MeFi post:
how to revise a resume
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Yesterday
Ask post:
Help me put my hair up!
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"Greg Nog: It won't surprise me at all if, in a couple thousand years, he's a major figure in several religions.
I liked this, from the comment section of the YouTube video I linked above:
"Jesus, Buddha, and Confucius were all..." [
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2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Esquire piece is fantastic. My favorite part, which references his acceptance speech for the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Award:
...he made his small bow and said into the microphone, "All of us have special ones who have loved us..." [
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2 months ago
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"When I popped in before to give the cartoon link, I should have included this CivilDisobedient post about SHIT YOU SHOULD HAVE TOGETHER when looking for apartments. I have sent this link to every one of my out-of-town friends considering moving here,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by HotPatatta
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Coming in late, but I just want to agree with madamjujuvive:
"it's pretty hard not to have it seem like and feel like the lowest common denominator gets to dictate the conversation (or non-converation) in such situations."
I had never..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Flitcraft
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Just want to register an enthusiastic vote for some mechanism that distinguishes OP comments, whether it be highlighting or Matt's thought of adding "[original poster]" to the "posted by" line. To me Greasemonkey seems more..." [
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8 months ago
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"I have the exact same hair as you - limp, fine, and yeah, scraggly. Don't know about you, but mine is also pretty long...5 or 6 inches past my shoulders. Here is how I finally started liking my hair:
1) I got a good hairdresser recommendation from..." [
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9 months ago
MeFi post:
Holiday Gift Guides
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10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm not sure why this has to be perceived as a PC-police effort to remove any and all content that might be offensive to someone, somewhere. Part of the reason that gender-based comments are so obnoxious is because in most cases they are totally..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by zebra3, supercrayon, LobsterMitten, frobozz, taz, madamjujujive
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I reserve the right to call Ann Coulter a tranny cunt if that's how I feel, thank you very much.
goodnewsfortheinsane, I would genuinely like to understand why you even need to be able to say this here. Ann Coulter isn't worthy of condemnation..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wendell
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I have been following this thread, and I thought this point was really interesting:
Danila: FWIW, I've actually arrived at feminism by way of size acceptance.
NickySkye: Love your bravery. Sizeism is yet another aspect of misogyny/misanthrope,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by madamjujujive, LobsterMitten
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think it's just a sad part of human nature that once we don't like someone, we nitpick other things about them, be they relevant to why we don't like them or not. So when you find Tom from marketing really annoying, you'll use the fact that he..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
10 months ago
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"Right now your question sort of reads as: "In order to keep my money safe, I would like to use my life's savings to place a specific bet on the relative value of the dollar." I'm not sure what you mean about keeping your money..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Afroblanco
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Agreed about the tone of the article...what's with this total non-sequitur seven sentences in?
"[DaShiv] does not have a girlfriend and lives with a roommate."
I can only look forward to my own NYT Style section profile, tee..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"Ambrosia Voyeur--You are 26, according to your profile. When you have gone through menopause and still can look back and say you never felt that urge to have a child, your opinion will carry more weight with me.
Huh? She didn't say that, she..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"Chudmonkey, I have to believe you didn't read the details. Besides the "sodomy thing" (which apparently screwed up his internal organs so badly that he required dozens of surgeries), the attackers stomped on his chest, burned him with..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"*wishing she had an [extra long] penis to use for flagging vronsky's post about flagging meatbomb's post about flagging his penis.*" [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"You want to have a miserable grudge against someone for something they said in the past? Go crazy. Free country. You want to persecute said grudge in any thread where the opportunity presents itself? That's not so great and some of that shit gets..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"You know, I don't get what's so wrong with the occasional MeFi post on vapid pop culture. I'm no big fan of Paris Hilton, but I found the whole episode to be interesting as a microcosm of celebrity culture and the nature of the American justice..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'm sorry, I'm confused. You love MetaFilter, I'm assuming you find the overall mechanics of the site user-friendly, but...you think the site should be reworked to appeal to people who use background color as a prime determinant of legitimacy?..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'm gaining new respect for news outlets that have maintained permanent links to articles posted years ago. Especially in comparison to, for example, Yahoo News - I think every one of their links I've clicked on has been broken...." [
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Last year
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"But for civilized folk with a modicum of class, bringing a gift to a wedding isn't any more "optional" than wearing a tie.
But this is the dance of etiquette. Civilized hosts conduct themselves as if gifts are voluntary, and civilized..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"This is interesting stuff, thanks, CameraObscura.
I've frequently seen an additional reason given to explain part of the pay disparity - that women are more averse than men to confidently asserting their value to employers. The idea is that this..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
"Invisibility Cloak
Shooooot, cue hours of obsessive attempts to locate abandonware version of old NES game Wizards and Warriors. So much for saving time.
Damn you, Gina Trapani!..." [
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Last year
MeFi comment:
""This case was not abortion. This case had to do with saving that woman's life, period."
Oh, konolia, come on. You're entitled to your position on abortion, but you are not entitled to redefine medical terms in order to make yourself..." [
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Last year
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"And I'm only here to tell you that from personal experience, nice "attractive atheist girls" like me occasionally give blow jobs with no strings attached. Luckily the Christian chicks don't have a monopoly on "Promiscuity...." [
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Last year
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"In that case, I would definitely explain this as "Grandma's problem", and tell your daughter that the way Grandma has chosen to deal with the pain of the divorce is by cutting off the whole family - emphasizing that you, too, are very hurt..." [
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Last year
Ask comment:
"A particularly cheesy Precious Moments figurine, a la Jean Teasdale." [
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Last year
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"Let the River Run by Carly Simon, from Working Girl." [
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