MeFi comment:
"Traffic ground to a halt the other evening at Constitution and 15th Street in NW DC. A tourist miscalculated the curb and fell off his rented Segway. He was hurt enough so that he didn't just get back up. Luckily, all of the DC Segway tour company..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by TheOnlyCoolTim
5 ¼ hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I continue to be amazed at the level of hate for the Segway." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Poor kids. Some of you really got your hopes up, didn't you?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mid
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Anyone who watches American action movies or television, or who plays videogames, probably has seen a million times worse things. Anyone traumatized by the imagery in that comment is probably too fragile to be surfing the internet in the first place...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by turgid dahlia, konolia, scody
Yesterday
MeFi post:
Tiled Background Designer
favorited 76 times, recently by papafrita, ilona, jasminerain, phaedon, yonyonson, hooray, benimoto, porn in the woods, tkchrist, puddleglum, Herman Hermanson, lucien, bonobo, Cyclopsis Raptor, neetij, babybuns, vito90, maudlin, adamk, _sirmissalot_, sluglicker, Ambrosia Voyeur, jamstigator, doogyrev, theora55, batmonkey, nushustu, thewittyname, krix, christopherious, jmdodd, prambutan, eclectist, edlundart, Jorus, Sailormom, shino-boy, zedbends, robocop is bleeding, |n$eCur3, Bearman, umrain, billyfleetwood, skyper, wretched_rhapsody, storybored, purplemonkie, Rykey, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], mathowie, halonine, Blazecock Pileon, miss lynnster, jkaczor, zazerr, pyrex, kingbenny, p3t3, brianvan, le morte de bea arthur, cashman, marsha56, lampoil, Hal Mumkin, psychostorm, marcelm, scblackman, interrobang, taz, stavrosthewonderchicken, lisawin, dabitch, sunshinesky, the_very_hungry_caterpillar, dog food sugar, OwlBoy
3 days ago
MeFi post:
Totem Destroyer
favorited 12 times, recently by chugg, pointystick, Lesium, Cassilda, parmanparman, taz, Blazecock Pileon, hooray, motty, jeffburdges, mr. strange, BrotherCaine
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"No. I make the point that just because you don't like something, and because the mods were take too long for your precious self, it doesn't justify making yet another metatalk post when there's already an adequate system to handle your complaint. The..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Zambrano, Crabby Appleton
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"To elaborate, perhaps less harshly ... you would have achieved your goal by sending an IM or an email to the admins. The post would have probably been just as deleted, but you wouldn't have perpetuated the idea that petulantly stomping your feet in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hal9k, Zambrano, Artw
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"And yet, Mr. That Guy, with this callout that crappy post is now history.
In other words, a whiner rewarded." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Zambrano
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"“What he’s doing is brilliant. He’s allowing the dough and other ingredients to fully soak up the liquid — in this case, the eggs — in order to get a drier and firmer dough, which bakes to a better consistency.”
What he's doing is not letting it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wires
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"If nothing else, if you're ever feeling estranged or out of touch, the internet provides an endless supply of material to validate one's normalcy." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by magstheaxe
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Here's to the hope that tomorrow's Gettysburg post is as well researched." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Megafly
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"(I really do think anyone can build a cool web app and make a small living from it.)
Or better yet, I bet anyone can run a string of these junkets, or be a featured speaker at one, every couple of months, attracting all the web hipsters, and make..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bkudria, eyeballkid
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Repost this when its actually useful. I looked at a bunch of items, and it couldn't help. Posting this plug in now is like posting a link to a blog that has no entries...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DU
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
urban prankster
favorited 19 times, recently by Wanderlust88, cribcage, Sys Rq, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, Durn Bronzefist, of strange foe, Dillonlikescookies, Who_Am_I, Furie, Arthur Dent, prambutan, well_balanced, sir_rubixalot, doctor_negative, davemee, syzygy, Corduroy, Blazecock Pileon, paradoxflow
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"BLIND ITEM : What internet site admin was recently seen caressing the frosting off a rather large donut? He quietly checked into a Oregon diet center only to head for the exits when the staff said they would be searching his bags? What do you mean..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This event described in the BBC series Inside the Medieval Mind, Episode 1" Knowledge might be closer to the reality of this little thought experiment than anything else ...
At the end of the 12th century, Ralph, the respected abbot of the..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by CunningLinguist
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm sort of surprised anyone still uses usenet. Next, Cuomo will probably take aim at protecting us from the perverts on fidonet." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by willie11
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"You fucking asswipes,
You'll be sorry when I'm gone!
Choke on your keyboards." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ersatzkat
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Tried that. Didn't go out of my way to pretend there wasn't a connection, but didn't make a big deal about it either. People around here are too good at being detectives ... (a nice way of saying they're nosey busybodies)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"avoided signals bullshit alarmism and this whole silly thread
It's a single link to a scandalous news story about an interview with a person making an unverified claim about her health, and padded out with wikipedia and youtube links. And..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by msalt
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Of course, long term use of the stuff makes you deaf, so you'll have to shout your order at the waitstaff." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Any person raising any issue on Metatalk about anything pertaining to post quality has to be prepared to withstand a shower of insults. The metatalk peanut gallery is as forgiving as a howitzer with a hair trigger...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Wilder, madamjujujive, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Yes, but when you're 23, you don't know enough to know that yet." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by konolia
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I'm working on a theory that Jon did swim with the girl, he did drown, and the anti-jon used some sort of wormhole to replaced him in our universe, but in the process he sucked in a few other aspects of the anti-universe, and so, with apologies to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mister_A
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Ah, I remember my first year anniversary on Metafilter. It was a cool, crisp spring day, just as an ice age was starting. I remember having trouble getting a wifi signal as a brontosaur lumbered past, and pterodactyl flew overhead. The weather report..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gen
Last month
