Well, jeez, the cadet corps here runs all over the place with fake M-16s and no one seems to care. We even had a paintball tactics battle on campus. What trouble could some nerf guns cause?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 12:08 PM on April 12, 2008

I love this band so hard. Prime Numbers is my absolute favorite.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 6:21 PM on March 11, 2008

dersins--Caecilius est pater, Matella est mater.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 6:30 PM on February 11, 2008

Seanyboy, I'm a veterinary technician. I've had my hand in quite a few euthanizations, and I've been pretty desensitized to animal death. But I still think the euthanization of thousands of healthy animals every day is one of the great tragedies in the industrialized nations. Just because the thousands of human deaths are more tragic doesn't negate the other. And people like you, with callous disregard for the responsibility owed to domesticated animals, whose fates are close to entirely in our... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:55 AM on December 9, 2007

scabrous, you misunderstand me. When I say purpose, I mean the reason they even exist in the first place. Cats, dogs, cattle, they all have the same purpose, and that is to serve mankind. These are all animals, and even species of animals, that would not exist were it not for human intervention. I see a moral difference between pets and livestock because thousands of pets are being wastefully destroyed just due to human negligence. When they start destroying thousands of cattle and pigs because... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:11 AM on December 9, 2007

scabrous: "There are wild cats, wild dogs, wild rabbits and wild birds. To say that their species would not exist without human intervention is wrong because they do exist.

No, wild dogs and cats are different species from the domestic ones. Now, there are feral dogs and feral cats, but those are the target of just as bad an eradication campaign in most places as they would face in a shelter. And they certainly don't survive as well as their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 11:53 AM on December 9, 2007

seanyboy: "internet!Hannah.

Odd way of expressing your respect, then.
1) That respect extends to vegetarians. I implied but didn't state that.
2) I decide how I show my respect for people. You can guess about my lack of respect, but really - You've no idea.
3) Way to paraphrase. They teach you that in debating school?

Okay, I'm still calling bullshit. You... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 3:39 PM on December 9, 2007

seanyboy: "By the way. I lied a bit there - I do have a better idea.

All meat should be produced in the country it is sold in. Meat should cost quadruple what it does now. The price of meat should be capped at a minimum price not taxed on a pro-rata cost/sale percentage. You could do that via taxes or an insistence on organic produce or a combination - I'm not bothered which.

Yeah, but then you have a situation where... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:58 PM on December 10, 2007

So...how did he get that shirt on?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 3:12 PM on November 13, 2007

This is interesting stuff. I just finished a course called Animal Science 307: Meats at my college, with an accompanying slaughter laboratory. The very first lab class we slaughtered pigs, with myself both stunning one and cutting the throat of an other (essentially delivering the killing blow). It was an uneasy, eye-opening experience, and yet, I can still eat bacon near-daily with a free conscience. In fact, having seen first-hand how humane the process can be, I feel far less of a hypocrite... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 7:25 PM on July 28, 2007

notyou: "If you somehow find a course that tops it, please come back and share with the rest of us!"

Well, in my general animal science class's lab, I got to stick my arm up a cow's hiney in a lesson on artificial insemination. And then we, ah, stimulated a ram to ejaculation in the lecture (!!!) using an electrical anal probe. In light of that, and the animal reproduction course I have coming up, I rule out nothing.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:29 PM on July 28, 2007

orthogonality: "Wait, wait, cows get pregnant in the ass?"

Well, no. We have another hand holding the inseminating tool in the vagina. But you have to hold on to the cervix through the rectum to guide the tool through it. It's a two handed job. We weren't actually inseminating the cows, though, just learning how to grab the cervix.

Burhanistan: "Wait, wait. So, there was no shaft... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:58 PM on July 28, 2007

I'm rocking community college for the summer, and my textbooks cost more than my tuition and fees, which is absurd. Fortunately, at my regular university, more and more of my professors are opting for either online textbooks (last semester, I spent 20USD for a downloadable copy of the 250USD print chem book) or just requiring only a set of notes from the school copy shop for 15 to 30USD. Still, practices of the textbook companies, and university bookstores is deplorable*. The cost of a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:50 PM on July 24, 2007

So "Nay nay give me some hay" makes you a horse and "jiminy cricket!" makes you a cricket...are there any others?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:37 PM on June 8, 2007

"May I please have some blueberry pie?"
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:53 PM on June 8, 2007

