MeFi comment:
"they should have a site just like this, except it's a DVD of Akira, and before the opening credits finish rolling it slowly fades to black, and then almost immediately snaps back on to the sound of a giant fleshy veiny Tetsuko screaming..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BeerFilter
Almost an hour ago
MeFi comment:
"I think that, like some others here, there's a pretty serious problem with the interviewer. I don't know if he thinks there's more integrity in directly confronting these people as an obvious democrat, or what, but the end result is interviews with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cj_, blueberry, Potomac Avenue
2 ¾ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I hear what you're saying and definitely acknowledge that, but I'm saying there's room for when something is done well.
word up.
The best "bad porn actor/actress" performance ever was in Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights. This is not..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lacking Subtlety, finite
3 ¼ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"every person i have ever met who has ever said "i've always been a fan of iceland" has afterward admitted that by "always" they really meant "since i've been a fan of bjork and/or the sugarcubes...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"I was watching a commercial the other day that confused the hell out of me. It was some car commercial, but the slogan was "Rethink MPG." here's me all wondering what the hell a car company is doing about video compression and why they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Obama lied, markets died.
posted by RafaelloelloPoster at 11:47 AM on September 30
... really? I can't tell if you think this because he's a black liberal and you're a wingnut conservative racist, or if it's just because he's black and..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Pope Guilty, sarcasticah, Caduceus, tractorfeed, redfisch
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"No, it's difficult for a person to enjoy their warm fuzzy feeling while someone is actively telling you what inspired the warm, fuzzy feeling is shit and implying you're an idiot for having warm, fuzzy feeling about that.
No, it's difficult when..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by PeterMcDermott, matteo, anazgnos, kuujjuarapik, jtron
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"No wonder you hate Stephenson.
You should read the part of my comment where I said I actually love Stephenson. I can already tell this is going to be good.
As far as I can tell, you missed the entire fucking point of that passage, which was..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by papafrita, bonaldi, spacewaitress, jayder, grobstein
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I imagine there must have been some point during the productin of Temple of Elemental Evil where one of the leads looked at another and said:
Do you think it was a mistake to try to code the entire AD&D 2nd Edition rule set, complete with all..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Telf
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"i once worked in a record store, and it being a record store the staff (including mgmt) was all under 24, except for one dude in his 50s who was basically just constantly stoned and never wanted any more responsibility than to slowly stock cds where..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by shunshine, not_on_display, Smart Dalek, schyler523, Kattullus
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"at $5, we would turn into the cheapest dating site on the web. Think about how that might shape the character of the site in a negative way if that became a primary reason for people to join.
quoted for "holy shit that's a really good point...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Rock Steady, vytae, Phalene
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"*rushes in, panting*
Hey. Sorry I'm late. Am I too late to talk about how funny I don't think Sarah Silverman is? Oh whew! I see I'm not. Thank God!
Anyway, Sarah Silverman is teh suck, amirite?..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by cass, rifflesby, newdaddy, jonmc, flibbertigibbet, Garak, Blazecock Pileon
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Keith Olberman? Chris Mattews? Let's find out what your deranged drug dealing stan worship homosexual sodomizing children. What are your children doing?
Keith Olberman at home.
Keith: Son? What are you up to?
Keith Jr: Well, I'm..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by bunnytricks, converge, shinynewnick, Silly Ashles, mmcg, longsleeves, Dreama, tehloki, bookish, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, greenie2600
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"He likes words. He loves wordplay. And he adores big ideas. If his stylistic tics turn you off, okay, fine, don't read him, but Neal Stephenson is as accomplished a technical author as the English language has at the moment,
Oh man. I love..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spacewaitress
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"not having read the book, and only just now having read the salon review linked above, I'm reminded of something particular about stephenson.
he has this whole thing in his books where there's captial E Everybody Else, and then there are capital..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by spacewaitress, bonaldi, not_that_epiphanius, mek, axon, Kwine, Joseph Gurl, Mr Bunnsy, blasdelf, outlier, misha, lodurr, COBRA!, aspo, zardoz, fearfulsymmetry, brundlefly, JHarris, box, Blazecock Pileon
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Purtle, what are you talking about?
Maybe you didn't notice, but whatever anger was in my post wasn't directed at your students, or the people they live with. The anger (it was not hate, though you no doubt feel more self-righteous insisting it..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by triggerfinger
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"there is, however, a second tier of slightly longer vaguely defined periods of time that metafilter chooses randomly from.
a little bit ago
just before
no after that
just, like, a half a second ago, i swear to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastor Manning: Well let's just look at the equation.
Okay, let's do that.
His father, it is documented was a Pathetic Loser.
We'll call this variable FPL.
An alcoholic who couldn't hold a job, had two iron legs when he finally..." [
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favorited 41 times, recently by ook, sculpin, shinynewnick, booth, mightshould, Pallas Athena, Mayor West, ramix, you just lost the game, Sidhedevil, chiababe, arianell, kaspen, kiripin, gman, billyfleetwood, mosk, kkokkodalk, clearly, mmcg, starman, ...possums, Stunt, JDHarper, jimmythefish, thack3r, BitterOldPunk, quin, middleclasstool, teleri025, penduluum, Sys Rq, misha, PeterMcDermott, bookish, TheWhiteSkull, GhostintheMachine, bookwo3107, cortex, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, jivadravya
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"it was the weirdest thing how I learned to love that album. I had been listening a lot to Jeff Buckley, and had (in particular) been obsessing over the double live cut of Live at Sin E, the one released posthumously. And on there, among practically..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by smitt, philip-random
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"shmegegge, I like most of what you said, but I don't think that "other than instances of extreme pain", PMS is bullshit. I barely get cramps any more, thanks to the Pill, and when I do, it's only on the first day. But starting 3-4 days..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by eponymouse, nooneyouknow
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I feel like adding my own anecdotes!
