A badger hair brush is all right, for the pikers and fifteen year olds who are cultivating that "did I just have some chocolate milk or is it a mustache look", real men rip the head off the badger (preferably Mauritanian NOT the ones from Brussels, which are actually a kind of non-swimming water rat, think Nutria but unable to swim or even float) and lather that up with some Vendigliani Otrusco, which is a Sicilian emollientie di priapari (lit.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Divine_Wino at 10:54 AM on April 4, 2005

Speaking purely as a layman, it's my personal observation that most men have an emotional range from 20x to 100x what is socially acceptable in day to day American society. The last thing Ms. Anonyomous wants from Mr. Anonymous is "open communication." She really doesn't want to see his mad face, much less his rant face, to say nothing of the faces that enable men to kill elephants for sport, or butcher whales, or invent suicide bombing as a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by paulsc at 8:28 PM on June 4, 2007

Here's the schedule, NBC shows them live in the Eastern and Central Time Zones.

According to that site, he has 3 finals left (All times ET):

08/14 10:48pm
200 m individual medley

08/15 10:10pm
100 m butterfly

08/16 10:58pm
4 x 100 m medley relay
posted to Ask Metafilter by ALongDecember at 7:55 PM on August 13, 2008 marked best answer

You know what's hilarious? If they actually ever did this, we all wouldn't do a fucking thing about it. Seriously, what are a few hundred million Americans a year going to do, not fly? Because we give Amtrak, what, 1/60 of what we give airlines?

Heh. I was just thinking the same thing the other day when retelling the story to a coworker about how I nearly got arrested flying out of Seattle last year when my mascara fell out of the Mandated Baggie in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 12:49 PM on July 12, 2008

Here's a true story about how awesome Pixar is.

As some of you know, when the trailer first came out, my girlfriend, Courtney, burst into tears at the trailer. She was emabrrassed but somewhat amused by this, as so she made a video of herself watching the trailer on her computer, knowing she would start crying every time that little robot said his own name.

After a few months, she started to get trickles of emails from people at Pixar who said... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 12:18 PM on July 1, 2008

"So, what do you do for a living?"

"I have spent seven years shooting, trapping, and poisoning cats by the thousands and will not stop until I achieve their complete eradication so that I can repopulate my island with small iguanas in the name of Charles Darwin. You?"
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 8:30 PM on June 11, 2008

Don't care if the blood of cats were cure-all for every disease known to man. Hate then suckers with burning passion of a 1000 suns. Smelly creature that don't deserve to live.

tiptoes away from possible displaced anger
posted to MetaFilter by longsleeves at 9:02 PM on June 11, 2008

This is the second video in about as many weeks where we've seen right wing ideologues having their clocks cleaned on video. (Here's the other one, where conservative talk radio host Kevin James is humiliated on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, May 15, 2008.) Maybe they'll learn that there's more to an argument than talking points.
posted to MetaFilter by Dave Faris at 6:57 PM on June 8, 2008

I second the Biore Deep Cleansing Pore Strips. But that is just one step, and truthfully more geared towards blackheads. What you're describing (the white goo) sounds more like whiteheads. Here is a regimen that should be pretty easy to maintain.
1) Use an oil-free acne cleanser, morning and evening (although if that's too drying, one time/day is okay too, probably at night and then just rinse face in the morning). The Neutrogena one is okay and there are numerous others. All... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by picklebird at 7:11 AM on March 24, 2007 marked best answer

If incandescent is 100, then I don't have a lot of faith in this index.

Incandescents rate 100 because they put out a smooth spectral curve of light across the spectrum. So does the Sun -- but the peak of that spectral curve is higher -- 5200K, as opposed to the 3000K of incandescent lamps.

