Your son's inner convictions are no match for a randy young co-ed offering up her body

Ick ick ick ick ick ick.

You don't know this poster's son, and neither do I.

Also, "randy young co-ed offering up her body?" How are you getting Internet access from 1928?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Sidhedevil at 12:16 PM on September 4, 2008

You've let him know about safe sex, and you've let him know you'll respect his choices.

Now start respecting them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by scody at 12:27 PM on September 4, 2008

Naomi Klein disapproves.
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 2:31 PM on September 3, 2008

it may be so ingrained to be unconscious, but yeah, that's misogyny.

Misogyny? Really? Hatred for women?

Naww. It's purely market forces and market segmentation. Julia Roberts' name above the title just doesn't carry as much market weight as Tom Cruise's. That's why Cruise pulls $20 million per movie, and Roberts pulls $10 million. Sex and the City is a bigger brand than Sarah Jessica... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Cool Papa Bell at 9:30 AM on September 3, 2008

Great comments in this thread.

My favorite experiment linking physical and mental exercise given in a classic study by Yue and Cole (1992). I was thinking about it earlier today, so this thread is timely. Yue and Cole compared increase in muscle strength among participants who actually underwent physical training to increase in muscle strength among participants who merely imagined exercising. Training produced a 30 percent increase in maximal force; imagining did not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by painquale at 4:47 PM on August 25, 2008

Is the place name written in cursive? I can see a capital O looking a lot like a capital A, and a lowercase cursive u looking like an n...I bet Omignano is totally the right place!

My grandparents thought their folks were from a place called Randazio, which turned out to be the very real Randazzo, near Catania in Sicily. If you're trying to get legal documents or other info from the town, see if you can find an Italian speaker to draft a letter asking for their birth... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mdonley at 7:41 PM on August 24, 2008 marked best answer

Seconding Omignano, there's also a "Mignano" near Arezzo and lots of small towns and villages ending in "-gnana" and "-gnano" pretty much everywhere in Italy (Omignano possibly descending from Latin 'dominicanus', or from a family name "Ominius" with -anus as a desinence). Your last name is very common in the Salerno area, so I think that would be your best bet. Omignano is in the Vallo della Lucania diocese, and has a parish of its own since the XVI... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by _dario at 12:19 AM on August 25, 2008

This is very sweet and heartwarming. My best friend is in a relationship very much like Sam and Rachel's. Her transvestite girlfriend is such a darling, and she's so happy to have all of us love and accept her for who she is, especially given how bad most of her family is about it.

I think it's confusing for a lot of folks outside of the GLBT community that a majority of t-girls (either transvestites or male-to-female transexuals) prefer relationships with women. But... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Fenriss at 6:55 AM on August 22, 2008

really, it's none of your business. anonymous letters? what the fuck is this, a soap opera and we're all 70? let it go, none of your business.

and to the "OMFG HER HEALTH" commenters -- people fuck, it's a fact of life, always have, always will. and they're not falling dead on the streets, fucking can't give you Ebola. and unless this dude is having unprotected anal sex orgies with Brazilian tranny hookers on a daily basis, he's not going to catch AIDS either.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by matteo at 7:51 AM on August 21, 2008

They say if you do the work you love, the money will follow. They are wrong, of course.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ten pounds of inedita at 4:33 PM on August 12, 2008

I always feel like I have a moral obligation to warn people not to get a PhD, even as someone who has one and went into academia. It's only rewarding at all to demented people like me who have never found any other socially useful application of their skills. You are likely to spend years or decades in awful schools in places that even the locals despise, be far away from lifelong friends and family, and make far less than you could have in other professions. It nearly killed me in my... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by el_lupino at 6:04 PM on August 12, 2008

So sad. Perhaps in jail he'll have plenty of time to read up on that verse in the Bible - I think it says something like "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

How about "thou shalt not kill." Should be easy to find in the index.
posted to MetaFilter by Cool Papa Bell at 11:26 AM on July 28, 2008

"This is why I carry, even in church."

This is why I left America - to live in a country where people aren't permitted to walk around armed. I do not call it freedom when I have to live around unstable, cowardly, fearful people who have to carry a gun to go to church.

If a man cannot defend himself with just his brain and fists, he ain't no man.
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice at 11:28 AM on July 28, 2008

It's Raining Florence Henderson - The guy died a better man than most of us could ever hope to be, that's for sure.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 11:44 AM on July 28, 2008

If only the liberals and conservatives would cancel each other out... Paradise!
posted by a3matrix at 12:06 PM on July 28

Liberals don't go to conservative megachurches and shoot people. But conservatives have been known to go to liberal churches and shoot people. I'll stick with the liberals, thanks.

