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"Frankly, the rule about "not cooking with stuff you wouldn't drink" is missing the point. If you won't drink X because it's bitter or foul-tasting, then yeah, don't cook with it or your food will come out bitter and foul-tasting.
But if..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jaltcoh
2 days ago
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How do you get work done when life's got you down?
favorited 44 times, recently by isoman2kx, marsha56, resurgem, psychostorm, livenlearn, good for you!, Soulbee, khaibit, apartment dweller, citron, jingo1974, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, peacheater, hot soup girl, ethel, P.o.B., anthom, cramer, the luke parker fiasco, melissa, desjardins, miss lynnster, cyanide, quadog, WalterMitty, HotPatatta, miss-lapin, divabat, tyrantkitty, shoebox, Bardolph, Madamina, valleys, inigo2, runincircles, polyester.lumberjack, lunit, emyd, SuperSquirrel, AlisonM, idiomatika, granted, JustKeepSwimming, pazazygeek
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"BUT - I have said all along that the person should use the bathroom of the gender that an objective observer would identify the person as.
One problem is that many transpeople don't fully pass. A woman who's still got an adam's apple and a little..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreama
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, part of the issue here is that you can't really make someone think independently. At best you can recognize it when it happens, and give the guy doing it a thumbs-up. And in fact, recognizing independent thought is pretty tricky —..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Asymptote
Last month
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"("Otters all over my colander!" "Suck my galoshes!" ed\26h's sex life would make for awesome Mad Libs.)
Making small talk is bad. But hey, if something happens that you'd comment on with your clothes on (noise at the door,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by whitelight, kcds
Last month
MeFi comment:
"That'd be Das Cunnilingusliebensverhalten, I think. "Cunnilingus-loving demeanor."
Although there's probably a good colloquial word for cunnilingus that might sound better...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by nooneyouknow
Last month
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"My suspicion is that people claiming to look for the "cause" of cheating are really looking for something else, though: an easy way to stop cheating, or stop other people from cheating, an excuse to cheat, an excuse to be unhappy with..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by ifjuly, Durn Bronzefist, marble, UbuRoivas, supercrayon, MsElaineous, imperium, grumblebee
2 months ago
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"(One last thing. There are teacher-less sanghas out there. I sat with one for a few months. They had various reasons for not wanting a teacher, but one common one was the sort of distrust of authority that you're voicing. If the sangha's what's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"I'm Buddhist. Like you, I'm coming back from a long time away from practice. The scandals in SF and LA were things I found out about while I was away, and I guess they were a small factor in keeping me away.
Right now I deal with it by being a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"I agree that every person — and every couple — communicates differently.
That has an interesting corrolary: in every relationship you're in, you have to re-learn how to communicate.
My own experience has borne this out. In fact, I've found..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Listener
3 months ago
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"Here's the thing: when you're all flustered and awkward over someone, do you let yourself enjoy it? Or are you pinching yourself under the table and looking miserable?
Because honestly, seeing a guy happily, giddily flustered over a new crush is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hfbellefille, ifjuly, newmoistness
3 months ago
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"She's mentioned suicide in passing, and though I don't think she's serious, I'm watching for warning signs.
Sounds like one reason you're with her is to take care of her. And okay, maybe she needs someone to lean on right now — but that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, rokusan
3 months ago
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What's your tech writing bible?
favorited 19 times, recently by yoga, littleredwagon, Awkward Turtle, MissSquare, nthdegx, Wild_Eep, philcliff, wheat, SteveInMaine, disclaimer, st0rey, lumiere, melorama, klangklangston, Artw, meta_eli, QueSeraSera, tastybrains, nanojath
3 months ago
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"One thing you can do, even without any formal training, is to start paying attention to the little building blocks that other people's melodies are built out of. It turns out that there are lots of them — little snippets of melody or rhythm..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by secretary bird, safetyfork, peacheater, Karlos the Jackal, Cantdosleepy, Dreamcast, punchdrunkhistory, artifarce
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Jesus Christ, nicwolff. Back the fuck off.
Look: men can get AIDS from straight sex — it's just that it's comparatively rare. The odds of a guy getting infected through vaginal sex are, last I checked, down around one-tenth the odds of a..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Comrade_robot, jonmc, owhydididoit, Forktine, serazin, Space Kitty, Avenger
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh. Including the obligatory NO NO IT'S OKAY WE HAVE BLACK FRIENDS quote from a white couple." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by parhamr
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd hate to be exclusively aroused by fish porn, but what's wrong with finding one more thing that you get off on? It's like having a new favorite band, only with orgasms.
