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"I cried for two hours. I'm crying now. I am so full of joy and hope because of this. I did not ever really believe that this country would nominate a black man for president in my lifetime. And that the runner up was a woman just made it that much..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by mothershock, stavrosthewonderchicken
Almost 7 hours ago
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"You are not laid back, or willing to let things slide, and she is not a nag or emotional. In fact, you are making her be in charge of this stuff. You are making it both her fault and her responsibility for things to be done. If you wait until she..." [
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favorited 27 times, recently by geekgirl397, iamkimiam, AceRock, kitkatcathy, katiecat, Orb, LobsterMitten, gatorae, Abbril, konolia, tomboko, Wilder, mynameisluka, funkiwan, cabingirl, peep, desjardins, The Light Fantastic, nooneyouknow, alicetiara, jamaro, ThePinkSuperhero, changeling, Jemstar, sondrialiac, wyzewoman, DulcineaX
more than 12 hours ago
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"My family used to play a word-string game where you deliberately misunderstand a word, for instance the first person uses the word "fussed," the next place says, no that's when you do something no one else has done. Then the next player..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by attercoppe
Yesterday
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"NBC's videos on line don't work if you have an older computer. Those of us who don't upgrade their operating systems ever 8 minutes, and who opt out of the extremely expensive and useless (except once every two years) cable tv system basically got..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by holgate, mecran01
4 days ago
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"I'm a professional figure skating coach who has taken a lot of seminars in the unbelievably complex new judging system. While more detailed and complex than the gymnastics one it has some things in common, including combining a start score for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by firstdrop, peacheater
9 days ago
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Keep my garden growing
favorited 16 times, recently by beckish, snickerdoodle, zennoshinjou, acridrabbit, snofoam, wilde, Big_B, yohko, bubukaba, maryh, boomchicka, Susurration, colt45, ecsh, libraryhead, sharkfu
11 days ago
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"It's not that Brooks is an asshole, or that neuroscientists set things up to reinforce their preconceptions, it's that the media machine/corporate interests find it easier to deal with these collective shorthands-- Asians (Chinese) subvert..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Devils Rancher
12 days ago
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"A question from the resident communist here-- why the hell are we paying PRIVATE COMPANIES for necessary power. Why are people allowed to make a personal profit from utilities, which you MUST purchase. It's not a freaking swimming pool for god's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by litlnemo, jtron
2 weeks ago
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"Kerasia, I heard a different take on that quote that might have some bearing here: "I made money so that my son would be able to listen to great music, and my grandson would be able to write it...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Xere
2 weeks ago
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"verb, I'm right with you. I dread this subject coming up among my very liberal cohort, because I do not believe in abortion. Knowing that this is a personal choice for me however, I would never ever expect to impose my feelings on someone who does..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
2 weeks ago
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"I find it difficult to read these things without feeling utter despair. Voting is rigged. If any right-thinking person tries to blow the lid off this shit the special interest ads immediately start in:
-Reinstate the taxes for the 1% richest..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by axon
2 weeks ago
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"AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH! George W. Bush subverted the constitution. He overrides Congress with no more authority than his sweet smile! Dick Cheney SHOT someone. George Tennant fabricated intelligence! Don't even get me started on Monica Goodling, John..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
2 weeks ago
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"mr. nax and I have been through the "security cleaned out your desk while you were being fired" routine. In 10 years, we have never forgiven them, and bad mouth the company to anyone who asks. It is a really really really shitty thing to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jenfullmoon
2 weeks ago
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"bl1nk, you're missing a crucial piece of the AD-- it's not just material prosperity, or ownership, but prosperity and ownership on one's own terms, regardless of the circumstances of your birth, and without anyone (specifically The Man, or the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Reverend John
2 weeks ago
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"When I was 6, my mother taught me to say "piss, shit and corruption" instead of um, swearing. I must have been one foul-mouthed little so-and-so. Anyway, I still do it, but you could maybe say "pee poop and corruption" instead?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Beardman
3 weeks ago
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"It is traditional to buy newly married people gifts, whatever their age. It is traditional to help young people set up in life. One statement has nothing to do with the other. Gifts are not an entrance fee to any event. It is none of your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
3 weeks ago
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"I've said it before, but why not say it again? Massive military procurement projects like this are really just ways of diverting billions in public funds into the hands of influential defense contractors.
