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Vodka's great for making infusions and liqueurs. (current favorite: Ceylon cinnamon liqueur + nigori sake. (1:4 ratio) I call that a Horchata-Plus)

Otherwise, yeah, why not use gin or whiskey or rum or tequila or something.
posted to MetaFilter by aubilenon at 9:59 PM on August 21, 2011

here we go:

The love of god, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love we receive, the more love we radiate; so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of loving is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, for mirror-like, each soul reflects the other.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by clairezulkey at 8:57 AM on July 10, 2006

The National Park Service acts like it's an occupying army in Washington DC.

The park police are noted for their extreme brutality, and enforcement of nonexistent laws and regulations, drawing the ire of both the Mayor, our fake congressional representative, and the [actual] DC Chief of Police. They are literally accountable to no one.

It also doesn't help that the NPS's PR guy evidently got his training on the other side of the iron curtain.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 7:19 AM on July 29, 2011

I feel much better about myself after reading this thread. My lack of social skills is so much less than I thought.
posted to MetaFilter by five fresh fish at 6:51 AM on July 5, 2011

I want to believe this chart was created entirely tongue-in-cheek. Otherwise if this isn't some kind of joke that GQ is trying to pull one over in some kind of "cool hunter" mimicking hoax, I think GQ is confusing high and middle brow with poshlost. In fact, the inclusion of Odd Future in the high-brow section only confirms it.
posted to MetaFilter by kkokkodalk at 4:42 PM on June 27, 2011

"I have little-to-no experience with running a small business. / What should I be doing that I'm not doing already?"

Take a close look at this book - The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It, as it is an eye-opener to anyone considering starting a small business. Do you really want to 'purchase a job'?

If you could read and apply the principles in this book, then you would have something... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by scooterdog at 12:16 PM on June 19, 2011

Every superhero dog pack has to have a beagle.
And there should have been a chihuahua laying down supressing fire.
posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 12:18 AM on May 28, 2011

Pitchfork has such a hard-on for the whole OFWGKTA it's not even funny.

That said, misogyny sells. It always has. And for every Tegan and Sara there's some female womens' studies grad student who probably loves the "edgy" rush of defending the "authenticity" of Tyler, Earl, etc.

Personally, I can take or leave their music. If it was truly amazing I'd probably be willing to accept the misogyny as "ironic" or what... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bardic at 6:45 PM on May 16, 2011

This says much more about you than it does about Mailer, Roth, Bellow and Updike.

The fact that someone doesn't like cookie-cutter novels about middle-aged dudes with midlife crises who obsess constantly about two-dimensional mothers/vamps/lolitas while ruminating pseudo-intellectually about whatever happened to be reviewed in the NYRB issue located closest to the author's typewriter doesn't mean they have bad taste or they're philistines or whatever.
posted to MetaFilter by nasreddin at 11:04 AM on May 18, 2011

I'm also a little surprised by the number of people who see this as controlling. (But no, GF, you can't protest every single day; that's just nagging. And I say that as someone with a deep-seated urge to nag about this kind of thing.)

First, in my world, $150 would be close to the monthly budget for "fun stuff" for one person. If that was ALL the fun stuff you bought, I'd STFU, but presumably you also buy books or video games or trips to fun places or other... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 5:38 AM on May 8, 2011

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 scoring MHGPs (Moral High Ground Points). MHGPs are scored by taking the conspicuously and/or... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by stuck on an island at 11:36 AM on November 3, 2009

I think that this review probably deserved an FPP of its own...but it might just be because I think that Alyssa Rosenberg is beyond awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by Hypnotic Chick at 3:14 PM on March 28, 2011

I think there is this angle that many women don't comprehend or feel until after they are married (and have kids - the kids part seems a big component to it). It's hard for me to articulate it, and I know other women feel it but often I think it's unconscious, because it's so hard to unpack and think about. It's easier to just blame him, or the marriage.

When you're a young, single woman a large part of your worth in society is measured in your ability to be desirable... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by flex at 7:46 AM on March 24, 2011

Honestly, I think most women (I would estimate at least most women of my generation and older) had very very little encouragement in figuring out what they wanted sexually before marriage. In my opinion, women are often socialized to experience sex early in the relationship as a victory--see, I am desirable, I am what a woman should be!--and the feelings of victory wear off, and then because women are socialized to ignore and minimize... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Frowner at 5:14 AM on March 24, 2011

I can't favorite saucysault's answer enough. I am (not literally) your wife. Your question and saucysault's answer describe our situation to a tee. I adore my husband and really really really I do want to be intimate with him, but... I'm just too tired.

