MeFi post:
The Incredible Shrinking World
favorited 23 times, recently by MythMaker, howrobotsaremade, jabberjaw, cbuddha, urbanwhaleshark, andywolf, salvia, KingoftheWhales, markdj, Araucaria, exlotuseater, wander, everichon, jmdodd, taosbat, timepiece, hedgehog, champthom, amberglow, Harald74, meh, nicolin, Tehanu
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is where the "Your favorite band sucks" catch phrase comes from.
Personally, I think that he's pretty clever, especially accounting for his age, but MetaFilter tends to react badly to music posts unless everyone involved in the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Greg Nog, Del Far
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A couple of years ago, I listened to an interview with James Randi, the skeptic who famously exposed faith healer Peter Popoff and who runs the Million Dollar Challenge. This part of the interview, starting at 40:10, made me about as angry as I've..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by vira, adamp88, axon, Optimus Chyme, snwod, JHarris, sotonohito, Avenger, DreamerFi, khaibit, orthogonality, shmegegge, Blazecock Pileon, jagalt, lord_wolf, teleri025, Benny Andajetz, rocket88, tippiedog, DU, bitterpants
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"OMG! The crazy religious compound controversy in Texas was entirely made up by marketers as a stunt to promote these new fashions!
It makes total sense: Ladies' fashions have, over the last century or so, been trending towards baring more skin...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by briank
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I have been going every 3 or 4 or 5 years, mostly due to costThat seems like not changing the oil in your car for two years to save money. It's ultimately going to cause problems.
Preventative maintenance is much, much cheaper (and, in this case,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Twicketface
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm appalled!
at the overuse of "First They Came for the Jews."
Verizon discontinuing its newsgroup hosting ≠ the systematic slaughter of the Jews in Germany.
Chill...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Artifice_Eternity, champthom
Last month
Ask post:
What tools does a single person moving out on his own need?
favorited 19 times, recently by AceRock, grablife365, Arasithil, crack, vespertine, Happy Dave, melorama, invisible ink, schroedinger, Alex Handcoding, floanna, ifjuly, Bearman, soviet sleepover, chrismear, divabat, SteveFlamingo, i8ny3x, phoenixc
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I am skeptical.
For starters, this page has the Microsoft Frontpage look to it, which screams "I'm a crackpot." (I do not know why bad web design so often correlates with bad thinking, but it does.)
And, of course, there's the..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by taursir, marble, Robin Kestrel, lalochezia, waitangi, Dormant Gorilla
Last month
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"Honestly, I'm encouraged every other time I watch one of the TED talks. It's nice to know that there are smart people with solutions to many of the problem in the world. For example, Craig Venter wants to design bacteria that turn CO2 into fossil..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CrazyJoel
Last month
MeFi comment:
"While God forgave him, he still lost his firstborn son for his sin.
WTF, God?No kidding. When I was raised in this stuff, I somehow never noticed these kinds of injustices. Now I look at stories like this and wonder how I could have missed them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by captnkurt
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Being God sounds like a good job. If I were God, it'd be really good. I wish I were God.
posted by WalterMittyEponysterical?
breath: This is actually the issue that broke my faith as a fundamentalist Christian. I realized that the only way to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Last month
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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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favorited 2 times, recently by hulahulagirl, cass
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"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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favorited 2 times, recently by softlord, chicainthecity
2 months ago
Ask comment:
"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 months 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 months 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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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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 months 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
3 months 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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favorited 1 time, recently by Perplexity
3 months ago
MeFi post:
Lakota Indians Declare Independence
favorited 31 times, recently by salvia, tehloki, DataPacRat, entropone, katiecat, cathodeheart, ronin21, divabat, Hobgoblin, hippugeek, ronv, PareidoliaticBoy, liza, unixrat, mr. strange, mike3k, spiderwire, ryanfou, arnold, desjardins, padraigin, raztaj, christopherious, teleri025, johnjreiser, newdaddy, popcassady, chunking express, milarepa, typewriter, nicolin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Two different religions doing two different ridiculous things. Ergo, two different posts." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
7 months ago
Ask comment:
"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
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
9 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
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"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
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"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
Last year
MeFi comment:
"The message to take away from these posters: Spiders give you AIDS." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last year
MeFi comment:
"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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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, smashingstars
Last year
Ask post:
What tools does a single person moving out on his own need?
favorited 19 times, recently by AceRock, grablife365, Arasithil, crack, vespertine, Happy Dave, melorama, invisible ink, schroedinger, Alex Handcoding, floanna, ifjuly, Bearman, soviet sleepover, chrismear, divabat, SteveFlamingo, i8ny3x, phoenixc
Last year
