MeFi comment:
"I now travel regularly with a laptop belonging to my employer. I can't give consent for their laptop to be searched, so I won't, and I'll let them send the government's lawyers home crying if necessary.
And you'll no doubt be detained until they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
6 days ago
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"I'm in a very similar situation to plexi (OP) -- I'm the uncle atheist (former fundy) watching his nieces and nephews be raised as fundamentalist Christians, many of them home-schooled.
The short answer that I've arrived at is to keep your nose..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CorporateHippy
10 days ago
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"She's not a bad person -- she's just not that into you. Be honest with yourself, and with her: It's clear that you want more than a fuck-buddy relationship with her; it's clear that she wants nothing serious with you. You can't convince somebody to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
11 days ago
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"tl;dr" [
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favorited 20 times, recently by aparrish, wfrgms, acid freaking on the kitty, bergeycm, mek, sondrialiac, Korou, Pollomacho, ftrain, nervestaple, Sys Rq, lalochezia, tehloki, griphus, dhoe, owhydididoit, Artw, Blazecock Pileon, milov, ManInSuit
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Briefly: Women are attracted (on an animalistic, lizard brain, I-wanna-snorgify-you level) to men they see as equal or better social value than they are. Nice guys tend to act insecure around women, constantly trying to prove they're good enough,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by zpousman, LooseFilter, aeschenkarnos, The Light Fantastic
Last month
MeFi comment:
"beelzbubba: side note: all of you fuckapples slipping and falling on each other's stairs are not suing HEALTH INSURANCE PROVIDERS, dimwits! You are invoking home owner's casualty & liability insurance. Not that this is not its own huge sack of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'll throw in my own couple anecdotes:
1. My insurance company of several years ago had a really shitty strategy of dodging claims: For, say, a $50 doctor's visit, they would break the claim into 12 little chunks of $4-10 each. Then they would..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
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"Maias: ...[M]alpractice isn't such a huge problem in systems like the UK's because you basically know that even if you are crippled by a medical accident, YOU HAVE FREE HEALTH CARE!!!!
Here, you kind of have to sue because you DON"T!!!
And..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
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"You have to be hardcore: Stop answering his calls (roll your eyes and send it to voice mail), returning his voice mails (delete them without listening), and replying to his text messages (delete them as they come in). Ignore them all. No exceptions...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wfrgms
Last month
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"This isn't an exercise, but maybe it'll help you hold your head up a little higher: Girls like tall guys." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunchbox
Last month
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"Ditto that. You messed up; deal with the guilt (if any) and take it to your grave. Telling him is passing that burden on to him and fundamentally a lousy thing to do.
If I wasn't clear before: Next time, break up *before* you cheat...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by idiomatika
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Okay, one-liners aside...
I completely buy the premise, but as the author implies towards the end, it's a net win, much like the invention of the written alphabet and the printing press. Google makes us stupid in the same way that calculators make..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by snwod, Senor Cardgage, Korou, FissionChips, willie11, grobstein
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I would rather have the big picture and know that I could dive in if I wanted to than be forced to dive in at a certain place and risk not getting what I am looking for.
Exactly. Most or all of the information was available before -- it was just a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, Return Zero
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Well, my Treo 650 did actually cure AIDS, but it didn't do it with a lot of panache, so...
Yes, I'll be making the Switch." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bertrandom
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hurray, because woman are valued for their orifuses!!
orifi? penis, penii? dammit... LANGUAGEHAT???" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last month
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"False Dichotomy.
Yep. I'm a greedy mutherfukker, so I'd go for both. Keep painting, keep sculpting, AND date this person. A relationship doesn't (err, shouldn't) mean you drop everything you're doing in order to worship the other person. Keep..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thisjax, chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"And, to second what wayward vagabond said, it's very likely that without you pursuing your passions, without your newfound ALIVEness, you'd still be the sucking void of clinginess and NEEEEEED that so many of us are, and this awesome other person..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Unless you shell out $459.95US for the RealMovement mod kit...
Yeah, that option is not what you think it is. Think "niche market"." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cat Pie Hurts
2 months ago
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"She's been clear, *crystal* clear: She's just not that into you. But she's too sweet and polite to tell you to fuck off, in so many words -- instead, she uses the tired old cliche that EVERYBODY is supposed to know, "Let's just be friends."..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
2 months ago
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"DO NOT RESPOND. Doesn't matter how polite, clear, and/or firm you are, you are virtually guaranteed to get a followup from her -- "but... WHY?????"
Ignore them without reading**, or (even better) block/filter/auto-delete them. If you run..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ornate insect -- If I may...:
Aside from the truly disturbing ethical issue and human rights violation
of sedation
through psychotropical vacation
in order to, ostensibly, remove folks from the nation,
which is obviously a really bad situation,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The sad thing is the parents are probably ranting: "We protected them, we isolated them AS MUCH AS WE COULD from the evil influence of the secular world, and They *still* corrupted our babies! CURSE YOU HARRY POTTER!!!!"
...as their..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by c13, joe defroster
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I had seen the first link, and thought it was pretty cool, but the this post tells the rest of the story. Nicely done!
When I was little, maybe 7 or 8, my dad soldered a chip socket onto the top of our SEARS TELE-GAMES SYSTEM**, one you can plug a..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by Elmore, dejah420, Afroblanco, JHarris, ColdChef, elks, schyler523, kev23f, TheOnlyCoolTim, Senor Cardgage, Sys Rq
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My WiFi coverage extends to the lawn. You're welcome to chill here. Bring steak." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"For about $3.50 I'll douse you with tuna and let 33 stray cats have their wai with you." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by bitter-girl.com, tippiedog, konolia, longdaysjourney, lord_wolf, schyler523, owhydididoit, ursus_comiter, LarryC, tomcooke
3 months ago
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"The cheating is a symptom of the problem. She's just not that into you, on an lizard-brain attraction level, but she lacks the courage to break up with you. Don't be that pathetic bastard that puts up with any behavior just to bask in her presence...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by idiomatika
3 months ago
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"Extreme honesty with YOURSELF? Yes. And, one step farther, accept criticism from others as sincere. If somebody tells you, "Dude, that shirt looks like shit", your natural reflex might be to retort with "Fuck you, with your raggy-ass..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
3 months ago
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"The way it's *supposed* to work is that you send out the attraction signals (mostly non-verbal: hair-flip, smile, eye-contact, conversational touching, etc.), he receives those signals, and then he "leads the dance" from there. But guys are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As a avowed carnivore**, "vat grown meat" sounds really disgusting in a gut-wrenching, unnatural way. But I think it's just a perspective thing. I mean, if we'd been eating vat grown meat all along, and somebody came along and suggested,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davemee
3 months ago
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"The newscasters(?) look rather South Park-y. Is there any connection?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Isn't the issue here not whether the cause is racism, or whether it's classism, but rather how racism helps *drive* class inequity? I mean, if a few white guys were being jerks to a few black guys, or vice versa, well that's just mean but so what?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by effwerd
3 months ago
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"Strong atheist here, and I do think most people have a big, gaping hole o' NEED to fill. I mean... you come home from work, you have some time to yourself, and you gotta do SOMEthing, right? What you fill that hole with is up to you -- it can be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
3 months ago
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"Tribalism is the problem, fear of the Other. Religion is just a particularly virulent and irrational "tribe". Nationalism, racism, classism, etc. can also be used to rally people to the same horrible ends. I say this as an atheist who..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, Slothrup
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My dad's standard answer to any question of mine beginning with "Why...?" was: "To make little boys ask questions!"
Love ya, Dad!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roombythelake
3 months ago
