Ask post:
I wanna hurt you just to hear you screaming my name
favorited 14 times, recently by ifjuly, AlisonM, sara is disenchanted, vagabond, bugsoup, hip_plumber, kittyb, misha, cobaltnine, divabat, exit, lucidium, logic vs love, geekyguy
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Guys. OBVIOUS POINT: college degrees don't correlate all that well to education. I mean, when we talk about ye average college, we're not talking about people going to Oxford and passing stuff based on personal syllabi etc. We're talking Econ 102 and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This thread has some of the strangest music criticism I've ever read. Like you guys are all stuck in different places in time." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by rokusan
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Is there a culture of bullying at MeFi?
lulz. That's really something coming from someone who's deeply invested in a conversational culture of noxious slithering mendacity...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Greg Nog, Optimus Chyme
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"How is this like LGF?
No, I don't think Mefi is like LGF. That's why I hang here after all. But this "time to end careers" aesthetic is really a turn off. Also there is a strange streak of "omg ivy this, hudge fund that",..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by divabat, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The word does have a sort of common ironic sense, but it's littered through the language of Muslim (and I guess non-Muslim Arabic) speakers. Sometimes almost every prediction of the future is punctuated with "inshallah". So it's not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arto
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wha?! Don't be an idiot. It's a signifier of faith and humility, not helplessness and failure-justification." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vsync, dejah420
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"A bit uncomfortable with writing this here but ... ok: I don't think it's lousy as porn.
It's not Girls Gone Wild, it's not just a camera flashing by a bunch of people opening their shirts and doing a sterile zoom on a portion of their anatomy...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's a pretty shallow view on things, but typical for American society.
Right, the reason India and China etc. are nations of parents telling their kids to go be Engineers, Doctors or Lawyers is because they have an innate appreciation of the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by preparat, hannahq, nasreddin, vorpal bunny
10 months ago
MeFi post:
"pretty frightening."
favorited 11 times, recently by hgws, jonp72, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, LeeJay, palimpsest, jonson, dtp, biscotti, takeyourmedicine, eyeballkid, Tbola
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Peter, I guess I just don't follow the whole genre of questions along the lines of "good examples of Christian humour". A lot of common wit is soft and fluid, it permeates rather than punctures. Surely Sunday sermons aren't devoid of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mulligan, bunnytricks
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Do people really think that the "muslim sense of humour" (or anything else) is limited by basic Islamic principles? What the hell does,
These were philosophical and artistic forms that highlighted the essential precariousness and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Where are you shedding? Grab some tissue and pick anything near the shower drain, grab some more and wipe off the sink, wash hands and be done with it. As for miscellaneous stuff collecting around the shower edges etc. you can't get it every single..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That sort of rhetoric doesn't help anything Mary. Time and effort *are* costs. If we have to figure out how to change the incentives towards being healthy we need to take convenience factors into account. (And yes, for various reasons, even besides..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, Hot Like Your 12V Wire
11 months ago
Ask comment:
"Dude. When you pick up a pen and write a story your brain can create fictional characters right? What makes you think your sleeping brain is less capable?
Whether these characters, events etc. actually are fictional or a product of past experience..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mjao
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fuck bonzai and fuck all organic matter. Fuck them in their dull 'manifested' asses. I have absolutely not one jot of sympathy for them. Or a jot of anything for that matter. Life is tough all over bitches. If you can't deal with entropy when you..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by nebulawindphone
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"AS IN LITERALLY DOUSING THEM, I.E. SPRAYING IT ON THEM SOMEHOW BUT THE DROWNING IN CHAMPAGNE IS METAPHORICAL KTHXBYE" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Baby_Balrog
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Loto: OH. MY. GOD. THAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYONE'S EVER EVER DONE FOR ME, I AM GOING TO DANCE ON MY KITCHEN TABLE WITH THE BLINDS UP WHILST DROWNING IN CHAMPAGNE AND DOUSING MY BEWILDERED ROOMMATES IN RED WINE JUST FOR YOU YOU TOTAL DARLING OH MY..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Baby_Balrog
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hay guise, someone need to make a Single-Link-Posters Pride Club, like a pledge where we go, "we, the undersigned, hereby swear to never put more than one link in our post just to make it seem yummier despite a lame topic, for we have faith in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dhruva
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How come?
posted by dhoyt at 10:34 AM EST on March 3 [!]
Easy, from most MeFi-users' perspective, muslims are the 'others', so they're likely to be stereotyped anyway.
Being critical about those who surround you and tolerant of 'others' =..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The real question will be: can Wordpress' community survive this and continue to thrive?
Yeah, of course. It's an error in judgement and one that will probably be rectified soon...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If this is NYC, all you have to do is figure out a way to pit the bedbugs against the roaches.
Word." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And that's why we need more than one desktop environment for Linux. One for the people who are confused by having more than one clock available, and another one for me.
Are you kidding or is this an unintended parody?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"keep one desktop environment, one word processor, one freecell game, one clock....
I know it feels normal when you're used to it, but it's actually quite puzzling to ship an OS with a buncha clocks. From the GNOME Usability..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But bypassing the NYT registration system will?
It's not a 'bypass', it's an NYT procedure so blogs can link through." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"kickstart70: I did wonder whether I was misreading your comment, apparently I did. Sorry! Anyway. My point wasn't to accuse people of racism, just callousness. One may not find it horrid that people halfway across the world died, but there's no..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow. I hope the smug bastards among those above are feeling real good about themselves right now. Here's a pat on the back. Who cares if brownie dies, after all. Unless they were skilled enough to do a job a westerner would. Then we can make..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I hope HTuttle
Appreciates it's not just
Prose with line breaks--more!
But yeah, count me in the sonnet or villanelle camp. Three phrases just don't cut it.
Anyway, 'easter eggs' like those are always nice to find. The corporate web sorely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And--on a basic level--of course you're right about not having men define what womens' role should be. I just disagreed that anyone was doing so upthread...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"ok, I misphrased that. Not an academic study per se, but still something with philosophical underpinnings." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"No... not anymore than what you think about history isn't telling someone else what they should think about history. It's just another drop in the ocean of the intellectual tradition behind it. Some people spend their lives studying it, some just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Secret Life of Gravy, that's a bit puerile. Like it or not, feminism is an academic study, not a cult. You can't have a field of knowledge upon which a gender is stopped from commenting..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hildegarde, you've been constantly condescending and taking things personally throughout the thread. Please simmer down? We're just talking.
Anyway. About rape. The aggression argument goes like this:
1. People like to have sex: Applies to both..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"eustacescrubb: I assume that rapists who rape women would choose women as sexual partners too. What gender of person to rape is far less an active decision (which gender you have sex with) than which person to beat up...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, re: calling aggressive women "bitches", I think it's as valid as calling aggressive men "assholes" or the like. It's just a gender-specific catch-all insult...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure that tying rape into discussions of feminism is useful (re: mace sprayers). It's a criminal act, not condoned by anyone. (It is in some places/contexts of course, eg. random tribes as punishment, but not on American college campuses.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Because the actions of Chechan rebels or Afghan tribal leaders have little to do with Moroccans, or Indonesians or Bosniaks, religion or not.
This is worth repeating. Iran, Iraq and Turkey are all different. Pakistan and Indonesia are different...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Loto
11 months ago
