Ask comment:
"I'm so sorry. You obviously love your cat and want to do right by her.
(On preview) I'm in intellectual agreement with nanojath, but here's my emotional take on it: I lost a cat to oral cancer last year. Her prognosis was four months, and we hoped..." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by acorncup
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"4 Tablespoons cake flour
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 Mug
Err, those proportions seem a bit off. Here's what goes in my family's version of that Depression-era favourite Wacky Cake...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Arasithil, mosessis, yeoja, cklennon, magstheaxe, utsutsu, Sys Rq, subbes, interrobang, regicide is good for you, Silly Ashles, googlebombed
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Nowhere near as cute and effective as this monitor cleaner or this screen cleaner, damn it. Do you have something in a gerbil?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kronos_to_Earth
13 days ago
MeTa comment:
"my partner watched my bells descend again
Well, there's your problem. Carillons and sex just don't mix." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, whenever I phone up Toronto Hydro on my semi-regular Sunday afternoon power outages, it still calls my neighbourhood part of the old city of York. Quaint, whot?
throws rainbow glitter at the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tehloki
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Pretty cool, but it lacks the human touch. When I lived in co-op student housing, I caught my mice by sitting vewwwwy quietly on the kitchen floor next to an empty, open box of Shredded Wheat. I'd put a few shreds of cereal inside the box, wait, wait,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by sebastienbailard, Reverend John
Last month
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"Opinions vary widely on the value of the Smith machine. Krista at Stumptuous is one of those who argues against using the Smith.
I have used both machines and free weights, and prefer free weights:
1) Lots of machines don't fit small people..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by HighTechUnderpants
Last month
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"I have a brown Burmese who makes a raspy, closed mouth "Mmmmpth!!" sound when he's confused, curious or upset (see: this afternoon's bath). He sounds remarkably like Marge Simpson...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sebastienbailard
Last month
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"Fast, easy, healthy fried tofu
Extra firm tofu (full or half block)
1 egg per half block
Flavour: soy sauce, pepper, sesame oil or chili oil or chili flakes
Optional dip: soy sauce, rice vinegar
Optional: green onion for final pancake
1...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
2 months ago
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"Morning pain in the heels sounds like plantar fasciitis. This is an overuse problem, associated with bad foot biomechanics, tight calf muscles and achilles tendons, and unsupportive shoes.
But PF doesn't come on suddenly from a single incident,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zaphod
2 months ago
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"One of the strongest arguments I've heard is hell, NO, don't seat the superdelegates at all. They're the ones who played chicken with the DNC and lost. Any number of solutions with pledged delegates seems fair, but the superdelegates who set up..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by the christopher hundreds, Brandon Blatcher
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I obviously got a defective birth certificate from Québec because this wee little Flash test states that I'm 12 years younger than that document claims. But this rigorous, iron-clad, absolutely scientific and deeply truthful test also says that I'm..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
3 months ago
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"Your sweet approach (fruit, cinnamon, nuts and flax) sounds like mine. So why not treat it like a neutral grain some morning and add more protein, which helps you keep full longer?
1. After you heat it and add flax, add some sliced leftover meat,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by trouserbat, chicainthecity
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"There's a BBC show called Eataholics that follows adults who severely limit their diets. Some of these people can't eat any kind of fruit or vegetable, or can eat only canned pasta, or chips, or pureed food. If they try to eat anything outside of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm a heathen who was permanently traumatized in my first attempt at pastry making in grade 8 Home Ec (apple pie with a lattice crust that could have been used as decorative ironwork).
There is no "pastry" in clafouti, yet still it..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Mutant, this would make a neat post to your own blog, but as an FPP, it's all over the place. The old Summers controversy is your first link, then inside we have references to Gray and De Beauvoir, plus a scattering of links about snoring, darts,..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Dizzy, Blazecock Pileon, rigby51, Miko
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Ok. That's pretty damn high.
OK. OK.
Gah!
JESUS CHRIST!
El Caminito del Rey El Caminito del Rey (The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by tehloki, availablelight, shmegegge, Nattie, Elmore, maryh, dobbs, arcticwoman
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Hey, you can still run Veronica searches.
You can't actually find much, but you can run the search." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"All my comments, including this one, are written on scented, hand-made paper, kissed once, folded twice over, sealed with wax, then wafted on the breeze until they finally show up on all your computers via the magic of paper-to-packets...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by misha
4 months ago
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"I had mild gingivitis a few months ago, but followed my hygienist's advice and have pink, healthy gums now.
I rinse and brush (steps 1-2) in the morning, and rinse, floss, brush and rinse (steps 1-4) in the evening.
1) Rinse and swish..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by prophetsearcher
4 months ago
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"Kitchens benefit from citrus or baking scents. I remove odors from my microwave by heating a small bowl of water with some lemon juice in it until it boils for about 30 seconds. When I open the microwave door, the kitchen then smells lemony.
Then..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kidsleepy, moxiedoll
4 months ago
MeFi post:
Happy 70th Birthday Holger Czukay!
favorited 20 times, recently by shawn, medeine, Bron, mikeh, digaman, space2k, pantufla, ZenMasterThis, nicolin, sleepy pete, El Brendano, UbuRoivas, ethel, trip and a half, Blazecock Pileon, jokeefe, mrcircles, dyoneo, not_on_display, glycolized
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I really liked Barack OBollywood. Really. It's just more proof that I didn't need to do 'shrooms when I was in high school, because this sort of thing was waiting for me in the future...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
4 months ago
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"I drink even more tea than you (with milk, no sugar) and yes, the quality of the cups can vary widely, although I don't get that afterglow. (Making I'm drinking it wrong.) Off the top of my head, here are some possibilities:
1) As has been..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 months ago
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"Try a little scrambled egg, cooked chicken or lean ground beef, mixed with some cooked white rice or bread. If you can puree it into goo, all the better. Just a little carb mixed in with the protein (try 1 part carb to 4 parts protein) shouldn't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by francesca too
4 months ago
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"Because rolling the French "r" properly is hard for most English speakers (but not Scots, I would assume). It might also be related to metathesis, where phonemes get swapped (also discussed here).
But yeah, it drives me nuts, too. And..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by olya
4 months ago
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"I thought Endel Tulving might have been the source, if we're talking memory, because he's talked for years about our need for language to create permanent episodic memories.
But I'd agree that consciousness is also a candidate. Antonio Damasio has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Coaticass
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It's just adorable that Mark E. Smith's dad is also so musical. "Gotta have a little bit of orange juice-AHH!"" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by silence
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh, it was playful scolding. Not a big deal. It wasn't as if I'd been caught using IE." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Morning all. I'd like to tell you about when I was a young boy. I must have been three or four months old at the time. I didn't really know what I wanted, and if I did, I wouldn't have been able to tell anybody, 'cos all I could do was gurgle. So I..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tehloki, not_on_display
5 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The only thing that bugs me about AskMe "should I eat this?" questions is that they're so detached. I much prefer giving good, sensible advice in person, because if it's followed, you win, and if it isn't, it can be one damn entertaining..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Elsa
5 months ago
Ask comment:
"Get away to some place safe, but I would suggest NOT getting a restraining order until you read De Becker's The Gift of Fear (mentioned above). He argues that it could potentially put you in more danger:
A study done for the U.S. Department of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nerro
5 months ago
