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"I notice people who are given over to their private thoughts or moods in public. I love to see people riveted by their reading material on the subway, or swaying to the music only they can hear, or gripping a bouquet of flowers and jiggling their..." [
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"How thoughtful, the question and lovely answers.
Forty years ago I was six, in a department store with my dad, waiting on my mom. We stood idly watching an unsupervised kid my age kneeling at the bottom of an escalator playing with the moving..." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by you're a kitty!, meso, MythMaker, schyler523, scrump, Scoo, iamkimiam, roombythelake, agregoli, urbanwhaleshark, SpacemanStix, thewalrusispaul, Dillonlikescookies, granted, GaelFC, koakuma, misha, ekstasis23, Your Time Machine Sucks, Skorgu, allkindsoftime, Iamtherealme, bayliss, ShawnStruck, zippity, rockhopper, flibbertigibbet, onalark
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"It's been recommended previously, but The First 90 Days does an excellent job of outlining situations similiar to yours: you came to a 'sustainable success' environment, with a culture that values work-life balance versus intense competition...." [
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"As a person of style but limited resources, I have become an expert shopper and it requires serious effort. I get compliments on my clothes/accessories daily and those people would be shocked to learn how little I actually pay -- and I never tell!..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by woebot, streetdreams, aye, lucyleaf, frosty_hut, nadise
2 months ago
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"Maybe anon is friends with a lot of MeFis and is always bragging about how much swimming he/she does, may soon have to prove it, and so must ramp up." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by EndsOfInvention
3 months ago
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"TPS, my only quibble with your point of view is: using it the way you did, I feel quite sure in this case it would be baloney, not bologna.
This same thing situation has occupied ... no taken over ... my world just recently, with almost the same..." [
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3 months ago
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"You either don't know or, within your funk, are forgetting a fundamental, critical truth: you, today, are not the you of tomorrow. You will move through this phase and be a different Ringo on the other side. And that person will attract and be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
3 months ago
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"The worst part -- and to my mind, the most telling -- is that the fiance mentioned the pre-nup concept some time ago, the OP was not resistant, but nothing more came up about it until 3 weeks before the wedding. He's holding a gun to her head, plain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
3 months ago
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"This is amusing and disturbing -- not the 'news' but the reactions in the thread. Evangeline, I too have had Botox, 2x a year for the past five years.
After having had breast cancer three times in twenty months, I had developed the most..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mrgrimm, redfisch
4 months ago
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"In a very nice tone of voice, I have to say:
Stay to the right! Step in to the middle of the car! Don't stop at the top or bottom of the escalator! Teenage girls from whereever (you all seem blond with pink hoodies) -- stop flipping your..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by CrazyLemonade, Artw, grumblebee
4 months ago
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"The straight answer to your straight questions -- Yes. Actually, this level of 'sharing' is a terrible burden to impose on a toddler, I'm sorry to say.
A 3 year old is not a small version of an adult. A 3 year old is not seeking information or..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Pater Aletheias, tuff, LobsterMitten, aberrant, languagehat, flod logic, gatorae, twistofrhyme, ThePinkSuperhero
4 months ago
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"Here are a few things to think about and act upon when you can:
You are Other to each other and that is the beauty part.
Conquer the deadly combo of big ego, low self esteem which, in my experience, afflicts many men. Know and love yourself..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
5 months ago
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"I'm the #2 poster quoted in your project. Please explain how this is art. Please explain your page's title: Meta Life-Change.
And while I mostly don't mind being accurately quoted, I hate -- like really really hate -- your presumptive labeling..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sotalia, iamkimiam
6 months ago
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"Aside from that, y'all a buncha goddamned babies about this.
klangklangston, maybe so, maybe so. But, again, as a poster in the original thread, this "project" gives me pause. Hey, it's no great loss, but now I'll second guess when I..." [
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6 months ago
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"I'm biased, but Italy loves a pregnant mama! They will be thrilled to have you incinto ... Sicily is fantastic. Fly to Palermo, rent a car and drive the coast. Congratulations and good luck...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
6 months ago
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"I had a 16 hour surgery that required a team of doctors a few years back. As I was coming out of anaesthesia after a long snooze in ICU, two were on hand to check on my progress. I was very woozy during the introductions, which I thought was,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
8 months ago
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"Some I like:
Fiona Apple's live cover of Elvis Costello's I Want You, cited above, on which he plays. Even he claimed it outdid the original!
