MeFi comment:
"That stoop shouldered, beady eyed little midget. Every time I hear his fucking voice, I keep thinking about when he was mayor, here. And everybody kept saying the same fucking thing, "Oh sure, he's a completely bastard.... But he's good for..." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by tractorfeed, callmejay, nikitabot, war wrath of wraith, blasdelf, stet, H-Bar, the dief, effwerd, Malor, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, RakDaddy, lupus_yonderboy, schyler523, enn, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Yeah well, if you have any opinion that is even SLIGHTLY anti-gay in the military go here
http://ask.metafilter.com/100949/How-can-I-make-them-see
in it you'll see i make very plain and instructional the policy of such in the service. But i get..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by goshling, MythMaker, roger ackroyd
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"*Andres Segovia rushes into the cathedral just as the last bars of the piece finishing ringing*
Andres: Guys! Sorry I'm late. The traffic on 95 was unblievable, you guys literally would not have believed it. Anyway, you didn't start without me,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Smart Dalek
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"His travel writing is wonderful, but where does he stand on abortion rights in the US?
I get the impression he's rather conservative on many reproductive issues...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by RussHy, Gary
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember being in college with an incredible professor who taught a course on Stravinsky. The classroom he had for it was more of a tiny lecture hall (for 15 or so people) and in a closet backstage he had a stereo hooked up to the room's PA system...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, ignignokt
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I hear he has some wonderful things to say about Finland." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by keijo
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"so is this a gene women don't have, or did the study only focus on the possible effects of this gene in men?" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yes, because the blink tag is a HUGE problem. It's so clearly overused that I can't read a single thread without being bombarded by blink tags.
STOP RUINING FUN!..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I think shmegegge's bit is way off the mark, too.
entirely possible. I'm guessing based on having read less than half his total work.
Black, Irish, gay, religious, Protestant, rich, French, fat, male, almost every group you can imagine,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by benzenedream
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The first Ennis I ever read was Preacher. I adored it. When you think you're reading one story that happens to have that much glorified machismo in it, you think that's alright. It's fun, right? That's what it's all about. Awesome. The quote on..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by kosher_jenny, Joakim Ziegler, spiderwire, bunnytricks, cadge
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
""We're focusing on the fact that we're in the sports entertainment business and we have to interact with fans and sponsors," LPGA deputy commissioner Libba Galloway said.
I'd just like to point out that "Sports Entertainment"..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jtron, roll truck roll
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"To the people who think are against the zero-tolerance policy for harrassment:
I get where you're coming from. I wonder, since we're talking about convention policy, if you realize that there's a policy statement inherent in your argument. What..." [
more]
favorited 5 times, recently by shiu mai baby, sondrialiac, ignignokt, electrasteph, miss tea
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But I live in a world where, without additional evidence, one person's word against another's isn't a compelling call for action.
Really? What world is that? I ask because, outside of Law enforcement, that's enough to merit action in plenty of..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Mavri
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"it would result in 1 in 200 innocent defendants being ejected. Like I said this kind of collateral damage fighting sexual harassment isn't acceptable to me. I can understand that it is acceptable to others.
I get why it's not acceptable to you, so..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"chudmonkey, you're not getting the whole "blaming the victim" thing. It's really really simple:
If someone does something offensive/harrassing/etc to you, they are the problem, NOT the person who has been offended/harrassed/etc......" [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, clarahamster, electrasteph
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Here's some gallows humor related to the trench warfare prevalent during WWI, and the great number of men who died uselessly engaging in it. It's from Black Adder Goes Forth:
Captain Blackadder: How are you feeling, Darling?
Captain Darling:..." [
more]
favorited 49 times, recently by Uther Bentrazor, RikiTikiTavi, felix grundy, graventy, lysdexic, alasdair, MythMaker, Solon and Thanks, kittyprecious, Pronoiac, kosher_jenny, turgid dahlia, The Pusher Robot, urbanwhaleshark, jacobian, onlyconnect, supercrayon, scody
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the best way to discuss this well made fpp would be for us to fight about who has it worst and whose privilege doesn't count compared to someone else's...." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by manguero, tehloki, arcticwoman, Kimothy, parhamr, greenie2600, Skwirl, gohlkus, aeschenkarnos, No-sword, ArmyOfKittens, lekvar, ekstasis23, Pope Guilty, modernnomad, Artw
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"December 1st:
So hey, guys. MetaTalk sure is a lot more pleasant now, huh?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:00pm EST
I guess.
posted by Jessamyn at 12:15pm EST
[this thread is closed to new comments]
December 2nd:
Hey everyone. Just..." [
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favorited 36 times, recently by Solon and Thanks, jaymzjulian, schyler523
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, just once, I want one candidate to ask the other, face-to-face, "have you stopped beating your wife yet?". How they answer that will tell me all I need to know about them.
