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
Yesterday
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
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"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
Yesterday
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
2 days ago
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
5 days ago
Ask comment:
""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
6 days ago
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
6 days ago
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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
7 days ago
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
9 days ago
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
10 days ago
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
11 days ago
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
13 days ago
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
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"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
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"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
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"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
4 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"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
Last month
Ask comment:
"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
Last month
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
Last month
Ask comment:
"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
Last month
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
Last month
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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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 months 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
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"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
2 months 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
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
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
3 months ago
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
4 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
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 months ago
