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ColdChef : She taught me how to immediately spot a fake handbag.

Yeah, do tell.

It's not one single thing, but rather a combination of things. As mentioned above, a big tip off is crooked seams or patterns not matching at seams. But there are other subtler ways (and fakes have gotten pretty good at this kind of thing), such as checking out the hardware on the bags. Obvious restitchings along the zipper or careless gluing? Fake.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 9:59 AM on June 27, 2007

brujita: breeder was meant in the sense of anybody (gay or straight) with kids (biological, adopted or step).

ysabet: i never said that volunteer work, building your own yacht, writing that great novel etc are closed off to breeders. i said that "some manage it with difficulty, but you might as well close off the following kinds of things..." it's challenging, but not impossible.

(a part of me secretly feels that one of the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 11:43 PM on June 27, 2007

My mowing the lawn routine has slowly evolved. I use a riding mower with a skinny little steering wheel that is hard on the hands, so I started by wearing my heavy gardening gloves. Then I noticed that it was really hot, so I added a hat. And the thing is, when the cutting blades are engaged, it's extremely loud, so I added the ear muffs I use for shooting. Of course now I had nothing to listen to, so under those muffs I have my iPod headphones. And because I'm not really good at the whole... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by quin at 9:17 AM on June 27, 2007

b_thinky writes "I clicked for comments to understand the meaning of this post. I still do not get it. Oh well."

Ok, let me give it a shot (no, progosk, I'm not saying you should write it like this, because it's amazingly dry, but just writing for extra clarity for the confused folks):

Ebony Thomas, bored of her award-nominated role as Yasmin Green on the soap opera "Family Affairs", happened to meet Rat... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Bugbread at 11:02 AM on June 26, 2007

Metafilter: STFU with your bitching all of you
posted to MetaTalk by Brandon Blatcher at 7:50 AM on June 24, 2007

Dang, in the time that took to write we all said the same thing...
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pupdog at 5:22 PM on June 19, 2007

Smart Dalek:

Please, start making sense soon. So you weren't thinking of an account. That's great. What were you thinking of?

Let's make this simple:

1) Are you complaining about something?
- If yes, go to question 2.
- If no, go to question 5.

2) Are you complaining about behaviour in that AskMe?
- If yes, go to question 3.
- If no, go to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Bugbread at 8:17 AM on June 18, 2007

I work in the MA State House. I was thinking of making a post throughout the day and decided against it because it's too hard to step back and collect myself to explain what the day was like. I walked to work with hundreds of protestors on each side of the street (and correspondingly on each side of the issue). I took my lunch outside to hear the chants (although it's not like I couldn't hear them at my desk). It was hard to focus before the concon. When the lawmakers went in, I don't know... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by allen.spaulding at 8:24 PM on June 14, 2007

Osmanthus wrote: I was disappeared like a jew in auschwitz

What what WHAT?

I think there is definitely a secret cabal of paint huffing mefites and that today is their holiday.
posted to MetaTalk by kosem at 8:32 PM on June 13, 2007

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!

No, wait, shit, that's the other one.
posted to MetaTalk by box at 7:04 PM on June 13, 2007

It seems like such a minor inconvenience to click the back button.

Maybe for you. I run a multi-screen setup, with a screen in every room, so I have a bit of internet throughout my house. Unfortunately (admittedly due to some poor planning on my part) my back button is in the basement, so I almost never use it.
posted to MetaTalk by scottreynen at 3:50 PM on June 13, 2007

Accepted.

I understand what you and EB are saying, I think, but I disagree.

What is most wonderful is seeing that - whatever her opinion of gays - konolia has dropped the biblical justifications, and this allows her real human compassion to shine through in comments made elsewhere on this site.

I never, ever thought I'd see the day when I would mark her comments as favourites. But in our small ways, we celebrate and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dash_slot- at 12:43 PM on June 13, 2007

I am one of those ridiculously happy ladies- and thank you all so much for finding our story and sharing it. We are every bit as happy and a thousand times moreso than even Joey's account let's on...

Craigslist rocks- and we were both so privileged to have met the blog author, his wife, and our two other awesome witnesses last Friday. We had a blast, rocked out to the accordian (never in a hundred thousand lifetimes thought I'd utter that) and couldn't believe what... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by motogrrl03 at 4:51 PM on June 12, 2007

it isn't fair, i tell you! i could release a video of me having sex with someone and it would get exactly zero buzz.

NOT IF YOU HAD SEX WITH A BEE
posted to MetaFilter by Sticherbeast at 1:03 PM on June 9, 2007

Q: You like brownies? You are a person who likes the brownies that we are currently eating?
A: Yes! I like brownies!
Q: You like brownies! In fact, you are a person who likes brownies as much as a prostitute likes sex!
A: YES I LIKE BROWNIES AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION!! TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT
Q: YOU ENJOY THIS BROWNIE YOU SEXY SEX PERSON
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 9:27 PM on June 8, 2007

Eh, you'd defend one of your hobbies if someone dissed it at a party, too.

