MeFi comment:
"government run system where they [the government] would have direct access to confidential data on individuals in crisis
Does anybody else find this idea rather scary?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""But the story is about adults paid to pretend that they are minors."
And behave with entrapping seductiveness to vulnerable men. That sounds more like a kinky role-playing game than anything else, with a dumptruckful of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""It's water in a frosted glass bottle with a cork and emblazoned with Swarovski crystals. At $24 a 750ml bottle..."
So the crystals are just ornamental; the meth is dissolved in the water?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by parhamr
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Of course this guy does get some things right (is he THIS Steven Pinker?):
"Political correctness from the other end of the ideological spectrum has also distorted many people's conception of violence in early civilizations--namely, those..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by triggerfinger, tehloki, tarheelcoxn
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"It puts the cherry-flavored lotion on.
And shmegegge tiene razón: some people are SO overly demanding and disappointed when their narcissistic wishes go unfulfilled...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by halonine
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
""He's since ditched Rome for the Orthodox Church."
You mean he ditched a Maronite church with an Arabic and Aramaic liturgy for an even more "exotic" manifestation? So he's a right-wing version of a "spiritual seeker"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
""the political will to deal with terrorism in a globalized world"
Most so-called "terrorism" has little to do with "a globalized world" but happens in the context of what are essentially civil wars (for lack of a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MikeKD
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Dear Mr. Haughey,
I understand you've got a family to support now. So why not sell Metafilter to, oh, AOL or Salon.com or whatever? You'd make some bucks easily, and you won't have to think about this stuff anymore.
If you do that I predict the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Dave Faris, not everybody who says things you don't approve of in a way you don't favor does so because they're mentally ill. Have you heard of this?
Or would you say everybody who's not always "nice" and "normal" needs to "get [their] meds..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeTa comment:
""Does somebody need a time out?"
You do, pitchfork-waver.
Cop: "Why'd you run if you wasn't guilty?"
Black teenager: '"Cuz you was chasing me with your gun out, man."
Furthermore, unlike with the repeated..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, nasreddin
Last year
Ask comment:
""I've heard that illegal drug use in your charts might make it harder to get prescriptions for medications with a potential for abuse."
Even looking "disreputable" has that effect; if you think you need Vicodin be sure to be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
Ask comment:
""Always remember to be slightly wary of the 'instant click'."
More than "slightly." An 'instant click' is a sign that you're psyching yourself into something and/or the other person is. Maybe that night your "buttons"..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by yohko, min, UbuRoivas
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Kickstart70, could you please explain what you were thinking when you posted this? I don't get it.
About that thread though, women in their early 20s were a big part of what made my 20s & 30s such hell. It's not that they were afraid of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
Last year
MeFi comment:
"This is the kind of one-link Youtubery we should encourage. For the next one somebody should do a "Cut or not?" medley, just to be fair." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rictic
Last year
MeTa comment:
"klangklangston said: "Well, 90% moderate petit-bourgeoise "liberal," you mean, not 90% left."
We agree. Damn. Whose head should explode first?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, Tennyson D'San
Last year
MeTa comment:
"shmegegge asked: "What on earth has your day been like that this seemed like a reasonable way to spend your time?"
Well, I for one wish I'd learn a better excuse for cleaning the bathroom than overflowing the toilet the day after a big..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by loquacious, Tennyson D'San, tehloki
Last year
MeTa comment:
""i would like a favorite, please."
Sorry shmegegge, not even for you. I'll be your Private Dancer though! ;-)
P.S. The above was just gratuitous attention whoring wit. Please don't anybody hold me to it...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, Tennyson D'San
Last year
MeTa comment:
""That's how adults behave. They don't tell people that beliefs they think are silly and potentially harmful are silly and potentially harmful."
Absolutely, because when you yell "Look out for that truck!" you deprive people of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That's a "sexy" noise? I'd tell her to hush or I'd watch Leno instead." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by perilous
Last year
MeFi comment:
""Sure, we want to avoid a 'White Man's Burden' sort of approach, but at the same time, it's not like white and black culture are completely separate."
I hear you. I also know that the Black communities didn't do this entirely to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lunachic
Last year
MeTa comment:
"But, you know, like, EVERYBODY thinks they're RIGHT and so, like, you have to AGREE with them whatever they say or you're a BIG MEAN POOPIEHEAD. And if somebody ELSE says something totally different you have to agree with THEM too because like..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by brundlefly, low_horrible_immoral, tehloki, Citizen Premier, jeblis
Last year
MeTa comment:
""Atheist cock-worshiping"
Is that a requirement of the Atheist religion? Doesn't that discriminate against hens?" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by demagnetized
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Mayor Curley is our Prophet from the God Atheism. We have to agree with him or we don't get any virgins." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matildaben
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Oh I know, it's not a name, it's a title. Like in the magazine: "I am Joe's clark." But my Daddy never let me read THAT article, so I still don't know what that is.
(Sorry if that's not as howlingly funny as I think it is; straight..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vronsky
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I can't believe somebody forked over whatever the fee was to put four white words on a blue background. I paid $5 to mathowie in Nov. '04 and I've been saying "I HATE YOU ALL" several times a week ever since!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by roll truck roll, phrontist, Smart Dalek
Last year
MeFi comment:
""If we were to measure out the courthouse again we needed to check in with the security desk."
So we need to get Official Permission to measure the height of a PUBLIC building, "in the land of the free and the home of the brave...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
Last year
MeFi comment:
""Their slogan was, 'We only sell wheat bread. Death to whitey!'"
Oh, I see: he was Black, therefore all those Bad Things they say about him MUST be true...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by serazin
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Suppose you're overthinkin' a plate o'beans. Suddenly someone'll say, like Hitler, or Nazis, or Nietzsche had syphilis out of the blue, no explanation.
And then sometimes IRFH'll pop out with "MetaTalk is my favorite dive bar. Please let's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by It's Raining Florence Henderson
Last year
MeFi comment:
"In the news story some Public Official is quoted as saying something like "we have no reason to suspect TERRORISM at this time," and now Charmston just brought up "the morning of the 11th of September, 2001." Can't a shitty bridge..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by aclevername, BaxterG4, ukdanae, scrump, bugbread, dmd, cellphone, shokod, scatman, perilous, tehloki, mosk, sebastienbailard, maxwelton, gum, quin, H-Bar, quonsar
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Said baphomet: "davy- Don't be so fucking crass for a change."
I can't believe a guy who calls himself after the fucking Devil is telling me not to be "crass." Why don't you change your Mefi logname to mary_poppins?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cellphone, grouse
Last year
MeFi comment:
"AFAIK, to amplify what TedW said, Tom Snyder was the only Major TV Personality who could interview Charlie Manson more or less like any other of his interviewees, unlike Geraldo who did nothing but grandstand. (Too bad neither could get Charlie to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Hey mkultra, you could have taken your own advice and used the contact form for this, if you didn't mean to inspire more of the same "misbehavior" you decry...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I've never been there: it's too far to walk and my "SO" won't drive me.
Do they have a Pat Tillman target?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pompomtom
Last year
