That's it. That's it. They're just so godamned excited to hate. It's really more than I expected. I mean every person's got their faults, but they just want to hate so much.
posted to MetaFilter by Science! at 7:58 PM on September 3, 2008

Alot of people have spoken to this, but this whole experience pissing match is just too stupid. Plus it took me a long time to type, so i'm going with it...

I am saying that it is wrong for the Democrats to claim Palin is less qualified than he. It is a ridiculous argument and it's time to drop it.

Despite totally disagreeing with you completely, I have a bit of respect for your input konolia. If only because you have stuck... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by billyfleetwood at 11:52 PM on September 3, 2008

You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

No, I believe you hotlink them from a German magazine.
posted to MetaFilter by cillit bang at 1:59 AM on August 25, 2008

You are not laid back, or willing to let things slide, and she is not a nag or emotional. In fact, you are making her be in charge of this stuff. You are making it both her fault and her responsibility for things to be done. If you wait until she either a) just does it herself or b) goes apeshit on you, well, gee you were going to get to it, right? Trust me, she does not enjoy nagging, she does not enjoy having to get emotional before you get up off your passive-aggressive ass and she sure as... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nax at 7:53 AM on August 20, 2008

Their pandering to a religious interrogation is what we're talking about here.

And there we have it. This is not about Rick Warren, not about CNN, but about disappointment with Obama. Because he seems happy to discuss issues of religion and faith, and even his own faith, you are left with two uncomfortable options:

a) Obama is being genuine and therefore not an atheistic intellectual like all the rest of you smart people.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jpdoane at 8:25 PM on August 20, 2008

I'm fairly certain Bob Costas mentioned this during the broadcast. If so, I'm thinking this is a non-story.
posted to MetaFilter by nushustu at 12:11 PM on August 11, 2008

"any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form,"

I don't think the lawmakers are bright enough to understand this, but this literally includes every single thing in the universe.
posted to MetaFilter by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:45 AM on August 1, 2008

Here's how I'd approach the ring vs. cost question:

(1) First, take stock of her current jewelry collection. Does she seem to have a lot of cabochons? Square-cut stones? Does she completely avoid yellow gold? Is everything extremely simple? Is everything extremely ornate? Does she seem to adore (or abhore) antiques?

(2) Look for a ring that fits in with her collection, while keeping in mind your presumptive fiancee's style and habits.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by palmcorder_yajna at 9:36 PM on July 29, 2008

Warning: A bunch of people did this on Something Awful. They did not enjoy the results.
posted to MetaFilter by smackfu at 9:19 AM on July 21, 2008

"No one told me there would be unremitting noise every Saturday for the rest of my life.”

I'm a renter and before I move to a new place I hang out there, sometimes for a couple hours--in the parks, on the street, asking passers-by if they live there and what they like and dislike about the area. I specifically ask them and the landlord about noise. You spent a million three on an apartment and you didn't go check out the neighborhood? You're a fucking a moron.
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 9:41 AM on July 9, 2008

and "refines" his stance against Iraq to consider indefinite, undefined or vaguely defined occupation.

What the hell is this bullshit? Obama's plan has always been to withdraw most of the troupes within 16 months, and "be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in." He has always said he would be flexible about how exactly that would happen. A couple days ago, he used the word "refine" his plans after consulting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 5:08 PM on July 9, 2008

emelenjr writes "Google should deliver the data on floppies."

I was thinking paper.
posted to MetaFilter by Mitheral at 7:49 AM on July 3, 2008

You know, I saw it as another Pixar movie embracing conservatism, just like The Incredibles, just like Cars, and to a point like Ratatouille.

Of course, in this case it was what I'd call the values of classical conservatism -- hard work, community, taking care of what you've got, the individual triumphing over nature/dictatorship.

It's sad that modern... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dw at 11:56 AM on July 1, 2008

These girls grew up together and they have known each other for far longer than I have known my significant other.

There's your answer right there. They're like sisters. They're not going to be getting it on, because that would be icky.