Both emit light that close to the Black Body Radiation Curve. A Black Body is a theoretical construct of a object that absorbs all energy... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 10:31 AM on April 22, 2008

Sirrah, I can but guess your present thoughts
Did he have time his musket to reload?
Forsooth, I have myself forgot if so.
But as this weapon has the strength to split
Your very head loose from its earthly frame
Then ponder, cur, your place in fortune's favor.
posted to MetaFilter by bibliowench at 9:46 AM on April 20, 2008

Ideographic, or logographic, dasein.
posted to MetaFilter by Countess Elena at 6:56 PM on April 13, 2008

So, as a follow up, here is what happened. Spoiler alert: I was scammed in the end and learned that PayPal has absolutely no protection for sellers against the kind of scam that was used against me.

The buyer initially filed a claim that the very nice new cellphone I sent him as different in that it was black, not purple, and was significantly damaged, which it wasn't. I responded in brief immediately, telling PayPal that I knew he was lying, and that I would dispute it.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by procrastination at 3:04 PM on January 21, 2008 marked best answer

Videogames are not good for you. Videogames are a waste of time. They isolate children. Kids never go outside to play. They just sit there and stare at the TV all day.

Hey kids! If you liked videogames, you'll love work!
posted to MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 3:45 PM on March 30, 2008

I hate kids just as much as anyone, but that doesn't mean they're not right sometimes

Oh really? Well I've only got two words for you: go fuck yourself.

Right ... that's actually three words. So try these two words on for size: bugfucker. And by "bugfucker" I mean YOU.

OK - "you" is obviously only one word, not two. But the point here is that my two words are "bugfucker =... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by the quidnunc kid at 7:52 AM on August 12, 2005

This is the worst post I've seen on Metafilter. You suck.
posted to MetaFilter by tweek! at 10:31 AM on May 15, 2001

Friday Night with Günter Verheugen
The European Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry will delight audiences again in March with an exciting line up of Hollywood stars speaking about their ideas for economic progress through innovation and respect for the environment.

Everybody Fucks Christophe
The loveable male prostitute who's unlucky in love and who has herpes returns February 20 in a five-hour special focusing on the operation to remove his... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by the quidnunc kid at 8:42 AM on February 11, 2008

The film ends with someone turning pages of a Koran, followed by a tearing sound.

A text that appears on the screen says: "The sound you heard was from a page (being torn from a) phone book.

Psych! Try burning our embassies now, losers!

Oh...
posted to MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 3:00 PM on March 27, 2008

When I was in college I took a class called "Math for liberal arts majors" and my friends and I would just get high and go to that class because it was so cool. We didn't have to do any actual math, with numbers and stuff. The teacher would just go "So like, some infinities are bigger than others!" and would then prove it somehow and we would just sit in the back of the class and freak out. It was awesome. So tell the kids about how some infinities are bigger than others.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ND¢ at 7:42 AM on March 27, 2008

Sorry, I was out running errands all day with the family (it's spring break for all the local schools and daycare), but I did want to post as soon as I got back.

Overall, I've been thinking that things aren't going downhill so much as the community feels a bit strained from so many users. The other day I posted something in a thread and wanted to hear reactions to it and someone posted some derail and everyone followed along with the derail instead of sticking to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:38 PM on March 26, 2008

I don't know how to say this tactfully, so I'll just say it:

This video sucks.

The police brutality on display here is awful, and I believe that any cop who abuses his position in any way should be fired at the very very least, and the burden of proof should generally always be on the cop to prove that he or she didn't commit some kind of police brutality. I don't want to get started on the ways that we can work together as a society to create... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hifiparasol at 1:58 AM on March 26, 2008

I've entered and exited Sea Kings while they were rotating and while the rotors are high enough they're not going to chop your head off, just try NOT ducking.

