MeTa comment:
"I have dozens deleted without word from me, but
Twenty-one, actually. The fact that this is true also explains the brevity of my deletion message. Most people go through their entire MetaFilter arc without ever, once, having a post deleted. Your..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Solon and Thanks, grapefruit, Sys Rq, The Bellman, nola, timeistight, CunningLinguist, evilcolonel, goshling
An hour ago
MeTa comment:
"this is how it looks to me.
misdirection
hipsterection
plantarflexion
heat convection
love connection
meat injection
brain infection
botched..." [
more]
favorited 18 times, recently by owhydididoit, bendy, misha, RussHy, everichon, delmoi, Ryvar, killdevil, matildaben, jokeefe, wendell, ottereroticist, Crabby Appleton, anifinder, turgid dahlia, vronsky, whir, caddis
more than 12 hours ago
Ask comment:
"Follow up from a poster who would prefer to remain anonymous:
There is a level of detachment that you have to work to achieve. The
fact that this person - someone who has exerted so much meanness and
cruelty on you - can cause you to..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by krisken
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"My divorced parents were both at my graduation and also both went ot my sister's graduation dinner. There are a few things that help this situation. I'd love to say "hey this is YOUR DAY, don't let them screw it up and hopefully everyone can..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by msali, itinerant, Kato, The Light Fantastic
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"You know maybe below the box it should say "wisecracks and wild ass guesses don't help people find answers"" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by grouse
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"misfit -> miss-fit -> poor fit I mean, I'm familiar with the word, but I'd never given it any thought.
Now I know it for sure, you are on some fucking drugs...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by danb
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"You should learn the things you need to know to run or administer a database driven website.
- php
- perl
- javascriptish stuff and AJAXy whatnot
- python
- MySQL interactions
- HTML/CSS just to know it, understanding XML conceptually
-..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by doncoyote, jadepearl
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Needle in the Hay by Elliot Smith. Yahoo Answers actually has a decent list already generated." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunit
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Cortex and I went back and forth on this and decided to leave it up. If mathowie disagrees, I don't feel super strongly about it, but do have rather strong feelings about Cuba.
The usual guideline for illegal questions is, generally speaking,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by gcat
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Toad baked some cookies. “These cookies smell very good,” said Toad. He ate one. “And they taste even better,” he said. Toad ran to Frog’s house. “Frog, Frog,” cried Toad, “taste these cookies that I have made.”
Frog ate one of the cookies, “These..." [
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favorited 23 times, recently by Effigy2000
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"As soon as you build a bridge you are placing very real engineering limits on the type and amount of traffic that can use them. No matter how far out you plan for the future, the fact that bridges are built with very real time and materials..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KAS
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah I sort of feel that with very few exceptions, we ferret these out and jump on them almost instantly. I could see maybe a "hold for mod aproval" thing if someone was posting this crap in the middle of the night but at the end of the day..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I got a really nice note from the school project I funded through Donors Choose with my winnings.
Dear Jessamyn,
I cannot even begin to express the thanks that I have, as well as my students, in hearing that our project was funded. Although we..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by nthdegx, homunculus, bettafish, anildash, deborah, mai, nasreddin, owhydididoit, terrapin
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Librarian who did linguistics in undergrad and it's a little weird because I don't technically work in a library.
Q. "What languages do you speak?"
A. "One, badly" "Does pig latin count?" "None."
Q...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by flatluigi, papafrita, timepiece, rokabiri
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"if any shithead ever asks me, at a professional conference, if he can touch my breasts, I'll go ahead and....
You know, I think I would go ahead and let him, photograph the whole thing and then go all dog-poop girl on the whole adventure because I..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by ifjuly
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The camp metaphor is really sketchy. Historically the people most accessible in our cultural memory who were put in camps were the ones who did not deserve it and who were villainized by societal forces beyond their control. They were put there by..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Iamtherealme
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"There was g good thread in AskMe a few months ago talking about fulfillment and what the various religions thought we should be doing with your lives. koeselitz had an answer that always stuck with me.
"Look, lots of people, everybody religious..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by elisynn
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm learning to like tomatoes just recently and for me the big deal was not eating nasty supermarket tomatoes and going for more of the delicious local (organic?) type.
You may want to work on an acclimation process going from more pureed type..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, contessa
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"So we can count you in as "that pasty guy who won't take his shirt off" then, dersins?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Viomeda
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I enjoyed this.
