MeFi comment:
"Why do I share this? Because, I am more than a little disturbed by the volume of seeming assumptions that this father in Nebraska is somehow merely gaming the system in order to rid himself of kids that were getting in his way
It's disturbing, but..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by marble, dejah420, Dragonness
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"Maybe he was running around on you.
Maybe he was just feeding you a line so he could behave in a way you disapprove of without having to deal with your reaction - in which case it doesn't matter whether you, he, or both are being unreasonable:..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by jmnugent, blueberry
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"What a train wreck this thread is. Way to piss all over snarfois' question, guys.
My advice, snarf, is to back up anything the toddler can get hir hands on and anything you can't buy on Amazon or that seems obscure. Everything else - if this..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by wastelands
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Anonymous' Church of Scientology protest has some and gone
favorited 27 times, recently by nthdegx, juliplease, stewiethegreat, miss-lapin, ifthe21stcentury, jeffburdges, pantufla, grouse, JHarris, Homeskillet Freshy Fresh, Aversion Therapy, muymuy, magnusbe, katillathehun, paperpete, lunit, flatluigi, Remy, Cassilda, schyler523, jmdodd, BeerFilter, Phire, greytape, Spacelegoman, pyrex, brownpau
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"The best reason not to send back the intimidating text is that it's too long for an SMS.
However I agree that there's no reason to go all Judge Judy on them. "This isn't X's number anymore. And I won't buy you booze." does the job just..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Jacqulyn, arcticwoman, Sidhedevil, zaphod
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's- no wait, that's something different.
When I think back on my teen years I'm amazed my parents didn't just shoot me. Surely no jury of their peers would have convicted them. I was a..." [
more]
favorited 11 times, recently by pseudonick
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"At this point in my life I value my sexual health more than my mental health. Or so I feel that way when I am on the pills. Then it gets so bad and I have to take them again.
Well, we all make our own decisions about the trade-offs in life we make...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Death by Ugabooga
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"dirtynumbangelboy is being too polite. That your federal elections are not governed by a federal body is pretty stupid
You get a by on this as Canadians, but you think this - or at least you state it in this way - because you don't have a proper..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chunking express
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes, anyone who fucks with your right to vote needs to be shot, then and there. Enough of this.
Not that I really think you're actually anything more than a douche who talks tough on the internet, but on behalf of other poll workers I say anyone..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by liza
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"If you have wide feet you need to stop succumbing to the temptation to buy a size too large so they fit width-wise. It's frustrating when you get 1/10th the selection as everyone else, but at least that pain only lasts as long as the shopping..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by saturnine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm afraid I struggle to see this particular issue as a big problem. Loads of people aren't lucky enough to be able to check in online, and it's a luxury to be able to do so, not a right.
I guess we're going to have to just agree to disagree about..." [
more]
favorited 6 times, recently by grouse, oaf, skoosh, Kato, aeschenkarnos, Drexen
Last month
Ask comment:
"Simplest thing to remember is (a) teens dress and make personal grooming choices based on what they think looks cool and (b) cool is subjective. You don't have to understand it to accept it.
Personally I think there's nothing wrong with setting..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by letitrain
Last month
Ask comment:
"Save for retirement, no matter the amount.
The difference in eventual totals between two people who do EVERY OTHER THING IDENTICALLY in strategy and amount but one starts 10 years earlier is mind-blowing. Even if you make just $15,000 a year for..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by manguero
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You do realize that those evil "conservative justices" were in the dissent in that case and it was the "liberal"(?) justices that were in the majority? The "conservative justices" were the ones who held that if it is..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by yort, Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"The worst part of all is that, as far as he's concerned, things between us are fine.
That's either true or it isn't, but how can that be when you say you've had an extended conversation about it?
I want to point out one other thing here.
Oh,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Jurate
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"My darling fiancée and I sell things at craft fairs as well, and Alison hits almost all the important points in my opinion.
Take it with a grain of salt - my darling and I have other unrelated full time careers, and for us this is a cash-positive..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by bilabial, smackfu
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Where does "I'm a customer and the business MUST do as I say!!" come into it? If a customer doesn't like something, he or she is welcome to leave. The business owners made their decision, why should they have to change it? Everyone in this..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by The Gooch
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Maybe condescending service from a patronizing millenial..."
Seriously? You got your coffee from a six-year-old? Did he have a stand with a sign that read "STARBUCKS" but with a backwards R? Because if you're buying from kids..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, peacheater
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I say this completely seriously and without guile: lunit, you think of 'shrieking like a banshee' as a gendered insult? Maybe I played too much D&D and think more about a banshee as a mythical monster than in a m/f way.
I shall have to be..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Anyone else feel like partially disemvoweling a comment (leaving only the praising parts) crosses a line?
I agreed with you in principle and then I read the comment, or as much of it as I could. It looked to me like the commenter led with a..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So why the ruling? As always, money.
