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"I have played RPGs for years, both group and solo, and have done activism in RAINN and Take Back the Night and have studied sexual violence academically. I am not expert, but I have a lot of angles to come at your question.
Here is the reason I..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by sondrialiac, misha, baphomet, zarah, blueberry, yohko, velvet winter, Ira_, elizardbits, creepygirl, klangklangston, small_ruminant, and hosted from Uranus, sculpin, Coatlicue
4 ¾ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Cosmos was the bridge from poetry to science when I was but a little melissa may.
I like that he could be prickly, I like that he had his little moments of hubris. Sagan was a preacher for humanity and the universe as they really are, not some..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by LSK, JHarris, scrump
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This is just the result of everyone sobering up and admitting it.
What about all the people like me, who were perfectly sober, perfectly willing to live within our means, invested in some of the most perfectly safe options available for retirement..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by MikeKD, hazyjane, The Whelk, HyperBlue, Burritos Inc., geoff., languagehat
4 days ago
Music comment:
"Awwww... poowah widdle you.
I would like to say something as politely but clearly as I can: I don't think you should be administering Challenges or otherwise trying to lead here while being so sarcastic and dismissive when confronted with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jessamyn, lothar
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Thanks for posting this, juv3nal. I played I wish I were the Moon on Kongregate a few days ago and it really made me sit up and take notice. He even cites Calvino as the inspiration for it. That is just dreamy...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
8 days ago
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"I want to give you a hug -- my god, could you use one.
I sympathize completely with why you've made the choices you have here. In the world of always being broke, good friends learn to help each other out to extraordinary lengths. If your..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by highrise, Asymptote, porn in the woods, velvet winter
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The idea of mentioning the social good one performs as an excuse for getting insanely aggressive is such a good one I'm going to start using it in my own correspondence:
"I HATE this fake glurge about Boy Scouts! I once bought a FUCKING..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by GrammarMoses, pineapple, the quidnunc kid, matteo, turgid dahlia, mudpuppie, shmegegge, oneirodynia, theiconoclast31, cortex, Ambrosia Voyeur, grouse, languagehat, jessamyn, nola, Mayor West
10 days ago
Music comment:
"Sounds kinda interesting to me, but, well, if you don't think so, there's no need to participate, right?
Whether he or I participate or not we care about this place and it would be a poor reflection on it if Jean Grae were given some transient..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"No. No. No.
We were away all weekend, in a place with no television -- we didn't touch a paper, either. I had no idea until just this moment.
All the ways he touched our lives: my boyfriend in grad school later worked on the Italian..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by frances1972, bookish, lalochezia, jlbartosa, smich, ryanhealy, sleepy pete, scody, foodbedgospel
3 weeks ago
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"I've lived in both west and east Kansas (and only left a couple of years ago) and taught at a State U, so from both perspectives I think you might want to take a different approach. Try asking them what stereotypes they've heard or reactions they've..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dolukhanova
3 weeks ago
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"If you have other passions besides scoring or being adored, that's attractive. I would hate to feel pursued. If you've got the time to write letters in copperplate and strum songs outside my window every night, you're underscheduled, or in high..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chicainthecity
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, I hate to harsh my own mellow and it is strange because I love Led Zeppelin, most specifically Robert Plant, like it were 1975, when the man couldn't leave the house without women falling on him like curvy hail. I won't mince words: he brings..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
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 49 times, recently by =^^=, funkiwan
Last month
MeFi comment:
"micayetoca, thank you for your endless kindness. But I have to say this
the pure commitment of the HGs to continue to make music
was painful to read, because I haven't been able to manage it for quite some time. It's got too strange. If it's..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cirocco, zabuni, rhodri
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Corporate rock -- I guess so. I tend not to use such taxonomies. They're using Buzzcocks songs in AARP ads these days, so what's the point?
Boston had something I won't be able to describe well, and that's easy to lose in the awesome glare of..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by Who_Am_I, orrnyereg, scrump, matildaben, Ambrosia Voyeur
Last month
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"You're not describing a guy who's off the deep end.
Every couple of weeks he loses his temper violently. Anonymous states that once -- when he was angry at her -- he hit the wall with enough force to break a bone. What section of the pool is he..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grlnxtdr
2 months ago
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"The most important thing you mention is your relationship with your sister, a permanent fixture in your life, so that's the focus of my answer.
It's great you've got encouragement here to be who you are and that is essential, but you also should..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kalapierson, mudpuppie
2 months ago
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"This used to happen to me all the time, until I turned it into an opportunity for surrealism:
Them: Smile! No one died.
Me: Actually, someone did die. My dear grandfather.
Them: Oh no! That's terrible...are you okay?
Me: Yes, actually,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Solomon, Soulbee
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I suppose people were reacting to the total package presented but I have never been comfortable with dissecting the affectations or deficiencies in other people's style, even celebrity other people, which is why reading Gawker or something gives me..." [
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favorited 36 times, recently by vers
2 months ago
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"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 12 times, recently by ifjuly, catburger, nooneyouknow
2 months ago
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"Does my femaleness mean that I should just choose not to fulfill some of the core functions of my job?
Yes, I too have managed to meet with men at conferences one on one -- and have even have been bought a drink or two or vice versa -- without..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by olinerd
2 months ago
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"Robert loves her but is too conventional to pursue an affair with the already-married Edna, even once she leaves her cold and controlling husband; Alcee is passionate but a cad. They are emblematic of the poverty of women's choices at a time when..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xod
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You guys have clearly failed to think through the possibilities.
James Cromwell, reprising the grinning psychotic affect he brought to LA Confidential, as George Sr. The stunning Thandi Newton, trapped under that terrible Condi hair helmet...." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by shmegegge, scrump, JaredSeth, jtron, lattiboy, maryh, crossoverman, gsteff, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I agree with Alvy. His general aura -- careless, rude, and inarticulate -- reminds me of when the camgirls invaded Metafilter and made everyone cry with their sheer vacuousness. But out of that muck rose kindall's beautiful comment. I'm not sure..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ooga_booga, kindall, humannaire, amyms
2 months ago
Music comment:
"Oh my lord. Honey, how many times do I have to ask you not to post to Music right after a coke binge?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by umbú
2 months ago
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
2 months ago
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"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
2 months 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
2 months ago
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
2 months 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
2 months ago
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"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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
3 months ago
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"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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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 months 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 months 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
3 months ago
