MeFi post:
Don't Forget the Bacon
favorited 20 times, recently by ifjuly, sock it to me monkey, muymuy, jessenoonan, dirtynumbangelboy, estronaut, medialyte, porpoise, nowonmai, special-k, mimi, jmcgrady, palmcorder_yajna, dtp, folktrash, rtha, deCadmus, vellocet, acro, limeonaire
6 days ago
MeFi post:
Ice ice baby
favorited 11 times, recently by Artw, keds, Esoquo, robtf3, thejimp, ssg, nzero, moonmilk, weebil, dtp, flapjax at midnite
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Forgot to add, re: Pastabagel's comments, I think the disconnect between childhood and adulthood is not so much the money aspect, but the fact that suddenly, you're not a phenomenon anymore. A kid doing robotics research at age sixteen is interesting..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DLWM, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, I don't know about anyone else, but the customer support responses received by dude trying to sell on ebay sound exactly like the customer service response I get at other online sites - especially tech support tickets.
The customer service..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by marble, Smart Dalek, JHarris, the other side
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can't wait for the next, shocking exposé on how Coke isn't really 'it', or on how I'm not actually lovin' McDonalds.
Advertising isn't 100% true?
Oh.My.God.
Okay the cynical/jaded/sarcastic thing here and in other post threads is getting old...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blue shadows
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I, for one, do not understand the anti-wind-turbine-because-of-aesthetics crowd. I think they're awesome - big, stately, quiet, and a lovely precursor of the ultra-modern high-tech lifestyle they're always promising us in movies set in the future (or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by h00py
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The part that got me most about this story, was the fact that she wouldn't let him have a cell phone... in case he lost it. Apparently she thought it was okay to for him to potentially be lost, but lose a cell phone? Heck no, those are expensive...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by samthemander, tehloki, marsha56, marble
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Neat technology though.
Can someone explain the state of helium supplies to me though? I understood from something I read years ago that we only had a limited supply of the stuff. How is it I still see it being used by tankful for kids balloons..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by subaruwrx
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Christ. I honestly just don't understand why the US has such a massive fking hard-on for marijuana. Or in this case, the idea of marijuana.
Someone I knew once speculated that it was the cotton lobby, re: hemp...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's merely animal instinct and at the end of the day we're just animals no matter how hard we try to pretend otherwise.
But people still want to have sex. And at the most basic level, that is saying "I want to parent a child."
Women, on..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Melinika, mismatched, purple_frogs, bent back tulips
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I guess you're a plant then? or maybe an amoeba? (also me and the wonderchicken go waaay back, he knows what I'm getting at)
Now you're being deliberately obtuse. My point is that humans are quite capable of being than their "instincts."..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I understand the impulse to vent on this thread - when I saw it and read the news I'd felt like I'd been punched in the guts, as Pratchett is my favourite author bar none.
May I humbly suggest turning this thread around to be a bit more positive..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"OK, am I missing something? Very jerky footage of a train going down the tracks. Inscrutable Google translation of inscrutable Japanese railway site. Next?
You'd have to be a train buff (or married to one) to see the appeal, I think. They sell..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by willie11
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What about Python? All I know so far is "Ssssss! Ssssssss!"
No, no, silly ... Ssssss! Ssssssss! is parseltongue.
In Python that would be
>>> Ssssss! Ssssssss!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by the cydonian
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well that was lots of fun.
Bets on when we can expect to see the "Animator vs Animated III - Hema Smackdown" mashup?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh. My.
Someone forwarded me this logo a few days ago with a copy of the Ghostbusters logo, and I thought it was a joke. Definitely pegged it for a The Onion story.
Now I see it on the CIA site for real. Words fail me...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, JHarris
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it possible for you to see a woman depicted in media or art without it having bearing upon you or upon womanhood in general?
No, not in society as it currently exists. As I tried to say in my reply to MythMaker's comment ("I dunno. I think..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by agregoli, winna, madamjujujive
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My brother never tires of saying "Inconvenient Truth is a campaign film."
To be honest, he's right. I loved AIT, but after watching it the first thing I said- perhaps optimistically- was that it was edited and shot with the clear..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by IronLizard, DevilsAdvocate
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Zinger, if you're just saying that 'cause you're being watched and not at liberty to write what really happened, blink three times.
Zinger
Sorry. I just couldn't resist...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by scrump, Alvy Ampersand, EarBucket
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Can someone explain to me exactly why there's a presupposition that the middle class are lonely?
Because first of all, I'm thinking that being a single mom or worse, an elderly widow in the projects, isn't exactly a social laugh-a-minute either...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jess the Mess
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There are two types of people in the world. Those who classify the world into two types, and those who don't." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Devils Rancher
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Babies are far more dangerous than previously believed
Having recently been stabbed in the eye with a marker, I can attest to that.
/still wiping away the Crayola® green verde vert tears
Yes it was an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnString
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow - I still remember the covers of these books, especially the multi-eyed Wind in the Door. I remember being fascinated by the word fewmets, and I think there was a snake called Louise in these books as well, wasn't there? I later dubbed the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by serazin
Last year
MeFi comment:
"represents your email messages and folders as micro-organisms
So shouldn't that be: It's not a bug, it's a creature ?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dirtynumbangelboy
Last year
MeFi comment:
"If you need a description, you obviously don't belong.
Yeah, okay, I opened the door for that one.
/slinks off to look up what giclée means" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Malor
Last year
MeFi comment:
"There is no equivalent for this in Canada is there? Guess where the porn will move?
Give us your retired, your porn
Your uninsured masses, yearning to medicate for free
The same sex married refuse of your teeming shores,
Send these, the..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by jlbartosa, effwerd, Robert Angelo, jkaczor, MikeKD, Mick, Pope Guilty, rzklkng, etaoin, lekvar, Avenger
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Hmm. Nouveau riche spend their money in silly ways. Film at 11." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chime
Last year
MeFi comment:
"You mean there are times when people are actually disconnected from the Internet and can't just use Wikipedia directly?
Weird." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DarkElf109
Last year
MeFi comment:
"It's not so much the staying in the kid problem it's if they swallow more than one. From the release:
If more than one magnet is swallowed, the magnets can attract each other and cause intestinal perforation or blockage, which can be fatal.
Now...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mitheral
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That was fascinating.
But after watching him flick his forelegs up in the air in time to the beat, I'm never going to be able to watch flamenco dancing again. Not with a straight face, anyway...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, davejay
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Ah. I see the new trend in economics, post Freakonomics, is to say something outrageous to get people's attention and then try to back it up with numbers.
/didn't think Freakonomics warranted the attention it got..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Loquax, you've trolled in Canada threads on here before, so I tend not to take what you say too seriously.
But as for:
PS: If you're pissed about Harper's god talk, you're in the minority in Canada, BTW. Something for all you jesusland refugees..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by weapons-grade pandemonium
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Harper channels Bush. News at 11.
Seriously, now that everyone has had a go at punishing the Liberals for their transgressions, can we please get Harper et al out of power? Do we really want Bush Admin II here?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zarah
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I think the difference between MySpace and Facebook can be summed up thus:
MySpace: Let's allow users to cram every horrible design element from Web 1.0 AND Web 2.0 into one page.
Facebook: Let's do Classmates only better...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
Last year