MeFi comment:
"I think the thing that is interesting about the middle school versus military hospital is how adamant the Republicans are that it is only their party who truly knows what military families are going through, and not once, not ONCE in rehearsals,..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by tehloki, xorry, tarheelcoxn, fourcheesemac, amyms, jamesonandwater, finite, Nattie, mrballistic, Ziggy Zaga, jaronson
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Please raise your hand if you are currently pro-choice enough to post about it, and will be swayed to pro-life by anything that anyone says ever.
Now, please raise your hand if you are currently pro-life enough to post about it, and will be swayed..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by fourcheesemac, shitcock, knapah, delmoi, 8dot3, jocelmeow
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"(...)forcing the most involved commenters into a ghetto of a crowded over-long barely-loadable thread just so that Matt can keep the horror of political opinion off the public marquee is a slap in the face.
You've been watching too much hyperbolic..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by middleclasstool
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"so what does that say about them?
That they are all willing to tell a few unverifiable lies to pander to people who are demonstrably gullible, and to whom that fairy tale is extremely important?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Joey Bagels, Kadin2048
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Like many, it was a fairly arbitrary thing. When I first signed up for non-school internet service in 1996 or so, I went for "eatdirt" which I had been compulsively stickering Boston with. It was taken. I tried dirtdirt because I figured..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jody Tresidder
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not going to sit idly by and read this libelous trash.
Fluff, specifically when combined with cheap white bread and creamy peanut butter, and chased with a cold glass of whole milk, is the keystone component in one of the pinnacles of human..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Mayor West, invitapriore, ratita, Jilder, schoolgirl report, genmonster, contessa, Solon and Thanks
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"Send it to Dorothy over at Cat and Girl for the Donation Derby. She'll draw a comic that illustrates how she spent the money, and send it to you. You get to feel like patron, and you even get a great piece of original, internety art that will be..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LucretiusJones
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Get off my lawn.
This has been said well before but baseball is by nature and intent human and subjective - at its simplest baseball is a bunch of people trying to be perfect at something it is basically impossible to be perfect at. The pitchers?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Slap*Happy
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"My favorite thing about the text message thing was a quote I read earlier today (god, I wish I could find it again - it was fairly mainstream) breathlessly saying "The Obama campaign is harnessing text message technology more successfully than..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by Atom Eyes, maqsarian, schyler523, Pyry, Caduceus, LobsterMitten, amethysts, Solon and Thanks, tyrantkitty, Shepherd, Nick Verstayne, NikitaNikita, sutel, davidmsc
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It's you." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by Nattie, blueberry, miss lynnster, tracert, Reverend John, Metroid Baby, Inspector.Gadget, Meagan, turaho, scrump, orrnyereg
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Why Coney Island: "After 150 years, it's been able to establish an immeasurable brand name."
So he's tearing most of it down to build a high-end mall that could exist anywhere on planet moeny.
Fuck that dirty stupid fucking fuck all..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by anthropoid
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I see both sides. To me, it soundsdated in the sense that I listened to it a bout 3 times a day for a period of time, so it is indelibly lumpedinto that time. However, it doesn't sound dated at all, to me, because the actual sonic quaility of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tyrantkitty
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This showed up on flickr's "everyone's uploads" the other day, and I thought it was about the funniest thing I ever saw. I didn't do it, but ga dam...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dr-Baa
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"more that he recognises that his style of posting is better suited to someplace else.
More that he recognizes that that a loud minority will make any post look like asshole bait..
FPP, third comment: get your own blog.
This thread, praising..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dirigibleman, the christopher hundreds
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I had a similar experience. I had a barista at a little indy coffee place sneer at me and say, "Well, I don't know why you'd want to do that to a perfectly good espresso" when I asked for double with a few cubes of ice in it. I told him..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by melorama, Deathalicious, kryptondog, showbiz_liz, Hicksu, blueberry, eckeric, DevilsAdvocate, kev23f, lupus_yonderboy, perilous, bitter-girl.com, peacheater, jrockway, Dreama, jonmc
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Something, or somethings causes SIDS. It looks like you are doing the things you can do to limit known risk factors. I bet that the 1 in 2000 figure is for the public-at-large, and by doing the things you are doing you push yourself into a much..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mumstheword
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Can I applaud the motivations behind this recent bender of apologizeration while still saying, "for fucks sake, why not just be all the mensch you can be in future threads, instead of constructing a spanktunnel of love and forgiveness on..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Liosliath, bigbigdog, mudpuppie, Ambrosia Voyeur, fixedgear, bardic, found missing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I was sad when I heard that baseball was getting the Olympic boot but if this is the sort of pig you have to kiss to stay in the Olympics, well, to hell with the Olympics.
