It's that time again.. What are some good online stores to buy cool, unique Christmas gifts?
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Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced.
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Poor as Dirt Filter: Best Candy Recipes for Gift Giving?
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What clever relationship "hacks" have you come up with? I'm looking to build up my mental catalogue of examples of non-obvious solutions to relationship difficulties. Help me think out of the box better in the future!
posted by wyzewoman to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-3-09 at 10:48 AM
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"So, 'now'--ooh, what a wonderful first word, right in the beginning of the play. 'Now.' Not in the past. Not a history play. Now." Ian McKellen breaks down Richard III.
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I want to make lots of neat little gifts to give friends for Christmas. I'd like these gifts to be useable, elegant, consumable, and grown-up (not decorative, artsy-fartsy crafty crap). My recipients are Pragmatic New Englanders, and would be irked receiving potpourri, eye pillows, embroidered towels, door-hangings, pine-cone-bird feeders, or anything of that ilk. Hence: consumables. In the past I've had past successes making figgy pudding with brandy butter and a collection of homemade ketchups, relishes, mustards, and chutneys, but this year I want to move out of the kitchen. Blow me away with millions of amazing little home-made gift suggestions.
posted by mr. remy to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-6-09 at 5:07 AM
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What are some great gifts for Holiday Season that convey a sense of luxury, yet cost between about $25-75?
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Enheduanna was a priestess and poet in the city of Ur in the 23rd century BC and supposedly the daughter of Sargon the Great of Akkad. She is the first author known by name. Here are a number of her poems in English translation, The Exaltation of Inana, Inana and Ebih, A Hymn to Inana, The Temple Hymns and A Balbale to Nanna. Here are two alternate translations of The Exaltation of Inana, one by James D. Pritchard and an English rendering of Dr. Annette Zgoll's German translation. If you want to learn more, go to The En-hedu-Ana Research Pages.
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Which online course should I take next? What are the best free courses you've taken online?
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In previous years I've made a lot of cookies to give away to friends and family around the holidays. This year I'd like to do something a little different, but still make it a gift of food.
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Few men can reach the notes, and few women have the lung capacity to manipulate them. Most of these arias have not been heard since the deaths of the castrati for whom they were written. Mezzosoprano Cecilia Bartoli has released an album entitled Sacrificium. The album is a compilation of 17th-century arias written for castrati--male singers who were castrated in order to sing in a higher register. Commentaries on the work are favorable; commentaries on the history of castrati and Bartoli herself are just as interesting.
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This recent thread, from October 8, is just about to close. It's been an extraordinary one, and is still active as of this afternoon.
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two youtube videos and a motherfucking crossfader
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[FlickrPoolFilter] Crappy Bootleg DVD Covers: Here, you will find Tom Cruise's hit movie, Pepe Likes Tacos. In this universe, Star Wars features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dustin Hoffman stars in Lost in Translation; witches, pirates, and hobbits inhabit the same world. Titles are improved upon. Reviews are refreshingly frank (if they make any sense at all). Your DVD may also contain subtitles in French, Chinese, Spamsoc, or Martian. (Don't say there was no warning.) Remember, kids: Piracy Creates Jobs!
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Do you like maps? How about historical maps? Oodles of links to even more maps? Then the PCL Map Collection hosted by the University of Texas might be for you.
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Soldiers return home after months abroad and are greeted by their very excited dogs. (A compilation of puppy-focused welcome-home videos for Veterans' Day.)
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People Doing Stuff. Strangely compelling.
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It appears that the Lost Army of Cambyses has been found.
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On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, Lieutenant John Purvis risked court-martial by taking some snapshots of the battlefield. Now his photograph album has been put online. It gives an extraordinary insight into what it was like to be an ordinary soldier in the middle of the battle, marching up to the front, resting in the forward lines, taking cover as a bomb explodes, advancing into battle, watching a shell burst, digging into freshly made trenches, or moving forward over captured ground.
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I just spent another hour going through giant stacks of mail and shredding crap and I swear I can't take it anymore.
posted by sugarfish to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-8-09 at 6:28 PM
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Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics. Such a lovely display of civility and goodness. We can all be proud of our Republican brethren. And now we have a mandated insurance system that will pay for viagra, but not birth control, just like most insurance policies. And women...well, you better hope you w...
posted by dejah420 to MetaFilter at Nov-7-09 at 9:40 PM
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Do not hustle the lobsters.Boy, can I attest to that. Once I tried to get a little three-card monte going with some lobsters and the next thing I knew I awoke in an ice-filled motel bathtub, with a gash on my forehead and a note saying, "We tried to take your kidney, but couldn't find it. Where do you humans keep them, anyway?"
