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posted by aldurtregi to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 7:11 AM
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Do me a favor here... make me cry. Or at least a little verlklempt. I would like to add to my collection of videos that get me a little choked up or emotional.
posted by Cold Lurkey to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 11:02 PM
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A treasure trove of gay and lesbian documentaries to watch online. Our course begins with a brief overview. (9m05s)
posted by hippybear to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 1:42 PM
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The Muppets Cover Queen An all-new, original Muppet video. (SLYT)
posted by Optamystic to MetaFilter at Nov-24-09 at 8:50 AM
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Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.
posted by ratita to MetaFilter at Nov-25-09 at 6:19 PM
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As a child, actor Patrick Stewart regularly saw his father hit his mother. Here he describes how the horrors of his childhood remained with him in his adult life.
posted by porn in the woods to MetaFilter at Nov-27-09 at 2:39 PM
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posted by turgid dahlia to MetaFilter at Nov-25-09 at 1:21 AM
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The 27 Best (Non-Super Bowl) Commercials of the 2000s: Balls [Bravia] - Birthday [Got Milk?] - Bubble Boy [Volkswagen] - Bus Station [Starburst] - Carousel [Phillips] - Cog [Honda] - Dangerously Low [Levi's] - Diorama [Halo 3] - Evolution [Dove] - Freestyle [Nike] - Gorilla [Cadbury] - Grrr [Honda] - Hello Tomorrow [Adidas] - Lamp [IKEA] - Like [Volkswagen] - Mountain [Playstation] - Noitulove [Guinness] - Odyssey [Levi's] - Rabbit [Comcast] - Sheet Metal [Saturn] - Stork [Monster] - Swear Jar [Bud Light] - Tag [Nike] - Tea Partay [Smirnoff] - Touch [Skittles] - Wedding Toast [Budweiser] - Yes We Can [Dipdive]. Part of Adweek's "Best of the 2000s" competition, which also includes rundowns of the 22 Best Super Bowl Spots and the 15 Best Print Campaigns of the last decade, among many other voting categories.
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 2:38 PM
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So as fate would have it, I am sharing an apartment with a girl that I am very attracted to. And now it seems as if I've been perma-friended. (For the sake of discussion, lets forgo the “dating roommates is a bad idea” discussion.)
posted by RandomGradStudent to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 2:55 PM
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Just in time for your Black Friday wish list needs, MeFi's own mightygodking has written a guide on how to start reading comics. Perfect for total comics newbies or people* who have really only ever read webcomics and seen superhero movies, the guide is a list of twenty volumes of comics that would be good for introducing people to the medium, and why they are his choices.
posted by Caduceus to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 12:18 PM
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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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ReadMe is up to date.
posted by shothotbot to MetaTalk at Nov-23-09 at 9:26 AM
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I'm looking for strange magazines to give as gift subscriptions. Ideas?
posted by benzenedream to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 1:49 PM
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The newly launched Atari.com includes the Atari Arcade, wherein you may play Adventure, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander and Yars' Revenge in your browser.
posted by jbickers to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 2:30 PM
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Help me make a raunchy rock playlist!
posted by nuala to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 7:03 PM
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I'm looking for tasteful, high-quality hardcore porn. Does what I want even exist? NSFW obviously.
posted by Anonymous to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 3:45 PM
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Crafting can be great. But beware: crafting can also go spectacularly wrong. Fortunately for the benefit of those of us who might become so proud of having made something, anything, all by ourselves, that we are oblivious that the result is an aesthetic travesty, there are websites making a valiant attempt to document the legion of ways in which crafting can get totally out of hand. Before you pick up those needles or scissors or fire up the kiln or soldering iron, check out: Glitter Gone Bad; Handmade Gone Wrong; What Not To Craft, Homemade Hilarity; and Kraftomatic. The sturdy souls at CraftFail (previously) deserve special credit for documenting their own crafting mishaps, and Regretsy (also previously) and Etsy WTF will help you choose wisely from among Etsy’s hand-crafted wares.
posted by orange swan to MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 10:13 AM
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Cloe. I am begging you honey. None of that Jello crap. No one eats it and the garbage stinks for a week after I throw it out. Margaret and Helen (mostly Helen) have a blog, thanks to Helen's grandson, and have a lot to say to America, about remembering an America where black men didn't grow up to be president, abortion, and the sorry state of the American media, among other topics.
posted by emjaybee to MetaFilter at Nov-25-09 at 10:56 AM
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sc140: 22 minimal electronica tracks composed in Super Collider using 140 characters or less. Twitter user, computer scientist, and compilation curator Dan Stowell started the trend by tweeting his encoded field recordings of waves crashing on the beach.
posted by carsonb to MetaFilter at Nov-21-09 at 7:26 PM
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What is one creative thing you do each day?
posted by elder18 to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 6:01 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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In England it's the day when we give thanks that large numbers of our whackjob fundies fucked off to America and left us to our semi-pagan alcoholic haze, socialised abortions and science-based school curricula.
posted by Abiezer to MetaTalk at Nov-26-09 at 9:58 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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winna: "what" He will hold you between his chin and shoulder and rub you vigorously with horsehair treated with amber rosin.
posted by idiopath to MetaFilter at Nov-22-09 at 3:29 PM
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beep boop boop beep beep, hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh , dee doo dooooyeo, dooooyeo dee doo... dee dee dee dee chhhhchchchchchch BEE BOONG BEE BOONG PSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PUSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
posted by EarBucket to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 7:16 PM
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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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Reminder to non-Americans: all the daytime mods do celebrate American Thanksgiving so if you could be cool today while we hang out with our families and/or friends we'd really appreciate it.
posted by jessamyn to MetaTalk at Nov-26-09 at 9:49 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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I will go to my grave not knowing why for some people, knowing that someone somewhere is enjoying something they don't, is an intolerable affront.
posted by Kattullus to MetaFilter at Nov-26-09 at 11:13 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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The diet's not bad, but the cross training's a bitch.
posted by middleclasstool to MetaFilter at Nov-23-09 at 5:54 AM
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