"Dead men tell no tales"
"I dreamt I was a butterfly"
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:01 PM on June 8, 2007

stresswing--Where did you go to school? I too made the jump from TAAS to TAKS at a magnet-within-a-regular school (the last TAKS I took was two or three years ago). Fortunately for me, in the honors and advanced classes, a lot less emphasis was placed on TAKS preparation, which was a blessing, as I am a good test taker and didn't need the help.

spitbull--I just wanted to disagree with your description of DFW as the most conservative and christian area of the state. That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 5:42 AM on June 4, 2007

This should really be in MeTa, no?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 11:38 AM on April 30, 2007

Double post.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:04 PM on March 19, 2007

Re: the sexism Ethereal Bligh speaks of: as a female percussionist, I can assure you that it is a depressing thing. At my high school, which had one of the better marching bands in the area and one of the best drumlines (if I can say so myself) we had something resembling gender equality. I was on the tenor line (quints for most schools but sexes at ours), and a good third of the snare line was female. The bassline captain was female, too, as was our drumline captain my sophomore year. This was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 12:28 PM on March 17, 2007

This worst of all this is that the next woman with an old warrant that gets raped will decide not to report it, in fear of being jailed. And rape is severely under-reported as it is.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 1:50 PM on January 30, 2007

Oh god. I've been following Barbaro since he was a two-year-old. I had really hoped he was going to make it. I'm actually crying right now, I had thought he was doing well.

I'm going to miss that horse.

.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 7:07 PM on January 29, 2007

I see I am about 6 posts too late to recommend Roach's Stiff, which this post reminded me strongly of. Ah well.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:41 PM on January 8, 2007

kamikazegopher--I don't really see what parallel you are trying to draw. A&M reacted very strongly to the collapse of the bonfire and the 12 that lost their lives are very muchly honored--there was never any backlash against them, even though the bonfire tradition has been indefinately suspended. In fact, I would hazard nothing has ever brought the A&M community together like the bonfire tradegy did.

Also, as far as off-campus bonfire goes, it's held with the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 7:05 PM on December 20, 2006

wemayfreeze: "Sweet. Though the elf's "hold-yr-ankle-whilst-kicking-yr-knee-forward-n-back" dance was pretty poor. Does that move have a name?"


If that was a serious question, in these parts it's known only as "The Lobster".
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 12:05 PM on December 18, 2006

So is this post pre-emptively Godwinned?

A very fascinating post, though.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 4:56 PM on November 29, 2006

Wow, what remarkable timing. I just had my yearly woman's exam by my new on-campus gynocologist yesterday and got a lovely lecture about how taking Ortho Evra is going to kill me, even though I'm young, physically active and fit, have low blood pressure, and don't smoke. Oh, and shouldn't I consider abstinence?

All I have to say is that I've been taking Ortho Evra for well over a year now, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me. I went from monthly periods... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:36 AM on November 3, 2006

French Fry--actually, I think a lot of it has to do with application anymore. Compare an IUD with Ortho Evra: one is a foreign body in your uterus (and I can honestly say that's a big deal breaker for me) that can come out or become imbedded (!!!) without being noticed, requires clinic visits to be put in or removed and is put in through the cervix (if you are a male, you probably don't have any idea about how unappealing that idea can be to a woman), while the other is a discreet patch that you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:53 AM on November 3, 2006

French Fry--my bad, I was trying to disagree with whomever it was said that the reason women are against IUDs was over the Dalkon Shield issue. I see now that wasn't what you were saying.

cobaltnine--Yes, but checking for the string involves getting close and personal with yourself, and there will always be the woman who forgets to look for it that cycle. My point was more that with the patch, you get a visual confirmation it's there everytime you change clothes, no... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:12 AM on November 3, 2006

Why all the Texas hate? I'm as liberal as it gets and you still couldn't pay me enough to move somewhere else.

It's really not a haven of conservativism--the last election the split was something like 35%-65%, which means 1 in 3 or so people went blue. With a population of 20,851,820, that's 6,950,600 Democrats you're writing off right there (I know that's not calculated for only the voting population, but you get the idea). Also, even the other 2/3's of the population... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:06 AM on October 6, 2006

Russ Miller's a pretty cool guy--he did a clinic at a high schoool percussion camp I was at a while back, and actually addressed a lot of what was said in the post. I htink I still have a poster of him back at my parent's house.

