MeFi comment:
"I don't have much comprehension on what it is to be in the 'fine' arts. But the performing arts are another matter. How can actors not get a bit mad? "The show must go on"! It matters not one little bit what is happening in your own life...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Government is a conspiracy. A political party is a conspiracy to commit conspiracy.
People who talk, think and read about conspiracy theories are not all cut from the same cloth. Yes, I've seen the tin-foil-hat variety, and they aren't pretty. But..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nickyskye, ornate insect
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is absolutely horrible! How traumatic for those poor kids. I'm sure it would have been far better had they been locked inside a car (minibus?) before pushing the lot into some river or lake.
And those poor Nebraska taxpayers, having to pay..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I have every confidence in Bush's Justice Department to assure a smooth election. A fair one, no, but smooth, yes, I think they can. Smooth as silk, silent as death, right into McCain's pocket. But this is no small part due to the spineless nature of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sotonohito, five fresh fish
Last month
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"Toots, (the best cat, ever) was stupid. Very atheletic, beautiful, and incapable of thinking around a corner. Literally. We lived in a place where she had a window for her coming and going. She could come to another window to see me, and announce her..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by twistofrhyme, snafu, you're a kitty!, silkygreenbelly
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Relax! It's not totalitarianism!
Relax! It's not a hanging until the trap door opens! It's simply a bit of rope hanging loosely around your neck!
"They", whoever the fuck they are (certainly it isn't just about one political party,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flapjax at midnite
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to take this moment to point some things out to those still reading. The economy is in the toilet. The job market is in the toilet. People are loosing their homes all over the country.
The government is engaged in war of aggression. They..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by -harlequin-, SaintCynr, lupus_yonderboy, orthogonality
Last month
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"Oh, another fun lube is cocoa butter. The good stuff (pure) is sold out of a refrigerator at pharmacies (Used to by a brand called "Wooltra"). What I had was sold in a stick, like chapstick, but bigger...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roger ackroyd
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've handled one death which included two funeral homes. I was fortunate that both had decent operators. One being in Los Angeles and the other Long Island (burial in Brooklyn), you'd think I'd have hit the used-car variety, but I didn't. When my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Car lust is an obscenity, no matter how expensive and beautiful the car. At least until they can get them to run without fossil fuels. Find a different pecker-extender...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vertigo25
Last month
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"Vaseline can provide a very comfortable lube for the same reasons it is difficult to wash off: It's heavy. That very heaviness smooths out the creases and wrinkles. At your idea of frequency, that may get quite important. This varies from person to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by matty, wyzewoman
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The notion that machines can neither touch nor taste is some of the most amazing dumb shit I've read on Metafilter, outside the political threads. Things can touch. Car tires touch the road, for example (duh).
And what do you think 'taste' is,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
2 months ago
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"Your life is complicated by the combo of a new gf, LDR, and having moved. Part of your problem is establishing a social life. You're probably good at that, as a single guy. Maybe you even handle it well with a gf that's around. But a non-single guy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by freya_lamb
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Given the biological facts, the only "big deal" here is the people who find the need to use the story to whip up a hate-fest. I'd find it far more interesting if a transgendered female had found a way to carry a baby...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"quite offensive to people that are in the hip hop community.
Should I laugh, or should I cry?
Can someone explain
to this old white guy?
Tell me troll
what's your goal?
Hip Hop 'community'
ain't got no soul.
So you rap and so you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flamk, flapjax at midnite
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"On non-preview: Sotonohito is sadly correct. My partner was just in Dubai on business, where he was told about a westerner being sentenced to prison, for having crumbs from some poppy-seed pastry on his clothes, when returning from Europe. Another..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sorry. I don't believe a word of it. If The Boss didn't make a song about it, it didn't happen." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
2 months ago
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"I'm soft on drugs, and appreciate that a guy has to have some fun. I also don't find, for your purposes, your brothers age need enter in to any discussion, as it is condescending.
I'll just offer my notions from the view that there is no real..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skjønn
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Solon and Thanks:
Did it ever occur to you that I've been reading and hearing about this issue for days? Or that the essential concept of which I wrote, that of the broken social contract, is not a new idea to me, but this merely became the moment..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Crabby Appleton
3 months ago
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"Dear Confused: From your description of the relationship, I have to conclude that you are indeed, confused. Clearly you thought you had a 'relationship'. Yes, but the nature of it is where your confusion arises.
You were not this man's girlfriend...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry
3 months ago
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"Rationality is sometimes a cloth we put over our eyes in order not to see that which scares the crap out of us. Clearly this applies both to ghosts as well as American politics...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by giggleknickers
3 months ago
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"Not only all that, but there are plenty of models who are not "super". The whole super thing is a bunch of crap invented to make models into celebrities.
