Bush's policy about Iraq makes ME "laugh out loud" (when it doesn't make me cry), but I'm not linking to it, no matter how much you all beg me to!
posted to MetaFilter by HuronBob at 7:07 AM on August 15, 2007

Obversely all the young men who carefully go the speed limit, or less, all the time reach the intersections, at which point, the attractive young women standing there immediately strip naked and jump in their cars, and copulation ensues.
posted to MetaFilter by nervousfritz at 4:33 AM on July 25, 2007

My mother drives really slow.

Oh my fucking god ....
posted to MetaFilter by strawberryviagra at 5:22 AM on July 25, 2007

I'm an avid bibliophile with my own library, but this whole article reads like a cross between a paean to bibliofetishism and a hymn of plutolatry.

Bully for them, but rich people reading books, and spending a lot for them, doesn't really impress me so much, I guess.
posted to MetaFilter by darkstar at 12:13 PM on July 23, 2007

Rupert Pupkin with a nice rack.
posted to MetaFilter by KokuRyu at 6:48 AM on June 15, 2007

Metafilter: listless, apolitical, and in need of a sandwich.
posted to MetaFilter by ewkpates at 8:09 AM on June 15, 2007

I would think corpse eating rats are sort of standard for New York. When the coin flips and you have rat eating corpses I will read your ManBitesDog story.
posted to MetaFilter by Iron Rat at 11:33 PM on May 28, 2007

This one jenky looking unemployed roofer with a knee brace ejaculates half-heartedly on the face of a bored and possibly stoned lady with a lot of plastic surgery scars and blurry tattoos and then presumably returns to fixing the cable.
posted to MetaFilter by Divine_Wino at 2:10 PM on May 22, 2007

Jofus, you've made me just a little queasy.

The jam, at any rate, should be raspberry. And sprouted grain bread makes Baby Jesus cry. Or at least pick at His teeth with a toothpick and wish someone'd had the decency to pick up an Italian loaf or something.

On preview: Your recipe gets even more nausea-inducing, Jofus.
posted to MetaFilter by gompa at 12:49 PM on May 22, 2007

The Liverbirds - Peanut Butter (1965).
posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 1:49 PM on May 22, 2007

It's actually Burt Reynolds's mustache, because "Burt Reynolds'" is not an accepted liturgical archaism.

Dumbass.
posted to MetaTalk by Mister_A at 12:34 PM on May 17, 2007

I have a necklace just like that! Except made from ears.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 6:41 AM on May 17, 2007

Welcome to your barn. I have a barn. I hope you love your barn. I have mixed feelings about mine, but one of them is love. The roof blew off in Hurricane Floyd and cost about 12K to replace. It was covered by insurance but I got into a tussle with some roofers who I had to take to court. I won the court case but they never paid. I'd send the sheriff after them but they live down the street and I'd be afraid they'd try to burn the place down with me in it.

My barn is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by jessamyn at 7:23 PM on May 16, 2007

My goodness, it's a circulating library. I await the return of the triple-decker.
posted to MetaFilter by thomas j wise at 8:58 PM on May 15, 2007

I got into punkrock DESPITE people like him.
posted to MetaFilter by foodeater at 6:17 AM on May 10, 2007

There's problems in the public school system more insidious than not paying teachers enough? I am shpcked. shpcked I tell you.
posted to MetaFilter by SinisterPurpose at 7:00 AM on May 3, 2007

There are problems.
posted to MetaFilter by Armitage Shanks at 7:01 AM on May 3, 2007

"Dictated and not read." Just put that at the end of every letter, that covers your ass pretty well.
posted to MetaFilter by grytpype at 7:03 AM on May 3, 2007

We'd all like to know where at the "t" is, and that's fine.

What's not fine is rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?
posted to MetaFilter by designbot at 7:51 AM on May 3, 2007

I've been in the (IT) workplace for more than twenty years now.

Last year, I left a job after a little less than eight months.

It just wasn't a good fit.

"It wasn't a good fit" is universally understood by all hiring managers to mean "I Can't Say Anything Nice About Them And So I'm Not Saying Anything At All. My, The Weather Is Quite Something Lately, Isn't It?"

Never, ever... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by enrevanche at 1:36 PM on April 16, 2007

> I wonder how long it'll take before public librarianship as a profession merges with social work.

Amen. If I had a nickle for every time I've thought or said, or heard a co-worker say, "I didn't get into this profession to be a social worker", I'd have enough money to retire. The problem, as touched upon above, with the homeless and unruly teens at the library (and, as a public librarian, give me the homeless over the teens any day of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 12:40 PM on April 3, 2007

most of the post-Brian Jones crap has soured me to the Stones.

yes, Exile and Sticky Fingers are horrible horrible albums. Some Girls too. They should be very very ashamed of themselves.
posted to MetaFilter by drjimmy11 at 10:28 AM on March 26, 2007

Give a man a fish, and he can feed himself for a day. But give A. Fish a man, and... well, he can feed himself for several.
posted to MetaFilter by RokkitNite at 11:02 AM on March 23, 2007

Since I already laid out my impressive credentials for judging music in the recent Wilco thread, I won't repeat them here.

Let me just say that, thanks to my impressive credentials, I am able to write definitively that my opinion of Patti Smith is the correct and accurate one. All reasonable people will surely agree with me on this.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels at 2:03 PM on March 12, 2007

I don't get why I don't like great music that doesn't conform to my expectations or personal tastes. Please hope me.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey at 9:57 AM on March 12, 2007

I've only read one article by Chuck Klosterman, but his piece on Barry Bonds is pretty much the only interesting, insightful thing that's ever been written about the man.

It's a must read for anyone who wants to understand what the deal is with baseball and steroids. If he's half as perceptive about other subjects, he's probably a hell of a writer, overexposed or not.
posted to MetaFilter by Simon! at 6:34 PM on March 9, 2007

Sorry, should have said, what the book mentioned by annoying the octopus were things like hiding behind rocks, poking it with sticks, flashing lights/colours at it. Generally pissing the thing off, in order to get it to die by apoplexy/anger.
posted to Ask Metafilter by snailer at 6:19 AM on January 9, 2007

Personal advice from my personal treasure trove of experience: Lie. Lie lie lie. My personal favorite is I'm looking into pursuing education. You wanna know the truth: from my lips to God's ears, I hope I NEVER see the inside of an educational institution again, I HATE school. Always did, always will. But it is a nice, pat excuse. Still trying to decide the best program, looking at an MBA, shoot for a job where I can work my way up to management. Whatever.

If you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nanojath at 11:44 AM on January 4, 2007

Marie Curie hardly burned out. She died at the age of 67, a ripe old age, all things considered, and was passionate about her life's work to the end. If that's a joke, it's a dumb joke.

I really dislike articles like this, which attempt to be educational, clever, entertaining, and insightful, each of those qualities contributing to the drowning of the others like shipwreck victims scrambling over each other's backs. Which are generally what New York Magazine, The New... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 1:19 PM on December 27, 2006

Interesting article, although somewhat shallow in my opinion. While I know this is the NY Magazine, the way the article kept going back to how this affects New Yorkers and no one else was off-putting.

I had to snort at the researcher who said surgeons burn out because, among other things, "patients are more demanding". Yes, I know they weren't expecting me to feel sorry for anyone mentioned in the article, but I could hardly feel a twinge of sympathy for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by smashingstars at 2:22 PM on December 27, 2006