MeFi comment:
"Sure, a law based on superstition and fairytales, I'll buy that.
Actually, most of the laws about animal cleanliness arose due to practical problems of animal cleanliness. Kind of like Jewish anti-pork edicts reflected actual problems with pork..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by infini
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Wow! Good work guys. Metafilter now sounds about as intelligent as a major news network after a political debate." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jenkinsEar, axon
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nothing more hilariously awesome than a 7 year old who smiles while killing 13 innocent, largely helpless animals in 30 minutes.
What do you suppose they feed to the animals in the zoo every day? Innocent, largely helpless animals. In fact I..." [
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favorited 15 times, recently by lizzicide, desiderandus, fairmettle, HyperBlue, Kattullus, sondrialiac, blue_beetle, Bort, jonmc, dyoneo, fleetmouse, mek, cj_, Uncle Jimmy, the other side
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"chimps don't go out on their own and bludgeon things to death to my knowledge
All you are proving here is that you know nothing at all about chimps, who routinely beat things to death. Particularly monkeys and sometimes they don't even eat them...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by sondrialiac, the other side, fleetmouse
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Some of the things he points out as being post-collapse have described parts of America for about 30 years now. Infrastructure decay has preceded the economic collapse by a few decades. Everybody knows about the existing medicine..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by spicynuts, designbot
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I have started moderating myself here. I've cut way back (or at least tried to) on my quipyness because, frankly, I am getting really tired of reading other peoples quips when I want to read something interesting and substantive. Even if I have..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ninapaley, outlier, Crabby Appleton
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I believe it. Partly because of a political sulking complex I have where every time I get involved in following politics, hoping for an exciting change, I'm always disappointed. And I'm watching the VP debates. Not getting my hopes up.
I keep..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by pandaharma, kersplunk, nasreddin, wildcrdj, Artw
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hating McDonalds is my primary marker for whether people are that special brand of left-wing unthinking reactionary classist moron that passes itself off as progressive these days. Hating Starbucks is a close second.
I wish they could all just..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Akeem, enn, jonmc, sonascope
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Article II of the convention makes clear that a signatory is bound by the convention only if a non-signatory opponent also abides by the convention, which was emphatically not the case for al Qaeda.
You may want to continue reading on to Article..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by tehloki, delmoi, scody, mikelieman
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My mother, bless her, once saw a flock of geese torturing a small child in a park (with a lake). She walked up to the geese and, one by one until they got the point, grabbed them by their necks and threw them in the lake.
Chuck Norris was your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by UbuRoivas
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"And since when is supporting succession a bad thing?
It makes your COUNTRY FIRST signs seem kind of stupid.
No. Just vague." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Michael Roberts
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it.
Wikipedia wants you to die an unusual death. For the sake of completeness...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Sys Rq
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, 2 million alcoholics and 40k alcohol poisoning deaths annually. Thats just ridiculous for a "developed nation." This is 3rd world stuff here.
Leave England out of it!..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by kcds, zippy, Scoo
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The thing is, if new labour really wanted to investigate this they would task the NHS with the job and set targets for the amount of time spent by UFOs in waiting rooms and then hospital administrators would dutifully produce the required data by..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Nice Guy Mike, medium format, Wilder
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I wish I could come up with a clever one liner that would convey my disdain for life in the first twenty comments of every single metafilter thread. I mean I hate everything. I punch strangers on the street. I step on flowers. I kick puppies and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by chuckdarwin, jessamyn
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"But I raise the question again, if after all this, Senator Obama still wins, do you REALLY think Bush will hand him the keys to the White House in January?
Not the W keys anyway...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fatllama
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So a member of the Republican guard has expanded the AOP to include Metafilter and he is Oscar Mike with new ROE that deviates from our SOP. I expect Danger Close fire once the sitrep is given to actual and immenint casevac of the FNG...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wish I were an English teacher or a Journalism professor.
That's like seeing the twin towers collapse and then applying to be the janitor." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Countess Elena
Last month
MeFi comment:
"This is just ridiculous. Everybody in Toronto knows Hamilton doesn't exist. Parents just use it scare children. Mind you the last time I was in Hogtown and looked at the CN Tower I thought the perspective was off and declared it a fake...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gompa
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Commercials are better now that artists are selling out. So are TV shows. I'm glad they are gettng paid so I can hear their music.
Music critics, on the hand, have had no positive impact on my life at all...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by ST!NG
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wonder how much he had to pay the black guys to lend him credibility.
I wonder if they did proper diligence before lending him credibility? What are the odds he will pay that credibility back? Or did the black guys package up the credibility..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by schyler523, GuyZero, boo_radley, rockhopper, Fiasco da Gama
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Be self employeed for a while and see how much cognitive surplus you really have. When you are working for yourself and you don't make an effort to turn off you burn out. People are not desktop computers with spare cycles waiting for a SETI@home..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by jepler
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I wouldn't pay too much attention to scientific predictions. Most scientists have so little confidence in their own predictive abilities that they insist on testing them...." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by keds
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'll accept that Dawkins is shrill as long as it comes with the admissions that his critics are incredibly shallow for thinking that matters at all." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by boubelium, matteo
Last month
MeFi comment:
"There are only 8 external javascripts on metacafe. Two more and they can level up to web 3.0." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by benzenedream
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The collider isn't needed. Open those things in Acrobat reader and the whole world will slow down to the point where Higgs Bosuns will just be sitting there for the picking...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain_drain
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Larson's cartoon is even funnier if you know somebody on the examined side of the anthropological equation. I've been told by multiple First Nations peeps that lying to scientists is big time Indian entertainment and that they tell lies and than..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Telf
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Lunetta P, Ohberg A, Sajantila A. Suicide by intracerebellar ballpoint pen. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2002 Dec;23(4):334-7.
It's like he didn't even know about fountain pens...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sondrialiac
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I'd be happy if I never saw a serious cyclist again. After seeing Olympians cycling at 4 to 5 times my speed for about 10-20 times the distance I feel about as big as I did as a teenager walking out of the cinema with 5 girls after seeing St. Elmo's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by everichon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Here in the UK, following consultation with of record companies and with the agreement of non-aforementioned committees they have implemented roaming police gun squads that shoot people who are caught humming copyrighted music by the acoustic crime..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by OolooKitty, micayetoca, urbanwhaleshark, Spatch
Last month
