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"kiltedtaco is correct in that the even-ness of the heat is important. So I'd preheat the oven but not the oven racks. Then put a rack in a the same time as the lasagne. That way the dish isn't touching anything hot at all and both will heat evenly..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I am a digestive physiologist. I have spent years studying intestines, they are my speciality (and my favourite organ). I want to back up what people here are telling you, the science shows no benefit for colonics and the only positive reviews you're..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Nelsormensch, gudrun, rongorongo, Forktine
2 weeks ago
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"Assuming that the amount you can afford to give is enough to fix this problem (as others have mentioned) then I'd take this angle: You say she's your best friend so I'm assuming you also have a relationship with the dog, right? And if he die then you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jess the Mess
Last month
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"I think you should focus on this part of your question:
However, I want to find out if there's more than just the physical here.
It's not so much that you don't want to jump him, but that you want to do other stuff with him instead. So you want..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
Last month
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"We just moved in a week ago
Either someone somewhere hasn't pulled the rental listing yet or he has an old list. This happened to us for about six weeks after moving into one house, including one person wandering around the yard jumping up and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LucretiusJones
Last month
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"I use post-it flags on mine in ways mostly described here already. Colour-coded by overall topic, subtopics posted in different locations down the side of the page. Colour-coding was easier when I put two flags, one right above the other, giving..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
Last month
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"It seems like these people like having the dog, or at least like the idea of having a dog. So if you give it away behind their back there's a good chance they'll just get another one. So don't do that, instead let them know exactly how much this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 months ago
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"The info about tigers is all very nice but you don't actually have a tiger living in your house. Instead you have a felis catus, or domestic cat, which has a very different anatomy and vocal structures than a tiger (reference). All that stuff about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by iamkimiam, languagehat
3 months ago
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"I had three sibling cats for many years, burmese crosses (only one is still alive). They all made a large variety of noises which didn't completely overlap. One of them made noises just like you're describing and another made other noises which were..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by iamkimiam, polyester.lumberjack, snafu
3 months ago
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"but please don't think you're some kind of exception who needs lube and will always need lube.
Also don't think you're some kind of exception if you do need lube and always need lube. For some of us that's just the way it is. A small dab of KY can..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by damnjezebel, minervous
4 months ago
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"Keep in mind that dander comes from saliva rather than hair so shedding isn't always the issue. A non-shedding dog will certainly spread less dander but that doesn't automatically make it dander free (all saliva has glycoproteins in it, all dogs have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by greytape
4 months ago
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"In the noun phrase "print out" isn't "print" the noun and "out" the (prepositional) adjective?
No. You could argue that print is the doing word (not a noun) and out is the describing word, but it doesn't matter...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
4 months ago
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"Normally I'd agree that you need to talk to him about this when you're not having sex and just be clear that you don't like it but .. reading your question it looks like you've done this already. So now you need to be more direct. Start saying no and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
5 months ago
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"I like how both Australia and New Zealand have that day off at the same time. Makes me feel closer to my Aussie buddies (which is a big part of what we're celebrating). And I know this seems kind of obvious, since we're supposed to be commemorating..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
5 months ago
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"I'm currently researching IBD, specifically the mechanism of action of various fruit extracts in the context of gut inflammation.
My quick pubmed search didn't show anything promising for mangosteen, and there are other fruits or plant extracts..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
5 months ago
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"Wait, the linked site is art? I was expecting a collage or paintings or poetry or, well, something interesting and novel and pretty. But it's just an ugly-looking dumbed down summary of something I can already read here. Where's the actual artistic..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Brandon Blatcher
5 months ago
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"I use ethanol at work to dissolve previously-extracted water-insoluble food components. You don't get all of it but certainly most, ethanol is a pretty reasonable organic solvent. My resulting extract slurry retains a lot of the flavour and scent of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lalochezia, parhamr
6 months ago
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"melissa may : the huge ginger tom cat that lived at my boyfriend's university hostel had a leg amputated to the shoulder during the time we were there. He already only had one eye (was called Nelson). He continued to live an active happy life and his..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
6 months ago
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"I was going to suggest something similar to Kevin S. The reason being that several years ago some dumb fuck put sugar into the petrol tanks of our cars, despite that we lived off the end of a small dead end street, down a long driveway with the cars..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mynameismandab
6 months ago
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"Many fruit allergies cross react with latex allergies so definitely try and swap to nitrile gloves. Examples are kiwifruit, papaya, pineapple and banana, if you're allergic to those you'll also likely react to latex (and if not now, then it will..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lonefrontranger
6 months ago
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"While she probably was blowing it out of proportion, your reply was really rude. That meds crack, that's actually pretty offensive. Not wanting dog shit on your lawn is a fairly reasonable request, even if it was framed kind of badly, whereas..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Solomon, mynameismandab, hecho de la basura
7 months ago
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"I've done this lots of times with several different cats, never had a problem.