Fortunately for us drummers, though, I think it'll always be easier for the garage band down the street that needs a drummer to recruit some teenager with ambitions to be the next Keith Moon than for them to pony up the money for/find someone who... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:34 AM on September 9, 2006

Eh, I'm not really impressed with Mr. Stevens' poetry. I find a lot of it reminds me rather strongly of either a teenager who is trying too hard to sound clever, or of someone reading a poem at a coffee shop open mike who has thrown in a lot of nonsensical stuff to give the illusion of depth without actually having to have it. But then again, what do I know?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:18 PM on August 12, 2006

languagehat: "Nothing, but don't let that stop you from dropping a pointless snark in somebody's thread. "Your favorite poet sucks!" Go read what stavros had to say about the faux-hip snarktacular everything-sucks ghetto that Metafilter has grown into, and repent."

Yes, because giving my honest opinion (though I am apparently in the minority with my sentiments) on the subject of a thread is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 7:00 PM on August 13, 2006

languagehat: "What do you accomplish other than pissing on someone's parade?"

Actually, I mainly commented because I went through and read all of the links in the FPP, and after spending half an hour trying to see if Stevens held more for me now that it did before, I just felt the need to say something. Unfortunately, it didn't happen to be gushing praise. Next time I will refrain, perhaps.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 6:47 AM on August 14, 2006

Since both intelligence and "grumpiness" are characteristics that are very difficult to define and measure, I would say that you could likely find the evidence to support an answer either way, and never be completely correct.

Also, even the article states that since subjects weren't studied as they age, deciding correlation versus causation isn't possible, which makes this little more than an vaguely interesting observation.

Still, it's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:06 PM on August 12, 2006

I'm suprised Bush is even touching Camus. Isn't that a little above his reading level? Seriously, that's one of my all-time favorite books; it weirds me out to think that Bush is reading it.

Anyways, anybody who knows anything about The Stranger knows that it's not about the murder of the Arab--it's about the lack of justice when a moral minority is judged by the moral standards of the majority. Ironically, with Bush's movements against gay marriage, abortion/women's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:28 PM on August 12, 2006

On review, it sounds like he's just quoting nice little sound bites from classic literature, not actually cracking open the book. Even if he did read the book, I would bet that most of the subtleties would be completely lost on him--"Heh, that dirty atheist got what was coming to him. Only a terrorist wouldn't cry at his mother's funeral!"
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:34 PM on August 12, 2006

ColdChef--One Fish Two Fish?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:39 PM on August 12, 2006

As an Aggie, I believe I am required to snark about how Whitman is representative of the caliber of texas university's students.

[/college rivalry derail]

In all seriousness, I find the brain tumor aspect of this situation very intriguing. Whitman's actions did seem to be very incongruent for the kind of person he appeared to be. Rather, he sounds like he began having anger problems, tried to deal with them in a rational, reasonable manner, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 1:30 PM on August 1, 2006

jdfan--I can understand the confusion; Beaumont is the first thing that pops into my mind when I hear "hot and stinky". (And I knew the Aggie jokes were coming--they always do.)

On a more relevant note, were suicides off the tower a problem before the incident? It would be interesting to see if jumping off the tower was only in vogue because of the tragedy associated with the place, or if was it more simply because the tower, as a very tall building with an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 8:24 PM on August 1, 2006

"Napalm burns the little children..."

posted by oats at 12:30 PM CST on August 1 [+] [!] [↑] No other comments.

Red and yellow, black and white,
They're all the same when they ignite?
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 2:22 PM on August 1, 2006

I would like to see the studies cited by the person who said that couples who cohabitated prior to marriage were more likely to divorce. I had been under the impression that the large majority of studies found the opposite.

Still, this is a good ruling, and I hope it doesn't get appealed or overturned.
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 10:24 AM on July 21, 2006

If it's viral, I can't figure out what it's advertising. An online records look-up? One of the linked sites? The Aaron's Affair Stories had a similar writing style, but I just can't tell. Personally, I would say that because of that, and because the link isn't outrageous enough for me to feel like forwarding to people, it's something of a failure as viral marketing (though on the other hand it did merit an FPP from MeFi, so perhaps not).
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 12:14 PM on July 18, 2006

BackwardsHatClub, jokeefe had it completely right when she said this sort of behavior is completely invasive and innappropriate. While this action of shoulder-rubbing in and of itself is not strictly offensive, it's a symptom of the underlying current of sexism that still exists against women, and you can be sure that the German Chancellor, as a high-ranking woman in a male-dominated area, would in particular be very sensitive to these sorts of actions.

I'm sure she... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by internet!Hannah at 9:40 AM on July 18, 2006