Ask comment:
"rooftop secrets: I'm guessing you mean catnabbing.
Huh? Cat + kidnapping = catnapping. Right?
What's catnabbing?
Anyhow, there are plenty of catty (heh) ways you can handle this passive-aggressively, which is often the best way with..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by jrockway, ao4047, pots, ifthe21stcentury, allkindsoftime, schyler523, korpios, TheDukeofLancaster, Liosliath, polyester.lumberjack, RedEmma, brina, youcancallmeal
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"delmoi: I'm getting sick of design. Those pages are all pretty, but nothing I haven't seen a million times before.
My sentiments exactly. All this "great design!" crap we keep seeing is pure masturbation; really great design is design..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fantabulous timewaster, twistedonion
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"dirigibleman: Not 'platypi', 'platypuses'. The word is English via Greek, not Latin.
Ah. Then you mean to say it's Platypoi.
Er, well, no, I guess. Platypoi is it. But *it's* Platypous. I always forget to decline correctly. At least I think..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by khaibit
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Also, to be charitable, there is a good point here. It was just expressed badly. (If you will, it wasn't up to snuff on the Natural Language 2.5 Transitional Doctype.) It should've gone something more like this:
"Hey, I just noticed that the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fishfucker
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Particularly the "very bad" link is, well, very good. Thanks for this, Brian Lux. I found his life very interesting, and he sounds like the sort of man I'd like to know. I was impressed by this very decent, and unfortunately very rare at..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
5 months ago
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"snap_dragon: I would like to sense God in my life. I go to church regularly, pray, and read the Bible to understand Him better but I still have such deep bouts of depression where I either don't trust or sense his presence. There is a wide gap..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by allkindsoftime, klangklangston, drea, Korou, lalochezia, turaho, anthom, meringue, sculpin, nooneyouknow, nasreddin, dosterm, Gucky
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"WalterMitty: Did the crime, do the time.
Do we want to send the message to today's arrested drug dealers that they should escape now in the hopes that, if they get caught later after a couple of decades, they can get a discount on their jail term..." [
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favorited 39 times, recently by AceRock, griphus, perilous, minervous, TheOnlyCoolTim, schyler523, aeschenkarnos, pandaharma, lupus_yonderboy, finite, Jilder, Optimus Chyme, desjardins, zarah, ymgve, Crabby Appleton, Brocktoon, oneirodynia, anaphoric, madamjujujive, monkeystronghold, gorgor_balabala, kuujjuarapik, DevilsAdvocate, jock@law, mrgrimm, Dormant Gorilla, Artw, Ragma, scrump, eriko, kittens for breakfast, Greg Nog, quin, nooneyouknow, chunking express, teleri025, mikesch, Brandon Blatcher
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"anon: I've already tried coaching my bf to be more sexually aggressive, but it's clear by now that it's just not in him.
I don't think 'coaching' is going to do it. That's not really what you want to be doing, and it's not what you should do...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Scram, Ladysin, Nattie, flatluigi, minervous, lalochezia, arcticwoman, small_ruminant, onalark, Brian James
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"It just occurred to me that I think you should probably show him this thread and talk about it with him. I think you've expressed yourself very well." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
5 months ago
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"anon: I'm really not interested in staying with him and his wife. Of course I want to see him but I think it's in everyone's best interest that I stay somewhere else. Am I being a total b#$@h? I can be polite to her when I see her, but if I stay with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
""Ack." It's the whole reason why the coolest Billy Joel song, "Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)," is also a really awesome song to sing at the top of your lungs. One of the inadvertently great moments in pop music:
...He's tradin'..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by unknowncommand
5 months ago
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"fantasticninety: I doubt the IT guy would change it as he's already refused to make simple changes like installing firefox or fixing something else so I ain't expecting much on this one either.
I have the same setup at work. Perhaps mine is even..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by saturnine, yohko
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel, one last point, important enough to have to add it: I appreciate your sense that the seriousness and weight of the law demands that we repay like with like and submit those who've been sentenced to punishment. However, the purpose, and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by minervous, aeschenkarnos
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"team lowkey: My girlfriend makes breakfast sandwiches for our carpool every day. She calls it "Egg McEgg". Only she's vegan, so there's no actual egg involved. It's fried tofu and fake sausage on an english muffin... She's kinda weird...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hattifattener, gen
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"TedW: According to police, she was the ringleader of a major narcotics operation with numerous underworld ties, so they put her in a minimum security prison without a fence? Also, $600 in cash, even in the 1970's, is hardly a the mark of a major drug..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by schyler523, lupus_yonderboy, dejah420, finite, jonp72, Optimus Chyme, Crabby Appleton, acro, DevilsAdvocate, roystgnr, notsnot, nooneyouknow, Richard Daly, mosk, arcticwoman, Atom Eyes, dyoneo
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I would like to drink a glass of fantabulous timewater. I believe that it would allow me to travel back and forth in time to wherever I please until it leaves my body.
