There would not be enough marijuana on the planet for everyone to get as high as you are right now.
posted to Ask Metafilter by emelenjr at 4:28 AM on September 4, 2007

If you don't go, you will regret it. If I know this, then you know it, too. Just go.
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamdschneider at 3:34 PM on August 20, 2008

4 Tablespoons cake flour
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 Egg
3 Tablespoons milk
3 Tablespoons oil
1 Mug

Err, those proportions seem a bit off. Here's what goes in my family's version of that Depression-era favourite Wacky Cake. Dead easy way to make a moist, rich cake that isn't sickly sweet and sticky while using only the pan you mix and bake it in.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maudlin at 10:17 AM on July 21, 2008

Why do people have a problem with polygamy (of the non-FLDS-child-bride variety)?

I think it's important to start by realizing that marriage of the man + woman type doesn't even mean the same thing to everybody in this country right now. Stephanie Coontz has written a lot about this, and it's very interesting--basically, we're in the middle (historically) of a shift between marriage as an unequal arrangement where women bartered sex in exchange for... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by iminurmefi at 5:12 AM on May 16, 2008

The honest truth is that the computer is unique in making people think that it is magical, and maybe us geeks are partly to blame for it.

You know where else this happens?

Reading.

Plain ordinary everyday reading.

You and I can do it; little kids can't. To little kids, the grown-ups just Know Stuff completely by magic.

You can explain to a little kid... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flabdablet at 11:58 PM on October 26, 2007

"I'm a bartender."
"Oh, do you know how to make [Incredibly Obscure Cocktail]?"
"Sure. It's rum, pineapple juice and grenadine."
"No it isn't."
"It is if you order it from me."
posted to Ask Metafilter by BitterOldPunk at 10:14 AM on April 28, 2008

This is called a "jasmine." It was in a book that matildaben showed me.

• 1 1/2 oz. gin
  
• 3/4 oz. Campari
  
• 3/4 oz. Cointreau
  
• 1/4 oz lemon juice

Shake over ice and serve up with a twist.

It'd be just the thing with sushi: very dry, very citric, very clean flavors.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ikkyu2 at 7:00 PM on April 25, 2008

I had to do this once! After much research I found this mix which was delicious and may fit the bill:

If this isn't exactly what you had in mind, my recommendation would be to look into mixes based on ginger ale, I find it goes well with sushi.

Vodka, guava and ginger cocktail

Ingredients (serves 6)
250ml vodka
1L guava juice
1L dry ginger ale
2 tablespoons lime juice... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jeremias at 5:40 PM on April 25, 2008 marked best answer

Alas, Sys Rq, thou knowest more than I
of mark'd-up text and presentation raw;
yet Firefox and Apple's browser seem
to display well my comment without flaw.

For emphasis there is the humble em,
but outland phrases choses simples mean!
Italics are the custom of the day
for words from o'er the borders of the Queen.

And strong for bold? I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infinitewindow at 9:07 PM on April 20, 2008

So, do you like read through the flavors of Mefi just looking for eponysterical comments? Is that like a hobby or a game or something?

Actually, now that I think about it, a Mefi scavenger hunt could be a lot of fun.
posted to MetaTalk by oddman at 8:54 PM on April 18, 2008

I understand where you are coming from. I was also raised in a denomination that tended to believe that it was that One True Church and that everyone else was condemned, and I changed perspectives gradually.

This is a big question, and I think it will best be dealt with over coffee with close friends. I'd invite you over for coffee and talk about my story, but we seem to be on opposite coasts. Here's what I recommend:

1. Get really deep into... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pater Aletheias at 1:27 PM on April 8, 2008 marked best answer

I sympathize with where you're coming from, as I grew up in a fundamentalist religion which preached that the Bible is literally, 100% true, and they are the chosen few who will make it to heaven (Seventh-Day Adventist to be exact).
"Choosing the right religion" based solely on how it will benefit you is pretty much a foreign concept to a fundamentalist, and I still don't quite get it. Fundamentalist Christianity presents a set of specific beliefs about the universe that... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by designbot at 2:34 PM on April 8, 2008 marked best answer

coffeee beat me to the Blackbird suggestion - it's finger-picking fun.

