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How can I make my thesis look beautiful?
favorited 11 times, recently by Blacksun, divabat, Ctrl_Alt_ep, neuron, Ms. Next, NotMyselfRightNow, infinityjinx, Grinder, blahblahblah, Large Marge, minus zero
11 days ago
Ask post:
Wedding ring engraving inspiration
favorited 18 times, recently by ifjuly, subbes, whatideserve, Phire, deborah, hollygoheavy, Ctrl_Alt_ep, Coyote at the Dog Show, spinturtle, irishkitten, kidsleepy, ames, violetk, Green Eyed Monster, pocams, Ufez Jones, inatizzy, ml98tu
13 days ago
Ask post:
You HAVE to have the...
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2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
This is how we roll
favorited 21 times, recently by MNDZ, musicinmybrain, funkiwan, intermod, Vindaloo, CKmtl, rongorongo, CitrusFreak12, jeffburdges, ErWenn, ifthe21stcentury, prambutan, pants tent, lemonjel, DMan, not_on_display, Wilder, Mitheral, M.C. Lo-Carb!, Kattullus, yonyonson
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"This supports my long-standing theory that Britons are totally bollocky at naming things.
Flagged as racist, 'cos you're behaving like a [redacted].
1. The female external genital organs. Cf. QUAINT n.
Its currency is restricted in the..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"There's a good Muscovite example. Every summer foreign journalists write articles about pukh, a kind of fluff shed from Balsam trees that clogs the streets.
It's not caused by collective amnesia, but by lazy journalists looking for an easy story...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Soulbee, cass
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I had no idea MetaFilter hated Hitchens so much.
His political views clearly don't universally chime with those of your average MeFite (pro-atheist=good, pro-iraq war=not so good), but he's sincere enough about his beliefs that he's prepared to..." [
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Last month
Ask comment:
"I am a native English speaker from London UK.
I've tested this out in my head with a bunch of different examples, and I can't really detect any difference.
I suspect one or other might be generally more common in different english speaking..." [
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Last month
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"As a diehard liberal I'm slightly ashamed to admit this, but since we had an intruder in the apartment last year while we were asleep, I keep a replica handgun and a samurai sword by the bed.
My only "clever" thing is a small decorative..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oxford blue
Last month
MeTa comment:
"It's not a record either for total number, or most in 6 months. Postroad has 18 listed on deletedthread, which only started in December 2002. By all accounts, Postroad's most prolific period was way back in 2001...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
2 months ago
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"For a randomly timed episode of full penetrative intercourse the rate of conception is somewhere between 2% and 5%. However at the most fertile time, the rate of conception from a single episode of penetrative intercourse is somewhere between 10% and..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Phire, BrotherCaine, hot soup girl, TedW, kev23f, brownpau, Deathalicious, zeek321, t2urner, Ugh, wfrgms, hulahulagirl, grouse
2 months ago
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"polyglot your answer is basically just wrong. As minus zero points out there are lots of case reports of both inadvertent and planned Botox during pregnancy, with no apparent side effects. You should not be speculating based on one animal study, even..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geoff.
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also for my money, the Mt Hua Shan Trail doesn't look quite as terrifying as the arête of the Vallée Blanche. It's a 2m wide, 100m long snow ridge, with the path tramped into slippery ice by the passage of hundreds of people wearing ski boots. It's a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dseaton
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You are not alone as a domain name addict. My ex-flatmate owns youfuckingcunt.com, only so he can have the email address:
whatareyoulooking@youfuckingcunt.com
Slight derail: how is work on drinksyourmilkshake.com going?..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by flatluigi, Locative, galactain
4 months ago
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"This question reminded me of a prank allegedly pulled by a colleague of mine when he was at medical school. One of his best friends impregnated his girlfriend while they were still final year medical students. They decided to get married right away...." [
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4 months ago
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"Everyone who is saying "walk away" is allowing themselves to be biased by the people they know who didn't ever fully recover after their first psychotic episode. In fact though many people will only ever have one psychotic episode and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Not that anyone is going to want to read any of these books, or have the £870 required to buy them all, but I have written or co-authored chapters in the following books:
Handbook for Surgical Cross-cover
The Overactive Bladder: Evaluation and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This isn't just posted in the wrong MetaTalk category, it's posted in the wrong website entirely. MetaTalk is for discussing MetaFilter. Even if you could be absolutely certain that richmondparker was indoctrinating the children of Marietta Georgia..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pardonyou?
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"While we're posting only tangentially-MeFi-related links:
So I guess I got kicked off another My Little Pony forum." [
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6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's somewhat ironic that so many people who intend to vote Democrat are opposed to Nader even standing, when that simple act would actually enhance the status of the US as a democracy...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by stinkycheese, Arch_Stanton, Rarebit Fiend
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Here's a good list:
Chad Jackson - "Hear the Drummer Get Wicked"
DJ Kool - "Let Me Clear My Throat"
DJ Mark the 45 King - "The 900 Number"
LA Funk Mob - "La Doctoresse"
Stetsasonic -..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Consistent failure to use the shift key appropriately (or indeed, ever in bruce's case) ought to be reason enough for a time out. [NOT BAUHAUSIST!!]" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Who knows how often this has happened in other threads, with well-intentioned, authoritatively stated, wrong advice?
It is undeniable that there is terrible advice offered in medical AskMe threads, and that it sometimes verges on the dangerous...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RussHy
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And Kowalski, you must be an academic, because you don't seem to have the slightest insight about the motivations of the overwhelming majority of physicians.
This is undeservedly patronising. All doctors should be trying to be doing the best for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't think he was worried so much about complications from screening, as complications from unwarranted prostatectomy for slow moving non-lethal tumours...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sacre_bleu
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Professor Michael Baum who was one of my medical school profs, is indeed a "vocal critic" of breast cancer screening." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rubbstone
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I see your comical story about a unicorn with 16 million hits, and raise you a laughing baby with 29 million hits, that I also think has never been on metafilter...." [
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favorited 1 time
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I missed this thread and got my own Xmas number one FPP about Malcolm Middleton deleted. Following Cortex's advice to the letter I'm re-adding it here:
Could a song called We're All Going to Die really become the UK Christmas number one single?..." [
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8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"HURF DURF flagged as offensive. Just because you tagged it as "lolcrazypeople", it doesn't automatically become ironic and cool." [
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8 months ago
Ask comment:
"This question reminded me of two awesome papers:
As seen on TV: observational study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in British television medical dramas
and
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Television — Miracles and Misinformation
They..." [
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9 months ago
Ask comment:
"Jay-Z answers this ask.me quite comprehensively in the lyrics to 99 problems:
The year is '94 and in my trunk is raw
In my rear view mirror is the mother fuckin' law
I got two choices y'all pull over the car or
Bounce on the devil put the..." [
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favorited 8 times
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The only person with any expertise in this subject in this thread, so far, is me.
I'm way way late in this crazy thread, but I claim expertise on the topic. I just had a study published about female ejaculation, and I've written a text book..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 months ago
