MeFi comment:
"“what the hell does a bunch of men smashing into each other have to do with that?”
In theory and often in practice: Sportsmanship, teamwork, a thousand other things. I know a lot of people who don’t know anything about how to be a team player or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by AceRock
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"“No matter what you do in L.A., your behavior is appropriate for the city.”
Yeah, can you imagine growing a beard...in Chicago? No way! dude! You’d be, there’s, that’d be some kind of, y’know? Wow.
Beard. Hot pretzels. In Chicago. People would care..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by moxiedoll
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Seems like being hairy is a positive boon as well (to some Japanese women anyway). Due to my mispent youth I speak excellent formalized very masculine Japanese albeit in very brief specialized phrases.
Please instruct me often!
Uh, pleased to meet..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard
Last month
MeFi comment:
"“My problem was with the suggestion that because he made it out alive, he made the right choice. Maybe it was the right choice, maybe it wasn't. And if all other things being equal, not wanting anyone to get killed is an objectionable position, well..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the other side
Last month
MeFi comment:
"“Note to anyone stupid enough to believe the old chestnut about defending yourself from your own government...” - chuckdarwin
And your experiance with any kind of firearms is? Any military experiance, at all? Picked up a history book? Know..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Sukiari, Roman Graves
Last month
MeFi comment:
"White collar criminals have more to lose.
Yeah? Fine me $125K for stealing anywhere from $7 to $21 million dollars and I’ll do a nickel in a federal country club standing on my head.
“The gun at your back is just a bit more hidden when the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by symbioid
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The only way this could work is with auctioneers....or horse racing announcers.
Aaannn!Shestakingoffherblousetheblouseiscomingoffherecomestheblouseit’soffandshesgot: Greattits..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by pwicks, rush, ruelle, scrump, Molesome, basicchannel, Rictic, dismas, tehloki, Asymptote, h00py, joeblough, flatluigi, liza, shavenwarthog
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man...I’d like to herd a cat. Y’know? Phfft. You kiddin me? Herding some cats n’shit? That’d be the thing. Cat herd. They have those? Why is it a Shep-herd not a sheep-herd? No, I’m off track here. But really, herding cats? Man, think about that...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by milestogo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In Soviet Russia the...uh....no, wait, pretty much the same deal.
“Yeah, it's good to be rich and white in this country.”
Heh heh, yeah it is.
Oh...I mean uh *furtive sad look* yeah. Huh. Wow, right? Pfft.
EASY WAY TO STAY OUT OF CAMPS:..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by jammy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There are few phrases I’ve encountered that have as much potential to generate chaos and trouble than: “But instead of calling the police...”
But yeah, spraying homeless folks with water in the winter, swell.
Haw haw haw. Not as fun as torching..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"People (other than Hitler) sat at Wannsee Conference and discussed the “final solution to the Jewish question.”
(Funly enough, they didn’t consider the Jews human, but rather monsters.)
A group of people - Chancellors, ministers, secretaries,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wtdoor
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I like tear gas, Baby_Balrog. Because it makes the life all around it when you're not being gassed so much more appreciated.
Let me go be really unpopular and say I prefer death to pain.
BlackLeotardFront I would rather be shot than..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Iridic
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know the ACLU is actually defending people from the police searching their homes for guns so it's not just Heston that *fingers in ears* MLAH MLAH MLAH CAN'T HEAR YOU MLAH MLAH MLAH*he's got a whole life's work in film and he marched with MLK and..." [
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favorited 37 times, recently by edverb, mojohand, Brian James, The Light Fantastic, Crabby Appleton, khaibit, tkchrist, GrammarMoses, shmegegge, kryptondog, Atom Eyes, orthogonality, creasy boy, PareidoliaticBoy, mecran01, Deathalicious, h00py, brundlefly, Danila, justgary, Cyrano, stirfry, palomar, Nice Guy Mike, supercrayon, etaoin, dawson, bowline, slogger, nasreddin, lunit, vira, Two unicycles and some duct tape, Drastic, davar, Snyder, Dizzy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“The root problem, of course, is that are already way too many people on this planet; and the only way we're ever going to make any headway on this issue is stop trying to cram any more of them onto it.”
Yeah, but people keep complaining when you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by PareidoliaticBoy, iamkimiam
3 months ago
MeFi post:
When we go to win a war, we win it.
favorited 11 times, recently by Furie, generalist, AceRock, PareidoliaticBoy, prambutan, Orb, yonyonson, gingerbeer, flyinghamster, SentientAI, junebug
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, that Smedleyman is insightful and funny!
/I’m not Smedleyman even though it says so right down there." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""There all sorts of aggressive laws to deal with this issue; kids are kept close to home, taught to be paranoid.... yet there about 50 kidnappings of children by strangers every year in America."
