MeFi comment:
"Huh? I'm on the nutty left and The Incredibles is one of my favorite films; currently my favorite animated film. Why would anyone on the nutty left have a problem with The Incredibles? Brad Bird rocks.
I love The Incredibles, but I don't think it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by joquarky, Alex404
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Since I seem to have provoked a strong reaction, I'll explain in particular what I don't like about what happens to Violet's character. True, at the beginning she's limited by her shyness and less confident, and at the end she's able to approach the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Alex404, Space Kitty
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The "narrative" link bugs me. This labyrinth could be solved pretty easily by pulling yourself up on top and walking along the walls. Even if the walls /were/ "twice the height of a man" it seems like you could just ask somebody..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"How much gas do city dwellers burn doing endless loops around their neighborhoods looking for a spot, I wonder?
I hear you. I burn a lot of calories looping around the neighborhood looking for a spot to eat.
Oh, you said "gas"...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vbfg, mek, desuetude
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So alien was his experience to me, so unguessable his values, so mysterious his very language, that I couldn’t succeed in engaging him in a few minutes of small talk before he got down to work.
This guy, and lunit, apparently attended a parallel..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Pantalaimon, fourcheesemac, A dead Quaker, The Bellman, rtha, longdaysjourney
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Wasn't that the author's point?
Seemed to me it was half his point. The other half was crap like My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by msalt, gorgor_balabala
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If you're Ted Hagee, you probably wouldn't consider that a safe call.
I fear a world that contains a reproductive combination of Ted Haggard and John Hagee...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Avenger, lord_wolf
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Whoah. This is put out by an outfit whose name is INRI, followed by the letter most like a cross? I guess those guys have been in some particularly excruciatingtraffic jams...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by uncleozzy
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Not so long ago, the average mid-twentysomething had achieved most of adulthood’s milestones—high school degree, financial independence, marriage, and children.
I think maybe it's her "milestones" that need evaluating, and it would be a..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by porn in the woods, arcticwoman, Merlyn, Bookhouse, Alvy Ampersand, Pope Guilty, Jilder, MythMaker, JDHarper, tehloki, jepler, pyrex, wanderingmind, basicchannel, grobstein, H-Bar, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, WolfDaddy, Senor Cardgage, chrismear
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"That was way too much ironic faux-self-loathing self-indulgence for one article. He could have stretched that into a whole 'zine." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lentrohamsanin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"... the weakest and most dispised religion on the planet
Hardly. I think a better candidate would be the Westboro Baptist Church. Now those guys are easy targets.
The CoS manages to do a fair amount of harm, and has a lot of land and a lot of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last month
MeFi comment:
"That's a neat trick, the "bloggers say" thing. It's apparently not even necessary now to name the individual bloggers -- if "bloggers say" something, it must have currency.
Bloggers say that this is a great advantage over..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Bloggers say that some Chinese believe that the US electorate turned on the Republican administration after Katrina." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by pravit, Pants!
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Was that a left handed compliment or were you unaware....
As a Left-Handed American, I find your remarks extremely offensive.
OK, not really...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chiababe, any major dude
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"... he's in the junior league of crazy compared to Jerry Fallwell
Or, more pointedly, compared to John Hagee. Why McCain mostly gets a pass for his much wackier religious ties, I don't know.
But if McCain tries to trot out Wright in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, ornate insect
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Says “Talking about racism is so divisive” or Turns every discussion of race into a discussion of class.
That's pretty awesome, since I was about to say that half of the points in the "knapsack" article were really about wealth rather..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wait, you're saying we can't make fun of hipsters, now, either?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dantsea
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"When you've got as long and unpleasant a background as Cardinal Ratzinger does, you don't get to change your name and leave it all behind. To me the man's Pope Ratzinger...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dejah420
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Makes sense to me. We're beyond the "incubation" phase when it was crucial to give online businesses an artificial leg up just so there would be /any/ internet retail. I think. Others will disagree.
If we want government that does..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dyoneo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You can justifiably be mad at how a person makes their money if it exploits or causes harm.
I think I can justifiably be mad at how a person spends their money if it exploits or causes harm, too.
I probably have 1,000 times as much money as..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by retronic, HighTechUnderpants
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The rest is a rather weak value judgment.
You got me there. I think that petroleum-based recreation is immoral and harmful because of the direct and indirect damage it causes to the environment and to global political stability. If you don't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by HighTechUnderpants
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not like the billions and billions that get pissed away on bullets and bombs that explode over a desert somewhere thousands of miles away.
Massive consumption of petroleum via Hummer, helicopter, Ferrari and jet plane absolutely does..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by HighTechUnderpants, lord_wolf, dyoneo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've known two disc golfers who, in my educated opinion, were not douchenozzles. They were both also a capella singers, though, so clearly they had the ability to mix well with douchenozzles...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SBMike
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I love Turkish coffee! -- the hashish of java. Try adding a little cardamom to that brew, gurple.
