MeFi comment:
"In related news, scientists have determined that the marks made on various pieces of paper across America on November 4th can be shown to accurately predict who the next President will be.
You must remember a differen 2000 election than I do...." [
more]
favorited 6 times, recently by MythMaker, dd42, burnmp3s, fleetmouse, ArkhanJG, Bitter soylent
17 minutes ago
MeTa comment:
"lyrics are:
a di mi yere yu friyari
a di mi yere yu friyari
a di mi yere yu friyari, dang mi kon fristeri yu.
ano fu yu kuku, ano fu yu sopi
ano fu yu kuku, ano fu yu sopi
ano fu yu kuku, ano fu yu sopi, ma mi kom versteri yu..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Di mi jere joe frijari! (surinam for "When I heard that today is your birtday.")
DANA HIEP HIEP HIEP!!!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Claudius, I think it reminds me of this:
"I'll bet you a dollar," says Ernie, "that if you give me two dollars I'll give you three dollars."
Bert agrees and gives Ernie two dollars. Ernie says, "I lose," gives Bert..." [
more]
favorited 27 times, recently by claudius, nonliteral, LobsterMitten, hangingbyathread, resurrexit, strangememes, clearly, hototogisu, ilovemytoaster, Popular Ethics, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, zippy, cruelfate, Baby_Balrog, lalochezia, Reto, lunit, xil, The Bellman, Balisong, ao4047, Hubajube, davemee, Rafaelloello, MzB, oaf, RobotVoodooPower
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"*looks around*
Nope, the Netherlands definitely is still a civilized country. And we've had these laws for quite a while now. In 2005 there was a European report on this issue that was very positive about Dutch laws as well.
And to think the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Quote:
"It's not like that in the magical world, 'Arry," Hagrid said, voice
lowered in concern. "Y'see, when Vol... well, when You-Know-Who
set up a trust deposit insurance scheme, 'e didn't account for rising
interest rates...." [
more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Monochrome, nicepersonality, TheWhiteSkull, Asparagirl, mecran01, teraflop, jock@law, Lipstick Thespian
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It's like a very bad disney movie (trailer)" [
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favorited 19 times, recently by cmyk, olya, freshwater_pr0n, ruby.aftermath, flibbertigibbet, puddleglum, Nattie, Surfurrus, cirocco, kolophon, hellslinger, funkiwan, lunit, clevershark, metabrilliant, brevator, bookwo3107, Marla Singer, h00py
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I worked next-door for a few years. It's ten minutes from where I live. And I hope to see W. walk into it one day.
I'm of course talking about this...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose cannot be deleted just like that..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by nickyskye
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I've been using the words "robber barons" when talking about these banks. What else can you call people who receive a $2.5b bonus when their company fails?
[Quote:]Staff at Lehman’s New York office who helped to cause the world’s biggest..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Dreamghost, oaf, yertledaturtle, matteo
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"yes, New Orleans is fucked
That issue came up on the Daily Show yesterday or the day before (I'm watching them delayed because I live in the Netherlands), and yes, the Netherlands and Dutch expertise came up.
I'm pretty confident that New..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by manguero
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Try searching for porn, or anything porn-ish.
Or worse - try to search for something totally non-porn where the porn- or sex industry is using a the same phrase to describe something in the porn-realm. You're never going to find what you're really..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"[Quote:]
There's just one snag with all that - it's cobblers. All the good, interesting stuff from the LHC - the Higgs deiton, the dark matter, the possibly planet-gobbling black hole dimensional portal threat and/or universe-buster runaway..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, lukemeister
Last month
MeFi comment:
""Oh my god, I lost an electron" said the atom.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"
Okay, go ahead, you can kill me now....." [
more]
favorited 16 times, recently by silkygreenbelly, tehloki, computech_apolloniajames, Slarty Bartfast, -harlequin-, Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger, ramix, swift, M.C. Lo-Carb!, cadge, phrontist, zarah, Jilder, funkiwan, chuckdarwin, Green Eyed Monster
Last month
MeFi comment:
"That country is going to go through a traumatic experience never seen before once the embargo lifts and they try to reconnect to the rest of the world... the east-germany reunification was a piece of cake compared to what's to come......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Last month
MeFi comment:
"here is the whole thing in one go, so you won't have to click through all kind of youtube pages.
Personally I liked the bit at the 45 minute mark (watch 2 minutes from there) because I know one of the students in the rfid mess personally (and I..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'm really in it to make pictures like this, which you cannot do at 330 meters. This particular one was taken at about 10 meters...
You know, my diving cannot be called the same sport as what Pascal Bernabe is doing. It's like driving a formula 1..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I want to do something.
Please stop. Think first. Long and hard, if possible.