In retrospect, I believe that my upbringing in a socialist-oriented family steeped in a class struggle view of society taught me that authorities would often have a different view of right and wrong than mine. That attitude stayed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mer2113
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The reason we have lowest common denominator killer/murderer jokes is because asymptote jokes are TOO SUBTLE FOR THE LIKES OF Y'ALL. Geez." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"I am never quite sure how to respond to comments which beg no response -- "She sure looks cozy in there," "What a cutie," etc.
I was totally frozen by this sort of thing when I came to my small town for the first time maybe five years ago and now..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"follow-up from someone who would prefer to remain anonymous.Please, please, please sign up for a throwaway gmail account when you
write sex-related AskMes.
My gf and I have a similar problem. We're compatible in most ways, but
I'm too submissive..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
10 days ago
Ask comment:
"I got mine resoled at Dave Page Cobbler in Seattle at one point. He took a $70 or so pair of shoes and attached custom cut Vibram soles to them for maybe $20-25 and they were the best shoes ever, of all time. I'd suggest that over regular re-soling,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by lia, Happydaz, phoenixy
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"To put it in today’s terms, owning an iPod doesn’t make you happier, because you then want an iPod Touch.
To put it in today's terms, turn off the TV and stay home writing letters and see how much you still feel like you need an ipod.
This is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by languagehat, loquacious, jammy
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I find it a little creepy that you've wrapped yourself into Metafilter to the point where you're having a Meetup at your own house.
Is it more or less creepy that I'm having it with my own friends (mefites and non-) too? Where I live, it's pretty..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by booticon
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"I call where I live in Central Vermont the most beautiful place on earth because in a lot of ways I'm stuck in the past and I enjoy living where people are a little slower-paced, like and help their nieghbors and try at least to some extent to live..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by lahersedor, theredpen, takeyourmedicine, Capri
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Now is as good a time as any to mention something I've been wanting to say for a while. Because I work here, with my odd flexible schedule, and this huge crowd of bright and shiny nerds [and the rest of youse] it also lets me do the other things I do..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by LobsterMitten, Wilder, gaspode, stagewhisper, unknowncommand, trip and a half, wendell, donovan, eponymouse, pjern, danb, homunculus, deborah, misha, SpacemanStix, Lynsey, pwally, DevilsAdvocate, owhydididoit, bigbigdog, Kwine, Brandon Blatcher, loiseau, grouse
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"I've rented rooms and been a room renter. Mostly it's turned out fine. Howver, even when it has not turned out fine it hans't been "roommate skipped town and took all my stuff" There is a certain amount of trust involved in sharing your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by PinkButterfly
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"I would not plan too hard because it's nice when it "just works". That said I pulled this off recently (somewhat accidentally but with some of the same thoughts going into it as you have, the "this is inevitable" and "man I'd..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yes, it can be frustrating. That said, if you can't freely give of your knowledge and expertise without expecting something in return, you're setting yourself up for frustration. This has always been the case and will always be the case...." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by melorama, scrump, pompomtom, Pope Guilty, blueberry, flatluigi, Blazecock Pileon, confusionball, PinkButterfly, lizzicide, Dizzy, The Loch Ness Monster, SteveInMaine
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"Oh hey, I work from home too. In fact I'm sort of working right now! I managed to avoid butt spread and feel pretty okay about things by doing a few things.
- no one has to eat takeout. Unless you are working every waking moment, you have time to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by minervous, Scram
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Somewhere, in his blue-roofed mansion, the CEO of the International House of Pancakes is silently weeping.
Fuck him until there's an IHOP in Vermont...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by gen, Songdog, Phire, pineapple, peep
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Here are the t-shirts I wore at various points in the weekend.
1. Mat Honan t-shirt - he's a pal of mine and posted that photo to Flickr Friday morning so I thought it would be funny when he saw me [it was]
2. 4chan/mathowie shirt. Someone..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phire
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"You care about what you care about and giving yourself a hard time about it is counterproductive if it keeps you from doing or getting what you want. Trying to justify this as if caring about looks is or is not under your control is just..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by melvinwang, Miko
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Part of the problem with the incident that OmieWise is describing is the thing I was mentioning in another MeTa thread... we (where we = society, not necessarily people here) get really congratulatory when people who have been dealt a really crappy..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Dances with Werewolves
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"DO NOT DONATE THEM TO A LIBRARY. This just usually means that other people in less good shape than you will have to take your books to the recycling center themselves.
That said, if there are local community technology centers, you might want to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by willpie, brina
2 weeks ago
