MeFi comment:
"This is called mocking. And mocking anybody, crazy or not, in their presence is rude in the extreme.
You don't think a person capable of registering a domain and putting together a site from scratch is capable of checking her referrer logs? Or..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sleepy pete, sondrialiac, RussHy
7 hours ago
Ask comment:
"I have some ideas but you may not want to pay attention to them, because I was raised secularly and there are plenty of Jews who would consider my goy-marrying and bacon-eating self about as Jewish as Anita Bryant.
First, it sounds a little tough,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by languagehat, amtho, jessamyn
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I use shanda to the goyim and such because I miss old Jews. The little Yiddish I know is weighted heavily with nostalgia for my grandparents, who spoke it fluently.
I took the survey and told them they need to make the "it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunasol
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Aw, damn. Golden Girls is my favorite sick-at-home-show, sad-at-home-show, lonely-at-home-show -- it unfailingly cheers me right up. Seeing four great comediennes still at the top of their game working at their age makes me hopeful that I'm only..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kimothy, babybuns
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Lifetime Movie Title Generator
I call all Lifetime Movies "Not Without My Ovaries: The Ann Jillian Story (starring Markie Post)" and it ends up being mostly appropriate.
Also, any Lifetime Movie blog should be a lot cattier and more..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by longsleeves, Blazecock Pileon
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"Like dancinglamb, I store my dishwashing sponge upright, but aside from that the easiest, cheapest, and least toxic disinfectant you can find is simple distilled white vinegar. I buy it in bulk bottles and use that to refill a few spray bottles that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mad bomber what bombs at midnight
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I recently worked on a large project involving MRSA-awareness in the US, where hospital-based infections occur in 1 in 20 patients. I've read a lot of literature and this list is a pretty good one regarding precautions to take when hospitalized...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by numinous
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"I don't like a lot of the things that most of the women I've encountered enjoy--I do know a small handful of women my age who like the same geeky, traditionally "boys-club" sorts of activities as I, but for some reason, we just never..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by catburger, nooneyouknow, Melinika, ch1x0r, Tapioca, freya_lamb, taz, secretary bird, anitanita, loiseau, uxo
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Every last thing that occhiblu just said, particularly:
I think there needs to be a fairly strong commitment from other women not to step in with a "Oh, grow up, I'm not offended, so you shouldn't be either" dismissal.
Yes, yes, yes...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by marble
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"...a unique departure from my normal behavior.
Hardly. For instance, there was this bon mot you deployed when Paris Hilton went to the pokey. I have never forgotten it. It is thoroughly brutal. And that it came from you, with your stated..." [
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favorited 65 times, recently by marble
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Good lord will I miss this show. Season 4 was the pinnacle for me, but I'll take the worst of The Wire over the best of most everything else. Once I caught up last year in a great big glut for the first time in my life I purchased an HBO..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by muckster, shotgunbooty
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Oh God Jack, I have one of those every time I'm standing in a high spot. Thanks, French people, you elegant suicides. I also appreciate their nostalgie de la boue, aching for the mud, wishing you could be off having some heedless romp. I have one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vsync
2 weeks ago
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"Jack Karaoke taught me that the French call high cliff syndrome l'appelle d'vide. But yes, I'd also say imp of the perverse, and I quite like crazy sparkle too...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vsync
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Even if this work were indeed "saintly" (which I don't think it is - at least no less and no more so than the work of people who nurse AIDS patients and terminal cancer patients in hospice settings, people who tend the severely disabled or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jb
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"But now, in real life or online, when I find myself wanting to comment in a way that shows off my macho side, I usually just don't comment -- exactly because when I get that "defend-my-macho/sextalking/etc cred" feeling it's a sign to me..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Afroblanco, in the 80s Brooklyn was not "a place you didn't go," it was where I lived. Plenty of middle class people did then too, and so did working class and poor people.
I seem to be cast in the role of sanctimonious hipster but I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by invitapriore, lupus_yonderboy, neroli, sleepy pete, dersins
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This had a profound effect on me as well, bringing tears to my eyes several times. This is a more subdued Michael Moore, and I appreciate it; it allows the horrors he's describing speak more eloquently for themselves.
The usual useful idiots will..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by magstheaxe
Last month
Ask comment:
"Once when I was roughly 10 and my mother and I were on the subway, a man started screaming at a woman who didn't reply, just cowered in her seat and wept. I think they were together, but I'm not sure, and I don't remember what he said very clearly...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Laura_J, urbanwhaleshark
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The first time Britta was portrayed as a cartoon it was with far greater depth and subtlety than this. God only knows what the editorial practices of Men's Vogue might be, so I will chose to believe that her husband spared even one word for his..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by loiseau
Last month
MeTa comment:
"The two-letter, no-period state abbreviations preferred by the U.S. Postal Service should always be used where a zip code follows, and they may appear in any context where abbreviations are appropriate (see 17.100). Many writers and editors, however,..." [
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favorited 48 times, recently by funkiwan, fiercecupcake, allkindsoftime, dmo, Exchequer, lizzicide, Hadroed, kortez, eclectist, 912 Greens, MrVisible, sarahnade, eckeric, blasdelf, marylynn, vito90, Baby_Balrog, tehloki, Hobgoblin, Skorgu, dizziest, blacklite, iminurmefi, stet, pineapple, scrump, mudpuppie, jokeefe, khaibit, misha, Mayor West, kev23f, From Bklyn, KingoftheWhales, stefanie, Megafly, Kadin2048, limeonaire, vytae, NinjaTadpole, tomcooke, Kattullus, cashman, rtha, SmarterChild, jessamyn, klangklangston, brain_drain
Last month
MeFi comment:
"New York became the 'center of the universe' because people came to make money. Period. That's what's happening here. Again. And it'll happen again. Then again after that.
