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Did I say I have a solution?

You suggested washing the pot out. Water from unclean hotel taps is likely to contain substantial quantities of dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical which is directly responsible for thousands of deaths per year in America alone.
posted to MetaFilter by matthewr at 10:36 AM on February 9, 2007

I'm not staying in any hotel that requires me to cook up my own meth. That's what room service is for.
posted to MetaFilter by hojoki at 8:16 AM on February 9, 2007

Brewing up the morning pot of bathtub crank is the next logical step in America's energy drink progression. Pulling imaginary worms out of your face with rusty needle nose pliers will be the new shaving in the car on the way to work.
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 7:10 AM on February 9, 2007

It's strange to think of how much excitement and tragedy is associated with somebody deliberately doing something so fucking hideously dangerous.
posted to MetaFilter by tehloki at 7:25 PM on February 13, 2007

To bad this wasn't done in Keynote. I need to be dazzled by bullshit, not bored by it.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 12:30 AM on February 13, 2007

I just don't believe that anyone could keep her allegiance to her client(s) clear at all times. And how in the world could she remember what you told her vs. what he told her vs. what both of you told her? Not a good set-up!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Carol Anne at 2:13 PM on February 7, 2007

Some people do this, but I strongly advise against it just for the reasons that you're talking about. You're going to feel inhibited talking about the other partner, and both of you will be curious about what each other is saying. It may not be strictly unethical, but I think it's ill-advised.

From the therapist side, even if the therapist is capable of keeping each partner's secret (which he or she MUST), the therapist is always going to have "extra"... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jasper411 at 10:43 AM on February 7, 2007

An asronaut in prison? should make for interesting escape attempts MeFi LOL humor material.

NASA=Need Another Sex Addict.
posted to MetaFilter by fourcheesemac at 5:30 AM on February 6, 2007

You know what keeps hitting me? This woman is an astronaut. When I get over the initial bemusement about that fact, it leads to subfacts. She is far more intelligent and well-educated than I am. She's in far better physical shape than I am. She has more commitment, drive, and composure than I have. She's better at writing a resume, taking a job interview, following orders, and leading others than I am. And she had a job, the job, that we all fantasized about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roll truck roll at 1:32 AM on February 6, 2007

I'm not sure why people think it would be OK to place weird electronic devices underneath a highway overpass.

You mean weird electronic devices like a sign? With lights? America's streetscape has never before been soiled by such an unthinkable thing.
posted to MetaFilter by designbot at 11:17 AM on February 1, 2007

MSNBC video: Strange Day in Boston.

"The only bomb here is the potential movie."

posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 3:54 PM on January 31, 2007

I wouldn't put blame on the people of Boston, necessarily. Those who reported devices, if they indeed thought they could potentially pose some threat, were being vigilant, and that shouldn't be discouraged. We rather want people to err on the side of caution when it combs to bombs and shit.

And it's not like everyone in the city totally freaked out about it; it sounds more like the government did. It seems it is the disproportion of their reaction that is the real... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by troybob at 8:32 PM on January 31, 2007

Man, it's going to be awesome when Yahoo buys Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by Loser at 8:44 PM on January 31, 2007

For that to happen truly painlessly, the set of flickr names and the set of yahoo names would have to be disjoint.

flickruseratflickr@yahoo.com

to be followed in a couple of years by

flickruseratflickratyahoouseratyahoo@gmail.com

and finally, after the singularity

flickruseratflickratyahoouseratyahooatgmailuseratgmail@myspace.com
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 12:07 PM on January 31, 2007

Stand behind them while they're 'pitching' holding a sign that says:

IT'S A SCAM
RUN AWAY NOW
posted to Ask MetaFilter by koeselitz at 2:46 PM on January 26, 2007

If I knew I was going to live forever, then I would kill myself.
posted to MetaFilter by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:02 PM on January 23, 2007

I guess getting offended at all the pro-Christianity shit fellow fliers wear like those stupid crosses wouldn't be treated the same.
posted to MetaFilter by Civil_Disobedient at 9:28 PM on January 21, 2007

I am a woman and a philosophy teacher. There are a number of issues you are asking about all at once. Let's separate them.

1. Who are the great women philosophers?

Here are several lists.
Medieval era, 500-1600
Modern era, 1600-1900
Geocities page that covers 600 BCE - 1500 CE
Wikipedia has a mixed list of historical and contemporary women philosophers
A page with photos and portraits... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by LobsterMitten at 1:03 AM on August 12, 2006 marked best answer

Being friends is like being in a rowboat with another person. Sometimes, you both row at the same time. Sometimes, even if you don't want to, you have to row the boat alone. Sometimes, when you just can't row, your friend rows the boat alone. One problem happens when you're the one always rowing the boat by yourself. The other problem happens when one person insists that you both have to row together all the time.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by gokart4xmas at 5:56 AM on January 9, 2007

This guy is not your friend anymore. He basically spit in your face when you tried to help him keep his marriage intact, and now he is dragging you into concealing his own indiscretions.

