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 22 times, recently by JHarris, starzero, scrump, spaceman_spiff, schyler523
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Smoke a joint, wait 45 minutes, and eat a Sour Patch Kid.
I'm surprised this isn't already printed on the Sour Patch Kids package.
But yeah, I agree with flabdablet: your salivary glands are kicking into gear hardcore and can't get the saliva..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by SeanMac, crickets, limeonaire
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm half Puerto Rican. The only time I've even briefly thought of myself as anything other than "white" was while filling out college applications. How many millions are there like me already? I'm guessing "lots," and the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, wires
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm partial to Clark's. All sorts of styles, all of which are insanely comfortable (with the exception of the Poblanos I occasionally wear even though they are much too narrow in the toes). Zappos carries these, too...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by punishinglemur, matty
6 days ago
Music comment:
"I fucking love--and I mean in a totally inappropriate and embarrassing way--Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend. Probably the best pop song of 2007. I expect somebody to forcibly pry the guitar from my hands at a campfire singalong someday.
Really,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Can someone explain this without reference to baseball jargon or culture - in other words without using words like 'bunt' or talking about Derek Jeter?
Imagine if, when a football game goes into extra time, the ball is tethered directly to the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brain cloud, edd
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It seems like every day I become more and more fed up with the world." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"To be fair, if you're one of these people, and you believe that God made you in His own image, then naturally, He must be a petty, shortsighted asshole, too. So the odds are good that He'll respond to this. "Holy shit, my precious snowflakes..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by msconduct, sarahmelah, Dreama, strangeleftydoublethink, Dreamghost, dosterm, MikeKD, cashman, Mayor Curley, M.C. Lo-Carb!, aramaic, kableh, fleetmouse, Caduceus, Pope Guilty
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you can get over your knee-jerk reactionism over whether an older person might have anything interesting to say about the way certain trends have evolved over the last hundred years
How about the reaction that the whole thing reads like a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phalene, peacheater
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"(In support of gurple's comment about UUs being difficult to categorize, I'd like to point out that my local congregation's next Sunday service is, apparently, titled, "Bob Marley: The Man, the Myth, the Legend.")..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Twicketface, Bookhouse, ltracey, Atom Eyes
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know this is one of the things that ticks some people off about Christianity
Unless I'm misreading, she's not talking about Christians, but UUs. It'd be more like, "Hey bro, we're pretty pissed you shot some people in our church. Let's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by skryche, dinty_moore, nudar
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My best grade on a high school English paper was on The Invisible Man. I only read 2 chapters.
We were assigned--don't get me started--The Joy Luck Club in 9th grade. I got maybe ten pages in, realized that 9th-grade-me couldn't keep track of all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So this guy is clearly unhinged. No matter what kind of wingnut you are, you don't just go around shooting your ideological nemeses. But the real shame is that there are sane people, people who are capable of making decisions and knowing the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"first experience reading Don Quixote was with a group, in Spanish, in a class taught by a Spaniard who had devoted a good deal of her life to studying and teaching the novel
I read The Canterbury Tales, in Middle English, in a class taught by a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
3 weeks ago
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
3 weeks 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
4 weeks ago
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
4 weeks ago
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
4 weeks 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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
Last month
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
