MeFi post:
Elf-inflicted marketing plan for generating elf-esteem.
favorited 24 times, recently by Vindaloo, nooneyouknow, Tripps, Drexen, jbickers, Optamystic, eatdonuts, motty, anansi, thewittyname, ChrisR, meinvt, SpacemanStix, Obscure Injoke, Aversion Therapy, slimepuppy, lordrunningclam, muckster, tommchenry, batmonkey, stet, JibberJabber, InstantSanitizer, P.o.B.
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The job changed. The religious beliefs didn't.
To split hairs even further than dirigibleman: the job didn't change - the number of potential customers/clients did. In fact, that number became more inclusive of society as a whole.
The only..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Solomon, binturong, axon
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not a matter of being offended. It's a matter of being forced to violate one's religious convictions. Which is discriminatory toward said religion.
Or, alternately - said religion proscribes that occupation. I am perfectly happy to let..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Solomon, Drexen, wtdoor, chuckdarwin
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Schools should be renamed to "Standardized Test Score Factories in a Vacuum."
Personally, I think Standardised Testing Factories Unlimited is a Capital name...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 1f2frfbf
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Roses are red
Violet Blue
You're unwonderful
So we unpublished you
[NOT LIMERICIST]" [
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favorited 15 times, recently by bitter-girl.com, madamjujujive, Wilder, kittens for breakfast, taz, tehloki, 0xFCAF, delmoi, litlnemo, nooneyouknow, davemee, retronic, pyrex, liza, Blazecock Pileon
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The idea is that the trial is so long after the fact that when the prosecutor asks about the certainty of what the defendant was doing the previous day, and their answer is hesitant, and not so clearly rehearsed, and everything else that we expect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm fantastically interesting. I'm constantly being told what a fascinating talker and great listener I am by everybody in my circle of telepaths." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I may just be biased since he was in the abomination that raped my childhood memories, Transformers.
Dude. Seriously. It wasn't Transformers that raped your memories (itself a turgid turn of phrase for denied sense of self-entitlement). It was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Here's a thing:
http://parchment.toolness.com/.
Makes it playable literally within the browser through JS, AJAX and stuff - though with one save only.
Bonus points for guessing which one I wrote...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eritain, Julnyes
Last month
MeTa comment:
"SEO Me
Feel Me
Touch Me
Heal Me
SEO Me
Feel Me
Touch Me
Heal Me
Listening to you, I get the ranking
Gazing at you, I get the place
Following you, I climb the the ratings
I get excitement at your mySpace
Right behind you, I see the..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by bunnytricks, Tube, susanbeeswax, wendell, quonsar, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Anything in a recipe book is pretty much no man's land for me. And not in a sort of Jamie Oliver "Well, I'll throw in an imprecise dash of foodstuff A and a vague peck of foodstuff B and come up with something tongue-blowingly awesome, bless my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Iamtherealme
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Alright. Menstrual Sex for some, miniature American flags for others!
OMG - what's that on Obama's lapel?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bitter-girl.com
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I take it this was the successor to the failed "Kittens Incarcerated" program, which taught felons how to be miserable bastards only interested in themselves and where their next meal is coming from...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Monochrome
Last month
MeFi comment:
"God does not play dice with the Universe; God is the dice.
Also, the dice talk to each other, there's an infinite number of them and they keep changing how many sides they have for some reason.
That's just the way God rolls...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rubbstone
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Fusinski, I think you're missing the point. Yeah, the Boomers are the Xers' parents, but the Millennials are their grandchildren, and thus sparkly and spoilable and not horrible grumpy bastards who don't appreciate the every one of the Boomers'..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by niccolo
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I did find another cover. I distinctly remember the helmet design of the 'gods' with the rounded earpieces.
I agree that, yes, that first cover isn't as good as I recall, but also that the art style had this form of pointillism to indicate..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"And some how relationship filter is ok, but we still can't have bears vs. monkeys?
Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to reconstruct *their* browsing histories? Some things man was not meant to see...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waraw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Let me tell you something about religion.
It tells you that you are so much better than those sinners and then forgives your pride. It cures you of your same sex lust and then admits you to the cloisters. It talks about prayer then asks you to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It doesn't surprise me. All the folks at work just HATE Red Ken. "He's too greedy, my car is too expensive, and riding the tube to work this morning I had to sniff the armpit of some filthy banker who earns 10 times what I do. Ergo, Ken must..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"BinGregory: ANZAC as a term to describe grouped NZ/OZ battallions was also used in ww2 and has been used as recently as East Timor 2006. Also in Vietnam IIRC. Generically, however, I don't think they are called that unless they are units..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jimbob, BinGregory
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is one from the archives, and reflects my lower-brow sensitivities (Tarantino is way too refined for the likes'o'me).
