I seriously abuse the alcohol hand cleaner stuff...

You know that just rubbing your hands under running water (without soap, even) is every bit as effective as that skin drying stuff?
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 2:06 PM on July 25, 2008

Funny, she doesn't look Hindu.

Beware: Pubes!

"No one has reached that circuit!"

"Grandma, I love you like a salad!"

He's going to give that octopus some kind of mammal disease.

And so on..
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:27 PM on July 24, 2008

Calamari with (magic) mushrooms

Calamari is squid.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 7:06 AM on July 25, 2008

ZachsMind, I can speak for everyone when I say that nobody wants to hear about your sexual preferences.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:02 AM on July 25, 2008

Calamari is squid. And soylent green is people. Full story at 11.

You know it was an octopus at the end of the video, right?
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 11:22 AM on July 25, 2008

Seems like they would burn fairly easily.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:18 AM on July 25, 2008

Houston did a cow parade back in 01. It's every city's city council rite of passage to green light some kind of standardized template livestock art distributed around the metropolitan area.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:56 AM on July 25, 2008

This particular Cladosporium species likes to grow on rotting building materials.

Which can't help but evoke images of mold covered continents post nuclear exchange. Yikes.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:32 AM on July 25, 2008

quonsar, you would've farted anyways.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:13 AM on July 25, 2008

Has anyone else noticed the slow but steady tarting up of the WSJ since the Murdoch buyout?
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 6:45 AM on July 25, 2008

b1tr0t, yeah it might just be a form of confirmation bias on my part.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 6:48 AM on July 25, 2008

"Of the people, by the people"
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 6:38 AM on July 25, 2008

Related AskMe post.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 6:26 AM on July 25, 2008

I run RedHat and Ubuntu as VMWare machines on my Vista laptop, bitches.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:58 PM on July 24, 2008

Well, I saw the new Indiana Jones movie last night, so I know that the Mayans are descended from space aliens.

Sorry for any derailment, but did I miss something about that movie (I did watch a vid capture online because I don't like going to the movie theaters) or did they have Mayans in Peru? Because I'm no expert, but I don't think the Maya made it that far south into Inca country.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 2:36 PM on July 24, 2008

Today's advocates for "change" are tomorrows fat line toers.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 8:53 PM on July 23, 2008

They should trade with the wooden bikes kids on the bottom half of that page. Also, a Segway would be a nice smooth moving platform to shoot from.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 1:34 PM on July 23, 2008

The weird thing is, as he goes he keeps scanning a bar code by each restaurant.

It's probably tracking him to make sure he's patrolling. That's fairly common.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 1:59 PM on July 23, 2008

He looks more like a fresh-scrubbed coed on his website than a 53 year old man.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 12:44 PM on July 23, 2008

The Perfect Solution for your Killing Needs
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 12:45 PM on July 23, 2008

Wasn't there a Lifetime movie that starred the chipper DA from "Night Court" as a heroin addict?
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 3:25 PM on July 22, 2008

It's good if you need to defecate. Maybe not all day everyday otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 7:53 AM on July 22, 2008

Venti Mocha Enema (Warning! Insertion!)
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:45 AM on July 22, 2008

Metafilter is teh dumb.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 12:05 PM on July 22, 2008

I understand what it is like to be bored from having too much money

No one has too much money unless they can pay cash for a squadron of F-22s for personal use.

And yeah, Dubai is a wasteland. May the desert sands quickly swallow up that monstrosity, and may the tides quickly wash away the man made islands.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:02 AM on July 22, 2008

Um, didn't the woman who accused Tyson of raping her have a history of making these allegations against men she consensually slept with? I still don't believe her story; a guy that rich could buy hookers by the dozen at that time in his life.

