Sideblog Archive
July 31, 2015
Getting hip with the lingo, on Ask Me: When did the phrase "Garbage People/Person" become popular? | Did people actually say "shwench"? | In words like normcore, What is the meaning of the -core suffix?
... and recently on the blue, D'ya get me, bruv?; MLE, a new London accent | A Tart My Dears, A Tart – how British gay men used to talk
July 29, 2015
On Ask Me, what do people incorrectly believe to be universal?, wherein we find out some folks are just wrong.
July 28, 2015
My parents are very perplexed by all this: showbiz_liz asks about what to expect when moving from white collar to blue collar work as a woman
July 27, 2015
Authorial Intent? kk asks, "What books seem to have been written to be re-read?"
July 26, 2015
Eriko advises on what to do if your vehicle is ever stranded on a train crossing in the "It'll buff out" post featuring video of an amazing Train-Limo collision. (no deaths or injury)
July 25, 2015
Recently on Mefi, people and places around the world:
The Banjo Bands of Malawi features three different performances of a certain strain of folk music from the small African nation.
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From the 1920s to the 1960s, German people loved to pose with actors dressed as polar bears.
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Art duo kozyndan posted an immersive "VR" experience of their Miyazaki-esque piece "Nakano In Spring".
July 24, 2015
Ask Me Style Pile: Online resources for teaching basics of good document design? | Give me your colorful, cute, glam office supplies | Looking for the best dish drying rack ever
July 23, 2015
Your fridge is [mostly] empty. You're too lazy to drive to the grocery store, but not too lazy to stay in and cook: Ask Me's Kitchen Pantry Cooking Challenge is there for you.
July 22, 2015
Read Along: Epic thread on Emotional Labor offers dozens of stories, studies, and insights into how our lives depend on constant and under-recognized emotional work, mostly performed by women. (Also: the author responds; an Ask Me checklist; and Crone Island, where tacos and margaritas await the weary.)
Enduring Mystery or Mass Hallucination? Back in October, 2014, sarcasticah asked a simple question about an old sitcom. Shockingly, Ask Mefi did not save the day, so we are highlighting this cold case again before the thread closes in a couple of months. Do you know the answer?
July 21, 2015
Sad news: Metafilter community member edgeways, Edgewood Smith, passed away last week. You can say goodbye in Metatalk.
July 19, 2015
In Metatalk: Show Us Your Desk, 2015 Edition!
July 18, 2015
Good-ish things come in Threes:
Portland Acockalypse story leaked by on-the-ball members, plus mefites debate the collective noun for dildos... and an update.
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Mefites fail to fully embrace (sometimes eponysterically) the fashion forward feline fad of cat bum bling.
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Egg Master: Shoggoth incubator or perfect housewarming gift? Either way, Happy Dave gives us the phrase we didn't know we always needed for "the slightly nauseated, damp kind of lurching gut horror you get when you see something truly distasteful."
July 17, 2015
Yankeefog's question about fragments of old London still visible in modern London is a great place to fall down a rabbithole of historic curiosities.
July 16, 2015
"I have shiny new popsicle molds. I wish to spend the rest of the summer making all sorts of tasty frozen treats": Bring me all your best popsicle recipes
July 15, 2015
The Tale of the Lazarus Snail: nicebookrack tracks down a gastropodean mystery and reports back on the amazing story of the snail that came back to life after years glued to a specimen card in the British Museum.
"25 years ago, shots rang out on the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake...": a great collection of links for the anniversary of the 1990 Oka Crisis from mandolin conspiracy
July 14, 2015
It's Metafilter's 16th birthday! Come celebrate!
July 11, 2015
It's time for episode #106 of the Metafilter podcast!
July 7, 2015
"Basically right where Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd stood in the movie": In a thread about the closing of Chicago and NYC trading pits, Member Guernsey Halleck recounts accompanying their dad onto the trading floor of 4 World Trade Center and viewing the action close-up as a child.
July 6, 2015
CineFilter: Jaguar has compiled a great linked list of films made by and about people of color in the Run Time: 8 Seconds thread.
July 5, 2015
Jane the Brown offers a great overview of possibilities, conditions and practicalities surrounding xarnop's question, "Are there any surviving evidence of household decorations from medieval times in Europe?"
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