MeFi comment:
"Wow. This is great stuff!
You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hot soup girl, h00py, Hicksu
An hour ago
MeFi comment:
"Nobody has yet mentioned the fact that CS3 installs, without your knowledge or permission, the Bonjour service.
I DID NOT SAY YOU COULD DO THAT, MOTHERFUCKER.
You can install your bloated piece of shit in three thousand different directories,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sys Rq, koeselitz
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Have all your shit together.
Seriously. That's what made the difference between my friend and I scoring an apartment and the guys that came and saw it before us. We had our shit together. They had to go back to their apartment and get their..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by medpt, cosmic osmo
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Seems like a good time to pick up a ThinkGeek RFID-blocking wallet. Assuming they're effective.
Just another owner here confirming they do indeed work as advertised. The principles of a Faraday cage are extremely simple and commonly understood......" [
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favorited 4 times, recently by melissam, Monochrome, tehloki, aeschenkarnos
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Palin won't last September. Mark my words. After all the political backlash that accompanies her selection, McCain will have no real choice but to drop her. Of course, he won't do it himself--she'll suddenly decide "her family needs more..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Balisong, saturnine, showbiz_liz, blueberry, glycolized, lord_wolf, hecho de la basura, Brandon Blatcher
5 days ago
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"I've had a couple of cats in my life do this. Neither time was it actually due to animals in the walls, simply because when there actually were animals in the walls (mice), they behaved in a completely different manner (much as fauxscot describes:..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bitter-girl.com
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm hoping to find a reasonably priced camera that can handle these things very well: [...]
The camera matters not a whit.
The lens matters quite a bit.
The flash matters most in the kit...
...if you expect your models to be well-lit...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by misha, you're a kitty!, BrotherCaine
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"(Clarification: if the state of health care in the U.S. mattered to you, or our dalliances in political regimes in the third world, or our shrinking domestic production of goods and the subsequent joblessness that results, or the content of our food,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by oaf, dejah420, modernnomad, Dormant Gorilla, notsnot
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"To be fair, shots like this have only been possible since the mid-80s. But photographers could get a lot closer to the action back in the day. Heck, even today they can still get pretty darned close...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fourcheesemac
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"only need the NBCOlympics Video Viewer with Microsoft Silverlight to watch in higher defintion
Yeah, uh, about your definition of the word need...
What I always think about is how some of these shots would have been flat out impossible thirty..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fourcheesemac, brain cloud
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So, great, a drug war guy? Someone make me feel better.
OK... (wiki):Biden favors diverting drug offenders out of the nation's prison system. He is against making stricter laws for drug offenses but helped in the creation of a Drug Czar.He also..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kittyprecious, scrump, tyrantkitty, naju, Mick
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"It's not paranoia and it's not just lung cancer. Inhale these nuggets compiled by the American Lung Association (citations at the bottom of the linked page). Secondhand smoke causes about 3,000 deaths each year from lung cancer in non-smokers.
The..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vegetableagony, General Malaise, BryanPayne
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"The fact that they give out silvers and bronzes means the Olympics count second and third more heavily than your garden-variety sport like football, hockey or baseball, where in the end there's only one winner, and didly-squat for the team that comes..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damn dirty ape
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"To deal with the anal-retentive person: establish firm boundaries where the person is allowed to be as anal as they like (public, shared spaces, for instance), and places where the person is simply not allowed to comment (garage/study/basement/other..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by forforf, nicolin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"They have a men’s studies department: It’s called ’history’, ’politics’, ’business’. It’s the entire university. It’s all about men’s studies. It’s like asking why there isn’t a White Studies department.
This is such a tired joke of an argument...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Frankie Villon, Edgewise
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't hear #41 without following with (sadly appropriately titled) Say Goodbye. After you've listened to Crash for the three or four hundredth time, it just gets ingrained as the proper conclusion...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Since we can't close AskMe threads, deleting them is really a last resort option.
As a public service announcement for other women that stumble across the thread sometime in the future who might find themselves in the same situation, I'd certainly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magstheaxe
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Woah, hold the phone.
This is the guy? This guy?
A few of the people responding to this thread—myself included—are probably feeling at least somewhat sympathetic to your boyfriend (though clearly the minority). I've been in that..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by magstheaxe
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Since I was responding to an empty assertion, that doesn't bother me much.
The amount that it bothers you matters little. And you weren't responding to an empty assertion. You were responding to a question, to whit:
Is this kind of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Hutch, orthogonality
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Look at it this way.
If you saw your brother hanging out with a girl he met in school, and she was playing footsie and tent-bed and putting her hands all over him, and then later on your brother asked you, "So, do you think she's interested..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I can't think of any line of work that doesn't involve a huge (i.e., crippling) reduction in pay
Learn how to fix cars. Self-employed, specialist auto mechanics make just as much as computer programmers, with the added advantage of being able to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by rongorongo, AceRock, limeonaire
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The MBTA sucks donkey cock.
