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MeTa post:
What ever happened to respecting people's opinions?
I don’t know if I feel entirely comfortable that there is an entire thread dedicated to “changing someone’s mind”.
Even worse, there seem to be several massively funded media campaigns dedicated to this same nefarious activity.
posted to MetaTalk by StickyCarpet
at 10:16 AM on October 11, 2008
MeTa post:
Thanks, mattbucher!
My building super was a Mason, and I went to his Masonic funeral service.
When I asked him (while he was alive) what would qualify someone for membership he said, "If I were to leave you alone with my daughter and a drawer full of cash, I shouldn't have to think, should I trust him? It should never even enter my mind."
posted to MetaTalk by StickyCarpet
at 6:55 AM on October 11, 2008
MeFi post:
You certainly do remind me of Adolf Hitler.
A classic from 1998.
Actually, and I'm not kidding, I first saw this as a fax in 1989. Before people's Godwin defenses were up, I found it truly amazing how almost everyone instinctively backpedaled once you compared them to Hitler.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 3:42 PM on October 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Pocketful of dough
But just as your grandfather taught you, it's still a good idea to slip the pastrami guy a dollar at Katz's Deli.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 7:35 AM on October 10, 2008
The deed had been done with such effortlessness, such quotidian blaséness, that my friend was nonplussed.“It feels so normal,” she said.
on·plussed [ nòn plúst ] 1. confused: surprised, confused, and uncertain what to do or say
It really begs the question whether or not that writer has a dictionary.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 7:58 AM on October 10, 2008
I always vaguely assumed this took place somewhere, done by someone, but I'd never myself dreamed of doing it.
That's how I felt when I watched someone "tip" Brooklyn police officers into not breaking up a huge loft party where there was an unlicensed cash bar. (I didn't see the cash change hands, they stepped into a closed room with the owner, then left abruptly. "What do you think just happened," he said.)
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 8:09 AM on October 10, 2008
demiurge: with the original meaning of nonplussed, the person would have been speechless, and therefore unable to reply with “It feels so normal.” The supposed meaning, of unruffled, is gaining traction with the non-prescriptivists.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 9:56 AM on October 10, 2008
informal = not "correct," similar to how "begs the question" has comet o be used.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 10:46 AM on October 10, 2008
Nonplussed about nonplussed.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 10:50 AM on October 10, 2008
Perplexity: ...uncertain what to say. He's saying...
eponysterical.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 11:14 AM on October 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Beyond the Reach of God
...over a long enough timeline any intelligence will develop means...
The sign said "Checks Cashed, Any Kind." So I went in with the personal check that I had been mailed. But they wouldn't cash it.
The man said, "The sign says any kind, not every kind."
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 3:14 PM on October 9, 2008
MeFi post:
neurobiology of trust
... financial losses aren't simply monetary: because of how the brain computes trust, they are also personal. ... Until those financial rewards start to feel predictable again - and that may take a long, long time - investors will continue to be wary of each other.
Does an understanding of current events in the stock market really benefit from this particular overlay? Or the cigar just a cigar?
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 2:47 PM on October 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Right to Vote.
Also I’m assuming that white collar criminals get to vote...
Nah, they pay people to do it for them.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 3:59 PM on October 8, 2008
Ask post:
Help cure sick house; it's very bad.
all these approaches boil down to either removing the paint or sealing it in
What about one last try at ventilating? Get several huge industrial fans, and set them up so the air has a way in and a way out. Other fans pointed directly at painted surfaces. Also apply heat. If you need to stop the fans to get the heat up, so be it, but use heaters to get the temperature up over 90 degrees.
posted to Ask Metafilter by StickyCarpet
at 7:59 AM on October 8, 2008
But it didn’t get hot enough in the basement even with heat up full
Since all this ventilating is going on, perhaps she could add one or more gas-fired heaters, such as the turbo-jet styled salamander heaters used at construction sites.
posted to Ask Metafilter by StickyCarpet
at 8:06 AM on October 8, 2008
Ask post:
One foot on the "right" side of the track, one foot on the "wrong" side of the track.
The documentary Born Rich was just mentioned on the blue, and there was an interesting answer given by one of the female subjects as to why she only dates rich men, especially because she already has all the money she could ever want. She said she had dated a non-rich guy who was appalled that she spent $6,000 on purses, and thought she should feed the poor or something with that money. But collecting expensive purses was her hobby, and she didn't see why he should stop her.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by StickyCarpet
at 2:14 PM on October 7, 2008
MeFi post:
2008 Nobel Prize for Physics
The fact that nature operates otherwise, physicists hope, is a step on the way to explaining why the universe is made of matter and not antimatter...
Sucks for me because all my assets are tied up in antimatter.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 6:49 AM on October 7, 2008
Ask post:
What can I expect when I quit drinking in a couple of weeks?
Expect questions. "Why aren't you drinking?" Have some ready answers. The one I use is "I like it too much." Another answer: "I thought I'd give my liver a bit of a break."
My brother-in-law says, "I kind of got ahead of myself and drank up my allotment."
posted to Ask Metafilter by StickyCarpet
at 4:30 PM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
What is a trash-out?
if those houses stay vacant for long, they themselves will end up in the landfill.
The house on the left will be used to store all my broken computers, and the one on the right is where I'll stable my horses.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 7:50 AM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
"There will be enormous, enormous losses..."
In the book F.I.A.S.C.O. an insider's view of aggressive banking and the rise of derivatives, they talk about unsuspecting midwestern pension fund managers who lose their entire fund by not understanding the small print, and the banker says with some glee "we ripped their face off!"
America, you just got your faced ripped off.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 6:02 AM on October 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Man uses craigslist to form bank robbery plot
Gotti reigned for six years as the head of New York's Gambino crime family, promoting himself to the position according to normal mafia guidelines by assassinating his predecessor, Paul "Big Paulie" Castellano. It was a testament to his passion for the Hollywood myth of organised crime in America that he arranged for the killing to be carried out by a gang of hitmen in matching trenchcoats who surprised Castellano as he left a Manhattan steakhouse.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 11:48 AM on October 4, 2008
MeFi post:
The Light and the Truth
I'll watch that movie. You can't make this stuff up and all that. Unless they did, so I'll wait for the final judgment further down thread.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 9:54 AM on October 4, 2008
MeFi post:
The seafood lover that's hopefully not actually IN you
What are the chances that a parasite can live in both a saltwater fish and a human? Nobody in their right mind eats raw freshwater fish.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 8:26 AM on October 2, 2008
OK, so I read the last link. I'm still eating sushi.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 8:27 AM on October 2, 2008
Pollomacho, you're right in the one case of King salmon, which are freshwater, but Steelheads are only used for sushi if they are smoked. Those other Salmon are just passing through from the saltwater they grow in.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 9:03 AM on October 2, 2008
A good sushi chef gets up at 5 in the morning and goes to the fish market and knows how to buy fish. Don't go to the kind of places that have it delivered from a distributor.
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 9:23 AM on October 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Sarah Palin's lover revealed
It saddens me slightly that The National Enquirer seems to be gaining even a modicum of journalistic credibility.
Um, the Bruno Maglis?
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet
at 2:03 PM on October 1, 2008
