Parents, teachers, health educators - do you have any recommendations for online videos that teach abstinence, appropriate for a high school audience?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by NotMyselfRightNow at 6:00 AM on May 9, 2018 (4 comments)

Childish Gambino - This is America
posted to MetaFilter by komara at 8:31 AM on May 6, 2018 (147 comments)

For those of you reading this outside the US, is it currently considered okay in your country to take home the uneaten portion of your restaurant meal? Or is this just terribly awful and you would die of embarrassment if someone at your table did this?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by queensissy at 12:48 PM on May 3, 2018 (60 comments)

It's overly loud, less than studio quality, usually crowded. You have to sit through the bad songs. Most musicians are only barely performance artists. I just don't get the appeal.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pot suppeck at 10:10 AM on April 23, 2018 (75 comments)

OK, I cannot believe I am using a question for this but it bothers me at least once week. You go to a public bathroom. A nice, clean. well-maintained public bathroom. The toilet has a weird cloudy clump of what looks like dissolved toilet paper. But it’s like shredded.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mmf at 3:22 PM on April 18, 2018 (14 comments)

NHL rules require both teams to keep two goalies available for play. Teams keep a local beer-league player on hand to suit up and sit on the bench should one of their goalies be unavailable - and if that other goalie goes down, they get on the ice and play. The only time this has happened recently was for less than eight seconds in a 1-3 losing game with the Hurricanes on New Year's Eve, 2016, but that changed tonight when 36-year-old rec-league goalie Scott Foster suited up for the Chicago Blackhawks and went 7 for 7 against a playoffs-bound Winnipeg Jets.
posted to MetaFilter by Punkey at 4:51 AM on March 30, 2018 (54 comments)

I've living in Vancouver, BC and there's one thing that gets me is that many people I've met are very willing to share details about themselves, at times telling me things I have never asked, and yet they don't seem to care about asking details about me. Is this a cultural thing?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TrinsicWS at 12:52 AM on March 27, 2018 (30 comments)

(tw: non-explicit discussion of erotic materials) Recently on the Blue's front page was a post about a UK shop that will take vintage erotica from embarrassed families. I need to find a US equivalent, preferably within 100 miles of Chicago, strongly-preferably within the next 30 days. Snowflakes inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 7:17 PM on March 23, 2018 (7 comments)

Holy crap! So turns out the Radiohead song on a cello post by cozenedindigo just now was my 10,000th favorite on MeFi. Just wanted to say thanks for all the entertaining, thoughtful and thought-provoking, hilarious, nerdy, bean-plating, and otherwise awesome posts and comments from all of you over the years. Also: I got a rad haircut recently, Minecraft is adding tons of underwater content in the near future, and the patriarchy is deaththroeing all over itself. <3!
posted to MetaTalk by Celsius1414 at 3:04 PM on March 20, 2018 (10 comments)

Our very own headspace has a new book out that was #1 in the Teen & Young Adult Gay & Lesbian Fiction category on Amazon.
posted to MetaTalk by pjern at 6:16 PM on February 27, 2018 (30 comments)

A reading of a poem accompanied by some acoustic guitar.
posted to MeFi Music by snsranch at 8:57 PM on April 28, 2011 (10 comments)

I'm looking for something written by a radical or at least very leftist writer about love/relationships/marriage. It's for my wedding. All the details are inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Hactar at 7:01 PM on November 28, 2017 (11 comments)

Back in the day, I believe you could dial "0" to reach an operator and get directory assistance. (Correct me if I'm wrong, however!) What happened if you were looking for a phone number in a different town or a different state? Did the operator transfer you to a different, local operator, or was there a way for him or her to look up the number directly?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cider at 7:42 AM on November 28, 2017 (34 comments)

Amazingly intricate dollhouse of three stories by Gayle Palama. Ignore the first two photos. These are close-up photos of each floor of the dollhouse. The amount of work that went into the furniture and goods and decor of these rooms is truly astonishing. Hover on a photo and a short title will pop up. I found this blog of hers which may provide more info. Annadancie
posted to MetaFilter by MovableBookLady at 12:48 PM on November 20, 2017 (18 comments)

I'm a straight white man who is in my thirties. When I was younger, I didn't always treat people well. I had "nice guy" tendencies, and while I never subscribed to their ideology, I did internalize that same grievance. Because of this I didn't always treat women well.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 8:06 AM on November 17, 2017 (58 comments)

I have been asked to help recatalogue a large private library and am looking for any good suggestions/tips/resources that might be helpful, whether software, shelf naming systems, or just web resources that might be helpful.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by coupedloups at 2:45 PM on November 8, 2017 (7 comments)

We received a substantial windfall (previously) and are looking at how to invest it. From our perspective, "Socially Responsible" index funds look like a joke. Would it be prudent to put nearly all of it in Municipal Bond Funds and withdraw the returns to cover a substantial portion of our living expenses? They look stable and low-risk, and public infrastructure is something we can get behind.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Anonymous at 3:18 PM on November 2, 2017 (13 comments)

