MeFi comment:
"Hipsterism as the ultimate postmodern black-hole. So much money, time and effort convincing young people that they need to "learn who they really are" and "actualize" that now they are these bizarre, all-consuming,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fuzzypantalones
40 minutes ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not in your head.
Not to be the drum major of the snark parade - but this kind of editorializing is generally frowned upon around here. If, in fact, the evidence validates your opinions and impressions of this new research I'm sure it'll..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Megami
10 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Amazing providence! Free postcard-sending service at the exact moment we need it to chew out a bunch of lousy, no-good Democrat cowards.
It's a Christmas miracle!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ChurchHatesTucker
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I operate under no subtle illusions regarding the substance of my "hereafter."
When I die, Jesus will call me forth from the cave of my body - like unto his friend, Lazarus. He will call to me, "Come out!" and I will come...." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by ST!NG
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"I think perhaps this may be a copy of the now non-existent date project list." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mozzie
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"I have one!
Men's clothes cost relatively the same as women's clothing but are built to last. When I do the laundry I can't believe how thin and insubstantial my gal's clothes are. It's as though they're prop clothes or something. I'm offended..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by kimota, ixohoxi, Seamus, DevilsAdvocate, DMan, Deathalicious, misha, baserunner73, Grlnxtdr, naju, blueberry, ifjuly, ms.codex
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"Make sure you're not using your laptop in bed. (I've seen a surprisingly high number of laptops destroyed this way.) Your laptop should always be used on a hard, flat surface. I recommend a laptop fan and also remember that some degree of heat is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Aww jeez - that seemed like a bonafied, genuine, interesting sort of mystery there. He probably never even went out into Joshua Tree.
Breaks my heart to see that people are using WMFU to advertise whatever weird thing they've come up with to call..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shmegegge, philip-random
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow - I'm amazed at how watchable that was. I totally expected it to suck - kind of like when Ben Croshaw does live action stuff... it's a total cringe fest. But that was really actually very good and I'm adding it to my roku...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"...made of a fabric created by Doctor Manhattan that used two pressure and heat-sensitive liquids suspended between two layers of latex...
This reminded me to google "working Rorschach mask" which turned up this interesting thread on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by khafra
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Why wouldn't I want to know what a "gigantic, pulsating ball of leafy green plants" with the voice of Leonard Nimoy said?"
/sigh. i'm gonna go smoke first.
Ok, Optimus. But you better not be hoodwinking me into to..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ruelle, Squid Voltaire
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ynoxas - "Nobody believes any of this shit, even though they SAY they do."
I believe in God. I'll tell you why:
Once, a few years back, I was way down south in the Amazon basin in Peru.
I was in a tree, sitting on a platform,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by ruelle, teraflop, Squid Voltaire, hermitosis
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Once I was responsible for raising money to take poor kids to the beach. For a while, I told folks at the churches - Hey! These kids are super-poor and have never been to the beach. Let's take them to the beach! Please give me money for a bus and..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by marble, jzed, Megami, Hactar, ChutneyFerret, ooga_booga, etaoin, Secret Life of Gravy, Diablevert, Wavelet, divabat, flatluigi, tippiedog, FissionChips, burnmp3s, parudox, jedicus, Malor, cabezadevaca, Lentrohamsanin, Jubal Kessler, acro, horsemuth
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I know this won't win me any fans here - but this is why I like giving to my (congregationalist) church. The budget is public and transparent and I can be a part of the outreach committee that decides where the money goes. There are regular..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Nooooo! Dammit! Michael York always ruins my favorite audio books. His sneering, weird falsetto absolutely destroyed Brave New World and turned it into a cringe-marathon. I wish I could somehow globally find-replace every instance of Michael York..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by brundlefly, runincircles, raisindebt
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Your replies all stem from the premise that the human population needs to maintain its current count. This is faulty.
you first" [
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favorited 14 times, recently by caution live frogs, problemspace, almodis, the dief, The Bellman, bearwife, fook, sebastienbailard, longdaysjourney, Blazecock Pileon, xthlc, rocket88, haltingproblemsolved, Pope Guilty
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"...I openly and vigorously defended the church whenever it was criticized, as I railed against the kind of intolerance that I believed was directed against it. ... I saw the organization - with all its warts, growing pains and problems - as an..." [
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favorited 50 times, recently by problemspace, kittyprecious, axon, frenetic, ruelle, Earl the Polliwog, Lexica, hhc5, oostevo, liza, koeselitz, Dreadnought, turgid dahlia, Free word order!, Nanukthedog, availablelight, mrzarquon, ooga_booga, spinifex23, gen, Auden, mrgrimm, palindromic, khaibit, vorfeed, blackberet, arcticseal, Harvey Jerkwater, lodurr, lalochezia, DevilsAdvocate, RokkitNite, notswedish, iminurmefi, Lou Stuells, Lazlo Hollyfeld, philip-random, EatTheWeak, lumensimus, Senor Cardgage, arcolz, Aversion Therapy, numinous, magstheaxe, tomierna, revgeorge
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think it's unkind, offensive and petty for you to claim that there are two kinds of pet owners, those who love their pets - and those who want to have furniture.
