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Now I want to meet ColdChef.
posted to MetaFilter by mazola at 12:33 PM on August 15, 2014

I really wanted to see him put on the flip-flops, pick up his pipes and walk away!

I wanted to to see the carpet whisk him off the ground as he was playing "A Whole New World".
posted to MetaFilter by horsewithnoname at 4:32 PM on August 15, 2014

“I would have liked to have been consulted,” Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ronald S. Johnson said at a news conference Friday morning.

Yeah, Ferguson PD want to fuck over Ron Johnson as much as they want to smear Mike Brown. It's bad enough that they were forced to abandon their Third Reich cosplay (god I love you for coining that, Artw). That it was a black man who was brought in to take away their authority and get all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 11:42 AM on August 15, 2014

Reading this a week before I have to go back to school (as a teacher) was perfect timing! I teach a class for high school seniors where they write resumes, create portfolios, and learn job/soft skills. Now I really want to have my students read this piece - or parts of it - and create a whole lesson around it. Because every word is true - how you treat people really makes your life better. I think I've always felt a lot like the author in terms of being polite in how I treat... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NoraCharles at 9:25 AM on August 15, 2014

Hi, flapjax here, your resident protest singer. I wrote a song about Ferguson. Here it is.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 8:05 AM on August 15, 2014

mathowie - I also just saw it and I'd agree. "I don't think anyone is 100% a dick."
posted to MetaFilter by capricorn at 7:54 AM on August 15, 2014

I started the video but then immediately had to leave the room. Hearing the butt-rock soundtrack from across the house made me think I left the menu screen running on an old PlayStation 2 swamp racing game.
posted to MetaFilter by sourwookie at 7:00 AM on August 15, 2014

I don't see why Alton Brown makes a huge drama about cutting mangoes.

Not understanding why Alton Brown makes a huge drama out of something is not understanding Atlon Brown, Super Fussbudget.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 7:07 AM on August 15, 2014

Agreed there is no down-side - being scrupulously polite to my toddler daughter has been one of the few successful things I've decided to do in my life and I recommend trying it to everyone with kids.

I noticed one day that people rudely bark orders at their kids constantly in ways they'd never dream of doing to any adult, and then wonder why their kids are surly and aggressive later with their peers. Kids' dignity is actually very fragile and I find they respond... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by colie at 4:26 AM on August 15, 2014

We are in the process of finalizing SBA growth levers to achieve our $65MM goal and $80MM Q4 run rate target. Value prop and awareness activities include:
•Presenting value prop of both conventional and SBA solutions side by side
•Integrate SBA conversations into WEAVE process
•Launched $2500 Guarantee Fee Waiver Promo
•Targeted mailers in SBA centric industries
•SBA LEADS loading into SRM
•Updated banker job aids
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ersatzkat at 8:24 AM on August 14, 2014 marked best answer

"Sir, there are protesters gathering. They are saying that they believe one of our officers unnecessarily escalated a situation that should have been resolved peacefully."

"FIRE UP THE TANKS! GET THE TEAR GAS CANNONS! NO ONE ACCUSES US OF UNNECESSARY ESCALATION!"
posted to MetaFilter by Pater Aletheias at 7:47 AM on August 14, 2014

This is a movie about interstellar travelers who all speak English, featuring a talking raccoon and a sentient tree, and the place where people are getting stuck is the durability of a mixtape?

Really?
posted to FanFare by DirtyOldTown at 7:38 PM on August 3, 2014

There has been a drive-by shooting in the vicinity of the W. Florissant Ave. protests. The general area of the Quik Trip gas station that was torched the other night seems to have gone from somewhat placid to scary as hell in a hurry.

Before that, this incredible thing took place, which moved me to make my first Storify.
posted to MetaFilter by dhartung at 10:50 PM on August 12, 2014

She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself.

She can overthink a plate of beans in less than twelve parsecs!
posted to MetaTalk by Celsius1414 at 10:28 AM on August 12, 2014

I was going to suggest we write "more" above one door, "moar" above another, and have everybody vote by walking through the doorway that represents their preference, but then I remembered that one does not simply walk into Moar Door.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 12:43 PM on August 6, 2014

Also yay Jessamyn, and all that. There cannot be a meta post about the state of the site without a yay Jessamyn reminder
posted to MetaTalk by Namlit at 7:37 AM on August 6, 2014

I'm going to start referring to these as hobo fixies.
posted to MetaFilter by Atom Eyes at 9:54 AM on August 4, 2014

I grew up as a DZ rat, basically since before I could walk. Both my parents were military skydivers, then civilian riggers and jumpers. I've known a guy who died after a main-reserve entanglement (the thing Dave was afraid of when he couldn't cut away his unusable main, although I find downplanes more terrifying than entanglements); I've also known a guy who "bounced" (... yep, skydivers do say that, or used to 20+ years ago) and lived.