You owe him nothing. I'd at least try to salvage the friendship with his wife by telling her. If you don't, she will hold you accountable when she finds out, and you will have lost two friends instead of one.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Operation Afterglow at 10:33 AM on January 9, 2007

I would tell his wife what went on (the facts, not assumptions). But first, I would call and let him know that I was going to.

This gives him the chance to do it himself.

Totally agree. Cheating at this point is less about "damsel in distress" and more about health issues. If indeed my partner did sleep with another woman, I would want to know for many reasons, but health is really the primary of those.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by oflinkey at 9:16 AM on January 9, 2007

she knows he's cheating, she just wants to know whose side are you on
posted to Ask MetaFilter by matteo at 3:57 AM on January 9, 2007

I would issue him the ultimatum: "Your wife knows and is asking me about your cell phone activity. Do you want to keep me as your friend and fess up to her or pass me off to her to be her friend and in that case, I'll tell her."

That makes it his call, with plenty of room to do the right thing, and if not, you can really be her friend. People don't always hat eht ebearer of bad news, especially if you can make a good show to her of your empathy for her in this... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:03 AM on January 9, 2007

She is actually everything I looked for in a girl...

Well, when you go looking for a Stepford Wife, you can't really complain about this, can you?

You achieved your goal of scoring a trophy wife, so pat yourself on the back and then cut her loose so she can go find someone who actually likes her, and you can go find someone you enjoy being with.

Or talk to her about it and try to work on it together,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by heatherann at 11:00 AM on January 9, 2007

I see what you're getting at, Smedley - our response to the world and our moral decisions and choices as to what our lives mean, what we do with them, etc., transcend the scientific method - which is, in a best case scenario, merely a tool and not an ideology.

But our moral decisions are made mostly on the basis not of what we think but of what we are - of what nature and nurture have built us to desire - and the commonality of human ethics springs from that human... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fleetmouse at 7:56 PM on January 9, 2007

And because not religion thread is complete without mentioning His Noodliness - I pose a serious theological question:

Is the flying spaghetti monster semolina based as they believe in the West, or is he in fact made of buckwheat noodles (or soba) as the Eastern proponents of his religion believe?

I could contemplate this issue for the rest of my life, becoming a serious theologian in the process, referring to arguments made by other theologians,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bashos_frog at 2:19 PM on January 9, 2007

Dawkins and Harris, seem to reserve a special kind of vitriol for the nonbeliever who refuses to espouse, or indeed actively rejects, their uniform contention that religion is a consistently negative thing and the only rational outcome to proselytize it its elimination. Despite all they say it is a kind of dogmatism and what's more it keeps atheism politically weak.

I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I've come to the conclusion that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vorfeed at 11:51 AM on January 9, 2007

You know, theology used to be the Queen of the sciences. That should count for something.

You used to shit yourself when you were 6 months old. Should that count for something too?
posted to MetaFilter by fleetmouse at 11:08 AM on January 9, 2007

Pastabagel, saying that a theologian is best qualified to discuss religion is like saying a bacterium is best qualified to discuss microbiology.
posted to MetaFilter by George_Spiggott at 10:04 AM on January 9, 2007

Anecdotal: Data from a medical monitoring program show people who live near the (a former nuclear processing site) are living longer and following healthier lifestyles than the general population. Why? Because their free, regular health checks are catching things like cancer and risk factors for heart disease.
posted to MetaFilter by tizzie at 8:26 AM on January 9, 2007

All you have to do is cook the chicken to the proper temperature 170 degrees and remember to wash your hands!

... and everything the chicken touched in your kitchen before you cooked it, as was pointed out.

To all who take the "who cares, just cook it" stance, remember that E.Coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter and Listeria are all fecal bacteria. If those bacteria are on your food, you are, unquestionably, eating shit.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by soyjoy at 1:27 PM on January 9, 2007

Why not? Some things we do every day can be dangerous if we aren't safe. I could burn down my house lighting a candle, I could spill gasoline when I fill up my car, I could back over the neighbor going to work in the morning, I could slash my face when I shave.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole point of progress and technology to try to gradually eliminate these risks? I mean instead of adding to them by making more and more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 6:39 AM on January 9, 2007

delmoi, the problem with relying on irradiation (as pointed out in Fast Food Nation) is that already-low industry standards would relax even further if they knew that simply radiating everything would make it safe for consumption. Thus you would wind up with an even greater quantity of shit in the meat (sparkly clean and irradiated though it may be).
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 6:27 AM on January 9, 2007

"Cook your chicken. Problem solved." is actually a dangerous oversimplification, evilelvis. The problem is that when you prepare chicken in your home, every single thing or surface it comes into contact with before it's thoroughly cooked may get contaminated. People shouldn't have to treat their food like biohazard as they prepare it.

