MeTa comment:
"How do you say "LOL" in Chinese? I am curious.
If somebody says "ROR" I'm going to punch them." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by Pope Guilty, spec80, koeselitz, Kimothy, Dasein, LeeJay, Flashman, shmegegge, ShawnStruck, Scattercat, Reverend John, hippybear, Abiezer, iamkimiam, Asparagirl, heeeraldo
4 ¾ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"*shrug* I've still got it turned on. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. Won't bother me if it gets reverted.
2400 comments. Good galloping fuckstallions...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by cavalier, rtha, smartypantz
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I used to think almost everyone over 40 was full of shit. Now that I am myself over 40, I'm sure of it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scruss
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My personal paean in two parts to a number of things Japanese, including the glorious toilet technology, from a few years back.
Bumwash Gadgetry has since appeared all over Korea as well (even the toilets at my office, for goodness sakes), and it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eye of newt
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Holy shit, pushing 1000 comments. Smells like shark in here.
I'm very much of two minds about all this, having slept on it. I am one of the people that thinks that favorites (both because of the implicit approbation implied in that word and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mindless progress, MS_gal, nooneyouknow
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"But I am going to keep the count turned off, I think, and see how it feels in a week or three." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I think this is a good experiment to try.
I also think it wasn't that great an idea to make it relatively easy to turn off the change for the duration of the experiment, no matter now much people wailed and pooped their pants.
I think a month..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by nooneyouknow, koeselitz, GeckoDundee
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What the fuck is RYSTAL MET?
Same thing as regular crystal meth, but missing a hydrocarbon." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by kcds
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I will listen to some Hardcore '81-era DOA tonight with my Friday Beers, whether or not the hoax is true.
I probably would have done that anyway" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Bearman, Liver
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I've turned off account vetting for this Very Special Event, mostly because I'm lazy and it's Friday and I'll be drinking beer and playing the just-unlocked-in-Korea Borderlands later today...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Liver, boo_radley
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"We also have 2 other private Team Fortress 2 servers, 2 Left4Dead servers, an L4D2 server about to be born, and play a multitude of other games -- currently about 50 of us are playing the just-released and big-fun Borderlands. We're almost 700 strong..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by boo_radley
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
">I've been a member of this site more than a quarter of my life
>Well NOW I feel old. Jesus.
No need. I've been a member almost a quarter of my life, and I'm in my mid-goddamn-40's. I don't feel old so much as slightly bewildered...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by artlung
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I miss drugs, but not the people you were forced to hang around with while doing them.
I guess that's called getting old." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jason's_planet
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Echoing Mitheral, I grow increasingly weary of the 'only the prescient and plugged-in could have seen it coming'. Fuck that noise. Anybody with two goddamned brain cells to rub together saw it coming. Myself included, and I've been down to my last..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tarantula, peppito
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"V-Z
Vader - Between Day and Night |
Vader - Cold Demons |
Vader - Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead) |
Vader - ShadowsFear |
Vader - The Calling |
Vader - They Live!!! |
Vader - This Is The War |
Vader - Wings |
Vader - Xeper |
Van..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by armage
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Man, I keep thinking about this. Sorry to keep going here, but it seems to me that any long-time active member of this community would be likely to say Metatalk is the *least* representative face of the community in certain ways.
'In certain ways'..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"3 things:
1. Moderation
2. Moderation
3. Moderation.
In recent years perhaps. It was not always so, and the transition between models as the site scaled would be an interesting study in itself. But I've long since gotten down off the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by klangklangston
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Chris Locke's a friend of mine and a very smart man and a splendid writer.