My dad still does the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dorque at 7:28 PM on August 1, 2014

I'd like to highlight and expand on grouse's answer having run the gamut of bookkeeping and accounting operations for a small (~$20MM per annum) business that was the victim of check fraud. This is not accounting advice. Your account manager at your bank will be able to tell you about available products, services and protections.

Let's draw a clear distinction between checking and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). Checks are physical paper instruments which include payer... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by books for weapons at 3:17 AM on August 2, 2014 marked best answer

Hey, Metsatöll on the blue! I was a founding member actually, played the drums. I went to school starting from 1st grade with the main dude Markus, we were best friends. But I quit already in 2004 because of going to uni in another city. Still, it was a blast, we had some great gigs.

Shameless self-promotion: here I am playing the drums and the shaman drum. I think the video and the song totally rock.
posted to MetaFilter by Pyrogenesis at 8:36 AM on July 11, 2014

This is what every visit to Tumblr is like for me.
posted to MetaFilter by malthusan at 4:57 PM on July 30, 2014

I'm looking for the one that says

I DON'T NEED FEMINISM BECAUSE 73% OF THE PAY FOR THE SAME WORK IS ALL I DESERVE
posted to MetaFilter by George_Spiggott at 9:17 AM on July 25, 2014

You don't have to have a degree in women's studies or a nuanced understanding of gender politics to raise independent-minded daughters. My father certainly didn't - he went to trade school instead of college and that kind of theoretical book-study was really not what he was into.

But what my father did do, though, was encourage thinking in general. And he let me see that that was something in me that he valued. I've talked before about how Dad liked playing devil's... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 3:56 AM on December 22, 2013 marked best answer

I was thinking about doing a rewatch of ST:TOS and I started with the pilot. I hated the end so much I had to take a break from the franchise. The whole point of the episode seemed to be that humanity was about experiencing the risks and pains of freedom because that's what makes life meaningful. Then at the end there's this big caveat: 'Unless you're a woman with an unappealing appearance. Then you're much better off cocooned in a fantasy existence where you get to be beautiful. Real life is... [more]
posted to FanFare by Salamandrous at 10:39 AM on July 19, 2014

likely because i don't disagree with the judge?

maybe you missed the many times I said about I am pro-SSM

right, right, I forgot that you were talking about some other hypothetical terrified person.
posted to MetaTalk by kagredon at 11:14 AM on July 18, 2014

FYI, I'm one of the authors. I can answer specific questions.

IndigoJones - the specific answer is I think its possible the rise in reported rapes mirrors the rise in crimes more broadly starting around then. We see this for many crimes during the 1980s, as there was a large crime wave in the United States throughout the 80s.

For our estimation, though, we are using synthetic control to estimate the counterfactual ex post reported rapes and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scunning at 7:12 AM on July 18, 2014

People are making really good points about escalation here, and what it means. Engagement is dangerous. Deescalation is better than pride—in general.

However. I don't like letting it go.

So my experience is that dealing with this stuff doesn't start with your in-the-moment response. There's preparation involved. For me, I had to reel it all the way back to self-defense classes. I'm a not terribly "manly" gay guy, and... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RJ Reynolds at 7:29 AM on July 17, 2014

There's a lot of annoying stuff in these answers about being logical. That's all well and fine, but we're not logical beings. You *know* this isn't the worst thing in the world on the face of it, and you KNOW you "agreed" to it and all, but WHO CARES? It feels like crap, you're living nowhere, the kiddo is probably frustrated, and everything is about Mr. Man. Of course you're going to be pissed and cranky and dejected and sorrowful. And you're starting to feel your age, too, and that's... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by RJ Reynolds at 6:48 AM on July 11, 2014

I once saw someone on okcupid whose profile specifically mentioned that she didn't shave her armpits as a way of filtering out people that were unlikely to be good matches.

