MeFi comment:
"This is swell and mazel tov and all, but I can't wait until this sort of thing isn't in the news; not because it won't be happening, but just that people will learn to mind their own fucking business and not lose their shit just when the folks down..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, sluglicker, h00py, humannaire, thivaia
2 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Ahhh, memories. Here's a cool ToyHack* for all my fellow ToyHackers and Barbapapa fans:
You'll need:
-Bag of balloons
-Sharpie Marker
-Imagination
Step one: Inflate balloons to varying sizes.
Step Two: Draw eyes, arms and mouth on balloons...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sort of surprised to see criticisms of the art, but I think part of it comes down to the rendering. It's very "fleshy" in the same way Paul Pope's work is, and stirs something up in my gut that isn't exactly uncanny valley, but isn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nudar
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Monumentalizing babies-with-their-faces-bashed-in (or gouged out, as if by an abortionist's tool) suggests a society in the thrall of weirdness for its own sake, if not outright infant sacrifice on the level of ancient Catharge or other..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, flapjax at midnite
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"To you, maybe, and obviously to him, but I think you may be in the minority.
C'mon, he's totally a candidate for the Cut My Hand Off Club. That such febrile cluelessness has apparently been given sanction by what was once an important site that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mindless progress, Caduceus
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Best advice I have received is to use a pneumonic expression: "I have 7 sisters and 0 brothers," yields Ih7sa0b, which is also a strong password!
Well, it was.
Jerk...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Well okay, Mr. Brown, let's just get you up on the table and see what we're dealing with-"
"Hey, I'm a diabetic!
It ain't copacetic!
Whoa-oa-oa! No penicillin,
It makes me illin'
Makes me break out - in hives!
Uh!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zippy, phaedon, miss lynnster
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"People are just going to keep on piling on in the hopes that you flame out. That is not how the general MeFi community is but there are a lot of jerks on MeTa.
While I won't dispute that there are a lot of jerks on MeTa and can't deny that I've..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by languagehat, Kwine
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If you wanna delete/
It's jake with me/
If you're friends with BB/
You're no friend of me..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, I'm pretty regular here and I never go there
I have the same problem with Denny's." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
7 days ago
MeTa comment:
"They're made up of the same people...
There's overlap between MeFi's membership and a few IRC channels too, but that doesn't mean posting their logs to MeTa is a good idea either...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Slightly OT: Has anyone else read Nth Man (by Larry Hama, writer of GI Joe and some Wolverine). I read it right when I was coming of age, and it really hit home with the themes of loss of innocence, and curious if anyone else enjoyed it like I did...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by outlier
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder if soda jerks were so damn smug about manufacturing and serving their products?
If they were, at least their name was sort of a tip off*. I hate the word barista, any time I go into a coffee place I always expect some stuffy guy with a..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Hicksu, blueberry, noway, benign, Wolof
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Customer doesn't get his way, gets mad, then gets his way, refusing ever to return?
Customer returns an hour later, gets his way, leaving a rude note for the previous experience?
Customer then blogs about it, including a mock-up of rude note like..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Durn Bronzefist, Pecinpah
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Of course, these stunts don't always end well.
How do you mean? I still laughed.
Note to all you healthy young daredevils and maniac cyclists: Don't forget to sign your organ donor cards!
Your lungs, I want them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"McCain Says He Didn't Love America Before the Age of 31
I think McCain should've been able to once America reached the age of consent.
Heyyy-Oh!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by greenie2600
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"You may want to find some place other than the internet to hang out then.
As lame and grating as the "Grow a thicker skin, this is teh internets!" posture is, it's a particularly bullshit thing to say here considering that they are..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by orrnyereg, sondrialiac, thewalledcity, loiseau
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"You have no freaking clue where I've been, how I've lived and what I've had to do to survive.
Needs some sassy snaps for me to really take that seriously...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by francesca too, cashman
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"A wise man once said something to the effect of "I support feminism, really I do. That dosen't mean I wanna listen to it all the time."
"I support jonmc, really I do......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mandymanwasregistered
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"You took it as an opportunity to ogle?
Well, one finds nudity so infrequently on the internet nowadays that you have to take your opportunities when they appear...
Kidding aside, I found this post pretty inoffensive for the same reasons..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"The apostrophe seems to trip up just about everyone, even many Mefites. For future reference, you may want to bookmark this site that gives the 13 rules for the use of the apostrophe.
I hope you stub your toe really, really hard today...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kate blank
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"it's just a blog with a lot of random posts. What's the point?
Indeed.
Very cool to some, mildly interesting to others, and pretty darn neat to me, thanks!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by juv3nal, humannaire, Rock Steady
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"How are the chances that they will let him work on this? Is this impossible?
"Yeah, let's stick the coder in a small enclosed space without natural light and only a computer to keep him company for the foreseeable future, that'll learn him...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"the Metafilter thread on the Violet Blue affair is now longer than that provoked by 9/11
On a cursory look, the highest user number in the original September 11, 2001 thread is around 12k. Nowadays, there's 75kers running around, and I'm thinking..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by waraw, acro
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"if you're that smart you don't need to inject your conversation with meaningless similes
I'm, like, sure it's an ironic like, bragh.
Remember, kids: After a certain point you stop being cool and just end up with a big chunk of ice where your..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, dabitch
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Color me impressed.
As am I, but probably not for the same reason you are.
Sounds to me like someone needs to eat more PowerSauce Bars." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by not_on_display
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Jesus, leave that #mefi shit in #mefi. Don't you people have something better to do on July 4th than have yet another game of School Yard Shoving Match?
Yes, I know dnab's Canadian...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, orthogonality
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"And flameouts in Metachat are the favorite spectator sport of a significant portion of the MeFi membership.
Assuming you didn't accidentally write MetaChat when you meant to write MetaTalk, wendell, that's a load of bunk (And it's still a load of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"What's unhealthy about fucking, music, and unemployment?
Well, after you run out of money and the claim ticket for your pawned stereo expires, you'll find yourself with 11 kids and smelling like government cheese.
That was a terrible AskMe..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by PeterMcDermott
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Xeni: I think we're leaning toward a policy like MeFi's.
If I were ever in the position to deliver a Powerpoint presentation about internet community shit - which is very unlikely, since I don't do public speaking, or know anything about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artw, lattiboy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
""I’ve been racking my brain thinking of what issues I might’ve come down on the wrong side of," Blue told me on the phone. "There’s been no argument, there's been no disagreement, no flame war, none of the usual things...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The people crying "Tempest in a teapot" are being a little disingenuous.
Agreed, it's more of a chipped teacup with a broken handle that folks just can't bring themselves to toss out.
No, this is not critically important in any big..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mandymanwasregistered, UbuRoivas
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"What I don't understand is what the "suckup" accusers think people are sucking up for.
The suck-up accuser pictures his or herself as a "lone wolf" and "loose cannon" who plays "by their own rules", refusing..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Blazecock Pileon, jtron
3 weeks ago
