MeFi comment:
""One has been well brought up, educated, and is a reasonably fit & normal member of society" is not a statement of fact, though, at least not the way you're using it.
"Educated" is plausibly a factual claim, but "well..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"octobersurprise: Don't worry, Steve. Things will be a lot better when you get to college.
UbuRoivas: has been well brought up, educated, and is a reasonably fit & normal member of society.
This is hilarious. Even after I explained that I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, Kwantsar
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Trying to dress trolling up as a sociological or psychological experiment is just stupid, but trolling does teach several valuable life lessons:Words like "good," "evil," "mature," "psychotic," etc. are just..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, TheOnlyCoolTim
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Aside from that, your first, third & fourth point can easily be learned through a skim of any introductory secondary text or two on poststructuralism, existentialism &/or buddhism. This can be done without offending people or behaving like a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I would pick this thread as the worst, and my comments activity page as the best." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Grod
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Hmm, after reading the article and more of the thread, I think that maybe Blazecock was in the right on this. The fact that you don't like the way he spoke to you doesn't take away from the truth of his statements.
I don't think so. TBM clearly..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Dreamghost, lohmannn, supercrayon, flatluigi, bookish, shmegegge, Kwantsar, HopperFan, Solon and Thanks, These Premises Are Alarmed
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"That's just what Blazecock Pileon does. He misreads comments (perhaps due to a genuine inability to understand--it's hard to say), and then fires off oddly superficial, irrelevant, and combative replies. I like to think he's just entertaining..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dreamghost
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Americans are the dominant majority on Metafilter, and they enjoy a position of privilege that they're probably scarcely aware of. The don't see anything amiss about a primarily American userbase and a front page full of American-centered posts,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bitterpants, turgid dahlia
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"You, Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America still cannot and will not back up your unfounded claim, that taxpayers are not in hock for public debt.
Stop trolling...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the other side, tehloki
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"It helps to state numbers like this in terms of what share belongs to each of us. In this case, its $29,000 per American.
Got a family of 4? You all owe $115,000. Or you could just say your kids do.
I don't think that actually is helpful. You..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by the other side, tehloki, iamabot
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, thank goodness. Who cares about the patient as long as the tumor survives.
Hardly. In fact, a lot of the attitudes in this thread could be summed up as "who cares about the patient as long as the tumor dies...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by magic curl
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If it does stall, I wonder if the government itself could work out some way to use this $1 trillion to do essential lending.
That seems a lot riskier. If you allow non-financial companies to start failing, unemployment will go way up and the pain..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by woodway
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If the company is now owned by the US Government, will there ever be a chance to claim my share of stock? If not, why not?
No. It also turns out that you can't move into a courthouse, or borrow a police car when you need to drive somewhere. Go..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by manguero, janelikes, hal9k, iamabot, atrazine, ShawnStruck, Arch_Stanton, Popular Ethics, youthenrage, rokusan, troy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I will personally create an extra ton of carbon for each of these that are purchased." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Perplexity
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"should be allowed to fail like every one of their competitors.
The only sensible thing to do is try to compare the costs of AIG failing with the costs of propping it up. I think it's naive to think that AIG's failure would be cost-free to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rough ashlar
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The top earners provide the majority of tax revenues, anyway, so quit your whining." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by troy
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Working off of Google, a group of fairies seems to be most commonly called a "group of fairies." There's also "bunch of fairies," but I think that refers to something else...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
Last month
MeFi comment:
"from what I remember of the book, Bush is as guilty of the murder of American soldiers as the people who actually did them in because he unlawfully sent them to where they were killed.
Creative, but it just doesn't feel right to me. What's being..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So right now he can’t travel to Brattleboro, Vermont, meh.
