MeFi comment:
"I should note, not that anyone cares, that I have nothing but respect for Kamen. It's just that this particular invention isn't really all that awesome in the real world...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oaf
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I asked the wife, she said I was mediocre in most regards but great in bed...it took much less time.
I asked my wife the same thing, and she had the same answer: HuronBob is mediocre at most things but is great in bed. Something's troubling me..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, arcticwoman
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I, for one, believe that Christ's first vintage was the best wine to ever pass human lips.
Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by crunch buttsteak, Jimbob, emperor.seamus
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Everyone in that article comes off as pretty decent folk. Tyler has more strength than I would have had. And anyone who resents Renee for...whatever--I can't even imagine what it is you think her failing might be--read a different article than the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by vytae, ceri richard, jokeefe, etaoin
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Not to point a finger at chinese_fashion, but how come whenever folks are listing out their assets, as such, their mate is always "gorgeous." This makes me want independent verification--I guess it's from the same part of my brain that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, blueberry, bonaldi
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"TNH gave lousy moderation.
Welcome to the understatement of the year. TNH's "moderation" was at first gasoline and then nitrous oxide on this particular fire.
I fail to see how TNH was even considered a "great moderator"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeblis
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"languagehat, for some perspective, the only exposure I've had to TNH has been through her moderation at boingboing. Perhaps she does a fabulous job elsewhere, and bb is the only crappy example of her work, but, man, is it a bad example. Aside from..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
10 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Whenever people talk about the joys of travel, etc., etc. I weigh it against shit like this and decide there is more than enough for me to see and do within the radius I can comfortably ride or drive from my house.
I'm with BP, and I've said it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Maxwell_Smart
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I was considering buying another clunker car, down near the CA border, and taking the train down to collect just last night. Imagine my surprise that I couldn't get within 200 miles of where I wanted to be. Rail is very efficient transportation...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by litlnemo, batmonkey, Mick, acro
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It's not the fault of the workers when a company refuses to accede to the "down side" of participating in a market economy and pay what it costs to attract laborers. Less-than-minimum-wage doesn't cut it with "red-blooded Americans,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jaronson
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"First it's a simple little exercise in lighting farts, then the girlie mags get broken out and suddenly it's a circle jerk.
I'm 41, and have had a reasonably regular social life as a kid, adolescent, and adult. Is the quoted practice actually..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by papafrita, the other side, thewalledcity
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"People seem to get really het up about "illegal immigrants," which, as far as I can tell, is just plain racism, gussied up so imbeciles can wave the flag around and thump their proud American chest. It's not like any red-blooded Americans..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nothing's changed, has it? I mean, we had this tremendous coming together against a common enemy, we felt like a watershed moment, and now what? More like a Watergate moment. Lots of finger pointing, but at the end of the day, no one goes to club Fed...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by rodgerd, ShawnStruck, grobstein, found missing, batgrlHG
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"Sorry, sciurus, I'm glad she got a laugh or two in before going to her reward.
Another classic:
Two women went on a Girls Night Out, and had been decidedly over-enthusiastic with the cocktails. Drunk and walking home, they realized they both..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by ifjuly, crystal.castles
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Apropos of nothing, Jemaine does a pretty wicked "computer" voice, as evidenced about 3/4ths of the way through this outstanding number.*
My only exposure as a yoot to anything like these sort of programs was as a computer show at the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The White Hat
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Given a palette of 16 identical twins to work with, I do think this is not the most interesting thing you could do with them. You want some distance and a sense of deja vu. Like if you were shopping in a big department store and went from floor 1 to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nev, sperose
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"In the olde car world, "anorak" is typical, certainly in Britain, as rmd1023 points out. You can picture the fussy beard or mustache and the gentle clearing of throat as you're about to learn more than you ever cared to about some..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lhall, Lou Stuells
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Do "I Saw U" ads in The Stranger really work?
Help me prepare for my hot date tonight!
What are the actual odds of getting a girl pregnant from a one night stand if a condom wasn't used? I thought she might be on the pill, and she's..." [
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favorited 114 times, recently by pseudonick
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My point wasn't that some people can't tell a good story when drunk, but that the good story is very very rarely about pointing out that they're drunk. Certainly when it filters down to blogs and blog comments it's just inane.
I don't understand..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, thewalledcity
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"bru has an excellent point. The comments section at BB is much more like the comments section at your local newspaper than it is to metafilter.
Have you looked at your local paper's comment section(s) recently? They're worse than youtube, in my..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the Real Dan, Rock Steady
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I have no doubt that the principles of BB are mostly decent people (the garbageman post by MF someone linked to was a huge steamy turd, though). We've had some passionate advocacy for the BB set in this thread by their friends, who themselves seem..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artw, Scoo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The thing that kills me is that in the early 2000's when gas was around $1 a gallon, that was the cheapest it has ever been. Surely I couldn't have been the only one at the time thinking "there is no way this is the 'real' price of fuel...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by A dead Quaker
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Fanboys puzzle me.
I love metafilter, I really do, but I don't think I would come to its defense if Matt, say, randomly took all of languagehat's posts, comments, and even comments mentioning his name offline without an explanation, especially if..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pinback, WCityMike
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"His masturbation was adept because he had crazy flipper fingers.
♫ He's a pinniped wizard
There's got to be a twist
A pinniped wizard
He's got such a supple fin..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by rush, scody, jonmc, JeffK
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"optovox, even if you're a man, please accept my proposal of marriage. My wife will just have to deal." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Dammit, clearly that second line should be "That's gotta be a win". Dammit." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"I will be the lowest, one day.
Shouldn't our user numbers go down as people push the big red button, or 30 days pass after an incomplete application? That might make you think before pushing...yes, you can come back, but your account number will..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sluglicker
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Want to know what has worked for me?
A...I...D...A.
Attrition--have they shot down your ideas?
Indifference--have their revisions killed your enthusiasm?
Delay--is there an interesting game to play instead?
...and Alarm (fuck, that deadline..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"When people really lose it, stink up a thread, flame out, and close their account in a huff after one final steamy turd, I want a real-time indicator (maybe a pair of eyeballs with a has-refreshed-this-page counter in the upper right) that shows that..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by hattifattener, brundlefly, BrotherCaine, rooftop secrets, scrump, Julnyes, schyler523, lunit, Rock Steady, SteveTheRed, tomboko
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I love me all octopuses, but can I take this opportunity to ask why every nature film clip has, frankly, cheesy sound effects?
I've done some websites for PBS and I can tell you, when you watch 16 straight hours of a particular series in one..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by small_ruminant, Caduceus
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"10 questions. Jesus, you guys are rubbing off on me. I used to be brilliant. Brilliant!*
* Have any of you guys ever re-read your old report cards from grade, middle and high schools, for giggles? Mine are consistently full of coded stock phrases..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
Last month
MeFi comment:
""A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jayder, Solon and Thanks, jb
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Huh. I thought that Jeebovah himself said pi to ten decimal places is 3.0000000000." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jimbob
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Do Democrats have a sense of humor?
It was adopted by someone.
Regarding the purple heart bandages: Everything that is wrong with our country is summed up by those; by leaders of a party who actively slandered an actual war veteran while their..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by kryptondog, Durn Bronzefist, oaf, jb, Reverend John, lupus_yonderboy, blueberry, ShawnStruck, AsYouKnow Bob, sotonohito, Senor Cardgage, PROD_TPSL, Ludi
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There are three problems with HOAs, all of which have affected people I know:
1) People who have no business living in a HOA community buy there anyway. Sometimes this is because they're stupid, sometimes because of #2, below.
2) In some parts..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
