MeFi comment:
"I'm sure it's great telly and everything, but I'm bored of Mythbusters, despite never having watched a full episode, because of the all the fawning over it here.
Anything you can hate, I can hate better!
I can hate anything better than youuuuu!..." [
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favorited 28 times, recently by Inner Universe, Pseudology, MiltonRandKalman, Barry B. Palindromer, stevis23, neustile, JHarris, kurtroehl, RussHy, digifox, dirigibleman, MythMaker, malthas, jamaro, yhbc, Goofyy, The Whelk, zippy, chuckdarwin, mikepop, Rock Steady, nooneyouknow, Horace Rumpole, EmpressCallipygos, bristolcat, Pope Guilty, Tehanu, TypographicalError
11 minutes ago
Ask comment:
"Maybe when she sneaks back in, her bedroom is entirely empty. She gets to earn one item back per night/week of not sneaking out. Each night she sneaks out, the room is empty again.
No drama or yelling by the parents. Parents remain calm and matter..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by saturnine, Twicketface, damnjezebel, dinger, Nattie, thisisnotkatrina, chrisbucks, Abbril, ms.v., fructose, arnicae, MaryDellamorte, krix, hecho de la basura, xena, Jupiter Jones
35 minutes ago
MeTa comment:
"Good post + uncool celeb = Good Post
Good post + cool celeb = Great Post!
Bad post + cool celeb = Marginal Post
Bad post + uncool celeb = Bad Post" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
3 ¼ hours ago
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"I always thought The Last Temptation of Christ contained scenes that clarified and illuminated the reality of the culture during the time of Christ more than any sermon I ever heard, and also brought another dimension to what Christ's temptation..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wreath Ass
Yesterday
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"Therapy helps. But, NO you are not doomed to repeat his pattern.
I'll skip gory details, but I had a much much worse-than-average upbringing, with an emotionally unavailable dad (he only hugged me once in my entire childhood; I remember it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by you're a kitty!
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Love it. Very familiar. My cat sleeps on me for a good part of the night. I sleep on my side, so she balances herself on the side of my hip, which seems incredibly uncomfortable for her. Doesn't bother me. But a cat I had years ago would sleep on my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
3 days ago
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"Doing any of the suggestions so far other than just talking to her will only escalate the situation, which in my opinion will not work.
I think it's implicit that any consequences to her behavior are within the context of a relationship that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fructose
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Slight exaggeration? It's a fundamental misuse. Accuracy matters, especially if you're trying to expose evil and right wrongs. If you can't use a fairly clear word such as "censorship" correctly, where else will you fudge the language to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
5 days ago
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"I don't think that's a fisheye lens. To me it looks like a wide-angle or short zoom lens with on-camera flash, but with the shutter speed high enough to keep the backgrounds dark. The flash looks to be centered several inches above the lens, so a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by phunniemee, cjorgensen
5 days ago
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"I attended Al-Anon for a few months to cope with my now-ex's gambling and other issues. I found it very helpful. As you said, they all vary so much there is no way to give a definitive answer, but my understanding is they do try to follow the same..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pointystick
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"When church is not in the picture everything is more than perfect between us.
I find it hard to believe that you merely attending church causes such conflict. That would make her extremely - almost pathologically - intolerant. So I have to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sixcolors
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"A friend told me his retirement fund has gone down 14% in the last year. It was hard for me to be sympathetic. I told him mine had gone down 14% as well: from about $100 to $86...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I mean, if any consumer product deserves 17 billion thumbs up, it's the iPod (+iTunes). The best thing since sliced bread? No, the best thing since sliced bacon.
As the owner of several iPods (2nd gen 10 gig; 4 gig Mini; iPod Touch; 4th gen Nano;..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by snofoam
9 days ago
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"For a going away card:
Your absence will be like this mustache. Felt." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by esankovi, silkygreenbelly, Brody's chum, beandip, Lotto, bonobo, sperose, jhighmore, schmoo, ms.v., Solon and Thanks, thisisnotkatrina, acro
9 days ago
Ask comment:
"Here are too many:
Well, most of Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, but particularly
Life During Wartime
What a Day That Was
Once in a Lifetime
Burning Down the House
Girlfriend is Better
Take Me to the River
The Run Lola Run..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, maloon
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And it's also clear he had a body stashed on the plane when he took off.
-------
DNA testing will reveal that the remains were his. What then? He had a secret identical twin or a clone killed and left in the wreck?
Irony has crashed into a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by puke & cry
11 days ago
MeTa comment:
"No, I think It's Raining Florence Henderson means he wants a personal shout-out to just him!
