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"We are all destined for lives of loneliness and hanging on in quiet desperation. The Romans knew it. The Germans knew it. Now you know it too.
Thankfully, the Internet is here to tell us what we've always suspected--nobody loves us. Perhaps not..." [
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6 months ago
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"Avoid unnecessary expenses. If you only watch network TV, don't spring for a cable package--just get a set-top antenna. And if you have a cell phone, avoid getting a landline if possible. Open a window or run the ceiling fan instead of the A/C when..." [
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8 months ago
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"Unlike the Fedwire system, the ACH system does not function in real time. It uses batch processing. So you may be affected by assorted cutoff deadlines. PayPal submits one or more files to its ODFI (Originating Depository Financial Institution) at..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
11 months ago
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"I used to go out with this one chick, a real high-end dame, you know? Wealthy blue-blooded WASP family with a Mayflower descent, elite education, worked as an investment banker. I mean, she had that whole upper-crust thing going, with good seats at..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by aye, trim17, tehloki, palmcorder_yajna
Last year
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"Well, it seems to me that the most likely thing to happen is that the lost Twelve Colonies will be the first to contact us. Or the Cylons. They have a plan, you know...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
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"This is NOT one of those times when I happily encourage someone to let their freak flag fly. If only this tortured soul could direct her energies into a more socially approved form of mental disorder, such as collecting stray cats or shuffling about..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, JaredSeth, chuckdarwin
Last year
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"Ah, I've been waiting for Installment 2,158 of "My Way of Living is AWESOME: But You, Sir, Both Suck and Blow". Who could ever get tired of the refrain about the sheer matchless magnificence of urban living versus the soul-crushing..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by drezdn, tehloki, jayder, geoff.
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"I say you should absolutely prosecute your case to the fullest extent available to you, as long as you hold yourself liable for the remainder of your life to the exact same standard of required perfection. So any errors you may make on school or work..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by FlyingMonkey, Ookseer
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"I've always thought it's very simple to explain. Cats HATE when you try to close off part of the house to them. They seem to feel that you are deliberately concealing some fabulous mystery from them and their lives are devoid of meaning unless they..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Pope Guilty, melorama, lhall, olya, milarepa
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"I concur that it'll be important for you to observe the style of fellow players and try to conform to that, at least initially. It would be a buzz-kill if they're all about lengthy bloviating and speechifying and amateur acting, for instance, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
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"It is difficult to have completely altruistic relationships based wholly on the goodness of one's heart. You need to be getting some kind of fulfillment out of a friendship. Usually, this is in the form of shared intimacy, good times, fond memories,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brookedel
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"You are asking me to worm into your brain and deterimine the parameters of your personal regret-o-meter. I decline this invitation.
Would I regret it? Heck, no! Look at it this way. "I want to listen to satellite radio in my car but I don't..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by blueberry, agregoli
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"Read a lot. Teach yourself a foreign language. Research and plan a mighty road trip or overseas dream vacation. Visit relatives. Paint over grafitti and pick up trash at a local park. Take up birding. Assign yourself a topic and write a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by santojulieta
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"In the American system, the controllers (and I'm talking about the folks that handle the flights in the air, not the dudes in the tower that control the takeoffs and landings) are on a loathsome shiftwork system. Two days, two nights, and a mid-shift...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by justgary
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"In one household I know of, I've seen an elderly and fairly solitary cat driven into self-imposed exile into a blocked-off spare bedroom from which it seldom emerged because it could not abide a completely rambunctious Dobie that was brought into the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ZeroDivides
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"Sometimes it amazes me how much the real world resembles Sweet Valley High.
O young man, gather her into your arms and rapturously kiss her with the kisses of your mouth. But no tongue...you're not ready for that.
Or nuke her from orbit. It's..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by JaredSeth, myopicman, fuse theorem, jkl345
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"Drunk texting is what people do nowadays. Before that there was drunk dialing, and prior to that, drunk semaphoring and drunk smoke signalling. It's an essential part of the human condition, and in fact, my in-depth study of T'ang-era Chinese poetry..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by h00py, mileena, pazazygeek, Asherah, Space Kitty
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""Oh, no, I have TOO MANY women to sleep with--what shall I do? How can I sleep with ALL of them and still respect myself in the morning?" This is probably not the most compelling moral dilemma I've encountered.
