MeFi comment:
"Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
I hated A Canticle for Leibowitz - Miller was too pleased with his own shallow cleverness. But lots of people loved it- (that's why I read it)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sangermaine
3 days ago
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"I'm on polyhedron's side, since there seem to be sides. This kid is hilariously awesome in the same way that made Oingo Boingo's "Only a Lad" song funny- because it's so fucked up.
And how is feeding lizards to a crocodile any more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Having something called out or otherwise marked as "special" meant nothing to you at 7?
I guess it would depend on how it was marked special. Was it on a velvet pedestal, with a diamond framed window? Or was it in a cage, looking largely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jimbob
4 days ago
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"when I hear commitment I think of (intent to) live together, marry have children etc
FWIW, I'm a 36 y.o. woman in California, and this sums it up for me, too. If someone said that to be before sex and before about 8 months to a year of dating I'd..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
9 days ago
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"You are only as old as you think you are, yada yada.
PSA: On behalf those of us still doing the online dating thing, if you are 57 DO NOT advertise yourself as 40 "because age is just a number." Thank you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damnjezebel
10 days ago
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"I'm not 40. Am I still allowed to contribute?
Besides sleep, exercise (or at least not sitting all day), and cutting out refined foods except for occasional treats, the thing that makes my life more meaningful is cutting out half my activities...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by natteringnabob, Mephisto, chicainthecity, jujube
10 days ago
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"Just to point out that having someone else cook your turkey means not having your own gravy, stuffing, or any of the other bits that make Thanksgiving so awesome. I've never had stuffing from a store that came anywhere near as good as my family's. I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Goofyy, Lesser Shrew
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
""He just ignored him and refused to acknowledge him? Happens all the time."
There there is also something annoying about the (especially Berkeley boomer) tendency to needlessly interact with "the help" to convey their..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fullerine, Snyder, Solon and Thanks
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't think of anything sporting about it, either, unless it's the part where you have to haul it into the back of your pick-up without having a heart attack.
Not sure if this has been posted yet, and I haven't had a chance to watch it, but:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 weeks ago
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"I just dumped someone for constantly asking where I was and who I was with. In the short run, it might have been easier to just start lying, but I'm old and too worn out for that hassle. Maybe he isn't.
Not to say you shouldn't DTMFA; it might..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Lesser Shrew, sixcolors, PatoPata
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Tim Wise's sulky encyclopedia dramatica photo isn't doing him any favors either." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cashman
3 weeks ago
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"What caddis said. No need for any high-and-mighty self-righteousness.
I don't know your family dynamics, but I cannot imagine narcing on my brother to my parents unless I thought he was an imminent danger to himself or others. Really- it's an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Light Fantastic
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Who's twisting anyone's arm to get an abortion?
How many middle or upper class, college bound women do you know who had kids when they were teenagers? Do you think this is because they didn't get pregnant? No. Their parents had a kind and loving..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Snyder, batmonkey, milarepa
Last month
MeFi comment:
"leans dramatically toward sarcasm and questioning authority?
This particular thread is turning out to be less questioning authority and sarcasm, as it is about classism at its most disgusting, contempt for anyone with a different point of view,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Snyder, lunit, delmoi, Forktine, enn, dawson
Last month
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"Frankly, I don't see having a pregnant 17 year old daughter as a detriment. So she's dealing with the same stuff every other family does (only, unlike the yuppies around here, she's not arm twisting her daughter into getting an abortion). Where's the..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Snyder, hecho de la basura, gjc, AceRock, knapah, davidmsc, Forktine, konolia, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, lukemeister
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Obama has this one in the bag.
We can hope, but as a friend of mine says, the Democrats are masters at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
Last month
MeFi comment:
"but there are lots of below average Americans who are too stupid to know what's going on, and are therefore easily manipulated by bullshit.
And lots of them are also left-wingers. Trust me- the right doesn't have a monopoly on uninformed idiots...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by enn
Last month
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""a fever" is a great reason to stay home, because "a fever" means you are either communicable or your body is trying desperately to stave off worse illness.
Yes!
And not only for yourself. By going in you risking the health..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phalene, clarahamster
Last month
MeFi comment:
"All of his gaffes over the past few months suggest to me a deteriorating mental acuity on his part.