What I have never understood is why..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by desiderandus, Reverend John, jamjam, Anything, nooneyouknow
3 weeks ago
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"I'm 52. I have reinvented myself, on average, every 5 to 7 years. I have been an artist, a music entrepreneur (classical music), a tour manager, a mother, a fundraiser, and a skating coach. I have traveled to 7 countries and 16 states, about half..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by outlier, Ookseer, rongorongo, seawallrunner
3 weeks ago
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"The only person whose opinion really matters regarding facial hair is the person who is kissing your face." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by knile
Last month
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"Can you start a vegetable garden? For most veggies you need 70 to 90 days from seed (the cheapest way to do this) so you've just about got time, especially if you do a container garden on a sunny porch, plus with a container garden if it starts..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Capri, chicainthecity
Last month
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"Came up with another way of describing this: it's like everyone in the room knows something you don't know and they expect you to know it. The awful part is that it is true-- they all know how to function in a roomful of strangers...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saturnine
Last month
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"Families use the image-freezing magic of the camera to isolate, record, and confer importance on certain events in their lives." This is so true-- everyone must have, like my family, those images that are recorded year after year (in my family,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Card Cheat
Last month
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"Norabarnacl3's description of social anxiety is brilliant. I'm planning to commit it to memory so I can repeat it like a mantra next time I'm faced with this.
As far as explaining this to people who don't experience it, good luck. I've tried. I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by oogenesis
Last month
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"If your problem is that you think, "I should do Project X today, but first I need to check out what's happening in cyberspace", then we can't really help you here. The solution to that is to do the project instead of sitting in front of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by minus zero
Last month
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"Last year I was driving down McCormick Blvd, (zoom in for scale) a 4-lane through street with an average speed of 50 mph when a mother duck and her brood decided to cross (there's a canal and park on one side). I was the first car they would have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rev. Syung Myung Me
Last month
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"mr. nax and I have lived together for 30 years. He is a sweet and loving neatnik. I am a screaming, temperamental, my-way-or-the-highway insane person. So best advice I can give-- remember that you love each other very much and that is it really..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by zombiebunny, nev, altolinguistic
Last month
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"I think it's not so much that people aren't thinking about you, as that the people who don't know/care about/interact regularly with you are only thinking about you when you are in front of them. If you care what they think about while they're in..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by elisynn
Last month
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"It's not too difficult to loosely seal an envelope, post it, unseal it, replace the contents and reseal it securely later.
If you take it to the P.O. window, they will date stamp the sealed edge for you. You could probably make the sealed side..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
Last month
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"Haven't RTA (I will, printed it for my mid-afternoon break), but from the comments this seems typical Murka-think. "If the rail system cannot get me all the way across the country as comfortably and quickly as an airplane, then rail is bullshit...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by litlnemo, Monochrome, oaf
Last month
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"As far as I have been able to tell, stories of my misspent youth never had the desired scare tactic effect, but either 1, seemed to give them permission to also fuck up, or 2, elicited "it's totally different you don't understand"..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by notashroom, GardenGal, anthropoid, Mr.Me
Last month
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"I am not being glib, but the biggest thing I wish I'd learned in art school was practicality, specifically, don't make paintings 1. bigger than you can fit in your car, and (in correlary), bigger than you can get out your damned door without..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
Last month
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"Interesting. As a professional fundraiser, this is something I do every day. I love those moments when a single individual has an extraordinary experience at my agency-- because that is the story that goes in the fund appeal, and that is the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by BrotherCaine, agress, homunculus
Last month
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"We had this problem with the apartment building across the street. Cops definitely knew about it, as there were constant fights, arrests, screaming, fires, you name it. They took care of each problem individually as it occurred. So we contacted..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hooray
Last month
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"Let's be careful not to turn this discussion into the typical all-or-nothing sentiment that characterizes public discourse these days. If you're a democrat, you feel this way about these issues and this way only. There are only two positions on the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by batmonkey
Last month
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"My children, who are 19 and 22, apparently take care of their "personal needs" on their own. So whatever I did seems to have worked." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, skoosh
Last month
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"ericb: When I was in Washington DC it was more than 2 decades ago and I'm pretty sure they didn't have this marketing-inspired "Charters of Freedom" bullshit then. Nor did I ever hear that term in 14 years of American primary-secondary..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by johnj
Last month
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"Dear (Name of donor)
On behalf of the patrons, Board, staff, and artists of NAME OF AGENCY, I’d like to thank you for the generous gift of $AMOUNT. We are very grateful for your generosity.
The unique programs of AGENCY make a valuable..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by baltimoretim, Miko
Last month
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"Can you commission a sculpture? The City of Evanston (IL) makes an annual arts award, and this year they presented the winner with a beautiful glass sculpture (as shown here, scroll to last picture in article). We contacted the studio and they told..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gjc
Last month
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"When I religiously worked out (45 min sweaty workout-- stairs, calisthenics and stretch) the pounds fell off no matter what I ate. As soon as I stopped working out, the pounds still come off but WAY slower.
(btw-- 44 pounds over 15 months. Size..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
Last month
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"How about a day or a half-day off from work (assuming your job will tolerate this). Instead of going to work on "reward day" go to the zoo, a movie, or a museum (Little bit of expenditure there, but not buying "stuff" which is..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
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