Some others that I play, off the top of my head:

Dust in the Wind - Kansas
December - Collective Soul
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
Kielbasa - Tenacious D
Come As You Are - Nirvana
All Apologies - Nirvana
Lithium - Nirvana
I Miss You - Incubus
Everlong - Foo... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrisamiller at 12:13 AM on February 26, 2007

I have a theory that MetaMan is Cubeta getting back at us.
posted to MetaTalk by dw at 10:00 AM on March 27, 2008

This comment from Pater Aletheias in the A Tale of Two Pretties thread:

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind.
And you're hampered by not having any.
The simplest way to solve the dilemma you'll find,
Is simply by flipping a penny.

No, not so that chance shall decide the affair;
As you're passively standing there moping.
But as soon as the penny is up in the air,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by amyms at 12:01 PM on March 28, 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

I'm going with "Abite hortibus meis iuvenci scelerati" if it gets everyone's approval.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Pastabagel at 1:27 PM on March 26, 2008

Uh... technically Jesus came to fulfill the Hebrew Bible, not wipe it away. Marcionites believed that Christ came bearing a new God, but they lost out to the Christians in the first couple hundred years of the game.

FWIW, the Hebrew Bible has some of the most justice-oriented, prophetic language in the Bible. And it rewrites itself constantly as it goes along - you don't need the corrective preaching of Jesus to view the metamorphosis of the scripture - it changes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Baby_Balrog at 8:35 AM on July 31, 2007

I tried to short-circuit the trolling with nerdiness by making a math joke, but no one appreciates math jokes :(

[integral] (1/(cabin)) d (cabin) = log cabin + C = houseboat
posted to MetaTalk by spiderwire at 10:02 PM on March 19, 2008

Here is the basic idea in a nutshell. Certain patterns and combinations of notes sound nice together, or make certain effects -- we call these scales and chords. Certain combinations of scales and certain combinations of chords sound better than others -- we call this harmony. For instance, combine certain chords together, and you get music that sounds sad -- we'll call this minor harmony. And if you combine certain other chords together, you get music that sounds kinda happy -- we'll call this... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by chrismear at 3:23 AM on April 11, 2004 marked best answer

I dont know if you'll revisit this thread. The suggestions above are great!

My family is from this area but that actually makes me less qualified to comment from a visitor perspective. I will add however:

-Do take time to just walk around the villages like Paracho and Quiroga. Beautiful little towns. I dont know if you know the history here but these series of towns were an attempt by Quiroga to implement a Utopia, cribbed from More. Each town... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta at 1:10 PM on December 11, 2006 marked best answer

Here, for our collective instruction, is a great just-look-at-yourself page, with the added advantage of starting by dissing Matt-is-God.

I've never understood why people react strongly to offenses and, having some experience, I'd like to explain the logic behind not giving a flying fart.

I'll take the liberty to be long-winded, if you don't mind.

Let's say poster X insults you. You don't like, nobody does. But what is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by MiguelCardoso at 8:09 AM on June 19, 2003

MetaFilter Grumpy Curmudgeon Joyless Hateful Bastards Task Force

I want the tshirt. In MeTa gray, of course.

Thanks, Mr. Fucker.
posted to MetaTalk by theora55 at 7:10 AM on July 20, 2002

Aw Boltman, face it, Christianity IS inflammatory. Always has been, always will be till Jesus comes back.

It's not just Metafilter. That's just the way the world is. Say "Jesus" and watch the world react......that's why I don't get all tied up in a knot about it. A Christian who is Bible literate understands this, and won't get bent out of shape. So to all of you who aren't Christians but who are concerned about justice, please understand that this is simply... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bunnyfire at 3:27 PM on March 31, 2002

From: Connie Reagan [mailto:conniereagan@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:20 PM
To: Grainne Elizabeth O'Neill
Subject: Irish Whiskey



Y'all be careful and for goodness'sakes at least have a designated
driver...

cordially

the soon returning bunnyfire




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posted to MetaTalk by goneill at 1:34 PM on March 29, 2002

Regardless of whether bunny is an expert on the Old Testament or not, the larger point--that extrapolating an entire set of cultural taboos from one line in one text--is still valid. The success of Britney Spears's song "Hit Me Baby One More Time" does not mean that USerican culture condones either domestic violence or BDSM roleplay, hmm?
posted to MetaFilter by Sidhedevil at 4:35 PM on February 13, 2002

