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"I have long suspected that tailgating is a symptom of the competitive attitude some infantile drivers have while driving, drivers who seem to think, "I am not moving unless I am passing people." That is, if they are moving with the flow of..." [
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"If dogs are as important to you as they are to me and my wife, I cannot fathom why you are even giving this guy enough of a chance to write an AskMe question about him. He does not sound salvageable as a mate.
I know that there are people like..." [
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Yesterday
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"Life's too short for bad books.
I agree with this, but at the same time, the question of what constitutes a "bad book" is fraught with philosophical difficulties. In fact, I question whether there is such a thing as a "bad book...." [
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Yesterday
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"Of course, there's always the Samuel Pepys method, which is to invent a secret code to write your diary in." [
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2 days ago
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"Regardless of whether the article "gets Ivy culture" we have a terrible problem in this country. People have no education. Anyone with an education knows this. Around the water cooler, it can be difficult to find people who've read..." [
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3 days ago
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"I've seen criminal defendants in federal court use an argument that I thought hailed from the Uniform Commercial Code. It seems to spread among inmates incarcerated in federal facilities. It is funny to watch these things happen; the defendant..." [
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7 days ago
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"of course I know the right answer, but I am too much of a coward for that.
I think you are really underestimating the harm that you are about to cause this woman. Do you realize what an assault you will be committing on her very dignity as a..." [
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9 days ago
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"how do I find someone to represent me for a reasonable fee?
If you are, in fact, someone being investigated for insider trading, shift your focus from "how do I find someone to represent me for a reasonable fee?" to "how do I find..." [
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10 days ago
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"Savannah: “I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.”
Mick: Kerry Wilson, I hope those words haunt you to your grave.
The chances are nil that Kerry Wilson will ever think he did anything wrong...." [
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11 days ago
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"Whoops, forgot to add the part of my response that addressed your actual question.
I think it is certainly possible to make "principle-centered living" work for you, but it depends upon a certain strength of will (or resolve) that not..." [
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11 days ago
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"I had the opportunity to be around a bunch of hip young people in a nightclub setting a few months ago, and I realized:
The big revolution in t-shirt design in the last ten years is the printing that extends up to the shoulder seam.
Practically..." [
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11 days ago
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"The people who are putting brand logoes on their cars are doing so because they are bright, colorful, familiar. It never occurred to them not to think brand logos were something distasteful.
These people did not receive the windfall of the..." [
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12 days ago
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"Why don't you tell us the name of the company she's found to renegotiate her mortgage?
After all, if they're legit, they certainly won't mind the publicity and scrutiny.
If they're a scam, the army of Mefites reading this question will..." [
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12 days ago
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"I find it unthinkable that they would not accept money from you, in any form." [
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12 days ago
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"Let me get this straight. Grippycat was in a relationship with an abuser who told her to go to the gym, get lipo, work out while still recovering from lipo, and asks us for help in "pulling it together" so she doesn't feel ugly and..." [
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12 days ago
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"I had a little epiphany today, that I think we live in such an advertising-saturated, message-driven culture that it's forcing people to feel that they must be "one solid thing" or have a personality that can be summed up or described..." [
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favorited 29 times, recently by philosophistry, FissionChips, mumstheword, AceRock, 912 Greens, meringue, logic vs love, postcommunism, Twicketface, inconsequentialist, regicide is good for you, peacheater, nasreddin, badmoonrising, orrnyereg, Herman Hermanson, Metroid Baby, erpava, studentbaker, boosh, Giant luck, phatkitten, elfgirl, ivanka, ellF, naju, carrot, 517, tristeza
2 weeks ago
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"You are telling them that you have ceeded authority over their behavior to someone else. You'll never get them to do anything again.
No, I disagree with this. Willingness to call the police will be an unequivocal statement that you are a parent..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I put together an academic website about seven years ago, for a very niche academic subject. I wanted academics to know about the site, so I did two things:
(a) I contacted a bunch of academics (in fields related to the subject of my website) who..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Pardon my bluntness, but James is as queer as a three-dollar bill, he just hasn't admitted it. Straight guys don't do a "lot of leg rubbing" and stripping the shirt off of male friends during "rough-housing," nor do they muse..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Robert Angelo, carrot, zarah, phrontist, peacheater, Rock Steady, chiababe
2 weeks ago
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"It was really pathetic how McCain's people tried to capitalize on the non-issue of Wesley Clark's non-criticism of McCain's military service.
And then, when Obama nonetheless distanced himself from the remarks, the McCain people basically said,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I think the next step on your self-improvement journey should be to throw yourself into lots and lots of social situations, take a lot of chances (invite people to lunch, to dinner, for drinks, etc.) and break down this sense of yourself as a social..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"... Anyway, it's up to you, but don't be fooled that the legal system is there to fix anybody...
