MeTa comment:
"Based on some people's reaction, one would expect the video to show some wet kisses, genital or other "bad" touching, evident sexual arousal on the part of the host, and a scared kid trying to scape, being scarred for life after the..." [
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favorited 27 times, recently by pantufla_milagrosa, pyrex, darksasami, fillsthepews, kolophon, Liosliath, malpractice, Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese, korpios, ob, ceri richard, Koko, oflinkey, Crabby Appleton, Penks, scrump, Roach, dawson, lord_wolf, JDHarper, ukdanae, The Bellman, agropyron, peacheater, miss-lapin, Verdant, Goofyy
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I agree with what Happy Dave and Meatbomb said about employers, but be careful with what you post if you plan to travel abroad.
I stopped using my real name in forums after a nasty incident somewhere in Europe, in a place whose name I do not care..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by BrotherCaine, tehloki, availablelight, scrump, koeselitz, MLIS, nasreddin, Skorgu, Deathalicious
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Yet most bibles make for pretty decent rolling paper." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jtron
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow, air in the ISS is very different from earth air if it has and affect on the boomerang! Earth air parts when the boomerang flies through it because of simple physics, but air in the IIS parts because it feels DEEP REPULSION towards boomerangs. Or..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by RokkitNite
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If torture produces useful intelligence, then witches are real.
nowonmai: The wording was: Modern humans and modern apes very likely had a common ancestor
naoko: What makes you think this is only about the U.S.? Maybe the message is for the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by saulgoodman
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Trip stories are like farts. Only you can enjoy your own.
ALl i'm going to say about LSD in this thread is thank god for free food, music and dancing early on Sunday morning in the Hare Krishna when I was at my mates apartment, and we were broke...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dasheekeejones, jdfalk, tawny, nebulawindphone
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Anti ethnocentrism snark:
While we thank Hoffman for all the good he did to us, the Mazatecs (psylocibin), the Huichol (mescalin), the Nahuan (LSA), and the Zapotec (salvinorin), this just in Mexico, are forbidden from using their substances, and..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by showbiz_liz, kliuless, dejah420
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Most people here cant tell the difference between their asymptote and a hole in the graph." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nomad
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I love mexican candy, specially hot and sour tamarind based stuff. And I also love saltlakrits. I specially like them in ice cream form.
The jokes in the thread? Almost funny.
No matter how cliched this sounds, the whole Reiser affair reminds..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Crabby Appleton, Asymptote, Pope Guilty, Meatbomb
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"WalterMitty: I would recommend rubbing your face with toilet paper. It has done wonders for my ass hair.
My first shave was in the school toilets with a pencil sharpener blade. Girls can be mean.
My last shave? In January. And my wife likes it...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by quintessencesluglord, rongorongo, empyrean
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Processing. All the way. I write Actionscript for a living, have used flash to do stuff like what you want to do, and it is fairly easy, but if you want to play by the rules, flash costs several hundred dollars, processing is free...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Susurration
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I sold my 48Gand my 48GX when I abandoned Chemical Eng. (after switching from Electronic Eng.) in favor of Design School. One of the stupidest decisions I've ever made.
I even got a free color TI92, and gave it back in favor of the monochrome 48GX...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I found it funny, the kid seemed to be pretty cool about the whole thing. It would have been nasty if the kid looked uncomfortable." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is a very good post.
One time hitchhiking and camping along the Mayan route, I met three Israeli girls. They were fun to be around, very self confident, and amazingly good campers. I asked them were they'd learned to pack, trek, and take good..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by thedaniel, Durn Bronzefist
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Not PC only. Yesterday I managed to install and play TF2 in my 18 month old macbook pro. Just get Crossover Games for OS X. If you have an intel mac, it works pretty well. Get the 7 day trial for Crossover Games, it is based on Wine, and may or may..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Jesse Helms
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Geese are (usually) larger than ducks. Geese males and females (in most cases) have the same coloration, duck males and females (almost always) have different coloration and size. Geese (commonly) make a 'honk', while (most) duck (females) sound like..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"They are only called palindromes when they are Strings.
If you want numbers, cast it to Capicua.
In Spanish (and at least Cataln, not sure about Portuguese), we distinguish between symmetrical strings and symmetrical numbers.
Capicua..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"One upfall of an early grave is that irregardless of what your students achieve in life, you will be dead." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Martian DecemberBoy: One does not speak ill of the dead because when one dies, one goes to the place where the dead go, and then you meet that person, and he has been longer there, and has many friends, and you are like the new kid in school, and all..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by pointystick, folgers crystals, anifinder, Slarty Bartfast, Dizzy
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"COCA COLA USA FRUCTOSA
♦ La compañía mexicana Coca-Cola Femsa, la segunda embotelladora de productos Coca-Cola en el mundo, dijo que está usando jarabe de maíz de alta fructosa en vez de azúcar en parte de su producción, lo que podría desatar las..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pineapple
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Presses post too soon.
