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MeFi post:
A new jug ships clean
Any milk jug that people have to be taught to use is a milk jug that was designed by arrogant idiots.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 2:03 PM on June 30, 2008
Let me restate my point:
Any milk jug that people adults have to be taught to use is a milk jug that was designed by arrogant idiots.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 6:15 PM on July 1, 2008
MeFi post:
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
A friend just sent me this video of "fire rainbow" or circumhorizontal arc clouds (shown in the last photo under 20 Cool Clouds) taken on 6/25 at Port Townsend WA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NqL9Ez4hLU
I like the part where she says "That's not pretty -- it's fucking amazing!"
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 1:32 PM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Living large.
British artist Lucian Freud's painting of a rather... portly slumbering nude...
The word you're searching for is fat.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 8:03 AM on May 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Let's think of it as a thank-you note
"Shit" was one of the few words my grandmother could reliably say after her strokes. Said lightly, ruefully, with disgust or surprise or annoyance or world-weary existential humor, it was a whole vocabulary in a single word.
May every little queer have as a mom as GGG (good, giving, and game) as Jude.
Here's where you can donate to PFLAG in memory of Dan Savage's mother Jude.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 3:17 PM on April 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Remember Me
Pineapple, thank you for telling your story. I'm so sorry for your loss.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 2:52 PM on April 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Lies I've told my three year old recently.
Among other things, my folks told me the following:
Smelt have one head and two tails.
Santa eats the cookies and drinks the scotch we put out for him every year, and Rudolph takes a bite out of the carrot.
When they went into their room in the afternoon, they were taking naps.
They got us from the Indians for a sack of beads, and they weren't so sure it was a good trade.
In all those cases, my belief shaded... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 3:31 PM on April 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Mr. Mom
Biblio, it might be helpful to question your assumption that there are only two sexes, and that they are mutually exclusive, i.e. a person can't be both a man and a woman at the same time.
Intersexed people (who, at 1 to 2% of the population, are more common than many people think) have morphological characteristics of both sexes; and trans people, even after hormone treatment and surgery, still have physiological characteristics of their birth sex.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:08 AM on March 20, 2008
legally i wonder if you become a male but then willingly stop taking hormones to conceive as a woman if your "heterosexual" marriage would be legal in most states. Since there's no precedent that I'm aware of its a good thing they live in Oregon.
In Oregon (and I believe in all other states), it's the letter on your state ID (i.e. your legal sex) that determines who you can marry. Your hormonal status is of no consequence.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 1:34 PM on March 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Lisa Diamond's Place on the Web
I'm glad to see this. I find the homo/hetero/bi trichotomy completely inadequate to deal with the range of observed behaviors and identities.
Modifying those identities with "fixed" or "fluid" offers a much richer and more accurate model, which can also be extrapolated to other supposedly binary traits such as gender expression.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 7:02 PM on March 5, 2008
I think it's just as reductionistic to say everyone is fluidly omnisexual as it is to force everyone into one of two (or three) labeled boxes.
Some people clearly do experience their sexual orientation as fixed for life and intrinsic to their identity, and it seems disrespectful and a waste of breath to try and tell them they're wrong about themselves.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:26 PM on March 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Yes, a kiss is all of these . . . and more.
Women love it when you suck the boogers out of their nose.
Thank you -- I couldn't figure out why the line about kissing little niblets into the curve of each nostril was grossing me out so bad. Although I guess technically he'd be kissing little niblets out of... oh god, never mind.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:14 PM on March 3, 2008
MeFi post:
The Edible Battle of Pelennor Fields
At this point, the Riders of Rohan have already arrived and they’ve completely made the Orc forces their collective biotech.
Is that an ironic high-tech update to the by-now thoroughly played-out "beeyotch"? Or an unintentionally hilarious typo?
Either way I love it.
BITE ME BIOTECH!
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 11:52 PM on January 9, 2008
MeFi post:
wonderful ecards
Mom sends these to the whole family every holiday. And I try with every cinder of my bitter jaded heart to snark, but honestly they're kind of adorable. If only she made cat ones I would be doomed.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 12:46 PM on December 20, 2007
Oh dear god I spoke to soon. There are cat cards.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 12:48 PM on December 20, 2007
As a cat-loving witch, I find this one offensive.
Ms. Lawson will be hearing from the Pagan Anti-Defamation League.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 12:57 PM on December 20, 2007
MeFi post:
His Dark Outrage
Word for word, Mark Morford's prose style irritates me more than Ann Coulter's. I want to edit him with a chainsaw and a wire brush.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:37 PM on November 30, 2007
MeFi post:
The Peace Drug
From my own experience, I believe that regular recreational use of these and other psychedelics during my late teens and twenties has improved my life in long-lasting and valuable ways.
Benefits I can clearly trace include an unusually stable and loving circle of friendships (formed under the influence of copious quantities of MD* synthesized by chemist friends back when it was legal), enhanced relationships with family, a resilient sense of myself even under mental... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 8:43 PM on November 27, 2007
MeFi post:
Pedants
people who own a marquis will do anything to avoid having to buy new letters
Oh no you didn't.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 7:05 PM on September 29, 2007
My all-time career best typo was on the registration card for a software product.
What it was supposed to say was "Size of hard disk."
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:05 PM on September 29, 2007
MeFi post:
An orange hankie in the right pocket means.....
The hanky code is bogus (about a half dozen of these are in actual use), and widely available elsewhere, in an even longer and more preposterous version.
Is a post whose essential message is "ew queers are weird" really the best of the web?
And yes, I have flagged it, and now I am moving on.
posted to MetaFilter by ottereroticist
at 9:27 AM on July 17, 2007