... Of course juvie's not there to fix anyone ...
Actually, "fixing" kids is exactly what juvenile court is there for. Punishment is a..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"This doesn't answer your question, but I read this passage in one of Montaigne's essays last night and think his complaint about himself somewhat resembles your own situation; i.e., your problem is a perennial one.
"I do not know how to..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"Why are you marrying this person? You deserve someone who trusts you.
This "romantic" attitude is what leads a great many people to go into marriage without the protection of a pre-nup, and then get screwed.
Insisting on a pre-nup is..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by Orinda, thetenthstory, catlet, Nattie, curiousZ, zeek321, Kadin2048, fishfucker, meerkatty, adamdschneider, limeonaire, crush-onastick, Floydd, librarina
3 weeks ago
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"Having read all of these answers, I think some contributors to this thread make very good points about the issues of financial independence and medical bills.
A lot of our parents (I means the parents of those of us who are in our twenties and..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by curiousZ, elisynn, nax, ifjuly, moxiedoll
3 weeks ago
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"This is a question that brings up a lot of difficult considerations. Here are just some miscellaneous thoughts flitting across my mind as I think about it:
-- Are you motivated by people perceiving you as a "bright kid"? That does not..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Sometimes you have to choose between things. That's life.
How do you want to be remembered when you die? The would-be writer who abandoned an excellent career to flounder about, struggling for a living, all because of an adolescent desire to be..." [
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3 weeks ago
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""What are you doing with your life?"
Realistically, some people around you will never be happy with you unless you are on a rock-solid career path, with benefits, a steadily rising salary, a nice, well-furnished suburban home that you..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"In college it became sort of a joke with us, saying that something was "classy" was actually the opposite of a compliment as in "this is something that someone from a lower class position would think was a mark of class but really it..." [
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4 weeks ago
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"One more thing about your comment, "I have a complex about not experiencing life during my teenage years":
You're in your early twenties, so you're young and you may not realize this yet, but it's a thing that I have noted as I have..." [
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Last month
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"Why is it that car aficionadoes seem to spend all their time on crappy phpBB bulletin boards? (Last time I saw one, I think, was when there was a Metafilter post about a guy who had a very rare japanese car and all these bulletin board denizens..." [
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"I've never been able to pin down quite what it is about Vidal's style that is unusual. I am tempted to call it a gnomic style. You see it in that interview as well as in his writings. I suppose it's that virtually every sentence he utters is..." [
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"I have come to think that a black-and-white attitude to legal questions on AskMe is the best attitude, and I would be in favor of the admins deleting them immediately. Like I have tried to say before, the questions are most likely to be answered by..." [
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"I find the mawkish sentimentality the obit threads bring out, and the uncritical adulation lavished on the deceased, to be really off-putting, and surprising from a group of intelligent members like Metafilter has.
The sentiment of half the..." [
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"Yes. I tip 5-10%... They'll remember my name and treat me like a rockstar.
And just curious, what constitutes rockstar treatment when you're picking up food in bags? I'm trying to imagine rockstar treatment at the takeout places I know, and I..." [
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"You have a quite low threshold for what you consider "crazy things." I would say that, yes, these things are common and (aside from taking guns to everyday places and stealing at a friend's house) these things are no big deal.
What does..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ekstasis23, samph, jmnugent, knowles
Last month
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"Check out the update on the WSJ link (the "innocent fun" link above):
UPDATE: We connected recently with Cathy Catterson, a spokeswoman for the Ninth Circuit. She sent along the following statement:
With regard to the article in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
Last month
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"it's obviously well meant and it doesn't seem like something worth getting riled up about.
I don't think it's obviously well-meant. I think it's just as likely an attempt to shove the pro-life perspective in the face of Anonymous. It is a..." [
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Last month
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"I agree with [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], except for the part about adoring Konolia.
Konolia's passive-aggressive moralistic grandstanding is a reall tasteless intrusion into a thread in which the person has obviously made a painful decision.
Imagine..." [
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Last month
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"I fear you'll come off as a complainer, or even a whiner, not as someone worthy of being listened to.
Or, worse, a sycophant trying to curry favor with someone wealthy...." [
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"I will probably be in the minority, but I say screw the job, follow the romance. I can't imagine being 95 and on my deathbed and wishing "If only I had taken that job." But I sure can imagine regretting letting someone I loved slip away...." [
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Last month
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"I've gently brought this up/asked him about his relationship history on a few occasions, and every time he has dismissed it or not answered the question.
It sounds like he does not want to provide a resume of his romantic relationships. That's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 517
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"Mathowie, jessamyn, and cortex: you've convinced me that there was no real distinction and it was a completely ad hoc, politically motivated decision. Thank you for your time.
The second question, the one that was deleted, was phrased in a kind of..." [
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