Ask comment:
"Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I've read this thread all the way through, and I hear a lot of what you think he needs to do. You seem to have a rather rigid set of expectations, and I'm sure that in his depression, your boyfriend knows that he is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oogenesis
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Amtrak is not the rail system. And I don't think the U.S.'s expansion really relied on passenger railroads quite as much as freight.
Actually, in California it did, but not in the way most people expect. The Big Four (Stanford, Huntington, Crocker,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by skoosh, BrotherCaine, russilwvong, small_ruminant
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I see "boyzone" as being a less mean-spirited and more unconscious thing than out-and-out sexism and so if I have used that term, that's what I have meant. It's when a group of guys get together and start acting and talking like some young..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by Kadin2048, Mick, papafrita, merelyglib, CunningLinguist, Ambrosia Voyeur, mygothlaundry, Deathalicious, afu, not_on_display, lonefrontranger, grobstein, thewalledcity, oaf, felix betachat, tomboko, h00py, Drastic, prefpara, amyms, sunshinesky, readery, nenequesadilla, batgrlHG, Nattie
10 days ago
MeFi post:
the quick brown fox
favorited 27 times, recently by nicolin, taff, papafrita, wander, shavenwarthog, phatkitten, Dean King, slyrabbit, Smart Dalek, juliplease, mikespez, puckish, pyrex, ceri richard, nímwunnan, monkey!knife!fight!, Turtles all the way down, lisawin, Blazecock Pileon, Mr. Palomar, niles, thebestsophist, not.so.hip, Optimus Chyme, signal, Gary, fantabulous timewaster
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Hmm. If you had asked me if I had ever seen Wedding Crashers I would have said no, but now I remember being annoyed at the exact bit that Ambrosia Voyeur brings up. Thank heavens for that, otherwise I might have been unknowingly roped into seeing it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ambrosia Voyeur
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Another advantage is that Amtrak often goes to exactly where you are headed to instead of going to a big regional airport and then having to call for transportation/take a taxi/ride a bus to your final destination.
My boyfriend and I discussed..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Senor Cardgage, kalimac, BrotherCaine, milov
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I am left wondering how they got to the point of pretty much finishing their park before they were stopped. Didn't the neighbors notice the land being cleared? That's not something you can do sneakily. And yeah, it sucks that this has escalated to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lou Stuells
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If he were Bush, we'd all be yelling to high heaven, rightly so. No better if Obama does it.
And yet McCain entirely skipped the vote to campaign. Yet no one seems outraged about that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chuckdarwin
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So why did they need to build the wiffle park again?
Because building your own whiffle ball park is fun?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by vsync, Jpfed
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's a storm drain buffer area, designed to allow the existing storm drain to gently overflow. The purpose of buffer areas is to manage the existing storm drain, so it's already "engineered" to provide for overflow conditions; slowing down..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sidhedevil
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Also, a ditch works great for handling drainage problems, and is a lot less area-intensive than an overgrown lot of poison ivy.
Actually, no, it doesn't. Ditches and culverted creaks mean more pollution runs directly into watersheds, rather than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sidhedevil
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"the comments of the guys who loved the site and were noting with glee their success at judging women's anatomies
I just reread the thread and saw only one or two comments that might be construed as such. Did a whole bunch get deleted?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I recommend volunteering as well. You don't have to do it all week, just sign up for a couple of shifts. You'll meet people, and have a sense of purpose that can really mitigate feeling aimless and sick of it all. The times I went that were crummy..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hazel
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"of democrats controlling congress.
But they don't, by any stretch of the imagination. There are 49 repubs and 49 dems in the senate, and 2 independents, Bernie Sanders, who is liberal, and Joe Lieberman, who is a shifty repub in disguise. The tie..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, oaf, mer2113
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
""If they stop when they see you approaching, then maybe you should walk around more."
That's not snotty, that's perfectly reasonable advice. Obviously if you're busy, you can't do that, but sometimes the most basic solutions are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Apparently Reiser had been offered a plea deal before the trial, in which he was given the opportunity to plead guilty to manslaughter and go to jail for three years. So perhaps this deal isn't so bad...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not an orchard as much as a re-imagined, anthropocentric forest. Biodiversity is the key here.
I'm not trying to knock every single article here; lots of good ideas are included, though these ideas are not really anything new. The link from..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hydrobatidae, RedEmma, Lou Stuells
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm with orange swan- EatMe would be awesome. A garden subsite, not so much. I make my living as a gardener, I'm a horticulture student, and I would never visit because gardening arguments are teh suck. Too much voodoo in the gardening world...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ikkyu2, BrotherCaine
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"why you're not comfortable with the idea of giving up entitlement to his company, which from your description is the only thing you agree to let him keep under any circumstances.