If a post is pulled because it is deemed inappropriate

I was about to email you about it. It was a fairly straight ahead article about signing up with Overture (go.com) and paying for search results. I didn't see anything new or ground breaking, since it's common knowledge that everything at overture is paid for (and has been since they announced it), nor was there anything to discuss besides "use google instead." It didn't seem interesting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 1:24 PM on February 14, 2002

nyxxxx, I'm really glad you stepped up and asked your questions. I hope that you can understand that part of what's going on in this discussion is that you're asking questions about things that have no real answers - because they are questions about the nature of the community which has and is being formed in this place even as we speak. There are divergent opinions. Bear in mind that the only opinion that counts is Mathowie's - all the rest of us here are only his guests here.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by anastasiav at 2:29 PM on October 5, 2002

I am going to quote Barack Obama here:

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by empath at 12:11 PM on February 18, 2008

It's so profoundly frustrating. Almost impossibly so.
Sitting across the table with someone - right after church, and they say something homophobic, and you confront them about it.
And they say, "but it's an abomination! The....in the Bible!"
And you've taken all these classes, studied all these languages and the history of the ancient near-east and you completely grok how the scriptures have been spun and twisted and misrepresented and used as a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Baby_Balrog at 8:57 PM on February 18, 2008

The crap in that genre of "stereotype humour" is achieves the rarity of being both boring and offensive for the following reasons:

1) It's spurious, generalist BS that applies to a small number of people living an extraordinarily privileged existence compared to the rest of the world, so those who supposedly fit the template (in this case, "white") and don't meet the stereotype are then lumped in with a bunch of gits they don't identify with for 90%... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by batmonkey at 3:18 PM on February 15, 2008

Anyone got bingo yet?
posted to MetaTalk by FunkyHelix at 9:29 PM on January 23, 2008

I just asked Bill Shakespeare, and he told me "Meffy, forsooth."
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 10:11 AM on November 7, 2007

CKmtl, what I'm trying to get across is you don't need to yell "Howsa 'bout that ASS, bayBEE" to be disrespectful. Approaching strange women on the street, no matter how it is taken, is in of itself disrespectful. Read occhiblu's link here. That is basically the thought process a dude puts strange women through when he approaches them. Panic. Fear. Apprehension. Whatever you were doing, wherever you were going, it is now tainted by the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by schroedinger at 10:44 AM on December 19, 2007

anotherpanacea - first of all, those are shoes. And they're like, 320 pounds, which - given the condition of the dollar - is something like a million bucks.

Good Fryes can be had for $170. Fryes are boots. They go a third of the way up to your knee. Water cannot get in.

Furthermore, let me share a story with you.

It was August, and I was up north, as is often the case. I was fishing in a private... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Baby_Balrog at 2:40 PM on December 20, 2007

I'm not talking to fff here, but generally: I did not see hordes of angry women storming the original post, belittling the poster, and insisting on their rights. In fact, I didn't even see one. I saw none.

I did see a number of women in this thread (where it was properly brought up) calmly and thoughtfully sharing their views. Many of which included the notion that what the Mefi poster had done was not something they thought like he should be persecuted for. So I feel... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by taz at 11:38 PM on December 6, 2007

It's more pronounced for women as a result of our sex being the non-default.

Hah, no kidding. Some movie trailer came on TV earlier, and we were ticking off the archetypes: young spunky guy, young geeky guy, older experienced guy, bad guy, woman...

I wouldn't be surprised if this primacy of gender for women makes M2F more difficult in and of itself that FtoM

Certainly it's harder to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ArmyOfKittens at 9:47 AM on December 8, 2007

Certainly as a transwoman I can feel that my gender identity, not to mention my early life as a male, stands in the way of my forming complete relationships with other women, such that I only really feel truly safe to express myself completely in the company of other LGBT people, and I would always, always shy away from making sweeping statements on behalf of womankind in general because my back is permanently hunched against potential cries of, "But you're a man!", but I would think... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ArmyOfKittens at 5:43 AM on December 8, 2007

Some things me and my friends use to play (and I also am a mediocre musician/singer)

radioed
Street Spirit, Exit Music For A Film, Creep

Beatles
Blackbird, Rocky Raccoon, A Day In The Life, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, Norwegian Wood, Let It Be

Iron & Wine
Jezebel, Free Until They Cut Me Down, Cinder & Smoke, Such Great Heights (Postal Service Cover)... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by cyphill at 9:25 PM on May 22, 2005

grind a grapefruit, Cagney style, in the self-satisfied editor's face.
Hey man, chill out on the fruitism, ok? Not cool.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:46 PM on November 25 [+] [!]

