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"Don't lie. I had my major depressive episode after four years (so talk about really not bringing home the bacon) and I simply state my educational experience and time in school. No one's going to ask you why, and if they do just say better..." [
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2 days ago
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"Sorry, not buying it. I don't care if every finger you've got is broken from the terrible pressure of holding babies and shaking hands from coast to coast, you shake the hand of your opponent when you're done. Especially after he chased down that..." [
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3 days ago
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"I agree that you notice the shedding more because it's longer. HOWEVER, you still might want to talk to a doctor about it because losing hair can be a symptom of something like PCOS or thyroid problems. I personally wish that I had taken my hair..." [
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11 days ago
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Ten bucks of Sharpie to a whole! new! room!
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13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Anyway, I'm done here.
Promise?
I understand why people want to refute konolia -- I've tried to do it myself. But if these threads have proven nothing else, it's that she's never going to listen. She doesn't want to hear what you have to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ignignokt, dejah420, ten pounds of inedita
2 weeks ago
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"It took me three quarters of the thread to realize that Feminists for Life meant, you know, anti-choice, rather than Feminists Por Vida, Feminists for LYFE.
Feminist gangsters...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by peacheater, nooneyouknow, nasreddin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Do you know what the Bible considers judgement in the area of sexuality? Barrenness.
WTF, konolia, that's just hateful.
Hey, but now I know why I have to have fertility treatments! It's my long and storied history as a gin slut...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
Last month
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"It's a human corpse in a bigfoot suit." [
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Last month
MeFi comment:
"What in the hell.
If they're going to adopt rules from slow pitch softball, they should have the seven run limit, too. That way when your pitcher is the coach's kid and rolls the ball across home plate just in time to walk the entire other team..." [
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2 months ago
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"Oh, and I also googled but things like "minneapolis rat like thing" aren't quite so helpful as one might think." [
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2 months ago
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"Honestly, this post makes me a little impatient. The vast, vast majority of working writers have day jobs. They come home and sit down and write. Or they write on the train to work. Or they keep a recorder at hand and mutter into it whenever they..." [
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3 months ago
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"I learned to read when I was really small, two or two and a half, and I remember vividly my mom telling me "You don't have to always read out loud -- try reading it inside your head." I didn't leave that little world in my head for a long..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by divabat, MythMaker
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I won't deep fry -- it makes a mess and I'm constantly terrified that the whole apparatus will tip and a wave of hot oil will engulf everything in the vicinity.
This winter I had to finally admit that I won't cook with a whole chicken. Yeah,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jrockway
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"as a single woman past child-bearing age, i never understood the drive to have technology do what the body clearly doesn't want.
What, you've never benefited from any other advances in medical science? I never understood the drive of people who..." [
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4 months ago
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"She deserves something better than you trying to learn to tolerate her body. And who knows? Maybe after some time apart then you'll realize that 40 pounds isn't such a big deal. Maybe it is, but if I knew that my husband was so not into my body..." [
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4 months ago
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What literary fiction should I read?
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I want to garden a little, even though I have a CSA this summer that's going to keep us in vegetables till October. I just don't know how to keep the squirrels away from anything I plant. Those assholes were chewing on my tulip bulbs last fall!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sriracha
5 months ago
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"I always put in 1/1, too! Except that's my birthday.
This is neat. Now all we need is for our contacts sidebar to change every time someone updates their relationship status. That's how the kids do it, right?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I do this all the time. The other day, I saw an ostrich running across the road. Turns out, it was some guy in a white shirt walking his black dog. But I saw ostrich.
It's like my subconscious has completely rejected Occam's Razor for my..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Phire, notashroom, amyms, slimepuppy
6 months ago
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"Am I the only one who copy and pasted the ever-tinier list of complaints to see what it said? Yes? Okay, carry on then." [
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6 months ago
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"After I asked about broiling, I made cut it up, drizzled with olive oil, ground pepper and garlic salt, and broiled it for like 20 mins. It burned and I was sad but then I was so hungry I ate some and omg. It was all soft and crunchy and delicious..." [
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8 months ago
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"When I meditate it's to calm me down enough to actually write. I'm nowhere near a professional writer and I still get stuck in resistance a lot.
If you liked Writing Down the Bones you might get help out of Goldberg's other books. You can also..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
8 months ago
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"You might check out the podcast I Should Be Writing. Mur Lafferty talks quite candidly about her attempts to get her science fiction published.
In addition, there are a ton of similar questions in the archive...." [
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8 months ago
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What to make under the broiler?
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8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Okay, but what about holding doors for people? I do it all the time, for men and women, since I figure it's common courtesy and also because men make funny surprised faces when a chick holds the door. I get the door dropped in my face constantly...." [
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9 months ago
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"Thank you for this. I missed out on the earlier thread somehow but I made my way through most of it last night. Just to add another datapoint: I've been a member of Metafilter since 2001. I met my husband through the site, for God's sake. Barring..." [
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9 months ago