Wow, that's not the problem the poster is having, at..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by HighTechUnderpants, sondrialiac, Solomon, lalochezia, whitelight, Nattie, gt2, pointystick, overglow, BrotherCaine
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Why does it bother you so much that people are weighing in to agree? It just means the best answer is apparently a really good answer, since so many people support it. I don't see a problem with people spending time typing if they feel like it, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marsha56
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I see from Wikipedia that Devo come from Ohio. No wonder they are devo. However, there is a problem. I don't believe they have standing in court. You see:
"We are not people, we are Devo"
Unfortunately my esteemed colleague has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sys Rq
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"As a female gardener, I'm a little miffed that you consider "playing in dirt, playing with worms and bugs" gross, and even worse, something that girls don't do. I think you need to step away from the stereotypes, and realize that no matter..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Capri, sixcolors, peacheater, hydropsyche
Last month
Ask comment:
"If the soil is as bad as you say, but you want veggies this summer, do raised beds. Otherwise you will be doing far more work than is necessary digging and amending and wasting water trying to loosen your soil. In the fall, disassemble your beds,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kamelhoecker
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Save yourself time and money by infusing your cooking oil with garlic. It's easy and delicious.
I'm not sure that it saves that much time and money, especially since you are supposed to throw it out after a month in the fridge, in order to avoid..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When a guy puts a gears and some brass lanterns on his bike, it makes sense to mock him for having no sense of style. But it makes no sense to mock him for failing to use only technology invented before 1900.
Decoration makes something look like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sys Rq
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Less people=less consumption.
Actually that should be: less westerners*=less consumption. I think a lot of people have an image in their head of third world families with eight children hogging all the resources, when it's people like Americans..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last month
Ask comment:
"Mesach, stop shouting. You yourself pointed out that your question wasn't worded very well. Sit back and relax and understand that when your titile is "Do Chinese people get sick of eating Chinese food?" you're going to get response to that,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by loiseau, peacheater, mudpuppie
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If only you had started with a unibrow like this guy, Meatbomb, you could have reached the true pinnacle of hirsute circumnavigation by shaving your extraneous eyebrows...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by xorry
Last month
Ask comment:
"Here are Fisk's geologic maps of the Mississippi River valley, showing the ancient riverbeds. You can see that it roams quite a bit." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by itstheclamsname
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't think the movies looked 'sped up' back in the day. They were projected, as shot, at 16 frames per second, not 24 fps as film is projected now.
Actually, there were no set speeds for either hand-cranking or projectors, and films would be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, ErWenn
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Maybe most of you all are fucking sick of her, but you're not in the majority.
I'm pretty sick of her, but I don't want her to drop out of the race. I want her to stay in until she has made herself good and irrelevant. Since the time to bow out..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Oops, I left this bit out: Steiphenson owns the copyright on "Burundi Black". The original African drummers do not share in his profits. Even though his contribution was adding nothing more than an insipid piano line and useless guitar...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Yes, he wanted it deleted. So they deleted it. That's fine. I think people think of AskMe threads as entertainment vis-a-vis MeFi threads. While AskMe can often be entertaining, I think honoring posters' requests for deletion should trump other..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by mediareport, tomboko, nooneyouknow, dersins
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"Sorry to be so brief- I'm actually on my way to a client's garden right now- just wanted to add that too much fertilizer, particularly synthetic fertilizer, is bad because it encourages soft, fast growth that bugs, fungi, and other pests and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The New Pornographers also pay homage to it on New Face of Zeroes and Ones, but now I wonder where A & the As ripped it off from.
They ripped it off from another rip off of "Burundi Beat"- which is the above linked "Burundi..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow, are you people with the OMG NANNYSTATE!!!11 serious? Anything that's catered has a limited menu, based on the budget, the caterers, the reality of feeding a bunch of people. So what if they want specifics- anyone who has had to engage caterers..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by prosthezis, BarryP, lord_wolf, Mister_A, spicynuts
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"the Chinese will help to build 2 400 miles of road, 2 000 miles of railway, 32 hospitals, 145 health centres and two universities in the DRC.
This is really only helpful to the people of the Congo if the roads are maintained, hospitals are..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jb, tkchrist, pinothefrog, hurdy gurdy girl
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"You'll get a hot pile with a 30:1 C:N ratio. Carbon is the energy source for the microbes; as they oxidize it heat is produced. 30:1 is considered the optimum ratio to provide enough energy to maintain the bacteria long enough to break everything..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mudpuppie
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"As for leaves, leave out the brown leaves in the fall. They are a special composting project and will slow down a regular pile.
Not true. Carboniferous material (dry leaves, chopped straw "brown" stuff) is needed because the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mudpuppie
2 months ago
