Ask comment:
"Great friends are people who
- remember your preferences for food/drink stuff and always make your coffee the way you like it
- send you little fun stuff in the mail for no reason
- remember things that are going on in your life and ask you..." [
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favorited 58 times, recently by chase
10 hours ago
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"I'm 38, unmarried, no kids, pretty happy. I got out of a long term relationship last year and spent a lot of time being less-than-happy not because I don't like being single but because I had, for a time, shifted my priorities into thinking that..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by impactorange, ryanshepard, hfbellefille, orrnyereg
more than 12 hours ago
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"It doesn't matter whether you are a prude or not. You found the language on the tag unpleasant to you personally and wanted to let someone at Timbuk2 know about it. Since your b-i-l already cut the tag off, it's unlikely that you can return or swap..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by divabat
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I'd just like to take a moment to put in a request that MetaFilter get a temporary separate forum
Build it." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZachsMind
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"Practice helps a LOT. There are a few things you can apply yourself to learning early on that will really help you out.
1. two letter words - this seems sort of extraneous until you realize that lot of players make a lot of points by doing two..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by shotgunbooty, JHarris, geeky, schyler523, motdiem2, Beardman, Chunder, justnathan, thebrokedown, Solomon, aeschenkarnos, doozer_ex_machina, DulcineaX, b33j
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Which is more likely to impress a non-tournament player? Superior grasp of the English language, or words like 'za'?
If she is in any way serious about Scrabble, she'll be more impressed that you know words like ZA. There's a bit of a divide..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by scrump, ten pounds of inedita
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"You will not be able to post as that user or do anything as that user, so while the "hello SOMEONE ELSE" thing is unnerving, there's no actual possible mischief you can get away with with it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sk4n
2 days ago
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"I have stayed in hostels as an early-thirtysomething [a while ago] and found them fine, a little noisy and with long lines for the showers. Sharing big rooms with a lot of people was hit or miss but you couldn't beat the price. In a few countries..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Madamina
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It seems pointless to poll the community on a word that is hardly ever actually used.
How is over 1000 times "hardly ever used"? Here are a few more numbers
nigger: 64
kike: 74
spic: 73
I think that's what "hardly ever..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Brandon Blatcher, BrotherCaine
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Is that a category libraries generally block?
No, not usually. There's library policies and then there's federal level legislation about filtering. CIPA [linked to above] basically says that libraries that receive federal funding (i.e. not all..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by whatideserve, wendell
4 days ago
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"I've gotten better at not talking about my feelings too much, though... which is probably part and parcel with the problem of not feeling comfortable, but it keeps me from causing unnecessary problems for anyone else.
You sound like you may be a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by flibbertigibbet
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"At the risk of being seen as a pill, it's a lot easier to keep MeCha and MeFi separate when this sort of thing isn't cross-pollinated.
I sort of like the list of answers, but it's a fine line between sort of "hey we do sort of answer the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by justonegirl, ersatzkat, cashman, box, mudpuppie
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Anonymous reply from another MeFite. How has internet porn affected my sex life? I haven't had one since my involvement in the net in the early 1990s. I am a woman and not a very attractive one, and the internet brought it home to me pretty brutally..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arha, porn in the woods
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Wow, I always have dreams with creeks running through my houses. No, seriously." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"What on earth is "New Zealand" an answer to?!??
Where are you from that you're looking like you're going to sock me in the nose when I asked "Where in Australia are you from...?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
6 days ago
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"Internet porn has made me realize that my early sexual adventures were likely to be something that people online would think was hot to watch and/or illegal to own photos of. I'm very very conscious -- usually because of disclaimers and "we have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Forktine
6 days ago
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"[a few comments removed - if your discussion about declawing is not directly relevant to the question, take it to email or metatalk. please also keep OMG DECLAWING talk out of here, it's part of the problem, not simply pointing to it. In some cases..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zaphod
6 days ago
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"I always feel like I might be missing that one life changing book that gets started on page 51.
For me part of deciding what to read and what not to read is disabusing myself of the notion that such a book exists. Also for me there is no such..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by OmieWise
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I'd like an explanation on what grounds you chose to delete my second posting please.
This is a 100 comment MeTa thread at this point. If you have follow-up questions you might get a speedier response if you emailed us. In short, comments to AskMe..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Gary, fook
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It was totally unclear from the context what you were saying. Could have been snarky, could have been a sincere answer. Its usually a good idea to explain at least a little bit why you are offering the advice that you are. We'll sometimes delete one..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, thewalledcity
6 days ago
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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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favorited 49 times, recently by hfbellefille, rachelv
7 days ago
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"You have read too many murder mysteries and this is a question that is basically unanswerable without the previously mentioned shovel option. Animals will dig in the ground like crazy for dead squirrels, half-buried bones or a half dozen other things...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by orrnyereg
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"holy crap a millionth favorite!
