Ambrosia Voyeur has great hopes for cortex's Big Big Question, but shmegegge gently points out to be careful what you wish for.

A perfectly logical answer as to the cause of a strange noise emanating from a woman. BTW this Askme could do with the Resolved tag.

arcticwoman's spot-on analysis of "Ground Beef" Pattie's. And in the same thread how grapefruitmoon is troubled to this day by the implications of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 9:43 PM on August 19, 2008

Seconding the home-made raw meat. Here's my own recipe. Once a week or so they share a tin of sardines (in spring water) which is their favourite (and which takes cares of the taurine). They seem healthy and happy, and the vet thinks so too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 12:33 AM on May 9, 2008

I (and my sockpuppets) tend to thank people once the thread seems to have run its course. I'm a bit more hesitant regarding marking responses as best answer, unless there is a very obvious right answer.
If I respond to someone else's question I don't feel particularly offended if there is no best answer or a thankyou. It does irk me though if the asker gets stroppy because they don't get the answers they wanted.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 12:14 AM on May 4, 2008

No advice, sorry, just my experience as a hard-core smoker for more than a decade and loving it! Until it started to become somewhat of a social embarassment, a huge weekly expense, not to mention how my smoking hugely increased the cost of my dental healthcare and other health implications; actually, a big pain in the ass overall. So I wanted to quit. I really, really wanted to quit. Not because someone told me to, but because I WANTED IT, OK!

Finally, two years later,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 5:14 AM on April 23, 2008

Bedankt! Ik heb de meest recente afleveringen van jullie suggesties nu op mijn iPod. En ook jouke bedankt, want via radiocast.nl heb ik de podcast van de door mij vroeger zo fel-beluisterde Argos gevonden.

I have to admit, I never bothered to seek out SBS's Dutch offerings, different, but I'll definitely give it a go. (A lovely cold day here in Melbourne today, BTW, although a bit smokey what with the controlled bush fires these last few days.)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 2:54 AM on April 23, 2008

PeterMcDermott: "Jesus, I hate Trots (...) Nice attempt to avoid deletion by posting an advert to the gray instead of the blue though (...) my daughter is a first year student (...) I told her to tell them she'd embraced anarchism. That saw them off."

So what's the story PeterMcDermott, you're gonna show up at this meetup or is this just an underhanded snark?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 3:31 AM on March 19, 2008

real-life Harry FTW :"...you numbnut!" (5/5 07:11)
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 3:04 AM on January 8, 2008

Someone once told me Western Australia's state motto used to be "State of Excitement" which I have a hard time believing.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 5:12 PM on January 4, 2008

nope, not my cuppa tea. Just want to say that after having watched a few of the vids. Ooooh okay, they were pretty lame.
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 5:57 AM on September 6, 2007

I get so embarrassed for people when they do things like this. Is there a name for that phenomenon? Vicarious embarrassment?
posted by lazaruslong at 7:42 AM on August 27

I don't know if English has a word for that but German does: "Fremdschämen".
posted by snownoid at 8:47 AM on August 27

In Dutch it's "plaatsvervangende schaamte". I'd be interested to know if... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 4:12 AM on August 27, 2007

I think PJ is just encouraging you to go metric.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 2:02 AM on August 25, 2007

Nintendo to the rescue:

Nintendo DS players in Japan can now exercise their facial muscles to have nicer smiles and livelier expressions.

A digital camera that comes with the new Face Training game fits into the dual-screen, handheld machine to show live video of the player's own face on the right screen while an animation of a woman's face illustrates exercises on the left screen.

The 16 types of exercises... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 3:28 PM on August 9, 2007

Thanks pj_rivera for organising the challenges each month. It definitely motivates me to keep putting in my mileage each week.

And I don't mind sequential and shinypenny taking part at a slightly different pace. If anything, that helped me occasionally put in an extra K or two.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 3:57 PM on July 30, 2007

Maybe you should try the Beauty Smile Trainer:

"In addition to improving your smile, the product promises to reduce facial sagging, making your countenance more firm and petite."

