MeFi post:
A Brimful Of Asha
favorited 15 times, recently by pomegranate, schyler523, Craig, Cassilda, cimbrog, infini, streetdreams, Artw, krinklyfig, mai, mike3k, christopherious, UbuRoivas, horsemuth, nickyskye
3 days ago
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"One of my favorite places for a walk in San Francisco was always the stairways on Telegraph Hill. Lush, quiet, relaxing and chock full of wild parakeets! After that, you can stroll around North Beach.
If you want to overdose on Californiality, eat..." [
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9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some of my own relatives are strongly anti-immigrant, even though our great-grandfather, who came over in the 30s and died in 1974, never had any intention of becoming a naturalized citizen. Because he was white and English-speaking, and he lived in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by skoosh, arcticwoman, acro, quintessencesluglord, joedan, jdotglenn, jeanmari, jtron
2 weeks ago
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"Calling other women promiscuous whores isn't cool at all. Please don't do that.
I have no idea what it means to be overly gifted with the privilege of passion; that's very abstract. Do you mean that you have a healthy libido? Or do you mean that..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Do you remember every time you've ever flipped someone off? Every time you've insulted someone? Probably not. When we do terrible things to other people, but don't feel pain or remorse, we're as likely to forget them as we are making a sandwich or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 weeks ago
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Sometimes beauty really does come from within
favorited 35 times, recently by daikon, theperfectcrime, hazel, JohnYaYa, citron, softlord, hot soup girl, moonmilk, Arthur Dent, peacheater, khaibit, alyxstarr, whoojemaflip, Ariadne, Rabarberofficer, jbickers, bleucube, andoatnp, runincircles, googlebombed, davar, not me, Advocate, I, forallmankind, palomar, Large Marge, MsMolly, grablife365, minus zero
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"EMRJKC, the Bible was written long, long before Darwin was even conceived. The Bible was written (and then inexpertly translated, mistranslated and then retranslated again) Myriad things have happened, and god knows how many people and new ideas have..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by turaho, ninthart, Solon and Thanks, kjs4, l33tpolicywonk, BigLankyBastard, louche mustachio, Haruspex
3 weeks ago
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"I'm glad I caught this question, since I'm sort of the perfect person to answer it. I'm your worst case scenario. I'm a first-born girl with two younger brothers. My mom always bought them tighty-whitey y-front Hanes-brand briefs. I also saw..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jenfullmoon
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Who the fuck spells Christopher with a K?
I'm famous for my wide-eyed guilelessness. When my friend introduced me to her new boyfriend, I was utterly charmed. She'd told me a little bit about him, but hadn't quite prepared me. He was so smart, and..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by schyler523, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], shmegegge, nickyskye, sondrialiac, rockhopper, urbanwhaleshark, IvoShandor
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I thought the original comment was stupid and long-winded, and not worthy of being sidebarred, but you know what?
Until the Neocons among us can create a site as compelling and widely-read as Metafilter, they should quit their bitching. Most of..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by papafrita
Last month
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Intermediate Swimming Advice?
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is so awesome.
It's getting easier now that bike culture is more widespread, but it's still a sexist place. I've ridden as a bike messenger in several cities, and it took brass ovaries to be one of three or four women in a 200+ person..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by normy, kuppajava, languagehat, rtha, andythebean, rivenwanderer
Last month
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"You can't accomplish anything unless you do it. It sounds simple, but it's hard work!
Learning Capoeira means starting, even though you know nothing about it, and sticking with it. Simple as that. You can worry about being awesome at Capoeira at..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by themaskedwonder
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I don't care who you are, or what kind of day you had. Calling your little girl a "pig" and threatening to spend a day "straightening her out" is inexcusable.
The fashion of the day is for celebrities to adopt the children of..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by pushing paper and bottoming chairs
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The only real news story here is that we Americans are acing our statistics classes. Way to go, America! Don't let anyone tell you that you suck at math!
If a stable population of statisticians armed with modern statistical tools had come over on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kableh
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The Gaylords are still somewhat active, it seems, and still feeling a little stabby. They're obsessive self-googlers, too. Several of them sent threatening replies to a blog post I made a few years ago wherein I announced my plans to go to a nursing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Suparnova
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I would have done at least one better if they'd included Conkers. Now there's some flora I can stand behind." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thank god for coked-out has-beens. Who else cares enough to tell me what to wear?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow! I used to work at a pizza joint, and although we made everything from scratch and bought our produce from a local supplier, our paper goods and flour came from Sysco. I had no idea that you could buy a few microwaves and set yourself up your own..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"As someone who is sometimes an asswad and a fuckhat herself, I think that namecalling can be useful. As a dog trainer, I constantly remind my clients that any behavior that gets reinforced will tend to occur more frequently. Any behavior that is..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by penduluum, KAS, mynameisluka, librarina, Sparx, h00py, batmonkey, John Smallberries, nooneyouknow, ClaudiaCenter, bigbigdog, The corpse in the library
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember the smell, too.
All of the coolest girls in my class were obsessed with Lisa Frank stickers - she was sort of a Thomas Kinkaide for the lavender unicorns and rainbows set. I preferred the more minimalist Mrs. Grossman stickers...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jvilter
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Animals amaze me by their sheer resilience. My foster cat had to have one of her forelegs amputated, and as soon as the stitches came out, she threw herself right into the task of re-learning how to jump and climb and bat at the dogs. The only way..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
3 months ago
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"Good, good advice above, but I'll add my own bare bones viewpoint.
Cat behavior is a little less mysterious when you strip away the feline quirks, and consider the laws of behavior that all healthy animals, ourselves included, follow.
When a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by longdaysjourney
3 months ago
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"IANAV or a mind reader, but If your adult cat is a vaccinated indoor cat, the vet most likely recommended against introducing the kittens to protect the health of your adult cat, rather than the other way around. Besides scary acronyms like FIP and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Arqa
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe I'm just getting a different read on this than some other people. I liked the "popped collar college boy with a heart of gold" aspect. No doubt, he approached this with the idea that asking to cuddle at a brothel would be OMG hooarz..." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well done, I think, and clever. For those of you who take issue with the song, or the band, or what they were wearing or what their facial hair looks like or how they were standing: that's what you came away with, is it?..." [
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4 months ago
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"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Just reading your askme made me out of breath.
No wonder you feel anxious. You sound like someone who just doesn't have any kind of "off-switch." Meditation won't help if your brain is still going 65 MPH the..." [
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5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Do we really want him to stop making movies? All that energy has to go somewhere, and I'm terrified of what would happen if he turned his hand to, say prog-rock or theme-restauranteurism.
Don't play with fire, Internet, unless you're willing to..." [
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6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm also thinking Mr. Steve etcetera is a tincture of evil. The idiocy that spews from his keyboard can't be explained by mere stupidity.
Mr. Steve blah blah blah is a tincture of pure tapioca. His commentary is stupid, but hardly original. He..." [
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6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Ads are ads, and we don't have to click on them if we don't like them. We Mefites are a smart bunch, and I don't think that any of us are in danger of becoming Scientologists just because we're exposed to the occasional Xenuphilic text ad...." [
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6 months ago
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"Of course you should figure out why your dog is getting hotspots, and you are. This is not a replacement for figuring out why your dog has a hotspot, but it's a quick, dirty, lo-tech trick to keep her from chewing herself into a bloody pulp until..." [
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6 months ago
