MeFi comment:
"Everyone gets two drinks. Whenever Obama says "change", switch to the other drink. Whenever McCain says "change", drink more of the same...." [
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favorited 49 times, recently by Riki tiki, kryptondog, CZMR, Garak, kcds, flatluigi, agress, clearly, msali, goodnewsfortheinsane, olya, bafflegab, schyler523, RussHy, Deathalicious, shmegegge, tehloki, blockhead, scission, RedEmma, hazel, non sum qualis eram, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, sebastienbailard, space2k, bam, ook, Green Eyed Monster, marble, JDHarper, defenestration, eritain, thebigdeadwaltz, cashman, komilnefopa, Balisong, PhoBWanKenobi, 0xFCAF, bigbigdog, flibbertigibbet, sperose, morganw, Skorgu, graventy, sy, arto, Big_B, adamk, DevilsAdvocate
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Beautiful. But:
Basically I view time as not on your side. He'll eat up every minute of your life, and as soon as one has gone he's salivating for the next. It's not a bad thing to remind students of.
I could have stood to be reminded of that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
3 weeks 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 14 times, recently by penduluum, unregistered_animagus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What were the chicken nuggests made before they became "100% pure chicken" ... my childhood is at steak." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Go take your ad hominems somewhere else, dios.
I kid, of course.
1. McDonald’s staff are not invariably spotty – some have spots, some don’t." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Why do I get the Spurlock McGurgles everytime I eat at your resturants?
McDonald’s is not aware of the ‘Spurlock McGurgles’ as being a specific phenomenon. Everyone has a different digestive rate and can be affected in different ways by the things..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by ifjuly, Benjamin Nushmutt
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I know those are books, but couldn't this be brought up with the FCC? I'd love to see a grassroots movement with this incident as a rallying point.
I'm a fan of free speech, myself. After the suggestion of punitive anal rape in prison, I think..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by vsync, yort, the other side
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"would this band be considered folk punk?
I really hate it when people post YouTube links that don't indicate what they go to. Just now I thought, "hey, I bet other people hate that, too." Sure enough, they do. A script that appends..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by klangklangston, Greg Nog
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure describing every nut-job who goes off on a shooting spree and then suicides by cop as a "terrorist" would reall help much with that cause.
The man walked into a church and started killing people because he hated the fearful..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by perilous, electrasteph
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"OK strike Christan and One true God and insert, um, Some religions and $Diety.
I don't disagree with you about proselytizing being obnoxious; far from it. But UUs don't even agree about whether there's a deity. Wikipedia.
UU congregations..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, pushing paper and bottoming chairs
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It bears repeating for the people obviously skimming these comments: UUs by and large do not identify as Christian." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The number of posts in this thread demonstrates just how much anti-fat energy there is in society.
Can you imagine if all that energy, that contempt, that disgust, could be directed at the actual reasons for the recent increase in fatness? At..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by skjønn, konolia, aeschenkarnos, girandole
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Now availability of cheap food is the problem?
Yes. And yes, of course I'm serious. When the cheapest calories are also the least healthy, there is a problem.
There is nothning wrong with eating a burger. There is nothing wrong with Jack in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Badmichelle, The White Hat
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It is a tiny proportion of shelving space in your average food mart/supermarket that is actually left for real food, rather than processed shit.
My understanding is that this has a lot to do with the need for big growers to dump massive amounts of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by HighTechUnderpants
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Poisonous snakes and fish shimmering in the creeks.
Poisonous Snakes in the creek... Tough fucking country...
It's worse than that -- poisonous shimmering fish in the creeks!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, sidesh0w, Balna Watya
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's awesome that you and I both chose the same format for our condemnation, D_W. Condemn, quote, react.
"Lovely, isn't it?" Johnston says, curving around mountains that once were open and inviting before turning dark and hungry...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, Baby_Balrog, Rock Steady
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Damn that story for being so interesting that I had to read the whole thing, because the writing was atrocious:
And, though terribly injured, the two men had each other -- Farmer with his strength, Johnston with his exacting will. Half of each man..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by tehloki, crickets, Nattie, paddysat, BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I disagree, let them do it. No better way to illustrate what a con-job religion is.
Right now this is a very minor story. I've been following it for months, but that's because I'm a church-state geek. No one outside the community of these master..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 months ago
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
3 months 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 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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 months 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
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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
4 months ago
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!
4 months ago
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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
6 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
6 months ago
