MeFi comment:
"I find it amazing that a private company can legally deny you the use of your car because you forgot to display a parking permit of which you are in possession. Or because you happened to park a little off-center in a parking space and your tire is..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Megafly, jayder, agress, Dreama, jtron, jamjam
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't think I would ever play again, it is too hard to put the genie back in the bottle.
I actually haven't played in several years, but I hope that when I am old and crippled and unable to actually go out and do anything any more I will be able..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by grubi, jkaczor, Songdog, Demogorgon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The most important fact I learned in university: People believe strange things, regardless of their level of education.
Also, bureaucracies exist to make work for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Personally, I never get on a subway without an NBC suit, tactical riot gear, a ballistic helmet, and a basic emergency supply kit.
You can never be too careful, what with death stalking us and all...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Before they started charging for it, X-Setup was my favorite way of disabling things on startup. I still have version 6.6 on my computer, which works just find. Then I learned that, on Windows XP, you only have to do one of two things. Either:drag..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ber
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That was an awful lot of words to say, "Married men have affairs because they want to have sex with women other than their wives, but don't want to go through the headaches of getting a divorce...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Hicksu, Nattie
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am for this.
Also, for oaf:
Ich liebe die Vögel,
die Vögel lieben mich.
Doch ohne Wodka,
man vögelt nicht." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Incidentally, if people think that making English the official language will help make immigrants learn the language more quickly or cashiers better at interpreting their wishes, they are sorely mistaken. Anyone who has spent time in a country with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zeusianfog, Baby_Balrog, JHarris
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"What, not MetaTalk t-shirts? Or AskMeFi? Also, if I pre-order one, can I get my user number on it?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, it was a good speech alright, and a refreshing change from the normal sycophantic-yet-dismissive displays we are used to from political types.
But.
There is something a little bit disturbing to me about the abject character-worship..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by etaoin, Espoo2, wires, lalochezia, TheOnlyCoolTim, pravit
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I know this is going to sound like it's in bad taste, but ... I loot the body.
." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by clearlydemon, slimepuppy, Deathalicious, John Kenneth Fisher, Pope Guilty, enkiwa, schyler523, tzikeh, saslett, the christopher hundreds, demagnetized, EarBucket, worldswalker, Anything, tehloki, cavalier, By The Grace of God, The Light Fantastic
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hello everyone, I'm a retired rich guy who wants to see if I can make a fairly powerful woman jump through hoops for cash.
What? Why are you looking at me like that? I'm doing it for society's sake...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hjo3, fuzzypantalones, damn dirty ape, Rumple
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That said, yes, some skeptics and atheists are pricks. But so are some of all humans, no matter their turn of mind." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pyrex, Nattie, axon
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Dios: Our literature has gone to shit. Plenty of people are reading, but they are reading fluff. There aren't more than a handful of writers that are writing anything great.
Ahem. There were never more than a handful of writers at any point in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by showbiz_liz
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"i like the idea of Zen. it's also always amusing to read Westerners on the internet vigourously arguing in favour of it
The first rule of Zen Buddhism is, you do not talk about Zen Buddhism.The second rule of Zen Buddhism is, you DO NOT talk about..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by The Light Fantastic, grouse, sebastienbailard, Arturus, desjardins, tehloki, rtha, Cassilda, b1tr0t, wires, homunculus, merlinmann, KokuRyu, topynate, spaceman_spiff, brassafrax
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by dejah420, lazaruslong, monkeyx-uk, brundlefly, MikeKD, axon, teleskiving, afu, Rumple, thebigdeadwaltz, Goofyy
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Treehorn: Regrettably, it's true, standards have fallen in adult entertainment. It's video, Dude. Now that we're competing with the amateurs, we can't afford to invest the little extras like story, production values, ... feelings...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mullingitover
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, basically the story is that some rich people are making insane profits off of other rich people's vanity by using poor people to do the work? I'm outraged...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by washburn, Bovine Love
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wouldn't vote for him, but I donated some money. We need at least one honest to god anti-war voice in this campaign.
This is by far the primary driving force behind the amount of interest that Paul has received. He is the only presidential..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chlorus
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been watching the Daily Show clips for a while like this:Install Net Transport or your favorite download manager that can handle streaming files;install the Media Player Connectivity extension for Firefox, and configure it to launch Net..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Related to the M-16, AK-47 sidetrack: Ballistic gelatin test results for rifles, pistols, shotguns and airguns. Also, the University of Utah's Firearms..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Jakob, lodurr
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's spelt "Puscifer", but it's pronounced "Throat-Warbler Mangrove."" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As Miko first noted, the authors of the website are not trying to prove anything with their "Wallet Test," except maybe how they can drive traffic and attention to a website without providing any content of value.
In other words:Make..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That google translation is pretty hilarious.
"eine Disco mit amerikanischen Schlampen"
means
"a disco with American sluts."
They hate us for our sluts!..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Servo5678
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The funny thing about the "58 percent of young Germans think" thing is that, in absolute terms, they are 100% right. America is more dangerous than Iran by pretty much any objective measure. It has the resources, the wealth, the firepower,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fence
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Being intelligent (or even hyper-intelligent) does not preclude one from holding erroneous beliefs. This is a continuing theme in human history." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by basicchannel, sriracha
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'm just too optimistic, but I believe we have just witnessed the Administration ensuring an across-the-board Republican loss in 2008.
It seems to me that the Libby matter itself was not a huge issue for many people, but the president's..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, amberglow
Last year
MeFi comment:
"This is newsworthy because Paris Hilton is something like a 40th-level Aristocrat / Prima Donna and we all know that Journalists have like a -20 saving throw against the powers of that character class combination...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sutel
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm late to this party, and Trinkers and Maias have written everything I would of and much, much more, but I couldn't pass this up:
Psychology is just an awful mess of a science, in my view.
Psychology is a young science in a complicated field..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Lady Li, axon, Benjy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Dear Apple,
When there are Adblock Plus, NoScript, Auto Copy, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Linkification, IE Tab, PDF Download, Platypus, and Web Developer extensions for this, then we'll talk.
XXX OOO, a power user...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Mave_80
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Only the Cluster B group (NPD, BPD, HPD and ASPD) are often gifted with highly strategic social skills, are social chessplayers, while still scapegoating and experiencing rage.
I'm sorry, but this is clearly not true in the case of BPD, nor is it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I love these type of threads. Not only do we get to see demonstrations of cool technology, we get to see demonstrations of two basic human quirks:The desire to pick teams and cheer them on (Yay Apple! Boo Microsoft!), and the desire to prove that one..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by tehloki, Maishe, orgvol, Ickster, hifiparasol, modernnomad
Last year
MeFi comment:
"White House Aide #1: Man, there sure is a lot of incriminating stuff in all those emails we sent around. WTF are we going to do about that.
White House Aide #2: I know! We can delete it and say it accident!
White House Aide #1: That's brilliant!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trip and a half
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Round manholes covers are round so that they fly further when thrown by super heroes such as the Thing when fighting the Mole People or similar threats.
Do I get the job?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lekvar
Last year
MeFi comment:
"To give this all the proper partisan feel, I'd just like to point out here that Clinton did it too, and that both Michael Moore and Al Gore are fat." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artifice_Eternity
Last year
