MeTa comment:
"There used to be an old guy playing the erhu on the 6 platform at Grand Central during late rush hour and into the evening for years. He looked a lot like Deng Xiaopeng, and was far and away the most skilled and nuanced erhu player I'd ever heard...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by grobstein, fuq, tickingclock
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is interesting. Until last November, when heads, mine included, rolled at Citigroup, I worked in risk analysis for Citi's response to the Basel II accords, tracking data quality metrics assessing global preparation for the 2009 adoption of the..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by ruelle, lalochezia, wendell, srboisvert, rider, Tacodog, mishtamesh, Malor, anthill, psmealey
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I was a math wizard in elementary school, praised and encouraged and sent up to my room to soldier through "homework" in math textbook after math textbook far above my grade level, textbooks my parents had arranged with my teachers for me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, in his horrifying autobiographical novel Borderliners, talks about the pitfalls of praise; his idea is that value judgments are artifacts of the adult world, that during childhood curiosity rules. There are so new things..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Too much suicide shit here recently. There's a difference between sad and depressing. Stuff like the Sand Creek post is sad; sadness leaves room for other feelings, like anger or guilt or even rejection of the sadness, and all these feelings are..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by granted
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"don't expect they'll get forensic attention
Like I said, it's not a debate.
You dig your grave, I'll dig mine. We'll meet dead in the middle." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think it's inexcusable laziness to live in a country you don't speak the mother tongue of.
Lazy people don't work fourteen hours a day clipping hedges and mulching flowerbeds; those who do manual labor may not have the time or money to study..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by liquorice, yerfatma, papafrita, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Wilder, bettafish, griphus, umbú, zeusianfog, Locative, madamjujujive, thedaniel, jtron, moonbiter, Quonab, sevenyearlurk
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Some people say "vitriol" when they mean "vehemence." But it's usually because they're in a tizzy or full of shit, or just don't know any better (or any worse, as the case may be). Poor saps.
I've heard people say "War..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by astrochimp
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Believe it or not, this thread is not about what all male Mefites think about pubic hair.
No, it's about what some male and female Mefites think of pubic hair and those who value its removal: the little girls going through the motions trying to be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bunnytricks
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Don't do it. You might find someone else you enjoy spending time with in the next couple weeks. Then you'll feel extra-bad about breaking it off with the second-stringer again; you might even decide not to break it off because you don't want to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by crunch buttsteak
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"How long would it take for a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by allkindsoftime, dosterm, Richat, dirigibleman, LobsterMitten, baphomet, rocket88, Baby_Balrog, Marie Mon Dieu, found missing, malpractice
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Try this:
1) Start by touching your toes. Slowly stand up straight, keeping your arms outstretched; your arms will gradually point from down to front to above your head, until you reach full height. Continue reaching for the sky by standing on..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by doppleradar, Zippity Goombah
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I had a violin teacher who breathed loudly through his nose. He'd play me some piece I was working on, and the music would fade into the background. I'd just hear rushes of air, in and out, through his forest of nostril hair.
He had exquisite..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Brainy, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I dream the world down to a blade of grass every morning just before I awaken. While I go about my day, oblivious, the people arrive and break everything. I consume it all every night before bed, from a plate, along with a glass of milk. Mice take..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by lostburner, hippugeek, biscotti, It's Raining Florence Henderson, misha, nasreddin
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Unlike, say, the img tag, snarky one-liners can't be turned off. That means discretion's involved in deciding which stay and which go. Deleting the bad ones is cool.
Too bad the same can't be done with images, but that's a different nut to pinch...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by russilwvong
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I see what you're saying about backing up claims, grouse, but I don't think every statement in a conversation is a claim.
Also, the way I see it, everybody's just talking, and then one person says to another, "Explain yourself." My..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lohmannn, iamkimiam, AsYouKnow Bob
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Actually, I disagree. One of the reasons I read the comments on MetaFilter is because they frequently rise above the level of mere conversation quite frequently.
I would call that "elevated discourse" and not debate, which I understand..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sure this will redeem the thread for you, languagehat:
Balls, sac, testicles and nuts just aren't sexy
In Japan, they're often called inari, a reference to inarizushi, a simple type of sushi in which abura-age (deep-fried tofu) bags are..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by klangklangston, BrotherCaine, Elsa
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"If racism is everywhere, in everyone and every social structure in the world, then isn't the attempt to conquer it a mite quixotic?
