MeFi comment:
"re: "Pottery Barn Rule"...
I can't find it at the moment, but someone made a good rebuttal of this glib principle a while back in a comment. To paraphrase: if someone forces their way into your house, kills your family, smashes all your..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by electrasteph, lodurr
3 weeks ago
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"As the others have said -- it's quite normal to feel this way in anticipation of working full time. At first it may well feel like all this work is draining the life out of you and is a completely unreasonable way of living. And indeed, this is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisynn, pete0r
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Bleuch. I'm kind of ambivalent about Banksy, but this Radtke guy sounds like a complete tool (or at least, that ironrail link makes him sound so), and I'd hate for him to be operating around my city...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrnP84
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think they have their causation a little mixed up here.
It's clearly the cows that determine the direction of the Earth's magnetic field." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by lysistrata, five fresh fish, bh, tehloki, jayCampbell, Ky, Wavelet, contessa, erpava, aramaic, loquacious, oaf, nfg, alexei
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Scott Pilgrim is crazy addictive, and we all get to score the Edgar Wright-directed film, starring Michael Cera, next year. Woo!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by o0dano0o
Last month
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":O
Oh my goodness gracious me, this post is going to occupy me for a very long time. I don't really care if it's a double, this stuff is fascinating!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jody Tresidder
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Trolls who try to justify their actions are hypocrites: it's more grandiose and pretentious to get 'srs' about harassing people and being wilfully stupid on the internet, than it is to get serious about whatever interest or debate you want to pursue..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by sveskemus, Sangermaine, JHarris, Cassilda
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"elendil : I've impressed a sleeping companion or two over the years by being able to almost unerringly predict the time (within 5 min or so) upon waking, regardless of time of day or season. I'm good with time overall, but I only seem to pull that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"They edited out the part where a grinning dwarf dressed in red burst through the wall and cursed her." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by subaruwrx
3 months ago
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""Yo, beardy!"
Seriously though, I think most bishops (well, the two I've met) are fine with dispensing with etiquette in most situations, especially when they're talking to a non-clergical person...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Zachsmind: you can be pro-gay and still be homophobic.
Dersins: This word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means.
I don't want to speak for Zachsmind, but I think it's quite possible for someone to be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by liza, munchingzombie
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Great stuff! In reply to gc, I kind of agree, but at the same time I think it was partly the lack of thumbnails that had me compulsively thumbing through nearly all of Nedroid's (super!) pictures. It's like reaching into a tombola!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ArkhanJG
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I get that the manufacture of poly-vinyl chloride (PVC) involves chemicals which are very unpleasant (I mean, all of the good solvents are really really bad), but listing it with 'scary chemical names' found in products? Really?
To be fair,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"“I think people will embrace it. They’ll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they’re Shia or Sunni. They’ll say their kids deserve a place to play and they’ll leave it alone.”
Mm-hmm. And what's more, God himself will shit a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by infini, Jilder, rokusan
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And seriously, when you hear "gay" on a WoW server, I think 99.3% of the time it's not homophobia, it's someone using it to mean "lame" or "stupid" or "something I don't like".
That's homophobia; it isn't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by OverlappingElvis, aeschenkarnos
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'm just biased against affable and disconnected Eton conservatives, but it seems to me that Boris Johnson's main selling point has been that he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing or talking about, which makes him cuddly and funny and easy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"mr_roboto: "Wow. He sure uses lots of words to say absolutely nothing."
