MeFi comment:
"Plenty of regular people do it too - using the exact same pose & facial expression in every photo taken of them. You only need to spend about five minutes on any social networking site to notice this.
It's called head canting - you see it in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by johannahdeschanel
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm going to print out the How To Look Twee page and show it to Stephen Pastel while hissing 'J'accuse!' at him." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bonaldi, elmono
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Confirmation bias.
Well, maybe not, but since those two words are probably the most common in AskMe answers after 'Aspergers Syndrome', I felt strangely moved to type them...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ClaudiaCenter, Drastic, oneirodynia
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You beat me to it, SweetJesus. Even in this context, turning your child's bedroom into a temporary fuckzone still seems, you know, inapropriate." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by magstheaxe
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"Stews and stock.
With stews, it's possible to extend a season, so to speak, so that I can eat red deer venison in March or April (where I am, those months are chilly enough that you still want a hearty stew in the evening!).
With stock, if you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gac
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"found missing wrote: Someone in the BB moderation thread just compared BB moderation to behavior observed in the Stanford Prison experiment.
The response? Disemvowelling the comment and banning the user. Probably done by a moderator wearing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeblis
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"If this flushing behaviour disturbs you, namewithhe1d, come to the UK - our urinals flush themselves on a timer, whether they need it or not. None of your fancypants American freedom of flushing choice here...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"I do this, but instead of making a noise or saying a word, my head lurches to the left, quite sharply. Similarly when having memories of a powerful sort, good or bad, a muscle in my left cheek does a funny spasm. (I'd not realised before that both..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I haven't been this excited since that time the man from the telly programme about the aeroplane on a conveyor belt joined." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"WCityMike wrote:
Someone e-mailed me something that I (and he) thought was very interesting: BoingBoing has a stealth moderator, Takuan, who, if you look at this latest thread, is just as inflammatory (if not moreso) as TNH. Here's where TNH..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"She was a bloody genius. And that piece doesn't just sound like 'modern dance music', it sounds very specifically like techno from Detroit (to my ears, anyway), which is even stranger.
A few other things by her have that sound, though - the first..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by urbanwhaleshark
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Kattullus: I think jabberjaw meant "trawl."
Nah, I'm betting he's a 'theatrical' gentleman in his dotage who's mistaken MetaFilter for the backstreets of Soho, and every last one of us for trade...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I found it pretty disturbing that she felt such shame over letting down 'the movement' by having weight loss surgery, and the fact that she's having to come to terms with being 'that asshole who claimed to be fat-positive but had weight loss surgery..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Jilder, Monochrome, marble
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So, now that the mystery is gone, all he has left is the work? Uh oh." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by olya, jjwiseman, enn, Stonestock Relentless, Goblindegook, vronsky, humannaire, drjimmy11, Pope Guilty, wreckingball
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Great-looking video. It sort of does my head in that I like everything Radiohead do except their music." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by uncleozzy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"jsavimbi writes 'Is that because print journalists simply cannot comprehend, or refuse to comprehend, a well-established, albeit competing medium? Or is it because they think that their readership are dime store morons who buy the paper because of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by merelyglib, bonaldi
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The interesting part of Violet Blue's latest post, for me, is the data on the authorship of unpublished posts: 7.7% of them were published by Doctorow or Pescovitz. You'd imagine they'd both be royally pissed off about that, especially Doctorow, and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ShawnStruck, Artw
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"theora55 writes 'This thread, however, is pretty annoying. Lots of "Oh, feminism, how tiresome".'
I think it's the endless, repetitive discussion of whether or not there's a sexist atmosphere at MetaFilter that folk are finding tiresome...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grobstein, Nattie
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I called someone a cunt on MetaFilter once, and the (fairly mild) reaction persuaded me to never do so again. I've probably deleted hundreds of cunts since, though, since it's hard to remember how extreme a term it is in the US compared to the UK..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Abiezer, h00py, litlnemo, bonaldi, BrotherCaine
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"ClanvidHorse writes 'There is also the interesting thing that some people will call someone "a sound cunt" meaning that they are a decent or good person so where that fits into the narrow American definition of the word, fuck knows...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Flitcraft, Artw
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I read 500-odd comments of vitriolic spouting, only for Messrs. Scalzi and Hat to ruin it all by being thoroughly reasonable chaps? For shame.
As for the scandal - on no evidence whatsoever, I'm thinking it's an elaborate performance of some kind,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LanTao, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I am very proud to call Teresa Nielsen Hayden a colleague, she's handled this with dignity and sincerity throughout., says Xeni Jardin.
