MeTa comment:
"I'M NOT YELLING MY SHIFT KEY IS STUck oh there we go." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by FfejL, chugg, penduluum, scrump, Atom Eyes, tomboko, TryTheTilapia, ShawnStruck, nooneyouknow, fantabulous timewaster, JohnFredra, dabitch, doteatop, klangklangston
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"With apologies to xkcd.
I have too much spare time." [
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favorited 47 times, recently by chowflap, SpacemanStix, roll truck roll, dreamsign, Sailormom, honest knave, milov, KingoftheWhales, eckeric, tracert, typewriter, spec80, Tuwa, jaysus chris, the cydonian, ikkyu2, bru, kosem, madamjujujive, sarahnade, iamkimiam, suedehead, homunculus, Arturus, tickingclock, gsteff, Manjusri, grapefruitmoon, stavrosthewonderchicken, LeeJay, SteveTheRed, CitrusFreak12, Firas, graymouser, Lentrohamsanin, chiababe, Mitheral, puke & cry, Ethereal Bligh, Count Ziggurat, chrismear, rossination, COBRA!, goodnewsfortheinsane, Dave Faris, donovan, jessamyn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"And finally, here are a few pretty pictures from Zak--one of last year's SPT winter-overs--and his friends.
Love this comment on one of the Flickr pics:
When you were little you always wanted to visit Hoth.
You got your wish, now get the hell..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by null terminated
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Hmm, where have I seen that poster before...
ah yes, on a piece of Futurama merchandise! How bizarre." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BozoBurgerBonanza
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So you think Boosh isn't good enough, but then nominate... Two Pints and a Packet of Crisps...??" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jon Mitchell
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"...the top scrapbooking scandal of 2007.
Wow, and I bet it sure had some strong competition!(????)" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bugbread, msalt
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"re: the Smart car pic, I own a Smart so I know the dimensions pretty well and I think the perspective on that photo is a little tricky. I reckon there's a good 40-50cm between the Smart and the blue estate, and probably about that much on the other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by prostyle
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"This actually sounds like a great idea for the Mefi Wiki.
No, no, you're doing it all wrong:
This sounds like a job for...
*rips shirt open; cue dramatic music*
The MEFI WIKI!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by IndigoRain
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"LARP fights are to real medieval battles as Counter-Strike games are to real terrorist/special-forces battles." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pantengliopoli
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"and on a related note:
Nicholas Was...
older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticwoman, DevilsAdvocate
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Fresh figs, gorgonzola and prosciutto, although Camino thinks prosciutto should be prostitute, but I'm not that hungry, thanks.
Maybe it's trying to recommend some puttanesca sauce?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"eleven seconds, worth the the click:
IED up close
Holy shit indeed." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sperose
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'll be a dissenting voice here and say I love(d) the Halo games. The campaign level design could get a bit repetitive, but the thought they put into the back story, and the designs of the vehicles, aliens, etc was awesome. The original game made..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by OldReliable
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Bitch, Bling, Nigger, Kill cops, Bling, Bitch, Ho's, Bling, Bling, Nigger, Nigger
That's disgusting. He used an apostrophe for a plural!" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by graventy, deborah, tehloki, shmegegge, mediareport, Devils Rancher, loquacious, Pope Guilty, bugbread, ukdanae, jonson
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Smoking bans have long since reached the point where they are curtailing civil liberties, ones which wouldn't be so readily relinquished if we substituted most anything else for 'tobacco products'.
That's because "most anything else"..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by perilous, phatkitten, retronic, Jilder, Hildegarde
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Deletions for all!
Crowd: Booo!
Deletions for none!
Crowd: Booo!
Deletions for some, small MetaTalk flags for others!
Crowd: Yaaayy!" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by MikeKD, cobaltnine
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The late Carl Sagan, the American astronomer who died a decade ago, also worried about so-called "First Contact". He recommended that we, the newest children in a strange and uncertain cosmos, should listen quietly for a long time,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by sebastienbailard, tehloki, merelyglib, nixerman, palmcorder_yajna, minervous
Last year
MeTa comment:
"He said "maths" like a British person." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by davejay, altolinguistic, bugbread, Infinite Jest, moss, modernnomad, brain cloud, theiconoclast31, zebra3, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"That was fun! I would pay money for a 4-player console version of this. Actually it would work well as a DS/Wii link-up game, where you select your weapons and can see your health/stats on the DS, but control the guy on the main screen...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Skorgu
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Oh god a MetaTalk callout! :(
Oh, wait.
Thanks guys! :)
(For those who didn't follow the whole thread I posted the map in, we were discussing which island MeFi would be on xkcd's map of online communities. I just expanded the one we picked..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by amberglow
Last year
MeTa comment:
"And if you zoomed in on the Isle Of Meta, you'd see the 5 provinces (Meta, Jobs, Music, AskMe and Projects) surrounding Mount MeTa, atop which is the Dread Castle Admin where Lord mathowie and his minions reside...." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Tuwa, grapefruitmoon, SteveTheRed, Count Ziggurat, Mitheral, ShawnString
Last year
MeFi comment:
"-think about what a lack of nearby clean water means.
--Dead in 3 days. That's what lack of drinking water means.
They are not lacking water. They are lacking nearby water that is clean. They will survive a lot longer than 3 days, but they..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeTa comment:
"There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary, and gun-toting, anti-abortion whack-jobs.
Wait, I think I got the punchline wrong...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
Last year
Ask comment:
"Not sure I can answer your question, but you and your SO might find the Fermi paradox (the universe is big enough that logically intelligent life has evolved elsewhere, but if it has, where are they?) and the Drake equation (formula for calculating..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sandor Clegane
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I never understood why Jedi swing their sabers.
They swing them so they go wwwwWWWWWWWUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm and not just hhhhuuuummmmmmmmmm." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tomboko
Last year
Ask comment:
"Agree on the overthinking, but the following will mark you out as American (for me, anyway): sandals, sandals with socks (wtf), baseball caps, t-shirts with US sports teams on, speaking loudly. But really only the loud speaking is a bad thing...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thetenthstory
Last year
MeTa comment:
"mathowie and Jessamyn: Do you ever yell at the screen when moderating?
On a similar note, what does the "ban user" link/button/lever/whatever look like, and do you laugh manically while clicking/pressing/pulling/whatevering it?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by merelyglib, fondle, koeselitz, sperose
Last year
Ask comment:
"Some info on potassium and blood pressure. Also, the Uk goverment has an entire website about salt(!) with some tips on cooking without salt." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nadawi
Last year
MeFi comment:
"I reckon in 50 years when every consumer product in the world is made in China, they're going to show up at the UN and say "Alright bitches, give us all your money and oil or we stop supplying you with cheap TVs, cars, and Burberry..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
Ask comment:
"Anecdotally, when learning French in school, I had problems with feeling self-concious if I tried to pronounce the French words with a French accent (as opposed to an English one). Not sure why, I guess it just felt weird to puton a "fake"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CtrlAltDelete
Last year