The key thing here is to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KevinSkomsvold
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"From what I've read in the Economist, one of the major concerns abou this issue would be: yes, but what effect will it have on football in the UK?" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, By The Grace of God
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"I think she's deciphering the unique scent-tag associated with each dog and matching it to her mental library of known canines. "Hmm, pleasingly acrid with strong ammonia overtones and an impudent vinegary tang...must be Bloodfang the Destroyer...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by scody, Mavri, jmcmurry, legotech, BuddhaInABucket, scarlet, arnicae, Steven C. Den Beste, docgonzo, ClaudiaCenter, jjwiseman, krudiger
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"The rather twisted German thriller Funny Games by Michael Haneke (who apparently is directing an American remake) might qualify. There is some breaking of the fourth wall, along with other unexpected developments that show that the characters are..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by biscotti, mammary16
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"Well, what do you want from life? An Indian guru to show you the inner light? Oops, sorry, wrong song. I meant, what do you want out of this incipient relationship? Are you thinking love + marriage = baby carriage, or do you want to spend sleepy..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by yohko, ifjuly, Monday, Faint of Butt, aye, drezdn, nev
Last year
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"You ask any of the oldtimers at Nuevo Vegas. They'll tell you about the Robot Legion and its spectacular but doomed charge against the Grey encampment in the Area 51/Roswell War of 2048. All the great ones were there. The Buffybot. Voltron. Gaiking..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Faint of Butt, JHarris, lonefrontranger, eritain, Deep Dish, Parannoyed, lekvar, flibbertigibbet, Firas, smallerdemon
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"My opinion is that recurring dreams come in two flavors: 1) the WTF? version, where you have no clue why you keep dreaming the same thing, since it is completely fantastical in nature and bears no apparent relation to anything or anyone you know in..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by catburger, Goofyy, melorama, iguanapolitico
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"Few things are as tiresome to me as this kind of Holden Caulfield-ish contempt for the allegedly "fake" and "inauthentic". It's just another way for immature tools to puff themselves up and believe that they are better than the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by litlnemo, Emardhi, jason's_planet
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"It strikes me as being both extremely ghoulish and opportunistic on your part, and at the very best extremely ill-advised. At this present moment, I can't see what positive contribution this makes to our understanding of the tragedy (that this was a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
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"I moved to Austin a few years back and only knew one person here in advance. Need to make friends? One simple trick is to find an activity you enjoy and then search out a group that engages in the same. Now, that's not so simple if your particular..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by batmonkey, Roman Graves
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"I love it when morally superior specimens such as Gnostic Novelist descend from the higher planes to remind us that we are hypocrites for mourning certain local tragedies whilst not equally weeping over larger tragedies thousands of miles away. How..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by Nabubrush, finallymarki, schyler523, arcticwoman, Curry, tehloki, Phire, gatorae, ereshkigal45, msali, lupus_yonderboy, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, konolia, brundlefly
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"I agree with CrazyLemonade. I've found that sometimes, when you see that you're having a reflexively negative reaction to someone, you should make a conscious effort to at least observe the outward forms of social niceties and politeness. Take a deep..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mckenney, ethel
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"I believe that nasreddin nailed it. Generally, people are not spending the bulk of their time in a compare 'n' contrast analysis of every action of every person around them. They meet you, sum you up in 15 seconds, and if they're still hanging there..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by lalochezia, trim17, rndm, ramenopres, melorama, contraption, roomwithaview
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"I chalk this up as just another mental technique to fill up the mind's dreaded "dead air". There are those, such as Buddhists monks, runners, and some Republicans, who excel at emptying their minds of conscious thought so as to achieve a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by notjustfoxybrown
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"Replace the door with something extremely solid and unbreakable and enjoy the big laffs the next time your boyfriend attempts to kung-fu-fight it." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by erpava, ROTFL
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"It's just this kind of "misunderstanding" that will inevitably lead to the Germans "accidentally" moving an armored regiment into Alsace-Lorraine...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ruelle
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"When keeping it real, RenFest-style, goes wrong...
But it looks like that guy didn't play D&D for 20 years without learning a little something about courage...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Drop Daedalus
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"This reminds me of a co-worker I once had. If you were in the breakroom, staring at the vending machine in dismay because you were five cents short, sure, he'd lend you a nickel. But within about an hour, he'd be all "Got my nickel, boy? Can you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by contessa
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"You'll probably want to rig some kind of defense system involving concertina wire and claymores. Or at least warning signs. And you need to name your fort and post appropriate signage, e.g. Fortress of Solitude, Fort Blackheart, the Outpost of Doom,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by oxford blue, grobstein
Last year
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"The Mid-Canada Line? Isn't that the last Canuckian defense against the inevitable invasion of the wily polar bear and his puffin minions? And it's now been abandoned? Oh, someday, our friends to the north shall pay for this fiscal imprudence. First..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
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"What onlyconnect said...you'll want to see if you are more than a late-night booty call to this guy.
But as for living in different cities separated by the epic distance of an hour's travel over wolf-infested arctic wastelands, evidently...I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jkl345
Last year
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"I'll be scared when some SL nation opens up an embassy in...uh...Pragueapest or whatever the capital of Sweden is." [
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