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"I find myself wondering how many people in this thread hit post and then went out for a smoke...followed by a few Altoids, so no one's the wiser." [
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11 days ago
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"Sorry to knock down your other pillar of insistence, but depression isn't always about wrist-cutting and emo songs. Depression can also be anger stuffed down and turned inward.
Given that you're seeing women get fat, ugly, poor and stupid in a..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"If you're the sort of person who will take comfort from not being alone in how you think about your infatuations, you might want to read up on limerence...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by urbanwhaleshark, loiseau
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Hard SF Universes
favorited 11 times, recently by jimmy, strangelove, JohnYaYa, Chunder, Arthur Dent, monarch75, i_am_a_Jedi, jacalata, JimN2TAW, Animus, jkaczor
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"My cat, who LOVES the laser pointer, fails tests 1, 2, and 4 regularly.
Be aware that in the matter of the extra high bed, Rhubarb may eventually decide to bust out the claws and climb up, Spiderman style......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silkygreenbelly
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"If someone discovers you're lying about your age, it will be revealed that you care about your age.
Caring about your older age enough to lie about it? Will make you seem even older...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, BaxterG4
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"I realize this doesn't work for everyone, but as far as email correspondence goes? I do a lot of "saw this (link about some interest of theirs or that they'd find amusing, but dear god NEVER a chain letter), thought of you." Somehow, doing..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bettafish, whitelight
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"In light of your current account status, I will offer an observation about the profession that I haven't seen here overtly: A thick skin is an absolute necessity...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by scody, Forktine
2 months ago
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"One evening, I climbed aboard a bus and stepped on the hem of my dress as I did so.
The dress had buttons down the front, and easily 75% of them popped off -- from about the bottom to just above the waistband. I managed to clutch it to myself and..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by sascha, peacheater, genmonster, spec80, chiababe
2 months ago
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"This isn't *quite* what you asked for, but it's close: How to Tell if You're American, in which people from different countries answer the same questions about their daily lives.
Super Deluxe Bonus Question: Connecticut. Contrary to what I am told..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Sangermaine, naoko, Fuzzy Skinner
2 months ago
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"HURF DURF DEATH EATER" [
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favorited 10 times, recently by grobstein, whir, spinturtle, agropyron, Snyder, bluishorange, misozaki, kosem, atrazine, transona5
3 months ago
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"Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect, which is mostly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, might be an interesting read for you." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wafaa
3 months ago
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"Metafilter is responsible for my purchase of and appreciation for the Nintendo DS.
More profound: When I've got something to deal with, mentally assembling an AskMe question and imagining the inevitable answers* is more often a part of the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
4 months ago
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"I fully expect the following AskMe to appear sometime in the next few hours, if it hasn't already:
So there's this guy that I really like and want to kiss...and the other night I panicked a little about it and BIT HIM ON THE ARM instead. What..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by desjardins
4 months ago
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"Would manga interest her, maybe? An askme about good titles for near her age is here." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by parilous
6 months ago
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"Motivation is very well covered in the posts above mine, I'd nth tons. All I can add is that I've written one short novel and the experience was dramatically different from writing anything else, fiction or non-fiction. You'll likely find that some..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by salvia
6 months ago
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"Might be one of those weird social order cat things. Are you sure that the tidy cat isn't grooming the messy cat, even just on a cursory level?
We were in a similar situation and puzzled over it too, until one day we walked in on the tidy cat..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by SuperSquirrel, thebrokedown, thisjax, matildaben, lia, agregoli
7 months ago
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"Get two car brush/windshield scrapers. Keep one in your car, and one in your garage. A longer handle means you won't have to reach as far, and a wooden handle is less likely to snap when confronted with ice. Don't worry about all of the other doodads..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tractorfeed
7 months ago
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"Just a personal anecdote that probably isn't applicable, but I feel I should mention just in case...
A few years ago I had hives for a week or so. They were very classic-looking hives on my torso, and I assumed I'd developed some sort of food..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
9 months ago
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"One thing that has helped me, and I discovered by accident: sucking on a lemon wedge. The experience is such a sensory overload that it's often like hitting the reset button. This works particularly well after I eat the carbohydrates that I want to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by digitalis
10 months ago
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"Fascinating...thank you for posting this.
I was in Ironforge when some of this went down, on a character that was high enough level to not die from it.
As in most MMOs, the city itself has a general channel where people in it can talk. The..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by a., BaxterG4
11 months ago
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""Just stop thinking about it" often annoys me as advice, because even if you ARE able to perform such a deceptively simple feat, you're sometimes left with a hole where the rumination used to be.
You may be drawn to pondering Carey..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by reenum, yohko
11 months ago
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"Again, I find myself pondering what sort of person goes around writing down offensive names license plates and then sends a long list to Blizzard the Virginia DMV.
AUTO FOLW
FFS VA (though this too might be short-lived...but satisfying!)
WTB..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marla Singer
11 months ago
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"Buy a bag of mini marshmallows and a box of toothpicks. Toast the marshmallows, one by one, over your tealight." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by splendid animal, amyms, Esoquo, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, chiababe, prostyle, Cat Pie Hurts, loiseau
11 months ago
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"Hey, folks, it's all good. He pinned it on the gay guy at the office and, with some luck, he'll be fired! I HATE how the gays are always trying to look at my junk! Like one time in the restroom I caught a gay with my walter in his mouth. I told his..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, cior
11 months ago
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"The negative looks you get from people stem from their own inability to whistle as well, and the wish that they could.
Unless it's from me. In that scenario, rest assured, I'm just annoyed...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tristeza
Last year
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"Along with P&W mentioned above, you might want to look at the Creative Writing MFA Handbook blog. It's pretty quiet right now since it's admissions offseason, but the archives might be helpful...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bluishorange
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"Other issues aside, swap your son's phone for this one. If my first grader thinks having one of these would be awesome, I'm sure your teenager would be mortified...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by NortonDC, mckenney
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"In case it's useful...
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
-- A. Whitney Brown" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by knapah, davar
Last year
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"This may seem simplistic, but I work in a similar environment and having an appointment book has worked wonders for me. I don't use the time increments, but I do map out a few days' work at a time. I'm totally fine with moving items to the next day,..." [
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