The Cluetrain thing is and was an artifact of its time, and at the rate things change on the net, 10 years ago is an eternity. It really did feel like the world was..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by kmartino, philosophistry, bowline, blucevalo, Monochrome, Robin Kestrel, drezdn, infini, ChuqD, Mick, hotmud
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Now, assuming you read/heard that background material I offered, I'll try to pull some threads together into a nice package:
Some of the forces at play in molding some of the ways in which some Koreans tend to perceive both themselves (that is,..." [
more]
favorited 64 times, recently by -t, miyabo, Mick, smartypantz
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Satan's greatest trick was to make the concept of memes itself a meme.
I don't know about you, but I'm going to invest heavily in Depends™ brand adult undergarments. And not watch any of these videos...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by voronoi
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"There are heaps of Korean ideas which can only clumsily be expressed in English - kibeun, han, chemyeon, neunchi, bunuiki, and jeong, for a few examples.
Thor May explains them thus, and quite well :
Perhaps the most useful summary in Oak..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by surenoproblem
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Generation Attention Deficit Disorder lurches forward with another scrip for mashup meds, and I feel a little older and more bewildered." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flabdablet
Last month
MeTa comment:
"If Obama's administration doesn't end up delivering as we all hoped it would, then I'm totally on-board with Palin for Prezidunt in 2012, because if this moment in history isn't the point at which to try and steer the ship from the rocks it's been..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Peztopiary, webmutant, nasreddin, five fresh fish
Last month
MeTa comment:
"People are always seeking ways to belong, ways to be part of the in-group or groups, winks and nods and secret handshakes that show everyone else that they're on the ball, they have a decoder ring, they know the in-jokes and significators, they're a..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Antidisestablishmentarianist
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If I understand correctly, shockingbluamp is posting those Biden quotes as examples of 'gaffes'.
One of the many things that never ceases to surprise me about the degree to which the faux-conflict mongering doucheballoon media controls the framing..." [
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favorited 46 times, recently by non sum qualis eram
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Killfiling is infantile nyah-nyah-nyah-I-can't-hear-you, and destructive to community and reasoned discussion, even in the presence of trollery. It is wrong and lazy, because if you really care about the things you say, you remain undaunted by the..." [
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favorited 37 times, recently by dyoneo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Hah! I don't know how many times since I first read that essay as, like, an 11-year-old, that I've used the phrase 'gutted from crotch to sternum like a trout'.
But it's a lot...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by timeo danaos, pxe2000, interrobang
Last month
MeTa comment:
"delmoi used to drive me nuts because it seemed like half his comments were reasonable and lucid and half were these cryptic, badly-spelled yawps. I actually seriously did believe that several different people were using his account, so different were..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Also: 4 Sites Where You Can Download Old PC Games For Free" [
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favorited 10 times, recently by haltingproblemsolved, Bearman, Amanojaku, jermsplan, Lentrohamsanin, Life at Boulton Wynfevers, Unwiseone, logicpunk, mduda, afu
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I grew up in a tiny little town in Northern BC that was charged with racial tensions. I couldn't wait to get out, decades ago, beautiful as it was and is, and the reason I've spent my entire adult life abroad is probably remnants of inertia from that..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Bearman, xorry, drezdn, koeselitz, ignignokt, nola, philip-random
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"You know I love you, Stav, but this is way out of line and out of character.
Bullocks, Miguel. I asked if the poster had any other questions that might be even slightly answerable without being forced to try to guess the poster's intent (the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"When I taught at Unnamed State University, we did get memos. I remember one that included, along with stuff like "'Oriental' is an inappropriate term for people of Asian descent; please use "Asian" or "Asian American" or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phire, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"MetaFilters most popular song ever
Huh. That makes me feel pretty bad." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh. That is simply not the way that Metafilter works, my friend.
Or the internet at large, where the having of opinions is the functional equivalent of the right to bear arms, for that matter...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by you're a kitty!, Mick, koeselitz
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I started off thinking this was a bit on the pepsi-blue side of things, but it was an interesting and well-put-together article on how to do this kind of monster-storage thing.
What I couldn't help but thinking as I read it, though, was how quaint..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Joe Beese, dearsina
2 months ago
