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.
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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!
posted by not_on_display to MetaFilter at Nov-5-09 at 9:55 AM
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It might be the word "marriage" that is the stumbling block.
I used to subscribe to this theory, but an experience last week changed my mind. My family was in town and we were visiting an aunt's friend who lives in Mill Creek (an exurban hell if I've ever seen one) and is quite religious. She had lots of Jesusy stuff on the walls and,...
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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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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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At last it is time to reveal to an unwitting world the great game of Moral High Ground. Moral High Ground is a long-playing game for two players. The following original rules are for one M and one F, but feel free to modify them to suit your player setup:
1. The object of Moral High Ground is to win.
2. Players proceed towards victory by sco...
posted by stuck on an island to Ask MetaFilter at Nov-3-09 at 11:36 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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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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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...
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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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A gay union is not the same as a hetero union. Gays cannot raise a family without the intervention of a third party or process.
I just want to jump in and say that you are going to get intellectually eviscerated for this bit of illogic and rightfully so.
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It's a cultural touchstone, like it or not. There's not way around it, really.
What baffles and disturbs me about the phenomenon is that the show, from everything I've read, depicts a hellish vista of classism, racism, sexism and narrow-minded generalized Babbittry. But it's got some shiny clothes and set design, so people ignore the fact that e...
posted by spaltavian to MetaTalk at Nov-4-09 at 3:47 PM
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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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