It's health insurance time again. Open enrollment season starts today in the United States for individuals. Need to sign-up? It's time to get covered on HealthCare.gov by December 15th. The marketplace offers lower costs for most Americans this year, yet "daunting obstacles" and widespread confusion persist amid sabotage attempts, causing much higher costs for some. And a grassroots group works to do what the government won't to Get America Covered. More details inside, in increasing levels of wonkery.
posted to MetaFilter by zachlipton at 7:36 AM on November 1, 2017 (43 comments)

If you would have to choose a quote, verse, lyric, poem or other textual message to have tattooed on your body, what would it be? In what way is that text significant to you? Which body part would you put it on? Which representation system would you use?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by koenie at 3:59 PM on July 24, 2005 (54 comments)

I would like to collect a sampling of phrases people type frequently on their smart phones. Please contribute yours.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Winnie the Proust at 7:58 AM on October 19, 2017 (69 comments)

On 07/07/07, at 7:07PM, Boredoms constricted themselves in the coils of a 77-drummer boa. 77 BOADRUM was performed under the Brooklyn Bridge, at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park by the East River. • Full Audio via Egg City Radio. • The full lineup of drummers is available above the comments section and under the fold on this recording. • In Japan, the packaged recording sells for ¥7777
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display at 8:22 PM on October 23, 2017 (8 comments)

Are there any contemporary examples of communes or intentional communities that are tech-centric -- that is, that sustain themselves economically through some clever use of computers?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Karmacane at 8:30 PM on October 19, 2017 (5 comments)

what candies have the texture of Flintstones vitamins?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by quadrilaterals at 6:48 PM on October 12, 2017 (25 comments)

Incredible Doom: It’s about teenagers in the '90s getting into life & death situations over the early Internet. [via mefi projects]
posted to MetaFilter by holmesian at 9:06 AM on October 5, 2017 (40 comments)

I love anything that is repetitive and keeps at least my hands busy. I knit repetitive sampler afghans; I buy wool sweaters from goodwill and dismantle them; I get $20 in pennies from the bank and sort them for wheat pennies. I LOVE to tear up a garden bed. All are mindless and require 1% of my attention so I can devote 99% listening to a podcast. I want MOOAR!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pintapicasso at 6:13 PM on October 11, 2017 (57 comments)

I played all the tracks, and billiebee came up with a melody and lyrics based on a Yeats poem, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree". It's about bees.
posted to MeFi Music by not_on_display at 8:08 PM on October 5, 2017 (14 comments)

Have there been other situations like the one in Catalan right now, where one democratically elected government has sent in the police to violently suppress a referendum being held by a lower-level democratically elected government?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by clawsoon at 5:20 AM on October 1, 2017 (4 comments)

Back in 2015, the British Museum ran a contest to choose its new Youtube series. The selection was Curator's Corner, which features interviews with...well, curators. It's now on its second season. Most recently, Irving Finkel discussed the Lewis Chessmen (the Lewis Chessmen previously on Metafilter).
posted to MetaFilter by mandolin conspiracy at 1:08 PM on September 29, 2017 (5 comments)

Happy birthday, jessamyn! Here's to you! May you have as much company, and as much cake or pie, as you want today.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 9:16 PM on September 4, 2017 (43 comments)

Big news: a few days ago Matt Haughey and I signed paperwork to transfer ownership of MetaFilter from him to me. This is sorta huge and sorta not a big deal at the same time: things are fine and basically nothing is changing on the site as a result, we’re just keeping on as before. I’ll talk about the whole thing below the fold.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 9:04 AM on July 31, 2017 (340 comments)

At 56, a ‘Light Bulb’ Goes Off and a Firefighter Emerges [NYT] . Robin Nesdale’s story is not that unusual. At 56, divorced and with her daughter, her only child, off at college, her life felt a little empty and rudderless. So she became a firefighter.
posted to MetaFilter by Mchelly at 6:57 AM on July 9, 2017 (12 comments)

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (aka PUBG aka Plunkbat aka PUBaGr) is a 100 person shooter evoking Battle Royale/Hunger Games last-person-standing mechanics but without the narrative framing, newest and biggest in a recent genre explosion. You and 99 other people parachute onto an island, and try to find weapons and armor and misc. gear while struggling to keep within the bounds of an increasingly claustrophobic circle. It can be rather goofy, even before you add McEllroys.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 8:24 AM on July 2, 2017 (70 comments)

...could not explain his nudity.
posted to MeFi Music by bondcliff at 6:21 PM on July 1, 2017 (7 comments)

Got a new job working in the ER as an RN, been there about 6 months. Lots to learn, going great but one thing that I'm struggling with is answering tough questions patients ask. The biggie being "am I going to die?" I usually have a good bedside manner so it's annoying that I can't get this right.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pintapicasso at 12:31 PM on June 30, 2017 (50 comments)

