Ask comment:
"Shouldn't I be able to go to a car dealership and get a helluva deal now? What am I missing here?
You sound a little frustrated. Have you not been getting the deals that you'd hoped you would be getting?
Business transactions don't take place..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"McCain will win the popular vote by the slimmest of margins, like .05-.3%.
Barack Obama will win the Electoral College with 273-295 votes." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by StrikeTheViol
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Convinced that more couples would choose to continue their pregnancies if they better appreciated what it meant to raise a child with Down syndrome, a growing group of parents is seeking to insert their own positive perspectives into a decision..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Lizc, arcticwoman, Hactar, misha
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"In 10 years, hopefully this scale of recreational petroleum use will be morally repugnant enough that our celebrities won't be bragging about it to the media, if they still do it at all.
In 10 years, I hope that I will be in a financial position..." [
more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Kadin2048, Snyder, saraswati, Inspector.Gadget, Zambrano, GeekAnimator, fixedgear, Foam Pants
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"There was this missionary in Papua New Guinea. A native friend of his asked him where he had gotten his nice shirt.
The missionary told him he had gotten it in a men's shop in Singapore.
The native friend insisted that he had gotten it from a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ymgve
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"This would include rebutting smears against McCain and Palin in a civil way, making convincing arguments against Obama-Biden, and at least getting people to have an open mind about my side.
I was in the same position you were 15 years ago,..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by davejay
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Because they are building an incredibly detailed body of incriminating information about themselves and basically serving it up to law enforcement and the District Attorney's office on a plate?
That makes me wonder -- how many criminal cases..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Suparnova, limeonaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"What I found true of them is that they all seemed to have the attitude that strangers on the Internet should have the courtesy to NOT look at what they wrote if they weren't being directly addressed.
. . . because strangers on the Internet are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mr.Encyclopedia
Last month
MeTa comment:
"That makes sense, but, you know - the sort of people who go to DailyKos are not the sort of people that I would ever want to discuss this with.
Your mild distaste for the users of another website is not a compelling argument for changing the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by winna
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Anything that discourages sexy people from dressing sexily offends me to my very core.
The issue here is not a lack of eye candy for you.
The issue is women's ability to participate in a public event comfortably, without feeling threatened or..." [
more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Asymptote, Metroid Baby, ursus_comiter, marble, typewriter, Heretic, Countess Elena, electrasteph, shmegegge, Sidhedevil, orrnyereg, agregoli
Last month
MeFi post:
Pascal Bernabe breaks a scuba record – 330 meters below the Mediterranean!
favorited 10 times, recently by UbuRoivas, christopherious, gompa, BobsterLobster, sluglicker, intermod, ...possums, adamdschneider, natabat, mikepop
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Housing advocates say Duane exemplifies a vexing irony: People support affordable housing with their labor, money, and votes—just so long as it's nowhere near them.
Well, yeah. The American system of homeownership encourages this kind of attitude...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by marble
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A group of 100 college presidents has come together to state that the 21 year-old drinking age is not working,
No matter how illogical and tyrannical and arbitrary the current drinking age might be, it does have one thing going for it:
it..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by idiomatika, chillmost
Last month
Ask comment:
"To borrow a line from someone whose name I have forgotten:
"Improve yourself. That way there will be one less rascal in the world."
Unlike some of the more grandiose schemes for societal improvement, this one is actually possible...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by sunshinesky
Last month
MeFi comment:
"From the class privilege link:
I can dismiss viewpoints which differ from my own.
I can afford to have very idealistic and "politically correct" views.
See: MetaFilter...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"And so the censors are on the scene way before the medics.
It's more important to keep up appearances, after all.
Way before?
I looked at the video again. I counted, like, three or four seconds between the appearance of the guys with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Because tags would distract people from the attention-whoring, derails, nit-picking, narcissistic hissy-fits and primate feces-flinging that make up the main attractions of MetaTalk...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"it's that this sort of bullshit needs to be smacked down fast, and smacked down hard on message boards, in op/ed columns, on television and on the streets, by debunking this shinola to your relatives and circulating e-mails to friends.
What is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by availablelight
Last month
Ask comment:
"If engaging writing is important to you, (as it should be) then you really can’t do much better than Nancy McWilliams’ “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner’s Guide” which stakes out a stylistic position between the jargon-choked, unreadable..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
Last month
Ask post:
Please help me overcome my aversion to staying in hostels.
favorited 18 times, recently by dhammond, kaydo, Xelf, RedEmma, Bigfoot Mandala, qvtqht, junesix, KAS, apartment dweller, elisynn, palomar, Liosliath, kattyann, inigo2, Windigo, shelleycat, divabat, Happy Dave
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Your use of anonymous e-mail to address problems of this nature suggests that you might be completely chickenshit." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It made parents nervous, especially fathers, when I would cruise by and pick up their daughters for the evening. I can't say I blame 'em.
A friend of a friend worked for an auto insurance company. He said that one of the older gentlemen who..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by anthill
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I still think this is funny as hell, and often have reasons to agree with it, but the kind of durrr, excersize is dumb attitude held by otherwise inquisitive and intelligent people is just, well, dumb.
Very well put, there.
My own take on..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by wuwei
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Interval Signals Online
favorited 14 times, recently by nicolin, musicinmybrain, peterkins, bukharin, Mid, Slack-a-gogo, gac, initapplette, mduda, mykescipark, vronsky, greenie2600, Heatwole, Karmadillo
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's easy to laugh at moneyed douchebags going into therapy because their tennis game isn't so hot but, you know, I've been through therapy and in that course of therapy, I've revealed some things about myself that would make me seem like an ass too...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Hot Like Your 12V Wire, mrgrimm, peacheater, small_ruminant, aeschenkarnos, Skwirl, prefpara
3 months ago
MeFi post:
On Kimchi
favorited 12 times, recently by magstheaxe, rux, Araucaria, surenoproblem, nowonmai, bardic, destro, Kronos_to_Earth, desuetude, cog_nate, Cassilda, sacre_bleu
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I've long thought she was the best poster on the site, proof positive that filtering the content according to favorites (read 'validations') was a poor idea.
Yeah, I agree with you.
mdn writes in paragraphs and constructs actual arguments..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"BUSH = TEH SUXXORS
LOLLERSKATES
OK, I dissed Bush.
Now give me lots of favorites." [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by zpousman, oaf, scatman, ZakDaddy, Hicksu, Jeremy, rokusan, butterstick, Krrrlson
3 months ago