When I came out to my longtime, childhood best friend (who was also my roommate), her other friends started implying to her that she should, you know, be careful around me. Because, you know,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mudpuppie at 12:43 PM on June 21, 2008

Tonight is my 23rd wedding anniversary. The One and I have been amazingly incompatible for every single damn minute of every single damn day of every single one of those 23 years.

I hate to cook. She loves to cook. I like to sit and think. She likes to talk and socialize. I make a bunch of money. She keeps us out of the poorhouse. I speak English. She speaks some kind of confounding northern Michigan yooper dialect, eh? I'm kinda funny looking. She's beautiful.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stubby phillips at 11:42 PM on June 14, 2008

Another evening, Ms. Sherry and Mr. Klinsky were lying in their custom-made bed when a rod running along its foot snapped off. “I’m thinking, What the heck kind of cheap bed is this?” said Ms. Sherry, who phoned Mr. Clough the next day.

His response, which might have taken a less adventurous person aback, was that she take a wait-and-see attitude, that the bed bit was part of a larger “story” and that all would be revealed in good time.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by juv3nal at 11:04 AM on June 12, 2008

One last thing. I'd like the engineers in this thread to imagine themselves going about their business, happily engineering away, when a crazy foreigner wearing very odd clothes arrives, shouting at you in a totally foreign language that you're doing things all wrong.

You've just described a consultant.
posted to MetaFilter by joaquim at 11:33 AM on June 11, 2008

My local ISP has had pay-by-the-megabyte ever since I became a DSL subscriber. I love it. The number of gigabytes offered in the base package has been steadily increasing while prices have remained steady -- today it's 30GB up + 30 GB down per month and $0.0005 per MB after that.

So how much do you pay a month? You haven't mentioned that. It better be virtually nothing if that's all you can download a month.

Hey, remember... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shmegegge at 10:25 AM on June 4, 2008

My wife dyes wool like this all the time. It turns out really cool but the whole house smells like she's boiling dead sheep when she does it.
posted to MetaFilter by chococat at 10:31 AM on May 2, 2008

Levin insists he is not advocating waterboarding or any other kind of aggressive interrogation technique but he points out that there is a realistic question to asked : How tough should governments get when lives are on the line?

Take the argument to its logical conclusion. Say there's a nuclear bomb hidden in mid-town Manhattan, and we have a person in custody who will tell us where it is, but only if we torture him. What the United States... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by one_bean at 1:33 PM on May 1, 2008

What's a ****?

Four nudists looking for nickels...
posted to MetaTalk by Rumple at 4:04 PM on April 11, 2008

My daughter, nine, sleeps in; I like to get up and be in front of the computer working by four or five a.m. Last weekend when I was putting her to bed she looked at me and said "Dad, I want to get up really early tomorrow morning like you and we can go for a walk—I've never seen what it was like outside that early." Then she told me she knew that when the morning came she would be asleep and I would decide not to disturb her, so she made me promise to wake her up no matter what.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Turtles all the way down at 11:12 AM on April 9, 2008

Sometimes kids won't believe the truth anyway. True story. I'm in a taxi with my niece, who is five, and my sister (her mother).

Niece: Were there dinosaurs when you were little?
Me: No the dinosaurs were all gone a long time before that.
N: Before Grandma was little even?
M: Yes, even before Grandma was little.

[Pause as five year-old tries to imagine such a time]

N: What happened to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Bellman at 12:35 PM on April 9, 2008

My Junior High School banned the isopropyl alcohol pads we used to sterilize our heroin kits, so we just said fuck it and used the shop teacher's stash of Jack Daniels and the arc welder instead.
posted to MetaFilter by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:49 PM on April 6, 2008

Dear People,
It's a home first and and second, an investment a distant third.

love,
Common Sense.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 5:53 AM on March 27, 2008

The part where he talked about his grandmother saying racist things really hit home with me, as did the part where he talked about middle and lower class whites feeling they haven't been privileged by merit of being white. The examples he gave of blaming things on immigration leading to a build up racial resentment were spot on, too.

