Cookie Monster is actually a mother-figure to a teeming glom of symbiotic monsterlings—eyeless, thoughtless gaping fleshy cloacae at the termini of countless tentacle extrusions. They know only hunger, and Cookie Monster in his love for them must... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by webmutant, juv3nal
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Almost 4 hours ago
It's interesting and all, but why would you spend all day favoriting things on twitter when you could, you know, go outside?
Some of it is funny, but I'd rather have a life.
That's a maddeningly condescending binary reduction of the situation.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dennis Murphy
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10 hours ago
Because, of course, I cause just as much trouble and angst on this site as BP does. Really, for you to put me in the same category as BP just says it all.
Comment for comment, you seem to have a much harder time not being a jerk, and to be much... [
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favorited 13 times, recently by Blasdelb
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Yesterday
So I'll just say this. On any other well-moderated site, BP would have been perma-banned long ago.
On a lot of other sites, a whole lot of people would have been perma-banned long ago. We're relatively permissive of people who act like jerks... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blasdelb
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Yesterday
Cortex! I think it's kind of unfair that you guys can correct spelling mistakes in your posts.
I don't know what you're talking about, I didn't edit my comm—OH MY GOD THE SLENDER MAN IS IN THE ADMIN INTERFACE AND wait no, that's just Matt.... [
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favorited 14 times, recently by Nattie, paulg
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Yesterday
I first encountered sink-peeing when visiting my sister in college; we went to a bar (which was just loads of fun for me since I was underage) and once the place filled up there was a permanent line outside the men's room. Which meant that... [
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favorited 6 times, recently by Tobu, cj_, stilist, jgirl, koeselitz, scrump
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2 days ago
In this case, yes. It's not like it's photographs of a guy fucking a chicken.
So your position is, earnestly, that we'd be displaying greater trust in the community by ignoring their very clearcut feedback about a post? By telling them to go... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mountain_william
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2 days ago
HÅNK: "Now what's all the ruckus about, here?"
SVENHAUER: "You know that big ol' dang ol' sumbitchin' floater what we came in on ut's parked over yonder in the bay well dangit i seen some red-skinned fellers just crawlin' all over... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by notquitemaryann
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3 days ago
[A few comments removed. Folks, try to stick to either constructively answering the question or staying out the the thread. Enough of the lighten-the-hell-up stuff.... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Solomon
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3 days ago
The entire experiment was predicated on a diss of the users.
No, it was not. One of the more frustrating threads of argument for me to try and parse this last month has been that we only did this because some nonspecific tiny cadre of people... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by LobsterMitten, ersatzkat
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4 days ago
I think the way in which the experiment was done, sprung on us as a surprise, made me a bit defensive personally, though.
Yeah, I can totally appreciate that. I think collectively we're still feeling a bit like it's a damned-if-we-do,... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
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4 days ago
I think this film uses the man as a metaphor for a dream: how you give birth to it, try everything you can to make it real, abandon it time and again only to be drawn back to its elusive grasp; and how it can tenuously unravel at the exact moment you... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LittleMissCranky
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4 days ago
Thread's ostensibly asked-and-answered at this point, and I'm not sure this is either a great venue for or a great start to this particularly side-discussion, so I'm going to close this up.... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by cjorgensen, Optimus Chyme
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5 days ago
For November, we're going to do an experiment where we close this post now. [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Songdog
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5 days ago
Man, if I banned Tommy Smothers my mother would never forgive me. [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Verdant, stilist, Pope Guilty, bayliss, kate blank, marsha56, the dief, strixus, lukemeister, flatluigi, rtha, Jahaza
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6 days ago
Simply spending more time with something isn't a guarantee of having more insight with it, especially when it comes to be the variety within people. If a non-insightful person spends more time with the change than an insightful person, which opinion... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Secret Life of Gravy
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6 days ago
The philosophy and stuff is fun, and helps move thinsg along and makes for some cool lines, and I can forgive a little handwaving over how exactly this human battery thing is supposed to make sense because it's busy zipping between high concept stuff... [
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favorited 5 times, recently by Pronoiac, theora55, spaceman_spiff, Artw, dirtynumbangelboy
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6 days ago
I really, really must call it retconning, sir. The movies did not try hard enough to convince me to go down that particular rabbit hole, especially given that the same line of unbounded "but what if something asserted to be true in the film was... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mkultra
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7 days ago
I don't have any fondness for Silverlight or for MS's apparent Let's Get Proprietary Up In This Thing strategy with it, and haven't every bothered to install it on the Windows boxes I've used. That said, Silverlight posts are relatively rare and... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brundlefly, ceri richard
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7 days ago
It's all about how the supercool kids of Metafilter simply cannot pass up an opportunity to show how freaking supercool they are because THEY DON"T LIKE MICROSOFT. How revolutionary of them.
To be fair, there are plenty of us non-supercool... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by timeistight
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7 days ago
Really quick count: as of this moment, there have been exactly* 6,528 self-favorites assigned since the feature was launched.
There are about 2.5 million favorites in the system. So self-favoriting accounts for about 0.25% of all favoriting... [
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favorited 4 times, recently by arcticwoman, Kwine, tarheelcoxn, furiousxgeorge
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7 days ago
I mean there is zero cost if you choose something (language, API or whatever) cross-platform in the first place.
There are a number of problems with this statement, not least of them being the silliness of positing an imaginary... [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ShawnStruck, nomisxid
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8 days ago
Your point seems to be that steam is boring. But have you ever coated steam in some olive oil and sauteed it with some muddled sun-dried tomatoes? Because that will blow your mind.... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by klangklangston, UbuRoivas, LobsterMitten
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8 days ago
u know, i use to be a big defender of Wizards of the Kitchen....i really believed they we're going to do the right thing and respect the Flambe & Flagons series and youve all hear me stand up against the criticsism that a lot of these... [
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favorited 3 times, recently by benzenedream
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8 days ago
Random thinking-out-loud bit here, but at some point I should try and take a look at whether there's a correlation between high-comment-count askmes (maybe by category) vs. high average-flags-per-comment counts. Be interesting if there's some... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by stoneweaver
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8 days ago
dbl, i only have to feed it once a month tho lol
Also, at first I thought you were doing the @ thing ironically based on your awareness that it's a mefi no-no, but now I'm not so sure and I'm starting to feel a little uncomfortable and sad and I... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ogre Lawless
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8 days ago
100K raffle is over! Congrats to jamaro!
favorited 17 times, recently by lenny70, kiki_s, lmm, LobsterMitten, snsranch, deborah, Optimus Chyme, acro, neewom, bru, nickyskye, BrotherCaine, ClarissaWAM, Rhaomi, crataegus, Blazecock Pileon, iamkimiam
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10 days ago
We generally discourage using askme directly as a polling source, not because everything resembling a poll is bad but because we want to avoid having the site be used as a cheap polling source or having a lot of questions that make very little use of... [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nadawi
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10 days ago
[Comment removed, save the rants about Popular Music Today for somewhere else.] [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ishotjr
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11 days ago
