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"It won't really tell how likely one 24 year old is likely to die accurately.
False. That's precisely what that table tells you.
It sounds to me like what you REALLY want to know is whether or not McCain will die in office. Unfortunately that's..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by drjimmy11, peacheater
7 days ago
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"Experience as a listener: please edit. Unless you are amazing at extemp speaking, edit mercilessly.
Also, bring on a friend. I've found that podcasts with multiple talkers are much easier to listen to than one person rambling...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by robcorr
10 days ago
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"allkindsoftime very adequately demonstrates my point. The argument is that since he used technicalities, and it worked, then it must be the best course of action.
Listen, even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.
One of the things..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by grouse
2 weeks ago
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"I guess, but it seems as though the poster isn't guilty
I don't read it that way. I read it like this:
I took google maps pictures proving from where the officer turned around, he could not possibly have seen me,
Irrelevant technicality...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jayder
2 weeks ago
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"I'm pretty sure he/she meant that the park is not an official off-leash zone but that people just take their dogs there and let them off leash, which is likely illegal.
Then you're "pretty sure" (s)he meant something completely the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
3 weeks ago
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"Maybe it's been forgotten that the point of a wedding is to celebrate the couple.
Don't like the couple? Don't go to the wedding.
Further, have you stopped to consider that maybe the fact that they have everything is the reason the registry..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by peacheater, gatorae, tula, Robert Angelo, Twicketface, DevilsAdvocate, fantabulous timewaster, twiki, vytae, dog food sugar
Last month
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"It doesn't hurt to put it on there. If you don't, and they find out, it will hurt a lot.
They want everything. Give them everything." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Emera Gratia
Last month
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"Scene: a dimly lit AskMe thread
dobbs: My one-word answer was relevant and helpful!
AskMe: But the OP asked six questions... how would he know which you were answering?
dobbs: Well, alright, fine... I guess I could've added some context. But,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by shmegegge, The Gooch
Last month
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"No, it is not an option, unless I couchsurf at friends houses or go on welfare or something. Employment is not an option right now, because of several health reasons. I can't get some of the health problems treated because I don't have health..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by elisynn, ROTFL, pompomtom, scody
Last month
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"Start by understanding that you're probably not as good at it as you think you are. (Nothing personal, nobody is)
Then advance past "debate" and work on actually being persuasive. There's a vast difference between the two. After all, if..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by thewalledcity, 2oh1, woebot
Last month
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"What is it that you're looking for, exactly?
"How do I tell my boss . . . that her constant use of speaker phone is extremely distracting?"
"I have already told her repeatedly that her use of speaker phone is so distracting that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Finklebinder, amanda
Last month
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"I have had two middle names my whole life (as have my three siblings) and it has presented exactly zero problems ever.
Often you will have to pick a single middle initial, but that's the extent of it that I've seen...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by inatizzy
Last month
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"Tell your landlord of the plan. Invite him/her to stop by at any point during that span of days to spot-check, offer any other proof (s)he might want.
Telling your landlord before the fact gives you a little more credibility than just saying..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by magstheaxe, Capri
Last month
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""What is the most effective way to both find likeminded people and a great way to block their offensive messages from reaching the grieving?"
There isn't one. That's the shitty thing about freedom of speech.
"The problem with..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by oaf, orthogonality, thewalledcity
Last month
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""My assertion, which I will restate for the record, is that this is not happening."
That's an interesting comment. Many/most men don't see subtle misogyny when it's right in front of their faces, I'm not sure why we should expect women..." [
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favorited 38 times, recently by paisley henosis, spaltavian, papafrita, EatTheWeak, Simon!, merelyglib, fishfucker, bugbread, Deathalicious, adamdschneider, onalark, schyler523, Mick, flibbertigibbet, Symeon, grobstein, MythMaker, utsutsu, Riki tiki, puke & cry, Snyder, brain_drain, svolix, erpava, tristeza, bookish, theiconoclast31, Reverend John, bonaldi, ekstasis23, Afroblanco, Cool Papa Bell, teraflop, Skorgu, rocket88, Forktine, middleclasstool, Grither
2 months ago
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"Do...
...not market your company this way.
Either participate in the conversation naturally, or GTFO of the blog's comments. If you think of it as "marketing" you've already failed...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fairytale of los angeles
2 months ago
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""Every time you complain because someone says something vaguely disparaging about men in general makes me realize that you have no idea what true sexism is like. It's insulting."
Because "fake" sexism is what happens to other..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bugbread
2 months ago
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""While misandry should be discouraged, the real and difficult battle still lies in fighting misogyny."
If the "easy" battle is the one against misandry, why not just take care of it first?
While it would be impossible to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
2 months ago
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"Companies can charge whatever they want for whatever they want, generally speaking. Your recourse for expensive shipping is not buying the product. Unless they lied to you about how much the shipping was, you might as well be asking: "Can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
2 months ago
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"Here, there is no valid contract, because the defendant, (the senators) have not agreed to do the acts supposed to have given rise to the breach. Did either of them make a vaild promise to all persons voting that they would attend every vote? No...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Capri
2 months ago
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"Dogs aren't children, children aren't dogs...but if he wouldn't send his kids to a sitter when you visit, he shouldn't expect you to do anything special with your dog. Also, his arguments are silly to the point of utter absurdity, which is indicative..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zaphod, Lou Stuells
2 months ago
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"IANAL, but you should probably find one. "Some guy on AskMetafilter said it was okay" will not be an acceptable defense to a tax evasion charge and "It's okay, they'll never catch me" is a pretty low-integrity way to go through..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eriko
2 months ago
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"I've noticed that roughly half* of Blazecock Pileon's comments consist of telling someone else to leave the site and go back to somewhere he finds disdainful.
