MeFi comment:
"Cool post, thanks hadjiboy.
I understand that there will always be poverty, but seriously, send over a few thousand shovels, a few tens of thousands of feet of pipe, and some blueprints, and let them at least have some dignity. Christ.
Pasta,..." [
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"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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MeTa comment:
"Seems the general consensus is that you should at least add a brief explanation to back up your reasoning for "No." You know, something like:
She wasn't 26, she was 19, but with legs like that it was hard to tell, I have to be honest. We..." [
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"IANA Blind Person.
But I did a sort of research project at one point where I tried to "go blind" for a week. I had a friend who was blind who actually suggested it when I was asking about what it was like.
He supplied me with a cane,..." [
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MeFi comment:
"I saw this in the newspaper this morning and felt ill. Then I thought, "Hey, I bet we get to discuss this on MetaFilter today!"
My gut response, and really I hope it is the gut response of most of us, is to think something along the..." [
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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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MeFi comment:
"I woke up that morning and wondered why we had decided to have kids.
We had known - everyone had known. We'd known since, arguably - sometime in the early aughts. It was then that the calculations had started - the first guesses about the..." [
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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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"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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MeTa comment:
"Wow. I'm rather humbled. I'm glad my little story got people thinking about this.
I actually wrote that comment maybe 2 or 3 times before, in the last month, and I deleted it each time because it sounded selfish. It sounded like I did a good..." [
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"This is gonna sound a little weird, but I'm absolutely convinced its true: old people.
Try at your local nursing home, or Denny's, or even homeless shelter. There's a lot of old folks out there, its just that we don't see as much of them as one..." [
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"I'm reading all of these soft "go volunteer in an inner city" responses, and, honestly, at first blush, I'm thinking "oh come on folks just answer the man's question."
And then, on the other hand, I'm a different guy than I was..." [
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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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