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This website has thoroughly covered time travel in cinema and is thoroughly entertaining:

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/back1.html

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/back2.html

http://www.mjyoung.net/time/back3.html
posted to Ask MetaFilter by michaelh at 7:12 PM on July 18, 2011

Proctor & Gamble. They misunderstood, thought people were railing against SOAP, and took retaliatory action.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 2:54 PM on January 7, 2012

'Bah-uwl stahrrr Guh-lack-tick-ahhh' would be what I would say if I was doing a comic Cockney voice. This may not be the most reliable answer, but it surely wouldn't be far off.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by robself at 11:19 AM on January 4, 2012 marked best answer

This website has almost convinced my husband to get a referral to a urologist.

It's extremely graphic, but somehow that actually helped my husband, who likes to know how things work and appreciated having the process demystified a bit.

I tell you this for free, the person whose drive is going to be most improved by my husband's vasectomy is ME.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by padraigin at 9:57 AM on November 26, 2005

Do you know the baby name voyager. It lets you chart the popularity of names (girl and boy) over the last century. At least it will be good for getting a sense of whether a name you choose is making a comeback or not. It's a hugely fun browse even if it doesn't help you pick a name.

As for names to go with Xander, I guess the obvious ones are: Spike, Angel, Giles, Oz, Riley etc. But not, whatever you do, Parker.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by yoink at 10:35 AM on November 20, 2011 marked best answer

Season 3 of Flight of the Conchords is really different.

Yeah, suddenly they're from Oz, not NZ.
posted to MetaFilter by Wolof at 6:39 AM on December 31, 2011

I got my hopes up for a sec when I thought it said Karen Gillan.
posted to MetaFilter by gyc at 1:01 PM on December 30, 2011

Patton is king. One need only to listen to this piece of standup to realize that. That, and Stella D'Oro Breakfast Treats.
posted to MetaFilter by prodigalsun at 1:43 PM on December 29, 2011

I think that you're looking for an official, iron-clad rule -- something in black-and-white in detail -- that you can point to and it says "If you do X, then the mods will do Y."

But the "rule" is more of a shades-of-gray suggestion rather than a "read the FAQ" rule; because there are shades-of-gray when it comes to how good or bad a person is:

* Just about everyone can agree that Mr. Rogers was Hella Cool. Odds are... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by EmpressCallipygos at 10:45 AM on December 19, 2011

I pushed it, and next thing I know, Kim Jong-Il has died. So it's got that going for it.
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 2:17 AM on December 19, 2011

All kidding aside, here's what's probably happening at NBC:

Commercial airtime is nearly entirely purchased in one of two ways- either during the summer, in a two-week or so period known as the "upfronts", or throughout the year as part of the scatter market. Airtime is purchased in advance, so it is based on a promise from the network that they can capture a certain audience. Typically, a media buyer purchases a demo (such as Adults 18-49 or Women 25-54),... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheWhiteSkull at 7:43 AM on November 15, 2011

This happened to me to. Constant fights about it. We had twins, and it got worse.

Finally, I realized that my duty was to my marriage, and to fullfill that duty, I had to love the job of being a husband. I don't mean to say it's a "job", but that we all have our roles, and it's important to know you're taking care of your part, and with the right attitude. Much of my "not listening" was based on subtle anger on my part for working hard every... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by asavage at 8:29 PM on May 14, 2005

I'm one of those big rah-rah breastfeeding advocates. Exclusively nursed, weaned just before my daughter's 3rd birthday, currently nursing a newborn, yadda yadda. I mention this only to secure my bona fides.

Do not feel guilty. Yes, all other things being equal, breast is best. You know what? All other things are rarely equal. It's certainly possible that if you continue to tough it out (probably for another month or so) things will eventually "click"; 3... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KathrynT at 8:59 AM on November 17, 2010

I absolutely despise Getup!, but they are right about this. In Australia one of the prime values of conservatism is freedom for the individual (over collectivism). As a middle of the road Aussie conservative, I can't support denying anyone their rights to do whatever they want as long as it's not hurting others.
posted to MetaFilter by nemspyda at 10:48 AM on November 26, 2011

I work in a pharmacy sometimes. I have an answer.

Pharmacy is generally staffed with one pharmacist and one, maybe two techs. When a new prescription is presented at the window, the following steps get taken.

1. We make sure that the person actually exists in our system.
a. If the person exists, we can continue.
b. If the person doesn't exist, then we have to get their name, address, phone,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pieoverdone at 2:52 PM on March 29, 2008 marked best answer

Take turns drawing one another. Even if you both suck as artists, you will still have the thrill of looking at each other with a purpose. Bonus, if you break up then it is art and not the most shameful thing that's ever been shown to 300 of his closest facebook buddies.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by myselfasme at 5:25 PM on November 20, 2011

Do him a favor and think of him as the man he will become, not just a little wriggling cluster of cells. It's his cock we're talking about, not his umbilical cord or his tonsils or friggin' appendix. I think you should only think about this issue while standing in the shower fondling yourself, just to keep it in perspective.

