MeTa comment:
"Every time a "meh" is uttered, an angel gets its wings CAUGHT IN A TURBINE.
HD High Speed video requested." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kimothy
10 days ago
MeTa comment:
"“The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.” --Dave Barry" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, arto
10 days ago
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"I notice that you've got question mark about the inevitability of this divorce. Given that, I would suggest that you give her an ultimatum: marriage counseling (regularly for at least six months) or divorce.
I did this and feel it was a very..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by salvia
12 days ago
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"I had a long chat about this with a professional escort once (under non-professional circumstances, thank you very much) and she had good things to say on the topic of ice cubes.
She claimed about 75% of men could be "reset" by cooling..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Lentrohamsanin
2 weeks ago
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"Dates are presumed to be to the mutual benefit of both sides of the equation. Asking someone if you can use their home as a hotel is not.
How much more anti-social can you possibly get?
The chance to do someone a favor is always welcome...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solon and Thanks
2 weeks ago
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"If you were really certain of the outcome of the retreat for her, you wouldn't be asking this question.
So.
This woman has actively mislead you into thinking that you were the only one in her life (while apparently respecting the other guy..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by idiomatika
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It's all fun and games until the RIAA gets bittorrent shut down using the drug enforcement laws." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by merelyglib, lizzicide, tehloki, Jonathan Harford, XMLicious, Blazecock Pileon, Pope Guilty, brundlefly, wires, Hactar, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, fleetmouse, orthogonality
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This fucked up:
Let's see, what do those stories have in common?
Oh wait, I see: we're supposed to take the word of a convicted murderer who still holds out hope for being paroled someday instead of looking at the actual evidence that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by reventlov
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"The thing is, though, mathowie, a man's decision to wear a condom or not is really his last reproductive choice.He could not have sex with women. That'd be a reproductive choice.
I think you may have misread the original quote. The word..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by blueberry, bookish, InfidelZombie, Durn Bronzefist, NortonDC
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Are you guys all wearing full body condoms while your female s/o's are taking five different forms of the pill AND wearing the birth control patch?
BTW, can I just take a moment to express my annoyance that men apparently have the choice of being..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Phalene, ifjuly
Last month
MeFi comment:
"By 'the first one' do you mean a 13 year old song that only has a tenuous link to it by sole virtue of sharing the same title? They are completely different. Totally so. [...]
Oh, and don't even get me started about this. Those names are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electrasteph
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm going to say this as eloquently as I know how: Wha?
(In other words,
what makes those names sacrosanct,
Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy), of the Thin Man movies. The fact that you did not know this reveals a horrible..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by electrasteph
Last month
MeFi comment:
"She should be charged, but this charge is weak.
Well someone should keep an ion it then.
(what, too soon?)" [
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favorited 52 times, recently by tehloki
Last month
MeFi comment:
"a country, I was told in school, is a place with a flag and an army. Israel is a country.
So is West Texas, by that definition.
Listen, I love how we've all decided to allow Israel into the Country club as the last great act of Imperial Europe,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by ST!NG, axon, Edgewise, Liosliath, verisimilitude, monocultured, doctor_negative, longdaysjourney, Thorzdad
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is such an obvious media opportunity - play your cards even halfway right and you should be all over TV all day Monday.
With the headline "Thousands of liberals attempt to buy a seat in the Kansas legislature."
Don't be too sure..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by merelyglib, Miko
Last month
MeTa comment:
"When my niece was five she told me the best ever chicken/road joke. As far as I know she made it up herself:
"Why *didn't* the chicken cross the road?" she asked.
"I don't know," I said.
"Because it was DEAD!!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bonobo, kittens for breakfast, Kattullus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ten or so years ago I began to notice that a large number of people born around the late 1930s and through the 1940s had, as I do, a brother or sister five or six years younger or older than they.
That's about where I stopped reading...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Null Pointer and the Exceptions, thatbrunette
Last month
MeTa comment:
"er, "month limit on threads being open".
Though god knows we could use a month limit on threads being opened." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jahaza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"How is doing a literature search for background material on a potential political appointee an abuse of power?IIRC, public employees are protected from discrimination against race, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, etceteras. That..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kid ichorous
Last month
MeTa comment:
"First they came for the people who drive slow in the left hand lane,
- but I was not a person who drove slow in the left hand lane so I cheered them the fuck on.
