MeTa comment:
"I'd rather read an occasional off-topic screed that makes some attempt at stylishness and originality than half the mindless pap routinely posted here.
I'd also like to encourage many of you who spend a lot of time addressing these issues to..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"It's times like this I truly cherish life in the American capitalist-entertainment multiplex. It's so much easier to fall in love with a business plan than a person, and to justify doing so using hazy statistics, personal anecdotes, and the plot..." [
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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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MeTa comment:
"To me, the appeal (and entertainment value) of discussions in the blue and gray stems from its emphasis on direct combativeness and wit, rather than validation and consensus (that's the green). IMO the best way to counter the Boyzone would have been..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"Good lord. It is a rather big damn deal that you can't be a public school teacher or social worker or civil servant in many of our most densely populated cities and expect to be able to afford housing, contribute adequately to retirement, or have..." [
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Ask comment:
"I don't know how to help anyone how to fall in love again with a person they've grown distant from -- besides telling you to fight like hell to reconnect to her, and help her reconnect to herself. Your therapy is good, but don't forget to walk with..." [
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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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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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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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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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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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MeFi comment:
"Good gracious, mubba, Sun Ra is popular where you live? And The Silver Apples? Snapper? The kids all still remember The Archies and The Association there?
Stereolab is popular where you live?
You must reside in Chillville, boasting the..." [
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