Sadly, these fish do nothing for me either...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by The Great Big Mulp, Squid Voltaire
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Austin sends the message that you shoulda been here five years ago, back before it got totally and irrevocably lame. As far as I can tell it's been sending that message for the past forty years...." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by ilovemytoaster, swift, bluishorange, retronic, Mister Cheese, roystgnr, lazymonster, Reverend John, medpt
4 months ago
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"I'd like to spend the rest of eternity making people wonder where my other damn foot went." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
4 months ago
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"I'm not judging here, and the "gay plague" implications are worrying, but I don't think the article is anti-homosexual as much is it is pro-safe sex. There's a bunch of stuff in the article explaining why this issue is more important to the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by treepour, axon
4 months ago
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"The Wild Highways of the Elongated Pentagonal Orthobicupola.
Ha! Right up there with "The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by GuyZero
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Robert Hodgin -- musical visualization and more.
favorited 16 times, recently by Asymptote, Rora, scamper, hecho de la basura, Bron, Kikkoman, theemperorhasnoclotheson, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, hap_hazard, ryoshu, P.o.B., deliquescent, pyrex, heresiarch, edmz, merlinmann
4 months ago
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"This is so not about hand washing. This is about learning how to negotiate with each other.
Forget the people who are saying that your preference for clean hands is weird or bad or wrong. You prefer one thing, he prefers another, and you're..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wyzewoman
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting. Bits of the articles remind me of the testimonials you'll hear from, say, New Yorkers who grew up in the 70s and 80s, about how hip hop saved their life, or how punk did.
I think the message really is the same. "It's okay to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yoHighness, LooseFilter
4 months ago
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"I GOT MEATHURT IN MY BUTTSPACE
Hmm. Nah, that's no better, is it?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aihal
4 months ago
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"It is a freaking one-link ELECTIONFILTER post no matter how it's presented, that's what I meant.
And this is an argument against deleting it?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, owhydididoit
4 months ago
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"First off, it's not just about overt praise. If your daughter can see on your face that you enjoy success (hers or your own) more than the adventure of trying something new, she'll pick up the idea that success is a priority.
Second off, it may..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by yohko, nooneyouknow
4 months ago
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"The only conclusion I've got about sexual orientation is that nearly everyone seems to overgeneralize from their own experience.
The bisexuals think everyone is basically bisexual. The devoutly straight or gay folks think everyone has a fixed..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by badmoonrising
4 months ago
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"I've been in a lot of workplaces where sexism — not just jokes about sex, but the honest belief that women were inferior beings whose only real job was to get men off, and who certainly didn't belong at work — fell into the same category as farts...." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Riki tiki
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Nice trick. Draw me in by my morbid curiosity and then sneak in some valuable information about handling a crisis. Well done." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by urbanwhaleshark
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh fuck. I just lost the game.
Or, wait — Oh fuck, I just lost the game?
Or — no, wait — FUCK!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Samizdata
4 months ago
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"See, the first two Weezer albums were timed right for me to bond with them. Being a teenager around power pop is like being a duckling around, well, anything that moves I guess.
So for all I know, this is as good as their old stuff, and I'm just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by penduluum
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Funny, I'm having the same feeling about some sort of extra-feminine razor.
I guess hairy fish are less aerodynamic or something." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by climalene
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I'm a pretty big apologist for religion, and even at times for organized religion. But in this one small way, I've got to agree with sonohito: There are people in other churches who behave worse than the Scientologists behave, and we..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dangerousdan
4 months ago
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"I think the problem you're having is that Austin's basic thesis ("Saying things does shit") sounds blindingly obvious.
It's hard to believe, but the generation of logicians who went before him mostly ignored that fact. Ms. Saint gives a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by grumblebee, mdn, nasreddin, painquale, ManInSuit
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure "Why do people want to cheat?" is the most interesting question to ask, really. It's incredibly unlikely that knowing the answer would change anything. As long as the desire's there, explaining it won't keep us from having to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, Miko
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I recall, at those early stages of pubescent development, that none of the guys wanted to get married ever, and a portion of the girls did and wanted to have fancy weddings and all that.
Hmm. Guy here. I remember knowing at age twelve that I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Jefferson's skittering clockwork vagina scans pretty nicely.
In other words, I'm going to be singing it in my head to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman" for the next three weeks. Thanks a lot...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rossmik
4 months ago
