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"Your value isn't constantly assessed by others based solely on how you look and the level of painstaking detail you take in your beauty routine. You aren't expected as a general rule of thumb to remove all hair from your body, without question or..." [
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favorited 18 times, recently by grapefruitmoon, dobie, vegetableagony, numinous, Phire, saturnine, meijusa, Laura_J, CoinOp, joedan, lampoil, nooneyouknow, lunit, Robert Angelo, Metroid Baby, liquorice, kosher_jenny, iamkimiam
5 ½ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Seriously, I walked around most of that weekend drunkenly yelling, "I'm not wearing any pants!" (I was).
If that's not on topic, I don't know what is.
Sadly, I will be out of town for a wedding. A boring, straight wedding. Boo!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Uh, I made a joke about punching a baby yesterday, and I've never read Penny Arcade but for the few times it's been linked here. And my friend responded, "yeah well that baby was an asshole." And THEN I watched the Daily Show this morning..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, loiseau, fiercecupcake
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When she needed money, allegedly, she was known to strut in the record company and demand, "Motherf**kers, where is my money?"
I officially have a new hero. Thank you...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctorschlock
Last month
MeFi comment:
"As long as there is a billion-dollar diet industry, there will be an obesity "epidemic" and all kinds of government plans to "cure" it. Meanwhile, countries with major food shortages would kill for a population nourished so well...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreama
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Right, because being tall is genetic, while 99.9% of the time, if you're fat, it's your fault
Oh great, I'd love to see some data on that. Oh wait, I can do that too:
Studies show that tall people use 99% more oxygen than short people! The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by penguinliz
Last month
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"I'd like to offer a little bit of the flipside of this scenario, which might give you (and hopefully by extension, your mother) a little comfort:
I have been in this situation. A couple of times. Not this exact situation, but similar enough to..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Liosliath, deborah, Scram, LuckySeven~, Goofyy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Why don't more of them should just follow Joe Rogan's example?
For fear of becoming Joe Rogan." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Calling Christians "stupid" or "ignorant" is just, well...that. And it should be flagged, and it should be deleted as if the person were attacking any other religious group. But what I'd really like to say is this:
While I am..." [
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favorited 90 times, recently by zoomorphic, papafrita, ntartifex
2 months ago
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"My little sister has also just started college this year, she's a serious overachiever trying to take on the world in her first semester. Which means, sports, friends, perfect marks, the works. She's also been a very upstanding, slightly sheltered..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by punchdrunkhistory
2 months ago
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"While I'm all for girls not sitting around waiting for boys to pursue them (heh...in theory), I have to say that if there's one thing I've learned is that it's rarely worthwhile to waste time pining for someone who isn't giving you the same energy..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ivanka, ifjuly, chicainthecity, palomar
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think that there's no way tights are more obscene than bare skin, and that in the majority of pictures I see of offending parties they are wearing either a long t-shirt or short-shorts over said tights. That being said, who the fuck cares?..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks, nonmyopicdave, numinous, flotson, nooneyouknow, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, liquorice, sebastienbailard, loiseau, TryTheTilapia, aeschenkarnos, bettafish, Joey Bagels, box, longdaysjourney
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"When Xiaofei cried, it made me really sad and misty. Still not going to vote for her though." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ill3, blueberry
2 months ago
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"Attention deficit? Not in the diagnosis sense, but in the sense that if they get distracted by something else like washing hands before they exit, they might walk out forgetting to do it. Since every other (read: institutional) facility they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisabethjw, hellopanda
2 months ago
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"Sublime (warning, link plays music) was always a favorite vegetarian place that even non-veg friends would gladly go to. It's very easy to get to - right on US-1. Closes at ten. GO!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JustKeepSwimming
2 months ago
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"One of two things is going on here - either you're hanging out with jerks or you're being just too damned sensitive about it. Good-natured ribbing and in-jokes are how social groups bond together...that's why you can tell your buddy his beard looks..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thisjax, nasreddin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I will never forget the Kathy Ireland tribute (can't watch it now so this might be a paraphrase):
Oh Kathy Oh Kathy
You fine Irish lassie
I want to go to your home
I want to come over
and roll in your clover
and kiss your Blarney Stone!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zonker
2 months ago
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"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I mean in a while.