We have 3 kids under 5 and all the childcare, chores, and financials are my responsibility. From 6am when they wake me up til sometimes 9:30pm (or later) when they go to bed the kid responsibility is all mine. Once... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by ellenaim at 3:57 AM on March 24, 2011

One of my dogs lovedlovedloved raw eggs. When he discovered that the eggs live in the big white box, he taught himself to open the box and grab the eggs for a mid-day treat. When I got home, the fridge door was open, the empty carton was splayed out in front of it, there were tiny bits of shell scattered on the floor, and the dog was looking shifty-eyed. I pointed to the mess and sent him to the bad-dog corner on the deck. Over the next few weeks, he taught himself to shut the door, hide the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dogrose at 3:22 PM on March 17, 2011

My wife and I have extensive personal experience with the work of Cheryl Lofton, who is simply outstanding.

(Since you mentioned it, she is also extremely highly-rated on Yelp!, but we discovered her before her Yelp! fame, and can testify that the reviews match reality.)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by willbaude at 7:43 AM on July 1, 2010 marked best answer

Since it's about 5am in Tripoli right now, perhaps its a bit time for us on GMT (-X) to take stock of what's going on in Libya.

To set the scene
- First, high ranking government officials are bailing out on Gaddafi left and right.
- This hasn't stopped him from going on air and telling Libyans, the UN, the US, and the world in general to go take a flying fucking at rolling donut, 'cuz he here 4 life, yo (maybe, still could be in Venezuela).... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Panjandrum at 8:14 PM on February 21, 2011

A hairstyle match and blue eye makeup is what I'm looking for. Thanks ATBH.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by mtphoto at 12:17 AM on February 19, 2011

Here's what you do:

1) Buy a taco
2) Eat the taco
3) Buy another taco
4) Eat the taco
5) Buy a Dr. Pepper
6) Buy Rose's Lime Juice
7) Put a splash of Rose's Lime Juice in a glass with two ice cubes
8) Pour the Dr. Pepper into the glass
9) Drink the beverage
10) Love how awesome the drink is
11) Dump your boyfriend

Now, 11 is the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Bathtub Bobsled at 3:45 PM on December 15, 2010 marked best answer

I am a veterinarian who has taken over the BF's post here so I can respond to your question. :-) About 10 years ago, I attended a major medical meeting strictly on cats and the information I learned there made me come back and write the handout (that I've included here below) for my clients. I'm like a reformed smoker on the subject--I discuss it with every cat owner. My colleagues tell me Purina is going to hire a hit man to take me out; I say the cats will deify me and set up roadside... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by idb at 7:09 PM on May 29, 2010 marked best answer

A lot of this kind of talk basically amounts to the following:

Q: You like sex? You are a person who likes the sex acts that we are currently engaged in?
A: Yes! I am! I like sex!
Q: You like sex! In fact, you are a person who likes sex as much as a prostitute likes sex!
A: YES I LIKE SEXY SEX AS IF IT WERE MY PROFESSION!! TELL ME MORE ABOUT IT
Q: YOU ENJOY THIS ACT YOU SEXY SEX PERSON etc.

So,... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by lemuria at 5:43 PM on April 4, 2007

It is time now to talk about The Wheel.

Growing up, my parents had obviously read all the studies about praise and punishment and their effect on a developing child. My father came from a distant, reserved family and was the middle of three brothers. My mother grew up in a close-knit, church going family as an older sister. He went to gradschool for plasma physics and she was the secretary that typed up his thesis.

They obviously disagreed on how... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 9:15 AM on February 13, 2007

lholladay: "But let's not waste all our GRAR and then look the fool when it turns out to be good."

I don't consider this a waste of GRAR. Instead, it feels like a high-yield GRAR investment. Yes, the movie might be good, and I might lose this amount of GRAR. But if it's bad, then I get a huge return on my initial GRAR.
posted to MetaFilter by specialagentwebb at 2:00 PM on November 22, 2010

I think if young women really found old men like Berlusconi hot then young women with lots of education and social resources would be competing for men like that. Instead it's women who have few choices, little career potential, and not much social status who go for old guys.

