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MeFi post:
Gasoline for that fire?
Zimbabwe's economy went for two decades under Mugabe, before tanking - it wasn't growing, but it wasn't tanking either. All through the 80s, government spending increased, quality of life (in terms of health, education) improved but the economy didn't grow. In the 1990s, with the government in a debt crises, they followed the IMF's plan of structural adjustment and slashed government spending. Quality of life plummetted, and the economy did not grow. (Which is a damning indictment of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jb
at 9:29 AM on April 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Where everybody knows your name...
I play occasionally, but I'd like to put the [MeFi] tag in front of my name - anything special I need to do for that? Will anyone care?
Feel free, there's no application process other than having to be a MeFi member. Just login to your Steam control panel and change your display name.
posted by chundo at 2:10 PM
Oh, please. Don't listen to chundo.
There are... Many, many things you'll need... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by eurasian
at 3:22 PM on April 17, 2008
On kazoos, no less.
No, that's his real voice.
posted to MetaTalk by Bearman
at 4:30 PM on April 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Seeking clarity on mod communication
I really can't fathom why you'd act like owning up to one's mistakes merits a response like that.
I think it was the favoriting of said owning up that merited the response. And it is kind of sycophantic. It's like applauding a guy for wiping up the big steaming dump he took in a crowded room.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks
at 1:27 PM on April 16, 2008
MeFi post:
He looks great for a 70-year-old.
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
MeTa post:
TF2 Metafilter Game, December 1 Edition
Knaves! The middle of finals week, in the middle of my final article for journalism, and you have the audacity to alert me to a MeFi TF2 match?
Have you no decency?
Very tempting, I must say, but I suppose I'll be joining you on Saturday, per usual, when finals are over at last.
Also, is anyone else seeing this weird bug in the thread? Ethereal Bligh's username keeps showing up as DaShiv. Must be some database issue.
posted to MetaTalk by CitrusFreak12
at 11:10 AM on December 12, 2007
MeTa post:
Fat/thin and health, just another
My expert (lesbian) opinion:
Deanna Troi > Uhura > Ro Laren
That is all, no one else even rates.
However, my partner disagrees. She would say
Data > Beverly Crusher
posted to MetaTalk by arcticwoman
at 8:43 AM on November 11, 2007
MeTa post:
This is where you can talk about "Are Catholics Christian?"
Can we settle this issue in the next two hours please? I am meeting some friends for dinner and one of them is a Catholic and I want to know whether I should respect her beliefs or kill her because she is a subhuman apostate. TIA.
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢
at 12:09 PM on November 6, 2007
MeTa post:
and then she....
This is the most stupid, useless, motherfucking, lame-ass MetaFilter post I've seen in a long while. Someone should cut off one of your toes as punishment.
posted to MetaTalk by Ethereal Bligh
at 9:20 PM on November 1, 2007
MeTa post:
Lurking flash
If production companies cared whether actual IT folks watched their shows, Firefly would never have been cancelled.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 6:39 AM on November 1, 2007
MeFi post:
Selling (out) our Women
What are the chances more than one of those guys is straight, anyway?
posted to MetaFilter by It's Raining Florence Henderson
at 1:23 PM on October 20, 2007
Either shit or get off the pot. If you can't put your money where your mouth is, then all you're doing is looking at the car wreck and playing armchair quarterback with me.
That is the best bit of mixed metaphor I've had in months,
posted to MetaFilter by luftmensch
at 8:45 AM on October 21, 2007
MeFi post:
Warming Climate Fuels Mega-Fires
Basically, have a nanofiber blanket hundreds of miles square assembled in space. Use it to filter sunlight coming to earth in certain areas. If you cut incoming sunlight by only a few percent, it could have profound cooling effects.
What could possibly go wrong?
posted to MetaFilter by DU
at 8:20 AM on October 23, 2007
Ask post:
Should I let my girlfriend move across the country to be with me?
But I don't have the "oh my god I need you" feeling, and I never have.
So, I will disagree gently with some of the other answerers who seem to think it's safer to break up.
After 12 years of marriage and 2 kids and living together and having been apart while we were dating, I have never had a "oh my god I need you" feeling about my wife. I really, really love her. You may be expecting to feel something that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by GuyZero
at 7:21 AM on October 23, 2007
MeFi post:
Mirror prank.
Exhibit A against the case of 'the wisdom of crowds':
Current top comment at youtube: BITCH GOT RUDE TITTIES fgdfgsfgdfhdfg
posted to MetaFilter by damn dirty ape
at 9:51 AM on October 17, 2007
Ask post:
should i eat this?
You "eat it" people are ALL out of your god damn minds.
Actually, it's really a food safety issue from which I've gone through weekend seminar training for. When I mentioned the "safe zone" of four hours, I'm not just making crap up. Our food inspectors were crazy anal about food safety, and the standard is four hours. They enjoy making life living a hell for restaurants and if they think four hours is fine, I reckon their... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jmd82
at 9:53 AM on September 28, 2007
MeFi post:
Hi I'd like to put a wreath there. Maybe then deny it ever happened...
In Iran, vast crowds turned out on the streets and held candlelit vigils for the victims. Sixty-thousand spectators respected a minute's silence at Tehran's football stadium
This is worth repeating. Just six years ago, Iranians held demonstrations in the street in our favor, and look how bad the Bushies have fucked everything up.
