MeFi comment:
"a mixture of caffeine and alcohol may be beneficial for recovery in acute stroke
This Irish coffee... it's medicine. I'm only slurring my speech because of the stroke...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ikkyu2, Jilder, jonmc, jal0021
6 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"It's quite clever, really. The Botoxed bridesmaids will all look like creepy, soulless robots in the wedding photos, thereby obscuring the fact that the bride is actually a creepy, soulless robot...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by BrotherCaine, halogen, minervous, nasreddin, marsha56, Blazecock Pileon
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I don't know how many times I've had to explain to my mother that, while yes, my girlfriend's mother was, at one time, a Jew, and that while yes, as a result, orthodox Jews probably consider her a Jew, they are all, in fact, "practicing"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunasol
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Tim Horton's coffee, I noticed while in Montreal, is several orders of magnitude better than Dunkin Donuts'. Which is unfortunate for me, here at home...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bathtub Bobsled
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Even though I empirically know that it's not neccessarily true, when someone tells me that they went to Cornell or Harvard or Yale, I immediately think 'This person is either really smart, really rich or both.'
I went to an Ivy, and I really,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"We all want something different out of our cookies. That's why we have the Thin, the Puffy, and the Chewy." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Alison
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"That's just mind-blowing. Sometime in the last two or three years I became a curmudgeon who doesn't watch TV (okay, fine, except for Jeopardy! and baseball... and the occasional movie on the Monster channel). I mean, I know reality TV is dumb, but..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by perilous, JHarris, DU
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm a git me a big orange donk, an Impala maybe, with some hot 30-inch rims, Lambo doors, and make it look like a big ol bag of Reese's Pieces. All the ladies'll want a handful of my pieces; that's some classy shit right ther...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Monochrome, Lou Stuells, greenie2600
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm going to disagree (but only slightly) with the lowest-rpm-is-always-best notion.
Take a look at this article. There's a lot there, but the take-home message is that, cruising under light-to-moderate load, you do best on fuel not at super-low..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gjc, douglaswth
13 days ago
Music comment:
"I really miss playing with other people. Haven't done it on anything approaching a regular basis since high school, when it was mostly a small space above a health food store that high school bands occasionally played. The closest I manage to get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xorry
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I love funny signs; most of my vacation photos are of signage. Yes, this is sad. I took one in, I think, Bennington, VT of a "Bingo for AIDS" sign and thought, "wow, that's a really lousy prize...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
2 weeks ago
Music comment:
"(Wow, this turned out long. Bear with me, or skip to the end if you just want to see what I recommend for programming drums.)
Well, when I say stupid mixing tricks, I really mean stuff like the telephone delay, the (as you noticed) squeezed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xorry
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Well, these guys sell one. You could always scrape one, of course, and it might even be semi-kosher to scrape it from the EPA." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wongcorgi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"She's got it wrong. People who talk about their jobs are boring. I don't care if you pilot Air Force One while juggling fire and getting hummers from a series of twenty-five increasingly attractive women who are wearing increasingly-crispy bacon..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Telf, shmegegge
Last month
MeFi comment:
"SOOOO spoiled by Seattle beer
Okay, well, I have an assignment for you. Spend a month drinking nothing over 5.5% ABV. Nothing maltier than, say, Sam Boston Ale or hoppier than Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. But sample a variety. Drink as many..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by alidarbac, kyleg, rusty
Last month
MeFi post:
So that's why it's called IPA
favorited 19 times, recently by 31d1, Dizzy, P.o.B., mike3k, shmegegge, mudpuppie, The Great Big Mulp, box, sacre_bleu, rtha, Rarebit Fiend, Cassilda, dawson, o0dano0o, cog_nate, farishta, jammy, Artw, fixedgear
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Oh man, kimchi is one of those things of which I was always a little wary, but wound up loving. I love anything spicy. If I order curry and it's too hot to eat, you've done a good job, so far as I'm concerned. There's a Thai restaurant in my..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by letitrain, mek, invitapriore
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Recipe please. IIRC the last time I made it was more like an hour.
It's just like making sausage gravy, but with extra liquid (broth), assuming you're going to make casserole with it (so it ought to be thick):
1. Do up about a pound of sliced..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by romakimmy, tjenks, Lentrohamsanin, tksh, h00py, mikoroshi, davemee
Last month
MeFi comment:
"See also.
