MeFi comment:
"I get my information from only two sources, this being one of them, and they have served me well.
So, yeah, saw it in the National Enquirer." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JaredSeth, humannaire, dobbs
12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd really like to see some data comparing divorce rates to the cost of the wedding
We endured a full year discussing the minutia of our friends extravagant wedding plans, only to have the wedding canceled when she discovered the New York Times..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I see a, perhaps somewhat distant, familial relationship to Mr. Blobby. This Mr. Blobby may be a closer relative." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Slow and steady wins the day, too. I had a fish that sucked up pebbles and blew them at the exact same spot on the tank every day for years until it finally broke the glass. I'm sure he felt that in science, a negative result is still a result...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by Corky, you're a kitty!, papafrita, nev, Silly Ashles, sebastienbailard, wanderingmind, hototogisu, jmdodd, scrump, sgt.serenity, any major dude, griphus, thejoshu, UbuRoivas, Lord_Pall, bent back tulips
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The unattended trampolines, without that new fangled edge padding. You missed your jump, your leg went into the springs, you tumbled over... snap. Cost of doing business.
The neighborhood dogs would run in packs, without leashes, and come back..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CitizenD
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Are we far enough downthread that I can trot out my favorite Amish story as a digression?
My brother is having his annual pig roast, to which the neighboring Amish are invited, and usually attend. The young children arrive in Sunday-Best costumes..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by k8t, CunningLinguist, scrump, MegoSteve
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"Well, I did have a hot girlfriend who did that, surreptitiously, she thought, and all in all it was not a deal breaker.
Turns out it's actually good for you. You are ingesting the current local infectious agents once they've been trapped and dried..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, panic, nakedcodemonkey, chicainthecity
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So yeah, I have no problems playing Burial the way it was meant to be experienced
Well I do have 2000 watts of class-a subwoofer power, and sometimes get complaints from people who don't even live on my block. But if I crank dubstep it's mostly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loquacious
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Here in NYC there are often two menus: the plastic coated one they hand you, and one written on the wall in Chinese. The first has chicken with cashews and orange peel, and the second has sea slug in rice gruel. They are reluctant to serve westerners..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In that case, your life would be worth a quarter of thier number, a mere $1.7 million
You'll probably find the link on here somewhere, but calculations using the choices people make when they spend money to reduce risk, and a broad range of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"In a long term relationship, I think of there being at least five legs to the table:
safety: financial and physical, can you meet your needs together, are you healthy for each other?
sexual: well, you know what that is.
friendship: do you..." [
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favorited 167 times, recently by pseudonick, blithely, barnacles, PFL, Deathalicious, deborah, ShootTheMoon
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm reminded of a friend of mine who always said that he would never get mugged because he "put out the right energy." I told him his attitude further victimized people who had been assaulted.
later that same night, in the waiting room..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sculpin
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"opened up his laptop and typed "MY SCREENPLAY" across the top.
Some guy in his 30's rented a studio space from me for nine months. On the first day he brought in a sliced log, about two foot round and four inches thick, and placed it in..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by troubadour, kliuless, dd42, nasreddin, gac, iivix, HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal, everichon, Ariadne, kimota, magstheaxe, rottytooth, arcticwoman, Dormant Gorilla, dirtdirt, davemee, wigglin, Glow Bucket
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"When I was in college my mother came to visit and saw that I had hung a shirt she'd sent on the wall as an ironic ornament, still pinned together in its plastic wrapping. She never sent me clothes after that...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by woebot, drjimmy11
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Aren't they just really shallow burns that will just heal like really shallow burns?
Well, you've got to pick at the scabs. Show some commitment." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by limeonaire, liza, papafrita
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"When you get to the point of NLP and hypnosis, it most certainly is about tricking and manipulation. A friend's father is a hypno-therapist and I spent some time browsing his library. The techniques they use are very subtle and manipulative.
One..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by vsync, sebastienbailard
3 weeks ago
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"Two experiences I've had regarding the assistants of *very* highly placed executives:
1) In the middle of an important, but month-long, project one called me out of the blue simply to say she would be leaving her desk for 2 hours due to a medical..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Round corners on your business card means you're a prostitute. Too bad nobody told my friend until the day he was leaving. Oops." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sebastienbailard
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Anyone that thinks this a great idea needs to understand exactly how difficult it is to transport electricity over long distances.
Sneakernet. Charge up batteries and hand them off bucket-brigade style...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SteelyDuran
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Plenty of people did Meth in the 50s.
And it didn't take wads of pimp-cash doled out to shady dealers. Just stop by the drugstore for a Benzedrine inhaler, pop the crystal encrusted cotton insert into your morning coffee, and put the 100 yard..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jonmc, UbuRoivas
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I just got back from London where my host, quite a distinguished gentleman, spent a disproportionate amount of his life trying to prevent children from throwing stones into his garden pond, which might puncture the lining. And now this.
Well, now..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by perilous, sebastienbailard, ColdChef
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's a mistake to order a cocktail in any country where the bars keep their ice in one of those little 1950's ornamental ice buckets and use tongs to carefully pluck up each precious cube...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bifter, autodidact
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Laying down a thick carpet bombing is the best way to disarm landmines." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Meatbomb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Well, you do know that you can warm up your lunch by placing a cell phone on either side and having one call the other? That's still true." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bargainhunter, evilcolonel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"the lost grandeur of Coney Island
The whole point of Coney Island, the inside joke, is just how bad it does suck -- the bruegelesque epic adventure promised by the phantasmagoric facade of the Hell Hole, that turns out to be a rickety wooden..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Afroblanco
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm all for free speech, but there are times when mere images can cause actual trauma for people still suffering the immediate effects and the shock of an impact. In special cases, I believe that some forms of expression constitute assault, and this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by overglow
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hmm. I'm a little worried when I think about how, after my mother had a stroke that caused ataxia, my google mail sidebar ads included ataxia therapy videos, even before the word appeared in any mail I sent or received...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"always amusing to read Westerners on the internet vigourously arguing in favour of it
My friend the the Zen priest always brought these kinds of discussions back to "do you sit an hour a day?" If not, then you know nothing of it.
He..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by Stove
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"there was a large
overreaction in both the crowd and by the police.
Unfortunately, overreaction by police is a fact of life. If you are the recipient of it, and I can't say this strongly enough, but please, please, undereact. Unless of course..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Hicksu
3 months ago
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"The number of palm-widths
Each finger is 15 minutes. Very useful for estimating when to head home to avoid having to find your way back in the dark. It's so reliable, I wonder if this is where hours came from...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sandraregina
3 months ago
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"I have friend who does her business by standing with her feet on the toilet seat, and squatting. To prevent splash-back from that height she first layers the surface of the water with sheets of toilet paper.
She prefers to use a public restrooms..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saucy
3 months ago
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"As an accomplished supplement consumer, I was sorry to hear that all the long term studies ultimately are concluding that there is very little measurable benefit to taking them. Vitamin D and folic acid are two notable exceptions...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by docpops, JimN2TAW
3 months ago
