MeFi comment:
"The screwed up history of people trying to twist science to support a race-intelligence correlation is not a reason to discard such theories out of hand. We should be hypervigilant about it, as much as with claims of alchemical transformation of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kcds
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Oh this is going to disturb my wife almost as much as the "Like a Virgin" bit in Moulin Rouge." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Scoo
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Y'all know they are taking the piss, right?
Shakespeherian, "Chew bubble gum and kick ass" is a line ad-libbed by Roddy Piper in 'They Live' directed by John Carpenter. Unless you meant something else when you mentioned stealing from..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by markr
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The #1 reason this product wouldn't catch on is because it prevents smokers from having an excuse to leave work for a few minutes to take a break. I know at least one network admin who took up smoking so that he would have an excuse to leave the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Quonab, arcticwoman, nervestaple
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It is a tragedy born of prior abuse
In the Glassner study only 35% of child abuse perpetrators studied were themselves victims of child sexual abuse...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magstheaxe
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I seem to remember hearing something on NPR about court marriages of the middle ages being disasters if the couple had lived together as children (groom fostered in bride's household). I suspect that there is an inbuilt evolutionary mechanism where..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Buddhists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sidesh0w
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"P.o.B., Do you think working with elite athletes may be giving you some confirmation bias? Most of the people I know who have broken biofeedback mechanisms (metabolism slows dramatically in response to dieting, always hungry even after eating a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by benzenedream, russilwvong
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"Offer to put her up for a few days when she needs to get out of her sister's hair." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stormygrey
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Immediately after 9-11 I thought the next low hanging fruit for terrorists was going to be thousands of cheap timed incendiary devices planted all over the country in national parks set to go off on the same day. I'm not sure, but I think we'd be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Fats ranked by awesomeness:
1) Bacon fat
2) Coconut oil
3) Butter
4) Olive oil
5) leaf lard
6) lard
7) shmaltz
8) Avocado oil
....
99) Mutton grease
....
200)..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by mosk, malpractice, Dark Messiah, Dormant Gorilla, flod logic, arcticwoman, nooneyouknow, Navelgazer, gyusan, Faint of Butt, derekpaco, aparrish, Jilder
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Fuck European-style high speed rail. I want a maglev in an evacuated tube built across the country and up and down both coasts that runs at 1100 miles an hour. Yeah, I know that's not practical...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Monochrome, The Light Fantastic, uncleozzy
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Napoleon III commissioned the services of chemist Mège Mouriès to develop [margarine]." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tippiedog
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Let me come at this from a different angle. I just found out that saying "untouchable" has become the equivalent to the n* word (no I'm not talking about Narnia) in India. I had a friend tell me that, and I didn't immediately assume he..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Deathalicious, monocultured, ClaudiaCenter, mismatched
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"No one ever questions if a kitten is real.
Ahem.
Also breathing cat and bonsai kitten." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"If flagging is for pulling comments, I'm not sure I want comments pulled for using that term unless it is clearly directed at a female in a misogynist or hateful fashion. Generally I read the word with the most charitable interpretation as Skorgu..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vytae
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"picked up the delightfully robust phrase "Fucking the dog" as a substitute for the more common "slacking off"
A friend's Brit buddy visiting over here said "I'm going to knock up your sister", which in America means..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by turgid dahlia
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Is this really worth a shorter sentence?
