Ask comment:
"I'm a little late to this question, but I think I can help answer it, and it's important. Please forgive me if it's overly personal.
I lost two of my biggest reasons for living years ago, a couple weeks apart. My daughter died in her sleep..." [
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MeFi comment:
"My great-uncle worked at Los Alamos developing the A-bombs. From what I gather, many of the scientists involved had grave misgivings about dropping them because of the indiscriminate nature of such a huge blast. The effects of the atomic explosion..." [
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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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MeTa comment:
"I find it funny that when things bother parents, they feel free to label entire communities sexual predators. By "funny" I mean "abusive and shitty."
I also find it funny when people come into a discussion, fists swinging, and..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Being haunted by something until the day you die can mean a lot of things, Jatayu das. Some might be frivolous, like being reminded that you once stole a candy bar every time you see a Snickers ad. Sometimes the haunt is proportional: a sniper sees..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"You know, back in the early '80's, my dad was working for No Such Agency on a push to provide his section with, as he put it, "a computer on every desk." His boss resisted the idea on the grounds that computers were for games, and he..." [
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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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MeTa comment:
"This is the Metatalk equivalent of the time that little dachshund kept humping your leg while you were waiting outside the high school for your mom to finish chit-chatting her way through the holiday craft fair; you're standing there on crutches,..." [
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MeTa comment:
"Conservative voters aren't Nazis. They are, however, personally responsible for helping install an administration that, by gutting the federal bureaucracy and consolidating executive power into the hands of a corrupt party leadership responsible not..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"My Victory Garden is planted with even rows of hops, barley, tobacco, sativa, poppies, and Destro action figures that I hope will grow into a whiny cyborg army that will repeatedly fail to steal the world's supply of beer at my bidding...." [
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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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MeTa comment:
"The nerve!
I was happily waxing my stash to a frankly thrilling set of artistic erotic prints -- furries, if you must know, and cetaceans at that -- no, I know cetaceans aren't really furry, but if you've ever seen dolphins get it on you'll know..." [
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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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Ask comment:
"I gave up on love years ago.
That's not true; I gave up on dating and relationships years ago. A catastrophe destroyed the love I thought would last the rest of my life, and when I stopped being helplessly broken I found that I just couldn't..." [
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MeTa comment:
"It's interesting: this thread is definitely about sexism, but it's also about condescension, sanctimony, thoughtcrime, love, understanding, and a brighter tomorrow. You can glimpse the giant wedges of unshakeable opinion colliding, sparks flying,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"Clay201, just stuff a sock or a ball in the mouth, big enough to immobilize the jaw, and wrap the tape tightly around the head a few times, making sure to tape from just below the nose to under the chin. Attempts to loosen the tape by moving the..." [
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