Four years later, we're expecting a baby.
posted to MetaFilter by memebake at 7:47 AM on July 10, 2014

You know how smoking isn't cool anymore, and the cultural response to seeing someone smoking outside a building has become a mix of contempt and pity? That's because of a concerted effort to shift cultural perception around the behavior of smoking, and it's worked in a remarkably short time. See also: littering, marriage equality, premarital sex.

As a writer and communicator, one of the biggest things you can do is change that cultural narrative. There are groups working... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Andrhia at 8:30 AM on July 13, 2014

I was impressed that this episode followed Chekhov's banjolele to the letter: If a banjolele is introduced in Act I, you can be sure that it'll be played by Act III.
posted to FanFare by umbú at 9:36 PM on June 27, 2014

Don't say a slick of lipstick
Don't say adorbs
Don't say adorkable
Don't say amuse bouche
Don't say apols
Don't say baby bump
Don't say bad optics
Don't say bang on trend
Don't say bingo wings
Don't say bitchy resting face
Don't say body confidence
Don't say bucket list
Don't say burglarized
Don't say butthurt
Don't say... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by zamboni at 12:16 PM on July 11, 2014

The selfie I took of President Obama will look great on the autobiography I'm writing of Mick Jagger.
posted to MetaFilter by blue_beetle at 11:56 AM on July 11, 2014

Can I pay one of them to model for my photos as well? Filling out my LinkedIn already feels like writing about a fictional character who shares my name.
posted to MetaFilter by rollick at 11:45 AM on July 11, 2014

*waves*
This comic came out last year, but it's really making a tour of the Internet this week! Anyway, it was a nice surprise to see it on the blue this morning.

I'll check in if people have direct questions, but the conversation seem to be going fine without me.
posted to MetaFilter by Bill_Roundy at 8:10 AM on July 11, 2014

vapidave, if I understand right, are you trying to frame asexuality/lack of sexual desire as "I don't even OWN a sexuality."?
posted to MetaFilter by mccarty.tim at 6:50 AM on July 11, 2014

FINAL WARNING CORTEX
posted to MetaFilter by um at 9:30 PM on July 9, 2014

MCMikeNamara: Personally, I think it's far more useful to have language to describe the shitty ways you are constantly feeling.

I was thrilled to understand the "microaggression" concept, because it helped me get why some days I want to chew nails and bust walls.

I use a power wheelchair and I take public transit. Every day I have ample opportunity to hear these conversational... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Jesse the K at 4:29 PM on July 9, 2014

Three mods, people. We have three mods.
posted to MetaFilter by um at 8:32 PM on July 8, 2014

TIMING!
posted to MetaTalk by not_on_display at 8:19 PM on July 8, 2014

Um, somebody actually made this decision.

Wow.
posted to MetaFilter by mudpuppie at 3:30 PM on July 8, 2014

HEY SCRUMP, I WANT MY $5
posted to MetaTalk by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:55 PM on July 7, 2014

Customers who ate octopus for breakfast also destroyed all the book shops.
posted to MetaFilter by w0mbat at 9:36 PM on July 6, 2014

To paraphrase John Hodgman, "For all matters pertaining to men, see the entire rest of our culture."
posted to MetaFilter by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 6:38 PM on July 2, 2014

I am so out of date on firecracker graphic design. Amazing! If I didn't know it would be a madhouse I'd head over to check out "shitty kitty" myself.

matt, let us know next year if you want more firecrackers, we cross the border all the time and have access to a car with WA plates
posted to MetaFilter by Secretariat at 9:39 AM on July 4, 2014

Troll of the decade.
posted to MetaFilter by duffell at 6:26 PM on July 2, 2014

Oh thank god, new threads. All the "what love is" stuff was amusing. But the vitally important burning issue about this episode is, was Soso's commentary on the Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory a direct hat-tip to MeFi and Cool Papa Bell, or just a general funny Intarwebs reference?
posted to FanFare by FelliniBlank at 5:59 PM on June 10, 2014

No story that urges you to root for the members of a royal family is ever going to be progressive.

Yeah. Taken another way, it's about rich, cloistered, self-absorbed white people wrecking entire countries of poor people and being oblivious to it in their castles of ice. And we root for them.
posted to MetaFilter by naju at 10:44 AM on June 29, 2014

Let it...oh, wait, Slate already made that joke.

That's about as harsh a thing as I've ever heard said about a joke.
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 10:34 AM on June 29, 2014