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If only the army could carry guns, none of this would have happened.
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If in ten years America is a bankrupt failed state ruled by a fascist dictator who lights his cigars with strips of burning Constitution, I'm going to have to do a lot of apologizing to my Republican pals.
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Everyone needs a hug. However, each hug you give is one less hug for your life partner.
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Welcome to the mid-twentieth century!
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Generally speaking, I behave fantastically well in public and display wonderful etiquette and manners. This is the likely result of growing up in a family and neighborhood where such things were expected. I tend to expect it from others; especially those who, in some way or another have connections to me, or act as my representative some way. Th...
posted by Dee Xtrovert to MetaFilter at Nov-5-09 at 5:14 PM
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Hey great another thread where a half-dozen unbalanced losers do a disservice to all men. I'd like to say this to you, if you can understand it, which you won't, or can't: you are the problem. You know how you are whining about how "oh boo hoo not all men are bad and it's wrong for women to assume I am dangerous it is so hard to be a dude ...
posted by Optimus Chyme to MetaTalk at Nov-9-09 at 7:03 AM
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We could use a few more douche bags like that.
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My God. I just read that thread and this one for the first time. I had no idea women thought like this. I feel horrible. I'm a big mean looking guy. I'm around 6'-4" 250lbs and I can't fathom what it would be like to have to think like this all the time. I can barely string words together right now to make this comment, that's how much i...
posted by chugg to MetaTalk at Nov-9-09 at 9:59 AM
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I personally would not have cared if you said "anime is for children." You are entitled to your opinion, and I always wear my big girl pants online and can handle it. ;-) damn woman please you flag me so much i look like the UN
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Your response did not answer the question; therefore, it was deleted. You are not the first person nor will you be the last to have answers deleted for not answering the question but rather offering up an irrelevant opinion. You need to stop posting and lurk more, as it is clear you do not understand MetaFilter's protocols. Also, saying &quo...
posted by Optimus Chyme to MetaTalk at Nov-11-09 at 9:38 AM
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that men take it as their right to comment on our bodies, to use our bodies for their gratification, and that if we object to it then we are bitches, or....sexist. Part of me wants to change that 'some men' in there - and that's part of the problem, and I think where gjc is coming from. But saying that it's OK to fear strange men more than t...
posted by ArkhanJG to MetaTalk at Nov-8-09 at 4:02 PM
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It might be the word "marriage" that is the stumbling block. Maybe. I'm going to guess the actual stumbling block is homophobia, though.
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I really have come to the conclusion that most of humanity is about three beers and two shots of tequila away from having sex with the rest of humanity, regardless of gender, nationality, age, or religion, and so, when people say things like "No homo" after saying something suggestively homoerotic, all they're saying is "Buy me a few...
posted by Astro Zombie to MetaFilter at Nov-10-09 at 11:52 AM
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--Knock, knock. --Who's there? --Don Draper. --Don Draper who? --Oh, god is it nice to hear someone say that.
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I'm not sure how this adds, but here it is. I see how people sometimes view my brother as he walks down the street. A large African American male, I sometimes see non-blacks view him warily as he walks down the street (in the US), and I think - aargh, you don't even know him! How can you judge him negatively based on your previous experience/you...
posted by anitanita to MetaTalk at Nov-8-09 at 7:33 PM
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But Jon Stewart for Samuel Langhorne Clemens is quite another. What next? Stephen Colbert for Zola? Al Franken for Swift? Tripe. The Christopher Hitchens of 1885 would cattily dismiss the undue popularity of Huckleberry Finn. "One feels that a lighter touch was in order for such grotesques as the King, the Duke and 'Pap' (whose name is a...
posted by Iridic to MetaFilter at Nov-6-09 at 12:21 AM
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I think I see why the Dems are such losers every time a debate comes up: by all appearances, even "lefty liberal MeFi socialists" don't want anyone to aggressively speak the truth or demand accountability. Meanwhile, the Republicans can pull any amount of nasty shit, including flat out lying and get a pass. Fuck that noise. Rip 'em...
posted by five fresh fish to MetaFilter at Nov-5-09 at 4:34 PM
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Couldn't you find a sticker that is way pro-Current President and replace the anti-Idiot one. How could the client possibly have a problem with supporting and respecting the President after making his objections all about that.
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