I can't even manage a lip curl, because if I recoiled in disgust every time..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mo Nickels
Last month
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"Arch Stanton, I need to follow your example. I love that you do that. And dabitch, the "teaching" idea is a great one. I remember being ecstatic when my grandfather taught me to shine shoes in the classic rag-popping style with the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by nemutdero
Last month
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"I agree with everyone else who says this is likely more about symbols and status than a bed. You gave your parents a King without question: why? Because they are heads of the family, they are older, and it was an occasion celebrating their marriage...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Metafilter's own Skot never fails to crack me up at Izzle pfaff!." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kev23f
2 months ago
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"I was a science and technical editor for over five years and am still a freelance copyeditor/writer in the field. I want to support what others have said, although I assume you want to work in a less specialized part of the industry. The field is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Wolfster, fourcheesemac
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"black men made up 48% of reported rapes
The reported rapes, valkyryn. In the US, the acquaintance and date rapes that according to RAINN make up 73% of all rapes compose the majority of unreported sexual assaults, and most sexual assaults are..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by deborah, equipoise, donnagirl, dyoneo, mer2113, h00py, matteo, supercrayon, psmealey, jokeefe, peacheater, lunit, cybercoitus interruptus, sleepy pete, availablelight, winna, rivenwanderer, scrump, arha, Forktine, kwaller, eponymouse, Brandon Blatcher, mudpuppie, kosher_jenny
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"That said, I feel very wrong basically having the power to take something off a website that is making someone else feel like they made a big huge mistake...
The valuing of people over hard fast rules is why I like AskMe and is just one part of..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by Melinika, Jody Tresidder, Wilder, deborah, misha, Sangermaine, scrump, bitter-girl.com, Deathalicious, kittyprecious, Jahaza, tomcooke, klangklangston, owhydididoit, treepour, bru, loiseau
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'm a girl who sits at a computer all day, and I do this too. Our jobs are isolated, and I think this may be a weird bioquirk -- after all, grooming is an intensely relaxing and social activity for apes; we've just happen to become largely hairless...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by streetdreams, timetoevolve, ivanka
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Why do you think so many gay people are pissed that they can't get legally married? Not because of the toaster from Aunt Tillie, but because there are over 1,000 rights that you get through the signing of, as ROU_Xenophobe put it, a cheap set of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by argylekneesocks
2 months ago
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"Along the manicotti line, when my cat was badly injured recently a dear friend made us homemade bread and enough delicious stew and pasta fazul to last us a couple of days. There is a reason people bring food during crises and at funerals. It is a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I'm writing mainly to support everything jessamyn said about the benefits of being social, whether you are introverted or not.
It's fine not to like parties. I never have (at least the substance-fueled kind) but I encourage you to do what I did,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by eponymouse, UbuRoivas, BigSky
3 months ago
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"Echoing what jessamyn said: the negative, judgmental side of me gets angrier and more powerful the more I feed it. So I've reserved my "cutting" for the people who overfeed this side: the ones who spend the majority of their time being..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by paperlanterns
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The first time I am forced to handle funeral arrangements I'm not just calling ColdChef, I'm flying him to my location and paying him to be my personal funerary consultant and bodyguard (as needed). I intend to ask him to wear a suit, sunglasses,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ColdChef
3 months ago
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"We were staying with friends in a small apartment in NYC and it was a long day so we ended up all sitting on the couch together and watching Kill Bill because, as our friend pointed out, it had a bride in it. And so it did...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by thebellafonte, ifjuly, genmonster
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I work from home. It's great in a lot of respects, and I do actually do chores during downtime. It's great to be able to run laundry and do random stuff as needed and when I want to do it.
I try to do more than my share of the chores because I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by b33j
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"And, as has already been pointed out, it's not like askme is some obscure, rarely-visited-or-linked-to internet cul-de-sac.
It was far more so then than now. AskMe has grown the way it has because of threads like those and the people who wrote..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Joseph Gurl
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Dave Faris, I hate writing about music I love, but hate much more reading bad writing about music I love -- and furthermore you deserve to come at it with your own fresh ears and mind. By luck I came to it that way myself, before I knew anything..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by kosher_jenny
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"As nuclear_soup suggests, use RAINN as a resource for you, and encourage her to make use of it too. Take Back the Night is another great resource.
Do not try to talk her into pressing charges -- that is the job of the PA's office. Your job as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mudpuppie
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"loiseau: "stones" strikes me as one of the less objectionable choices.
The words this person chose are feculent. Webinar would also grind my stones, had I any. And yes, there are many disgusting words in medicine and biology, even..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm sticking up for open signups, and I say that as someone who sulkily lurked for at least 2 years waiting to become a $5 n00b.
I respectfully disagree. I lurked a similar length of time and it made me a lot more appreciative of this place than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by madamjujujive
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Konolia's memory hits home, because I remember my childhood actions being largely instinctual. I "knew" things without comprehending them. Sometimes I was right, sometimes very comically not (like trying to hit an imposing bust at a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kwaller
3 months ago
