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Thanks everyone for your help. Any lingering doubt I had about the state of the tomatoes disappeared with the unanimous responses. Chili is in the trash and the pot and spatula are sanitized.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by hoppytoad at 8:47 PM on October 22, 2012

anonymous posted">> I have never done anything like this before, but she has. He comes back to me, finishes me off and they go to bed together. I text her thanks for the evening out, and mention weird dreams due to excessive alcohol. She texts back and mentions lack of sleep. From that point to now, Facebook contact that drops off.

I'm paranoid that I have upset their marriage, and that she is angry with me. I feel terrible that my drinking problem... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by desuetude at 8:04 PM on October 22, 2012

i am going to celebrate by heightening scrutiny upon some lovely ladies this weekend

yes ladies

prepare to be scrutinized
posted to MetaFilter by elizardbits at 7:50 PM on October 18, 2012

Yup. Here's the Image link from Google.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ruthless Bunny at 9:44 AM on September 28, 2012

And another, showing the "Custom" script, which is visible in the OP's picture.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by saladin at 9:43 AM on September 28, 2012

Yep, I think bensherman nailed it; here's a pic for comparison.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by saladin at 9:42 AM on September 28, 2012

Which, incidentally, is the squad car used in the Andy Griffith show.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bensherman at 9:42 AM on September 28, 2012

I amend my answer:

1964 Ford Custom Sedan
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bensherman at 9:39 AM on September 28, 2012 marked best answer

Can salt water do all that?


I'm going to guess the heavy salt concentration penetrated cracks and attacked the rebar embedded within the concrete. The expanding rust then fractured the concrete like moistened wood spikes used to split stone slabs in ancient quarries.

You see the same thing happening, albiet much more slowly, to highway overpasses in northern cimates due to wintertime salting of icy roads.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CynicalKnight at 10:21 AM on July 27, 2011

From MetaFilter's own!
posted to MetaFilter by Aizkolari at 1:25 PM on July 26, 2011

What a haunting, beautiful set of photographs.

I come from a family with two storied drowned homesteads—both belonging to my namesake, Joseph Belknap Smith, a Northerner from Haverhill, Massachusetts who lived briefly on an island on the Hudson that was always referred to as "Camelot" in the family, and rowed to work in Manhattan each day. Camelot was actually mined out of existence, I believe for gypsum, if memory serves, but the homestead Smith set up in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sonascope at 2:08 PM on July 26, 2011

Even though it's unlikely to happen, once is enough to cause permanent injury, and I don't understand why I shouldn't prevent it if I can without interfering with other areas of my life.

I totally understand where this is coming from, but I agree that this a very tricky logic. Please go ahead and find and wear a cup 24/7 if makes you comfortable, but recognize that there may be outsized fears here that influencing your risk analysis. If the key... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by argonauta at 10:08 PM on July 26, 2012 marked best answer

My perspective on this is atypical, because I am a trans gender guy, but if you want to wear something in your shorts every day, that's your choice, and people telling you your choices are weird are not providing much that's helpful, so here goes.

I personally wear a prosthesis, commonly called a "packer" by trans men, every day, so I can report that people are not kidding when they warn of the discomfort that can arise if you're wearing an athletic cup against... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by DrMew at 9:48 PM on July 26, 2012 marked best answer

The Z2s (with the toe loop) are super easy to turn into a non-toe-loop sandal. Just pull the webbing flat against the insole, and voila!

I've been wearing mine like that for a couple years now; I don't even notice it. If you suddenly decide you want a toe loop again, just pull it back up.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Madamina at 7:51 PM on July 26, 2012

Guys LIBOR is an atavism, a throwback to before the 1980s when finance was a much more moral field. The expression "my word is my bond" arose in London and for, literally centuries, was the moral code bankers operated by.

Things changed once the old partnerships were eliminated and these firms became publicly held. Then the concept of "the shareholder" and "value" became predominant and nature just took it's course. Because when we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 2:12 AM on July 15, 2012

It's "OK" according to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and has been since 1984. To me, a button labeled "Ok" or "Okay" is a sure sign that some developer doesn't notice details.

