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"Maybe I can simplify? Eye contact for more than a moment = interested.
???????
I mean, I get what you're saying, but it's generally considered polite to maintain eye contact when talking to someone.
Eye contact for more than a moment =..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Guy Smiley, bilabial, flibbertigibbet, WalterMitty
Last month
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"Good lord most of the advice in here is bad. Telling a family member that he is never allowed in your house again is absolutely unnecessarily hurtful and offensive. How do you think you'd feel if your mother told you that you were never again welcome..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by catlet, DarlingBri, The Light Fantastic, willpie, tyllwin
3 months ago
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"Cops, then paintball gun." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by 999, JimmyJames, LunaticFringe, tachikaze, crunch buttsteak, Locative, mandymanwasregistered, miss lynnster, Phalene, extramundane
3 months ago
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"#5 is the only important question here. You're someone who doesn't enjoy having sex with someone she hasn't dated for a while. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that, and anyone who's tried to make you feel otherwise is a piece of shit for..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Laura_J, ifjuly, nooneyouknow
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If she doesn't put Whitlam back in then she's just as rotten as all the rest." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
3 months ago
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"I like to say "not my zebra, not my zoo" at work whenever it's applicable. (I do not work at a zoo.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bigmusic
3 months ago
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"That Eminem song where he acts out the lengthy torture and murder of his ex-wife, complete with him (as her) crying and screaming is pretty hard to top...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sperose
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wow. Death by Ugabooga defends the institutionalized rape of children and you call out tkchrist for being too rude to him in his response. Amazing." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by 0xFCAF, jamjam, kittyprecious
3 months ago
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"If your goal is to learn some facts on wikipedia so that you can try to show up your drunk acquaintances then you will, very justifiably, not be very popular. This is because you will be acting like an asshole.
Why don't you say, "Hey guys, I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by peacheater, missmagenta
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Btw, call me overly westernized or something, but I've long considered part of being "civilized" to be not condoning rape." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Optimus Chyme
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wait ... you're suggesting that it's optimal to play a first person shooter with a keyboard and a mouse instead of a joystick controller? I would have guessed the opposite.
Haha, Dave Faris is a million years old!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by dyoneo, oh pollo!, Pope Guilty
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Metafilter helped my learn why Ayn Rand is dumb.
I think this, by itself, can justify this site's entire existence." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by naoko, hought20
4 months ago
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"If you wear a watch, you can put the band through the ring and clasp it shut each night when you take it off. You're much less likely to misplace your watch than your ring...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by taff, splendid animal, nimsey lou
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I used to hate the whole Obama thing, and now, due to that speech, I really like that guy. Fuck.
(Sorry, this comment isn't very meta.)" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by penduluum, ignignokt
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"And THAT is how Kerry needed to respond to the Swiftboating bullshit. Too bad he didn't believe Americans might be smart enough to hear the truth.
i.e. "too bad he was an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Most of the questions on AskMe come down to "I'm too lazy to research somethign myself!" or "help me make a totally subjective decision based on too little information!" Your posting history does not suggest that you are an..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
4 months ago
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"You are overthinking this to a degree that some (Me!) might call ridiculous. Apply for a card marketed as a student credit card, use it to make the occasional purchase, and pay it off the same month at no penalty. Good grief. As far as that rant goes,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by punishinglemur
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yes, patr1ck. The Church is clearly stating that it is a mortal sin not to be Amish. And, dgaicun, what could they possibly mean other than "clinical trials of Tylenol are an offense to God." Also, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by furiousxgeorge
4 months ago
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"Everybody should post their Armory info so that all future Metafilter-drama can be settled via corpse-camping.
SIC SEMPER TORTURE-SUPPORTERS / HILLARY-SUPPORTERS /..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by By The Grace of God
4 months ago
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"That's just silly. Finding even one success case would invalidate that
Sorry, let me rephrase: a bunch of kids play-acting as activists, but who mostly do it to create a common identity and facilitate partying, are not going to change America into..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by divabat, pravit, KevinSkomsvold, toomuchpete, kittyprecious
4 months ago
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"I think that your concern about not being viewed as a nutjob is a big roadblock on the highway to apocalypse preparedness. Suck it up, come clean to your loved ones, and get to work building that grain silo...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hulahulagirl, GPF, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Except that conservatism is an evil ideology, a political philosophy that seeks to maintain or impose class-based heirarchies.
Conservatism is a belief that the current order of things is imperfect, but that attempts to radically reorganize..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by thegreatcurve, rush, melorama, Snyder, orthogonality
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"What an absolutely charming discussion thread for this absolutely fascinating post.
Personally, I would do her if not for her sharp knees. Am I right, dudes?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drdevice
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Relevant thought, though - if light is "absorbed" (or trapped without escape, which seems tantamount to the same thing) into these nano-fibres, what happens to it? Where does the energy go? Does the cloak get hotter, or does it have a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Edgewise
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I suggest that the link say
"Switch to jokey one-liner and embarrassing multi-page bullshit view"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by KokuRyu
5 months ago
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"You mentioned her race/ethnicity five times in this question and pretty much nothing else about her. What is she interested in? I think a gift along those lines would be more impressive than a Vietnamese flag or whatever. Not every day is Tet...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ignignokt, easy_being_green, thebrokedown, pravit
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"that reminds me. I need to go eat some cheese fries from outback.
Damnit, Stynxno, that literally caused me to salivate. And I'm still full from lunch. Ugh, at this rate I'm probably going to have to buy a second account..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by blueberry, RokkitNite, languagehat, Xoder
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Getting rid of a publicly viewable favorites system might help. One cannot help but get the sense that most of the commenters, in the longer threads at least, are just in there to show off and hear themselves speak, so to type.
Also, I think that..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by FissionChips, fishfucker, yerfatma
5 months ago
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"Oh my god just throw it out" [
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favorited 13 times, recently by jejune, like_neon, ikkyu2, Riverine, softlord, pazazygeek, nakedsushi, dmd, meerkatty, unknowncommand, wfrgms, gursky, yerfatma
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"A lot of the questions are repeats insofar as they're by people just looking to avoid having to talk to anyone on the telephone.
A lot of the answers are repeats insofar as most Metafilter users are pretty much interchangeable in terms of their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by garlic
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh no! Let's go march outside their offices dressed like that dude in the Guy Fawkes mask best-known from that awful goth power fantasy movie that came out a couple of years ago!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by fishfucker, smackfu
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"hahahahahaha you are SO INVESTED in this college freshman drama!
maybe you should swipe her in for dinner on your meal card so you guys can talk about it!..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ludwig_van, proj08
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is unnecessary. We all know that Ryan started the fire." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mge
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Just because a bunch of people chant something, it doesn't mean they're sheep-zombies. It's a powerful experience to be in a room full of people who all strongly agree with you about something. It's not something that happens that often.
I dunno,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mullingitover
5 months ago
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"I've melted through a series of DVDs with hot wire and I'm still sane.
This from someone who spends time melting through DVDs with hot wire. . ." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by edd
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm new to Metafilter. Is it OK to post ascii images of the facepalm guy?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jba
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"That's what he's saying about One America - that deep down, we're all thoughtful, well-intentioned, hard-working patriotic liberals. He's saying, "you may think you're a Republican, but I'm willing to look past that, because I know that you're a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nasreddin
5 months ago