He uses the royal "us" all the time." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Well, it might help you build a bomb, but you still won't be able to trade it for a night's stay in a cheap motel." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Smedleyman, rokusan
2 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"You are not being unfair. Please don't let her manipulate you into feeling guilty for something that you have no cause to feel guilty over.
Do not stay in communication. You don't have to do it with bitterness or anger, or anything like that. But..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by inatizzy
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Despite all that, I love Kaufman's work and will make my way through the material.
The inside out, deconstructed, out of sequence, "dangling-the skeleton" method of posting this interview is a little pretentious and off-putting. Yes we..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by esmerelda_jenkins, SmileyChewtrain
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"My favorite part is the part where people who weren't there and have no way of knowing, tell someone else that what happened didn't happen and couldn't have happened, or they misinterpreted what happened, because what they said said happened wouldn't..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bugbread, h00py, konolia, ClaudiaCenter
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Use Google Maps, including street view to find a better route. I know all the "bikes have a right to the road" stuff, but I simply don't trust my safety to anyone else. I'm fortunate in that I can ride 4 miles to work with minimal time on a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by idiomatika
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"On a semi-related note, Burger King is my least favorite fast food place, but is the closest to my office. So I end up going there just out of convenience. The only thing on the menu I consistently like is the tendercrisp chicken sandwich. I walked..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"It won't matter. The point of most relationship filter questions is not to get to the question but to explain. every. detail. in order to sort it out in the asking of the question. Heck, I subjected my poor, longsuffering friends to plenty of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by johnstein
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Extra points for the Sanford and Son music.
I like Big Macs. Once in a while I get a craving. By the time I'm done with it, I wonder why I had the craving. But I don't like the center bun at all. I end up removing it most of the time. So I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by acro
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Seriously, any time I have been questioning something in my relationship I compose a little askme question in my head.
I have written more relationship filter questions than anyone. I just have never clicked the "post" button...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"I rarely need to send faxes, but when I do, I use Fax Zero. You can send a 3 page .doc or PDF for free. They put an ad on the cover sheet. Up to 6 pages with no ad is $1.99. No contract, just pay via PayPal...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by 913, msbrauer, kamelhoecker
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Sarah Palin, buys and installs $35,000 tanning bed in governor's mansion.
The article does not say that. It says she bought a used tanning bed with her own money. The writer says tanning beds can cost up to $35,000. We don't know how much it cost,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Ach well, Yahoo is your new bicycle.
Gee, thanks. A few clicks in, and it told me Yahoo kills a kitten every time I masturbate.
[Segue] Speaking of... I went to my doctor this morning and he said I had to stop masturbating. I said "Why?..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by bonobo, sveskemus, flatluigi, lukemeister
4 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Octane is measured differently in the US and Europe. They are probably referring the the European octane measurement." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jeffmik
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This DVD has an exceptional performance by Mr. Wright. His last filmed performance is probably this upcoming release from the same tour. (Last link has a video of Wright performing Comfortably Numb with Gilmour.)
Gilmour's home page has a brief..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dancestoblue
Last month
MeFi comment:
"“Palin’s made a big difference. I think she’ll do us great. She’d be awesome. What she stands for is fantastic.” What does she stand for? “I couldn’t tell really. But I love her.”
This seriously makes me want to cry. I want to believe that people..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jonp72, konolia, lysdexic
Last month
MeTa comment:
""LHC is the Apocalypse" folks who believe (true story, got a flyer the other day) that Barack is truly the third horseman of the Apocalypse (behind Jefferson and TR, if you can believe that) and that the LHC is the Apocalpyse, and then we..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by All.star
Last month
MeTa comment:
"OK, well, let me rephrase my gripe:
When I copy and paste something, it's because it's important enough for everyone to read without clicking a link.
When you copy and paste something, it's because you are lazy and have no original thoughts...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by marble, merelyglib
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I really appreciate Comment by Pasting: when the poster has quoted the most-relevant, topical part of the link, it often saves me from having to read the entire article
Yeah... I agree with that. I guess the definition of "most-relevant"..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, longsleeves
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Yep, mods rarely delete MetaTalk stuff. But they close MetaTalk threads when they turn into attention whoring." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dumsnill
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Oh. Yeah. Right. Vague sarcasm is sooooo taken at face value!
I see what I did there." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by SpacemanStix
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Last year at around this time, when everyone said Astroland was going away, I went with my gf at the time and rode the Cyclone one last time and said my goodbyes.
Then it opened again this summer. I couldn't really say goodbye again so I just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MrVisible
Last month