Bonus anecdote: we were filming with the Royal Navy once and had to land a camera crew on a destroyer coming back into Portsmouth from the Azores. It was part of a film about Naval discipline and policing and we wanted to film a drug-raid. The film was not exactly popular with the Fleet and we were fighting a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by unSane at 11:57 AM on March 25, 2008

We have cameras.
posted to MetaFilter by NortonDC at 3:48 PM on November 20, 2001

I really, if respectfully, disagree with the casual, flippant tone of these responses. In New York City, where I live, it is against the law, period, to bring an animal into a store that serves or sells food. Yet people do it all the time, with their dogs sticking noses and asses all over exposed food on lower shelves, slobbering all over the shelves, and sitting their shit-covered asses down on the floor where many a packaged food item occasionally falls only to be picked up and returned to the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by fourcheesemac at 3:35 AM on March 21, 2008 marked best answer

People like this don't believe conspiracies because they're convinced by the evidence, they believe them because the conspiracy fulfills a psychological need they have. It's not that different from religion, and you're going to have about as much success proving that 9/11 wasn't a conspiracy as you would be proving that communion isn't the body of Christ.


I hear you, and I agree that this is an excellent analysis of a full-blown... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by moxiedoll at 10:31 PM on March 19, 2008

Oh, go harpoon a whale, freako.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:55 PM on March 18, 2008

And here, for everyone's pleasure is "THE GREATEST GEORGE CLOONEY STORY EVER":
He may be pulling in $12 million a picture and deified by women worldwide, but George Clooney is apparently not above digging around in cat shit for the sake of a good joke.

Actor Richard Kind (who plays Paul on "Spin City" and is a member of Clooney's inner circle) and his pet feline learned that lesson the hard way.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 6:37 PM 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

In the sub-basement of what was once an industrial park, the server continued asking questions to the void. The network was long-gone--the ethernet cables vaporized right where they emerged to the surface--but this didn't stop the server. It had a queue.

The third wave of bombings had collapsed the ceiling, destroying almost all the other racks in the room, but the server remained. It was closest to the large metal cage that held the enormous emergency power supply. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ian A.T. at 5:20 AM on March 17, 2008

I would just like to point out this line in the Straight Dope column "Seven. The Internet Public Library quotes a list of seven plots (man versus nature, man versus man, etc.) that someone claims to remember from second grade. Not the most authoritative source, but no flakier than any of these other systems." That person, with the flakey idea, that's me.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:10 AM on March 16, 2008

Please listen closely - the reason the walls are bowing is that there is hydrostatic pressure built up on the outside, likely due to a foundation drainage system that has become silted and inoperable, allowing saturated soil to build up pressure. The walls, in structural engineering parlance, are "rotating". The only authoritative fix is to excavate away from the exterior walls 4-6 feet, install a new drain line, drill into the upper cinder block and install rebar at least every... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pressed Rat at 5:46 PM on March 10, 2008

the OP does have a specific question

I'm going to vent here rather than in the thread. (Then I'm going to work, so won't be responding)

This person has some goofy haldbaked theories and keeps coming into Ask to ask for other scholars who have written on them, using his/her own goofy made-up terminology and goofy half-baked ideas. The infinity of definition? This is BS that gives philosophy a bad name. Grrrrr. There are tons of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 10:04 AM on March 13, 2008

Also, the claims of early graduate dregrees and suchlike reminds me of un owen. Whatever happened to her?
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:30 AM on March 10 [+] [!]

UN Owen is around and posting via her "husband's" account, InnocentBystander. I found this out because they posted virtually identical stories (1, 2) about getting bullied at a young age.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:19 PM on March 10, 2008

I have a theory that others with better google skills can verify, and I have reported it to the mods.

princeofpersiaxz may be Armen Asl. Armen Asl, for those unaware, is the culprit behind this story:

http://ask.metafilter.com/27155/is-an-ebay-fraud-seller-free


My evidence is here (there's more, but this suffices):

http://people.bakersfield.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fourcheesemac at 6:41 AM on March 4, 2008

"Oh, the sweet, delicious irony," he thought to himself as he flagged a question that asked how to abuse an on-line community's flagging system.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dersins at 11:52 PM on March 3, 2008

Some background for those of you who don't understand a word of what's going on here.

By now, I imagine most of you have probably noticed that when you type 'www.metafilter.com' in your browser and hit enter, your computer connects to this server and displays the web page there. But have you ever wondered just exactly how that works?