Enopugh with the barking jokes, it's dog-ist, and making me very uncomfortable. Sometimes this place is one big CatZone...
posted by pupdog at 10:25 PM on November 25 [+] [!]

"*barks, howls, humps konolia's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwine at 7:48 PM on November 25, 2007

mosessis, you need to use named entities in place of the literal characters. The angle brackets are coded as < and > respectively.

So if you enter this into the comment box:

<snookums>

You'll come out with this:

<snookums>

And all is happiness and warmth.

Keep this in mind as well if you ever want to use an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 10:52 AM on November 17, 2007

Astro Zombie: This is a foolishly nitpicky point, but the proposed headline was to with the the Quadrilateral, the joke being, of course, five sides minus one gives you four sides. Septagon, or more properly, Heptagon would be gaining two sides.

---

More to do with the actual thread, there's been a subthread for a bit about the agendas and rationales of male feminists. Putting aside the point that all people should be feminists in the same way... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Arturus at 3:17 PM on November 16, 2007

I find it so cheap when people ask potential flamers-out outright to just go ahead and do it, already. It's like walking up to someone and ask if maybe they want to fuck: sure, the buckshot method might actually succeed once in a while, for a large enough sample size, but is it really worth it? Does it satisfy? Chase, catch, and all that?

No, would-be flamers-out need to be pampered with feigned understanding, lulled into a false sense of comfort, with a patient game of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:18 AM on November 15, 2007

Looking for things you can just chill to, that also reward more careful attention when you're in the mood for it. OK.

Pre-classical. I love baroque music but long swaths of solo keyboard (or any solo instrument from the period) can get pretty tiresome, so:

JS Bach, Harpsichord Concertos. Here you have harpsichord - which is ideal for realizing the clean lines of baroque writing but can really get tiresome solo - playing... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Wolfdog at 5:16 AM on October 19, 2005

Hi guys.

Dhoyt here, courtesy of Bardic.


First I want to apologize to mathowie & the rest of you for carrying out this dumb ruse so long. I know it's a pain in the ass cleaning up the mess now, but before the torches are snuffed out for good, I want to explain some things.

In short, the various MeFi personas you've seen were created for a variety of reasons, albeit none of them as juicy as some might wish.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bardic at 6:56 PM on November 15, 2005

I've gone through my online life, wondering why people would spend the time and energy to troll, and why trolls always seem to be so static, unidimensional and uninteresting. It's because the people who troll do so because they are board and boring. Interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by Freen at 8:17 PM on November 15, 2005

moderation kills the spirit

a little knowledge can go a long way

a lot of professionals are crackpots

a man can't know what it is to be a mother

a name means a lot just by itself

a positive attitude means all the difference in the world

a relaxed man is not necessarily a better man

a sense of timing is the mark of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vronsky at 8:40 PM on September 23, 2007

Optimus: Pensando demasiado sobre el plato de frijoles.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:02 PM on June 7, 2007

OK, that was <abbr title="Dual-Tone Multifrequency Aardvark? Delirium Tremens Master of Fine Arts?">DTMFA</abbr>, if anyone wants to be really nice about these things in the future. Still seems easier just to use words, though.
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:53 PM on October 7, 2007

I toss them in with all my onion root-ends, garlic stubs, potato peels, carrot peels, zucchini trimmings, parsley stems, etc., for making vegetable broth. (If you eat meat, use the bones and trimmings for great poultry or beef stock.)

I keep a plastic tub in the freezer and, whenever I cook, I toss in the tips and tails of aromatic vegetables (no brassica; they get too pungent). When the tub is full, I put them in a big pot over medium-high heat with drizzle of oil and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Elsa at 2:24 PM on September 2, 2007 marked best answer