MeFi comment:
"Exploring the links, I wound up here and was disturbed.
As the blade punctured the surface, the outer layers quickly peeled back. Plunging the knife in further, we found that the many layers of condoms somewhat resembled an artichoke heart......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by crystal.castles
4 days ago
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"I certainly don't assume that, sfving, but I was addressing my younger self.
Artychoke---have you got five dollars? Buy him a metafilter subscription and let him ask for his own advice. That's what my awesome older half-sister would have done for me,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by artychoke
6 days ago
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"Loosefilter: I don't know about snarking Christ. Jesus was way cool.
I'd snark Matthew, though, no question. Uncritical parable-ist fanboi, AMIRITE" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Skorgu, rockhopper, Ludi
12 days ago
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"If he has a "normal" diet for Australia, it's a "normal" diet for the United States, with one difference I can think of: portion size. If you serve him American-sized portions, don't expect him to finish the plate.
Personally..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by turgid dahlia
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I greatly disliked this story. Whether fictional or non-fictional, it's definitely bad in concept and execution.
It's one cabbie talking about himself, when the actually interesting story is the only other protagonist. Two people in the whole tale..." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by ethnomethodologist, MPnonot3, jtron, Sys Rq, shmegegge, Suparnova, jenfullmoon, dejah420, shitcock, dydecker, ericbop, dhoe, Elmore, lupus_yonderboy, malpractice, doctor_negative, Monochrome, Kwantsar, Ludi, rottytooth
13 days ago
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"Get to know your neighbours and make friends with them. That way, you don't have to stockpile ammunition, and if the world doesn't end, you have more friends living near you...." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Ookseer, Meatbomb, M.C. Lo-Carb!, zpousman, orrnyereg, ceri richard, runincircles, missmagenta, pompomtom, JimmyJames
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"LarryC:
Define 'people'.
The OP clearly defines the fans as non-people:
Their fans, most of which..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by emelenjr
2 weeks ago
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"Not really beating any systems, but anyway:
When you go to vote in an Australian election, feel free to graffitti up your ballot. Art on ballot papers is not only perfectly legal, but appreciated by tired electorate commission staff and the..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by Korou, eponymouse, flibbertigibbet, marble, Tapioca, peacheater, Greg Nog, spaceman_spiff, Asparagirl
3 weeks ago
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"If it was a finger passed below the nostrils, as if to brush something off, definitely cokin'. If it was just left there as a moustache, that's likely a newfangled young people's activity I want to know nothing about...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by thebrokenmuse
3 weeks ago
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"I've doorknocked a lot.
I have to say it's by far and away the most productive use of time I've spent working for a political party. It's awesome when it's done right. Knocking on people's doors for votes, if you believe in what you're doing, is fun,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Lesser Shrew, By The Grace of God
Last month
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"My old t-shirts go to the true Valhalla of old loved clothing: cleaning dirty chain grease and road scum out of the underbits of a motorcycle. Short of nappies, I can't think of a more terrible or useful end to a garment.
Let's all have a minute to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by hecho de la basura, kittyprecious
Last month
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"So there I was, rounding the Cape in sight of the African coast, the wind port astern, blowing a nasty seven knots onto the rocky shore. My crew, the mutinous dogs, had me locked in the great cabin, the light wood splintering under the force of..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by frecklefaerie, vytae, Dormant Gorilla, Greg Nog, Haruspex, scrump
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Fiasco's summary of Summers' summary:
1. Regulate banking activity,
2. Ensure a more equitable distribution of income,
3. Collectivise health insurance, and
4. Reduce carbon emissions.
What a commie...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shavenwarthog
Last month
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"Videogames are not good for you. Videogames are a waste of time. They isolate children. Kids never go outside to play. They just sit there and stare at the TV all day.
Hey kids! If you liked videogames, you'll love work!..." [
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favorited 48 times, recently by Telf, flatluigi, sascha, boosh, jokeefe, urbanwhaleshark, Skorgu, andoatnp, Xere, phatkitten, tracert, deborah, regicide is good for you, acid freaking on the kitty, rooftop secrets, Dasein, MikeKD
Last month
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""I tend to be attracted to black and Latin chicks, and Asian chicks,” he said, citing the influence of the twelfth-century Provençal troubadour Guiraut de Bornelh.
CHIVALRY UR DOIN IT..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by languagehat, orrnyereg, flibbertigibbet, Jody Tresidder, perilous, MikeKD, longsleeves
Last month
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"I wouldn't call the school again. Phone calls get ignored.
I would write to the principal of the school, keeping copies of correspondence, following that letter up with another to the Education Department (or whatever body administers the school)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rabulah
Last month
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"For a data point, divers on the Mary Rose (sunk 1545) had to work amongst human remains. It seems conceivable to me that European-era shipwreck victims in the Bay, even from hundreds of years ago, would still be there...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by eritain
Last month
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"Why isn't anyone suggesting a cap-and-trade system? It'd be very easy to institute a market-based system allowing federal agencies to buy and sell extinction rights...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Richard Daly, bicyclefish, schyler523, eyeballkid, Galvatron, RussHy, ukdanae, sebastienbailard, dan g., orthogonality, Artw, Popular Ethics
Last month
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"WWJHD (What Would Joe Hill Do)? Organise.
That's the form of political action that has to come before anything else." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by salvia
2 months ago
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"Thanks tube.
That first image is just begging for a captioning
Artw, in a just country, he'd be on the ten dollar note." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"yhbc, if it made you feel better, you could even out the helpful graffiti with signposts around frog ponds.
Think of it as population offsetting." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
2 months ago
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"Seconding trashyrambo: if you "don't have a reason to get out of bed", then you shouldn't get out of bed. It's your discretionary time, and snoozing sounds to me like a magnificent way of spending it.
Perhaps if you want to make a habit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"defrag the sucker!
I ain't got the time
And if my daddy thinks I'm fine
They tried to make me go to defrag
I said no, no, no" [
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favorited 3 times, recently by olya, Kimothy, Pendragon
4 months ago
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"Lupe Fiasco does a good line in happy, progressive hip-hop, and he's got the best name I've heard for a long time." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kidsleepy
4 months ago
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"As a Sydneysider, I've never heard of such a thing, and doubt it would take off it were launched. Though some of us are quite nice, Sydney has a deserved reputation in Australia as a socially insular, cliquey city in which it's difficult to make..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by turgid dahlia
4 months ago
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"It is not unreasonable or naïve to expect the people you care about to not behave like jerks to you." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Nattie, idiomatika
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Major TJ "King" Kong: Men, let us open our needed caskets
And discover what for our use lies therein.
One automatic pistol marked four-five,
And two boxes ball and powder, prepar'd,
Food and drink, that for four full days must last,..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by xbonesgt, kuujjuarapik, sparkletone, jokeefe, rifflesby, b1tr0t, Cool Papa Bell, Koko
4 months ago
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"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too...." [
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5 months ago
