This was excellent, and hilarious. Thanks for pointing it out. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sutekh
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One of my few brushes-with-famous-people was with Bowie.
It was the second week of September, 1983, and he was playing at the Coliseum in Vancouver. I'd just started at UBC, and was drinking rather a lot, as was my wont. One night there was a... [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Bearman, yiftach, Wavelet, Mick, mikeh, flibbertigibbet, Zero Gravitas, Hilweh, Turtles all the way down, Pendragon, madamjujujive, Kattullus, brundlefly
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2 days ago
I wish Metafilter™ would do this, but with Metafilter members, not 'famous people'. [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Mick, cmoj, swift
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4 days ago
People who use PDF for text-based, noon-illustrated books should be hung up by their heels and beaten with dirty keyboards until they repent.
This is a personal hobbyhorse of mine.... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fantine, asperity, irisclara
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5 days ago
Well, I'd say L4D2 is a completely different game to play than L4D1, and a much, much better one.
I am an unrepentant Valve fanboy, even if I disagree with some of their decisions and curse their sometimes slipshod QA, so take it for what it's... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phredgreen
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8 days ago
Just to offer a counteropinion, I've had office jobs, and I've had manual labor jobs. It's true that I don't like coming into the office, but nothing fills me with dread like showing up every morning to the construction site/lumber yard.
To offer... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tippiedog, archagon, five fresh fish
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9 days ago
This doesn't look all that different from Northern light pix I've seen though--and isn't it the right time of year for them? What makes the difference?
I'd say that thing looks nothing like the aurora borealis. I've watched the aurora hundreds of... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by five fresh fish, General Tonic
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9 days ago
I have a little droidel
I made it out of clay
And when it's dry and ready
Then droidel I shall play.
Droidel, droidel, droidel
I made it out of clay,
Droidel, droidel, droidel,
Then droidel I shall play.
It has a lovely body,
With legs... [
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favorited 8 times, recently by bearwife, Mick, gemmy, dirtynumbangelboy, rtha, St. Alia of the Bunnies, oneswellfoop, strixus
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10 days ago
Excellently stated, costas - in particular your second paragraph. Function follows form in the case of discussion sites, I think, and the form that Matt chose (through luck or design, I'm not sure!) for MeFi threads does indeed have a very... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cosmic.osmo
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10 days ago
I don't know -- I always like to have articulate people to argue with (even if I'm not interested in arguing about this) and pla is clearly that. So, welcome! I don't mind if you have different ideas from mine, even ideas that I find a bit offensive;... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by normy, darsh, Spanner Nic, emeiji, johngoren
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11 days ago
She may be a scammer, but she also coined one of the most memorable phrases of AskMe, one which lives on in the lexicon.
Just an aside, and for what little it's worth, but like a lot of stuff we think we made up here, that was an SA Forums... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Optimus Chyme
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2 weeks ago
awaiting official nonprofit status documents from me, or letters from every nonprofit saying I was a designated agent (neither of which I can produce)
My account was locked by them for over a year for the same reason -- to this day I have no idea... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by burnmp3s, lizzicide, tizzie, shelleycat, davejay
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2 weeks ago
You know what's beginning to piss me off?
*crowd goes silent in rapt anticipation*
Metatalk threads where the first few comments are "Oooh, you gonna get wordraped! Run away, 'cause the mean people are gonna make soooo much fun of you!... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kickstart70
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2 weeks ago
We're not animals. We're not cattle, we don't have to walk up the chute just because another cow went up it. We are not goldfish gorging ourselves as long as food is offered, we are humans. We have sovereignty, reason, and autonomy - if we choose not... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rumple
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2 weeks ago
This post is terribly written, the grammar is all over the shop.
Rule 37: Any complaint about bad spelling will include spelling mistakes and any complaint about incorrect grammar will include grammatical mistakes.
Rule 38: Hardcore... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by zpousman, odinsdream, josephtate, mhoye, lucius
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2 weeks ago
>I'm sorry-- the "unknowing innocence of another time"?
>>I'll bet the author is around 35-40
I'll just take 'Who is a piss-poor writer?' for 800, Alex.... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chambers
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2 weeks ago
I get it too, once in a while. Always have. Triggered by memories or thoughts, neither consistently good or bad ones, not even, always, ones that are intense. I am not nor have ever been on any kind of psychotropic medication (you know, other than... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by jschu
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2 weeks ago
I've kept the new setting the entire month, and I can say with some confidence that I don't really give a damn either way. [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, Dumsnill
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3 weeks ago
It's Friday in Korea, and that means beer. And beer is delicious. For beer, I give thanks. [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mick
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3 weeks ago
I tried this thing like a week ago, and after a minute or five, felt as if I'd been an unwilling be-roofied centerpiece in some kind of javascripty bukkake party: disgusted, bewildered, ashamed, and drenched in digital Goo straight from the Google... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cschneid, paleyellowwithorange
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3 weeks ago
Faithinism needs more emineminism?
I reckon we could all stand a bit less ismism. [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ChuqD, COBRA!
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3 weeks ago
When the apocalypse finally comes, it's going to be the people who have experience making slightly-more-useful-crap out of slightly-less-useful-crap that will rule the hardscrabble barter economy. Then we'll be laughing out of the other side of our... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arcticwoman
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3 weeks ago
I've lived all over the world, and I've never been anywhere where there weren't people who were racist.
I suspect that the only thing that varies is the proportion of racists that feel comfortable voicing their prejudices. Whether the number of... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by croutonsupafreak, Pollomacho
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I would say 'Fuck off'.
Then I would end up calling them the next time I was drunk and lonely. [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cheesecake
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I called it a skill of the newer generation, a type of self marketing. This is all an extension of The Pursuit Of Cute.
I had a related bunch of thoughts a couple of years back, too.... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shoesfullofdust
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*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.... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cavalier, rtha, smartypantz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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