MeFi comment:
"Now, what the fuck kind of bullet is a Teflon vest going to stop?
Wouldn't they just slide right off?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Alvy Ampersand
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"What's a Nubian?
A lesbian who hasn't been doing it very long?" [
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favorited 28 times, recently by Reverend John, dmd, kryptondog, Asymptote, liza, flatluigi, mudpuppie, nax, tommasz, Araucaria, sperose, Pope Guilty, stavrogin, WolfDaddy, speug, bitter-girl.com, The Bellman, Optamystic, The Light Fantastic, Marie Mon Dieu, Floach, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, KokuRyu, briank, dirtynumbangelboy, munchingzombie, cusack, Your Time Machine Sucks
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Also, it's the second part of a statement: "Despite the fact that this thing is ugly, worthless or otherwise undeserving of my attentions, I would have sexual intercourse with it". Which isn't a very nice thing to say, or imply, even in..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by marble, hadjiboy, arcticwoman, agregoli, LobsterMitten
12 days ago
MeTa comment:
"is "I'd hit it" really sexist?
It's actually one of the sexist tropes that's openly (and astonishingly) misogynistic. In addition to the fact that it's generally used to undermine the female subject of the thread or a female speaker, in..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by marble, kev23f, numinous, hadjiboy, peacheater, sudama, aclevername, MsElaineous, Salamandrous, arcticwoman, agregoli, LobsterMitten, Rumple, tristeza, wendell, zebra3, Your Time Machine Sucks
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Jesus: You have deaded me, you rotten swine you! Eheu!
(Exits through cardboard and string angelic choir.)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flabdablet
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Surely that should read:
Saddam Hussein is gone, and as a result Iran remains defiant, and more powerful than ever." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Robson
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Daleks have a sort of edge, because (unlike Cybermen) they're not devoid of emotion, it's just that that emotion is a psychotic hatred of everything that's not a Dalek.
In fact they represent the two main wings of totalitarianism.
The..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think the problem is more that they're loud and they listen to lazy music, but whatever. They should remove themselves from my lawn forthwith, nonetheless...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Who_Am_I, Wilder
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So, as Joseph and Mary and the baby Jesus were fleeing the extermination of the first-born in Bethlehem, they pass two shepherds. When they've gone past, one shepherd turns to the other and says "Did you check out the babe on that ass?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sys Rq, the Real Dan
Last month
Ask comment:
"Traditionally in the UK, the word research was pronounced with the accent on the second syllable. At some point in the last ten years (on Radio Four at least, and the today program at that), the stress has shifted to the first syllable, which I think..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by badmoonrising
Last month
MeFi comment:
"So you were studying saudade in England, in the North, in the Late 70s (Callaghan turns into Thatcher). Am I right in thinking that there's something grimly appropriate about that?
I know nothing of Manchester (other than what I read) but twenty..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cgc373
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Cool, the ignomony of being an idiot who should probably read all the links as well as the comments is offset by the gratification of being right!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lukemeister
Last month
MeFi comment:
"The book ... has been described to the president.
"Well, Mr President, it's a stack of paper glued together on one side, about this wide and yea tall. If you hold it like this and hit someone on the head with it, it'll stun them for a couple..." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by redfisch, iamkimiam, kryptondog, violette, boo_radley, Balisong, graymouser, mek, blueberry, whir, hototogisu, blender, onlyconnect, brain cloud, marble, malthas, FatherDagon, MikeKD, electroboy, ShawnStruck, Rock Steady, agress, jokeefe, hackly_fracture, davelog, Optamystic, Dean King, Atom Eyes, PlusDistance, quin, ukdanae
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Personally I think it's more fun to make a ghost the old-fashioned way, with a bloody and horrible murder. Though that technique isn't without its drawbacks, I'll admit...." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, deborah, papafrita, quin, Jess the Mess, Jilder, slf, Scram, Caduceus, Faint of Butt, Tbola, snwod, cinemafiend, The Bellman, retronic, zixyer, [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST]
Last month
Ask comment:
"Comedy being subjective, I may be way off-beam, but still...
