From a MeFite who would prefer to remain anonymous:My wife is ugly. She knows it and I know it, but we've never talked about it. It's that hard. Until I met her, fell in love with her, and married her, I never really understood what a burden... [
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the Great Taters Mystery.
Now is as good a time to mention this as any. I got an email a while back from the gal who posted that anon thread. I've paraphrased a little bit but not much. The "taters" thing was, I guess, kind of like a code... [
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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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That's struggle, pain, anxiety and difficulty. Grad school can be tough, but get some fucking perspective, dude, or drop the hell out.
I've mentioned this before, but one of the things that has helped me not bitch people out here on... [
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[I have deleted
the jokes
that were in
this thread
and which
you were
saving
for a time when you thought I had no electricity
forgive me
they were so ripe
so deserving
good night.... [
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This would be a very bad time for admins, particularly Jessamyn and PB, to act defensive. Just answer the question.
I admitted I was wrong a few days ago. I do it fairly frequently.
* Reopening a closed thread or undeleting a... [
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Here are the flags I would like to see. If I ran this site as a total dictatorship.
- derail/noise
- wtf
- I will flag this instead of being a dick in the thread, but really, this sucks amirite
- "not best of the web" is not a reason... [
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jessamyn [8:33]: gay elf sex means what?
*cortex [8:33]: Dragon Age
*cortex [8:33]: it's this new game
*cortex [8:34]: there's this elf
jessamyn [8:34]: okay
*cortex [8:34]: he's gay
jessamyn [8:34]: you can stop at this point
*cortex [8:34]:... [
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Because I can tell you, if you think having one fake spouse is bad, having thirty of them will be worse. [
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You know, MeTa is not so that we can have Nerd Thunderdome. If you have an issue with one specific person, your options are email, MeMail, getting over it, pie, hugging a tree or something I'm sure I haven't though of.... [
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A completely bizarre side effect to this... not to be all "Story time!" about this but my dad died two years ago yesterday. He had a Flickr account with 4000+ photos on it. A while back its pro account had expired and so we could only see... [
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Without getting too much into it, I was recently faced with a similar, though not quite as actute, problem. My father died shortly after his health started to decline, quite recently. My father was a wonderful man with a serious chronic drinking... [
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Someone should coin a phrase to describe such a perplexing situation.
Patriarchy?
I know it's weird huh? I mean the two genders are otherwise equal and have been treated equally throughout all of history.
I mean both cortex and I... [
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Opening a MeTa thread about it is very unlikely to make the situation at home better. I suggest either getting her an account or closing down your browser for the rest of the weekend and going for a nice hike together.... [
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I'm hoping that by posting this, at least some people will consider the inherent ridiculousness of responses to questions like the one I linked to.
It would have been awesome, then, if you could have made your point more clearly in your... [
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I keep a notecard my the computer for when I'm actually working and think of something offline that I'd like to do but can't at the moment. This drives my offline time. Here are some things on that list. Some of them have online components, but... [
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I'm sorry you're feling poorly. I go through a bunch of stages really, the major one of which is really that it's okay to still love someone, what you're mostly getting used to is not being loved back. That is, it's okay to love someone who doesn't... [
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