back.
Just to establish credentials- I like men, sex, even porn. I also find describing breasts as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 3:10 PM on January 24, 2008
konolia- so you just have a lower bar than the rest of us?
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 3:13 PM on January 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Those Run of the Mill Hasidic Landlords
There are no genealogy laws here—you can stop being a Jew at any time.
Wow. I can't believe you wrote that. And if you think anti-Semitism is ancient history, you haven't been around much.
However, most of the Jews I'm around do have a different relationship to money than I grew up with. I end up being the cultural (WASP-Jew) translator sometimes. (No, Boss, she really can't renegotiate her tithe to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 10:04 AM on January 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Rocking Homelessness?
Lots of people decide voluntarily to "live outdoors" (as it's called here), in situations similar to the OP's. I'm not seeing how this is a bad question in any way, shape or form.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 12:07 PM on January 15, 2008
MeTa post:
GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?
Miko rocks!
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 11:08 AM on December 31, 2007
Yes, I opened a third account so I could respond and apologize. Please don't ban this account unless *it* does something ban-worthy.
I hate this kind of reasoning- it's so loopholey/Enron-ish.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 2:28 PM on December 31, 2007
Elie has engaged in the same tactics ... and it certainly isn't the result of not enough sleep.
I hear most Americans don't get enough sleep; she could be victim to a national phenomenon.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 6:37 PM on January 1, 2008
You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.*
*outside of Mos Eisley and a few online places that have been beaten up enough already
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 11:33 PM on January 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Slapping someone in the face a bit too much ...
Re: hat issue... I'm voting with TPS.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:08 AM on December 22, 2007
Pineapple, lots of non-cowboys wear cowboy hats, though not a lot of non-Mexican non-cowboys, at least around here.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 9:09 AM on December 22, 2007
TPS: I found him on The Sartorialist blog.
Today I saw 2 super stylin' black guys on their way to something, and they had the sweet fedoras and elegant, traditional suits. The younger guy had taken off his jacket and had it slung over his shoulder as he strolled down the street with his uncle or someone- older, wearing a chocolate brown version of what the younger guy was wearing. The jacket over the shoulder, the sexy walk, the hat... mmm mmm. And I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 7:33 PM on December 23, 2007
MeTa post:
How to Host the Perfect Meetup
I like weekdays. As much as I love you all, there's very little chance that I'm going to stay in town or brave the Saturday rush into the San Francisco to get a meet up.
I would LOVE a meetup that involved Dance Dance Revoluntion. Or Dance Dance Immolation. Pretty much anything that gives people an opportunity to be silly and provides a conversation focus. It's awkward enough that people who are most comfortable in a digital setting are getting together to try to be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 1:41 PM on November 26, 2007
MeTa post:
Oil spill meet up?
Thanks for the research, all!
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 3:00 PM on November 8, 2007
I went out on Saturday in the pouring rain and got quite a bit in the 3 and a half hours I was there before getting escorted off the beach by the park rangers, which made a big song and dance about calling in our drivers' license numbers. They'd have made a bigger song and dance out of it if it hadn't been pouring, I'm sure.
Then I went to the so-called training provided by OWCN and the Dept of Fish and Game. HundredsIt was offensive. I left after an hour and a half... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 1:42 PM on November 13, 2007
That should be FLAMINGO, not flaming. Sorry. Flaming food would have been a little more exciting.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 1:43 PM on November 13, 2007
MeTa post:
Spelling and grammar guideline?
I do not wear panties.
Taking this personally are you? Methinks you protest too much.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 8:04 PM on November 8, 2007
eritain is demonstrating admirably that using standard English doesn't necessarily improve readability.
Or, what croutonsupafreak said.
posted to MetaTalk by small_ruminant
at 4:02 PM on November 9, 2007
