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"Boy, I'm with rokusan on this one, from what little you've told us.
But definitely, definitely get some pre-marital counselling, and if you can get it from someone familiar with money issues it'll go better. For some reason a lot of therapists..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rokusan, Floydd
3 days ago
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"But there's a good chance a lot of this is cultural miscommunication around money. (But for god's sake figure it out BEFORE you marry. If something bigger, like different role expectations, NOW'S the time to find out.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by taff
3 days ago
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"What bananafish said. My mother always differentiated between one's work and one's job. (A job provides enough income to allow one to do one's work.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If they really want to cut down on obesity, they should stop the massive sugar and corn (corn syrup) subsidies." [
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favorited 34 times, recently by jb, lalochezia, tehloki, chronic sublime, The Card Cheat, Pope Guilty, retronic, Auden, Orrorin, lupus_yonderboy, tzikeh, flatluigi, Blazecock Pileon, konolia, aeschenkarnos, RakDaddy, arcticwoman, scrump, lonefrontranger, Kato, Big_B, mudpuppie, shmegegge, bunnytricks, batmonkey, dosterm, MythMaker, madamjujujive, Deathalicious, Avenger, studentbaker, headspace, Monochrome, waraw
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Just seconding mudpuppie in stating that "ball-buster" is not a complimentary description, no matter how much you try to reframe it as one after the fact...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by headspace
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Or they could start using more fuel efficient planes...
This is clearly all a racist plot, possibly by the Chinese; everyone knows that on average Chinese people weigh less than Anglos...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by CruiseSavvy, SassHat
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"But deep down, I think we all kind of know that there's a history behind our burgers that we would probably not be able to accept if we were actually there to see it.
There is a not insignificant portion of the population who has raised its own..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thivaia
3 weeks ago
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"If you care about your friend, you will no longer be his friend. Sounds fucked up, but it's true.
Making decisions for another competent adult "for their own good" is almost never a good idea. It's also disrespectful...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oneirodynia, sondrialiac
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"chucklehead is going to be one of those words that marks a generation, like whippersnapper." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dizzy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't get how people can get so grinchy over something that's as fun and silly as steampunk. If the NY Times Style section managed to find people who missed the humour- well, every crowd's got some. And for all we know they were making fun of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Not much makes me cringe anymore. If it floats their boat, more power to them. The exception is when people are self-righteous and humorless in a way that I know I have been some earlier era.
This Thing/Way of Thinking is the Only Right One!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
Last month
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Liosliath, Viomeda, Meagan, flatluigi, jonmc, mattoxic, dawson, Siberian Mist, evilcolonel, modernnomad, scrump, Navelgazer
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Heirs and Successors
Any heir?
I am completely against the added in God clause, but I like the pledge of allegience and I like instilling patriotism and civic duty in kids. There isn't very much else that unites Americans. In fact, nothing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
2 months ago
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"I'm so sorry to hear it, miss lynnster! I don't have any advice except to keep calling friends so you can keep your perspective while you're in the middle of it. Ugh. I'm so sorry...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by taff
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In general I don't care for real estate as an investment unless it's part of a diversified portfolio and, better yet, income producing (i.e., not your personal residence).
However, as someone else pointed out, all "real estate" is not..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, BrotherCaine, furiousxgeorge
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, gaspode, onlyconnect
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My god, Jim Davis is brilliant. I had no idea.
Garfield is a mechanism by which his ideas can be accepted by mainstream papers- like wearing a cell phone allows schizophrenics to talk to themselves without alarming anyone...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MPnonot3, UbuRoivas
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"BeReasonable, most twelve steppers do subscribe to those steps, (and there aren't supposed to be regional variants), but they are not a requirement for membership.
I don't really know where the 12 Step groups fall on the religion continuum. If..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 months ago
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"I think The Giving Tree is a morbid primer on abusive relationships. It seemed off even when I was little, and now that I'm an adult I find it shocking.
Also, I think Are you My Mother , which we also owned, is a uselessly traumatic book for very..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wafaa
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"matholio and danila said more succintly what I wanted to say. What the woman did or didn't do is pretty much irrelevant. This woman is being intentionally humiliated and traumatized.
She was forcibily stripped by MEN, apparently without even being..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by PareidoliaticBoy
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Jesus, SBMike- what a ghastly idea. In case kids weren't already sure the "exercise" was misery- that would do it.
In my experience the teachers were weirdo jock/gym-junkies who couldn't figure out why doing squats for 20 minutes..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pope Guilty, DiscourseMarker
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It should always be a goal to work out ways to live ethically.
In this instance we disagree on what living ethically means. By using this phrase in the way that you are, you are suggesting that there is only one definition of ethical. This is the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Although the inspector's office says they wished the Humane Society had given this to them directly, I wonder if in some way they're glad to have their hand "forced." This way hey'll be able to blame public reaction for any..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, LobsterMitten
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Seriously, though, are there any romance novels that are worth defending?
I love Diana Gabaldon's books and think they may hold their own for the long haul.
That said, I suspect that "romance" novels that are worth defending get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bookhouse
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by redfisch, agregoli
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How come the few prostitutes I've known look like regular people? I feel cheated!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, minervous, Serena
5 months ago
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"That whole East Coast work ethic is hooey. Sure they dress up and show up early and stay late, but they spend half their time doing personal business and screwing around. And then they do this whole martyr thing about how many hours they worked,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
6 months ago
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"What I love love love about San Francisco and its surrounds are the immigrants. That would be what I looked for if I were to move out of the bay area.
Many of the towns being mentioned feel shockingly, homogeneously white after having lived here..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by re.becca
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"rtha, thanks for the wonkette link- I wouldn't have found it.
I know I should be over it, but it's always shocking to see such large groups of people and not a woman among them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My guess is "paid a pittance" better describes the people they're shooting." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
6 months ago
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"Holy shit, konolia! 24 years of hell isn't taking your vows seriously?
Way too many sociopathic spouses spout the same manipulative lines: (best if said in injured whine) "Don't you know that heroin addiction/ alcoholism/ bipolar is a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by RobotHeart, gt2, blueberry, ROTFL
7 months ago
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"I donated a kidney 5 years ago. I was 30 years old, and in good health, though overweight.
Things have changed in 5 years, I'm sure, but make sure they'll do it "laproscopically". 5 years ago it wasn't the default. I really hope it is..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by madamjujujive, blueberry, Sticherbeast, sweetkid, Richard Daly, Silly Ashles, brownpau, itchylick, EndsOfInvention, xthlc, nickyskye, Optamystic, msali, JHarris, flibbertigibbet, olya, Jorus, Deathalicious, KingoftheWhales, sien, ZachsMind, frumious bandersnatch, mathowie, roger ackroyd
7 months ago
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"The cat circus guy says he never tries to train a cat to do anything it didn't already like to do. For instance, if your cat's good at hopping, come up with a hopping trick for it. Don't try to turn it into a tightrope walker. And vice versa...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not me
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I agree with Krrrlson- San Quentin is an example of an older, less efficient criminal justice set of standards.
Ironically, it has one of the highest levels in California's prisons of prisoner education and social programs. Studies, which I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hmm. Quote disappeared.
Opened in 1989, Pelican Bay has been a long-running scandal for the Department of Corrections. Prisoners are not relegated to the SHU because of the crimes they committed on the outside, but because of the rules they broke..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"As far as I'm concerned, text-speak is just another dialect. I love dialects. I love them even more when I'm not completely fluent in them, which is the case here...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by merelyglib, exlotuseater
7 months ago
