MeFi comment:
"I've always wondered if this is a common thing in American English. Like, after the Teapot Dome scandal, were there a lot of less important scandals that all got tagged with the "Dome" moniker?
Like, "Speakeasy Dome" and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
6 ¾ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm just trying to ween myself off my nicotine addiction right now, so I'm seeing the whole world through a filter of antagonism.
You should try unfiltered THANK YOU I'LL BE HERE ALL..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"Once cortex was hired on, crackhead jokes just weren't as funny.
I prefer the term "person of crack"." [
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favorited 50 times, recently by spinturtle, Inner Universe, Xoder, dejah420, shmegegge, bitter-girl.com, C17H19NO3, funkiwan, graventy, Pope Guilty, shiu mai baby, louche mustachio, nooneyouknow, minifigs, the dief, mystyk, MythMaker, salvia, Alvy Ampersand, arcticwoman, fillsthepews, mrbill, Nattie, Solon and Thanks, Galvatron, gomichild, TheOnlyCoolTim, marble, 40 Watt, Coatlicue, lazaruslong, Blazecock Pileon, tomcooke, turgid dahlia, grouse, FunkyHelix, spiderwire, mullingitover, Dormant Gorilla, schyler523, scody, sveskemus, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], bettafish, Rock Steady, scrump, Mister_A, oneirodynia, eyeballkid, Artw
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"I don't mean to imply that it's not interesting (it most definitely is), it's just... Isn't there a guideline regarding still-open threads?
The craziness in Iceland is kind of a new and weird and ongoing thing. So while I hear where you're coming..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Your Time Machine Sucks, nthdegx, Caduceus
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"When I went to college, I was this hippie-ass longhair liberal city kid from the Pacific Northwest planted in amongst a bunch of new friends who were mostly smaller-town east coast guys, and this was one of the weirder bits of culture clash for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by longsleeves, ShawnStruck
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"If it helps, you could try imagining instead a wry British referee standing around in a smart jacket, pausing for a moment to consider before dashing a finger in the direction of the referent and uttering, sotto voce before an expectant crowd:..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by chihiro, MythMaker, flibbertigibbet, Heretic, Nattie, spiderwire, turgid dahlia, contraption, Solon and Thanks, Rhaomi, schyler523, Locative, atrazine, kosem, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, misha, roll truck roll, Cool Papa Bell, shmegegge
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"HOLDEN: You're in Juneau, walking along the snow, when all of a sudden you look down—
PALIN: Why?
H: Why what?
P: Why am I in Juneau?
H: It doesn't make any difference—
P: But, how come I'd be there? Todd's got a snow machine race..." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by gamera, shmegegge, Your Time Machine Sucks, blueberry, Hutch, kosher_jenny, Mental Wimp, shiu mai baby, shitcock, jokeefe, Shepherd, scody, mrzarquon, homunculus, EarBucket, quin, spiderwire, Meatbomb, Artw
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"as someone who says "gay" meaning bad occasionally, the task of those who wish to change my language is not only to convince me that it is insulting to gays, but that I should consider not saying it around straight people as well...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by rtha, Blazecock Pileon
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"is the problem with this word just that it might offend someone, but that people can continue to use it with non-gays because it's OK?
No, the problem is that people who one assumes not to actually be bigots use the words without considering the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lord_wolf
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Raf, the threshold for deleting stuff just for being obnoxious noise is a lot different in the blue than in the green, so your comment there is probably safe.
But in the long run, it'd be great if you could just choose between (a) actually saying..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brain cloud
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I was on the fence about the question and personally think B.O. is a silly answer; out of context I'd probably have nixed the latter, but wowie wow wow is this a weird and overt reaction to such a molehill situation. Jesus.
the RGB values for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by misha, lukemeister
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"HEY JONMC DO YOU BY ANY CHANCE LIKE THE RAMONES, POSSIBLY BETTER THAN YOU LIKE A-HA
I JUST WANT TO ASK BECAUSE I'M NOT REALLY CLEAR ON THAT POINT AND I WAS HOPING YOU COULD MAYBE ELUCIDATE A LITTLE
SO THAT I WOULD BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR..." [
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favorited 35 times, recently by shmegegge, kosher_jenny, feathermeat, hot soup girl, Mavri, Dormant Gorilla, Mayor West, Jofus, Alnedra, minifigs, breath, Nattie, creeky, lazymonster, litlnemo, ook, Brainy, grabbingsand, mrzarquon, MegoSteve, spiderwire, iamkimiam, bitter-girl.com, UbuRoivas, GuyZero, graventy, five fresh fish, Wolof, puke & cry, lonefrontranger, chiababe, pxe2000, papafrita, tkchrist, RokkitNite
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Fair enough. I do the same thing, except in my case it's the fact that when Gillian Anderson blinks she closes one eye a fraction of a second before the other...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Greg Nog
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"What's wrong with conspiracy theory questions? I don't see anything about them in the FAQ, nor can I think of anything wrong with them.
If you mean what's wrong with questions that somehow reference conspiracy theories, the answer is that there's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Cleaned that up and blogged it. Liberal dystopian sci-fi political dialectic satire fame, here I come." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Shepherd
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Good lord, let us not get bogged down in another phonetics debate.
"Nucular" is an established regionalism, and defensible on those grounds in normal usage. It's perfectly fair to note the difference in pronunciation, but attribution of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, DevilsAdvocate
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The problem is that you can't have a discussion of bridge-toll economics without being accused of being a troll by gruff anti-tax billy zealots." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by spiderwire
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The problem is your can't criticize a vegans diet without being labeled a vegan hater
I've heard that theory before, about veganism and any number of other topics. In practice, what you can and can't get away with criticizing seems to depend more..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spiderwire
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, that account is totally active. The user just doesn't seem to, you know, actually be doing anything." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The auctions for actual items just seem like a combination of scam and gambling.
The term you are looking for is 'scambling'." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by Monochrome
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"As I see it, multi-contributor sites like Blogcritics are problematic, because whereas it would be an obvious self link if you linked to something you'd written there, linking to something unrelated to you on the same site
You did hit the nail on..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"When asked as a child to pick his favorite crayon, Pauly Shore took 'umberage'." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sambosambo
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Dude, you're Adam Savage, you could self-link to a collection of finger paintings and hand turkeys from your elementary school years and at the end of the day these guys will still want to smell your dick.
I love Adam to death (in a semi-abstract..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by bettafish, Mick, flatluigi, ook, longsleeves
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, that's pretty much way too close for comfort; a disclaimer is a nice thought, but it'd pretty much be a lightning rod in practice—the rule exists whether you disclose or not.
If it's good, interesting work there's a reasonable chance..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paleyellowwithorange
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Which is objected to for some reason, even though threads really do exist conceptually, they are just crippled by a lack of tools to handle them.
The natural threading of conversation is a much more elegant thing than any extant forum-threading..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by paleyellowwithorange
7 days ago