This also means that everywhere you go where chicken is served you have to not only trust that the chicken is prepared... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 5:09 AM on January 9, 2007

I'm glad I'm a vegetarian.

Enjoy your spinach.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 3:52 AM on January 9, 2007

Theft.

Oh come on. It's a political video meant to be disseminated, not a presidential election.
posted to MetaFilter by Peter H at 4:42 PM on January 9, 2007

Also, bad sex is better than no sex.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. You've obviously never had really bad sex, the kind that makes you feel like you just brutally smothered some small, fragile, sad part of yourself. Erm. Yeah. Well, moving on.
posted to MetaFilter by jokeefe at 4:13 PM on December 15, 2006

spaltavian: "Also, bad sex is better than no sex."

It is when you haven't had very much of it. However, sex is like most things -- the older you get, the more discriminating you become, until you reach the stage when you'd rather go hungry than eat another greasy McDonalds.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 3:32 PM on December 15, 2006

What jokeefe said. I've started to answer this thread like 10 times and given up, but I have to chime in here to agree with her. To totally agree with her. As I agree with what hoverboards said way upthread.

Yes, I have gone to a bar planning on picking up a guy and gone home alone, more than once. Yes, so have my friends. Yes, I'm over forty, but I swear to you that I was rejected, dejected, hung down and brung down occasionally even 15 years ago and I don't think I've... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mygothlaundry at 2:01 PM on December 15, 2006

You think women don't pine and suffer and feel desire for unattainable men?

Yeah, but you can go home with the socially retarded alcoholic psycho at the end of the bar any time you want! You're so lucky! It's not fair!
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 1:10 PM on December 15, 2006

If a woman is horny and decides "Hey, I'm going to the bar and I'm going home with something tonight, as long as he's not a post-op tranny", there is PRACTICALLY ZERO CHANCE SHE WILL GO HOME ALONE.

Jesus Christ. I am a female, XX choromsones, etc., with two legs and two arms and one head, no major deformities, relatively sane, etc., and even in my salad days I went home alone more times than I could count. You think women don't pine and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jokeefe at 12:32 PM on December 15, 2006

Women get the bad end of the bargain in many, many facets of modern society. Love, dating, and sex is not one of them.

Oh good grief.

Your definition of "not getting the bad end of the bargain" in sex is the belief that women are assured of always finding something that will fuck them, as long as they are no more discriminating than insisting that the penis wasn't attached to it later in life.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 11:08 AM on December 15, 2006

do nothing but recite the first paragraph of the Gettysburg Address to random women

Totally true. "Baberaham" Lincoln got more tail than a spider monkey.

I weep for the next generation.

There isn't going to be a next generation if they're playing Civ 4 instead of getting laid.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 9:36 AM on December 15, 2006

This wikipedia excerpt cracked me up:

They believe that physical looks are less important to women in selection of a partner than they are to men, as evidence by top gurus who rated poorly with their looks on a Hot or Not style of website.

Heeee! The "top gurus" may not be getting laid quite as much as they claim, we'll never know for sure, but I guarantee that when I was on the prowl I always went for the best... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Secret Life of Gravy at 9:25 AM on December 15, 2006

Again, jonmc, bullshit. She probably sat behind you in math class. She didn't have to wonder whether you liked her, because she "knew" you were out of her league.
posted to MetaFilter by muddgirl at 9:08 AM on December 15, 2006

cause it's been my experience that single guys will generally sleep with anything that says yes.

this is one of those statements that says more about you than it says about other people
posted to MetaFilter by pyramid termite at 8:59 AM on December 15, 2006

This idea that women have men wrapped around their fingers and can get all the dates and sex they want is totally untrue. When saggy 40 year old guys talk about women having it so easy, they're thinking about firmbodied 18-25 year olds (as if they ever think of anything else).

But what about the saggy 40 year old women? What about the single mothers? What about the fatties? The post-menopausal? The very old? The flat-out ugly? The terminally shy? The disabled? The girls... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hoverboards don't work on water at 8:52 AM on December 15, 2006

daHIFI said: I can tell you that there is something more to it than just going out and trying to score. To me it it's more about being an alpha male every day in life, not being content to sit back and watch life pass you buy so that you wind up laying on your deathbed and thinking "why didn't I ever do that?"

If laying a bunch of women is what it takes to make you happy about your life on your deathbed, then your priorities were pretty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by InnocentBystander at 8:36 AM on December 15, 2006

I've got a great idea for AskMe! As well as the normal comment-posting box, there should be a drop-down menu of default replies. Maybe a list like this:

1. See a lawyer
2. See a doctor
3. See a doctor, YOU IDIOT
4. Isn't the whole point of giving someone a damn mixtape that you CHOSE IT YOURSELF?
5. a link to a Google search for all nouns in the question
6. You will never lose weight
7. Dump... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 1:13 AM on January 3, 2007