Then they came for people the who stay on their cell phone while talking to the..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by misha, Mick, ekstasis23, mai, Skorgu, iamkimiam, adamrice, ShawnStruck, Pope Guilty, It's Raining Florence Henderson, Cool Papa Bell, kuujjuarapik, five fresh fish, drjimmy11
Last month
MeTa comment:
"But isn't it a better solution, in general, to disagree with them in an articulate and convincing way instead of whining for a referee?
It's an interesting question, really.
Leaving aside the problem of tackling people's irrational fears..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by regicide is good for you, ClaudiaCenter
Last month
MeFi comment:
"know that major news sources love to exaggerate Muslim outrage, right?
Surely you jest. It's amazing that Muslims have time to worship satan, what with all their being constantly outraged and everything...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by doctor_negative
Last month
MeFi comment:
"...but even the starter edition [of ArtRage] is pretty awesome.
I'll second that. And there's the whole OS X thing." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by OwlBoy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"cortex wrote...
....matters of plicy there's rarely a Right answer...
Oh my god! First they came for the 'o's and I said nothing..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by iamkimiam
Last month
MeTa comment:
"How is there 2100+ of anything to say about boingboing? Who the fuck cares? Can anyone fill in those of us who don't have 4 hours to load the page?
It's not really clear what happened, but it apparently involved hot lesbian sex at some point. By..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Heh, that Time article is just rife with irony.
After battling for years against the white colonial powers of Britain, France, Belgium and Germany, post-independence African leaders are happy to do business with China for a straightforward reason:..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Sangermaine, scrump, rokusan, Tlogmer, the_bone, quonsar
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So what's the problem?
The problem is that the U.S. military is conservative Christian organization." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by Monochrome, agress, LiliaNic, Deathalicious, ZakDaddy, lord_wolf, greenie2600, longdaysjourney, Blazecock Pileon, DU, axon, Senor Cardgage, ClaudiaCenter, perilous, sebastienbailard, pompomtom, facetious, aeschenkarnos, yort
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But speaking as a liberal, I couldn't support him. He's at best a moderate dressed in the clothing of Obama-like change and Web 2.0 campaign tricks. I know MeFites are generous people, with more often than not a liberal political bent.
I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jahaza
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What proves it is that law enforcement officers, especially local police, are never arrested by their fellow officers when they break the law.
This word "proves", I do not think it means what you think it means...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sangermaine, merelyglib
Last month
MeTa comment:
"why do people care about keeping metafilter "pure" at all?
'cuz it's supposed to be a "filter"?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fleacircus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wonder how many of his donors also donate to politicians who do actually represent them. There's something odd to me about the idea that donors would flock to send this person money because of his cool website and his being better than the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rottytooth
Last month
MeFi comment:
"However, the wiimote will still need to know its initial position and velocity, probably by calibrating it by holding it still at a neutral position, and even a very accurate accelerometer will accumulate error just from the discrete sampling and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
Ask comment:
"Now I have my depression under control and life is starting to look good for me, I wonder whether I should leave,
Yes, you should. Your entire intimate relationship with this woman is built based on you being depressed. You have a lot of life to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by a young man in spats, LoriFLA, Mjolnir
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The disorder of obesity, in his opinion, is caused by carbs (really the insulin response to those carbs) but the big idea is that it's not a question of willpower
Hush now. The first rule of Metafilter is that behavior is determined solely by..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Fenriss
Last month
MeFi comment:
"OmieWise wrote...
Choosing to be compliant with diet and exercise are just that, a choice. It may be harder for some and easier for others, but it's still a personal choice. The evidence that statistically it doesn't work is not evidence that it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So, while there's probably something to your theory, is there anything other than a group of random news links here?
Which is a nice way of saying "What the hell is this doing on the front page of Metafilter?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sidereal
Last month
MeFi comment:
"But just because it isn't easy to maintain doesn't mean that diet and exercise don't work.
When you look at any medical treatment -- CPAPs for sleep apnea for example -- compliance is a huge part of deciding whether they work or not. CPAPs have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
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