I was having dinner with my family in November, and my 6 year old cousin would try to get into every conversation, like this:
Aunt: They doubled the rent for my apartment, I will have to move out.
Cousin: Well, you could..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by fishfucker, the dief, loiseau
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"The fastest and best lemonade you can make (my wife's family does this all the time).
1. Fill blender with water.
2. Add one or two limes, whole.
3. Add some sugar.
4. Blend.
Serve over ice. I like to top it with a little bit of bubbly..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by doift, Plinko, ethel, sveskemus, heathergirl, shinynewnick, KAS
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"For more than 12 years, while I was still living at home, my mother would have colleges students staying there, from all over the world, paying and non paying. These are some of the lessons learned:
Everyone has a different idea of what is..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Rock Steady, Solomon
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Elephantube, the elephant video website that is transmitted in the sub 20Hz band across big swaths of Africa and Asia, just featured a "Humans learn using their trunk" video.
Hundreds of elephants have complained in the comments section..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, misha, MythMaker
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""[conditions he] came to assume were the baseline expectations of his life" If those conditions had been to be alone in an empty cage, would it be less cruel?
You don't get skewed results when you compare what happens to a miserable..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Grod
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"One of my favorite graphic design gym routines was to take an admired work, analyze it and try to figure out what makes it great, and then try to remake it with whatever tools I had available.
In the process of remaking, a lot of invisible stuff..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ShawnStruck
6 months ago
Ask comment:
""they are all excellent and useful."
You are doing it wrong.
A great exercise in critical thinking would be to find the best, or the best three, answers in the thread.
Why don't you go back, see if you can finds the answers that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by agropyron
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Thank you very much for making it clear that it is compassion that makes us human. One is able to be completely off the charts in any of the other dimensions that can be used to describe a human mind, and still be human. But not compassion,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"DON'T MESS WITH 23skidoo!
Or he will litter your city with his posters....
Wait, that was supposed to be an anti littering campaign." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 23skidoo
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The problem is that they are not up to First World standards on efficiency and not up to Third World standards in corruption.
Potential immigrants of the world, let us hope the dollar devalues enough that anyone of you can afford to expedite or..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Gungho, jamesonandwater, nooneyouknow
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Did someone post to metafilter the story of those people with disabilities that use the Segway because it does not dehumanize them in the eyes of ignorant or prejudices people the way a wheelchair does, but still get abused by people who..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by diamondsky
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I have not had important beliefs changed, but I have had new things added to my awareness. I have new beliefs, you could say." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by miss lynnster, amyms
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think the $5 make a big difference. I found this in 2002, and had nothing to say. Then I had the funniest comment ever to make, and there was the $5 fee. It was close to impossible to get PayPal to accept my Mexican credit card, and I had to wait..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Anything, ceri richard, h00py, loiseau
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes rusty, I love that about the people behind expelled. They are so used to having an unquestionable authority figure, and to defending it to the death (the death of the questioners, usually), that they believe that if the can tarnish Darwin, the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"People going adult male + child companion = evil make me really sad.
Even in the middle class side of my family, I have uncles and cousins from 2 and three generations ago that traveled with strangers to places far away, and spent many years being..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by saturnine, tippiedog, liza, TheWhiteSkull, Lentrohamsanin
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is a serious question: Can anyone show me examples of military intervention by strong states against weak ones that resulted in better conditions for the people of the weak state?
I kind of like the United States of Mexico's view on the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lord_wolf, hadjiboy
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"In a high school creative writing class, one question was "Name the possible literary plots."
I knew there where N plots, but could only come up with N-1. I made up "Man vs. killers hamburgers from outer space".
At review,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flatluigi
6 months ago
Ask comment:
"For many years I was not only broke, but shy and introverted. I never dated, but several times, when I learned that a girl I knew was interested in something, I would suggest we get together and actually do something. The end result was better than..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by -harlequin-, Skybly
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"ND¢, lets say honesty is encouraged in the internets, and it works. After a few months exposed to mostly honest people, I would drop my default attitude from highly skeptic to somewhat trusting. I guess most people would do the same. Then someone not..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, anazgnos
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""I can see problems in trying to teach a crow that one shiny disc is worth one peanut but another is worth ten."
Not at all. If the crows are able to distinguish coins, and you reward them according to the type of coin, they will have no..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by picaro
7 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I have to agree with mangoes. With some exceptions (like the criollo), the smaller mangoes, with big pits and little flesh tend to be tastier, and not carried by supermarkets. The good news is that Indian mangoes can be imported to the US since 2007!..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by ifjuly, eritain, of strange foe, tehloki, designbot, mikw, pantagrool, LobsterMitten, misha, UbuRoivas
7 months ago