I'm starting to think that my dream of having a mod named Cooter will never become a reality.
Welcome to my dream of having a place to hang out free of casual (and often irony-flavored) sexism. Waiting is so..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by peep, caddis, burnmp3s, koeselitz, cashman
8 days ago
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"Congrats on finding someone who makes you feel good after that long bad-feeling relationship you were in, that's a big deal. My only caveat in your "it's so soon, is this a good idea" part of your question is that you need to make sure,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kaseijin, sondrialiac
8 days ago
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"Am I fair in blaming a snail's-pace relationship on my weak ability to show affection?
No. There is a huge range of fun things to do between pecks on cheeks and out-and-out sex and I think in most relationships you're moving along that continuum,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Forktine
8 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I don't know who Tony Snow is because I maybe don't watch enough television. I was out lying in the grass in the sunshine all day. What's going on here again?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rush
9 days ago
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"I have two responses to your question.
1. I would date you myself just to keep you from going out with that woman a moment longer because I think it's very very hard for the inquisitive and the non-inquisitive to find lasting happiness together,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Deathalicious
9 days ago
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"I stare at everyone's crotches; everyone's got shrinkage so I wouldn't worry. That said, I spend a lot of time at the pool and I'd suggest
- dark colors
- heavier fabrics
- wearing some briefs under your shorts
- shorts with a velcro fly (lots..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roger ackroyd
9 days ago
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"My ex got a crazy job working for the Senate of Palau as some sort of legal advisor after having a tough time finding a suitable job in the states. He found the job on Craigslist...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roomwithaview
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I've been in favor of a 24 hour round the world distributed party where we chip in some cash for the bar tab at any meetup that has, say more than 5-10 people at it and we have a place on the site where we can pull in flickr photos and whatnot that..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dabitch, jacalata, sperose, serazin
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights
Sorry, I swear I will shut up after this, but my sister sent me that same article and said that the headline changed on it while she was reading it.
Original headline was "Rights like free..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Knock that shit off. Bringing other MeFites into a thread they have nothing to do with just to show how much you can't stand them is not approved procedure around here.
Take the day off optovox; that is completely beyond the pale and uncalled for...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm not sure I want comments pulled for using that term unless it is clearly directed at a female in a misogynist or hateful fashion.
And this is where the problem comes in. There are certain racial epithets that you sort of can't repurpose to be..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by orrnyereg, Richard Daly, palnatoke, tyllwin, scody, onlyconnect, Your Time Machine Sucks, mudpuppie, jokeefe, pointystick, BrotherCaine
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Sorry, Violet. Man, dumb dumb dumb. We're sorry.
Agreed. And I think that's why people are waiting for Cory to come back, some people anyhow. Because Cory, as people imagine him, would never say something stupid like "unpublished" and..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by merelyglib, rodgerd, bigbigdog, bitterpants, zippy, ShawnStruck, drezdn, waraw, spiderwire
11 days ago
Ask comment:
"I've been thinking about this question a lot myself lately because I'm in a newish relationship with a great guy who is very verbally affectionate and complimentary in a way I'm totally not used to. So on the one hand I have to get used to receiving..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by toomuchkatherine, liquorice, not_on_display, Forktine
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Here is a query that gets at some of the straightforward "I'd hit it" statements here. A look at the first five, my intepretations only
Ann Coulter, follow-up later in thread "You do mean with a shovel, right?"ColdChef, irony, in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by marble
12 days ago
Ask comment:
"EVERYBODY FEELS THIS WAY.
Maybe not everyone, but really a ton of people do. The more I told people that I felt like this crazy weirdo and didn't fit in anywhere, the more they tended to tell me "oh, like I don't?" The more I heard that..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by blueberry, Koko, elisynn, Nattie, cyanide, oxford blue, salvia
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Is this what happens when we talk about boobies and twats too much?" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by tyllwin, blucevalo, everichon, RussHy, Pope Guilty, Caduceus, The Great Big Mulp, wendell, spiderwire, 2or3whiskeysodas, Cool Papa Bell
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It's a lot easier to see growth and change when what you're talking about is a kid or an automobile and a little different when what you're talking about is a website. I agree pretty much with what cortex says. MeFi used to be different becase the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dg, Miko
12 days ago