Since it effectively destroys his appeals chances, I'd think so. Reading The Charlie project should give a good idea of how hard it is to get a conviction to stick without a body, pattern of violence, or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by parmanparman
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Crabby, the standard of proof is "beyond a reasonable doubt". My use of the phrase "very likely" is because there is always a doubt, reasonable or not, in any conviction. I agree that from an outsider perspective it seems that a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by spiderwire, redfisch
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Not that I'm particularly fond of frats, but I hate that that is the stereotypical source of all rape. I strongly suspect that after adjusting for alcohol consumption, frats are no worse than the rest of the 18-30 year old male population when it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My secret ninja clan sensei taught me all the counters to Vader's lightsaber attacks, I totally could have taken him out with my tactical fighting spork...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Wait, is this the official Homeland Security redacted version of the bill of rights, or the original?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Yes, I've worn my titanium wedding ring pretty much continuously for 5 years. Short of nitric acid or an angle grinder you can't do any permanent harm to it. Any scratches will buff out easily with a dremel tool with a wire brush attachment or..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by you're a kitty!, greenie2600
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I suspect none of us here are going to come up with a better answer for you than you could come up with yourself with sufficient introspection. Here's some questions for you to ponder to narrow down the problem to something more specific such as:..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Do the things that you can do, but don't feel compelled to fill a grieving silence with chatter. I've stuck my foot in my mouth that way even when I knew better. YMMV...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by scrm
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Really hard to sympathize with the guy. It's one thing to make your own sacrifices for your religious beliefs, but to make your siblings share in the pain is something else...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, magstheaxe
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Four cargo ships that are nuclear powered. A few more icebreakers. The Russians seem to have all of the successful ones (although the German one did ok too). I tend to have elaborate (read: crazy) technological ideas, and the other day I was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If income were more important to me than my ethics, why wouldn't I just steal everything I need in life?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by seanyboy
Last month
MeTa comment:
"If Metafilter has the opportunity to take money out of the hands of pro-lifers, I'm perfectly happy to see an ad on the subject. If click-through for revenue is required it would probably be counterproductive though...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"On the one hand, I can see any corporate behaviour that stigmatizes fat people starting down a slippery slope that will end with the overweight feeling like the lepers and schizophrenics of yore. However, it does actually make sense to surcharge..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by NikitaNikita
Last month
MeFi comment:
"VeganMalnourished Girl, 12, 'has spine of 80-year-old.'" [
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favorited 29 times, recently by Sinadoxa, willie11, a lot is two words, milov, Reto, gen, dhoe, scrump, thebigdeadwaltz, flibbertigibbet, thewalledcity, RedEmma, owhydididoit, regicide is good for you, hal9k, pyrex, Pope Guilty, Sys Rq, brevator, loiseau, skjønn, Adam_S, serazin, klangklangston, turgid dahlia, crossoverman, xthlc, arcticwoman, Deathalicious
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Let people raise their own kids, you raise yours.
Is raise code for organ farming? Because I hear there is real money in that, although the disease screening cuts into the revenue for the child brothel...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dark Messiah
Last month
Ask comment:
"From what I know of unrequited love, I'd say you won't get over this crush at all until you fall in love or at least have passionate sex with someone else. The only other route out is an argument that is so bad it leads to hate.
You could..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Korou
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I thought the advantage in large scale solar plants was reduced energy expenditure in terms of installation costs. Not having to shore up the roof structure for added weight, roll out a truck with an installation expert, etc......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Normally not a hater, but I'm compelled to share this poster: Vagina, not a clown car.
There's a fictional anecdote about Groucho Marx in a similar vein.
"Why do you have so many children?" I asked Mrs. Story. "That's a big..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matty
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm definitely getting stupider with age. I'm glad to hear it goes the other way too." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pollomacho
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I learned to type on a manual typewriter; hence the faintness of my semicolons." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doteatop
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I think I calculated the odds at 3.6% that any given month on metafilter will be free of the cooter clock resetting phrase. However, I probably got the calculation wrong, not to mention jessamyn could just use a sockpuppet to post the phrase...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"#9 The mob will have to grab torches and pitchforks instead of molotov cocktails when going after glib pundits." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by imperium
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Once the avalanche of people putting their 2 cents in starts, facts go out the window (read: your callout won't change anything).
I think Languagehat's answer is authoritative enough that most linguistically savvy individuals perusing that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by scody, ColdChef
Last month