I'm going to India, and I love street food. And I've heard that south Asian street food is, like, special. But I don't like getting terribly ill. Is there any way that I can eat like the locals do but avoid hellacious sickness, or at least favourably skew the risk/reward ratio?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by insteadofapricots at 9:59 AM on June 28, 2017 (40 comments)

On Friday, my family and I are going to court to read our victim impact statements.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by byjingo! at 10:08 AM on June 27, 2017 (19 comments)

When people ask this question, what they mean is, “YOU" are being a problem. Gyasi Ross on flying while “being a big Indian” and the powerlessness of being asked that question.
posted to MetaFilter by shoesietart at 10:11 AM on June 22, 2017 (95 comments)

Which Video Game Character Would Make The Best Roommate? [YouTube] [via: Kotaku]
posted to MetaFilter by Fizz at 2:51 PM on June 21, 2017 (101 comments)

I used to enjoy MTG but a combo of terrible players (here's to you guy who threw a deck at me while screaming racial epithets over and over!) and cost pushed me out of it, I'd enjoy watching people play but I'm not sure who's worth watching. Any suggestions of livestreams of people who both have charisma and aren't shitlords?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ferreous at 3:30 PM on June 20, 2017 (7 comments)

My newish doctor (an MD) is very aggressively vegan, and spent over half of my appointment giving me unsolicited advice about the dangers of dairy. He believes that the popularly-held pro-dairy beliefs are basically propaganda from Big Milk, subsidized by the USDA. In particular, he thinks dairy consumption promotes osteoporosis (and other physiological evils, inside the fold). Is this or is this not true?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ClaireBear at 2:15 PM on June 19, 2017 (53 comments)

Emily Larlham's loving nature and no-intimidation training methods helped these hard-luck dogs learn to dance and caper [Scottish jig music]. More on the Kikopup Youtube channel. (MeFites love Kikopup)
posted to MetaFilter by Johnny Wallflower at 12:28 PM on June 14, 2017 (8 comments)

#TheRootTrip: From June 12-18, follow author Lawrence Ross on the blackest road trip ever: driving 3,000 miles from Los Angeles to "the tobacco farm where Booker T. Washington was enslaved in Roanoke, Va.," while patronizing as many black-owned businesses as possible along the way. "We’re also going black in time, and that means pulling out The Negro Motorist Green Book," 1957 edition.
posted to MetaFilter by nicebookrack at 12:34 PM on June 14, 2017 (31 comments)

When Americans think about the most innovative agency in the government, they think about the Pentagon or NASA. But throughout much of its history, that title could just as easily have fallen to the Post Office, which was a hotbed of new, interesting, sometimes crazy ideas as it sought to accomplish a seemingly simple task: deliver mail quickly and cheaply. The Post Office experimented with everything from stagecoaches to airplanes—even pondered sending mail cross-country on a missile. For decades, the agency integrated new technologies and adapted to changing environments, underpinning its ability to deliver billions of pieces of mail every year, from the beaches of Miami to the banks of Alaska, for just cents per letter.
posted to MetaFilter by kevinbelt at 2:18 PM on June 13, 2017 (46 comments)

Is it fair/feasible to adopt my parent's cat, given my roommate's qualms and the two specific cats involved? I've read previous questions about re-homing, about the dangers of outdoor cats, etc, but am still torn and feeling terribly guilty about even considering saying no. Pictures of all involved cats inside.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by buildmyworld at 11:14 AM on April 18, 2017 (16 comments)

In July, we'll be having a best post contest! This will be the first one since I came on staff and I've been hassling the other mods for months, so they finally gave in. Read on for categories and start preparing your posts now!
posted to MetaTalk by Eyebrows McGee at 8:44 PM on June 11, 2017 (15 comments)

Icthyoid anatomy question: what are these things inside fish skulls?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by casarkos at 8:18 PM on June 12, 2007 (8 comments)

There are a number of comparatively low-profile-but-interesting-to-me authors that I would love to be able to get some kind of alert (pref. by email) about when they've published a new book. I follow some of them on Twitter and Facebook, but I regularly miss posts due to FB's filtering and general overload, so would love to be able to do this outside of social media. So, MeFites, what tools, if any, do you use? Has the internet found a solution to this problem that I've missed?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ryanshepard at 4:39 AM on June 7, 2017 (7 comments)

I know exactly when I heard the song. I know (assume) one of the words in the title of the song. I don't know anything else, not any of the lyrics and at this point I don't even remember the tune, though I'll know it when I hear it. I've searched online and asked the radio station--no luck there.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by phunniemee at 8:37 AM on June 6, 2017 (25 comments)

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Online Reading Room offers streaming access within the United States to nearly 10,000 public television and radio programs from the past 60 years. Read their blog, view their curated exhibits or browse media by topic.
posted to MetaFilter by zarq at 8:04 PM on June 3, 2017 (9 comments)

Just your basic pre-school song about capturing, murdering, INGESTING, regurgitating, and cleaning up what remains of an insect. Creepy or normal?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by sol at 9:14 PM on May 23, 2017 (53 comments)