brujita writes 'So far, I've made six trips to the British isles, I've read and seen plently of British/Irish books and movies...I have NEVER heard or read "You fanny!" the way one would hear "You cunt/twat!" in the states.... [
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9 days ago
I've been sliding up and down the scale (not a euphemism!) all my life. Not just in terms of behaviour, in terms of which gender I find actually fancy - it's never one or the other exclusively, but there have been periods when one gender or the other... [
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3 weeks ago
Theatre of the New Ear
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2 months ago
Last night before I went to sleep I was reading the wonderful interview with Vonnegut in The Paris Review Interviews Volume I, and laughing my head off, and trying to work out which of the novels to start re-reading in the morning, then I wake up to... [
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2 months ago
Fantastic. I've not seen a haka in the flesh, but can testify that the Western Samoan Siva Tau is just as bloody scary. (Though not when performed by an Aussie rules football team, it seems.)
Looks like I touched a nerve or two in serf country...... [
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4 months ago
Both lists are utter rot. A young man should know how to cook a shot of heroin, fist a man without wounding him unduly, read Latin, strip and reassemble a Ford Escort Mk I engine, calm a troubled wombat, cook al dente pasta to the satisfaction of an... [
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4 months ago
I predict that the final edited together movie will be better than the Phantom Menace.
I predict that the final edited together movie will be better than Star Wars: A New Hope.... [
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4 months ago
Article consisting of random stock photos
Not only that, but I'd bet money this is a Travelodge press release rewrite. Whoever does press for Travelodge is very, very good at getting hotel- and travel-related human interest stories into the UK... [
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4 months ago
Ah, shit, Godwin's law.
I would like to propose Mottram's Law: As an Ask Metafilter discussion grows longer, the probability of a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome approaches one.
Every sodding thread I see, someone suggests that.... [
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4 months ago
yet if true, it makes me wonder if shooting on large format and then printing from a scanned digital file is normal in the photography world. people are buying these prints for a lot of money, are they normally expecting something coming off a... [
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5 months ago
my favourite film is This Is England – it’s about skinheads, but they’re not really racist, because one of them is a black kid. They turn on him in the end, but because he was one of the gang they’re not really racist. They just believe in what they... [
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5 months ago
btw: i opened culturekitchen in 2000 as a static writing-log. i set up the blog literally at the end of December 2001 and by 2002 was blogging. i never know if am in the last batch of the first wave or the first batch of the second wave of bloggers... [
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5 months ago
orthogonality: "...but unless you're the only ones sleeping with pollystark, what gives you the right to make the decision for the men who really are (unwittingly) sleeping with pollystark and may have real problems with that, if they knew the... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
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6 months ago
But if you must, how about becoming Super-Polite Man?
Don't do that. As a door-opening, thank-you-saying, giving-up-my-seat type polite person (not affected, drummed into me as a child), I can assure you that you'll become deeply saddened and... [
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6 months ago
I can look at a persons face, and in a short instance tell you if this person is well off or if this person has had a hard life.
You mean you think you can. I have bad skin - wrinkles, acne, bags under the eyes - because I smoke heavily, drink too... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, minus zero
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7 months ago
Er, hello. I'm not dead or nothing. I've just been taking time off the web (and everything else, really) for various reasons.
Thanks everyone for the kind concern, and the silly jokes too.
(Also, those film reviews upthread are all by James... [
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7 months ago
While I applaud these clips to spread the "evangelical fervor" I have for The Wire
I know it's the best thing on telly, like, ever, but it is weird how fervently evangelical fans of this programme are - I honestly don't know anyone who's... [
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favorited 9 times, recently by carbide, goodnewsfortheinsane
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7 months ago
I've known two folk like this.
One was very, very slick, and it only became apparent that she was lying when two different social circles happened to cross - in one group, she claimed to know lots of famous musicians, which was totally plausible... [
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8 months ago
Sure, I'm a feminist and couldn't give a shit what people look like. Hardly unusual views.
Not sure about the whole fat acceptance thing, mind you - at the extreme end it seems about as 'body positive' as pro-ana.... [
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8 months ago
Sounds like you need to get Country Got Soul Volume 1, and Volume 2. Both are wonderful. (Thanks for the reminder - perfect for a sunny day like today!)... [
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9 months ago
Happy Dave wrote: For those seeking context, Thought For The Day is a daily (surprise!) musing/rant/bromide from a semi-public figure, on BBC Radio 4, for about 3 minutes, usually a religious one.