Ross: O, Can it be that not a word is said
in all the words that fill my waking hours
without reminding me of her sweet..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Optamystic
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Er, maybe the problem with this is that using Hitler's image this way diminishes the reality of the holocaust. . .particularly for younger generations born after the war, and those whose parents were born after the war, etc. Hitler should not be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"1) marijuana disabled their critical self-filters such that while high, they did much less internal censoring and regulation.
I find completely the opposite - as if the telephone operator in my head is not making the appropriate connections so I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lothar
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh, man. I'm so conflicted. I just had a second date, and there was lip nibblage and everything, so does that mean I'm single, or taken? I mean, no vows were exchanged, but I'm kinda unlikely to just randomly crack on to anybody - but what what if..." [
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3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"UbuRoivas: are you sure that was her, and not, say, the 'Winona' sockpuppet account I signed up for while drunk with the express intention of then getting more drunk and finding email from 'her' in my mailbox the next morning that I certainly didn't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by UbuRoivas, nasreddin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's a traumatized teenage girl who doesn't speak -- but she's a KILLING MACHINE!
It's an oversimplification - but it's got SARCASTIC CAPS!
Guess who:
He's a Mafia boss but he's CONFLICTED!
He's an anti-terrorist but he's got FAMILY..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by WCityMike
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"When my nephew was born, thousands of miles away, I sent him a plush panda and a copy of slaughterhouse five. I figured the panda could look after him until he learned to read.
PS. DAMN YOU METAFILTER! THIS ISN'T WHAT I PAID MY FIVE BUCKS..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dirigibleman
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ROBOT: Do you think he likes really me?
BEAR: Of course, what's not to like?
ROBOT: Sometimes I can be a bit inhuman
BEAR: And I can be a bit of a bear, so what.
ROBOT: It's his smile, you know? It just makes me think of (whispers)..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by delmoi, darksasami, shmegegge, octothorpe
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"In a nutshell, and bearing in mind you are using fairly colloquial terms:
A zen priest is merely someone who has gone to a temple, wears the robes and meditates. There's no particularly strigent criteria for this, so it implies no actual merit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trace.log
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's what ElfQuest means to me:
When I was 13, I discovered this comic in the only RPG shop in Manners Mall, Wellington, New Zealand. They had the first five issues. I could only afford to buy three but have subsequently acquired them all in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by malaprohibita, shunpiker
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Can anybody help me with number 6) becoming extremely wealthy? I'd really like to collect the set.
Deadly Sins - gotta catch'em all!" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by liza, milarepa, lukemeister
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Gray is making the usual mistake of taking the hobby horses of public atheists as 'gospel' for those who share similar views. The only idea atheists have in common is that There Is No God. How a society that has utilised god belief as a touchstone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The only people who say THC = hallucinogen are people who have never used it, or never used it more than twice.
In this case 'hallucinogen' refers only to perceptual distortion (visual, chronological, whatever), rather than the more colloquial..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Back in the days when actually I knew young people, there used to be a post-relationship break-up thing known as "the feeb". It happens to practically everyone, alas, and can be easily identified by that moment in time when you're with..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Wilder, Slithy_Tove, spiderwire, small_ruminant, nasreddin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From the First Things article:
[Keller was reading NT Wright about the church...]he was just taking a nice old-fashioned approach: There’s no historically viable alternative explanation for the birth of the Christian Church than the fact that the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by peacheater, Optamystic, DU
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Briefly, as there was a whole post on this a little while back, a disembodied consciousness is a simpler system than a world that can support fully-formed and independent consciousnesses. A simpler system is more probable. As there's no way to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by axon, ludwig_van, anazgnos
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"APOLOGIST CHRISTIAN IS SORRY!
And this is a sorry excuse for a post. Where's the beef? If that reader's guide is anything to go on, this has the intellectual heft of a sparrow fart. He begs the question of God's existence, confuses belief with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Monochrome, Nattie
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Let's talk about sex, babee
Let's talk about Jesus C
Let's talk about all the boning and matrimoaning
we should do, daily
Let's talk about sex for one
Let's talk about *so* not done
Let's talk about ugly folks who are just God's jokes
So..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Alvy Ampersand, misha
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Nessie, the Loch Ness monster lived in a lake
And loved to act out little tracts, just for acting's sake
Little jackie paper was inspired by Nessie,
Wrote her songs and plays with bits to say and other oratory.
Together they would travel to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Afroblanco
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But it still happened and I'll be damned if that doesn't fit the definition of an anomaly not adequately explained by current theory.
Then you're damned because it doesn't. Look up the terms 'coincidence' and 'selection bias'. If something..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Or a toe-tapping Pirates of Penzance</i<
I am the very model of an educated liberal,
I've inconvenient knowledge climatic and untrivial,
I know the Queen of England, and I helped create the Internet
When World Wide Web..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by misha
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"alcohol additiction was much worse than any other addiction in terms of how difficult it was to fight and how much it ruined lives
That's ridiculous. I've given up dozens of times...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chrismear
5 months ago