Keep the cat inside for a few days after the moving is done. By this I mean after all the furniture is in and the family is living there normally rather than during the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by picklebird, Arqa
7 months ago
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"Oh and moving itself is really stressful so keep your cat inside from the day before you start packing things up and moving stuff around. Even consider putting your cat into a cattery for a few days over the transition period. I've known cats to bolt..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Arqa
7 months ago
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"There is some research being done on this but it's a pretty contentious issue. It was assumed for a long time that having a period is necessary and the pill was thus designed to make you have one. But the reasoning was mostly along the lines of what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tyrantkitty
7 months ago
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"The pupil dilation is a known side effect of pentobarbital, which is the anaesthetic used for euthanasing animals. Pentobarbitol suppresses the CNS and along the way removes the nerve impulses which are keeping the pupillary dilator muscles..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ceri richard, invisible ink, chippie, Rock Steady
7 months ago
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"The poster did not ask "should I do a pre-natal paternity test" but simply "is it possible and what are the details". This has been answered already, with links to the relevant facts, and unless someone has research that shows..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kidsleepy, billyfleetwood
8 months ago
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"the radius used in showing local users is too small for sparsely populated mefi places
that's something we should be fixing. I like the idea of a user-set radius where we can each make it bigger or smaller depending on how densely populated our..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Deathalicious
8 months ago
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"The hanging on the wall comment from peacheater gave me an aha! moment and now the keyring idea makes sense. In addition it's made for spare keys as boeing82 said, so not necessarily easy to use, and is designed for sets of keys as ochenk pointed out...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by steef
9 months ago
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"I work very long hours and don't have the time for it.
There's a very good reason for not wanting sex right there. I know when I'm working like crazy my sex drive goes right out the window sometimes for pretty long amounts of time, and it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
10 months ago
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"But just knowing when something will be over is enough to pre-empt complaints.
Exactly. I live in a neighbourhood like yours and am one of those mean people who calls noise control. What you're describing is certainly loud enough to bother your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by a_green_man
11 months ago
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"As well as petsitting look into anything else they need extended. The main one I'm thinking of is holds on newspaper deliveries or mail, although there may be other things like a lawnmower guy or a pool maintenance person that needs sorting out...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
11 months ago
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"It's so easy to grow your veggies in either a raised garden (along the lines of previous comments) or just flat out in containers, I wouldn't even try using the soil with that kind of history. A previous landlord of ours would turn up randomly and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by artifarce
Last year
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"You know, I hate cooking too. I really don't enjoy any single bit of it and find it hard to do as a result. Left to my own devices I eat toast and breakfast cereal for dinner. But I cook dinner anyway, twice a week, because my boyfriend asks me to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by olecranon
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"I know the lust wears off as does the flutters and the fireworks and in the end it boils down to what you are willing to accept.
Our thirteen year anniversary is this weekend and there are still fireworks and flutters. Not every day but certainly..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thehmsbeagle
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"Eating fruit and vegies is all about the secondary metabolites. Ployphenols, carotenoids, isoprenoids, vitamins, etc, etc). These are produced by the plant to stave off disease or insects or seduce birds into spreading their fruit, etc. They are the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by eritain, tatiana wishbone, AwkwardPause
Last year
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"I assume you did eat popcorn recently? Once you get it out (try a toothpick if the fingernail is to big, don't dig too deep) then do a saline rinse two or three times a day for a few days (a tsp or two of salt to a cup of water, gargle and spit) to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sweetkid
Last year
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"Forgive my ignorance, but is there a dividing line?
They are actually made of different types of rock, and the formation processes are different. Continents are made of bits of continental rock (which is much thicker and, um, some other stuff,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bunglin jones, brundlefly
Last year
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"It actually is genetic, you have the 'good' versions of the various enzymes that process alcohol (there are two main ones and I can totally never remember what they're called). By genetic I mean you have a specific polymorphism that tends to be..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lioness, ifjuly
Last year
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"I listen to a lot of podcasts and find that they help keep me up to date with new advances in science. It doesn't so much teach me new stuff as keep me interested and get me thinking about things in a different way. Maintaining that flexibility and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ariadne, hackwolf
Last year
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"Hmm. The donkey part might sound a bit weird. She was to ride into town each week to buy food *nods*. It's, um, a fairly convoluted fantasy." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flibbertigibbet, dmd
Last year
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"How the fuck do you milk a cat?
Restrict kitten access to allow milk to build up. Inject oxytocin to stimulate milk ejection. Then manually massage the area around teat and collect milk into an appropriate container. The same way you milk a mouse..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by null terminated
Last year
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"Actually the point of mineral oil is that it penetrates the insect's exoskeleton and kills it, not that it stops the insect sticking. So it's the rubbing oil on the insect that's relevant. For the folded parts I'd just squirt some in there if you can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LoriFLA
Last year
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"I'm sure Islam had a lot to do with it.
Whereas I don't think Islam had anything to do with it, not at heart. The vast majority of Muslims love their families and want what's best for them, just as the vast majority of immigrant families dealing..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by rafter, owhydididoit, UbuRoivas, Kid Charlemagne
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