If racism is everywhere, it's still better, like I said, not to go searching specifically for it. I have no..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stavrosthewonderchicken
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Fuck that, I don't want some motherfucker riding my ass because I said I'd show, "Oh breezy, you checked yes; where were you last night? It was so much fun without you."
I was at home filing down bullet tips and making fuckin' waffles,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by baserunner73, blasdelf
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Moon Knight? Fuck off. He's just some looney nutjob rip-off of batman.
Eat shit. He may be a rip-off, as was, say, Darkman (who, until the Bayle Batman flick held the belt for best superhero flick) but he'd kill Batman and be back to the Temple..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, stinkycheese
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Wit is internal, a mental process: cleverness. A witty remark is the product of wit.
Snark is a manner of presentation: a snide remark. Snark is a form of address, not a thought process.
Wit can be snarky, snark can be witty; wit can be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bunnytricks
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Take an orange and about a dozen whole cloves. Poke the pointy end of each clove into the orange, in an attractive pattern, if you like, until all that shows is the head of each clove. You'll end up with an orange studded with cloves.
Tie it..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by farishta, zippity, Secretariat, mikeh, Dean King
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"No stress on any syllable in Japanese names, though the second-to-last syllable, "bu" (which rhymes with "who"), could be slightly swallowed, so it almost sounds like ken-za-b-ro. And you could slightly stress the "za,"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Why fuck pigs or sheep when you can be fucked by dolphins? They'll even drown you, too. Bet you don't know what drowning while being fucked by a dolphin feels like. Just make sure you wait 30 minutes after a meal before getting into the water...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dyoneo
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In 2072, the giant football-playing robots of the London Lightning will play those of the Moscow Machine for the Cyberball world championship, as predicted in 1988.
Unfortunately, the outcome of the game will be left a mystery for lack of quarters,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Spatch
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Asking the super is the best choice.
But if the super can't help, you could tie an air horn to the door with a note on it reading:
"Apartment 22:
Comcast - 3 short blasts
Visitors - 1 long blast
Solicitors - silence"
As long as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dobbs
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I held hands with an old lady I didn't know a few weeks ago while I was helping her cross the street. She didn't ask for help; as a matter of fact, we didn't speak at all, but she was having trouble with the curb, and I wasn't, so I took her..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kwaller
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I've learned that the humorless have to ask if there's a joke afoot, and that the hilarious can't tell when you're playing it straight." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JaredSeth, furiousxgeorge
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers (there's an anthology record worth its weight in gold; I'm no believer but the young Mr. Soul thrills me)
Rancid - "Let's Go!"
The Beach Boys "Summer Days and Summer Nights"
Anything by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stashdot
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"All you fuckers bandying about "vitriol" need to go read Brighton Rock again.
Dynamic work is often destroyed by the performer reaching the peak too early and discovering that there's nowhere left to climb. Good stage or screen writing..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by thivaia, dyoneo, Dizzy
4 months ago
Ask comment:
""Stop following your heart and start following your fucking brain, bozo."" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jkl345
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Sometimes if you poke and prod at a particularly nasty lesion or suppurating sore, a little hand pops out, grabs your stick, and yanks you in for a journey under the skin...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Free word order!
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Chances are, IMO, that SVG is the future.
The future is collapse, ruin, decay. The future is a steaming sea and a deadly mist.
Fire and molten rock await...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Richard Daly, yerfatma, nasreddin, IronLizard, fourcheesemac, Skorgu, boo_radley, JaredSeth, neustile, Divine_Wino
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Stuff White People Like: Assists
Sometimes when I see the word "assist" I wonder what "assism" is exactly, and how I, too, can become an adherent.
Then I take a second look and drop back down to earth. Cruel fate...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Navelgazer, jamaro, lukemeister
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There's an industry involved: the drug-testing industry. That means judges, lawmakers et al have to think of constituencies and lost jobs. Same thing goes for prisons: we'll never reform them if we can't prove we'll fix local economies left..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Hot Like Your 12V Wire, danOstuporStar, uncleozzy
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oklahomophobia." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by These Premises Are Alarmed, treepour, Stunt, kcds, crossoverman, blender, arcticwoman, schyler523, unixrat, thewittyname, LiliaNic, XMLicious, thebrokedown, Thorzdad, Reverend John, axon, bayliss, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, Alvy Ampersand, ColdChef
4 months ago