I'm only 23 and grew up in Houston, TX, so I had more minority friends than white friends growing up just because the city is so... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nattie at 3:19 AM on March 19, 2008

"Americans would generally say that they went to 'a university.'"

Americans I know would generally say they "dropped out of high school".

We obviously run with different crowds.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 10:45 AM on March 17, 2008

Wow. I'm rarely on the cutting edge of anything, but like miss tea I see this phenomenon in action daily, and eat a lot of food that people like these folks grow. Despite snark by those less familiar with the phenomenon, it's not pie in the sky, and I do think it's an important movement worth paying attention to.

I also don't think it's a passing trend at all - the Style section debut gives that impression with its typically shallow coverage and focus on the affluent,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Miko at 8:06 AM on March 17, 2008

Transcribed from WSJ link

Examples of the data the NSA can look at without a judicial warrant in its search for hints of terrorism:

Email: Recipients and sender address; subject; time sent

Internet: Sites visited and searches conducted

Cellphone: Numbers incoming or outgoing; length of call, location

Phone: Numbers of incoming or outgoing; length of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by quin at 1:08 PM on March 10, 2008

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
posted to MetaFilter by barnacles at 9:54 PM on March 9, 2008

mathowie: You enter a large, blue room. There is a door to the left leading to a green room and a door to the right leading to a gray room. The room is full of trolls.

jessmyn: Again with the fucking trolls! I whip out my +1 Banhammer.

cortex: Good thinking. Trolls take double damage from banhammers.

mathowie: The trolls flee into the gray room, as is their trollish custom.

cortex: I search for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Parasite Unseen at 1:43 PM on March 4, 2008

Okay, based on the evidence, Occam's Razor says it was a radioactive avalanche filled with secret police and wild animals. And, honestly, that's as good a description of Commie-era Russia as any I have ever heard.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 9:41 AM on February 22, 2008

My mom has gotten up on occasion and can't figure out what the cat wants

Let's go inside the brain of a cat...

* Meow.
* Whoa, the human that gives me food woke up.
* Double whoa, the human is standing up and walking around. I better hang around, something interesting might happen.
* I better do this again tomorrow.
* Meow.
* Bummer, they didn't react this time. Oh... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Cool Papa Bell at 10:29 AM on February 15, 2008

I like to mail things to my away at college daughter in clean, empty 2-liter soda pop bottles. I think a smaller water bottle would work well here. The pencil would be protected and it would be a fun container to receive.

When I send the soda pop bottles, I usually cut a U-shaped "door" to gain a bigger access to the insides. I then use a label to cover over the "door." I don't wrap the bottles or box them in any way. Things I send: a t-shirt,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by daneflute at 5:37 PM on February 12, 2008 marked best answer

Everyone here is probably aware of this, but I thought I would post these links for anyone who wanted greater context to this.

Frontline - Spying on The Home Front

Frontline - Cheney's Law

I've never been so outraged at our government before. I was never one of those people who said this presidential administration was criminal or the worst in the history of the United States. Because of this, I am now.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hellslinger at 10:51 AM on February 12, 2008

I liked this article better when it was Ed Norton's monologue from Fight Club.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has famously said that living in New York is a luxury good, i.e. you pay a premium to live there. Living in New York, in the eyes of the people who run it, is just another form of conspicuous consumption, and that is what I think this article is really about.

Wine. Jacques Torres chocolates. Kiehl’s skin... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 1:13 PM on February 5, 2008

Things that are good that could be said about the Firefly opening song: It's not the Enterprise opening song.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:29 AM on February 5, 2008

I abandoned armchair anarchism for a more vigorous sofa Stalinism, but of course it didn't take long for that to degenerate into coffee-table comprador capitalism. It'll be footstool fascism before we know it, unless the IKEA insurgents self-assemble some sort of autonomy..
posted to MetaTalk by Abiezer at 8:11 AM on February 3, 2008

The San Diego Zoo has what I think is the most awesome of small rodent houses ever, a house made entirely of a giant loaf of bread [pic] [recipe]. The keepers bake it, carve a few doors and windows and then let the mousey inhabitants gnaw their own interiors. It's enough to make any hammie swoon with jealousy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jamaro at 3:24 PM on January 30, 2008

"I won't spoil it here, but it was the opposite of what I thought would happen."