(And if the button says Do It, then it's time to upgrade.)... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by xil at 5:22 PM on February 4, 2012

There's only one safe investment left! If it tanks, the end is truly nigh.
posted to MetaFilter by The Card Cheat at 8:09 PM on December 15, 2011

The bad news is that Greek voters (like those in Iceland two years ago) are almost certain to reject the austerity package. Unlike Iceland, this is likely to result in utter chaos because the Germans don't have a plan B and are not likely to support a Plan B and the Greeks don't even have a Plan A.

Iceland is nothing like Greece. "Iceland's" debt was tied up in banks that Iceland (rightfully) refused to make itself responsible for. It's Plan... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Talez at 9:01 AM on November 2, 2011

The problem is that people really don't understand the consequences of these actions.

Stay in the euro, accept lower wages, lower standard of living for a while.

Leave the euro, real wages decline on the back of massive inflation through printing fiat currency, lower standard of living for a while.

Except if they leave the euro they'll now find it more difficult to export to the eurozone, they'll recoup less because of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Talez at 8:58 AM on November 2, 2011

1) Scottish-Americans are/are not oppressed
2) Lawn care is/is not wasteful

Something something Scott's Miracle-Gro.
posted to MetaFilter by kmz at 12:17 PM on July 27, 2011

In other words non-white America increasingly has nothing to lose.
posted to MetaFilter by 2bucksplus at 10:36 AM on July 27, 2011

Lots of experience here. Yes, it can be spread, depending on what you've been touching with contaminated hands. You may have a case of cross contamination with something you were using while camping. Clothing items, tools, faucet handles, leashes, camping supplies, the cell phone, maybe even a steering wheel. I would clean any items you typically use. My hunch is that residual urushiol isn't much of a problem unless the contamination is particularly bad, so I wouldn't worry about this too... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by crapmatic at 4:07 PM on July 1, 2011

Metafilter: an utterly disposable, one-sided interaction completely devoid of any sort of meaningful intimacy.
posted to MetaFilter by seanmpuckett at 12:37 PM on June 29, 2011

delmoi:
If it was a 1-for-1 exchange, then the amount of money in the system would stay constant. But the thing to understand is that if you view money as a stand-in for human effort then more labor = more money.

But it is. There is a fixed amount of money in circulation at any given time. Some of it is government spending (required, by law to match 1 for 1 with Treasury security issuance) and some of it is created by banks when they make... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by wuwei at 11:21 PM on June 21, 2011

It's unfortunate that this thread was pitched, both from PIMCO and here, as an insult to anyone who ever got anything good or useful out of college.

About halfway through the article it gets much more interesting, starting at the paragraph that begins:

"Both parties, in fact, are moving to anti-Keynesian policy orientations, which deny additional stimulus and make rather awkward and unsubstantiated claims that if you balance the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by the Real Dan at 6:54 PM on June 21, 2011

Huh?

He's suggesting that colleges should underwrite the loans themselves, rather than have government fund the loans, so that way colleges will be more selective in who they give them to. They wouldn't be quite so keen to push kids on unproductive courses of study if they knew they were going to be holding a multi-hundred-thousand-dollar bag if and when Junior defaults.

It's not an idea totally devoid of merit, but I suspect... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kadin2048 at 6:35 PM on June 21, 2011

Try to say PIMCO without it sounding like PIMPCO. It's impossible. Coincidence?

I actually did used to do work for PIMCO, they were a client of a company I worked for. We used PIMPCO data so often the inevitiable happened and we started calling it PIMPCO, new hires even thought the company really was called PIMPCO. They had to send around a memo stating we were not to refer to it that way anymore, on the off chance one of them was wandering around... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ad hominem at 4:55 PM on June 21, 2011

Okay here's the thing. I think college is probably invaluable for a technical degree, like computer science or electrical engineering or something. Especially for fields that require labs. You're not going to learn how to do genetic recombination in your basement, even if you might learn to program. It's also fun and makes you 'college educated' which is still socially important.

