MeFi comment:
"I think that he's good for a 17-year-old. I imagine he'll get better and better as he ages.
Snark away, but I suspect that most of you couldn't write snappy lyrics like that at any age...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pmdboi
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some women claim that it is sexist when Hillary is called a "bitch". Personally, I think that's absurd. Would they be happier if she were referred to as an asshole?
person #1: Hillary? Sheesh, I'd never vote for that bitch!..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by liza, roystgnr, bunnytricks, tachikaze
Last month
MeTa comment:
"One of my closest friends is a conservative Mennonite. I've emailed her the link and asked her if she knows the answer. If she has anything to say on the topic, I'll post it in the thread.
posted by orange swan
One of my closest friends is Amish...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mojohand, LeeJay
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Actually, what wendell did was a lot less offensive than what others of us (and yes, I am including you, Brandon Blatcher, in this) did. He wrote one email and sent it to a bunch of people. It seems that some of us (okay--many of us) replied to all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
Last year
MeFi comment:
"A very good point, C17. And I'll bet that if she had had abstinence-only training, this never would have occurred.
And if they bring back the stocks, we can set her in the public square so that all the other little kids can look at her swelling..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phire
Last year
MeTa comment:
"When I say I may stop coming to metafilter I am not trying to be dramatic. I'm not a big poster here and have no emotional investment here. Also I am not talking to the members of mefi, but rather to the editors.
There is a lot of competition for..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by miss lynnster, box, melorama, maryh, wendell, brownpau
Last year
MeFi comment:
"And she was surprised by her experience in Saudi Arabia ..... why?
posted by blucevalo
Didn't read the article, did you?
That's like reading a post about the book Black Like Me and asking. "And he was surprised by his experience in The..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by quonsar, miss lynnster, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Don't forget criminal, delfuego. Some of the horrors that were mentioned are actual crimes." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"If something has been a plot point on The West Wing more than once, I don't see how you can call it an "obscure ... tactic".
In other words, how can you expect to keep up on governmental accountability when you don't even bother to keep..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nofundy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I still believe that when someone signs up for the military, they are doing so in the belief that they are protecting our country from harm, and by definition, to me, our freedom.
And I believe that everyone who becomes a lawyer does so in order..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
Last year
MeFi comment:
"We're not perfect, obviously, but at least American ideals support self-examination and individualism.
American ideals, perhaps. American reality, however, is another story...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nofundy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Only 47 percent of the soldiers and 38 percent of Marines said noncombatants should be treated with dignity and respect.
Once again, I need to ask: What, exactly, is our mission there? With whom are we at war?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Please, please, please don't let anyone here say anything even remotely like, "Well, they shouldn't have done the crime..."
Incarceration is the punishment; prison rape is a crime, not a deterrence policy...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by delmoi, Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson, tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Some of my personal favorites turn of phrases:
Nancy Pelosi: Botox Bolshevik
Bill Gates: So cheap he downloads pirated movies and still won’t pay for a decent haircut.
Joe Lieberman: Routinely scolds Democrats for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Am I the only one uncomfortable with the change in American grocery stores? I HATE Safeway mainly because of the fake friendliness.
"Finding everything okay?" Jesus--I just walked through the door and grabbed a cart! By the time I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by holgate, ryran, Mamapotomus, econous, phliar
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Many years ago, I received a large manila envelope with pictures of my recently deceased brother-in-law. His mother had written on the outside of the envelope, "Pictures--do not bend!" The envelope arrived creased and wrinkled, with the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by of strange foe
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Actually, I think that he makes sense.
If you want to counter my opinion publicly, write a letter to the editor. If you want me fired, write a letter to the publisher.
He is not writing a personal opinion to you personally via email; he is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zach4000, Matt Oneiros
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Except it feels good when it's your family that was murdered and raped to see him die.
posted by aacheson
I understand why people were out for Saddam's blood. What I'm not seeing is a reason to have his blood on our hands...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, isopraxis
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Osama bin Laden will certainly rejoice, along with Bush and Blair. And there's a thought. So many crimes avenged.
But we will have got away with it." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mijuta, ao4047
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'm waiting to hear Matt's take on the H-bombing of Portland.
posted by cortex
H-bombing Portland (aka Little Beirut) is so passe. Now they're dropping nothing but F-bombs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by YoBananaBoy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Two women were on a trip from Duluth to Minneapolis. Along the way, the driver realized that there were flashing lights coming up on her from behind, glanced at her speedometer, and said, "Oh, shit! I'm going to get a speeding ticket!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Yeomans
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Anyone remember Vachel Lindsay's poem The Congo?