I'm not a religious man. But I like the UUs; they're good folk. This is sad, and sadly predictable.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Optimus Chyme at 12:13 PM on July 28, 2008

I think the more important issue at hand is our freedom to have it over ice if that's how we want it.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 7:25 AM on July 22, 2008

I like my coffee like I like my men - freshly roasted, freshly ground (with a burr grinder or course!) and blasted with hot, pressurized water for 20 seconds or so.
posted to MetaFilter by grippycat at 8:19 AM on July 22, 2008

I love coffee. I work with coffee almost every day, using both the vaunted $11,000 coffee maker (which is twenty different kinds of awesome by the way) and an even more expensive custom espresso machine. This year I'm also apparently one of the best baristas in the world (just establishing bona fides, not tooting horns).

Now, most of the coffee you buy, be it Starbucks or Folger's (and so on and so forth) is misrepresenting what coffee can be. Why? Because it's either... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flippant at 9:57 AM on July 22, 2008

Man he could have just lived modestly, banked all that money and he'd not be homeless right now.

Or he could have, you know, gotten more than three years for raping a woman and still be in jail right now. To each their own sympathy.
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 11:38 AM on July 20, 2008

You know why nouveau riche have such bad taste? Because money is still fun for them.

Give me bad taste and good times any day of the week. You can keep your houses that look like museums. I want tiger cages.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 5:51 PM on July 20, 2008

Oh my, that cake will go straight to her thighs!
posted to MetaFilter by HAMFIST at 10:40 PM on July 17, 2008

When my boyfriend & I moved in together we were suddenly spending all of our time together, but it wasn't quality time. Turns out there's a big difference between driving across town to watch a movie on the couch and watching a movie on the couch when you're bored and living together. We stopped going out on dates because we were always with each other, and eventually we stopped focusing on each other, too. Simply being near each other doesn't strengthen the relationship, we learned. You... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by lilac girl at 11:49 AM on July 12, 2008

"I feel bad for her because she really is looking to gain friends as opposed to focusing on winning."This is an amazing post. Simultaneously reflecting the mind-numbing banality of so many people, the vapidity of reality TV itself, the forced unreal drama of scripted "reality" TV, and the unfriendliness of our modern lives.

Which means that someone is going to blow people's minds by winning a reality show simply using the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza at 1:10 PM on July 11, 2008

Maybe try framing your answer in a "look how alike we are" way.

"Thank you so much! It's so hard to find a faith community when you move somewhere new, and I really appreciate your offer to help. I'm strong in my Buddhist faith, and we don't have churches, so I'm good. I'll make sure to come to you if I have a Christian (Methodist/Baptist/Church of Christ/etc.) friend looking for a community, though!"

And if they rebuff you... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Stewriffic at 4:46 PM on July 8, 2008 marked best answer

This is a Conspiracy in the Forth Degree.
posted to MetaFilter by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 1:03 PM on July 8, 2008

As a nurse I have witnessed several colon preps. Too many to count. I have taken care of hundreds of patients that drank a preparation to completely clean out the colon. I have given many, many patients soap suds and Fleets enemas. The only thing that comes out of the bowel is shit. There was blood at times, everything to huge clots to black tarry stools laced with blood, but there is no bubble gum or Christmas tree tinsel or GI Joe men. It's only feces. The colon isn't lined with... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by LoriFLA at 11:51 AM on July 6, 2008

Well, I liked having Coca-cola sponsor the Mars missions to find Dasani on Mars. What ever happened with that?

And comparing bottled water to the electric can opener?
The electric can opener is sliced bread compared to bottled water.
Bottled water is the new salad shooter.
posted to MetaFilter by hexatron at 8:01 PM on July 4, 2008

Could just be the Screech talking.
posted to MetaFilter by Gungho at 5:18 AM on July 4, 2008

This nation lost two Bozos in one week.
posted to MetaFilter by applemeat at 8:36 AM on July 4, 2008

:O(
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 4:47 PM on July 3, 2008

Re adding peach flavour. If you keep the peach (or nectarine) stones after you have eaten the fruit you can prepare a very pleasant infusion by brewing the stones in water on the stove. There is a lot of flavour kept in the stone.

I discovered this by myself independently, so am not sure if this is how the commercial drinks are made.


posted to Ask Metafilter by Sitegeist at 5:22 AM on June 25, 2008

But. that *is* a mousetrap.
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 11:42 AM on June 20, 2008

I'm with Orange Swan...I moved into this swell old brooklyn Brownstone that counts among it's lovely old-timey features a real honest to god coal chute, the most beautiful inlaid wood floors you've ever seen, and a state of the art high tech mouse breeding facility somewhere in the damn walls.