But here's the thing. Dollar for dollar, is it worth the cost? Increasingly the answer... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 4:30 PM on June 21, 2011

Anyone notice how it's all rich captains of industry who are poo-pooing higher education?

Actually, again, I think people are misreading the recent articles that are questioning the value of higher education. Higher education has become a bubble industry, similar to housing, and people like Bill Gross are particularly good at noticing these trends and exploiting them (for better or for worse). If you read carefully, what Gross is pointing out is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tgrundke at 4:17 PM on June 21, 2011

For those who think the whole anti-college movement is a conspiracy by the rich to screw the lower classes over, remember this:

College is a business. Most colleges are private institutions. They make money off their students. The more students enroll the more money they get. Professors, teaching supplies, lab equipment, etc. are all expenses. Liberal arts classes require the least equipment and funding. Thus, liberal arts classes are preferred over science and business... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by enamon at 3:20 PM on June 21, 2011

As someone who both works in Higher Ed and functions as a grad student, I definitely think there are people who are getting undergrad and even grad degrees not so much to learn something but to advance their career objectives. The various cohort and executive MBA/MIS programs seem to be the worst out of these programs. Basically you are paying x dollars to get y benefit at the end of that period.

However the huge glut of people getting undergrad and even grad degrees are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vuron at 3:13 PM on June 21, 2011

Forgot to mention that, at some point in the future, I'm looking forward to going to college. But only once I'm financially secure enough that I have the time to really focus on getting some sort of an engineering degree.
posted to MetaFilter by enamon at 3:07 PM on June 21, 2011

I tried going to college as soon as I graduated high school and ended up being too undisciplined for it. I lacked direction and motivation. Plus the fact that traveling an hour and a half each way sometimes just for one class didn't help matters at all. So I got a job instead. Nothing special. Just entry level IT. And I worked my way up from there. Within a few years I was part of a support team for a media company helping out people with journalism degrees who made $30,000/yr before taxes and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by enamon at 3:05 PM on June 21, 2011

Also it should be noted, and this is totally blinkered, that hiring managers routinely use the "i can haz diploma?" check-box as a way to sift through mountains of applicants. So either you play the game and get the damn paper or you start a new game (i.e. un/self-employed, YMMV).

Good point. That's one reason.

Another reason for me was learning how to grow up. Because I had clingy parents who weren't so cool with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jenfullmoon at 2:53 PM on June 21, 2011

I bet 3/4 of the commenters on this thread did not read the article, or if they did they are not following his thinking.
posted to MetaFilter by H. Roark at 1:41 PM on June 21, 2011

In my previous job, which because of the inherent incestuousness of Silicon Valley startups was very aware of Thiel, we got 3 kids to drop out of college to come work for us.

One went back after to school less than a year, has graduated now, has a normal job and a lot of debt.

The other one saved most of his salary for 2 years, enough to sustain himself for 18 months at least, quit to found his own startup with a friend, and now has funding and a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dr. Curare at 1:20 PM on May 26, 2011

Does PIMCO hire people with no college degree?

No.
posted to MetaFilter by honest knave at 1:29 PM on June 21, 2011

are blocking all manner of job recovery by insisting that the deficit is the biggest problem, rather than unemployment?

someone didn't read the article
posted to MetaFilter by found missing at 1:23 PM on June 21, 2011

"Ad hominem: "Does PIMCO hire people with no college degree?"

That's the thing isn't it? There might not be a lot of jobs for college grads but there are none for non-college grads.
"

Gross argues that the resources being appropriated to undergraduate education could more effeciently be rationed to different areas to spur growth. The structural and fiscal defeciencies of the undergraduate education system have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hurst at 1:18 PM on June 21, 2011

Oil will never run out... it is just very costly to extract more oil

The key to understanding the recoverability of oil reserves is to look at the cost in energy instead of dollars. If theres a barrel of oil under the ocean and it will take the energy equivalent of 2 barrels of oil to extract it, then no matter how high the oil price gets it will never be worth extracting.