This is part of what I find so fascinating about Scientology and L Ron Hubbard in particular. When you read transcripts of him talking, it's almost impossible to..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, MythMaker, wastelands, chelseagirl, mjao, peacheater, delfuego, secretary bird, ekstasis23, schyler523, agregoli, lodurr, bent back tulips, AceRock, notsnot, The Great Big Mulp, wuwei, Skorgu
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fuck Rush Limbaugh (note to my imagination: don't imagine fucking Rush LimbAUGH GOD MY EYES) but... it seems pretty dodgy to be hauling him up for a court just for what he says on the radio. I don't agree with what he was urging people to do, but..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Navelgazer, JHarris, roll truck roll
6 months ago
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"Hie thee to Sclater Street, just off Brick Lane, on a Saturday or Sunday and buy yourself a bicycle for £30-50 (you'll see the bike guy - if he doesn't have any, ask where you can get one); also a bike-lock, lights, and a reflective strip or jacket...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cincinnatus c
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Although, like any one person's experience, it's drowned in the sea of tragedy that is a world war, I can imagine how the guilt must have been heart-wrenching for Rippert. It's bad enough to live with having killed one of his favourite authors, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Light Fantastic
6 months ago
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"I get this, and I've had varying degrees of success in turning these "episodes" into actual writing (or more rarely, drawing). It's something I find very hard to explain at all. A lot of times, all the ideas and images will simply be lost..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wheat
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"... twice. Daq, you're speaking offensive dross, just the same kind that's been applied to gays in the past before bisexuals were lined up as the next target. Regardless of your experiences, it's a fact that any sexual category as broad as..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Nattie, pinothefrog, axon, ArmyOfKittens, applemeat, agregoli, mazatec, minervous
7 months ago
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"I go through periods of trying to write regularly. Here are my tips based on what's been most successful for me.
- Write every day. Even if it's only 100 words - hell, 10 words - write *something*. Once you start getting used to sitting down and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by SageLeVoid, kosher_jenny
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The metabolites aren't excreted as expected, leading one to wonder where they go.
Dude, they build up in your spinal column until you end up jumping out of a window while staring at the sun (right after killing your dog for looking at you funny)...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, exlotuseater, Crabby Appleton, nasreddin
8 months ago
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"Complicated subject!
1) Does being dominant mean you can no longer really show significant weakness or vulnerability to your submissive partner?
It depends how you play it, but to my eyes, no. A good Dom is secure in themselves and their..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BigVACub, misha
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fantastic post! If bittersweet. It's sort of like feeling a phantom limb, once ready to paint and write and dance but instead hacked off in a brutal, self-mutilating rage...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slarty Bartfast
9 months ago
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""Hey dude, I'm super protective of my sister and I get a little weirded out when my friends pursue her. I need you to lighten up a bit."
I don't recommend this route -- personally, I've never understood this instinct and I'm sure my two..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by croutonsupafreak, the other side
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mr..America, a decently-trained police officer should have been quite capable of handlng a situation without the use of anything more potentially deadly than firm manhandling. Your assertion that anyone who isn't able to avoid setting off an itchy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"zing.. !
Seriously, fun post. I don't know how Adam West didn't break a rib laughing at some of the lines they made him deliver.. the series was genius, in its way.
Here's another classic scene...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I'm all for laughing the face of horror (and suicides invariably involve a good deal of horror somewhere along the line) but some people here are just being assholes - if you think the post was editorialising, make a comment or flag to that effect..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wendell, batmonkey
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Similar to that "bomb threat" involving the LED Aqua Teen hunger Force logos, it's iniquitous to act like these people intended, or could possibly have forseen this completely irrational freakout and try to prosecute them on that basis...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, aws17576
Last year
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"This is somewhat off-topic, but... why, on that dangerous spider chart, does the picture of the huntsman spider wiggle every five seconds or so? Is it just to freak out the spider-phobic? Is it some kind of issue with the gif, or with my browser..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kikkoman
Last year
MeFi comment:
"You may be interested in some recent commentary on this issue by Yankovic (Lynwood, 2007)." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ntartifex
Last year
MeFi comment:
"smackfu: "It's interesting that UK papers are posting articles about the US candidates."
We like to read about the rest of the world - it's one of our whimsical British idiosyncrasies...." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by Rubbstone, KingoftheWhales, slimepuppy, milov, Fence, DreamerFi, Jaybo, djeo, cdavis, JHarris, tehloki, perilous, jikel_morten, merelyglib, danb, lalochezia, Colloquial Collision, chrismear, CitrusFreak12, Jimbob
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