What's always hilarious is everyon'e immediate "you should get a cat" suggestion. As if I had never heard of these miraculous mouse catching creatures. How clever of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by billyfleetwood at 1:47 PM on June 20, 2008

The single most important true proposition or fact (not theory) that I learned in university is that university is not about learning facts.

It's about learning how to research new topics quickly, analyse the information & present it in a meaningful & intelligible way, usually within a tight timeframe, with competing demands, and - as often as not - while completely wasted or hung over.
posted to MetaFilter by UbuRoivas at 6:41 PM on June 19, 2008

...he is called "M. Night" because he decided it would be cool to have the name "Night."

Well, to be fair, that is the best reason.
posted to MetaFilter by danb at 8:16 PM on June 17, 2008

But we shouldn't ignore the truth.

I think the really important part of the story that always seems to get glossed over in high school history class is that the slaves were only truly free once they reached Canada. Just getting to the North didn't mean shit when you could be (legally) grabbed off the streets by a bounty hunter and taken back in shackles to your master. No, if you wanted to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Civil_Disobedient at 8:43 AM on June 15, 2008

I'm reminded at this moment of something that happened to me once in Israel. I had gone to Jerusalem, to play in a music festival. Me and my friend (American, but had spent time in Israel before) wandered through the old town, the covered market area, which is fantastic, little shops full of spices, foods, carpets, cloth, Arabic cassette tapes and CDs, metal workers banging on bronze, darbuka sellers, the whole shebang. We walked for a long time, and eventually found ourselves... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 1:18 AM on June 15, 2008

For reasons we won't get into here, John finds himself volunteering for the French Foreign Legion, stationed in the middle of a vast empty desert in the Horn of Africa.

There's just the mud brick fort and the other soldiers of the garrison for miles and miles around. John asks his new buddy Jaques what the soldiers do when they get lonely. With a wistful gleam in his eye, Jaques replies. "No worries, mon ami, every weekend they bring a truck full of sheep in for us.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 9:58 AM on June 15, 2008

Sorry but I couldn't think of any goatfucking stories.
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 10:01 AM on June 15, 2008

For reasons too complicated to go into, Major Simms finds himself in command of a desolate garrison fort in the middle of a vast empty desert in the Horn of Africa. As his first act of command he performs a detailed inspection of the humble installation, his deputy explaining to him the stores, the inventories, the supplies, everything accounted for.

At the end of the tour, Major Simms asks, "I notice that you did not explain to me the presence of the camel in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Meatbomb at 10:12 AM on June 15, 2008

To me, that report says that hetero non-drug using westerners were at low risk, and remained so - that the disproportionate amount spent on advertising and education for those groups might have been better spent targeting those groups that were and are at much greater risk with effective measures (i.e. not abstinence only); gay men, intravenous drug users sharing needles and poorly educated africans, or even on badly underfunded programs like water-borne diseases and malaria.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ArkhanJG at 9:05 AM on June 12, 2008

A swirling chocolate malt of angy liquid escaped through the 400- to 500-foot gap.

Tragic and delicious.
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 6:04 PM on June 9, 2008

What about Admiral?
posted to Ask Metafilter by parmanparman at 10:58 PM on June 6, 2008

Will this enable cruising at high altitudes?

Mile-high cub joins Mile High Club.
posted to MetaFilter by hangashore at 11:41 AM on June 7, 2008

Buncha cowardly dudes in that office, there.

Because the smart thing to do would have been to risk being beat over the head with a fucking CRT screen to save some fucking TPS reports.
posted to MetaFilter by eyeballkid at 5:38 PM on June 3, 2008

Q: What do jokes about this concept and teenage boys have in common?





A: They both come too easy.
posted to MetaFilter by SaintCynr at 9:16 AM on June 3, 2008

Hmmm. I think that most personality characteristics are part -nurture, part-nature. I can't imagine homosexuality (at least for men) being 100% choice, because who the hell would choose to be gay as a teen? "Hey kid, you're going to get your ass kicked for the next few years, and then be discriminated against for the rest of your life. Sound like fun?"
posted to MetaFilter by Afroblanco at 8:30 AM on June 1, 2008

But the thing I never understand in threads like this are the folks who fall all over themselves eagerly volunteering to commit brutal tortures upon the perpetrator -- as if becoming an insane sociopathic sadist themselves would improve the situation.
----
The thing I never understand is someone always piping up in incredulity at the normal human emotion called anger.



The thing I never understand is sociopaths.
posted to MetaFilter by Joseph Gurl at 11:08 AM on April 29, 2008

tell them you feel more comfortable having sex with people in your own place.
posted to Ask Metafilter by shmegegge at 12:02 PM on May 28, 2008

In my experience, many people believe that New Yorkers are smarter than other Americans....

FIRST SENTENCE FAIL
posted to MetaFilter by DU at 10:17 AM on May 20, 2008