MeTa comment:
"You could always send methinks a memail methinks." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by koeselitz, buzzman, orrnyereg, dabitch, hjo3, brundlefly, Blazecock Pileon, sperose, lizzicide, lee
An hour ago
Ask comment:
""I hear stuff like this all the time. And, like I said earlier in my post, I almost never see people cross class lines when it comes to dating. Maybe a half-dozen of couples that I know."
I've dated "above my station" before,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisynn, teleri025
2 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"""With regard to Ted Olson, your argument is based on the assumption that his wife, Barbara Olson, really died, and that he truly loved her. Both of those things may well be true. But I certainly do not know that they are, and I suspect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andruwjones26
7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
""It comes down to "I am ignoring the relevance of your assertion because I have this other shit over here that does not make sense, so your assertion also smells funny, therefore the truth is not as it seems.""
The Chewbacca..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
11 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"God, did I just read all that?
Look, I sympathize with Taibbi, and see plenty of myself in him, but he's not arguing effectively. The simplest answer is to continue to assert the laws of causality and probability.
For example, sure, let's say..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, Panjandrum
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"I used to work at a food co-op. One of my favorite stories comes from when we were switching over from an old four digit membership number to a new barcode (which still only used about four digits, but was scalable).
A guy came to the register (who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"The "MANLY MAN MAN" bullshit of these lists always annoy me, but there are a lot of good skills in here. Is the gendered thing some sort of wish fulfillment because most guys don't get to be as manly as they want, or what?
I dunno. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreama
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Well, the IMF and WTO essentially exist to keep the third world down, yes? I mean, has any nation implementing IMF and WTO mandates actually seen its standard of living go up?"
To answer your second question first, states that have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rider
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
""? This is no anti-perpetual-copyright protest, it's someone looking for a free pass out of a screw-up of her own making. The only thing she needs to confront is her own inability to secure rights before beginning production. If you want to be..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dejah420, bookish, philip-random
6 days ago
MeFi post:
Sleeping, dead, alone
favorited 20 times, recently by BobsterLobster, potch, lisawin, mysterpigg, Reverend John, sotonohito, phaedon, greta simone, desuetude, lalex, moonmilk, muymuy, UbuRoivas, cirocco, Substrata, shmegegge, seanmpuckett, Shebear, pracowity, Hypocrite_Lecteur
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Netherlands is a tiny country best known for Anne Frank coming there and Vincent Van Gogh leaving. Having them best the US in terms of broadening freedoms is like having Lithuania beat the US Olympic Basketball Team—humiliating...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Coatlicue
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
""Most people work in the porn business right? So that's a perfectly good explanation."
#1—Is it safe at my work?
Yes.
#2—Is it safe at your work?
I don't know. Maybe you could check on that and get back to me?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hjo3
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The cab ride I'll never forget was from O'Hare to Naperville, Il., where my girlfriend and I were staying during the week of her sister's wedding. The driver was from Estonia, but was Polish, and it took a long time to learn his name. The cab ride..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by moss
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
""The "rock paradigm" can be considered so broadly as to be pretty much meaningless. Ok, Albarn's compositions for Gorillaz, and CocoRosie's "Bear Hides and Buffalo," Jack White's 3-part minimalism. But most of what I hear is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hyperfascinated, Kwine, Sangermaine
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Well, gee, there is just so much wrong here that I don't know where to start. You are missing the point entirely.
Generational myths are created for one purpose, to sell you shit."
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by philip-random
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
""And since he says nothing about folks with Down Syndrome having a benefit to society,"
They can pull carts.
(Making an argument that, say, my cousin has a benefit to society or his immediate family above the absence of his existence..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by demon666, silkygreenbelly, Skyanth, arcticwoman, marble, Durn Bronzefist, supercrayon, mygothlaundry, 912 Greens, sculpin, Xoder, TheOnlyCoolTim, Meatbomb, Drastic, a young man in spats, cjets, Richard Daly, Lemurrhea, spec80, GuyZero, grobstein
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"""So anyway, fuck that cocksucking piece of shit, him and his... What?... No, not you, some douchebag is trying to get my attention, man I hate the fuckin' subway... What? You lookin' at me? What is it? I'm a busy man... Two seats? So..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bettafish, grumblebee
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Schoenberg went well beyond these parameters, and I guarantee that 99% of the people who read this site couldn't make it through 30 seconds of his stuff. Fuck, TEN seconds of his stuff. Even Berg and Webern (his students) are hard going for..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by chuckdarwin, NolanRyanHatesMatches, Bookhouse, jonmc
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Which just goes to show that you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Sonic Youth: Are you kidding me, the 70s called.