Sorry Mr. Glasshouse, but it wouldn't bother me a whit (Assuming that there are parties where people diss napping and reading), since I would probably be at home, napping and reading.

I can appreciate spiderwire's frustration, but this MeTa seems very gratuitous and pointless to me, especially when compared to his swell comment in the thread. IMO, that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Alvy Ampersand at 9:48 AM on June 6, 2007

"The only worse thing than being poor and in your 20s is to have rich parents and being poor and in your 20s."

How about being poor not just in your 20s, but your whole life? I'm sorry, I just don't have a lick of sympathy for this "But we're rich, and the rich are different" horseshit. So your friends get money from their parents— so what? So Paris Hilton's rich for no goddamned reason. So what?
I can tell you, from the other side of it,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by klangklangston at 8:57 AM on May 26, 2007

I can't stop thinking about this question. It's been a sharp one throughout my life. My parents divorced when I was two. I spent my childhood with my mother's family and a brief bit of adolescence with my father's, with almost no interaction between the two. Their family philosophies could not have been more different. My mother's parents came to the US in their childhoods and were very poor. Through hard work they achieved the upper end of the working class. Once elderly, they slipped... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by melissa may at 12:15 AM on May 28, 2007

some honesty on my part is called for here.

i've not been kind to matt. always quick to smart off and criticize. i'm a knowitall jerk to a great degree.

matt has been kind to me, and communicated his recent displeasure to me privately.

i have been particularly cranky and restless the last week, for reasons i'm well acquainted with and that have nothing to do with matt or anyone else.

the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by quonsar at 7:32 PM on January 24, 2005

I tend to get a little upset whenever LOLcats or image macros come up and 4chan (or 2chan, 7chan, 12chan, 420chan, ...) is not acknowledged. It's a subculture that's been around for years, and is just now becoming popular, so it's really annoying to see people think it's something new.

If you need me, I'll be in my lab. [probably nsfw]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhomboid at 3:27 PM on May 18, 2007

overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
posted to MetaTalk by bottlebrushtree at 6:38 PM on May 17, 2007

I started to write someone about how books are butterflies and some like'm pinned under glass for study and others just want to glimpse them from a window, but I got distracted.

What distracted me was a memory. So my wife and I are the sorts of people that take please from reading in bars. Hell, our reading time can be split up into three main areas: Bar, before bed, and gym. Of the three, the former is where the books get the most attention. However, because of the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 7:16 AM on May 8, 2007

Around 2000, at a library book sale in Davis, CA, I found the following typewritten note folded inside a 25-cent used copy of Woody Allen's "Getting Even":


November 23, 1981

I am holding you personally responsible. For several long years now, I have resisted temptation; remaining true to my vow never again to fall back into the habit. Now you've spoiled all that hard work.

That's right! For... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aws17576 at 2:49 PM on May 9, 2007

mr_crash_davis: like this guy?
posted to MetaTalk by null terminated at 1:54 PM on May 9, 2007

You really shouldn't post the key on metafilter--matt might get in trouble.
posted to MetaFilter by 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 at 8:46 PM on May 1, 2007

With apologies to xkcd.

I have too much spare time.
posted to MetaTalk by EndsOfInvention at 1:57 PM on May 2, 2007

To determine if you're downloading from a torrent or other peer to peer service, you just need to connect as a client and pretend to have what you want to see people are downloading -- you'll get lists of IP's requesting segments from it.

To do the same with Usenet, you'd have to get a warrant for article download logs (and I suspect you'd be restricted to only the IP's you already have evidence for), and most likely all you'll receive is logs of how much you've... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Freaky at 10:27 AM on April 29, 2007

My deepest sympathies for posting this. I lack all attempts at rhythm and meter, and don't even have a nice English accent to back things up!

----
Thou shalt not post if you are the original author.
Thou shalt not worship favorites or follow non-cabals.
Thou shalt not take the names of Matthew Haughey, Jessamyn West, Josh Millard, Paul Bausch, Todd Loken, Matthew Chen or the Green in vain.
Thou shalt not think any girl over... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 7:48 AM on April 20, 2007

Be polite and firm.

They can be a nuisance. You don't have to be a creep.

Work to exclude religion from daily life. Proselytize logic and inquiry while rejecting superstition. Demonstrate that you can be moral and kind while not believing in magic.

Hope that your viewpoints can prevail as society matures and leaves behind the need for comforting mythology.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by FauxScot at 7:00 PM on April 13, 2007

I am a librarian so oftentimes friends or acquaintances want me to "do something" about their library fines.

I just sort of laugh and say "oh, I couldn't!" kind of like I thought they were joking, and they generally don't bring it up again.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by exceptinsects at 5:15 PM on April 11, 2007

And the Q&A doesn't make him sound like a jerk.

Eh, I think this segment of the Q&A:

College Park, MD: Hi Gene,

I feel compelled to write because I think your premises were wrong. I wouldn't have even attempted it.