On the subject of "but he won't look like his father," I offer you this thought, from a friend of mine:

"If... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scarabic at 6:37 PM on March 2, 2004 marked best answer

Usually I hate all forms of secret santa events, however since it is MeFi it would automatically be awesome.

In honour of our fallen comrades I move to have it renamed secret quonsar.
posted to MetaTalk by public at 12:37 AM on November 26, 2007

Also, yay for this being thread 20,000 in MetaTalk. How awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by deezil at 5:19 PM on November 15, 2010

Come on, it's not like these OWS idealists have some sort of right peaceably to assemble, or to petition the Government for a redress of grievances, or to be secure in their persons and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
posted to MetaFilter by Homeboy Trouble at 11:14 PM on November 14, 2011

Mefi's Own Lore has written a piece that is sadly, way too appropriate.
Their main complaints seem to be that politics is influenced by people with political influence, and that powerful people have all the power. In other words, they’re protesting the futility of their own protest. That’s the sort of recursive, discursive incursion I can get behind.

If the vaguely defined “1 percent” have all the power, then no amount of sign-waving, slogan-chanting or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by oneswellfoop at 11:11 PM on November 14, 2011

Harrison Ford? I like his Solo work but he was better when he was still Indy.
posted to MetaFilter by shakespeherian at 9:08 PM on November 15, 2011

bunnytricks- either or. To give an example, the microdeletion on the chromosome 22 that causes DiGeorge syndrome, can be completely silent on the parent transmitting the deletion, or the parent could have a minor show of symptoms. There is really some weird stuff going on- it is not quite as straightforward as Mendel would have liked you to believe. In uniparental disomy, for example, you might inherit both chromosomes 15 from one parent, instead than one from each: if they are from the dad,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by francesca too at 2:02 PM on December 3, 2007

I always enjoy it when writers try to come up with some semi-serious cover or explanation for super heros and their possible life-threatening damage or lack there-of.

My mental Gary Stu for most superhero universes is someone who has a healing aura that they can't really turn off. So not only do they regenerate, but people who spend time near them don't get sick, heal faster, and so on. Of course, using the power only makes it stronger, so as he's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 9:44 AM on November 15, 2011

impossible for my imagination to make the leap to "Spock sings."There was actually an episode in which Spock did sing!

I think it was the same one with the first televised interracial kiss (Uhura and Kirk)... superpowered psychics who, uh, somehow came from ancient Greece or something like that were forcing the crew to do various things, one of which was the aforementioned kiss, but another of which was Spock singing a ballad to Uhura and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Flunkie at 6:25 PM on November 12, 2011

impossible for my imagination to make the leap to "Spock sings."

Effigy2000 - here you go...
posted to MetaFilter by cromagnon at 5:13 PM on November 12, 2011

I'm surprised it took so long in thus thread for the term "sexual assault" to be mentioned. I don't see this act as any different whether it's a man or woman targeted.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jayder at 10:44 AM on November 12, 2011

That sounds like sexual assault to me.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Chaussette and the Pussy Cats at 10:54 AM on November 12, 2011

There isn't a real answer for your question other than it shouldn't be something you have to deal with but at least you can be happy that it's something you say have thus far liked instead of something that bothers you.

As you can see just from these answers people pinch butts for a number of reasons. Sometimes for no reason at all. The only way for you to really know is to talk with them. Some of the one-liners people have given you up above might help you break the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zephyr_words at 11:12 AM on November 12, 2011

Thinking about the difference between doing this to a man versus a woman:

I'm guessing the double-standard is due in part to a perception of implied consent. That is, there may be a perception that most males don't mind it if a woman pinches their ass, whereas women are much more likely to take offense. I don't know if that perception is true or not, but it may account for the double-standard.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mikeand1 at 1:01 PM on November 12, 2011

I just want to add as a female-socialized person that in my circles, this would be an incredibly creepy thing to do. I'm glad you find it flattering rather than jerky, but bear in mind when you imagine introducing yourself to these women that they are women who believe that other people's bodies are theirs to handle sexually without permission and then ask yourself in what contexts this might be a liability.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Frowner at 12:04 PM on November 12, 2011

Yay for new babbys Elliott and Edison!

Awesome names, btw.
posted to MetaTalk by deborah at 6:16 PM on November 11, 2011

I've had a very, very rough week, and I NEED babby pictures!

I can oblige, I had my baby, Santiago Andrés, almost weeks ago!

Congratulations to dirtdirt and effigy2000!
posted to MetaTalk by DrGirlfriend at 4:56 PM on November 11, 2011

I read zarq's comment in a hurry and thought dirtdirt was married to Effigy2000 and got really confuesd for a while.