That. Or, you know, the 2nd Amendment.
I would have been more accepting of this explanation before the embarrassing court decision about medicinal marijuana in California. Scalia has his moments and can be a..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim, damn dirty ape, Blazecock Pileon
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"Don't let it bother you. In fifteen years of off-and-on yoga I can't think of a single class where the women didn't outnumber the men by at least 5 to 1. Consequently nobody notices. The only thing that I have ever seen get people's notice in a yoga..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GPF
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"I also want you to tell me what else I can do to save my job
After that description your question is "how can I be sure I get to stay here?" Really?
Another employee stands to lose 6 weeks of vacation, which is the maximum she was..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by eclectist, andraste, frosty_hut
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"The more I think about this question, the more concern I feel for the GF's actively negative reaction to being touched.
Precisely. The reality here is that when you take all of the OP's statements together as a whole they don't quite add up right...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Ladysin, Jody Tresidder, Justinian
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"The most important thing, if you have really reached a decision about what you want, is to stop engaging in negotiation. Negotiation about Why you want what you want and how you feel, about whether you did the right or wrong thing in when and how you..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Fin Azvandi
4 months ago
Ask comment:
""No thank you" responses as rhizome suggests are nice, but be wary of offering too much information - there's a lot of people online who will argue with you in a way they never would in person and a fair number whose social skills are so..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Why would anyone respond to "cni hv ltimg fo vrohcrNOE plst/x" with anything but an email straight back saying "I'm sorry, your message came through garbled as above, please resend?" That's not executive poor spelling (which I..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by porpoise
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In retrospect the books are pretty shitty
Depends on your metric, I think. They're certainly not Great Literature, but they are exactly what they set out to be: sf/f versions of classic pulp tropes. Judged that way - which I would contend is how..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"But thanks for the holier-than-thou effort to stifle my intellectual curiosity and desire to do something better, albeit not perfectly. If you think the question is stupid, or pointless, why bother answering? Comments like yours are why I'm..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, mkultra
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"It's a very young town in a lot of ways with all the interns and young politicos so she'll have no shortage of folks to meet, on campus and off.
Some local blogs that talk about life in the city (disclosure: I write for dc metblogs)
The area in..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by streetdreams
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"Stop being so nice to people on the phone. They've intruded into your life. You owe them nothing. Someone calls and asks for Jane, you say "who's speaking please?" If you think they are a business call you say "who do you represent..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Mael Oui
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"To answer the question you didn't ask, you're getting offers because you have not done what you should do, which is opt out of credit offers. You say you want to build credit - I'd suggest you avoid falling into that mindset, but I won't get into it..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by filmgeek
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"If I feel I need to be eating something regardless of hunger my fallback is air-popped popcorn which I eat one lone kernel at a time. I've got a popper I can use in the microwave with 0 oil so I don't have to suffer the hair dryer sound of a..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd have trouble resisting the urge to stab Stallman in the face at the best of times. If he stormed up to me and demanded an expensive piece of property - particularly given his usual impeccable grooming - I think my version of this story would go a..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by mecran01, uaudio
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"It's easy to get bent out of shape when our own good choices seem to result in us getting less than others. I knew someone who rationalized lying on her student aid forms because if she didn't get that aid she's be unable to afford school at all. Not..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by spinturtle, brain cloud, somanyamys, loiseau
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, I can't help thinking there's some good Baltimore cops somewhere
Naw, Pembleton had to retire, Giardello got killed and Munch left Fells Point for New York...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by grubi, tellurian
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"so I have been staying at home which makes her feel guilty but has been the only way she could cope.
Just to be completely accurate, that's not really true. Your decision to go out or not is not hers to make, it's yours, and she will have to react..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by softlord
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"Take the bus. The WMATA ride planner has its issues, but if you punch in your home address as your origin and "Rosslyn Metro Station" as your destination it'll give you a good plan for getting there.
You can try punching in..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by wowbobwow
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, McCain voted against the amendment? Because the Washington Post's photo editor apparently didn't think so. Nice pull-quote, considering." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by psmealey
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Back in the day before youtube and skater kids with cheap video cameras everywhere - the cop wouldn't get fired.
He's still not fired, only transfered - with pay - to an administrative position. Though they keep saying 'suspended' the B'more Sun..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by emperor.seamus, erniepan
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pope Guilty If any other church behaved as the CoS behaves, we'd be after them, too.
Ha! Now that's an unimpressive and foolish promise if ever I saw one. I don't believe you. I'm calling you boastful, PG.
The Saudi Arabian religion, Wahhabism,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Lizc
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Obama is not Jesus. Obama was already around D.C. campaigning for the upcoming primaries, which Clinton has basically forfeited, deciding to move on to Texas.
Let's be clear - you can refuse to give Obama credit because he happened to be in the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by milarepa
7 months ago