I'll just have remember not to take a piss in an eleventh-century Moorish..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hjo3
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel: The crime doesn't matter. The length of the sentence doesn't matter. What matters is the law. It either applies to everyone under a common uniform transparent (to the defendant) system, or it applies to no one and we have anarchy and the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by arcticwoman, mek, dyoneo
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Two other points in what you said, Pastabagel, since there was a lot of insightful stuff:
You tell me not to make an assumption, but you proceed to assume she walked away from a criminal life, even though the article tells you plainly that she..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mek, DevilsAdvocate
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"msalt: To everyone arguing she should be set free -- how do you distinguish her case from the many black, hispanic and white men who have escaped from prison, been caught and had to complete their terms?
I don't really believe anymore that she..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Where are people getting 'open relationship' from? All I heard was 'we're very open with each other.' Not necessarily the same thing. (Both of them used the same words, in fact, which increases my own suspicion.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Someone who pronounces cot and caught differently: Please, please record the following sentence and upload it on the internet somewhere:
"I caught my daughter sleeping on my cot."
See, when I was in Boston, I met people every day who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"regicide is good for you: There's an implicit, though obviously unintended, and maybe unavoidable, message here: to single out waterboarding as particularly unethical almost suggests that there are ethical ways for an occupying force to conduct..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by arcticwoman, Marla Singer, Blazecock Pileon, alexei
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"pb: The tyranny of commas is over. My apologies.
No, no, no, pb. What you're supposed to do is create a database of every country and/or region in the world and their standard practices regarding commas in numerals and implement it via specialized..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by SteveTheRed, BrotherCaine, bettafish
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Use a highlighter. That way it's easy to find posters or comments that you want to remember, or that you thought were useful. They make a huge variety of colors now, so it's easy to have a bunch, and you can draw a key on your profile to help you..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by bkudria, tehloki, roofus, grobstein, flatluigi, loiseau, flod logic, jessamyn, languagehat
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And, of course, it couldn't happen in the UK, could it? As the British Government increases court fees for care proceedings by 2,500%, the risk of more children slipping through the safety net increases.
Yes, precisely. We must be very cautious,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by axon, ethnomethodologist, paduasoy
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, the jokes are starting.
Y'know what the pivotal evidence in the trial was?
Hans' diaries. Seems he was really into journaling." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by ryanfou, Grod, dmd, formless, phrontist, mike3k, ftrain, brundlefly, Pope Guilty, JHarris, tommasz, olya, Floach, sdodd, McSly, jeffburdges, Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"defun truth ( n x y z )
( + x n z y )
(setf a "is the reason")
(setf b "Reverse Polish Notation")
(setf c "can be coded in strings, thus making it so goddamned useful")
(setf d "Common Lisp")
truth (..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, JHarris, jkaczor
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Jaltcoh: Seems to me that Gervais did nothing with that role, and Carrell nailed it. Gervais was essentially just reading his lines; Carrell brought the character to life. (I haven't seen the British version in years, so I may be wrong.)
He did..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by h00py, winna
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Pollomacho: Take it as you like, I just don't think that the site needs an overhaul because .23% of potential users might have trouble waiting till they get home to favorite a comment.
Regardless, it seems like you might be on the losing side of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Pollomacho: Take it as you like, I just don't think that the site needs an overhaul because .23% of potential users might have trouble waiting till they get home to favorite a comment.
Sticking in a stylesheet that's mobile and enlarging Ajax..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"mecran01: A guy did 168 mph in a VW bug.
No. Heh heh. No, no, no. 168 is a lot for a VW bug, but not that far over what people did with them by refitting in the '60s. It is, I admit, kind of insane, but I got 140 out of my Porsche 914 once with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Civil_Disobedient, GuyZero, quin
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"dawson: Re konolia's remark, they gave up very provocative jobs in order to, I assume, raise more than they alone could give.
This is the very definition of a Freudian slip.
I'm sure they know that the amount of annoyance they've provoked on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andraste
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hello. koeselitz here, using my wife's account because I don't want to go to the trouble of restarting my old one for one lone comment. Unfortunately, this has to be done, though I promised myself I wouldn't. I found myself ducking in today, and..." [
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favorited 59 times, recently by ntartifex, dosterm, elpapacito, flibbertigibbet, kosher_jenny, cybercoitus interruptus, papafrita, sarahnade, taff, Stunt, Huw, LobsterMitten, Countess Elena
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I went to college with Wall's son, Aaron and boy was he just like Dad. Handy to have in a math class though." [
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favorited 1 time
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"well, it's snowing in Denver too, smaller flakes and more wind. I'm siting at my desk in an old victorian mansion that was cleverly converted into private legal offices. The windows are drafty but I'm warm for the time being. As of the moment, I'm..." [
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favorited 2 times
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I don't understand why people with opinions and beliefs feel the need to shoot off their mouth at every opportunity that exists. Atheist or not there is no need to break the codes of human decency and self-respect. I'd never be caught dead telling..." [
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favorited 1 time
10 months ago