If we are lucky global energy resources will start to... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lanark at 6:17 AM on June 10, 2011

Libyans who went to investigate the US warplane's crash site said that a US helicopter had come in with guns firing, creating panic and wounding onlookers, some of whom had to be taken to hospital; one 20-year-old man is expected to have his leg amputated.'

It's probably impossible for our military to conceptualize Muslim villagers who are trying to help us. We've spent so long killing these people that we can't help but continue to do so.
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 3:56 PM on March 22, 2011

I guess it depends on your level of comfort, level of "out-ness," for lack of a better term. I think being self-conscious about being "different" can put stress on any relationship, be it queer, interracial, poly, whatever.

I answered a similar question by advocating being out 100% of the time. The "straight suit" you talk about causes its own internal pressure, and I think that, if you're not hiding aspects of yourself because you fear what... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by xingcat at 2:54 PM on January 29, 2011

Step 1. Write flawless, perfect rock song
Step 2. Get Mick Jagger and Merry Clayton to go fucking crazy on the vocals
Step 3. Add reverb
Step 4. Profit
posted to MetaFilter by Threeway Handshake at 6:30 PM on November 29, 2010

Most of the media, financial and otherwise are missing the big point here. Most commenters on boards like this are missing the big point as well.

Since leaving banking I've been teaching Finance part time at a few universities, and start each class by presenting to my students market commentary that I write and sell to Investment Banks. I wrote lots of market commentary in addition to my day job while working in banking, so this is something I've kept doing and now... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 2:08 PM on November 6, 2010

delmoi: This is going to cause inflation of intertube cargo-cult "economists" railing against the fed and issuing dire warnings about hyperinflation! I expect 300% more vitriol!

delmoi, I'm gonna bookmark that, and I'm looking forward very much to reminding you, in another five years or so, about your mockery. You couldn't possibly get more wrongheaded if you tried. Deckchairs on the Titanic, indeed.

The endgame is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor at 1:27 PM on November 6, 2010

This is a disaster!

This is going to cause inflation of intertube cargo-cult "economists" railing against the fed and issuing dire warnings about hyperinflation! I expect 300% more vitriol!
posted to MetaFilter by delmoi at 1:03 PM on November 6, 2010

The basic situation of the world economy is simple: we have an excess of desired saving over desired investment, even at a zero interest rate. It looks like this, where the savings and investment schedules are what those schedules would be if we were at full employment:

No, we have an excess of debt that can't be carried by the American economy anymore. We have a debt problem, and printing money is just fighting a debt problem with more debt.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor at 12:59 PM on November 6, 2010

Get some really fancy, high-end stationary and a terrific pen.

Sit down and write a letter to each of your parents. In it, describe, in detail, how angry you are with them. Do not spare their feelings. Tell them in no uncertain terms every bad, angry thing you've wanted to tell them during this whole process.

Then, preferably at night, take the letters to some beautiful outdoor setting and (in a safe way) burn them. Watch the ashes and... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by anastasiav at 12:28 PM on October 10, 2010

I sent you a more detailed response via MeMail, but I want to second decathecting very loudly. To insert herself in this situation would be an extraordinarily arrogant act that would serve only to further violate the (unknown) woman in question. Your friend needs to stay out of it.

Also? The source is quite credible: apparently, one of his friends admitted it, using the word "rape." Gossip is not a credible source, EVER.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by amelioration at 1:05 PM on October 10, 2010

I'm not looking for advice which my providing more information about how bad my bad two year old is will help you come up with, I am just looking for recommendations for a book to read to learn how to stop my bad two year old from being so bad. Cause of how bad she is.

Okay, I don't have a book but wanted to tell you that we just went through this and it gets better. Four months ago she was hell to be around, she turned a corner just recently, like... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by A Terrible Llama at 10:19 AM on September 23, 2010