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Corporate Brand Identity Avoidance Consultant
I feel like I should mention that I spent a good hour or so cracking up at these. I would gladly pay US dollars for a stylishly understated Taylorham-Chickasaw Pants West Public Library t-shirt in order to support this endeavor.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 10:38 AM on August 28, 2009
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The Impossible Cool
Man, if there's one thing I've learned growing up, it's that cigarettes do make you look cool, no matter what they tried to tell me in school.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 9:15 AM on August 18, 2009
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Derailing for Dummies
If there is one thing that has never failed to make me unsympathetic towards anti-racism activists (they themselves, not necessarily their goals), it's anti-racism activists.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 7:57 AM on August 14, 2009
@katherineg:
See, I see something like this and now I don't know if you're purposely trying to parrot one of the derailments in the article or you sincerely feel that way.
I sincerely feel that way. Like, that's just me honestly reporting my reaction pretty much every time I've been confronted with the rhetorical brilliance of the anti-racist movement. It's almost as if putting people instantly on the defensive is likely to make them annoyed and unwilling to engage in a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 9:19 AM on August 14, 2009
The abandonment of reasoned discourse in favor of accusatory snark and the whole "you're either with us or oppressing us and if you're white you're oppressing us even if you're with us" are two of the things that have annoyed me in the past about the anti-racist movement (at least as it has made itself known to me; there may be less annoying elements out there). Also someone once said to me that "Jews are a kind of white people".
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 9:37 AM on August 14, 2009
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Cards against Humanity
My god, but Apples to Apples is a terrible "game". But I should print this out on the off-chance that any "friends" of mine wish to "play" Apples to Apples with me. Then I can break this one out and make them suffer with me.
Maybe I am in the target audience.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 8:27 PM on July 26, 2009
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A good woman is hard to find
We clearly have to make this thread too big to lock fail...like GM...
cortex, bail us out
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 11:28 AM on July 23, 2009
Mayor Curley, your daughter is like the cute baby equivalent of that Che Guevara icon, looking off into the distance, boldly determined to bring about a proletarian revolution in the daycare.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 11:43 AM on July 23, 2009
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Calories are delicious
Linked by my SO, who suggests that my huge head is the cause of me being hungry all the time.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 11:36 AM on July 23, 2009
MeFi post:
The German-style game
People actually enjoy Apples to Apples? I guess it's better than Bunco.
The most exciting thing that ever happened during a game of Apples to Apples that I played was my friend's unstable ex-boyfriend cutting a card in half with a knife.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 8:53 AM on March 30, 2009
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The Youngest Parents
For once, a fine art photographer has a website that doesn't have some atrocious Flash- and/or frames-based navigation scheme. Powerful photos, too.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 9:15 AM on February 24, 2009
And the thumbnails are in a <ul> tag! O joyous day!
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 9:18 AM on February 24, 2009
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Fat bug
Ahem.
*taps mike*
SCIENCE!!!
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 4:57 AM on January 26, 2009
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Pants Optional
I'm not entirely sure what's going on here, but I now have an urge to borrow some stockings.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 5:36 PM on January 22, 2009
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Stand on the right, pass on the left
I mean, to be fair, DC is pretty much the coolest metropolitan area of them all. And suckers really oughta stand to the right on Metro escalators. It's not even funny, man.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 4:22 PM on January 18, 2009
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The worst colleges in America?
I'm not sure what it says about Hampshire or Metafilter that there are so many Hampshire students, ex-students, and alums on Metafilter.
I'm leaving in a week to start my second year at Hampshire, and the thing about the place is that, even though there are burnouts, slackers, and potheads running all over the place, it's not a big deal. There's no culture of competition at Hampshire; I never feel the need to compare myself to anybody. The people who suck don't usually... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 4:23 PM on August 24, 2008
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The Mascot
That was rad, and pretty damn freaky. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 12:26 AM on August 8, 2008
MeFi post:
2008 Weird-Ass Picture Book Awards
Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith are perhaps the unsung geniuses of kid lit. The Time Warp Trio, Math Curse, and The Stinky Cheese Man were all big, weird favorites of mine in my younger days. Good to know they are still working together and still keeping it weird.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 8:30 AM on July 7, 2008
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
When I read these books as a kid, they ended up freaking me out so much that I had my mom put them away so they couldn't tempt me again. They might not scare me any more, but I'm not sure I want to risk it...
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at 7:59 PM on July 5, 2008
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Everybody loves a choo-choo
I wish everyone really did love trains this much. Maybe if gas prices hit $6 a gallon and airlines start charging you fees for your pocket contents we'll get some movement on high-speed rail networks in this country.
</pipedream>
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at 10:21 AM on July 2, 2008
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"Unenjoyably Difficult!" - Gamepro
Exemplifies the principle that if you are going to make a single-link YouTube post, you make it good. Thanks for the Mega Man meta-laughs.
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at 5:48 PM on July 1, 2008
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This is the title of this post.
The comment posted by silby at 6:06 EST is only self-referential if it appears in the thread about self-reference.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 3:06 PM on January 24, 2008
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...I DRINK IT UP!!
I loved the ending. I laughed out loud at it, but I think that may have been the intended reaction.
When describing the effect of this film to my friends, I've called it a cross between Citizen Kane and Lawrence of Arabia, except then you personify that movie, get him really drunk, put him in the desert, and have him write a screenplay. If you produce that screenplay, you get There Will Be Blood. Definitely an amazing movie.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 4:53 PM on January 22, 2008
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Lay out!
dirty hippies = ron paul supporters
That's a bit shaky.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 8:01 PM on December 13, 2007
@: On the advice of council, I plead the Fifth Amendment!
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 1:32 PM on December 14, 2007
MeFi post:
83F Project
The 'staches are indeed quite magnificent.
posted to MetaFilter by silby
at 2:08 PM on August 28, 2007