Because the standard next to steps after I want to do something are "this looks like something" and "therefore we must do it".
Which is more or..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by fantabulous timewaster, marble
Last month
MeFi comment:
"my automatic impulse was to ease my seat back in order to make myself as close to horizontal as possible.
Remember, the enemy gate is down." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Pantengliopoli
Last month
MeFi comment:
"After having person after person tell me about how not only should gay people not be allowed to marry, but they should also be hauled out into the street and shot, I asked to be placed on another survey.
And you were still talking to the same..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by marble, RokkitNite
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"So, when employees are negotiating as a group, it's in their best collective interests to get as many side benefits as possible, even if not all members of the group would use them.
To the extent this even makes sense, it's so obviously wrong, it..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by EmilyClimbs, yort, aeschenkarnos
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh man, I'd love to.
at this point I should probably throw back a snark about changing employers, but I won't.
Instead, when you do manage to get the funds to visit Europe, even for a few days, and if the Netherlands manage to make it to your..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Phalene
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The order also requires Google to turn over copies of all videos that it has taken down for any reason.
So, if google has taken down a video from some non-viacom entity, for any reason, viacom gets a copy, in violation of the original owners’..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by aeschenkarnos, Space Coyote
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't think I'd be playing camera man.
Why not? Either the building is going to collapse, or it isn't, and there's nothing you can do about it - the ball is mounted so high in the building that if you can see it, you're not going to have enough..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by tehloki, DevilsAdvocate, Artw
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"How about candidates must donate some percentage of their net worth to their political party? Say 1% for a representative, 2% for a senator, and 5% for a president.
Wouldn't change much in funding, but it would end the two-party system, as..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by vsync
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Belushi doing a Joe Cocker has always been brilliant, part of the best SNL ever.
Unfortunately, the only Joe Cocker interpretation by Belushi I can find is this...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Okay.... recap: it asks me if I think the world is a mess. I said no. (it may have a lot of problems, sure, but a mess? No.) It says 600 million girls disagree with me, and shows me a blinking white ball. Whilst claiming again the world is a kind of..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by The ____ of Justice, The Toad, Lentrohamsanin
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I read Zambrano's comment as "there's plenty of things we don't know". And you know what, that's actually correct.
That's why we invented double blind tests. To find out things we don't yet know...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by you're a kitty!
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes, there's an election coming up: they are raising the "terror level" on every possible occasion:
[Quote:]
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that the Supreme Court decision to allow enemy combatants to challenge their..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Goofyy
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, that's what the trusty old Xerox machine is for.
You may want to check into the source of the phrase "carbon copy" as well..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by piratebowling, rokusan
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Today Bush is meeting with our (Dutch) Prime Minister, Jan-Peter Balkenende. Perhaps he can escort Bush back to the Hague and drop him off at the international court......" [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by PROD_TPSL, horsewithnoname
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Apple could really use the competition, but this isn't it. Is there anything in there that isn't already in the iPhone?
Android, show me something that demonstrates you're not just a follower. Hell, even cut/copy/paste on the phone would qualify...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Teach a man to build an environmentally friendly bomb...
No, no, no... it's like this:
Give a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life......" [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, Chunder, swift, Hactar, parhamr, JaredSeth, zzazazz
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"One of my biggest gripes about the Obama campaign, looking at it through foreign eyes, is his claim that the world wants the USA to lead.
No, we don't.
Really, Barack, take my word for it, we'd rather prefer it if the USA kept away from the..." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by vivelame, pompomtom, Pope Guilty
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If I fell from 12,000 feet, I would probably not survive. But it would probably be pretty awesome on the way down.
The trick is to aim for somebody you dislike a lot...." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by GaelFC, Hello Dad, I'm in Jail
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sales of legalized marijuana added about 400 million Euro to the tax coffers last year here in the Netherlands. And that's just income tax for the coffee shop owners, since it's currently exempt from sales tax, and it could be a lot higher if the..." [
more]
favorited 4 times, recently by dejah420, jtron, mek, mrgrimm
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It isn't about Darwin. Let me quote a fellow MeFi (I copied/pasted the text, but forgot to favorite, so I can't find and credit the original author - apologies):
both sides are invested in other questions: can homosexuals kiss in public, or can we..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"And posted at a time when all dutch mefi go to bed..
Anyway, although I'm not a fan of Pauls form of humor, this is indeed taken way, way out of context (and 10 years old as well). Here is the response from Paul the Leeuw on having this appear on..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by goodnewsfortheinsane, davar
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm always surprised at the diversity and experience of the Metafilter crowd, so I fully expect one of the next few comments to start out with "I've seen this, and......" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by roll truck roll
5 months ago