Death is an Elephant,
Torch-eyed and horrible,
Foam-flanked and terrible.
BOOM, steal the pygmies,
BOOM, kill the Arabs,
BOOM, kill the white men,
HOO, HOO, HOO...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by trinarian
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Once again, I must say that Portland Police Bureau has it all over your wimpy California cops and their wimpy tasering.
A couple of years ago, Portland cops shot and killed an unarmed black guy on a traffic stop and then they tasered him for 3..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Operation Afterglow
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Over the years several spectacular accidents have been associated with drugs.
BFD. What kind of spectacular accident can one possibly have in a library? Sure, you can mix the fiction with the non-fiction, but seriously--this isn't life and death,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by beth
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Remember when the rationale for The School of the Americas was that we just taught these techniques to operatives of Banana Republics and didn't really use them ourselves because that would be wrong?
It's painful to look back on those days..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by localhuman
Last year
MeFi comment:
"But there's a third option, and, funnily enough, I found it in an old column of mine (journalistic taboos be damned!). I think we should ask the Iraqis to vote on whether U.S. troops should stay.
I think that we should definitely have the Iraqis..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LanTao
Last year
MeFi comment:
"So, we can conclude: Prenatal exposure to ecstasy appears to be "good" for rats, and possibly for human embryos. So unless you're a rat or human embryo, this does not mean that "ecstasy is good for your brain."
FWIW, I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by criticalbill
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'm tired of awesome culture/music/geek posts getting 6 comments while sandwiched between multiple 150-250 comment monsters hashing out all the same crap.
posted by loquacious
I'm tired of people not being interested in the things I am and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by EarBucket, bardic
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I've always thought of Jessamyn as almost saintly, so the thought of whether or not she gets paid for this has never crossed my mind.
I guess I thought that she was doing it as some sort of penance so that she can eventually be canonized...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
Last year
MeFi comment:
"As a precaution, the governor was ushered into a T-station supply closet and stayed there until the crowd left.
What happened when Jeb came out of the closet?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grangousier
Last year
MeTa comment:
"If I ever make a comment that is insightful, profound and well-reasoned, you can be assured that someone else has gotten his hands on my account." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by catseatcheese, Keane
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Worse than that, it's a way to get people used to standing in line to have their possessions x-rayed and searched. For their own good, you know.
posted by leftcoastbob
I have no objections to that. It's a sensible precaution and actually works,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Heywood Mogroot
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Just as irregardless, although informal, has taken the nation's tongues by storm and is recognized as a part of the lexicon, so shall twynlynge!
posted by Alvy Ampersand
I do not recognize it and never will. You may say "irrespective"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CunningLinguist
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Jesus, MiHail, give it a rest. You don't want to play the handicapped card? Then for god's sake don't! Doing the martyr thing is not something that is going to make total strangers like you more. One of the many favorite quotes of the day: Get..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by facetious
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Best (and most appropriate) cartoon of the day, troybob.
And without a doubt, this is the best post in months. Nothing like a pile-on to make MeFi a cohesive group again.
I just finished reading this whole thing and laughed out loud often...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by facetious
Last year
MeFi comment:
"From the hearing six years later:
The answer to the following question will determine whether or not you are taken off the sex offender list.
Have you quit molesting children?
Answer "yes," and you've just admitted to the crime and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Iron Rat, MikeKD
Last year
MeFi comment:
"One of my vices is to hold my hand out of the window of my Mini with my thumb and forefinger about an inch apart when I encounter a Hummer. (Okay--I don't really have much of a life.)
A Hummer passed me on I-5 a few weeks back and of course I had..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by supercrayon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Seriously. Who are we at war with?
Wasn't "Mission Accomplished" years ago? Wasn't that like a declaration that the "war" was over? Haven't we been in the "occupation and reconstruction" phase since then?
And..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bardic
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"I think that sometimes. Red and blue? Let's divide the place. But two things would happen:
1. Economically, lue states would far outstrip red states almost immediately, and the gap would rapidly widen - leading to number 2:
2. Red states would..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by theredpen, beth, PinkStainlessTail, jaronson
Two years ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh... and "dictator?"
S: (n) dictator, potentate (a ruler who is unconstrained by law)
Ring any bells?
posted by jpburns
A lot of bell tolling going off to anyone who's read the news lately...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MarvinTheCat
Two years ago