That's a perfect analogy. There is an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Tenuki
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""No, they aren't. There were plans in place for this to happen but it appears to have been both delayed and modified from the original plans."
Ah, right. "Police now say the program will be entirely volunteer -- officers will only..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hap_hazard, creasy boy, Kadin2048
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“it's also some pretty intense handwaving to argue that the framers intended for Joe Wingnut to be heavily armed.”
Other than, y’know, directly quoting them you mean?
“The second amendment puts weapon ownership in the context of a state militia,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by adamdschneider, Kadin2048, BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“I *am* arguing that the US citizenry is powerless to defend itself using currently LEGAL weaponry... Can the US populace effectively resist the modern govt.'s armed forces using currently legal weaponry? I say no way in hell...”
*sigh* Battle of..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by pumpkin11, Kadin2048, pyramid termite, BrotherCaine, hap_hazard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Small arms will get you nowhere against a modern military"
Not to harm, this just stuns me. Seriously. Vast examples. Hell - the IRA.
Y'know, the Brits have a pretty good war machine, probably #2 in military spending in the world. So..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"13 minutes.
Yeah, good luck getting that idea past my wife.
13 minutes - 20 times each, right?
I’ve done double iron triathlons less exhausting than our anniversary.
And we’ve had two minute quickies outside. So - any sort of daily time frame..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vegetableagony, BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, psmealey, folks could work to make things worse (yes, worse) sort of a tai chi or yes, anding and hyperaugmentation of where the government appears to want to go. (Oh, you wanted wiretaps for everyone? Ok. Here’s Gov. Schwartzenegger’s phone..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Countess Elena
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“other than jews and their fellow travellers who read electronic pamphlets of marginal importance like this one, I think there are just some things that the burghers and frauleins don't want to hear, so I think it's sort of a tactical dead end to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, hap_hazard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“when the subject of pederasty or sexual child abuse comes up, people (usually male people) often seem to get way more bent out of shape about homosexual adult-child sex rather than heterosexual adult-child sex, something that suggests to me a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by scrump, marble, hap_hazard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“It suggests to me that people (usually male people) take the sexual exploitation of women/girls for granted,”
True, many people do. And that’s all the worse.
There’s always that kind of (and often that specifically male/female) dichotomy..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, hap_hazard
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Video games seem to have taken the place, at least for parents, of letting kids seek personal autonomy. Bit of a double edged sword there.
On the one hand, this is how people interact in the modern age and so pursuing interaction and autonomy along..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Xoder
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sending the message without, y’know, sending the actual message or acknowledging there’s a message.
“If people had known how close we came to World War Three that day there’d have been mass panic”
If people had known how often that was true..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kadin2048, dhartung, KokuRyu
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Your son would be correct. He is a nice guy." - posted by wfc123
Makes it all the worse then, dunnit?
" 'What is the deal with that, exactly? He was born with just one front tooth, and the one next to it was capped, and it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“But I don't think they should be lionized for aiding and abetting in what are essentially great crimes against humanity.”
Totally. Still paying taxes are ya?
These men gave their lives for their fellows. They didn’t “choose to commit war..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by generalist
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Not sure why this is seen as some sort of Zen level of kindness we should all embrace."
Because the ethics involved are universally considered of a higher order. And, crucially, it worked. And has worked in the past. Whether this..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by scrump, roombythelake, languagehat
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“Smed, I’m at the gas station, where’s your house, man?”
“Look, just imagine you’re in a state represented by vertices on a graph...”
“Ok, so, left at the light or what?”
“No, no, each input is represented by the edges, so - are you in state ‘S’?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by six-or-six-thirty, Asymptote, devbrain, Rafaelloello
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"(krinklyfig - I was thinking of the same Zen story)
(Given there’s some veracity to the story) that’s some bad ass Kung Fu right there.
“I hate to be a cynic but if he'd ended up getting stabbed we'd a) not have heard about this at all or b)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kosher_jenny
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I have to 2nd “Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space” as a favorite.
And yeah, the mythology was inconsistent. But the flaw in structure for writing is that it kind of has to be.
Ever notice that a LOT of t.v. characters are barely self-aware and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wobh, psmealey
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Y’know tho’ there’s like a really homophobic undercurrent in Mexican culture. And it’s not even rational. Not that homophobia is rational, but it can be - at least in the U.S. - articulated somewhat. Y’know, like any sort of anti-whateverism. The..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by slimepuppy, Marla Singer, lychee, jonp72, niccolo
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“there is systemic corruption which to my mind makes it okay to speak in generalizations.”
Fair enough. Misunderstood your direction there. I agree with that.
“this is more of the kind of talk that quells discussion. "do something about it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, Snyder
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"See? And that's why they don't have escalators in Wyoming. Thanks scody." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by psmealey
3 months ago
