MeFi comment:
"Should be great until the earth-shattering moment people find out there as just as many crazy doctors who can't spell as crazy homemakers.
Seriously, that would be great. There's a very odd doctors-on-pedestals thing in the USA, and and near as I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blasdelf
4 ½ hours ago
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"It might not be morality at all, either.
In my experience, people who seem 'irrationally' closed-minded about things like sex, alcohol, drugs or so on are often religious, sure (formal closed-mindedness)... but when they're not, these are people..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by arianell
more than 12 hours ago
Ask comment:
"The light. You will take the best photographs of your life.
It's filled with pixie dust or something, I swear." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kpmcguire
Yesterday
Ask comment:
"I think a "diversion safe" is the big heavy bank-vault style safe you use as an end-table. It contains nothing, and the thieves get hernias trying to drag it out. A nice variation on that might be an old safe door, but nothing else, mounted..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by oxford blue, woebot, jtron
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Imitation is indeed a form of flattery, but paying a guy is an even better form.
Saved to best quotes ever list." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"I feel things slipping toward that worst of all things, the friendship level.
You know, I hate to get all Contrary Elvis on you, but in my grizzled old experience, opportunities for sex are multitude in this world. There's always more around the..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by lunasol, Jaltcoh, ifjuly, crunch buttsteak
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"You know what? Everyone wants to punch their SO's exes in the face. You're getting one side of a story that's always emotionally charged.
(You mentioned this was your first relationship, so just saying. It'll happen with every one, until you..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Jaltcoh, ceberon, curiousZ, Flying Squirrel
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I first saw these little monsters in Cuba. They seemed harmless other than the crazy-ass way they run around. My girlfriend calls them 'crack ants'.
Full disclosure: I, um.... I accidentally brought some back to the USA in my luggage once. They..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Phalene
8 days ago
Ask comment:
"Not to state the obvious, but perhaps you should consider the salary of a full-time project administrator who does nothing but organize these jobs and tasks using your current system, but without the overhead and stress of also doing your job?
It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ookseer
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"Perfectly safe (and normal, that's where it all goes anyway), but also most definitely do not tell your girlfriend because that is an AskMe we don't need...." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Soulbee, kjs4, Capri, Solomon, yort
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Why the focus on ibuprofen?
I really don't care if it's advil or heroin or switchblades... school administrators should not be strip-searching a student for anything, at all, for any reason, ever.
If the school actually believes they have..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by shinynewnick, babybuns, tippiedog, Senor Cardgage, giraffe, orthogonality, JHarris, dejah420, sunshinesky, brain cloud
11 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Do you do your "fucking job" at that point?
Yes, you do. Or if it's really such a big offense to your values, you QUIT.
You don't get to redefine the job to fit your beliefs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"When I saw "a Christian registrar" my first thought was "there's a .god?"" [
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favorited 15 times, recently by Solomon, Talez, flibbertigibbet, axon, Caduceus, Stonestock Relentless, tyllwin, andreaazure, sidereal, tippiedog, ltracey, cillit bang, Lou Stuells, oaf, Skorgu
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"She loved Doritos anyway, so . . . $840 and a trip to an auto graphics company later, she was plying the streets of Kennedy Heights on the West Bank in a Doritos mobile, "GUARANTEED FRESH" emblazoned on the rear door.
These people are..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by arcticwoman, dantsea, Artw
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm not sure a radical theocracy with 3 missiles + Photoshop is really any less mighty...
Actually they're much scarier. Even if you take out their missile facilities, they can just clone more of them!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rodgerd, sperose
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"If HSV color values really count as dimensions, we're all wasting our time on MeFi and should probably move to TimeCube.
Consider also that you're try to use X Y and Z "axes", which are spacial terms, for non-spacial... things. You're..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Ookseer, Monochrome
2 weeks ago
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"Believe it or not, none of this is even substance-induced.
Aha! There's your problem right there. Fix that deficiency and the rest will fall into place...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JaredSeth, papafrita
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sue yourself, Pastabagel.
And then introduce me to all the "Former Maxim models" you know pls." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Ugh, sorry. After we're done talking about the "DNS system", we'll discuss "ATM machines"...
What's wrong with ATM machines? I typed my PIN number into one just last night...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Kadin2048, JaredSeth, vernondalhart
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"He's a Texan oilman. His name is T. Boone Pickens. His manner of speech sounds exactly like a Texan oilman named T. Boone Pickens. It's quite entertaining.
I'm still having trouble believing he's not a blues guitarist...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifthe21stcentury, Artw
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I think everyone's got it pretty much right that "returning" a compliment makes it seem false, even if it's a sincere sentiment. The timing's just wrong.