I've been very lucky to grow up in the environment I did. My dad has never once blamed a woman's menstrual cycle for anything, at least that I know of, my mom has never used it as an excuse (although she did..." [
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favorited 37 times, recently by eponymouse, iamkimiam, minifigs, jlbartosa, scrump, urbanwhaleshark, Mister Cheese, kosher_jenny, TheClonusHorror, Hicksu, grapefruitmoon
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I happen to think that this would make an awesome superman movie.
also, there's nothing wrong with rebooting the superman franchise. what would be wrong would be for them to only reboot it as far back as superman 2 again. I don't know why Singer..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by manguero, tehloki, frenetic, Ghidorah, JHarris, humannaire, pxe2000, bitter-girl.com, stinkycheese, litlnemo, digifox, hjo3, Missiles K. Monster, robocop is bleeding, The Card Cheat
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"note to fixie lovers: lance armstrong does not make fixed gear bicycles cool. fixed gear bicycles make lance armstrong lame." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sararah, zardoz
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The Reign of the Supermen, four flawed heirs, religious cult and political sub plots, the most expensive special effects sequence of all time (the destruction of Ocean City) and it's all done in a Superman movie where Kal-El doesn't appear until 130..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JHarris, litlnemo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"with a little message at the bottom that reads "better than you."" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by lupus_yonderboy, koeselitz, ValkoSipuliSuola, ArkhanJG, hattifattener, sugarfish, etaoin, papafrita, sebastienbailard, anvilcity, ekstasis23
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This was not what I was expecting. I was expecting more like:
World: Okay, go.
Commonties.com: Okay, are you an animal?
World: No.
Commonties.com: Mineral?
W: No.
C: Are you a person?
W: Yes.
C: Are you C Thomas..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by tehloki, Solon and Thanks, medialyte, Kimothy, chiababe, iamkimiam, Monochrome, arcticwoman, sir_rubixalot, GPF, phrenq, Spatch, bristolcat, dan g., uncleozzy
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"1.
You are in a relationship, and you have a question about said relationship. You are about to submit your question to AskMetafilter.
If you choose to consider whether or not strangers are really the best place to turn for advice on a..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Zozo, winna, macrone
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Media: for crying out loud, ignore these edicts and go on in.
Seriously, when a dude would rather rail at the governor about how "inappropriate" it is than find another way in, you're talking about precisely the lack of initiative that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"And what the hell is wrong with fedoras?
On 24-year-olds? Everything.
FAIL, YOU LOSE.
No no. Fedoras on 24 year olds are vain and desperate calls for attention. They're what that shitbag Mystery calls Peacocking or whatever the fuck it is...." [
more]
favorited 14 times
3 weeks ago
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 65 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Chapter 1:
This is the diary of me, Marvin the Robot, while I wait for my masters to return. I am waiting on Magrathea. I have been for one year. It has been, unsurprisingly, the worst year of my life.
Chapter 2:
Year 2 has been, to no..." [
more]
favorited 6 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"it was, as i understand, douglas adams who did most of the writing for the movie. I liked the movie. I thought it was exactly as deviant from the books as the books were from the radio show and the tv show from all of the above. I thought they got..." [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I can believe that. I don't know what to say. I still kinda dug it. Is it as good as the books? Of course not. I also think the tv show is flat out horrible, and the radio show, while kind of awesome, is still less awesome than the books. So..." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"the sixth one will be told from the point of view of the Hyperintelligent Shade of Blue present when Zaphod stole the Heart of Gold." [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I am more or less HIGH ON LIFE
Q: What do you mean, "more or less?"
A: Well, I'm less "High On Life," and more "High On Cocaine...." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"meanwhile, in mandal's head:
oh fine! enjoy your 42, you bastards. BUT WHAT ABOUT MY MISSING FAVORITES!" [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You posit all Kansans as being racist or bigots,
No, I didn't. You are bad at this. Since this seems to be the central tenet of your entire poorly thought out point, we can just ignore most of what you said.
Once again, I never said all..." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"We liberals proclaim diplomacy as the way to solve problems, we put all of our political power in communication (or say we want to). That means diplomacy within your own country.
I believe that you're being sincere when you say this, and that you..." [
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favorited 4 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Every Republican I have ever met, including my father, my girlfriend's family and some of my best friends, have said one of three things when I've asked them why they vote Republican:
1. Because I have money and Republicans are the party for..." [
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favorited 6 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
posted by mandal at 6:29 AM on September 17 [42 favorites +]
I was going to favorite this, but... 42 favorites! I couldn't ruin it...." [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I do have a sense of humor, according to the latest push-polls! I just don't like the dynamic between the couple in the video.
This is the essential problem with people. Apparently it's somehow became okay for people to enjoy the company of their..." [
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favorited 3 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"either that, or it will detail Marvin's time spent on Magrathea (and eventually the Restaurant At the End of the Universe) waiting for Zaphod, Arthur et al. to return for 576,000,003,579 years...." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"and I asked God, "Lord, but what about when I looked at my sandwich and there was no garnish?" and the Lord said "That is when I garnished you...." [
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favorited 3 times
3 weeks ago
