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MeFi post:
the doggy in the window
but the Amish I know [are] not sentimental about animals
The Amish are generally farmers, and farm people aren't sentimental about animals.
Also, fuck the Amish.
No thanks. They don't use the personal care products that have become de rigueur among mainstream contemporary society. A Mennonite friend of mine told me about how, when she stood among a crowd of Amish... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:03 AM on July 4, 2008
They treat the breeding stock and puppies as "livestock".
No, actually they don't. Or rather, they give the dogs the same care they'd give pigs, while the dogs ought to get the level of care they'd give horses. I'm rather aghast at this. The Amish are used to taking care of animals. Why would they take such poor care of these dogs?
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:11 AM on July 4, 2008
MeFi post:
I want a girl with a long skirt and a loooooong jacket.
What are you clothes saying about you, sister? What are they supposed to say to your brothers? "Hey, look at this?" Well, they actually are trying to look at the Lord; it's not good for them to be looking at that. No, it's not your fault that they have a problem. We established that. And it's really great that God has made you beautiful. I hope your husband (present or future) shows you how grateful he is for that about you.
But you can help the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 5:24 AM on July 2, 2008
Thanks for the FunkyFrum site, EmpressCallipygos. I sew, so I could copy most of those cute dresses, but damn, I WANT this hat. Like, I would do something quite immodest to get it.
I have no fault to find with the concept of dressing modestly for either gender. Where a lot of religious orders go off the rails is that the principle of dressing modestly and plainly becomes a mandate to wear a specific dress code. This happened with the Quakers, who began wearing a plainer... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:14 AM on July 2, 2008
interesting how it always seems like the women get the raw end of the deal when it comes to religious-mandated dress. Men get stuck with beards, funny hats, or sideburns (and sometimes have to wear suits), but there is no where near the religious control of men's ankles.
I do agree with your larger point, but I will point out that men in religious-mandated dress wear trousers, which shows less ankle and leg than any dress or skirt length religious... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:17 AM on July 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Now, here's the way I work...
Oh gaaaaawwwd. I'm the MeChazen who posted about my Lavalife (AND Plenty of Fish) encounter with this... this... person. In my many varied experiences with online dating, this really was one for the books. His weirdly entrepreneurial, astoundingly egotistical, and misogynist approach to dating left me petrified. I'd mostly managed to block it from my memory, until I saw this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 8:32 AM on June 27, 2008
He's been doing this for a very long time. I remember seeing his pink posters tacked to telephone poles when I first moved to Toronto back in 1992.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:01 AM on June 27, 2008
LOVED the Online Dater Douchebag link, princesspeach!
I think my three worst/best experiences with Lava include Dimitri. Here are the other two:
One morning a guy IM'd me this:
when do uwant to have kids and will u move to Calgary
It was all I could do not to message back, "Yes i will live in yer house and have yer babbies send me $600O plain fair.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 12:41 PM on June 27, 2008
Does a slutty gait give you round heels?
[worries because her heels are rounded, as opposed to say, square or triangular]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:46 AM on June 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Crack Lung
This is terrible news. Emphysema is a horrible thing to live with, and an awful way to die. I would never have thought someone so young could get it.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 4:42 AM on June 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Underthinking a plate of cheese
Can't the mouse just run up the side of the bucket? I've seen mice run down the corner of a wall.
You people are just too humane. I've trapped something like 30 mice in the past 15 months or so with snap traps. If the snap trap doesn't kill the mouse outright I throw the trap in a bucket of water. I don't enjoy doing it, but imagine how many descendents those mice would have by now. And since my house was built in 1912, it's a Sisyphean task to keep the mice population... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 11:47 AM on June 20, 2008
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Photographing gay weddings: a moral quandry?
What next? I dunno? Maybe suing restaurants that don't serve black people. They're private corporations, after all, they can serve whoever they like, right?
Boycotts, sit-ins, and other forms of creative protest and lobbying are WAAAAAAAY more fun and less expensive and time consuming than lawsuits, and can also result in much more embarrassing publicity for the business being pressured.
Sometimes I think I should make it my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:02 AM on June 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Tights Are Not Pants
I love the Go Fug Yourself girls, but I think they're wrong in their anti-leggings stance. Leggings can work on the right figure and with the right footwear and top. I have a dark brown velvet pair I wear with knee boots and sweaters.
Stirrup pants, now, are an abomination. They're horribly unflattering on anyone. But I can't remember the last time I saw them on sale anywhere, so I can rest easy on that one.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 12:18 PM on May 31, 2008
I bought them for $4 in a thrift store some years ago. Yeah, I know, the "bought them in a thrift store" answer is always crushing when you hoped to be able to buy some for yourself.... When they wear out I have every intention of taking them apart and using the pieces as a pattern so I can make new ones.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:02 PM on May 31, 2008
Wait, what are tights? Aren't they stockings? And are leggings the footless kind of tights? In the picture in the third link, I'd consider the first one tights and the second two pairs of stockings. I'm so confused!
Here are my definitions:
tights: are essentially thick, opaque or semi-opaque stockings, are made out of lycra, can have feet or not, and if not, are called "footless tights".... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 2:57 PM on June 1, 2008
MeFi post:
They're all beautiful inside. Maybe.
