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Please give me your best mexican recipes
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2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"So to call out sexism you can
- Use the flag
- Call it out in thread
- Call it out in Metatalk
Except
- The flag is irrelevant and useless and unfair and using it will turn Mefi into a barren PC wasteland!
- Calling it out in thread is a..." [
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Last month
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Books similar to Peake/Gormenghast?
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"You catch your breath as you peer back and realize - this underwater-rocketing killer robot has a mind and it is very old and hungry. Now, now you start screaming.
If you soil yourself before you're eaten, turn to page 78.
If you try to punch the..." [
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2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Tangentially, I know this:
I'm also a little baffled my the claims of people who apparently speak English, can access the Internet and yet have never heard of Brokeback Mountain. Did they spend 2005 among the Maori?
posted by Bookhouse at 3:45 AM..." [
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5 months ago
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"I think everyone has a different baseline for what's appropriate and what's not; my own rule of thumb is that I wont do anything I wouldn't be comfortable doing with my fiance standing right there. The fact that I would have to (for all intents and..." [
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6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I have often seen people being told to 'take it to Metatalk' when they are igniting a thread
Metatalk is recommended when a thread is being derailed or turning into a flame war. It's not for continuing a flame war, that you started, in a thread..." [
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7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Of course not all feminists (or Marxists or Republicans or Christians or whatever) are zealots, but in any ideology there are plenty of people who do meet that description and they tend to be the loudest.
So...
A. Some subscribers to various..." [
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7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Klutzo, I charge you with two counts of too much fun, and one count of stealing my heart! Also five counts of possessing child pornography." [
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7 months ago
MeFi post:
That's right, Ishmael Twist.
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8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, seconding (thirding? fourthing?) what people have been saying. As a woman sometimes I just get tired of trying to go about my business and read a friggin magazine and be hit with incessant fucking TITS ASS LEGS SELL STUFF BUY STUFF ZOMG SEXY..." [
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8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Dude, the poster says they're giving a friend a gift certificate for their birthday. Nowhere does it indicate they think OMGPSYCHICSARREEL! They might think it sounds like fun. Their friend might have indicated it's something they'd like to try...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, Alvy Ampersand, dismas, anaelith
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ugh, FUCK, I worked as an admin for an agent who did this exact same thing. We were provided a list of people who had defaulted, and I mailed out letters advising that the agent could be of assistance to them. He loved that part because whenever he..." [
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10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...you don't find advocating the enforcing of patriotism through brutal beatings to be repugnant?
I should have been clearer, I didn't find anything unexpectedly repugnant. Enforcing patriotism through brutal beatings is part of the expected..." [
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10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Having lived among kiwis for the past two years, I can tell you that most of them would probably say that they're much smarter than sheep, but only half as sexy...." [
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Last year
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"No one has the right to bellow at you, period. The next time he does it just say "Look, if you cant speak to me civilly when I make a mistake then even don't bother speaking to me at all." You're right, he is a caveman...." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"(dur, I should never try to be clever, it only leads to pain and double posts with spelling errors. *quiet sobbing*)" [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"B-E S-U-R-E T-O D-R-I-N-K Y-O-U-R O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E...!
Ovaltine? A crummy commercial?! Son of a bitch." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"So lets see, issues touched on so far include: free speech, concealed weapons, spousal abuse, biased and/or over-moderation, abortion, and islam. Circumcision, suvs, declawing your cats and fatties ftw?
Cause all I'm saying is that my..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'd love -- love -- for every new user to have to go through a "Why do you call it 'the green' when it's white?" phase. It'd be just as much fun as "What does '.' mean?". Ohhh, yeah, good times.
Forgive me if this has been..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"I fly frequently between Auckland and San Fran, and yeah quite often there's some poor kid screaming it's head off. Being a nervous flyer myself I tend to assume it's due to the kid being scared. It cant be fun to be on a plane when you're like 4...." [
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MeFi comment:
"Having spent time as both a faux-hipster and a faux-nerd, I will say that being a faux-nerd is much more fun. Fun for me anyways. Why?
Because I found that being a hipster, even a faux one, is so fucking *meta*. Everything has to function and be..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"I would have chosen option #3: you. Tell them both that you're choosing yourself. Then go over to the Peach Pit and have a piece of pie with Nat." [
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