What you've got does not really sound like hemorrhoids. External hemorrhoids are distinct protuberances, painful lumps on the rim of the anus. Usually there is some (minor and not medically significant but visible) bleeding with hemorrhoids. Take... [
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Video game suggestions for a preschooler who loves Braid
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You're assuming that if they were interested in you they would have made a move, but you're interested in them and you haven't made a move, right? From the perspective of quite a few more years observation and experience, in general, people are... [
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3 days ago
The idea that this is fiction is really quite absurd. I mean if I'm proven wrong, hey, I'll freely cop that I've been out-absurded. But seriously: someone is working up this much backstory to game askme to no apparent purpose? I just can't see it.... [
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5 days ago
Little, Big by John Crowley. It might be a little bit of an older person's book but it shows how far fantasy can go (and I feel like in the general direction of the classics you cite) and if it's your sort of thing chances are you'll be reading it... [
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It does seem, at its base, that what the record company that Quirk is doing is creating excuses for artists to never EVER be recouped.
The other interesting possibility he raises is that the industry is avoiding like anything actually fixing its... [
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I think it possible to stage any murder to look like a suicide. Just sayin'.
posted by zardoz at 5:51 PM on November 24
Let's just be clear here that you are suggesting the possibility that this was a murder staged to look like a suicide that was... [
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I have been thinking about starting a blog called "Conservatives are Horrible Graphic Designers" for about a year. This website is all the motivation I need.
posted by elvissa at 3:40 PM on November 24
Great concept but the name is way... [
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You know, making the teabagger connection is so far beyond premature, and using this currently whisper thin story as an excuse to hop on the favorite political hobbyhorse does no honor to this man's inspiring life or tragic death.... [
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Isn't it America's SECOND canabis cafe. Last time I was in Vancouver
Yeah you go ask a Canadian if they're "American" and see how they react.... [
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this shit with the inside jokes/references, double entendres, puns, etc. in the marijuana community has fucking got to stop. it's so boring, and does nothing to help legitimize their cause.
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Track down novel pinball machines in local watering holes. Look into geocaching (might break the budget guidelines). If that mpls stands for Minneapolis, did you know you're in one of the densest park and greenspace cities in the world? Have you... [
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I'm not going to begin to parse the ethics or legality of it, but it does seem to me that the easy catch-all solution to this, if the true goal were to promote better health in the graduating class, would be to make the course mandatory for all... [
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It is the watch pocket. Let's talk about that. At length. At great, great length.
The principle of keeping one's timepiece in one's waistcoat pocket is well-founded in protecting your valuable piece of technology from keys and coins and such.... [
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1. When you are not actually interacting with your partner, consciously reproach these thoughts in your mind whenever you experience them as consistently as you can. Be aware of what you are thinking and explicitly dispute it in your thoughts. It... [
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Has anybody saved or recovered anything from the original blog? I haven't found any actual text or quotes from it yet.
As far as I can tell he did a pretty thorough job of eradicating his prior online presence (aside from his and others' comments... [
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2 weeks ago
The thing is, if you fuck with telemarketers you are still wasting your time on a telemarketer. It is a little difficult to overcome the social imperative that you have to respond to conversational gambits even if you know that you are being engaged... [
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Perhaps what you really intuited is the incredible arbitrariness of life. Today a number came up, it seemed significant, but of course it wasn't: you have exactly the same odds of drawing a royal flush of hearts as any particular hand of pure... [
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I think things like this are tricky, and not clear-cut (to be clear about my personal reaction, I hated this and described it in the deleted thread as "vile" which I certainly stand by). The fact that something is outrageous, in poor taste,... [
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It's going to be a bit of a fuck around if you actually die, Bageena. So, uh, don't. [
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Try looking at yourself from an emotional/empathic perspective instead of an analytical/evaluative one. As a hurting person needing sympathy, as a loving person deserving of love, and so forth. In my experience this sort of perspective can be... [
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Well I'm a Christian so my perspective on most of this is, well, irrelevant... but I'm a husband and on that level I'd say, I don't see how acceptance can come if you aren't willing to say what you're feeling to the person closest to you. So try... [
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Oxycontin is fun right? People are recreating on it. So maybe that should be illegal too eh? No, it shouldn't because people need f'ing pain meds you ass.
And to the same point, you don't have a fairly well-organized movement pushing to keep local... [
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My church runs a food shelf and the increase in need has been kind of shocking to observe. I don't even know what to say about it, the very idea of being unable to give my child as much food as he needs is devastating and I can't really think... [
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DISCLAIMER:
There is a possibility, which is waning with each e-mail and comment I receive, that this is all some sort of a concoction created by those who tried to prove us wrong to begin with, and that what we reported to have happened two years... [
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So he invited you to his apartment, showed you his books and music, gave you his numbers and online contact info, is maintaining contact online and goes out of his way to talk to you in person.
I'm unsure of how I am supposed to proceed from here.... [
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When you cultivate a presence online one of the chances you take is of being discussed as an abstraction by strangers. There are a hell of a lot nastier places for it to happen than Metafilter.
As far as I can see nobody from Metafilter is going... [
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There are s ton of different instruments that can help you determine different constituents of samples. Different classes of compounds will work better in different types of instruments. Some things won't work at all in some instruments, and... [
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My feeling is this: you should absolutely not "settle" when you marry. I can't imagine going into that not feeling 100% sure.
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When I was a kid for a while there was this weird regional nonsense slang going around for a while that was called "Watson talk." Watson was a nearby town. It is the self-proclaimed "Goose Capital of the USA," has a population... [
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spec80: the ill-fated (but hilarious) thread suggesting a unique punctuation mark to indicate sarcasm. The hamburger derail is decisive and nearly immediate.... [
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The first link doesn't say what is being claimed, the last link is a terrible, unscientific piece of advocacy fearmongering. I don't take this stuff lightly, and I know a great deal about it, having studied it professionally a long time ago an... [
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Surely this will convince the American people to do what? Elect a third party? Become socialist? Hang the bastards?
I'm actually fine with any of these options. Or, you know, all three.... [
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Today I learned that if you compliment the computer of a woman you don't know, you are perpetuating "rape culture." [
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Jesus, meehawl, those are some scary sounding chemical names there, huh? The "higher levels" of caffeine in the study you cited were over 300 mg/day - that's like 3-6 double espressos or 15 ounces of dark chocolate. The idea that modest... [
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Having consigned myself to the role of one of the villains in this thread I will additionally point out that being unsure about what qualities something possesses doesn't make it "Schrödinger's.... [
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