What '70s band, specifically, does Sister sound like? I mean, if you're going to call them a VU knock-off,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Sangermaine, jonmc, Bookhouse
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
""grumblebee, I like you, but you sound like you think you're at a tea party. Have you not noticed there's a lot of rudeness at MetaFilter? You may not like it, but it's not going away, and pressing someone repeatedly to admit they were rude and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nola
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"I've been a vegetarian my whole life, so I never had a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Last year, we hosted a bunch of people, some omnivores, some vegetarians, and we hewed to what have become traditional dishes in my family: quiche, veggie nut-loaf..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hecho de la basura
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"Oh, I remember you! You used to be Machiav3lli (or some similar spelling). There was a question about post-rock not too long ago that I'd hoped you'd answer, and maybe you did (under this name).
Look, here's the problem: Aside from the mp3,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""I'm sorry, but it's historically true that a republic could have just about any degree of democracy and a democracy could be anywhere on the scale of republics (including not one at all)"
Right. So remarking that we're a Republic, not a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Amanojaku
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""The usual form this disagreement takes (and how it started here), is person A says, "We live in a democracy," and person B, all chummed for the kill, states brightly (imagine Ralph Wiggum), "No, we live in a Republic!" It's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Amanojaku
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""Who taught you that? How did this meme get started? Our republic is a democracy. It's a representative democracy."
It's because it comes up every time that folks say something stupid like 51% of people think that gays shouldn't be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Amanojaku, rider
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""jonmc, you're going to want to go get a beer.""
You can pretty much just put that across the bottom of the site." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by fidelity
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Network and Paralax View
A Better Tomorrow and The Matrix
El Topo and Mulhulland Drive
Last Temptation of Christ and Life of Brian (or, really, any zombie movie)
Night of the Living Dead and Day of the Dead
Chinatown and The Long Goodbye (both..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""The Chinese government said it needs the source code to prevent computer viruses taking advantage of software vulnerabilities and to shut out hackers."
The Chinese government said it needs the source code to make GameSharks that work..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by kurmbox, liza, Mick, sourwookie
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""the only common features republics have is their basis in popular rule and their use of democratic election processes to choose representatives--but those representatives have always had an explicit charge to govern in accordance with popular..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by desiderandus, troy
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"When I get off my ass, I'll finally get around to doing a mashup of the LOLCATS and the Oll Kerrect "immigrant"/Yellow Kid speak.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON PWND!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by octobersurprise, bettafish
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""In the first place, I don't see any such "unfailingly positive picture." In the second place, most MeFites haven't had your experience, and in particular, other MeFites have known Down Syndrome people who weren't "petulant and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Ach, ya goddamned whiner! Man up and DANCE!
Look, all this mincing about "I just wanna have a modicum of self-respect wah wah" bullshit has to end. Y'know why? Because when you think about how you look, you are self-conscious. When you..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Grlnxtdr
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I think there are two important things regarding my view of David versus my father's: the first is the type of exposure, and the second is the relationship with the rest of the family.
I seriously can't remember spending any time with David where..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I dunno… If it was one of the neighborhood kids I see regularly taunting the pitbull on the corner getting mauled, I'd probably keep standing at my bus stop and maybe talk to the dog owners when I got home from work. I'm kinda surprised none of them..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"And thank you, Gawker readers, for giving that thread the snarking that was impossible at AskMe.
"Oh my, I don't know what pussy tastes like! How shall I ever get my fingers from there to my mouth?" topped with a heaping helping of all..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by ifjuly
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""But I can't for the life of me figure out how you'd go about making a Roman Polanski joke."
What goes into thirteen twice?
"How about holding her hand, kissing her on the cheek when you see her for the first time after waiting..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by koeselitz, mygothlaundry, peacheater
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""The newer models of support (such as positive behaviour support) are being readily adopted in support and educational services for children, but are difficult to implement for older people because they require fundamental changes in the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by marble, Durn Bronzefist, supercrayon
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
""Problem 1: What has become of Sandwich God? Where has He gone?"
In thy gullet, little man. And yet, undiminished in every other sandwich.
Problem 2: If God was inside of me before eating the sandwich, what happens when that God is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"For my own grooming, I simply use my indomitable will to force my pubes to stop growing at whatever length I decide. Hark, pubes, thus speaks thine master, and he commands you to YIELD!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oreonax, hip_plumber
3 weeks ago