This fits well with what I want from debates, since just..." [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by tehloki, griphus, schyler523, dirigibleman, quonsar, Artw, crickets
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Man, the greatest hurdle facing the animator today has to be voice. We can do facial expressions, complicated animated movement, incredible title sequences, anything you can fathom, but talking characters is practically solely the domain of big..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. … Much to Disney’s chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E..." [
more]
favorited 109 times, recently by perilous
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I have to admit I haven't read the whole very long article, but I grabbed this out of a too brief skim:
Every administration turns on the president’s cast of mind: Bill Clinton’s startling gifts of intelligence and even more startling lack of..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, Mental Wimp
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"South Bruce OPP Staff Sergeant Paul Bradley said London Emergency Dispatch was inundated with dozens of calls at about 11 p.m., with a variety of descriptions from residents ranging from “tremors”, earthquakes” to “numerous explosions”.
Bradley..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by captnkurt, electrasteph, Divine_Wino
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Metafilter: slashdot's place for off-topic videos/humour/viral web junk.
idle.slashdot: The Plastic.com it's okay to like." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Just so I understand:
This is a collection of youtube videos taken from FOX News, the first of which shows a FOX anchor cutting off a family (American? Russian? Georgian?) while they're trying to explain that they were bombed by Georgians, not..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by shavenwarthog
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"while they don't sound THAT alike to me, principally because "-ive" and "and" sound so different, I can easily see someone thinking that "intensive purposes" sounds right because the words make sense together: as though..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, Tubes, subgear
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's notable that the only successful Clive Barker movie, Hellraiser, diverged quite a bit from the novella that spawned it.
Out of curiosity, does anyone else think of Nightbreed as being successful? I tend to, but I certainly couldn't prove it..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by mannequito, Benjamin Nushmutt, Artw
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"It is clear your post is going badly, and you acknowledge it was not your best stuff. Perhaps you could ask the mods to remove it, and then you can come back tomorrow or later to put together a more intelligently constructed post, one that is more..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by ignignokt, Tbola, loiseau
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Why I like Metafilter:
I read SaintCyr's earlier responses, and was all set to give what would (hopefully) have been a measured and reasonable response stating that I thought she was being a tad unfair. Then I read further down to see that..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by SaintCynr
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I cannot imagine why she would need a 3d mouse to navigate that interface.
what's more, I cannot imagine that anyone would look at that screen, even knowing what all of its bits and parts are intimately, and think that that was the ideal way to..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Who has a name like Jesse James Garrett?!
"Well, dear, he's already got the name of the man who killed Billy The Kid, let's call him Jesse James, too."
"Dear God, honey, that's just too much American Badass! It'll backfire..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"oh, this is so frustrating:
as you can see, the top bit there is called the shelf, it's where we keep things the user accesses frequently. you can tell that's what it does because it has a bunch of random web pages up there.
on the right we..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by abulafa
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The first line of the plagiarised version reads better than the original ("this past ...", ugh). That has to sting. It's like burglars leaving your flat tidier than it was...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Naberius, WPW, shmegegge
Last month
MeTa comment:
"additionally, I'd like to make it clear that I'm not criticizing your hiring practices. whatever works for you, works for you and more power to you. I do, however, feel compelled to ask you again: is your basic point that what works for you should..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I believe workers are generally replaceable, in most industries and at most experience levels.
Ok. I disagree. I believe there are a lot of cookie cutter jobs out there, but I don't believe that all employees are replaceable. I think there are..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grobstein
Last month
MeTa comment:
"This doesn't quite make sense. If he's willing to settle for that wage, you're offering the right wage in the first place. His need to play the negotiating game doesn't need to enter into it. He knows how much he's worth? Apparently, the wages you're..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by grobstein, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wow. That's stretching it. Is the New York Times a viral ad? There are many places on there wherein someone could click DIRECTLY to an advertiser.
look, do you really want to get into this? I'm willing to drop it if you are. it's not that..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, kid ichorous, Lentrohamsanin, zylocomotion
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hey, thanks for sharing this viral advertising with us!" [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by tehloki, Skwirl, scrump, swift, mr. strange, arcticwoman, Shepherd, josephtate, zylocomotion
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Hi Metafilter,
I just got out of a year long relationship (God, imagine that! A year! I suppose being too committed is one of my quirks!) because of how awesome I am, and I'd like to go bang a lot of chicks without having to do anything arduous..." [
more]
favorited 63 times, recently by Heretic
Last month
MeFi comment:
"that article from tampa about the girl danielle was one of the most heart wrenching things i've ever read. I got so violently angry at the girl's birth mother, and then I read she has an iq of 77, and it's like "what the fuck can you do?..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by cass
Last month