Aww, yeah! I've tried it all. Cardamom and clove is one of my favorites. I prefer cardamom powder to the seeds. Allspice is all right. Cinnamon..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kwantsar
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And, wow:
Sales people make much the same pitches every day; support people answer much the same questions; but once you've written a piece of code you don't need to write it again.
I'm thinking of the number of times I've written something to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sidereal
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In the movie The Highlander, Connor McCloud hid his immortality by assuming the identities of children who died shortly after being born.
It's possible that what we have here is some kind of anti-immortal. And if that's the case, we have to ask..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by [son] QUAALUDE
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"energy in = energy stored+energy out
No argument there. And, as valkyryn notes above, these kinds of equations might work out fine in terms of weight gain in the short term.
However, let's say you eat a staggering 3,500 calories in a day and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ah, lovely reductionist nutritionism. Food + sufficient exercise = no net change. Food is so simple when you can boil its effect down to a simple balance of carbs, protein, and fat. If only that simple model of how food works made any sense..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kalessin
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My parents really hated D&D and forbade me ever to play it. I think they thought I'd end up killing myself with a stone dagger in a sewer, or something.
So, a la Pollomacho's comment above:
On the one hand, I thank Gary Gygax for providing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Our saints should be enjoying their eternal reward in peace, not having their body parts sold like cheap trinkets,"
So when someone buys a relic of St. Erasmus, ol' Razzie's all like "damn, I wish I could get some rest, but some..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Iamtherealme, griphus, recursion
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"McDonalds UK should hire at least one copy editor:
The Big Mac beef patty is smaller than the Quarter Pounder beef patty, it weighs 45g before cooking. However, each Big Mac contains two beef of these patties.
TWO beef! TWICE as many good!..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by unregistered_animagus, Skygazer, claudius, exlotuseater, dirigibleman, Pope Guilty, KingoftheWhales, NinjaTadpole, grubi, bitslayer, arianell, imperium, Reto
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What a bizarre claim. 50 years? 50 years from now, who knows if the terms "video game", "movie" and "comic book" will have any real meaning.
The analogy isn't perfect, but this sounds a bit like an early naysayer..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, olya, goethean
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The McRib is on here?
Oh, I see. It won in the "McRib" category. That makes sense." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by splatta
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How? Just saying "the Farm Bill" doesn't mean anything.
Fair enough.
For my own personal eating guidelines and for my outlook on food policy I often look to Michael Pollan, of /The Omnivore's Dilemma/ fame. Here's a NYT article by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jb
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It seems downright bizarre not to think of this as a policy problem, with multiple potential policy solutions.
Potential solution: make veggies much cheaper than red meat.
Why, currently, aren't veggies much cheaper than red meat? It's all a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Bletch
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, are these then alien women that all these men are sleeping with? Or women whose existence is in some other way not in conflict with the writer's premise that the 'problem' is solely with men's behavior?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by arcticwoman, LobsterMitten, showbiz_liz, ill3
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah:
while packing leisure hours with shopping, traveling, and dining with friends
Oh, thank goodness we have those responsible females around to do responsible things like shopping.
I think perhaps this writer has never actually met a..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Merlyn, ArmyOfKittens, bugbread, tickingclock, LobsterMitten, Alvy Ampersand, Count Ziggurat, Benjy, regicide is good for you, fleetmouse, tehloki, nzero, doctor_negative, stevis23, Senor Cardgage
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There are reasons why Metafilter is particularly eager to criticize Christian fundies.
Metafilter swings to the left and its members largely aren't Christian or any other brand of fundy, so Christian fundies don't get too much special protection..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by butterstick
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"... er, seduced by Bailyn's enthusiastic teaching and the fascinating subject matter, that is. Just to be clear." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't watched the videos, but I highly recommend Charles Bailyn. When I was there for undergrad, he taught the course we called "astrogut" -- astronomy for people who wanted an A. By the end of the semester, half the people in my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Excellent! He's taken the tried-and-true "black people are like this / white people are like this" formula and applied to two groups that he's not only not a part of, he also apparently despises and has almost no familiarity with!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Every evening on my walk home from work, I cross the giant parking lot of an upscale steakhouse. Something like 80% of the vehicles parked there are typically SUVs. I often watch people parking and waddling into the restaurant.
Based on this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Awesome. Perhaps some enterprising network can compile these and show them on the air...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"i find it difficult to care. in two more generations, religion will be dead
People have been saying that since the Enlightenment. Probably long before. It's incorrect...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Peecabu
7 months ago
