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"My grandfather died a few years ago, and I chose not to go look at the body. I don't regret it much. He's not going to care either way anyways, and no one in my family objected, so there wasn't any social obligation to go up and look. I stayed in my..." [
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8 days ago
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"I find that when you're trying to break yourself of a bad habit, it often helps to replace it with something else.
So, here's something to experiment with: The next time you find yourself about to nitpick over something petty, stop for a second,..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"I'll leech onto this question because this is a cool idea. Jedi's scanner suggestion doesn't seem to support OS X. Are there any recommended multi-platform scanners?
There is a Mac Version of this scanner, the 510M.
I think the reason that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hwyengr
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"WYFF-4! Yay! My local station gets to report on... oh.
A South Carolinian doing something spectacularly stupid.
*sigh*
South Carolina: We're not all idiots...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chiababe
2 weeks ago
MeFi post:
The Incredible Shrinking World
favorited 21 times, recently by jabberjaw, cbuddha, urbanwhaleshark, andywolf, salvia, KingoftheWhales, markdj, Araucaria, exlotuseater, wander, everichon, jmdodd, taosbat, timepiece, hedgehog, champthom, amberglow, Harald74, meh, nicolin, Tehanu
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Where are all the Christians speaking out about the hijacking of their religion?
In their churches and schools. Where else would they be?" [
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2 weeks ago
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"I was brought up in right-wing fundamentalist churches and attended Bob Jones University.
Kyleg is right. The people I associated with think that the Pentacostals are, at the very least, in error doctrinally. They condemn most televangelists as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ornate insect
2 weeks ago
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"Bunnytricks: No kidding. I still go back and look up quotes from SMAC. I love the narrators, as well as the playable characters.
In all, it was kind of a disappointment coming from that to Civ 4. You have Leonard Nimoy, who may be a great many..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by somanyamys, JHarris, papafrita
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Also: anyone who thinks that "right" and "wrong" apply to art may need to go back to school, maybe take an art class, do a little water color... I don't know. Something. So, As long as I call it "art," I can do whatever..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by tehloki, where u at dawg, oaf, zixyer, junebug, roll truck roll, EarBucket, MythMaker, marble, Jpfed, Help, I can't stop talking!, bookish, showbiz_liz
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's the way I see it: if you're absolutely the most skilled, amazing, one of a kind person in your field, and you get paid the most ridiculous amount I could possibly condone under any circumstances, it would come out to, say $200 an hour. And..." [
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What tools does a single person moving out on his own need?
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MeFi post:
Lakota Indians Declare Independence
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"The one person I felt the most sad for was Gerda:Gerda couldn’t believe that cancer was cheating her of her hard-earned retirement. “My whole life was nothing but work, work, work,” she told me. She had worked on the assembly line in a soap factory,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by papafrita, malaprohibita
Last month
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"Ooh, ooh, are we posting bizarre YouTube videos today?
Here's one that I like: Super Smash Brothers: Brawl characters dancing to a Swedish song called "Caramelldansen...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by danb, tehloki
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"Also, this kind of stuff underscores the need to keep as many different species of plant and animal as possible alive. Every extinction means the loss of a unique set of solutions to a lot of different physical and chemical challenges, the loss of a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by homunculus
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"Here's where I get off the crazy train:4. Emotion. The insecure man will be repulsed by an emotional woman, and the confident man will be attracted. Remember, this isn’t about faking anything, like tantrum, emotional outburst etc. etc. but rather..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by klangklangston, niccolo
Last month
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"I listened to the first track or two, and I love it so far. When I imported the MP3's into iTunes, it couldn't find any album art, so I cropped the first page of the book into the appropriate size and uploaded it here in case anyone else wants to use..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by takeyourmedicine
Last month
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"konolia: If he would only change his position on abortion, I could see myself voting for him.
I'm in a similar position of liking pretty much everything about Obama but abortion. I'm going to vote for him anyways, because the President doesn't..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by nooneyouknow, ericthegardener, chiababe, mer2113
Last month
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"The church decided to come up with its own lottery and so the feast of St. Valentine featured a lottery of Saints. One would pull the name of a saint out of a box, and for the following year, study and attempt to emulate that saint.See, this is what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
3 months ago
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"Two different religions doing two different ridiculous things. Ergo, two different posts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
5 months ago
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"Oh, and don't worry about onalark. In the comment thread of every great post is someone says "<nasal>I'm sorry, but you seem to have overlooked a rule...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheManChild2000
5 months ago
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"This is overweight? Seriously? Dang.
No wonder you hear so much about beautiful girls with anorexia. I can't imagine looking like that and still being told that I was overweight...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by whitneykitty, tehloki, flatluigi, whoaali
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I saw people in turtle costumes swearing at me.
I didn't even do anything to them. Why are they mad at me?
:(" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
8 months ago
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"I really, really hope that you don't remove the count of favorites that each comment has gotten. Many times I find myself searching for the word "favorite" to skip through a thread and find the most interesting comments. That's a really..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
8 months ago
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"I've often wondered about that--do you think that the ubiquity of the internet is substantially undermining parents' abilities to create these false realities for their children?Absolutely. That's part of why they're so scared of it. At Bob Jones..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Curry, BitterOldPunk, minervous
9 months ago
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"The message to take away from these posters: Spiders give you AIDS." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
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"Whether or not she is a brat or she was behaving badly, she will remember her father calling her a pig. Forever.
Because the internet will never let her forget it...." [
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Last year
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What tools does a single person moving out on his own need?
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