This makes sense because they clearly missed the part in the terms of service that said..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Meatbomb, Cool Papa Bell, Krrrlson
2 months ago
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"Taking shots at a dead man in an obit thread: Fair game.
Defending that dead man from said attacks: "Shitting in an obit thread".
I wonder if Blazecock would reverse those for someone he thought highly of...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Krrrlson, Cool Papa Bell
2 months ago
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"That PHP is a better first language than Perl is a view not universally shared.
"Better" is not a concept that is universally shared." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
3 months ago
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"...a 14-16 year old Australian female to hang out with?
That's what I'd have wanted when I was 15." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nomisxid
3 months ago
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"Understand that by the time people are adults, most have experienced or heard of enough situations in which two people who loved each other turned venomous, spiteful, and scheming in the after-math of a failed marriage.
The problem is not usually..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 months ago
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"You're awfully combative for someone who's asking for other people to help you do your job for free.
Why don't you just call Intersafe? There are phone numbers listed on their website here. They probably know how their own CC processing works...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KAS
3 months ago
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"If you want to be the kind of person who lies whenever it is personally or financially expedient, then it sounds like a splendid idea.
But, at the very least, don't lie to yourself. If you make a conscious decision to lie, don't pretend like you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
3 months ago
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"This thread is basically full of laypersons trying to convince everyone else that it should be perfectly kosher to ask for, and receive, legal advice over the internet. This is not surprising. Equally unsurprising is the lack of folks with actual..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by The Bellman, The Gooch, jayder
3 months ago
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"2nding the suggestions to either use in re or to quit using "re" all together. The purpose of language is communication. If your reader has to pause mid-sentence to figure out what on earth this random pair of letters is doing there, you've..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, drjimmy11, missmagenta
4 months ago
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""I don't think that a generic SFW forall W exists, and that people should interpret that statement with caution."
Surely you don't mean this. There's not a SINGLE page on all of the internet that would be SFW? As has been alluded to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
4 months ago
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"I think you're over-reacting or, more likely, using this issue as a proxy for larger issues.
Just because your dog is confused by a tiny person doesn't mean that he hates your child. Just because your SO plays rough with the dog doesn't mean that..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hecho de la basura, By The Grace of God
4 months ago
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""I guess the thing that set me off was that the dentist really had no basis whatsoever for concern."
Except, you know, that he's a dentist and has probably seen the consequences of NOT doing what he's recommending. Heck, he might even..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emyd
4 months ago
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"double-Nthing the "lawyer" sentiment (honestly, this post doesn't even belong on AskMe, but that's a discussion for a different color MeFi).
"Boy are these people stupid. They actually wrote it down that they did not agree with her..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by thewalrusispaul, DevilsAdvocate, Sk4n
4 months ago
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"Maybe I'm missing the problem here, but if they normally get along, why not let them sort it out themselves? By always intervening you're keeping the cat from learning a lesson that the dog is not to be bothered with while he's sleeping. That would..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CorporateHippy
4 months ago
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""I am considering consulting a lawyer."
Do that, then do what the lawyer tells you to do." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tyllwin
4 months ago
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""who hasn't figured things out all the way yet."
Because, of course, you have 'figured it out all the way' and have discovered the One True Way to properly use Twitter, right?
Someone might follow 800 people on twitter out of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by loiseau
4 months ago
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""do I even deserve to get the score dropped in the first place?"
I think you know the answer to that question.
Hint: "Then the final came around and I kinda bombed it (for reasons mostly unrelated to my wrist, but that's another..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by phrontist
4 months ago
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"IANAL but my first reaction is this... they're married. Many areas of the law do not recognize his-and-hers property during the course of the marriage... so there's actually a question as to whether or not the car is actually hers and not theirs...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jayder
4 months ago
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"Late to the party, but here goes anyhow...
"one of the crazy things about it is Dollar says they had to tow it back to PDX, but there are at least 2 closer Dollar locations from the site of the accident."
In many jurisdictions, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zippy
5 months ago
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""I ended up with a ton of junk including a few trojan viruses in a matter of hours."
This sounds highly unlikely. If your OS and any server software you were running was fully patched and hotfixed, the odds that something would worm its..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Viomeda, fishfucker
5 months ago
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"You were hired at rate X to do a job. Your friend was hired at rate Y to do a job.
Where is the moral dilemma here? You're clearly more experienced/knowledgeable, so even if you were hired to do the exact same thing there'd be a legitimate reason..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pinksoftsoap
5 months ago
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"If you go through with your (ill-advised, imo) plan, you'll want to double check to make sure that the venue has payed the requisite licensing fees to ASCAP/BMI to allow you to play the music yourselves in the first place...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cinemafiend
5 months ago