Also, how many girls put pics of old politicians on their bedroom walls to sigh over? None.
posted to MetaFilter by communicator at 3:19 PM on November 7, 2010

Something else: if you're feeling embarrassed or awkward about having moved across the country for this guy, try not to beat yourself up about it. Don't let that be the deciding factor in whether you stay or go. I'm not a whole lot older than you, but I can already see from my own life that everybody makes some big mistakes and most people get kicked over sideways at least once by something unexpected in their life. And I think those moments always feel horribly awkward from the inside but... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by colfax at 1:00 AM on October 8, 2010

You keep pushing to find out why he doesn't want to have sex with you. He's being evasive. Here's something for you to think about - let's say he's honest and it turns out that the answer is that your weight makes you less attractive to him (and, sorry to say, but Occam's Razor suggest this as the best answer). So the real question is: what then? Is this something you can hear from him? I ask because whenever a guy comes in here to ask a question along the lines of: 'I'm attracted to my partner... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ragged Richard at 12:09 PM on September 14, 2010

Except in pubs, people seem to form queues spontaneously at shops, cash machines (ATMs) or anywhere else they have to wait.

There's generally a queue in the pub as well, its just an invisible one in everyone's head.

Queuing is definitely part of the national psyche here. People moan about kids not being brought up badly and not queuing properly but that's just kids being kids and it's always happened.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by garius at 5:39 AM on October 22, 2008

Okay, at the risk of sounding more ridiculous than I usually do ...

Essential oils. Buy them, lots of them. Peppermint (lots, a 16oz bottle will last you for years). Spearmint (some). Wintergreen (a little). Lemon. Orange. Lime. Anise. And so forth.

Buy several small bottles with droppers ("take a hit out of the little brown bottle in my shaving kit") and a pipette of reasonable length (you do not want to try to tip that 16oz... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by adipocere at 12:25 PM on February 5, 2009

This is a classic case of Ask Culture meets Guess Culture.

In some families, you grow up with the expectation that it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.

In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by tangerine at 11:38 PM on January 16, 2007 marked best answer

There's a lot of cultural relativism going on here. If medical professionals felt that a white man was capable of mutilating his daughter in the manner described, they'd just take his kids. Which is exactly what they should do.
posted to MetaFilter by Mayor Curley at 12:41 PM on May 7, 2010

Also, in honor of Diana Gabaldon, I'd like to share my favorite fanfiction with metafilter: Blue, the NSFW NC17 story of two minor male characters from the Babysitter's Club exploring their sexuality and one another's bodies.

It might be personal porn, but it's world's better written and more intellectually interesting than anything Ann M. Martin ever wrote.

And it's hot.
posted to MetaFilter by PhoBWanKenobi at 11:50 AM on May 4, 2010

Speaking as someone who went to a state school for undergrad, and then a fancy pants law school (but not Harvard or Yale), I don't get at all the animosity toward those schools. Going to H/Y, especially for law school, doesn't appear to result in some sort of entitlement brainwashing. I have friends and coworkers from these places, and they are diverse in background, thinking, and comprehension of the law.

At least nowadays, all you really need is amazing grades and an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shen1138 at 10:25 PM on April 15, 2010

Charles Stross ran a series of blog posts on publishing that may be of interest:

Common Misconceptions About Publishing:
The publishing industry makes sense.
How Books Are Made
What Authors sell to Publishers
Territories, Translations, and Foreign Rights
Why books are the length they are
Why did you pick such an awful cover?
Miscellanea (including how much people get paid)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 9:01 AM on April 2, 2010

It's kind of funny that cunt and other words for female genitalia are used to connote weakness, and "he's got balls" means someone is brave and strong, considering that people frequently shove entire human beings out of the former with no ill effects, while a simple light punch to the latter will result in screaming and curling up on the ground in complete debilitation.
posted to MetaTalk by Dormant Gorilla at 8:33 PM on March 24, 2010

Vagina offends me because it's Latin for "sheath". I'm not a fucking carrying case for your penis.
posted to MetaFilter by Partario at 12:40 PM on March 18, 2010

BTW, re: the "fathers are idiots on TV" thing.

I'm not *sure* it is a symptom of trivializing fatherhood, though I agree that there is massive gender bias regarding parenting, and that all the other examples cited (Parenting magazines, comments on a man out alone with his children) are certainly examples of that.

But the "fathers are idiots on TV" thing might be different....

It might actually be a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by edheil at 10:19 AM on July 2, 2009

The piece he wrote for Esquire about traveling to Africa with Sharpton, Cornel West, and other civil rights activists was at once viciously hilarious and bracingly humane, like David Foster Wallace’s or Michael Lewis’s best reportage.

