New Kids on the Backstreet Boys
Okay raise your hand if your brain went to a completely different place for a second. [
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Two years ago
the dudes are all rocking the Slick Gentlemen look, once someone introduces them to paisley and lavender it'll all gel together and then everyday life can just look like
Modesty Blaise all the time. .... [
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Two years ago
2012:
Detroit sees a noticeable uptick in young immigrants among the self-employed and urban-farmer demographic. They remain true and loyal until they have kids and bugger off.
2014:
Independent schools and home-schooling keep some families... [
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Two years ago
I am capable of liking both terse Westerns AND sexy vampires
at the same time. I know right, amazing. [
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Two years ago
What we're saying is that Metafilter needs more fiber. [
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Two years ago
Like I said before and in every BSG discussion if I can fix your big finale in an afternoon just by making things a little more fuzzy then you have done it Wrong.... [
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Two years ago
You users and your mutable indenities making me think I'm the janitor of the Danger Room or something. [
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Two years ago
Excellent Early December Posts
An Alt History roundup by Zed
Children Of Byzantium by Kattullus
MST3K Musical MegaPost by JHarris [
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Two years ago
that's just him cause he's a raging dork.
Actually isn't this Spock's deal as well - he's got to be more Vulcan than Vulcan and is a bit of zealot?
Cause I'd like to think only dorky do-gooder wonks would end up working in Starfleet.... [
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Two years ago
I totally called gourmet doughnuts as the Next Food Fad like a year ago.
Look upon me and despair. [
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Two years ago
God that fish and chip place better be open so help me Zeus. [
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Two years ago
if there is a triangle of Productivity of twitter and facebook and gmail then I own fucking prime real estate on the floating mefi island of "Fuck is it 6pm already?... [
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Two years ago
but the prices are downright silly.
That's kind of how I feel, but I also know retail prices are basically smoke and magic considering the number of sample sales, second-hand deals and factory offloads places like these do.Like I like... [
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Two years ago
You know finding formalist analysis of bad movies shouldn't be so hard, but there you go. [
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Two years ago
Huh. I was avoiding that threat out of fear. Stop melting my cynical shell of a heart metafilter! [
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Two years ago
This is great. On the flip side I'd like to know what went so damn right with First Contact just a couple years before. I love that movie so.
First Contact is a well-enough made action movie in a shiny Trek wrapper with a number of... [
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Two years ago
NuTrek did the same thing First Contact did which was "Problems in your story? Ignore them by keeping the energy high and never looking back!" Which is a legit action movie style - if any common thread of awful connects the Trek movies it's... [
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Two years ago
In a kind of supreme irony, everyone I know who did the sensible thing and went to law school or "supported their hobby on the side" has been out of work for months and months and all the art school drop outs and full-time musicians have... [
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Two years ago
Metafilter: weak unless you've never seen Brazilian porn before. [
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Two years ago
I have good reason to suspect my opponent, Lewy Clark Noposionwells does, in fact, posion wells. [
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Two years ago
Vote for me, Lord Humongous Of The Outerlands, and I promise not to set your camp on fire. [
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Two years ago
Huh, I was just thinking how the Internet has expanded my Personal Empathy Sphere, from more contacts to being able to see other people's POV more clearly and quickly. Aren't we (20ish) supposed to be the Boy Scout-Big Joiner generation or do I just... [
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Two years ago
As someone with pretty broad tastes, I'll say the types-you-like scale tend to broaden with age as you meet new people.Put yourself in situations where you interact with different types of people, moving colleges will help that a lot.... [
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Two years ago
That Tarantino vs. Coen thing is
brilliant. [
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Two years ago
So I went for a beer run in my Amazing Black Outfit and Glowing Umbrella mostly so I could see the Storm and yeah wow, Manhattan does some Lothlorien shit in heavy snow, with the lights reflecting it back all pink and the heavy fog and big black... [
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Two years ago
There are the festooning of the rupees, the jars of faeries, the lamentation of the zoras, and the always popular bobbing for swords. [
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Two years ago
I have a glowing umbrella and a low black greatcoat and a top hat. I feel like I should be wandering the streets as a ghostly apparition. [
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Two years ago
The feast of Zelda Day involves many apples, flowers, and ambiguous chunks of meat. [
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Two years ago
TV Tropes you say? During a blizzard you say?
I say. [
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Two years ago
Springsteen style, mister.
In the right tone of voice that song becomes really, really dirty. [
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Two years ago
I bookmarked this without even reading the link or comments. I just KNEW. [
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Two years ago
THIS IS MY SNOWFLAKE. THERE ARE MY MANY LIKE IT BUT MY SNOWFLAKE IS SPECIAL. [
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Two years ago
Okay I'm making a beer run, and I'll be wearing head to toe black 40s-drag and sulking around like a Who villain. [
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Two years ago
So raise your hand if you, as a child, thought the negative space upside down triangle in the tri-force represented the Lost Fragment and on some other game you'd go searching for that?
Did that ever happen? My inner 6 year old wants to be... [
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Two years ago
I fully support today as Zelda day in the mighty mighty empire of Metafilter. [
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