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Help me blend, not bland, my way through summer
favorited 18 times, recently by Mapes, JakeLL, theRussian, click, chowflap, hought20, SNWidget, horses, of courses, arianell, not me, runtina, sugarfish, avocet, catburger, wallaby, lockestockbarrel, inconsequentialist, AlisonM
5 days ago
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"True story: My friend Birdie (who is a horticulturist) had a freak accident involving a chainsaw and his face. It went exactly like this:
*Birdie prepares to cut down a large, knotted tree whose root system is encroaching on the plat where a new..." [
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6 days ago
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"He would learn that women like something called foreplay, and that kissing isn't just something you do until you start getting to the "let's have sex right now" part of the relationship.
Women love to be titillated and teased physically,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly
7 days ago
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"I'm with ImproviseOrDie. My marriage cost me $50,000 to dissolve. She wasted 9 years, I wasted 10. Both of us are sad we spent some of our best years with the wrong guy.
Divorce is expensive and hard. It can take anywhere from 3 months to 3 years..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, ImproviseOrDie, chicainthecity
9 days ago
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"Wow at this link.
Um... I was a raver in 1989. It was my senior year of high school. I can attest to the immense sense of freedom and future social benefits that this culture had on me.
I attended my first warehouse party in November 1989. I..." [
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favorited 230 times, recently by Iamtherealme, pseudonick, aielen, hip_plumber, AceRock
9 days ago
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"Allow me to point out two of the worst commercial sites ever: Reunion.com, which forces you to pay to view other people's complete profiles after you register (note, not to communicate, just to LOOK); when you register, it tells you it's going to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
10 days ago
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"I work for an online dating site and have helped two friends find longterm boyfriends using it. My suggestions for the best possible experience (and I'm not just an employee, I have used the site myself):
1. Take all new photos of yourself and..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by nasreddin, jejune, chicainthecity
12 days ago
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"How would you feel if you accidentally saw an email, or overheard a conversation about yourself, where the guy in question said you had potential? And that he was trying to make you into "wife material"?
It would hurt you terribly and..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by jejune, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, ThePinkSuperhero, ihope, scody, redtriskelion, chicainthecity, palomar, als129
13 days ago
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"Your friend has low self-esteem. There may be some glue holding her to him, such as good sex, or the belief that he will get his shit together and repay her and she doesn't want to write this off as a personal, financial and emotional loss. Until she..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pointystick, The Light Fantastic, scody
2 weeks ago
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"I will throw my hat in the ring if another editor is needed. I'm a full-time professional editor, and my schedule is about to be freed up quite a bit at work (*cough three paid weeks of vacation to kill cough*), so feel free to hit me up if anyone..." [
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2 weeks ago
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"If I had a dollar for every friend of mine, successful in previous jobs, intelligent, interesting, hardworking... for every one of those friends who wanted to come and work with me, and couldn't even get past the initial HR screening because they..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by lizzicide
2 weeks ago
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"I'm already down to a three-day work week*. Take that, motherfuckers!
*oh shit I'm also on call 24 hours a day. Nevermind. Including weekends." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jkaczor
2 weeks ago
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"Can we also add a "dumped" tag for all the fucked-up relationshipfilter q's? It would do us the double-plus-good of alerting the Hive to newly single members and spark "yay, let's get you drunk now" meetups......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by happyturtle
3 weeks ago
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"(raises hand) I was traveling with two girlfriends in Europe by train at age 19 and was attacked and mugged 3 times in 24 hours. We were in Hungary, Czechoslovakia (before it became the Czech Republic) and Italy, respectively.
The first attacker..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"Bus schedules for San Angelo and the Concho Valley (PDF)
Housing and social services for San Angelo and surrounding area" [
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3 weeks ago
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"Okay, people saying cardio doesn't work and strength training does? I'm surprised that it's not all guys saying that. ALL personal trainers will tell you to strength train, like in MelissaM's links, because they would be out of business if we all did..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by longdaysjourney
3 weeks ago
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"I used to always do this and it worked, although not as much now as it did: one can of low-sodium vegetable-style soup for lunch OR a single serving of cottage cheese (two percent), a handful of cherry tomatoes and lowfat triscuits. Both lunches are..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 weeks ago
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"Well, as far as why depression is more of a big deal these days, we absorb more data now than our grandparents could ever dream of dealing with. Also, we live in a society full of airbrushed models and worship the ideal of perfect parenting,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by regicide is good for you
3 weeks ago
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"Three perfect, easy recipes... no more than five ingredients apiece.
Tomato-Basil Couscous salad
Buy one bag of cherry tomatoes, the kind that are still on the vine in the mesh bag. Also one small regular tomato.