I just can't choose. However, if Sam were still with us, he'd still cream everyone else by a frightful mile. None of those other dogs make me worry that I'll wake up in the night to find them eating my face.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:28 AM on May 18, 2008
MeFi post:
In bed with Captain Kirk
I've told this story on MeFi before, but it bears repeating.
A friend of an ex of mine made a hobby out of meeting celebs. He had a very simple yet effective modus operandi. He'd approach the celeb, and say, "Hi, [name of celeb]! Great to see you! I loved you in [name of celeb's last project]." Celebrities then must be nice because they are contractually obligated to promote their project and they never know who might be around to catch them... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 12:58 PM on May 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Take my arm, my love
Yes, in some ways many homosexuals have an advantage that many non-privileged groups do not have. We have the choice of hiding it. The same cannot be said about racial minorities or the physically disabled, for example.
It's an advantage for sure, yet perhaps at the same time the very option of "passing" has meant that homosexuals got to the civil rights table last.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 12:38 PM on May 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Babies Laughing
The quadruplets thing is just plain horrifying, though not as much so as it would be to listen to them all cry.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:03 PM on April 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Domestic Violence Discrimination in Housing
Landlords should have to take their lumps like the rest of us.
Uh, no, they should not. I have a basement apartment I'm going to be renting out soon, and you can bet that if I get even a whiff of eau de unstable person from any applicant, I won't be renting to that person. It's my responsibility to provide a clean, safe, apartment in which all the amenities are in good working order, but my tenant has certain responsibilities that she or he must meet... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 8:06 AM on April 24, 2008
Not all of them are like my mother, but the ones that are make it hard for the ones who are genuinely trying to change their situations and save their lives.
My profound sympathies, unicorn on the cob. I went through a lot with a friend of mine who had an abusive boyfriend. She eventually married him. We aren't friends anymore. I doubt there are many of her other friends sticking by her anymore either. She pretty much sucked all her friends dry with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 8:30 AM on April 24, 2008
You're letting out a flat, you're running a business in your community. The "sense" should come from a credit, employment, and reference check without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, black sounding first name, or abused status. None of that is any of your business. You're taking them on as a tenant - not adopting them.
You forgot a criminal background check. And my sense of whether someone will make a good tenant... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 10:52 PM on April 24, 2008
MeFi post:
On Having A Black Name
I have to admit, this story shocks me. Especially the part about how she gets treated by people who assume she's black when she's working a customer service line. I should think by now that people who are racist would at least no better than to openly act like bigots.
And I'm dying to know what her name is.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:16 AM on April 24, 2008
"know better". As in, "I know better than to use 'no' in that context."
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:18 AM on April 24, 2008
So it's Laquita, huh? Hmm. Never heard that one before. It's rather pretty. I'm not sure what I would have thought about the ethnicity of that name if I'd seen it in, say, a list of names, or if I'd have thought about its ethnicity at all.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 9:46 AM on April 24, 2008
MeFi post:
Glenn Gould's chair
He and his father took it in turns to sleep with his mother. When it comes to Glenn Gould, one can only say, "What a strange man. What a colossal talent."
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 7:09 AM on April 17, 2008
This blanket statement is out of context and thus, is deceptive. He slept with his mom only as a child of course, as many other children have done.
I don't think many other children have displaced their fathers in order to do so.
Isn't that often a case, though? All the truly smart people I know, and have read about, have certainly not been normal by any traditional metric. It's not a bad thing of course!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:34 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Abortion as Art
I mean, this artist should be permitted her choice to end her pregnancy, but should do so only rarely. . . Why?
That's not the argument. We have a moral obligation to act responsibly so as to prevent unwanted pregnacies, which in turn will make abortions rare. It's sort of like going on welfare. It's there for people who need it, and there are plenty of people who need it for reasons beyond their control. But as responsible citizens we're supposed to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 10:13 AM on April 17, 2008
Being an artist in a world where everything's been done must be a very difficult prospect.
Oh, nonsense. This reminds me of how someone wrote or said at the dawn of the twentieth century that everything of importance had already been invented.
Society perpetually changes, and will keep on changing as long as there are two humans to rub together. There will always be new things to say and new mediums in which to say them.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Housing Crisis: 1 in 33 Face Foreclosure Within 2 Years
It's pretty funny (in a sad sort of way) that everyone in this thread is either worried about the drop in value of their houses or wondering if this will mean housing prices will drop to a level they can afford. No one has admitted to being a sub-prime buyer who will lose a house.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 12:52 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Heil Hatler
I like this quote by an 80 year old Bonn resident: "a stunning nude with a cocky hat might well boost his sales"
I not only want to know that 80-year-old, I want to BE that 80-year-old. When I'm 80, that is.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 11:13 AM on April 16, 2008
MeFi post:
New Security Blanket, Stat!
A little obsessive, sure, but I've seen the way some toddlers can SCREAM and SCREAM and SCREAM so I'm empathetic.
Oh yeah. You wouldn't think a someone so small could exert such a tyrannical force, but they can.
I give you....
Blankie: A Cautionary Tale for Those Planning on Having Children
When my nephew "Liam" was born I gave him a baby blanket I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 6:23 PM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
What goes up...
I think the guy deserved some compensation from the property management company because the building security and maintenance staff must have really slipped up somewhere to not notice a elevator alarm and a not working elevator with someone trapped inside for over 40 hours, and he wouldn't have survived very much longer, but $25 million? Come on.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan
at 1:04 PM on April 15, 2008