As for the sexes issue, I don't think there's any difference: men enjoy compliments..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ifjuly
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Shahab is a cool name, though. What does it mean?
It's Farsi for "comet" or "falling star"." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mister_A
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh my, between this post and the others linked in here, I'm about to lose days and days of my life.
Like others, I get drawn into these things, marvel at the internal logic and creative beauty and crazy humanity of it all, and don't come out..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by muymuy
2 weeks ago
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"I think everyone does this with at least a few specific things. I cannot for the life of me remember locking a door, so almost every time I leave my home or office, I get 30 steps away, then turn back to check again. Sometimes after doing that, I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ekstasis23
2 weeks ago
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"Oh, and I raise my eyebrow at the idea that the most famous blogs have "beautiful, intelligent, original content." That's definitely not how I see 99% of blogs out there.
Seconded. That would be a better world, but the majority of blogs..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cjorgensen
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Can't go wrong with a beard of any color, but I'm a fan of Barnacles McGee, myself." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matty
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I assume you have to be self-absorbed to report to the world every lurid detail about your sex life...
Um, or you're free enough from hangups to not make a special category for omigod SEX, so you're just as "self-absorbed" as a blogger..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 weeks ago
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"I don't mean to ruin the fun of this, but it's a bit of a modern conceit to assume you'd be able to choose your profession. You'd most likely do what your father did, as his father did before him. You were a monk if you were raised in a monastery,..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by zpousman, languagehat, brain cloud, Ookseer, orthogonality, yort
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The entire retroactive immunity is abhorrent on principle. It's right back to "If the President says it's legal, it's legal." but with the added twist that he can now bloody well span time and declare things legal after the fact... secretly...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Björk, Ólöf Arnalds and Sigur Rós are teaming up for a free concert - Náttúra
It'll probably suck, but you know: everybody's a diacritic." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by sparkletone, bitter-girl.com, Songdog, aldurtregi, thanotopsis, ZenMasterThis, tommasz, avocet, Sys Rq, chuckdarwin, Faint of Butt, resurrexit, ckolderup
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It is not fair to do this in the early morning. Do you know how carefully I read and re-read that looking for a joke?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brevator
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Note that if you use "Where do you live?", you should probably not follow up with "How do I get there?" (People hate that.)
It doesn't much matter what you say, since everyone will be stumbling around. You could try putting on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oxford blue
3 weeks ago
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"Also seconding pluckysparrow (great nickname) in reinforcing that this is not necessarily a cosmic choice between The One and Nothing. Enjoy, learn, grow, and have fun.
Every vacation can't be Disneyland...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"So why is it that when a pregnant woman is killed, the law is that the murderer is charged with two homicides.
That's a clever trojan horse maneuver that's often lobbied-for by some anti-abortion activists. It's seen as an "easy sell"..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, Dark Messiah, Xany, Optimus Chyme
3 weeks ago
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"He feels it would be unfair to 'work like a dog' (his phrase) and then have me walk away with half of his business if we divorced... I was eager to try for a child with him, even though it is something I'm quite scared of.... I've been shocked by the..." [
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favorited 32 times, recently by timetoevolve, Twicketface, scrump, arcticwoman, belladonna, catlet, badmoonrising, the luke parker fiasco, mjao, rio, Nattie, zarah, gt2, hip_plumber, pointystick, LarryC, Space Kitty, pushing paper and bottoming chairs, clarahamster, Ookseer, the.carol.baxter.experience, mimi, chiababe, moxiedoll, chicainthecity, ROTFL, Floydd, konolia, jammy, greycap, headspace, Solomon
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Quin is right, this would be much more effective as a permanently-mounted device, which means... uh-oh.
Someday soon every picture I try to take of the Statue of Liberty is going to come out with © 2008 Getty Images already silkscreened onto..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, Pope Guilty, Guy Smiley, lalochezia, Venadium, Gary, facetious, andreaazure
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Have the amazing profits of games like GTA4 started to trickle down to the programmers yet? Or is game programming still an economic wasteland populated by 20-somethings working 80 hour weeks for crap pay because video games are cool and they aren't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
4 weeks ago
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"Randomstriker, I hear you, and logically that makes sense, but in my experience (working with 100+ different programmers over the last 20 years, as well as working as an advisor to graduate programs) I have found that the CompSci graduates without..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drjimmy11
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Was spanked. Turned out okay, I think. I know some parents who spank today, and I from what I see overall, they're good parents. I also know parents who think that spanking is the height of child abuse... and yet their children don't seem any better..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by russilwvong
Last month
MeFi comment:
"(Of course, if I had a phobia, rather than an intense hatred of inane small talk that would be a different story.)
You just said that, as an aside, in a freaking COMMENT ON METAFILTER.
Go have a cup of coffee or self-awareness, then come back..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
Last month