Do the candidates get to dictate these things? I assumed the party basically told them what to do, (but that the candidate probably got veto power..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Espoo2
Last month
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"I have the same problem, but I've sort of given up on making friends with women, mostly because it's more work to be friends with women. With guys if we go 6 weeks between activities they don't take it personally.
Also, as more women my age have..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by cass, woebot, parallax7d, twiki
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The problem is that one person's "unwanted, threatening stalker" can be one man's "charming rouge scamp."
Show me a single, solitary woman (or man) who would feel this behavior was that of a "charming rogue scamp"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ky, electrasteph
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Nunnery is just the next step in this terrible vacating of life. Almost the greatest waste of the limited time afforded to someone, and certainly the ultimate sadness.
They're doing what they love, even though it goes against the cultural norm,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by low_horrible_immoral, Dreama, a louis wain cat
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Totally awwww!
When I was a teenager there was a rough looking dude in his 40s maybe. Had one of those big Pancho Villa mustaches that went below his chin. (It wasn't hipster back then.) Hho drove around in an El Camino smoking some 70s-style..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bettafish
Last month
MeFi comment:
"instead of the gut-wrenching, tragic decision it is ...
Umm, no. It's not. At least not for most of the cases I've known, though of course there have been exceptions.
If a woman gets treated for an STD, is she failing to "live up to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Dirty Dancing always struck me as moralistic in that she got what she deserved - it's only because we liked her that they didn't go all the way and let that abortionist kill her.
I got the same message, only they saved her to show how big-hearted..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by agregoli, thisjax, merelyglib
Last month
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"you can tell Olivia that [x] is postponed until Mommy is feeling better.
I could be wrong, but I get the feeling that this is already a much used phrase in this household...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mynameismandab, moxiedoll
Last month
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"The Light Fantastic- it all has to be exactly the same and equally bad for it to count at all? It has to be worse? Two wrongs make a right? What's the point you're trying to make?
And, FWIW, my guy friends have experienced pretty much all of your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaltavian
Last month
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"anthropod, my point was, singling out specific incidents that happened to specific people is meaningless. In other words, what gauchodaspampas said .
I have a hard time with someone who uses some personal example of wrongs done to them to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hadjiboy
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I will spare the rest of the board a derail of sexism experienced by my male friends, especially since I'm for some reason certain you'd find some way to dismiss each as "not bad enough," but bringing Saudi Arabia into a discussion of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hadjiboy
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"loathesome modern names like Kaeden, Kasidey, Caeli, and Kaelen (all real, I assure you)... Did all the other people in my generation not learn how to spell?
I hereby declare that all names should revert to their original root spelling. For..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Tapioca, MythMaker, Phalene
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Personally I'd love it if there was a site-wide script that automatically changed "dtmfa" to "I like puppies" or something
I like cortex's idea of changing DTMFA to "get a mac."
You'd do well with less typing and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
2 months ago
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"I have a friend whose family sent him an angsty letter telling him they love him even though he's gay, and they'll support him no matter what.
This friend is really really not gay.
I think you don't know if your son is gay or not. Also,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ookseer
2 months ago
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"I just finished a course of therapy, and it was made very clear that there is no patient-therapist privilege; if you tell your therapist that you committed a felony, they are required to report it.
Yikes! ten pounds of inedita, I have NEVER heard..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scram
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I hope the kids he was quizzing were from the same area as the animals in the test. Unfair! Sputter sputter.
I'm impressed 54% of the kids knew what a blue tit was.
Newts look like this.
Primroses look like this or possibly this.
This is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
2 months ago
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"There is a whole genre of post 9/11 country songs that make me fume when I hear them.
It started as racist, jingoistic "patriotic" songs and has since morphed into "politics is stupid I just want to drink with my buddies, who are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orrnyereg
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I get "het up" about illegal immigrants for a lot of reasons that aren't racism, and some of which are highlighted in this article.
If you are here illegally, and you're in these people's position, you're a slave.
You can bullied and..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by googlebombed, marble, Mr Bunnsy, jrockway, librarina, jammy
2 months ago
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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 months 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 months 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 33 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, headspace, Monochrome, waraw
3 months 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 months 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 months ago
