MeFi comment:
"What is "fair" about making me pay for other people's kids?
I used to feel this way before I traveled in some third world countries.
Specifically I thought: "We all start equal in this life. We do not emerge from the womb..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by divabat, jb, shoesietart, Kronos_to_Earth, transona5
Almost 3 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"compared to the former norm of 18 months.
I'm not able to find any documentation anywhere suggesting that 18 months was a normal age for potty training. Developmentally most children don't even have the skills to learn it until 24 months...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Dreama
4 ½ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"While cisco never had the massive excesses that Google has indulged in, I remember very well what it was like to be there as the IPO millionaires wandered off to their new lives and were replaced by kids who were straight out of school and not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
more than 12 hours ago
Ask comment:
"Hmm, even with you mentioning that she had implanted birth control, it never even occured to me that you might have gone unprotected.
You've got more immediate concerns than your immortal soul, my friend...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"I suspect your friend and your priest are correct, it would extremely unusual for this to be a one time occurance.
On the other hand I doubt she'll go psycho hosebeast on you. She'll probably just move onto the next young thing.
No harm done..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"It's only the Internet.
Yep, it's only the largest, furthest reaching spur of social change to hit the planet since the printing press.
And it is still in its infancy; What will it be when it grows up? Will it be a normal to have history..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by librarina, Rock Steady, rory, wemayfreeze, mindless progress, sondrialiac, lunit, stinkycheese, Mick, tyllwin, shmegegge, sculpin
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Hey, at least our guys wear codpieces. We know what goes on in those rugby "scrums"." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The bitterness that's radiating off Xeni's posts is amusing.
That's a little more Schadenfreude than I'm capable of right now.
I thoroughly disapprove of how they've handled things over there, but that doesn't make their suffering any less real...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, JHarris
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"TKolar, do you have actually any idea what you're saying here?
I certainly do. You claimed that Patrick was defending people who were being unjustly attacked. And your response to Maxwelton above repeated the idea that anyone associated with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ten pounds of inedita, liza
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Consider also that people are attacking both his wife and one of his good friends for an event in which they very likely they had no direct involvement.
Ah yes, the good old "I put my name on it and trade on its reputation, but if something..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"Men are pretty simple. Please don't try to build us up into these complicated, brooding, emotional creatures...
Hard to tell if you're joking or not. I, for one, am a complicated brooding emotional creature, and have shied away from at least two..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"18/20, sadly enough.
Even sadder:
How can anyone tell the difference between a Heath and a Skor?
Heath's chocolate surface is even, leaving it symmetric along the long axis. Skor's chocolate surface is uneven, giving it an asymmetric profile...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, Rock Steady, Greg Nog, These Premises Are Alarmed
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A note on the architect:
The biography also said he received an honorary doctorate from "The Prodeo Institute at Columbia University in New York." No such institution exists, however, and Columbia said it had never awarded Fisher an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I now refuse to join any site that doesn't offer a way to close accounts. I don't need a bunch of random accounts running around -- I prefer to close them if I'm done with them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by koeselitz
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I, for one, welcome our new aesthetically pleasing overlords." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by olya, VicNebulous, tehloki, the.carol.baxter.experience, dabitch, you're a kitty!, flibbertigibbet, tachikaze, ShawnString, treepour, Devils Rancher, Malor, nax, imperium
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So have the amazing profits of games like GTA4 started to trickle down to the programmers yet? Or is game programming still an economic wasteland populated by 20-somethings working 80 hour weeks for crap pay because video games are cool and they..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by tehloki, 4eyes, C.Batt, pyrex, Pope Guilty
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Dude was A FUCKING PENGUIN, and we were supposed to believe that he wasn't accustomed to cold temperatures?!
A common misconception. Galapagos penguins live on the equator year round...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by damn dirty ape, tehloki, nooneyouknow
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Everywhere you go in the world has a particular cocktail of bacteria fighting it out throughout the eco-system. The battleground is extensive, and includes the intestinal tracts of all of the humans in a particular area.
This is why people have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Do women prattle on incessantly?" [
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favorited 14 times, recently by zixyer, ZakDaddy, Telf, Durn Bronzefist, turgid dahlia, anazgnos, MythMaker, kuujjuarapik, rooftop secrets, EatTheWeak, ZenMasterThis, GuyZero, alidarbac, crunch buttsteak
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"To echo a lot of other people in this thread, it is highly unlikely that BB is doing any editing itself, but rather picking and choosing what it stocks to match some standard.
True story: I once called up a Blockbuster looking for a copy of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Faint of Butt
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The media becomes involved.
