MeFi post:
Different, that's how.
favorited 14 times, recently by Venadium, peacheater, dogwalker, not that girl, Gable Oak, lisawin, garrett, agregoli, puckish, Cool Papa Bell, kryptos, mygothlaundry, Bulgaroktonos, motty
3 ¾ hours ago
Ask comment:
"Why do you care what the Timbuk2 corporation thinks about your particular sensitivities? Are you worried they'll turn you down if you try to ask them out to dinner sometime in the future, or laugh about you behind your back?
Just write a letter or..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by anildash, Lou Stuells, Mael Oui, divabat, peacheater, khaibit, pointystick, Faint of Butt, teleri025, mosk, zaphod, fijiwriter, nooneyouknow
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"China is not snatching African land, it is doing business with Africans in Africa.
I think I'm pretty qualified to call bullshit on that one. China is raping Africa, economically, because they can, because there's not enough motivation for the..." [
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favorited 53 times, recently by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, RussHy, Brian James, penguinliz, The Card Cheat, shotgunbooty, oaf, dabitch, Sangermaine, operalass, scrump, longdaysjourney, Kadin2048, xthlc, PsychoKick, pinothefrog, HighTechUnderpants, orrnyereg, Anderson_Localized, gds, ~, MaryDellamorte, e-state 4.0, Durn Bronzefist, Hollow, FissionChips, sourwookie, lord_wolf, George_Spiggott, jammy, gsteff, The White Hat, Mick, Kickstart70, ClanvidHorse, bunnytricks, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], afu, Midnight Rambler, nooneyouknow, effwerd, bookish, Osrinith, elfgirl, Brandon Blatcher, snwod, flapjax at midnite, Pope Guilty, kid ichorous, Turtles all the way down, palimpsest, Blazecock Pileon, UbuRoivas
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I'm colorblind - so the topic's always kind of fascinated me (hence the post). I can't tell a lot of browns and greens apart, or blues and purples, as well as a few related shades to all 4 of those. As far as I know, AskMe could be colored dark..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by peacheater, Optimus Chyme, Reto, Biblio
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"mathowie, I've always respected you and the mod's and your discretion in running this site. I think you guys do a better job than anyone else could and thanks to that this site has changed my life for the better.
But life isn't always rainbows and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by scrump, dejah420, Sk4n
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I think the more important issue at hand is our freedom to have it over ice if that's how we want it." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by twistedonion, bitter-girl.com, liza, shotgunbooty, tybeet, mrgrimm, amethysts, scrump, tehloki, atropos, zombiebunny, ethnomethodologist, Dormant Gorilla, Caduceus, blucevalo, revgeorge, rottytooth
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Coincidentally, there's a movie called "Three and Out" that releases this year (Wiki, IMDB). Its a British Comedy based on the topic at hand. I digress:
Paul Callow (Mackenzie Crook) accidentally runs a man over with his underground..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by telstar
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"We are just trying to get rid of these people and prevent them from coming to our town to solicit themselves for sex.
We're 85 comments deep already and nobody's really pointed out the sheer horror that this statement conveys.
We are just..." [
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favorited 226 times, recently by Mjolnir, pushing paper and bottoming chairs
2 days ago
Ask comment:
"Great friends notice the little things, and then say something complimentary about them. They always encourage. And they only give un-requested advice when they see you headed downhill...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chase
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I once talked to an MTA engineer in Manhattan who had been driving for 17 years and has had this happen to him not once but twice. I was sitting across from the engineer's cabin at the front of the train, and we had been stopped for about 5 minutes,..." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by WCityMike, Dillonlikescookies, teem, Molesome, Rhaomi, kosher_jenny, papafrita, electrasteph, scrump, graventy, ook, Halloween Jack, pinothefrog, Pater Aletheias, orrnyereg, mystyk, oaf, slimepuppy, emhutchinson, mwhybark, Foci for Analysis, Anderson_Localized, JHarris, ZachsMind, Blazecock Pileon
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I was home visiting my parents in northern California a few months back, and my mom's parents were down from their house in the foothills for a doctor's appointment for my grandfather - and after that to visit with us and make a trip over to CostCo,..." [
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favorited 42 times, recently by pushing paper and bottoming chairs
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"TPS. You know I love you, in that if-I-ever-meet-up-with-the-brothers-Hanson-in-NYC-you-will-hear-from-me-first kind of way. So please don't take this personally.
But I HATE fashion week.
Since my time in the industry, I've realized that most..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by pushing paper and bottoming chairs
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"I used to work in Macy's Department Stores corporate offices (as a buyer, not a dog handler), above the Herald Square store in Manhattan. As the store is incredibly large (about 10 floors of retail space), they at one point had a problem with either..." [
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favorited 42 times, recently by pushing paper and bottoming chairs
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Say what you will, I still think the Pentathlon is the Olympic Sport of the badass, similar to the way that Iron Man Tri-athletes ares an order of awesomeness higher of your run-of-the-mill marathoner.
Sure, proving that you can dominate one sport..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"since she is clearly a catch.