To make sure I was 100% fair, I read the Esquire article by Carlson just now. And I will say this: it was not as terrible as I thought it would be. But Tucker Carlson doesn't have a millionth of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Optimus Chyme at 8:57 AM on February 18, 2010

This site doesn't change anything, but merely demonstrates a problem. Burglars are apparently taking advantage of people's willingness to friend random strangers on Facebook and/or blurt details of new purchases, holidays, &c., to Twitter.

So does law enforcement, there's a dude in Philly's First Judicial District's Warrant Unit whose job is solely to connect with out of county fugitives over social networking sites with the object of obtaining... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 9:39 AM on February 17, 2010

xteener is a "makeup guru" on YouTube and she's the only one I know that doesn't use MAC religiously like all the others, usually uses drugstore brands.

For makeup she often uses NYX which I believe is less expensive than your department store counters. For some reason I can't access their european website for some reason, but just google "nyx cosmetics".

She also uses Too Faced. I have a different palette from her, I use... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by like_neon at 12:54 PM on February 16, 2010

Wikipedia moderators are the Homeowners' Association Boardmembers of the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by amuseDetachment at 6:38 PM on January 28, 2010

This new Tebow took me by surprise. I remember this Tebow:

Diary of Tim Tebow

10.14.06

7:02 AM: Awoken at Ole Miss Tri-Delt house by phone call from Florida Athletic Director Jeremy Foley. Foley reminds Tebow there's a game this afternoon. Tebow calls Foley a pickle smoker and tells him to send the plane.

7:05: Drops and does 40 naked push ups in front of a mirror.

7:07:... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mullacc at 8:41 PM on January 27, 2010

Oh oh oh oh I have a fun story about Simo Häyhä! I have no sources for this; it was an anecdote told to me by Nancy Bush, who is one of the world's greatest living authorities on the textiles of the Baltic states and Scandinavia, during a two-day workshop about mittens and gloves.

One of the reasons Häyhä was so successful, believe it or not, was because of his mitten ensemble. They consisted of three layers: the bottom layer was an incredibly finely knitted... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by KathrynT at 11:16 AM on January 28, 2010

Don't EMBARRASS the Buddha!!!
posted to MetaFilter by homunculus at 9:44 AM on June 13, 2009

I have always thought that depression, social anxiety disorder, ADD and similar 'mental illnesses' that have cropped up mostly in the 20th century are not old diseases that have only recently been formally diagnosed, but natural, healthy, human reactions to a world which is completely at odds with the environment in which we evolved to exist.

So, as the mechanisms, institutions, corporations, etc of the modern, developed world metastasize and spread and colonize the rest... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 8:47 PM on January 13, 2010

I was going to say nothing in this thread. I think Alia *is* a troll, and should be ignored.

But I really dispute that Alia raises hackles merely because she "expresses different opinions" or "opinions that are not common on Metafilter."

To me, that's utter bullshit.

There have been quite a few conservatives on Metafilter, and the majority of them are treated with civility and respect even when... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fourcheesemac at 1:59 AM on January 8, 2010

I'm going to put forward what is likely to be an unpopular opinion. I'm glad dnab has committed himself to not coming back. He was clearly not happy here. In the time I've been here, he has consistently flipped his shit over things that really just weren't worth flipping one's shit over. With the amount of vitriol he spewed in this thread and in other past threads, it's clear to me that he's just not a good fit here, and that he causes more problems than he helps to fix with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Caduceus at 2:59 PM on January 6, 2010

Oh my God, dirtynumbangelboy has quit Metafilter FOREVER!
posted to MetaTalk by nanojath at 12:09 PM on January 4, 2010

*feels your pain*

I'm seconding Artemis Fowl. Reading that series has definitely helped the dry spells between the fourth and the fifith book. It's light-hearted, snarky, but it's got character you can care about. AF and HP are the only two series I've ever been able to get into fanfiction for, because there is enough characterization for empathy to exist, but not too much that you can't invent your own side as well.

I was an obsessive fanfic... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Phire at 2:55 PM on July 22, 2007

onto vulnerable would-be homebuyers can trickle upwards to seriously affect the way some very-big-name funds earn (or lose) their money.

Vulnerable buyers? Vulnerable to what? To being told, that yes, they too can afford a $500,000 house on a $75,000/yr income? You know who's vulnerable? All those brats in school who asked why they should have to learn algebra because it was oh so boring. These same people drive new cars, shop at expensive... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 7:49 PM on July 11, 2007