I say instead of extra innings they play a game of red rover to decide the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
Last month
MeFi comment:
"In the face to such calm eloquence and sound reasoning I can only mutter, "Fuckin' A-right!"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vertigo25
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if there isn't some value in teaching that life goes on and all things must pass.
As a matter of fact Mr. Rogers deals with this issue in his usual sensitive, kind, and nuanced way. Mr Rogers is a huge force for good in the world, and I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by dr_dank, Smart Dalek, ShawnStruck, Reverend John, contessa
Last month
MeFi comment:
"My mother is a Unitarian Universalist minister in a tiny, extremely conservative city. She feels (rightly) that it is her responsiblity to present an active, visible, positive, legitimate (my word) alternative to the socially restrictive temper of..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by wires, lunit, electrasteph, Floach, Senor Cardgage, jamjam
Last month
Ask comment:
"I have the same problem. I wear them basically every day and get 8 or 9 months out of them. I don't think there is a solution. I thought about maybe buying those leather Chuck Taylors, but the issue is not that the canvas gives out - it's everything..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by douglaswth
Last month
MeFi comment:
"but if I'd made the drink for you at my house, the next time around I'd be serving you instant.
And that would be fine if I was a guest at your home and you made me something nice. However, if it's a coffee shop, and I am paying for it you work for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rusty
Last month
MeTa comment:
"What would be best is if MaJeCo fired up the MetaFilter Jet and stayed ahead of the dateline, making brief appearances at shitty bars on every continent, singing Sussudio for the gathered crowds, like the three-headed Phil Collins of moderation that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, cashman
Last month
MeFi comment:
"God DAMN it's nice to bump into a few minutes of good sense on a Monday morning.." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Oh, this annoys me. They've been doing this drum circle for nearly 40 years and now the million dollar co-op dickheads move in and want it to stop/quiet down/something? Lordy.
Admittedly, gentrification seems to be a way of life, and I don't know..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
MeTa comment:
"God, I hate this kind of thread. Someone likes or is moved by something, calls it out, people trip all over themselves to say ACTUALLY, that thing you like is so shitty it needs to be handled with rubber gloves on. Then other j-holes (myself included)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the christopher hundreds
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I am outing myself as a fan of shameless pop music with this, but I thought Jellyfish was astonishingly, transcendentally good, and criminally underrated..
They were unlucky in that they came out with their extremely intnentional, sleek,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kimota, pyjammy, kuppajava, Cool Papa Bell
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"I am fearful this is not a good way to start a marriage.
I agree.
What do you have to gain from a pre-nup, other than HIS comfort in feeling protected from the horrible person he is pretty sure you are going to turn into?
Postpone. At the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That was pleasing, indeed.
Also pleasing: train nerds. The title of one of the related YouTube videos over there is "RARE!!! BNSF Freight Train with 10 Engines!!! *MUST SEE!!!*". I like people who like things...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by MidAtlantic, bonaldi, mokujin, eckeric, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Songdog, loiseau, invitapriore, schyler523, bookish, cashman, Rock Steady
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I haven't actually handled one of these new ones but I suspect they are as easy (or as hard) to use, from a physical standpoint, as the old ones. The reason most people are so comfortable with the old-timey jugs is not because those jugs are some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm working on a theory that Jon did swim with the girl, he did drown, and the anti-jon used some sort of wormhole to replaced him in our universe
and Phil Collins wrote a song about it, and then the guy showed up at a concert and phil made them..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kurtroehl, riane, jtron
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If it is real then there is raw footage somewhere of it. Show that, and the green-screen people look silly. Issue vague denials and you look silly.
But who cares if it is real. I mean, I bet they weren't REALLY drinking coffee. She didn't REALLY..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
2 months ago