You'd probably enjoy anything written or co-written by Graham Linehan - Father Ted, Big Train, Hippies and Paris with Arthur Mathews; Black Books with Dylan Moran (first series only, but..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by turgid dahlia, fructose
Last month
Ask comment:
"In my dreams,
You’re all I sees,
boobs, butt and knees.
Be my main squeeze.
Steve Dallas" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by erlkonig
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I wonder what the ads were for.
I seem to remember a lot of 'If you're sat at home alone, there's people waiting to chat on the phone'
There's something I've always wondered about one of those...
It was for a gay chat line (the one..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by 999
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Let's see if this analogy is good:
In Soccer, you can't touch the ball with your hands unless you're the goalie. If you do so, then you're operating outside the rules, and playing unskilfully, because the value of the game is in adherence to the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by shavenwarthog, amethysts, The Bellman
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I can only agree with Charlie Brooker's assessment of everything.
Indeed. Or is that what you meant?
Anyway, yes, Boris. His appearance on the Newsnight debate was the most appalling display of political incompetence I've ever seen. It managed..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by axon, aihal, fearfulsymmetry, silence
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Why didn't he live on the island of Snark instead?
Although he did illustrate The Hunting of the Snark. I designed / typeset an edition about ten years ago, that included a lot of sketches. For two weeks, I had a green box file full of original..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mygothlaundry
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think the problem is that the authorities still want the threat of death to hang over the crossing of the road as a disincentive. Otherwise they could build a tunnel under the freeway (without intending disrespect, the sort of thing that's done for..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Skwirl, longdaysjourney
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"absalom, I don't know to what extent you're joking, but the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 killed more people than World War I. Think less a really bad cold, and more The Black Death...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"thatdowdygirl, FYO (sorry):
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by voltairemodern, jessamyn
4 months ago
Ask comment:
"A few years ago I discovered it was impossible to listen to more than fifteen minutes of either George Clinton / Funkadelic or Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club de Paris and remain pissed off...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd like to suggest that Victor Lewis Smith got there first, although I realise that no-one, least of all Santeri Ojeri, has any idea who Victor Lewis Smith is...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by billtron
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Sim, in a nutshell: "Women are so stupid! As proof, see how stupid this woman is, in my comic that I wrote and drew??"
Except that the wierd thing about Sim is that that's not true. It's like there are two people - the one that draws..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by crystal.castles, phooky, smartyboots, whir, nanojath, Edgewise, These Premises Are Alarmed, Faint of Butt
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"it's just that the fingers on one hand was always sufficient.
And cheaper to take out on a date, too." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""Policy Exchange has become one of the seminal influences on political debate in Britain."
Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP
By "seminal influence" I think he means they're white, sticky and smell a bit funky. And they seem to leave..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by robcorr, wendell, nasreddin, axon, Wilder
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Grease.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:56 AM on November 25 [+] [!]
Word." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iamkimiam
7 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Seconding singular they. There's no need for anything fiddlier than that.
Also, "dick" is German for fat. You can get two constituencies with that, if it's the sort of thing you want to do...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Abiezer
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm coming to the conclusion that to wish violence or death on anyone, even as a joke - especially as a joke - coarsens the soul. It's something that grown-ups shouldn't do. And even though I don't think I'll ever qualify as a grown-up, I'd like to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by madamjujujive, timeistight
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"As someone who has, in the past, been quite good at IQ tests (though I don't actually think they prove anything other than that one is quite good at IQ tests), an important factor in getting the answers right is being motivated to take the test..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by marble
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"being followed down the street from the age of 8 onwards by a bloke with his penis hanging out of his trousers
He'll be getting on a bit now. Do you have to walk more slowly, so he can keep up?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by arcticwoman, raevyne
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Tony Levin is everywhere
From which we can reliably conclude that Tony Levin is God.
I can think of worse gods." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Songdog
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I was listening to the latest edition of From Our Own Correspondent about this yesterday, with some interesting background about the situation.
I found it interesting that not only are the government brutal and corrupt, but also very stupid and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by randomination
10 months ago