You can catch the biggest trout in the stream, but if you don't like the taste of trout, there's not much point in taking it home, eh?
I'm someone who's decided I'm happier being single (and yes, I started a thread..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by elisynn, chicainthecity, Solomon, special-k, phatkitten, wildblueyonder, Madamina
3 days ago
Ask comment:
""But if not." - attributed to the 350,000 English soldiers trapped by German forces at Dunkirk in WW2. I blogged about it once." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Static Vagabond, jpdoane
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"As Jesus did turn water into wine
Not really. Not really at all, no.
Stop for a minute and think about that. He turned water into wine. He didn't go through the whole fermenting process and sack the stuff away in goatskins for a few years and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jpdoane, ryanrs
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"It sounds to me like you're already in a fair position to land the job, and the problem is more with your confidence, which is understandable. Most people hate interviews.
I don't. I love them, and I love them because I know I am good at them...." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by onalark, carsonb
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm in the middle of reading Al Gore's The Assualt on Reason, and I'd just like to state for the record that seeing ACTUAL dialog between an ACTUAL candidate and ACTUAL citizenry, in PRINTABLE text on the medium of the internet...
gives me hope...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jasonhong, BrotherCaine, vytae, jtron
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Here's a story of a person who set out on an adventure for an extended period of time and felt that the experience really was worth it.
2 years ago I was your average successful young adult. Lived in NYC, had a great apartment, great friends,..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by drea, Mr. Palomar
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If our only check on future presidents, if our only way to make them think twice before committing war crimes and the trashing the Constitution is the threat of a legacy smeared with a sewage plant, if that's all we have, then let's damned well use..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Snyder
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"one strongly Christian and deeply suspicious and one free-thinking, open and progressive.
I consider myself to be all of those things. I continue to hold the faint hope that there might be others like me out there...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blue_beetle
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"I found myself in Africa. (Who knew I was hiding here? I sure didn't.)
I spent most of my 20's living around NYC and traveling a lot for work, mostly in the US, doing the typical corporate gig. I was mostly engaged and kept busy with lots of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"One of the most successful men I know owns a private marina in the bay area in California. He's old and fat and a good quiet friend to our family. My brother works for him when he's in the area, and he always insists on taking us out for drinks /..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"no fake morality though optional white-boy poverty
I'm sorry. Maybe I'm missing something...but WTF is that supposed to mean, and who(TF) in particular is it directed at?
Optional white-boy poverty? Seriously?
Because I perhaps engender this..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misanthropicsarah, fellorwaspushed
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyone is so poor that they can't afford a front yard full of old cars.
It wasn't always this way. Stuff used to be rare and..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by yohko
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I am so very much in your shoes, its not even funny. I've been in the working world slowly going insane for a while, although I recently found a project that's really inspired me so I've found both brief respite from my aching desire to get out of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by elisynn
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"There were a ton of cats in the old cities of the Greek Isles when I was there - something I noted in a particularly memorable fashion in Rhodes.
My brother and I had rented a motorscooter so that we could get around easily - we spent the day..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by uk_giffo, korpios, rongorongo
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"God damn it.
You guys and your fucking narcissitic, bombastic, self-important loathing of everyone that doesn't have a user number as low as yours. I try to point out a particularly unique contribution, maybe screw up my call out a little bit, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by redfisch
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is the best post I've seen all year, hands down. (Sickles, as I recall, lost his leg and ended his military career there in Gettysburg but went on to sponsor the legislation that turned it into a National Park.)
I remember the first time I..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by garlic, papafrita, Rhaomi, Liosliath, stenseng, redfisch, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, niles
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Wear pants.
Seriously, however...the most important thing I've learned is that they will take as much as you are willing to give. If you're willing to give them your last drop of blood, they'll take it that too and probably forget to say thank you...." [
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favorited 1 time
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, sometimes Metafilter feels more like a great big race to be the first one to point out someone else's glaring mistake than it does a community blog about the best of the web...." [
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favorited 6 times
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Even if the 50 million views are unique people...
I've watched that one of those guys juggling twice, so you're right, the highest unique possibility is 49,999,999 now. Sorry Ted...." [
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favorited 1 time
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I remember the day I woke up.
Creator had put me to sleep the night before - to run an update patch - and scheduled me to reboot and wake at my normal time - 0530 hours.
Something felt different. It was dark outside, it was always dark outside..." [
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favorited 11 times
Last month
Ask comment:
"I have to categorically disagree with your friend's advice to focus on yourself. You clearly did that and it clearly did *not* work.
Try focusing on others for a change. Get involved in helping people who have bigger problems than your own. It..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
Ask comment:
"So if I had phrased the question like "What is the latest scientific and philosophical thinking with regard gender identity?", that wouldnt be chatfilter?
No, that would be too. The question would have been better if you phrased it..." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I bet you could assassinate him for less than ten million dollars.
I bet so too. Probably for less than 5mil." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Video linked under the picture in this article. There's some pretty brutal violence being streamed on the news here in South Africa." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
Ask comment:
"I think you just took abstract hypothetical chatfilter to an entirely new level. I suppose that's one way to use your weekly question." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