Nope, it's always religious, and the BBC... [
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9 months ago
No way is this a hoax. Why are folk so unwilling to believe that xteraco is just a common-or-garden lazy mingewit with a spectacularly rubbish car? [
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10 months ago
Jailbreak it. It takes five minutes with QuickPwn, and is well worth doing just to get the following applications:
PDANet - lets you tether the iPhone so your laptop can get online
NetaTalk - automatically mounts the iPhone as if it were an... [
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11 months ago
Having tried most of the apps mentioned (as well as Eagle Filer, which is worth checking out) I've turned back to text files for all my notes, using the built in tools that come with OS X to organise them, as well as PDFs and info from the web/email... [
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11 months ago
Execrable morris-dancing pastoral progsterbation on the music front, as per usual. Fucking grandiose hippies.
Video was okay once with the sound down, though - looked like an extended intro to a lost late-70s Open University science programme.... [
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11 months ago
chunking express writes 'Range Finders are cool and will make you look like a better photographer than you are, for real yo. The ladies (or boys) will love you.'
I took a Contax into a camera shop to be repaired once, and the bloke behind the... [
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11 months ago
The paintings are really not my cup of tea, but the X-Files artwork is fun, and sort of giddily over-enthusiastic.
Is there a name for that genre of cartoony, faux-naive, sometimes neo-primitive stuff, invariably replete with huge-eyed children... [
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11 months ago
Drop Box seems to at least let you know where your stuff is, to an extent.
Not to mention that all your stuff is on your own computer(s) as well as in the 'cloud'.... [
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11 months ago
dg: "The level of attractiveness someone engenders in you seems like a perfectly fine topic of discussion, in my opinion, as long as it is done with some respect."
Yeah, I think this too. But on MetaFilter, in the wake of those epic... [
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11 months ago
I actually wondered if Holden really was back the other day: this user, who'd only made a couple of comments at the time and smelled a bit socky, recommended Givewell on Ask MetaFilter (the comment and responses to it were pruned - is Givewell... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by merelyglib, roll truck roll, Blazecock Pileon, orthogonality
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11 months ago
Come on, plexi's post was pointless and mean-spirited, and s/he must've known it would be deleted. And it was a day late. peggynature's post was misguided, and she acted like a twerp in the ensuing thread, but at least it wasn't an attempt to rip the... [
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Save a fortune on laundry bills: give your dirty shirts to Oxfam - they will wash and iron them and you can buy them back for fifty pence. [
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(and there are a couple of surprises in there).
I'm guessing no one will ever find them. [
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The only inconsistency I care about is the fact that those who use the default theme get a nifty little subsite-specific search box in the header, but us plain theme-users do not. This is not fair.
I can only conclude that mathowie, cortex,... [
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Throughout those 60years I have become accustomed to journalists accusing me of occupying a privileged position – the privilege to be abused, if you ask me.
Oh, ha ha ha, Your Highness! How droll! Actually, no, it's the privilege to spunk around... [
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Okay, so this is probably a silly question for a lovely thread, but: is that a new captial letter you're wearing, Item?! [
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The Tone Generation, A Radio History of Electronic Music
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I don't really hate AskMe - I've used it quite a bit myself, and enjoy answering questions when I'm able - but you have to admit it has a sickly, syrupy, twee atmosphere compared to the site proper. You just know that if it came to life it would wear... [
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Shit, man, I like pie more than cake.
Hell, yeah. And I like crumble more than pie. (Thinking about it, crumble must've been invented by someone who couldn't be arsed finishing the pie they were making.)
On the savoury front, I had a beef and... [
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liza wrote: I judge albums by the first 20-30 seconds of each track. I listen to those first seconds and then go back to each track.
Call me old fashioned, but I judge albums using the tried and tested 'actually listening to the album' strategy.... [
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That annoyed me when the nav thing was added, paisley, but if you're using Firefox, you can turn off 'search as you type' and effectively still use it by prefacing what you type with a "/" - I got used to triggering search this way in about... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mosessis, paisley henosis
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Last year
On not previewing: well played, parilous.
I'm sorry I, um, sort of compared you to an imprisoned sex offender. [
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I've just remembered my favourite ridiculous theme restaurant, Stavka, a Russian joint in Glasgow. Most of it is done out in an austere, vaguely Soviet style, but there's an opulent 'Tzar Zone' in... the basement! I had the Pizza Brezhnev there once,... [
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