They've had it in their power (and finances) to be able to run the T 24/7... hell, they could just cycle-down to a single train an hour if they were worried about giving the line workers enough time to work on the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by preparat
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't know much about China, but, witnessing a similar thing happening with Japan (a country I *do* know something about) in the western media I do know that the country is generally misreported in the Western press - China is too big and too..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orrnyereg
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"in a semi-rural area, the majority of my friends were blue collar and similarly religious and conservative, and by the large, they are well meaning, smart people, who often vote Republican
If the majority of your friends were blue collar,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by electrasteph, orthogonality, Zambrano
Last month
Ask comment:
"NYC and SF are the best for living car free.
Boston trumps NYC any day of the week, any week of the year in terms of walkability. New York is fucking big as you will quickly realize once you try and go without mass transit (which is ludicrously..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by doppleradar, zaphod, DoctorFedora
Last month
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"I'd like to learn how to build, scale, and deploy great databases in MySQL in a short amount of time. I want to be a competent database administrator.
Things you will need to know backwards and forwardsStored ProceduresTriggersQuery Plan..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shelbaroo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Were they told the hardware specs? Because that's the real dead-giveaway. I mean, yeah you can make Vista look like XP... who cares if it still sucks up twice as many resources and thrashes your hard drive when it's idle?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"'tragically, Violence.'
Much better than plain 'Violence'. In fact, I suggest that every name be predicated with an adverb.
"My name? Yes, it's Smith. Predictably John Smith...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sebastienbailard, transona5, topynate
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've been a member of iCE...
I was a member of iCE waaaaaay back in the day. Around 1991, if memory serves right.
Woah, fellow iCE alum here, too! '92-'93. Same handle, too.
That's why it pays to think hard about your goddamned handle,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cavalier
Last month
Ask comment:
"I drove across the country in my first Miata back around 1999. It was a fucking blast. If you know your way around Miatae, you already know that you can basically weld the hood shut on the things. The following is a list of all the problems that I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yohko, eriko
Last month
Ask comment:
"He's getting text messages from an intern in the middle of the night?
Sorry, but it's over." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by damnjezebel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I still don't understand what calculus is, and I've read the wikipedia entry and everything.
The fucking wikipedia entry suffers from the same problem most math textbooks suffer from, which is that they don't explain things in common terms that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Brian B., darkstar, jaymzjulian
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Delia is the Ada Lovelace of electronic music. She is the pioneer. Like in Genesis... before her, there was nothing. I wish more of the world knew about her contributions. Delia Derbyshire was so profoundly prescient she should be taught about in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jonathanbell, chuckdarwin, Blacksun
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Nice sentiments, but bullshit.
100% yes. This country is full of apathetic doo-gooders who just want to close their eyes and make all the boogie men go away. It doesn't work like that. Turn the other cheek and you just get slapped twice.
If..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mammary16, lupus_yonderboy
Last month
Ask comment:
"Just to balance DaShiv's Canon lens lineup with a Nikon group:
The most important lens for a cropped Nikon:
Nikkor 17-55 DX AFS f/2.8
It will cost a couple hundred more than the body. If you don't want to spend that much go with the next-best..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cosmic osmo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"My friend once wrote an article comparing penguins to koala bears after visiting Australia and New Zealand. The basic gist was, koala bears get stoned and sleep three quarters of their life away, while the poor penguin is faced with unbearable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by halonine, Kattullus
Last month
Ask comment:
"I had the same problem, but thankfully our next-door neighbor was finally evicted. We tried to be diligent about locking our doors (first floor apartment), but every now and then we'd forget and have random people walking through our front doors...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ibuprofin is over the counter. It's available, legally, anywhere in the country. It's even available in generic form. A kid could walk into a supermarket, purchase a giant tub of 1000 ibuprofin generics for, like, $10, but as soon as the analgesic..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by ZakDaddy, miss-lapin, shinynewnick, Jilder, babybuns, Dreama, any major dude, Senor Cardgage, aeschenkarnos, orthogonality, dantsea, blueberry, perilous, sonic meat machine, JHarris, phrontist, jonp72, Pope Guilty, dejah420, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, Krrrlson, oaf, jedicus, dabitch
Last month
Ask comment:
"1. Sign up for a good USENET feed that offers a web interface so you can download over port 80 (aka http--the port all "regular" web traffic goes over).
2. Laugh maniacally at Comcast's impotence...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by T.D. Strange
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I used to work at a place that both wrote and graded the state exams they give in the Northeast. The description of the table-leader and "voice from above" is apt: that's exactly how we did it as well. From the readers I talked with, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vsync
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This? This is what happens in monoculture. [...] If anything I see these people as potential victims of a system, or symptoms of an unhealthy cultural ecosystem.
I dunno, loq. The funny thing is that they aren't decorating their cars with Nike or..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by humannaire, wemayfreeze, Monochrome, noway
Last month
Ask comment:
"Sorry, forgot to follow up.
The easiest way to get two things to float to the right and left sides of a container is explained much better here.
But it looks like you've got everything looking good at least, in the only browser that matters......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
Last month