The problem with the Brattleboro resolution is that it's not serious. As I understand it, it involves a resolution to arrest Bush for "crimes against our Constitution." But..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kadin2048, oaf
Last month
MeFi comment:
"When it comes down to it, having sex with another person is just disgusting. When I was younger, hornier, and less crazy, I could make myself do it, but those days are thankfully long gone...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peggynature
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Given your past commenting history, I'm going to go ahead and assume you mean "we Republicans"
No, I meant "we Mefites." I'll never be a Republican, because I'll never forgive them for the Iraq war, among other things...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by troy
Last month
MeFi comment:
"A couple years ago when I was home I saw two white-bread dorks on segways a few blocks apart from each other at 14th & S, at dusk!
No kidding! White-bread dorks should be afraid to go outside...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Popular Ethics
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I've never met them, and that's stupid. Sorry, not buyin it.
That's balls. Kristopher Presley is 25 years old. Let's say he was born in 1983. In 1983, Kristopher was the 134th most popular male baby name in the US, beating out Henry, Arthur,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Suparnova
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I personally can't fucking wait for America to turn into a totalitarian police state, because I'm sick of all the goddamn whining about America turning into a totalitarian police state...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jacobian, tehloki, ymgve, schwa
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If you've got good (or even just mediocre) reasons for thinking that things won't go any further, I'd very much like to hear them.
I don't think that the abuses today are any worse than any historical abuses. America's authoritarian streak ebbs..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers
Hah! You're a journalist, not a commando. Come on." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by tehloki, koeselitz, jamuraa, pyrex, turgid dahlia, KokuRyu, ztdavis, Inspector.Gadget, jamjam
Last month
MeTa comment:
"You have no freaking clue where I've been, how I've lived and what I've had to do to survive.
The smart money is on "sucked miles of dick...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kwantsar
Last month
MeTa comment:
"People want to come together and hear what other people think; they want to hear what they think themselves for that matter because they don't know it until they say it and see it looking back at them sometimes.
It's not as though discussing Palin..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sangermaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, drjimmy11.
Haha, yeah, we defend liberty and preserve the republic by making a bunch of these thin, duplicative posts...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by greenie2600, mecran01, pardonyou?
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Haha! Take that, polar bears. What were you thinking, evolving to be dependent on ice?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nfg
Last month
Ask comment:
"In terms of contract law, I think advertisements are usually understood as an invitation to make an offer at the stated price, not an offer at the stated price.
So you're invited to offer a bit less than a cent for their burritos, but I suspect..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Inspector.Gadget
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I'm guessing if you gave him the choice between continuing to live his life as usual or killing him to put him out of his misery he'd pick the former.
That's ridiculous. By the logic, no one should ever abort a fetus, since the vast majority of..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by spaltavian, grouse, orthogonality
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Well, what did Nietzsche say? When you fight monsters (like Republicans), you have to become a monster yourself in order to win. Something like that...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Whether the rule is being applied in a reasonable fashion right now, there are reasons why Little League has those rules: it isn't good for a kid that age to throw that hard. He can permanently injure his arm.
That doesn't explain why league..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Songdog, Optimus Chyme, dabitch, tehloki
Last month
MeTa comment:
"The best way to help humanity is to exterminate all other life. How awesome will it be in 1 billion years when the most recent common ancestor of every single fucking multicellular life form on the planet is human?
That, my friend, is called..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by bugbread, Ryvar, salvia
Last month
MeTa comment:
"After a little more thought, by applying proofreading marks in the context of a substantive discussion, striking through a quotation reduces the opponent's position to the same status as a mere typographical error--a mistake so trivial and obvious..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Your Time Machine Sucks
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Here's a good shenanigan: Find one of your comments in a deleted thread, then favorite it and unfavorite it until you reach the daily favorites limit (yeah, it doesn't subtract from the limit counter if you undo a favorite). If you then wait until..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, fiercecupcake, BrotherCaine
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I would really be excited to find out that this thread doesn't turn into an unchecked series of jokes about Cindy McCain's looks/fuckability.
John McCain is the enemy, and anyone who associates with him is also the enemy. Since we're liberal..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeFi comment:
"how the religious sentiments expressed by the president have any positive or negative impact on the actual lives of American Christians? How exactly? Will they have more money? More leisure time? More fun? Better sex? Will their children have a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jpdoane, l33tpolicywonk
Last month
