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I've come to understand from co-workers as well as things that have gone on this past week, that I will be getting fired on Monday. How should I handle it?
Much more after the jump.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blackout
at 8:21 AM on July 13, 2008
(45 comments)
Do hillbillies still exist in the US? I am refering to the type of people who lived like families parodied in the Beverly Hillbillies television show (which I loved growing up). Any well-known studies/books of the hillbilly lifestyle and origins? How true to hillbilly life were the clothes, accents, lifestyle of that show?
posted to Ask Metafilter by vizsla
at 6:39 PM on July 9, 2008
(51 comments)
Could a typical young man, armed only with a knife, (say, six or eight inches long) be trained to consistently "win" fights with a grizzly bear? Assume no element of surprise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kwantsar
at 2:41 PM on May 5, 2004
(87 comments)
What's That?
Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way. The other day I was at the grocery store and the checker was unable to identify a portabello mushroom. And no, she wasn't new...and to make matters worse the checker next to her didn't know either. (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by MiHail
at 9:25 AM on November 12, 2005
(1032 comments)
What kind of computing power would be needed to simulate consciousness?
posted to Ask Metafilter by prunes
at 7:38 AM on June 11, 2008
(21 comments)
Here's your chance to bake bread like a master.
Cookingbread.com. The detailed step-by-step instructions include photos to help guide you through each bread recipe, from start to finish. You will find many different kinds of recipes for bread machines, or family classics such as
cheese bread and
banana bread. I just made some
cracked wheat this past weekend. Also includes
printable recipe cards. So get baking.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 5:41 AM on June 4, 2008
(15 comments)
Looking for some podcasts about nothing, and video games, respectively.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Dreamcast
at 6:47 PM on May 31, 2008
(22 comments)
Can you create a great fictional team name?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Kibbutz
at 3:21 PM on May 28, 2008
(47 comments)
What are some of the best examples of epic storytelling that have taken place?
posted to Ask Metafilter by SpacemanStix
at 4:49 PM on May 21, 2008
(56 comments)
HistoryWorld
is a general-knowledge website, designed for anyone above the age of about twelve with an interest in history. I found the site searching for
dance history, but it includes 400 broad topics with more added all the time. It approaches history as a narrative, making full use of
chronology. This is for the student as well as the researcher.
posted to MetaFilter by netbros
at 5:36 AM on May 23, 2008
(15 comments)
How do I start a good natured inter-office war?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jofus
at 4:33 AM on May 14, 2008
(21 comments)
How do I become a trivia master?
posted to Ask Metafilter by engling
at 12:08 PM on February 19, 2008
(30 comments)
What is the iconic (or just "your favorite") dead-tree product catalog (listing of merchandise for mail-order sale) for your hobby, industry, or trade?
posted to Ask Metafilter by cadastral
at 9:23 AM on April 1, 2008
(73 comments)
Grapes in milk... now what?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Rinku
at 4:57 PM on April 2, 2008
(180 comments)
Looking for a simple routine to build upper body strength without weights.
posted to Ask Metafilter by rachelpapers
at 7:06 AM on April 2, 2008
(24 comments)
What are some good sci-fi stories (both short and full-length) that explore the idea of
singularity?
posted to Ask Metafilter by pedmands
at 8:57 PM on March 30, 2008
(37 comments)
[RecipeFilter] I want to bake the most delicious pretzels.
posted to Ask Metafilter by edmz
at 10:58 PM on March 13, 2008
(7 comments)
Who is the supposed historian (may be an ex-physicist, think he's Russian) who had demonstrated that human written history is only half as old as we believe it to be? I think the core of his argument was that documents referring to events thousands of years ago, actually referred to events hundreds of years ago, that history was fore-shortened.
posted to Ask Metafilter by vacapinta
at 1:26 PM on March 7, 2008
(11 comments)
Somewhere on the wide internet is a video of a fake product demonstration that's complete and total doublespeak. And I can't find it. Could use a little google-fu from the crew, here.
posted to Ask Metafilter by disclaimer
at 2:42 PM on February 25, 2008
(13 comments)
Can the British just sail right up the Mississippi?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Flunkie
at 5:52 PM on February 18, 2008
(17 comments)
Frozen Grand Central.
A little bit of Saturday fun. The folks at Improv Everywhere are at it again. This time they freeze over two hundred people in Grand Central station.
(via GoodSh** NSFW)
posted to MetaFilter by caddis
at 7:56 AM on February 16, 2008
(22 comments)
Can you recommend any really good yet underrated 1990's tv shows that ended before their time?
posted to Ask Metafilter by missjamielynn
at 2:57 PM on February 2, 2008
(76 comments)
Other than the usual throwing around the frisbee (or football or baseball), what are some fun recreational activities for two people to amuse themselves with at the local city park? Preferably those that require only a moderate investment in equipment and time. Thanks for encouraging me to get out of the house!
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamisaid
at 12:29 AM on February 2, 2008
(31 comments)
While the dream of immortality might be as old as mankind, the jellyfish Turritopsis nutricula
(image) seems to be
living it:
The hydrozoan Turritopsis nutricula has evolved a remarkable variation on this theme, and in so doing appears to have achieved immortality. The solitary medusa of this species can revert to its polyp stage after becoming sexually mature (Bavestrello et al., 1992; Piraino et al., 1996). In the laboratory, 100% of these medusae regularly undergo this change. Thus, it is possible that organismic death does not occur in this species!
An in-depth research paper.
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis
at 12:33 AM on January 30, 2008
(48 comments)
PISS LASER!
How to use urine most efficiently in carving of urinal cake?
posted to Ask Metafilter by klangklangston
at 12:08 PM on January 29, 2008
(43 comments)
Prompted by the 'reversed' Memento, I want to re-cut my Pulp Fiction DVD so that the events play out in sequence. What tools should I be looking into?
posted to Ask Metafilter by MarvinJ
at 3:18 AM on January 29, 2008
(9 comments)
I want to learn more about the origins of the English language and about the roots of English words.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Foam Pants
at 8:59 PM on January 1, 2007
(25 comments)