But I would think it would be obvious that there are plenty of stunningly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 months ago
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"I can't help but wonder whether the girlfriend is possessive, or the family is possessive. But I see the situation colored from my American view, and I have serious issues with authority. To me, the situation with the family seems unhealthy, and not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zaphod
3 months ago
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"Go spend some time working in the business. Then decide if you're interested. The higher end places are also better work environments. Seems likely, I'm guessing, these would also have a higher risk of failure. OTOH, I knew a guy with a small and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mazienh, gyusan
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sorry folks, but demands for Konolia to quote chapter and verse to defend her religious position are entirely off base. To make this argument is to suggest that we are legally allowed to sit in judgement of another's religious position. That is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by oaf, DevilsAdvocate, jtron
3 months ago
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"Jonsnews, you sound like I did, when I was young. And you're just as wrong.
This is not a you vs. them situation. Your job is to serve them. You're paid to do so. Your interest is in presenting yourself as intelligent and cooperative, a team..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by terpia
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I read one of them. I rather liked it, for what it is. Little bits of imagining, created whole from the mind of a human being. Like archaeological finds, from which one can posit a back story...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 months ago
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"My favorite escape from NYC was Fire Island. Catch a train out to a town (Long Island) with ferry service to the island. It's not a camping place, but I love beach hiking. You might try to figure a route that takes you to a different ferry landing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zpousman
4 months ago
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"I think the problem is that there is no problem. And that's not to criticize anonymous.
He's bright, he's energetic, he's out-going, and he's five. Oh, and he's happy and secure. And that makes him rather uninhibited in his exuberance. You have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Iamtherealme
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Diplomacy:
Once, this guy suddenly went a bit weird, and next thing I knew, he had a knife at my throat. "What would you do if I cut your throat?" he asked.
"Bleed", I said.
End of issue.
(Washington Square Park, NYC,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
6 months ago
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"Great friends are the ones that, if you fall out of touch awhile, you can pick right up like it was yesterday. Lives change, people move and stuff, but great friendships aren't really affected by that...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zippity, sperose
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fenriq:If we ignore you, will you stop having sex? No? Then, WTF are you talking about? Don't be such a total ass.
What's pathetic about it? Its a fetish. Typically, these people have it from early childhood. They grow up pre-adolescents, with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mer2113
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"$650 for wine, four people, at dinner, is not outrageous. Offering that up as an example of questionable actions makes this sound more like character assassination than reasoned criticism.
Unless they were drinking cheap wine, in which case they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What is it someone has to type here? Oh yea, that's right...
Surely, this will...
Goodness, it's been so long since I've heard something really outrageous, I can feel it again! Either things have been quiet, or too newsfiltery for posting. Or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by axon, JHarris
8 months ago
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"Olive oil. A bunch of garlic cloves (6) very finely diced, half an onion, also finely diced. Peeled plum tomatoes in puree (Montini pomodori pelati, 2 big cans if you can find them), a can of tomato sauce (this combination adjusts the thickness just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by suedehead
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember 1996 quite well. One of the nicer features of that day: We didn't have designers telling us how stupid we were. We didn't have people wetting their pants over comic sans. We didn't have an idiot in the Whitehouse, either. And 9-11 was what..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by tehloki, es_de_bah, bugbread, dantsea, IronLizard
8 months ago
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"LOL
"Pizza sauce" is a fiction created by advertising. Real pizza has no 'sauce'.
Used peeled, crushed tomatoes, preferably in tomato puree (in juice is too watery). Spread on the pizza. sprinkle with oregano and basil. Feel free to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've never feared impregnation from sex. Thanks to the miracle of vasectomy, even straight guys can enjoy that feeling!
Trouble is, it seems to me only a reasonably intelligent guy would do such a thing. And those are the ones I'd prefer did the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Rock Steady, ClaudiaCenter, tippiedog, spaceman_spiff, MikeKD
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sorry. Can't gaze on this corpse with any joy. I was born in Detroit, raised in the plenty that was the American Automotive Industry. I have since watched (thankfully, mostly from afar) the demise and decline. I harbor bitterness all round.
I..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by evilcolonel, Zonker, Senor Cardgage, litlnemo
8 months ago
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"Get a hedgehog to patrol the area at night. They eat slugs. At least, the British variety do." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by estronaut
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some beauties here, for sure. But how can no one have spoken up on behalf of the Mackinac Bridge, in Michigan, linking the lower (mitten) peninsula with the upper (UP, YooPee), eh?!
The bridge is beautiful, the setting is absolutely stunning: 5..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
8 months ago
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"Women, swearing, on a first date? WTF is up with you youngsters? Women are supposed to be chaste and gentle and encourage genteel behavior from their man, not sailors.
Oh, wait. This is the 21st century. I forget, I'm old. When I was a boy, a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tristeza
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Once upon a time, in a land called America, there was a law.
And that law stated that no hospital should be a profit-making business.
And it was good.
There was no competition, rather, there was cooperation.
County got the MRI, because they had..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Alternate title: 100 top reasons I quit going to church.
If only Chris Rock would do something similar to his "Ignant Niggahs" tirade, only about ignant fundies. Some of this stuff is stupid/funny. Some is ignorant and scary. Some of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by edverb, tippiedog, ZenMasterThis
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A freshly sanitized penis is a boring penis. Wash after use, wash daily, yea. But your junk is going to smell (and taste) best some hours after the soap smell goes to hell away. If s/he can't handle a penis-smelling penis, seek elsewhere, that person..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pinothefrog, Ambrosia Voyeur
8 months ago