Bitches, right? Man, that's probably one of the worst comments I've read on this site all month.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 7:40 AM on July 22, 2008

netbros: this one kind of crosses into not so good corporate shilling territory.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 7:21 AM on July 22, 2008

I thought the original Wonderwall by Oasis was already a parody? No? Stupid gits.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:37 AM on July 21, 2008

It kind of surprises me that otherwise intelligent people like Oasis. Come on, even their first album was dreck. Give me supersonic, give me gin and tonic? I loved most of the Creation catalog and shoegazing/led zepplin mashups that came out of it, but let's just admit that Oasis were heels.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 3:34 PM on July 21, 2008

I haven't seen any of those old wooden plank see-saws in awhile either. Those things were like some medieval face whacking device.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 1:13 PM on July 21, 2008

This has the possibility to create problems on the job. Say someone gets deluged with a lot of these emails and then asks IT and or HR to investigate. It wouldn't be hard to check the logs which user was visiting nicecritic.com and then their little joke wouldn't be so anonymous.

But mainly, I'm surprised at myself for not suspecting that this is probably an email address harvester. Being a systems admin, I hate spam and spammers so I don't want to enable this kind... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 3:55 PM on July 19, 2008

Phew! The stores in locales in my where there is another Starbucks LITERALLY RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET will all remain open. They had me worried there for a moment.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 5:19 PM on July 18, 2008

(in my city)
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 5:20 PM on July 18, 2008

Starbucks remains a good place to visit if one is on the road and needs a (usually) clean place in which to poop. The rest of the argument about the coffee and the corporate stuff is immaterial.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 5:29 PM on July 18, 2008

2or3whiskeysodas: Yep, that's one of the dyads out there. There's also one in a Randalls across from a standalone on Memorial at Dairy Ashford. I'm think that I've seen a third Starbucks Binary System in the Houston area but where exactly it might be escapes me. Perhaps it was a bad dream.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:26 PM on July 18, 2008

Also, that kid in the video made a fairly spot on assertion that cops just go around staring at butts. Also, my proofreading kind of sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:28 PM on July 18, 2008

1. The opening of a Starbucks usually means the closing of whatever independent coffee shop was in the area. Independent shops are also usually owned by a local, which keeps more of the community's money in the community.

This statement gets thrown about a lot but is there actually any real evidence of this? I've seen plenty of indie coffee shops come and go that had no Starbucks in the vicinity. Mostly, it was poor management or the owners got... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:18 AM on July 19, 2008

I wasn't surprised that the TV talk show host question was the one most correctly answered.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:15 PM on July 18, 2008

I'm new here, so I hope this means I am allowed to comment.

Sweet Jebus, almost up to user number 77777. I gotta try to register that one.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:16 PM on July 18, 2008

I wish that leopard would jump across the page and attack and kill those celebrities.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:11 PM on July 18, 2008

King: Frankly, Sharon, you don't seem outraged.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 6:50 AM on July 18, 2008

Aren't humans neat?
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 8:25 PM on July 15, 2008

So I guess I'm the only one who finds the lyrics a little silly. Great video, though, and a great performance by Ms. Jones.

Oh, by no means are you the only one who finds that video humorous.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:47 AM on July 16, 2008

These Vibe people are morons.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:25 PM on July 15, 2008

Already been outed.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 8:53 AM on July 15, 2008

I think Bush has said multiple times that he wants Guantanamo to be shut down.

True, but I can't help but suspecting that it's simply because Gitmo is so exposed. There are plenty of other facilities that could be used to detain "enemies" that aren't so highly publicized.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:06 AM on July 15, 2008

Calling it Gitmo is quicker to type.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:40 AM on July 15, 2008

Get between me and my Al cohol and I'll show you a terrorist organisation.

You probably already knew this, but just for the record.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 10:03 AM on July 15, 2008

russilvwong: true enough, but that Al Qaeda has been pretty much killed off since 2002 with the leaders in hiding or otherwise irrelevant. What's referred to as Al Qaeda now is mostly a phantom.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:18 PM on July 15, 2008

Great story. It would've been nice if one of the photos showed the ducklings being caught. Also, I'm reminded of this mother duck who seems to have a lot more on the ball in the smarts department than the Spokane duck.
posted to MetaFilter by Burhanistan at 9:12 AM on July 15, 2008