The media only became "involved" in that our sub-literate douchebag called them, and was told they weren't particularly interested but they could forward him to the Investigations! voice mail if he wanted...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by amethysts, klangklangston
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Why does everyone say this guy is an asshole?
Well, among other things his .sig is a misogynistic fat joke...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreama
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Local vs. International is a red herring. The boot post:
a) Editorializes in the FPP to the point of just making shit up
b) Is extremely poorly constructed from a link standpoint
c) Covers an issue that would be fairly marginal even if a)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"In 4th grade, Ricky McBride blamed me for Pearl Harbor. I didn't do it so I socked him in the nose.
Without warning, I'll bet." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by wafaa, Stylus Happenstance, Wilder, bitteroldman, FelliniBlank, oreonax, Reverend John, jjwiseman, Slarty Bartfast, deborah, Krrrlson, Mr.Encyclopedia, mckenney, GeckoDundee, Nattie, lazaruslong, prophetsearcher, agropyron, tommasz, Drastic, misha, timeistight, sperose, Iamtherealme, Dormant Gorilla, WolfDaddy, Brockles, ericales, ZakDaddy, h00py, jamaro
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, and just for completeness' sake: assuming each lottery ticket is 1/16 inch thick and the room is 10 feet tall, it would take roughly 2.5 million tickets to fill a 12x12 room.
On the other hand, virtually everything to do with lotteries is a..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by tehloki, milestogo, Sys Rq, gorgor_balabala, Jahaza, msconduct
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I can't wait until I have kids just so I can raise them right and show that it can be done.
That was funniest way you could have chosen to end that paragraph. Remember: always end your angry rants with a note saying that you have no personal..." [
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favorited 22 times, recently by CwgrlUp, hal9k, Deathalicious, RussHy, speedo, turaho, sixcolors, Iamtherealme, flibbertigibbet, Pope Guilty, palmcorder_yajna, bettafish, Space Kitty, EatTheWeak, houseofdanie, thirteenkiller, Snyder, padraigin, drjimmy11, dyoneo, Science!, iamabot
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"BTW, tkolar, I disagree that my not having children somehow invalidates my opinion.
I dunno about invalidating it, but your rant does bring to mind John Wilmot's famous quote: "Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Deathalicious, rodgerd
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Impeachment is for "high crimes and misdemeanors," usually interpreted to mean violating the constitution. Clicking around a little tells me Kuchinich's case is about Bush "launching the Iraq war."
Uh, not to be all factual or..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by lalochezia, owhydididoit, ornate insect, JDHarper, madamjujujive, zardoz, vsync, Pope Guilty, eustatic
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Heh. "I'm getting old! It must be the internet's fault!"" [
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favorited 19 times, recently by enn, sotonohito, mek, amethysts, Brainy, konolia, ao4047, Senor Cardgage, Korou, thedaniel, Ariadne, timetoevolve, dismas, willie11, gorgor_balabala, KokuRyu, arcticwoman, tehloki, Artw
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"we just added a grayed-out envelope icon and "MeFi Mail Disabled" for the outliers.
Oh sure, and why not a big scarlet "A" while you're at it?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fantabulous timewaster
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Umm, actually a respectful sign saying "If for any reason you decide not to have an abortion, we can help with an adoption" would be welcome on the interior billboard of most clinics, probably placed there by the staff...." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by davejay, turaho
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"For why should he be permitted permiscuity[sic] when those heterosexuals who people the earth must be married to enjoy sexual intercourse?
Personally I'm glad we all found a different solution to this particular part of the dilemma...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticwoman
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Honestly I don't think konolia's answer is all that bad. It is off-topic and should probably be deleted for that reason, but I think it's obviously well meant and it doesn't seem like something worth getting riled up about...." [
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favorited 3 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"All this smacks very much of urban legend. I'm not finding references anywhere." [
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favorited 2 times
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I had this strange, sinking feeling, l-hat. But I did fit into your costume pretty well.)
Personally I've always imagined languagehat as wearing Riddler style green tights with parts of speech printed all over them, and a giant embossed..." [
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favorited 6 times
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"About the only issue I can think of is it might become self reinforcing - bad answers, checked as best, would provide some credibility.
Also, the person judging the quality of the answer is almost by definition unqualified to do so...." [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeFi comment:
"You can't take away people's gods. Even while they scoff at their old beliefs they set about creating new ones." [
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favorited 4 times
Last month
MeTa comment:
"What are the disadvantages to being a Metafilter Mod?" [
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favorited 2 times
Last month
MeTa comment:
"er....
Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America wrote...
I think everyone should just be assigned a random account every 24 hours.
You want gifthub, two doors down...." [
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favorited 1 time
Last month
