MeFi comment:
"I'm too distracted by the smirk. God, I hate that smirk.
I don't think it's actually a smirk. More that she was advised (or worked out for herself) that she looks terrible in any pose other than a three-quarter face with her mouth closed & her..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Metroid Baby
An hour ago
MeFi comment:
"I could countenance facing up to them, but I feel I am OK vis-à-vis such fetishisation, and not just putting up a facade." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"one more voice here saying it's underwhelming when some rich cunt pays a designer to create something quirky for them, as opposed to real people who actually have to spend time searching the shit out, accumulating it over a years & years.
the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard, turgid dahlia
more than 12 hours ago
Ask comment:
"Jimbob, I've heard that absentee voting using your old address is only permitted if you vote for the Greens.
Vote for anybody else & you might risk prosecution.
IANAL, IANYL, etc etc...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kjs4, Jimbob
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Second Account For Making Jokey Comments - you're a guy, right?
(coz it's obvious that you've bottled those emotions up for way too long)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orrnyereg
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"ah, see this never would've happened if Google Maps came in devanagari." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by infini
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"covered in jello, reciting Ayn Rand to each other, and dressed in leather versions of Star Trek uniforms. Cool. Like I said: fly your freak flag.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR HANDS ON MY DIARY?!?? I DEMAND ANSWERS!!!!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by orthogonality, mullingitover
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"languagehat, in my experience the Iranians Persians themselves often go to great lengths to distance themselves from Islam.
"pffft, that introduced religion from a bunch of tent-dwellers? Islam is an Arab thing; they imposed it upon us,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by infini
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Craig Williams, a curator at the New York State Museum, drove four hours to visit Willard Psychiatric Center in the spring of 1995. The complex, located 65 miles southwest of Syracuse, was about to shut down after more than 100 years ... a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But involving kids? No. This is not okay.
I've gotta say that this fetish is not my cup of tea at all, but I don't get all the "won't somebody think of the children?" hating going on.
Isn't *every* kid a result of a couple's sexuality,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by reventlov
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I also think he isn't very familiar with his favourite figure Loki, since while Loki's role is more ambiguous
I'm glad you pointed that out, Phalene, because I was thinking of disputing the bollocks about Kali being the "Hindu Goddess of..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by dhruva, hap_hazard, electrasteph, Sangermaine, ailouros08, JHarris, Phalene
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, how about that? It's just a continuation of religious iconography! That may be true enough, but probably not the religion they're thinking of:
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wemayfreeze
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"a five- or six-year separation is doubtless not the best spacing between two kids growing up in the same household.
That has to be one of the stupidest things I've read in a very long time.
He backs that claim up with some rubbish about how..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phalene, Artw
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But taking pains to avoid "offending people" or "behaving like a giant douche" means one hasn't actually learned anything at all. has been well brought up, educated, and is a reasonably fit & normal member of society...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by web-goddess, crataegus
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"You want to know why the feminist movement has failed to attract men in great numbers?
That's a really terrible case of begging the question.
As the saying goes, "Any woman who refuses to be treated like a doormat but doesn't call herself..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oneirodynia, tallus
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"My heart leapt when I saw you had added someone to your contacts.
Same here :)
That's about all I can write sensibly right now coz I'm all torn up with happiness...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yes, there is a daily limit which has I think been reached twice before, ever.
Only twice? Then tehloki's not as prolific as I thought." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"*also raises drink to Mefistan; chooses not to toss glass into three-bar-fire*" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Fortuny frames his acts of trolling as “experiments,” sociological inquiries into human behavior. In the fall of 2006, he posted a hoax ad on Craigslist, posing as a woman seeking a “str8 brutal dom muscular male.” More than 100 men responded...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by roll truck roll, electrasteph, griphus, brownpau, Phalene
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"well said, miko. and especially funny because you obviously typed it up whilst MPDSEA was trying to let fly half-assed haymakers at a bag of jello of his own creation.
because i'm lazy & it's not really worth a typed response, i'm pasting..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, tehloki
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"People's moral judgments represent their desire to control, and nothing more.
Don't worry, Steve. Things will be a lot better when you get to college.
huh? are kids these days so retarded that they have to wait until college to work out that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, Sangermaine
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But taking pains to avoid "offending people" or "behaving like a giant douche" means one has been well brought up, educated, and is a reasonably fit & normal member of society.
This is hilarious. Even after I explained that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, eritain
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"And all the threads it leads you to are winding.
And all the links that light the way are blinding.
There are many things that I would like to post to blue,
But I don't know how
I said maybe
You're gonna be the one who faves me?
But..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by crazyray, bertrandom, xorry, juv3nal, Hilweh, cashman, frecklefaerie, nudar, Phire, bunnytricks
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"An afterthought:
They pick up on & store away all kinds of things you might say in an offhanded manner, not for the purposes of catching you out in an argument, but because those things are obviously seen as some kind of windows onto your soul,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"and Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America - are those your final conclusions from all your activity here, or do you have some further research objectives up your sleeve?
Aside from that, your first, third & fourth point can easily be learned..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sangermaine, Miko
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"heh:
MeFi isn't some "free society". It's not even society in general. It's a fucking website, and you're tilting at windmills, except instead of a lance and a horse you've got a asthmatic pug, a cocktail swizzle and a malformed sense of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mayor West
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I read that as steam graphs, and immediately thought "I bet they're just regular graphs with some brass doodads tacked on..."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by desjardins
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"great. now i have a mental image of jonmc thinking "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" as he undresses." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
7 days ago
Ask comment:
"Condition yourself to think that the cleavage is actually a "tradesman's crack"." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by grobstein
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"How many men really fetishize heels? I hear lots of women talking about how men love them. I hear very few men EVER mention heels.
The men are probably too busy drooling over the root purpose of heels - thrusting out of T&A - to bother looking..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Economist has an interesting article about internet hate groups.
It points out how the internet was meant to bring everyone together and we'd all get along and instead we have this kind of behavior but instead nationalists of all stripes have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Enter Ghost of Thread
KATTULLUS
Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!
GOO
In the same figure, like the thread that's dead.
KATTULLUS
Thou art a scholar; post to it, Chrysostom.
GOO
Looks it not like the thread?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Heretic, ShawnStruck, Kattullus
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Shut up, you MeFite! You MeFites, all you do is type, and type, and say "let me tell you something" and "I just wanna say." Well, this thread is dead now, so shut up!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
""overeducated and over-opinionated geeks"
This guy obviously knows nothing about the etymology or shifting intercultural and historical semiotic signification of the term "geek", especially when mapped against an adaptive model..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Rock Steady, sluglicker, sarahmelah, Liosliath, Solon and Thanks, Blazecock Pileon, sunshinesky, imperium, vronsky, mumkin, Sys Rq, spaceman_spiff, lukemeister
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Critical Mass was one of the things that got me back into cycling, having put down my racer of teenage years almost as soon as I got myself a drivers licence.
Initially, it seemed like a fun way to indulge in a leftie protest against more..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Comrade_robot, hecho de la basura, tehloki, bertrandom
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The book cover designer probably searched for "Iranian Women Reading", and that was the most usable photo that came up.
The book cover designer probably has no idea who Khatami is, what he stood for, or what he looks like. The designer..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solon and Thanks
9 days ago