When you start a conversation with Metafilter, your computer assembles a connection-start... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor at 1:09 PM on March 2, 2008

First up, nobody in Australia drinks Fosters. Nobody.
posted to Ask Metafilter by cholly at 2:14 PM on March 3, 2008 marked best answer

A) "I believe eating bacon is wrong because an invisible man in the sky said so."

B) "I believe eating bacon can't be wrong because it's BACON."

If you can't see how B) trumps A) then there's really no hope for you.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 4:28 PM on February 28, 2008

Is there a particular reason you're writing blog entries in MetaTalk?
posted to MetaTalk by Brandon Blatcher at 4:48 PM on February 28, 2008

Get a grand central number (mefimail me if you want an invite) and tell all your friends that you've changed your number. Set up grand central so that all calls from her automatically get re-routed to voicemail. I'm not sure how grand central manges texts.

Next time she rings your doorbell in the middle of the night, call the cops and let them sort it out.

Other than that, 5thing the restraining order suggestion.
posted to Ask Metafilter by necessitas at 5:04 PM on March 1, 2008

Pretend you aren't 12 and stop leading people on unless you plan to make a move. Tell this girl that you're sorry if you lead her on, but you are seeing someone. You don't need a ton of language and bush-beating to fix this. Not being clear and direct might sink you further in the tar.

Speaking of language, please pay more attention in English class:

you are == you're
posted to Ask Metafilter by Mikey-San at 10:41 PM on February 19, 2008

Because anti-war people who turned out to be right about Iraq like to rub pro-war peoples' faces in it

If I could interrupt the resident rightists' pity party going on here, I think the issue goes a little deeper than that. There are a group of people in this country -- for lack of a better term, let's call them Present-Day Conservative Republicans, who "turn out to be" WRONG about damn near every public policy issue this... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by panamax at 2:07 PM on February 17, 2008

How did you get the money last May?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thilmony at 9:25 AM on February 7, 2008

37 suicides versus FOUR FUCKING HUNDRED FUCKING TWENTY FUCKING THOUSAND deaths (and that's only in the US) from tobacco per year? 20% of all deaths in the US are smoking related!

This reminds me of Robert Mugabe turning down food aid because the food was GMO.
posted to MetaFilter by ethnomethodologist at 10:22 PM on February 3, 2008

I'm thinking about my

DOORBELL

when you gonna

RING IT

when you gonna

RING IT?
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:22 PM on February 3, 2008

replace it
u look like Syler from HEROES
LOL LMAO HAWLY SHITE
nicely done
iphone is the best!!!, Sylar
save the cheerleader
LOL LOL LOL HAHAHAHAHHAHA
do u have eyeliner on?
Love this white stripes song too. That's totally Sylar.
yea keep doing that it will turn... dude replace it god
replace it apple has great customer support my ipod went i n the wash and they replaced it for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by popechunk at 8:06 PM on February 3, 2008

Let's consider that the US has the worst and least efficient health care in the developed world, the worst preventable death rate in the developed world, cities designed to discourage exercise and healthy living and encourage driving everywhere while public transport and cycling is deprecated, agriculture subsidies that make a salad more expensive than a Big Mac (while at the same time working people make less money than they did 10 years ago), and spends about one-millionth... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Bletch at 11:13 AM on February 1, 2008

If you look good in a tight sweater, why not wear it?

But I doubt anyone sane, professional person wants to be ogled all the time

Someone dresses in a way that makes them look 'good'. So in a manner that appeals to the people that find them attractive on a purely aesthetic level. So if you dress in a way that will make people want to look at you, then don't be completely surprised if people do look at you.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Brockles at 4:43 PM on January 23, 2008

Are you, in fact, Tom Cruise?
posted to MetaTalk by randomination at 5:34 AM on January 16, 2008

From behind. Don't forget to grind real hard.

Seriously though, Um... there is no best way, there are just ways. Just off the top of my head I would say perhaps with a compliment or a question. Just be yourself and don't act like a dick. No one can tell you a line that's going to magically work.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ISeemToBeAVerb at 2:35 PM on January 16, 2008