Has this driven Jardin bonkers? I really can't see how anyone could read that thread and see 'dignity and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by waraw, Blazecock Pileon
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"jsavimbi writes 'Of course I didn't. I barely looked over the VA post in its entirety. But that's not going to stop me from adding fuel to the fire.'
Hee - good to see you're getting into the spirit of things!
drezdn writes 'I just want to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by waraw, grobstein
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ms. Jardin's latest post: Internet catfight. I think the pristine floor is meant to symbolise Boing Boing's reputation, and the vile splurge of cat vom their recent actions...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waraw
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it just me, or does it seem as though the Stuckism movement smacks of lowbrow anti-intellectualism?
It's a bit more complicated than that. The fact that they got their name from Billy Childish's ex-girlfriend, one Tracey Emin, telling Childish:..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by stagewhisper, Artw, dyoneo
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Oh, and if I'm going to be out all day, I do switch to dumping my stuff into todo lists on Remember The Milk, because you can send it a text message and get a text message back with everything you need to do that day...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Do you slot a specific amount of time to actually do you work and treat it as a sacrosanct appointment that cannot be infringed upon? Something else?
Yep, that's the trick. I just treat everything as an appointment - any stuff I need to do goes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's a tricky one: on the one hand, of course, it's boo fucking hoo, you landed twat; on the other, I quite like beautiful old houses.
sonic meat machine writes 'You know, I'd bet that if he liked he could rent it as apartments and make a profit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yort
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I had no idea that banshees are meant to be exclusively female either, phearlez, but a quick Googling says they definitely are.
My apologies for giving a 'boyzone' impression lunit, but I honestly used the term to mean 'one who shouts madly', and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mick
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Interesting that MySociety don't appear to be involved, given that they've led the way when it comes to clever online use of publicly available data and the like. Admittedly, FixMyStreet is given as an example of the sort of thing Show Us A Better..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Foci for Analysis
Last month
MeFi comment:
"ChickenringNYC wrote: Big whoop. We've all seen this before.. Anyone with a few hours to kill can record themselves singing something.. listen to it backwards, and painstakingly rehearse singing it backwards. There's a reason we have thousands upon..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flapjax at midnite
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The UK's Independent is outraged.
That's a slightly misleading way of putting it. More like an author who, famously, hates blogging, user generated content, Wikipedia, online polls, &c. is using the story to bolster his ongoing campaign..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RedEmma
Last month
MeFi comment:
"jsavimbi writes 'All of her posts, via Google Spreadsheets'
Did you even bother to plug any of those URLs into the Wayback Machine? They are posts about her, or about stuff she's suggested, not by her. There are plenty of reasons to be miffed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Interesting that the list is stuffed to the gunnels with trip-hop, but there's no hip-hop or electro.
Overall, it's more like the 25 Greatest Electronic Albums Of The 20th Century That Made It Into The Top Twenty While This Thirty-something List..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by schyler523, Dr-Baa, UbuRoivas, dyoneo, yertledaturtle, gorgor_balabala, spiderwire, porn in the woods
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Very sad.
And, without wishing to be disrespectful in any way, I think there's something rather wonderful about the fact that MiHail will be remembered fondly by a huge number of strangers every time they see a portobello mushroom...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
Last month
MeFi comment:
"camcgee wrote: Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog has a lot about this phenomenon in the UK.
The Panorama documentary Goldacre discusses in that post is worth watching, if only as an example of spectacularly biased, unscientific science programming...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I get incredibly wound up by the use of 'gay' to mean 'rubbish'. It's the only thing I have in common with old duffers who get incredibly wound up by the use of 'gay' to mean 'gay'.
Anyway, the tag should go, and we can all make a mental note that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"it would be unbecoming of me to suggest that your standards of readability are absurdly strict
Not at all. I'll happily read Heat magazine, pulp and airport novels, the unpublished efforts of teenage acquaintances, Peter Sotos, John Grisham,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"jack_mo I assume that it didn't result in a wonderful flavor then?
It doesn't seem to rob the stock of much flavour, actually, though (as bz says above) it's traditional to add meat to boost the flavour, it's just that the eggy business that rises..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by generalist
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oyéah wrote: Buy a giant bottle of the best soy sauce you can get your hands on. Use it in the place of any kind of stock.
Yeah, I might try making chicken soup tonight with two litres of soy sauce tonight. Bound to be absolutely delish, that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
2 months ago