Sounds good to me.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 2:49 AM on July 30, 2007

"as the grandson and brother of two proud lesbians"

I'm as tolerant as the next guy, but your grandmother and your sister are a couple?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:10 PM on June 14

Now that made my day.
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 1:50 AM on June 16, 2007

How odd...then again, there's no accounting for cats, which is why I love threads like these.
All cats I have known well enough for them to get that close to me did try to groom my hair (which is longish) and then reacted in much the same way anyone would on finding a hair in their mouths. They would maybe try again once or twice, but after that no more.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 1:28 AM on June 9, 2007

This is so excellent. We know even know that Mr Lee spent a whole hour just watching the bird house!
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 2:03 AM on June 4, 2007

Sorry, maggiemaggie, missed your observation the first time round.
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 2:05 AM on June 4, 2007

Love this thread...there's always so much more to explore. Here's my three cents:

Charlie Wilson's War - The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, by George Crile (in Australia and the UK it's published as My Enemy's Enemy)
A ripping yarn, although at first I was a bit suspicious of Crile having been a 60 minutes producer and all, but he truly delivers a mind (and back) blowing story.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 3:24 AM on May 28, 2007

Damn, I wish I could take part. Had to drop out of the last one halfway through because of my creaky hip. Nevertheless, it was a great motivator to try and clock up at least a few Ks each week against those bloody champions doing about 18 Ks per week (!)

And congrats, of course, ajr. 90.17 Ks in 30 days! Small wonder I did my hip in, just thinking about that effort makes me hurt.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 3:43 AM on April 27, 2007

I use SnagIT which does exactly what you're after with a single click. Although not free, it's not horribly expensive at US$39.95 (it does lotsa other things as well). I believe you can even trial the full app for 30 days.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 11:47 PM on April 24, 2007

I never would have thought that the Dutch would have submarines, until I realised that they'd need some way of defending their country if somebody pulled off a dambusters-type raid on the dikes.
posted by UbuRoivas at 7:36 PM on April 15

oh, pulease, people...the Dutch and the seven seas?

OK,
"(t)he first recorded landing by Europeans on Australian soil was made by a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 4:29 AM on April 16, 2007

Try setting your Normal.dot to how you'd like any Word file to be displayed when opening them:
1) Check Tools | Options | File Locations | User Templates to see where Normal.dot might live.
2) Then open it as a template by selecting File | Open and making sure the Files of Type field is set to Document Templates (*.dot).
3) Change it to display things to your liking and save the template.
Next time you open a Word file (make sure you change thw... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 3:42 AM on April 13, 2007

He seems perfectly happy in the company of his fans though.
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 3:42 AM on April 7, 2007

Geese perhaps, instead of dogs, signs, thorns or expensive electronic systems.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 2:09 AM on April 3, 2007

I admit to having a rather troubled dental history: I can't even remember the time I had a #18 tooth (unless the system is different in Australia than where you're from) so caveat emptor.

I've had a full-blown infection in a root-canal treated tooth that had me awake and wailing for four days straight disappear into thin air. The pain was not touched at all by the very serious cocktail of painkillers and sedatives I was given. After the dust had settled my dentist... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 4:15 AM on March 30, 2007

I used to think we had entered crazy cat lady territory by preparing batches of cat food ourselves, but am not so sure anymore.
I mix up fresh meat (fit for human consumption), tinned salmon, a tiny quantity of veggies, a pinch of brewers yeast and linseed, canola oil, butter and chicken hearts. They love it, their coats are healthy and shiny, and their poo is far less horrid than when they were on commercial pet food. We also give them raw chicken ribs regularly (good for their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 10:13 PM on March 17, 2007

Sorry, but your shower curtain....designer, manufacturer and possibly any online purveyors, please?
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 2:21 AM on March 12, 2007

Singing and dancing cat.
posted to MetaFilter by ponystyle at 3:57 PM on March 10, 2007

"Sorry for the pronoun nonsense...."

Not related to your main issue, but Australian English very conveniently uses "they" as a generic, singular personal pronoun; no reason why that usage should be restricted to the colonies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 1:46 AM on March 10, 2007

Nike+screenname: Run_DD_Run
I'm with box...don't run fast or more than twice a week (querulous hips) still, would love to more fully exercise my iPod+.
posted to MetaTalk by ponystyle at 2:11 AM on March 8, 2007

Not sure about the misogyny or what else might be going on with you, I imagine one could still be a misogynist and appreciate certain women's writing. Also, I've always had trouble taking seriously the whole can-women-write-from -a-male-perspective and v.v. debate. Who cares? As long as you enjoy the writing, and if you don't, well, whatef...I mean how many novels are published each year? Probably more than any sane person can read in their lifetime.

Anyhoo, recently I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 2:41 AM on February 14, 2007

Oopsadaisy, confused this thread with another, more recent one...sorry for the mashup.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ponystyle at 3:28 AM on February 14, 2007