Charles Dye, who is one of the TMU! founders, is a really cool guy (even though he's responsible for a particular milestone in crushed mixes). He hosts a forum over at The Womb which, although technically about his series of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xil
Last month
MeFi comment:
"And most radio stations these days compress the living shit out of everything.
Radio stations have done this forever. Really squashed tracks sound even worse through these signal chains, and it's a shame that nobody cares. Which is why, song..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by parhamr, paulsc, saulgoodman
Last month
MeFi comment:
"they can also put out a 'Full Dynamics' version like a Director's Cut or something.
If I had my way, every CD would come with smashed-to-pieces MP3s or AACs or something, with nice, clean tracks on the CD. (On preview, sort-of what delmoi said.)..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by parhamr, Brainy, BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I really don't understand the appeal of a worldview where the rapture story is literally true. If God wants to punish me because I won't apologize for having lots of victimless fun in my body, then fuck Him. He shouldn't have made it so awesome to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Anal Cunt apparently has a song called "Mike Mahan has gingivitis".
They've got a number of songs about Mike, who I believe used to be in the band. I saw Anal Cunt a few years back--2001 or 2002--upstairs at the Middle East in Cambridge...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shmegegge
Last month
MeTa comment:
"So a few years ago, I was staying at a friend's house in Herefordshire, and one afternoon we made sandwiches with some leftover ham. Having never had Coleman's mustard before, I put a tremendous dollop on the bread and spread it all around. Now,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ZachsMind, misha, scrump
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Are these people crazy or just scratch fetishists?
Or the cats are decla-- forget I said that." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roofus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If I may sound like a beer nut for a moment, beer has a serious image problem, of which this is at least a minor indication. A bit like Hogarth's Gin Lane / Beer Alley dichotomy, reversed. In the US, beer is the low-class cousin of wine (even lousy..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by loquacious, theiconoclast31, Goofyy, mad bomber what bombs at midnight, porn in the woods, jtron, TheOnlyCoolTim, Faint of Butt
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I enjoyed this much more than I expected to. Almost makes me want to buy the game so I can play at work. Or while I'm driving." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by metaly
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Yahoo Answers might actually be the worst thing on the web. It infuriates me every time I search the whole of the web for an answer to something. "How do I get rid of cat dandruff?" Marked best answer: "u hav a cat haha ur gay, no..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by schyler523, smich, Unicorn on the cob, barnacles, shinynewnick, horsemuth, BrotherCaine, flatluigi, LeeJay, cashman, flibbertigibbet, cowbellemoo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I really, really hated this song the first time I heard it, but it actually sounds okay in Youtube mono. It's not a bad song, it's just a lousy mix that's less offensive in low-bitrate mono. I really disagree with their production decisions since..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by parhamr
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"STOP MAKING CHITCHAT AND SELL ME THE GODDAMN SOFT PRETZEL ALREADY!
Whereas in NY, street vendors don't make chitchat because they're already shouting in Farsi into their cell phones...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"posted by ChickenringNYC
Great, now I have to stop at White Castle on the way home. Thanks." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"shit fuck bitch ass, hell may I speak to the head of the household, please?
It's the "please" that keeps that from being rude." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Ah, ever the diplomat. "Deliberate." Maybe if we increase rations, we can raise the pace to "moderate" without breaking a wagon wheel...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by burnmp3s
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""With, among other things, 5.75 grams of caffeine."
Really? It's 100% caffeine? Each serving has enough caffeine to, at the least, send you to the hospital?
You'd think, maybe, the reporter would take a second to think about it...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Wilder, dobie, papafrita, majorsteel, emelenjr, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, rusty, spaceman_spiff, fusinski, gohlkus, griphus, Navelgazer
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I watched Iron Man last night and I really loved it. What I might have loved most, though, is what an asshole Tony Stark is, start to finish, and a self-aware asshole, at that. You've got to love him for it. If Shatner were a superhero, surely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emperor.seamus
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Have you heard about the three-star restaurant on the Champs-Élysées that makes omelets with only one egg? Apparently in Paris, one egg is un oeuf." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bokane
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm expecting the answer here will be "no," but has anyone seen How High? There is a particularly revolting scene in which the protagonists exhume and try to smoke the body of President John Quincy Adams. This reminds me of that.
It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by [expletive deleted]
2 months ago