1/4 cup of freshly torn..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nuclear_soup, FunkyHelix
3 weeks ago
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"Zara and Mango have both recently opened a lot of new stores in the US. I was shocked at how well-made the clothes were without being super-expensive. Zara in particular is good for well-made basics and Mango is good for trendier pieces. Try..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
4 weeks ago
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"A really good relationship will have all of the following:
- Good timing. You are both in a place in your lives where you want the same things (i.e., commitment, fun, children, travel, whatever) and neither of you is being weighed down by baggage..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by graytona, tkolstee, LecheFresca, Inigo Jones, waterfall, scrm, chrismear, ifjuly, lalochezia, rooftop secrets, Rosie M. Banks, chicainthecity, jejune, mygothlaundry
Last month
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"I would totally have seen a movie where cannabis rises up and begins smoking people, though. Especially if it had Jack Black in it." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by h00py, crossoverman
Last month
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"You sound exactly like me when I was going through my divorce. This may sound stupid to some people, but I spent a lot of time at the gym listening to my favorite music and working out... it was empowering. I got lots of endorphin rushes. I made a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kaseijin, ifjuly
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I love flamin' hot limon Cheetos.
One time, I ate several for breakfast. I was hungover. It seemed... right.
Then I decided for whatever stupid reason to wake up my boyfriend-of-the-moment with a blow job.
At first, he was like... ohhhh......." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phredgreen, loquacious
Last month
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"I try to tip everywhere I go, because quite frankly, I know too many people who are barely making it in food service jobs. Those people generally don't have health insurance and are on their feet all day.
Any job where I know I would be physically..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
Last month
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"I have a gorgeous friend in Canada who does this when she's desperate for money (as in, she gets a stipend of some sort to pay for school from her mother, but often needs money for travel/emergencies/stupid girl crap, what have you) and she earns..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ignignokt
Last month
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"Okay. First of all, take a deep breath. Everyone has covered weight training and tightening your skin a bit, but I'm here to talk to you about the stretchmarks.
I was a kid who suddenly got fat when she was 11. I have stretchmarks from about..." [
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Last month
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Tour-de-France vs. quickie workouts: Which is better?
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Last month
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"Having had threesomes with men, women, and men and women? I can say that maybe once it was worth it. The rest of the times... even when it was a fivesome... not so much.
Mindblowing sex comes from knowing each other's bodies really well, and..." [
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"I was sure I had hypothyroidism, and had all the symptoms you described, including gaining 17 lbs. in a year (I eat 1400 cals./day and work out 2 hours a day, 6 days a week, so this was very odd for me). My doctor tested my TSH levels and they were..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by longdaysjourney, misha
Last month
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"Try joining the drugbuyers.com forums; you'll get real-time reviews, prices, recommendations, which sites offer discounts, etc.
You have to join then wait 24 hours before posting or participating, I think, but it's a good site for separating the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melissam
Last month
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"Wonderful... I walked down the aisle at my wedding to Kokoku. Dressed in full Japanese uchikake, carrying a parasol covered with butterflies.
Digaman, you might ask her about her love of opening shows at SMU in Dallas, for one. I really enjoyed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by koeselitz, vronsky
Last month
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"I used to sleepwalk and eat sugar and then go back to bed all the time.
Part of what helped me is when I got up, and periodically throughout the day, I would take three or four fiber supplement pills.
They kept me feeling really full, so full..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"As a dating expert, ALWAYS go on the second date unless you are repulsed by something about the person (horrible breath/hygiene, annoying laugh, you got into an argument on the first date and saw you were clearly intellectually incompatible)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
2 months ago
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"Yeah, if I'm suffering from leukemia god forbid I might get hooked on marijuana. It might lead me down the dark path of abating some of my pain and nausea. Thanks, guys!
Does the government not see the disconnect between vague statements about..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
2 months ago
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"For all the people clamoring to put her back in, let me just say that my dad works in a super-max prison. Coffield Unit, in Texas. And the things he tells me would make the hardest man weep out of sympathy for these people. He (a born-again Christian)..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by AceRock, schyler523, nasreddin, dejah420, jtron, MythMaker, jock@law, mek, Richard Daly
2 months ago
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"I agree with Viomeda. None of us will ever know the real story, unless she pens a book... and then we still probably won't.
However, I see a woman who had every strike against her and went on to be a productive member of society, wife, mother and..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by perilous, schyler523, Dreama, dejah420, bettafish, zeoslap, josher71
2 months ago
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"I've had professors admit to trying to fail me in class because they made assumptions about me based on how I look. I was also called a slut for many years even though I was still a virgin. Nobody believed me. Eventually I grew bitter about it. By..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
2 months ago
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"Is anyone else sitting with their legs under them in a chair now? I keep looking around my cubicle, expecting a land shark." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
2 months ago
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"The two highest natural highs, real euphoria, I have ever experienced:
1. I was being strip-searched by the cops and at the last minute they decided not to press charges. The high I felt when I watched the cops pull away and leave me without..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Roach
2 months ago
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"David Hanson has set a goal that eventually, robots will be part of our everyday lives and believes that once they are gradually integrated, the Uncanny Valley will cease to be an issue. He's easing into it slowly by tackling Robokind, the first..." [
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2 months ago