The airplane remains on the runway and the conveyor belt soars majestically into the skies.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 3:21 PM on January 30, 2008

Warren Buffett had this bit of wisdom which I'll edit for brevity:
There are roughly 6 Billion people in the world. Imagine the worlds biggest lottery where every one of those 6 Billion people was required to draw a ticket. Printed on each ticket were the circumstances in which they would be required to live for the rest of their lives.

Printed on each ticket were the following items: Sex, Race, Place of Birth (Country, State, City, etc.), Type of Government,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by 0xFCAF at 3:46 PM on January 25, 2008

Upon reading yr 'more inside' my advice may be irrelevant. But I'll share it anyway (^_^). I have horrendously dry skin, in winter (my favorite season) my hands and feet (heels) crack and bleed. It's painful! I have used, probably, well over 100 products, I have been to MD's. What I stumbled upon (via a 'green' friend) may not work for everyone, but for me it's been a damn miracle. Badger Balm. Maybe it's the mix ratio of the product, the natural oils, or a placebo effect, but for the second... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by dawson at 4:17 PM on January 25, 2008

The PN and other /b/rethren who hail from various sekrit places give these enviroments an edge, a wildness, a sense that not everyone here is just interested in racking up virtual gold or grimly maxing out the stats of their stupid Night Elf.

Chaos needs its champions too.

Dude, there is an awesome, wild place that is more chaotic than you can possibly imagine, and this environment is called OUTSIDE.
posted to MetaFilter by kittens for breakfast at 2:07 PM on January 24, 2008

I was reading something that explained why it is that science makes it hurt.

The person was comparing it to cats. We all know that cats give birth in quiet, dark corners all alone and only emerge if they have a big problem and need immediate help. For the most part, though, cats give birth in the dark and come out only when the process is completed.

But if we were really interested in watching cats give birth, we couldn't just let them labor... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by InnocentBystander at 10:42 PM on January 20, 2008

Every time I see a commercial mention that "not so fresh feeling" I want to throw things and scream into the television "LOOK! It's a mucus secreting organ that also has an excretory function that sits BETWEEN YOUR THIGHS all day long where not only does it not get a whole lot of AIR, but it's got a nice proximity to the femoral arteries to heat it up! HOW FRESH DO YOU REALLY WANT IT TO BE?!"

And then I remember that the TV can't hear me.
posted to MetaFilter by grapefruitmoon at 8:29 PM on January 10, 2008

Some of us seem to need the sort of hug only a straitjacket can give.
posted to MetaTalk by jamjam at 3:10 PM on January 6, 2008

Why is it that there is actually a separate spoon for eating grapefruit when an ordinary tablespoon suffices?

Some of you are truly barbarians.
posted to MetaTalk by gomichild at 8:38 PM on December 10, 2007

Thank you for this. I missed out on the earlier thread somehow but I made my way through most of it last night. Just to add another datapoint: I've been a member of Metafilter since 2001. I met my husband through the site, for God's sake. Barring odd circumstances like vacation or lack of internet access, I've read the site every day. Every single day.

I very, very rarely participate in the blue any more because I'm sick of this shit. Things like the comic about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sugarfish at 8:39 AM on November 24, 2007

She's in front of the photograph because she's the producer.

Is it possible that Ubisoft is having her promote her game more than other producers do because she's attractive? Sure, it's possible. That doesn't make a picture of a woman in an office some kind of erotic gimmick, and it doesn't mean that a fully-clothed woman promoting the non-sexual product she produced is somehow "selling sex."

A woman's presence does not automatically... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lemuria at 7:59 PM on November 19, 2007

I wonder how all the human prostitutes felt when an army of police men showed up to rescue someone from that hellish life... and chose the orangutan.
posted to MetaFilter by 517 at 3:41 PM on November 15, 2007