Congratulations to both families! Welcome to the MeFi family, Elliott and Effigy Jr.

Kattullus pretty much has the coolest name ever.
posted to MetaTalk by Phire at 1:43 PM on November 11, 2011

Congrats to both dirtdirt and effigy2000!
posted to MetaTalk by immlass at 8:49 AM on November 11, 2011

Woo! Congratulations to dirtdirt and effigy2000. :)
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 7:38 AM on November 11, 2011

Elliott's a beautiful name. Congratulations, dirtdirt and family!! Photos are absolutely necessary. I hope everything's going swimmingly.

I don't want to hijack, but congratulations should also go out to Effigy2000 and his wife who just had a baby boy as well! They seem to be going through a bit of a roller coaster, so send them good vibes in addition to congratulations.
posted to MetaTalk by lilac girl at 7:35 AM on November 11, 2011

Congratulations, new parents! And youngest members of Metafilter!

When they grow up, we will have to introduce Elliott to Effigy2000 Jr. (Effigy2011?), so they will become best friends, and meet pretty girls (or attractive young men) together and go on dates and rescue each other from embarrassing scrapes and get into bar fights defending their school/family/girlfriends' honors and generally excelling in Fine Young Men shenanigans.

Until they... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by misha at 1:03 PM on November 11, 2011

This is my daughter in the first few days of her life. I'll spare you the details; it's enough to say even though I'm really proud of myself for keeping my back straight and my shit together that week, I'd rather gnaw my own leg off at the knee than have a week like that again. I don't think of myself as being much of a sissy but it turns out that if I just sit by myself and think about the first 48 hours of my daughter's life hard enough I get the shakes, then I start crying.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mhoye at 6:42 AM on November 11, 2011

Buliwyf: You can draw sounds?
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: "Draw sounds"? Yes, I can draw sounds... and I can speak them back.

My own handwriting is an aggressively unreadable tangle that borders on arcane script, many letters being reduced or transformed in figure to bizarre twists of ink recognizable only to myself. It's nearly a code, a separate alphabet known only to a select few. Sweeping arcs, multi-layered overlaps and conjoinments of characters... I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by FatherDagon at 8:36 AM on October 28, 2011

Four MIIIIILLLLION comments!
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:28 AM on November 3, 2011

I left a note in the eulogy thread and people can knock that shit off right now. I've pretty much had it with "you guys are liking a thing so I'll show up just to hate it and not interact with either the content of the link or the other people contributing in the thread" contributions. It's lazy and it's taking advantage of our generally light moderation policies to threadshit. And just to head people off at the pass, it's totally fine to have a critique of Jobs, his policies, his... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:55 AM on October 31, 2011

Worf refuses to enjoy the pleasure-planet Risa.

HAR! Someone didn't watch Deep Space Niiiiine.
posted to MetaFilter by AugieAugustus at 10:24 AM on October 31, 2011

For a 900 year old super genius with all the tools that ever existed in the past and future history of the universe at his disposal; a sonic probe, a multipass and a plastic water pistol seems a rather paltry toolkit.

You're forgetting something else in the toolkit -- his brain.

Which is the best tool of all.

That's kind of the point.
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 12:52 PM on October 30, 2011

how can we get it back to the old way of links-rich entries?

Write them?
posted to MetaTalk by mazola at 8:41 PM on October 20, 2011

I am a man. A husband. My wife gave birth to our first child five weeks ago tomorrow.

I do not feel like we had the problems you described during the pregnancy, but this is for two reasons. 1) I tried to do everything I could to be helpful, but 2) my wife didn't spend much time trying to get me to do things that she knew I did not care about, like decorating the baby's room (the baby still doesn't sleep in there, so this seems justified). Still, I let her do her... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by tylerkaraszewski at 10:20 PM on September 24, 2011 marked best answer

I've been trying to figure out the Silence's motivations. Their plan with River is clear enough, but what in the world were they trying to accomplish in season 5? Why blow up the TARDIS?

We now know that the Silence is a religious order consisting of the Church, the Headless Monks, and the Silents. I guess Prisoner Zero might also be a member. Many people online seem to assume that the Silents lead the Silence, but I'm not sure anything suggests that they're in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by painquale at 3:45 AM on October 4, 2011

Favorite this if you're a new parent, or soon-to-be parent, who wishes they could take it all back.
posted to MetaTalk by Effigy2000 at 7:37 PM on October 7, 2011

There are a few things I am thinking of, but will offer them with the caveats that my now seven and a half year old child was an erratic napper, and that during that hideous time, I did work as a technical reviewer on a baby, toddler and preschooler book for sleep issues back in 2006, where I learned things that did indeed help my kid. I just pulled it out, and am going to give it another look over. Most especially, I found out then and always have remembered that "Sleep begets sleep."... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by peagood at 6:54 PM on October 4, 2011 marked best answer

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by madamjujujive at 5:08 PM on October 5, 2011