X -- Come Back To Me, Exene's song about her sister is heartbreaking
Lucinda Williams, Change the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
8 months ago
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"Surely the phenomenon of celebrity is now so ubitquitous that we could expect to be immune from its sullen spell when tragedy blights the spotlighted incumbent? No! - not when a callow youth, whose very profession is to inculcate empathy in his..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Ziggurat, suedehead, hal9k, tomboko, papafrita, whahappen?!, the quidnunc kid, wreckingball, Jody Tresidder
8 months ago
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"I have a 17 year old daughter who is completely dissolved in tears, making plans with her bffs to go down to Broome Street with flowers. She said, "Is everyone an asshole? I thought he wasn't an asshole!" Breaks my heart for the young..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, tugena13
8 months ago
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"No roommates, under-control pets, no weird collections, a meaningful library, even if small, no porn on display, no old gf photos on display, family photos but not too many, evidence of a life-beyond-screens, bandaids and Benedryl in the medicine..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by melorama, ifjuly, bobber, panamax
8 months ago
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"We travel a lot, and I've gotten my (relatively fashion-conscious-although-likes-to-pretend-he-isn't) man's packing down to a science. It's about a working palette and everything is in support of the dominant piece -- in your case, the overcoat --..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kittyprecious
9 months ago
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"This has happened within one year?? Plus James has a girlfriend?? You must all be exhausted.
I think the donation to your favorite charity is a good way to take your anger and channel it productively. I also agree with whomever above said it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeanmari
10 months ago
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"Not to diminish the poignancy, the patriotism, the sacrifice ... he is mad hot. Josie is one lucky woman." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
10 months ago
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"Big pimpin' with MeFi. Two years ago, met at a bar, got into an intense political discussion and I said, "I'm a member of this pretty cool site, and there was just a really interesting post -- with great comments! -- about this very subject!..." [
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11 months ago
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"If you are single, don't. If you are married or permanently partnered, in the garage." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
Last year
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"I'm sorry to be blunt, but the myriad details, twists, turns, reported conversations, texts and email are beyond irrelevant. All 'feelings' are irrelevant.
You are a classic NPD enabler. If you don't want to be on the receiving end of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by echolalia67, blueberry
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"As a strategic communications consultant, I work both ends of the partnership -- the guy with the idea and the guy with the cash. I usually get hired because Money Man has investment experience and understands the need for an intermediary who can..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kamelhoecker, paterg, klangklangston
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The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness,
Like the flight of a moth which, had it known,
Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle's flame.
Others would deal..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ejaned8
Last year
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"There's something up with this guy. Sure, he likes you but he doesn't want to be the initiator so he doesn't have to take responsibiliity for something. Maybe an STD he's not inclined to admit to until he trusts you? Or a long-distance girlfriend..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by taff
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"Ack. Email should require a classroom course, a permit with restrictions, and then only if you consistently mind your manners and business do you get a license to hit Send...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by redtriskelion, vers
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"You don't have to have your tonsils removed. My kid just had one of those lasered off. Go to a good ENT guy -- it took ten minutes and she had a minor sore throat for a day...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
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"Now that my kids are older, I'd say have a sense of humor and leave it! They grow up in a blink. It's priceless." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lannanh
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"One thought -- if he is really suffering from NPD (full-blown cases are quite rare) you should know that it is the psychiatrist's nightmare patient, very difficult to treat. IANAD but was involved with someone once who was a true, off-the-wall NPD...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
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"Oh boy. No. No no no no. Find another jewelry category or stop being 'not there yet'. Especially if this is a Valentine's Day question!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lilithim
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"Woah, Wolof. So now I have disconnected to the point where I have it right, but I think it's wrong!?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cb
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"There is a kind of disappointment particular to women who have had a hard time matching their long-cherished fantasy scenarios to how their actual lives are unfolding. Suppressing it (because you have to in order to raise a child or keep your job or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stormygrey
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"You are not crazy. For the last 12 years, you have probably been able to protect him from or fix the hurts -- it's been your primary job. Now, you know he may be about to face some pain that you can't stop and you can't fix. You have a feeling..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by misozaki, mosessis, koeselitz
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"Dill. No doubt. Actually, I could have chugged vinegar straight from the bottle, hold the pickle. But the pickle did make a handy vinegar transport mechanism...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Clay201
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"Mayor Curley, I think your last paragraph makes a lot of sense. My dog used to wake himself up in the back seat of the car when we were a couple of miles from home and sit up at the ready. I always felt he caught a scent of hometown combined with..." [
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