What are some chatty, intelligent, funny personal blogs that I should be following? I used to love reading about people's daily lives on Livejournal, as well as knowing what music, books and films they were enjoying, but I haven't been back to LJ in years, and most of my friends have stopped updating. Something like a more regularly updated Defective Yeti is what I'm looking for.
posted by surenoproblem to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-26-09 at 10:09 PM
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if I felt I could have succeeded, I would have killed him. If my mother had attempted it, I would have held him down. For those who struggle to comprehend these feelings in a child, imagine living in an environment of emotional unpredictability, danger and humiliation week after week, year after year,
I was about twelve when I decided to kill my...
posted by Pater Aletheias to MetaFilter at Nov-27-09 at 4:29 PM
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Are you the dumbest shittiest dumbshit that ever shitted some dumb?
Dude is clearly out of his depth, but that's why he asked metafilter! My favorite "I'm not sure what to do here" thing in that thread is his reference to "females" over and over again, which led me to read all his responses in Morbo's voice.
HUMAN FEMALE ...
posted by Greg Nog to MetaTalk at Nov-23-09 at 11:04 AM
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[picture of Sealand]
Freenet means controversial information does not need to be stored in physical data havens such as this one, Sealand.
I think all Guardian stories should now feature photos of things that the stories are not about.
"The Queen is a member of the royal family, and not of Mötley Crüe."
"Tea is a warm d...
posted by Shepherd to MetaFilter at Nov-27-09 at 9:35 AM
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Not to Treaty of Whestphalia the discussion in this thread... but just to reassert that I love MetaFilter above all other online communities, I'll post the full list here for y'all to pick over at your lesiure. Backstory to the creation of the list, and a description of methods, etc. can be found in the header of this Reddit thread. Hope you enjo...
posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 9:11 AM
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The Pope arrives in heaven, where St. Peter awaites him. St. Peter asks who he is.
The Pope: "I am the pope."
St. Peter: "Who? There's no such name in my book."
The Pope: "I'm the representative of God on Earth."
St.Peter: "Does God have a representative? He didn't tell me."
The Pope: "But...
posted by netbros to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 3:12 AM
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Amazing! Give right-wing ideologues thirty years to fester, a 24-hour news channel blaring lies and propaganda, and an opposition party too weak to make substantive policy without first consulting their enemies, and look what happens!
You can't reason with them. They won't hear it.
You can't appeal to their better natures. They don't have them...
posted by BitterOldPunk to MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 2:23 PM
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SPEECH
Um, uh
So it's a running joke in my family that I do not win raffles. Raffles, lotteries, sweepstakes: anything that involves getting selected by chance? I don't win. On the other hand my dad, my SO, and my son are like raffle magnets, if any of them enter a game their numbers will get drawn at least once (like ColdChef!) I've actually...
posted by jamaro to MetaTalk at Nov-21-09 at 10:07 AM
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"As a man myself, I would say that a "good man" is one who acts basically in accordance with the Boy Scout Law."
Based on the ex-Scouts I've met, this sounds like a good way to end up with a guy who experiments sexually with his buddies on weekend campouts.
posted by hermitosis to MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 3:34 PM
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"I had something blindside me."
"a married man came on to me."
"Before I knew it, I was involved"
I am so desperate to try and make this work, but I still am too scared to admit the whole truth. I know he will go to the married mans wife and I am so afraid that I have done enough damage and dont want anyone else t...
posted by Optimus Chyme to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-26-09 at 7:46 PM
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You should take your sister away for Thanksgiving. Neither of you should go to your parents' house. Your parents are behaving badly, and you need to put your sister's welfare first, regardless of whether they feel "okay" about it. Your sister needs to have your support at this difficult time and understand that you believe her. You can do...
posted by decathecting to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-25-09 at 7:29 AM
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Airwolf references? Sharpied map? CD inside a floppy disk? My God he's found the shard of the evil hipster god known to the ancient Germans as Víðarr. For 120 days and nights the bands of Williamsburg played benefit concerts non-stop to defeat this evil, but this was an old god and his powers were strong. They say such was Víðarr's irony that his ...
posted by geoff. to MetaFilter at Nov-24-09 at 9:44 AM
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Being a hardcore Christian teenager was very confusing, by the way. On one hand I was internalizing messages exactly like the charming "rap" video posted by Amanda Hess. On the other hand I was a bag of raging hormones. My diary entries looked a lot like this:
"I guess my shirt was too tight because I caught Mike looking at my boo...
posted by muddgirl to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 11:40 AM
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You know, this is very interesting to me. Lately it seems as though every third post on Metafilter has been about racial prejudices, and everybody is pleased to run their mouth and knight-in-shining-armour it up about how tolerant they are and how many [insert race here] friends they have and how they even had sex with one once and how racists and ...
posted by turgid dahlia to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-24-09 at 7:40 PM
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I AM SICK OF YOUR POSTS ABOUT HATS AND MOUSTACHES!!! NOT EVERYONE HAS A HEAD!!! STICK YOUR EARRINGS, LIPSTICK AND NOSE-CARE PRODUCTS UP YOUR ASSES!!! IF I SEE ANOTHER FPP ABOUT "HAIRCUTS", WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY ARE, I'M GOING TO BLOW MY GODDAMNED NECK OFF!!!!!
posted by popechunk to MetaTalk at Nov-26-09 at 10:42 AM
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