for you, it seems like having an emotional, affectionate relationship with your cat..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, cj_, Rumple, electroboy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think a lot of this comes from a fundamentally misunderstanding of how genuinely dangerous the world at large is and how hostile it is to human life, generally speaking. I have numerous friends who accept very little to no western medicine,..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by marble, litlnemo, grapefruitmoon, lootie777, Hactar, Sticherbeast, thebrokedown, smoke, feckless, oneirodynia, damn dirty ape, bearwife, Kadin2048, Blazecock Pileon, sebastienbailard, orrnyereg, lalochezia, revgeorge, Drastic, haltingproblemsolved, tippiedog, longdaysjourney, everichon, BaxterG4
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I only eat cats that haven't been declawed." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by Lesser Shrew, eegphalanges, sien, GilloD, blueberry, AaronRaphael, mordax, Bageena, MysteriousMan, stormpooper, schyler523, These Premises Are Alarmed, LMGM, thewittyname, qvantamon, jimmythefish, ignignokt, jock@law, EarBucket, spaltavian
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Jeeeeaaaayyysus. I apologize for even bringing that up. I was raised in a home with cats and dogs, the cats were declawed and the dogs were crate trained. It was the way things were done - we had a vet in the family and as far as I can tell we had..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by janelikes, Rumple, Balonious Assault
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I would rather a cat be humanely euthanized than to have to suffer through such a painful procedure
good lord" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, tzikeh, cj_
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Huh. I'm a native Michigander with loads of California relatives and most of their youngin's are moving back here to go to college. They like our seasons...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blucevalo
Last month
Ask comment:
"He could teach! I'm a pastor who teaches at a state university and I love it. A good Lutheran pastor friend of mine went back and got his Ph.D. in linguistics and teaches at the school as well.
Grading papers completely sucks but teaching..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fiasco da Gama
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The Pre comes close, but the hardware design (flimsy), and Palm stigma sorta fuck it.
It's kind of weird that people continuously refer to the Pre as having "flimsy hardware." I've had mine for a couple of weeks now and it's like a..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"For the love of god - let the goats into the game. There's simply no reason to deny it. If you bring a goat to a cubs game there should be stables provided. Come on people, we can beat this one!
Amazing post, btw. Best of the web - and this..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
Ask comment:
"I used to drink with some German guys and they thought it was hilarious when I'd go off in made-up German. Then they'd try to translate it.
Anyway, once I asked them to speak in made up English and they looked at each other, and, in perfect unison,..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If we legalize pot, how the heck are we going to keep our prisons filled with young black men? Then the prisons will start runnin' on empty and then all those prison companies will come lookin' for a bail-out and you know who's going to have to pay..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"My Palm Pre does exactly this. Except they're called "cards." And they blow my mind with their awesomeness and I would pay top dollar to have cards on my pc...." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hey, this is awesome. Cut him some slack. I can't imagine most of the legislators I've met successfully buying a ham sandwich at a deli without some 19 year-old nephew/aide showing them how to use a menu. Kudos on him...." [
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favorited 3 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I can't BELIEVE they lumped Kalamazoo together with Grand Rapids and Battle Creek! ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. We are nothing alike, people! Nothing alike! West Michigan is an intricate tapestry of lovely centers of urban renewal and higher education,..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hey! Listen up! There are marvelous partners for you out there in every hue imaginable! If you don't date someone based on the color of their skin, you deserve to sit at home alone...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"yeesh. Metafilter doesn't do race well at all. Felix cites relevant material and points out some fairly basic stuff about the U.S. print media (stuff I though most of learned about in college) and y'all call him a racist. boggles my mind.
And..." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Wow. How frustrating. A good friend and I did this for much of Luke during our first year in seminary as a joke. We should have published. Basically, to render a conservative reading of the gospels you simply invert the sayings of Jesus. It..." [
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favorited 27 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"In seminary, our softball players were the Near Eastern Semitic Storm-Gods." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Holy cow! I knew there was a reason I cleaned my guns today.
/armed liberal" [
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favorited 4 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As an orientation leader at a large state school, I was granted access to a whole heap of yearbooks dating back many decades. I found the earliest one in the collection - it was from 1911. Most of the signatures were illegible, however one young..." [
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favorited 15 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The difficult part - for me, anyway - is that we've lost liberation and process theology to the rhetoric of the right.
Process and liberation are the theological cornerstones in my everyday work in parish ministry and Harvey Cox - amongst others -..." [
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favorited 16 times
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey cool! My band recorded a track for a compilation album for this campaign. It was an interesting experience - we were completely unaware of the campaign and all the producer told us was that he wanted a song about "nature" or something...." [
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favorited 1 time
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"jamstigator: "Anybody who owns a handgun and identifies themself as a Christian as a pure unadulterated hypocrite."
fwiw I agree with you, however Jesus did fashion a whip out of corded leather to drive the money-changers out of the..." [
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favorited 7 times
2 months ago