I might say the opposite. Seriously, if you happened to date a series of girls who were attracted to some other quality you don't possess, would you change to match it? What if she..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kaseijin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I love stuff like this. My family had a similar tradition with some neighbors of ours at our cottage. One year a neighbor gave my grandfather a really terribly ugly ceramic statue of a squirrel she had made...the idea was for him to put it in his..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by homunculus, sebastienbailard
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"When is MetaFilter, The Game dropping? Play as Jessamyn, Cortex or PB as you try to rescue Mathowie from the evil SelfLinker gang!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Some places, polite equals phony. Some places, polite equals behaving properly. There are funny places like South Florida where Southern-style "polite" mashes up against thousands of transplanted New Yorkers. The result is an odd sort of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wires, flamk
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Poor children. Hopefully there's lots of porn in them there woods to keep them occupied without TV." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Scram, makonan
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think that someone fancies themselves a playwright. Well, color me unconvinced. I think the whole "the call was coming from inside the house!!!1!" comment by the wife in the old AskMe, combined with the big 'ole herring of this one......" [
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favorited 4 times, recently by papafrita, Lentrohamsanin, jayder, mudpuppie
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think what bothers me a lot about this primary (both here and in a general sense) is that you have identity politics being fought over by a lot of people who don't own those identities. For example, I know several Hillary supporters (not *here*..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by almodis, Snyder, ursus_comiter, Leon-arto
2 months ago
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"Because it threatens the concept of the nuclear family, of heteronormative monogamy. Those of Judeo-Christian beliefs see it as the way it was laid out by God to live - one Adam, one Eve.
If grown consenting adults are allowed the freedom to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bettafish, arianell, numinous
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I signed up in 2005 and amassed hundreds of favorites in anticipation of this very moment, where I could finally slip by the mods' watchful eyes to say:
v1@gra c1@lis cheap statsfy your woman now with all night action albatross be gone without..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by klangklangston, chrisamiller
2 months ago
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"Fire Island, eh? More like ten pets, no kids, amirite?
Seriously though, I LOVED that book. There was a great synopsis of it over here at The Dairi Burger, which recaps Sweet Valley High books mostly, but also some other juvenile fiction in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Netzapper, Metroid Baby
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You want a summary? Apropos to the article, let's see what I can remember of the 7 pages:
So this old German scientist wanted to remember stuff. Decides that the best way is to space out your studying to right before you forget it. As you do..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by lizzicide, Roach, Locative, P.o.B., TwelveTwo
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Page 5
"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
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"Elsie?"
......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by inqb8tr, Smart Dalek
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Going back and looking at the checklist, I wasn't too far off base (still a little embarrassing though):
I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TwelveTwo
3 months ago
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"Hmm. It sounds rather complicated. What if, you give her a necklace with an ornate key pendant, the key to which opens up a box which you can then put the ring in? This way, you can get some antique reproduction lock with fancy skeleton-type key,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by Smoosh Faced Lion, thisisnotkatrina, arcticwoman, ClarissaWAM, numinous, fishfucker, soviet sleepover, arnicae
3 months ago
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"You need to make a formal complaint with the applicable health regulatory body for your state or province. There will be a formal complaints process or other way to let the people who license that doctor know that you have had a problem.
This..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bettafish
3 months ago
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"- comic/manga/game shops
- film festivals/video shops (esp genre-related)
- rep theaters, film appreciation society
- bookstores in general
- internet cafes
- Ren Faire
- any screening of Rocky Horror
- local sci-fi groups
- the planetarium..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"From Freakonomics, on the level of comment moderation, "YouTube has virtually none, while MetaFilter has very little." Really? It sounds like they mean things aren't watched closely here, but I think more things stand here without needing deletion..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by blasdelf, cass, LobsterMitten, Miko
3 months ago