For a brief time, we had more brownie points in the world than we have had... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor
at 6:01 AM on September 20, 2007
MeFi post:
Please practice safe beastiality.
"But we were in port around that time and I did it with a woman, so I don't have any way of knowing if I picked it up from her, or from the manta."
Ok. I think it's time to leave the internet. It's been real.
posted to MetaFilter by ninjew
at 2:25 PM on August 30, 2007
MeFi post:
Omar lives
Can we fucking just have the fucking 5th season of the damn fucking show already? All these fucking good fucking Wire-related posts are fucking pissing me fucking off fucking dammit god fuck.
posted to MetaFilter by WolfDaddy
at 8:17 PM on August 8, 2007
Ask post:
How should I continue with my open source web app idea?
Start writing it. No, really. Go start coding. Upload the notes, the sketches, whatever. Put it up on Google Code, Rubyforge or something similar. Haunt the IRC chat rooms and mailing lists for the tools you are using and post news everytime you put out a new release. Be sure not to post in places that won't care, and don't post too much. Talk about it with friends. Even friends that have no idea what a compiler is.
The nerds will come to you but you've got to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jmhodges
at 5:55 AM on August 6, 2007 
marked best answer
MeTa post:
Is MeFi the new digg?
Take it to AskMeFi. Once you've posted this question in it's appropriate place, you are free to come back here and bitch about the answers you receive. Now go.
posted to MetaTalk by Sailormom
at 1:23 PM on August 1, 2007
Ask post:
Why do people go quiet around me and how I can I make a better connection with them?
Being the first to say hello or to introduce yourself isn't always enough. Some people create awkward silences by being sort of abrupt, and just waiting for the next person to pick up the slack in the conversation. I find that a lot of times shy people spend a lot of time in a conversation thinking about what they're saying and very little time thinking about what the other person is saying. Make sure you are asking questions in conversation and truly listening to the responses. Asking... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by tastybrains
at 7:30 AM on July 25, 2007
Ask post:
Unplanned Pregnancy
Basically, this is your punishment for having fertile sperm.
No, it's your punishment for fucking crazy people. We all trust people we shouldn't because it's convenient at the time, and we all deal with the consequences.
posted to Ask Metafilter by dagnyscott
at 7:00 AM on May 10, 2007
Ask post:
Oh god it's humping my leg
Skjonn, I adore dogs of all sorts but I am still disgusted by the sort of behaviors you mention. This is different from being disgusted by a dog's mere presence, to the point of wanting to throw up at the merest physical contact.
What I have to say next is not meant as judgemental or negative: It's OK not to like dogs, but if you are made physically sick by holding a puppy or when it rubs your leg, there is something wrong with you. I mean medically wrong, like a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by BigLankyBastard
at 1:42 PM on May 3, 2007
Ask post:
How do I get my neighbor to pay for the damage he caused to my car?
He asks her if we'll settle with him for half the amount. We decline his offer as he caused the damage and he should fix it.
This is the point at which you prioritized the money over friendly relations. Clearly he made the initial agreement thinking it wouldnt cost much (he's old, maybe he's thinking in 1950 terms) and then got sticker shock.
Your response could have been to ask him if he was backing out because it was too... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:32 PM on May 1, 2007
MeFi post:
Gentrification and Tonic
I'm quite amused to see the populist outrage over the pricing-out of a club devoted to free jazz, experimental avant garde improvisation, and other such high-toned things. You'd think they shut down the last beer hall in a factory town.
The demise of Tonic says something about real estate prices in Manhattan. It doesn't mean Tonic was making a brave last stand for the working classes of New York City. I've been there many times, and don't recall seeing too many... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by spitbull
at 4:49 AM on April 18, 2007
MeTa post:
Only at rainbow parties.
I think it's designed to encourage comments like nice "attractive atheist girls" like me occasionally give blow jobs with no strings attached.
I suspect someone's trying to do some research before a meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by booksandlibretti
at 10:45 PM on April 11, 2007
Ask post:
Worst. Idiosyncracy. EVER.
Here is a suggestion with binary beneficiality. When someone is talking to you, stop thinking and just look at their face and listen.
A simple lesson, but one that I, for instance, didn't learn until 20+ years into my life. I learned it from a very good friend of mine when I found myself unnerved at how closely he was paying attention to me as I was talking. Which, after a brief flash of localized stage fright, caused me to feel very warmly toward this person. And... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Darth Fedor
at 2:20 PM on April 4, 2007 marked best answer
Ask post:
Just not good enough
Everyone who has ambition gets this.
1. Keep throwing shit against the wall until some of it sticks
2. Get any feedback you can. Call up and find out WHY you didn't win, and do better next time.
3. Pursue your passions
4. Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again
Honestly, dealing with rejection is one of the most fundamental skills to learn in becoming successful.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by unSane
at 8:20 PM on April 3, 2007
Ask post:
Teaching the Non-Rational Part of Yourself that Risk Isn't Always Pain?
I am going to give you my opinion straight and uncut. I am doubtful it will be of any use, but you never know.
You are a kind of patient who is a great trial to a therapist. Your cognitive frame uses intellectualization - rational thought - not as a vehicle for positive advancement against the irrationally held beliefs of the id, as you claim to believe, but instead as a defense mechanism against intrapsychic conflict and perceived threats. The clue, to my eye, is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ikkyu2
at 10:53 PM on March 20, 2007
