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The minor works of Gustav Verklempt

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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But what's it there for? Do you actually sleep on it?

Little known facts about men
posted by lunalaguna to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 8:37 AM
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Gay History - Online Documentaries

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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An All New Muppet Video

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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Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

"I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly." Physics professor Eric Mazur explains the development and use of the "ConcepTest".
posted by inkyroom to MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 4:15 PM
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Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.


The stupidest miracle

I just did something banally amazing. Now I'm overcome with a profound sense of dread. Is this legitimate?
posted by Lacking Subtlety to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-19-09 at 5:39 PM
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AskMetafilter Roundup


Pepsi Review

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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wintry mix

Looking for music that feels like winter.
posted by samsarah to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-21-09 at 6:55 AM
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Stuck in the dreaded “friend zone”!

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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How to Start Reading Comics

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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Journal Of Tanzanian Meat Sciences

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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Clickin' it old-school

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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Suggestions for tasteful hardcore?

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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Hot, dangerous… rock music?

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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The Ugly Side of Crafting

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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DIY Forge

DIY Forges: not forgery, but making your own smithy. There are plenty of variations available, but there's something special when a teenage boy builds his own forge and teaches himself black smithing.
posted by plinth to MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 6:15 PM
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I’ve been composing the letter from my 60-year-old self that would have been of some real use at 16: things I wish I’d known earlier. “Dear Me . . . If you see a dog, try dressing it in funny clothes. If you see a dog that's already dressed up, take a photograph. Always shave against the grain of your stubble. More than two blades is ridiculo...
posted by Greg Nog to MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 12:23 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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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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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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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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If God liked it then He should have put a ring on it.
posted by Atom Eyes to MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 9:02 AM
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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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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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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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Neither I nor any of my other guy friends know anything about sunglasses. I refuse to accept that that is common knowledge among the menfolk.
posted by mattholomew to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 9:15 AM
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On the serious side of things: Ladies in hetero relationships, your man does not want to hear you vent about your problems. This is not because he is unsympathetic or does not care-- quite the opposite, in fact. For a man, problems must be solved. To learn about a problem that directly impacts his woman (whom he must protect at all costs) is exactl...
posted by Faint of Butt to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-20-09 at 1:27 PM
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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've said it before and I'll say it again: the sex won't destroy you. Actually, the sex will probably be great. The affair won't destroy you. It'll probably be great fun and excitement! The lies, however, will destroy you. Lies are the foundation of misery. Lies are corrosive acid to the human conscience. Some people are capable of tremendous ly...
posted by Avenger to MetaFilter at Nov-21-09 at 11:01 AM
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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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They certainly weren't afraid of handling a smoker's cash or credit card, were they?
posted by kuujjuarapik to MetaFilter at Nov-21-09 at 6:24 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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