There is a time and a place for everything. I wrote in protest to Metro when it decided to allow buskers in the station, and I was not alone. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by flashboy at 5:59 PM on April 9, 2007

A lot of this kind of talk basically amounts to the following:

Q: You like sex? You are a person who likes the sex acts that we are currently engaged in?
A: Yes! I am! I like sex!
Q: You like sex! In fact, you are a person who likes sex as much as a prostitute likes sex!
A: YES I LIKE SEXY SEX AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION!! TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT
Q: YOU ENJOY THIS ACT YOU SEXY SEX PERSON etc.

So,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lemuria at 5:43 PM on April 4, 2007

in ur basement
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posted to Ask MetaFilter by wfrgms at 9:09 PM on March 12, 2007

American: Go on, say. Say it!

Me: Say what?

American: Say "Out and about".

Me: Out and about.

American: HOO HA HAW HEE HEE HEE... "Ooooot and aboooot"! Haw haw haw [etc.]

Me: ?
posted to MetaTalk by timeistight at 3:12 PM on March 26, 2007

NEEEEEEEEEEEEAR!

faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar!
posted to MetaTalk by brundlefly at 2:48 PM on March 20, 2007

LOL. I actually agree with you, Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America. But my boyfriend won't let it go. We really need to settle this.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by hannahq at 2:03 AM on March 18, 2007

This is so weird--I didn't even think it was possible!

See, what's happened is that the comments box on youtube is somehow posting directly into this thread. Which means somewhere on youtube there is a Staind video with an insightful and thoughtful comment thread (long considered an impossibility)--the happy result of this scripting anomaly. The thoughtful comments (which I'm sure were left here regarding this outrage) have been posted over there.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton at 6:22 PM on February 10, 2007

i ate a bee
posted to MetaTalk by killdevil at 5:41 AM on January 29, 2007

dame, got any actual suggestions? Or does matt have to play cold, warmer, warmer, hot to satisfy you?
posted to MetaTalk by and hosted from Uranus at 12:03 PM on January 25, 2007

I learned Romanian playing bingo in Transylvania.

Jessamyn, I think we've all played bingo in Transylvania. Try not to clutter up the site with such mundane trivia.

In all seriousness, mdn, and not sniping: Doing a Google search with the terms "[x] numbers" where x=any language brings up many useful links.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Skot at 9:50 AM on September 10, 2004

I got a letter from mathowie the other day
I opened and read it--it said 'You're a sucker.'
He wanted me to read the FAQ or whatever
Picture me giving a damn? I said 'Never.'
posted to MetaTalk by box at 7:27 PM on January 8, 2007

Please give an example of a culture which doesn't understand my right to be asleep at three o'clock in the morning.

Cat.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Saucy Intruder at 10:04 PM on January 2, 2007

See, the thing is that these symbols are empty. They are just pictures. The past isn't real - it's a remembered thing.

Well, to take this "synthetic" issue and push it into a personal tangent, I reject this notion with all my heart. Symbols, especially in our highly visual culture, are being perpetually fractured, their weight ignored, their history misunderstood or forgotten. So many great writers of the 20th century -- George Orwell,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by melissa may at 12:06 PM on January 2, 2007

A variation of this question has been asked nearly every single month on AskMe since its inception. The answer should really be in the FAQ.

It goes something like this:You are always going to be running into people that, were things different, you would naturally be able to hit it off with. That's because the foolish romantic notion of "one special someone" is a load of crap.
Given the first point, that means you can either keep... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Civil_Disobedient at 9:59 PM on October 17, 2006

posted to MetaTalk by dabitch at 7:51 AM on September 15, 2006

Oh, fuck it, I should give a better answer than that tendentious-sounding shit I just wrote. Even though I agree with it, I made it sound awful.

Look, lots of people, everybody religious and everybody not religious, will tell you: "helping other people. That's it, that's what were here for." Well, that's bullshit. If you spend your life trying to save the world, you die knowing you simply failed. I think people say that nowadays because they see how awful the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by koeselitz at 8:37 PM on September 9, 2006

You could say it in four ways, each of which change the word order but not the sense:

1. Veritas in libris, monstra in veritate.
2. In libris veritas, in veritate monstra.
3. Veritas in libris, in veritate monstra.
4. In libris veritas, monstra in veritate.

1 and 2 are more elegant (they use chiasmus - the AB-BA balancing that emphasises the two uses of veritas). But all four are correct.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by athenian at 11:42 PM on September 7, 2006 marked best answer

i'm in ur , in ur s
posted to MetaTalk by StrasbourgSecaucus at 8:19 PM on September 6, 2006

What is with you YouTube haters? I don't get it. Are you still running Lynx?

I'm on a Mathematica mailing list. If someone throws an inline image into their post (you'd think that would be useful for discussing math) or otherwise uses HTML, a storm of hate messages comes forth. WTF? You're using a $1000+ program for doing math in 2006 and you can't read HTML mail? Are these people paying for internet by the character? What the fucking fuck??!??... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by IshmaelGraves at 5:57 PM on August 6, 2006

That's not a caterpillar...it's a catbus!


posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:57 AM on August 1, 2006