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MeFi post: If Male Actors Were Described the Way Female Actors Are
I'm hoping for the day when we describe every man who chooses not to wear makeup in public as "brave".
posted to MetaFilter by Mrs. Pterodactyl at 10:04 AM on July 8, 2015
Several Buzzfeed commenters are insisting that this is just how women write! For women in the audience!

So I dug up an old GQ article/interview (written by a male reporter) with Jennifer Aniston:

Listening to Jen tear into the tabloid circus is entertaining stuff, and for a moment I marvel at just how lucky I am to be inside the iron gate, eating a delicious, Asian-influenced chicken-and-fried-cheese dish with one of the world's most... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by a fiendish thingy at 9:32 AM on July 8, 2015
The unstated goal of these is obviously to make us aware of how vapid and trite journalists can be is when it comes to profiling female actors but I think that backfired because I would very much like to read like fifty more of these.
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 9:19 AM on July 8, 2015
MeFi post: No Comment
We should try it around here for a few months. Just imagine how super chill it could be.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 11:35 AM on July 8, 2015
Are you paying attention, every single local newspaper website?
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 11:37 AM on July 8, 2015
MeFi post: In Israel: casual dress, handle business cards with respect.
Also nothing turns me from Omniscient Administratron 5000 into Vincent Adultman faster than non-business small talk.

"Can you file a 55-E without having the 2X backer?"
"Only if you include the notarized ZQ-22 with a copy of your license."
"Will it need to go under department review?"
"Not if you check off box 7 in section 53."
"Great, thank you. How was your fourth of July?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 12:07 PM on July 6, 2015
The fact that Germany's communication style had to be qualified with "to the point of bluntness" makes me want to do business with more Germans.
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 11:48 AM on July 6, 2015
I've spent the last 15 years trying to figure out how to monetize the world's billions of unused business cards, because most people who are provided with a box of 1000 cards is lucky to use even 50 of them before the contact info goes out of date. I could make millions

I nestle mine down in the bottom right corner of my computer monitor to hide Outlook notifications I'd rather not see right away.
posted to MetaFilter by Bulgaroktonos at 11:46 AM on July 6, 2015
...there are people who dedicate their entire careers to studying this and helping others adapt. International business etiquette is definitely not this simple.

I'm one of them (sort of), and you're right -- international business etiquette isn't this simple. However, these sorts of friendly-looking visuals do have purpose. They're a digestible read for people who don't think they need the information -- which can sometimes mean... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by gnomeloaf at 11:34 AM on July 6, 2015
Now if someone could tell me what to do with those hundreds of my own business cards that I've been issued over the last twenty years and never knew what they were for.

Going by the totally ridiculous amounts I had to order for my former boss over the years, you are supposed to just fling fistfuls of them into the air wherever you go at all times.
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 11:30 AM on July 6, 2015
You must then apologize for not being French, if applicable.
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 10:59 AM on July 6, 2015
Apologize for your Quebecois accent.
posted to MetaFilter by Midnight Skulker at 10:59 AM on July 6, 2015
I don't really understand what "handle with respect" means for a business card, so I choose to imagine something like courtiers prostrating before an imperial missive from the Son of Heaven.
poffin boffin

For Japan, it means not doing things like folding them, writing on them, or jamming them in your pocket or wallet (you should have a business card holder). When you receive a card, you don't just put it away immediately, you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Sangermaine at 10:49 AM on July 6, 2015
I did some googling re: business card rituals

1. RECEIVE WITH BOTH HANDS
2. PLACE ON TONGUE, LET IT DISSOLVE, DON'T CHEW wait I'm sorry that's communion wafers
3. MAKE SURE THE WRITING IS FACING THE RECIPIENT
4. COMMENT ON THE BUSINESS CARD "My stars, Signor Fleeceworth-Pantherbelt, but the edges on your business card are sharp. May I ask where you source your fonts?"
5. PLACE BUSINESS CARD IN A CONSERVATIVE... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by prize bull octorok at 10:49 AM on July 6, 2015
I'm delighted to know that I can address everyone in Canada as Liam or Olivia. That will simplify things a great deal.
posted to MetaFilter by neroli at 10:42 AM on July 6, 2015
In my culture, when given a business card it's important to take it with both hands, then take out a lighter and set it on fire, never breaking eye contact.
posted to MetaFilter by Solon and Thanks at 10:32 AM on July 6, 2015
MeFi post: "Cars 2 always comes in last in Pixar rankings, and justifiably so."
Cars is a very good movie, great characters, settings, story, etc. The problem is that Cars 2 is so bad it retroactively made you stop caring about the characters, the setting and the story.
Sort of like The Matrix 2 & 3.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 7:24 PM on July 5, 2015
Know what I hate? Ranking listicles. And the shoehorning in of apologies for the arbitrariness of the particular order doesn't mitigate that in the slightest. Know what the #1 Pixar movie is? ALL OF THEM, except for Cars 1 and 2, which don't exist. Boom, done.
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 7:22 PM on July 5, 2015
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by buriednexttoyou at 7:11 PM on July 5, 2015
Yep. I think that WaPo has the right idea (even if I strongly disagree about WALL-E's position on the list).

There were portions of Toy Story 3 where I was genuinely worried that the writers were going to kill the entire cast. Of course, that would be preposterous, but the film was immersive enough that I never even paused to consider that Disney wasn't going to deliberately scar us that badly.
posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 7:05 PM on July 5, 2015
I feel like Ratatouille would score higher if the hero wasn't a rat. It's a gem starring a rat. There's a gross factor to consider and it turns a lot of people off but it's just as good as WALL-E and Up.
posted to MetaFilter by guiseroom at 6:55 PM on July 5, 2015
Considering The Incredibles did not make #1 on any of these lists and I consider it not just the best Pixar movie but one of the best of all movies, these lists are all wrong.

Saw Inside Out today, btw. Rock solid great movie.
posted to MetaFilter by mcstayinskool at 6:47 PM on July 5, 2015
MeFi post: How our secret snacks are like a great painter's unknown works.
Sour Cream and Onion Pringles contain all the traditional dressings for caviar.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 7:08 PM on July 4, 2015
im gonna die the butt death and i don't even care
posted to MetaFilter by poffin boffin at 7:07 PM on July 4, 2015
My mom made something , a kind of open faced grilled cheese, that I physically NEED every so often or in times from great struggle.

It requires,

Kraft American sliced Dairy Product. the cheaper the better. this is important, actual cheese melts the wrong way while Homogenoized CheeseFood slice melts like no other cheese known to man and thus ideal for this.

Some kind of seeded rye loaf in slices.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 6:54 PM on July 4, 2015
You can tell a lot about a the status of your relationship with someone by the tone of their voice and their posture and hers had no room to suggest that she was kidding around: things were over. We had run out of things to talk about. There was nothing left to gloss over our habits, some of which we had accepted lovingly as the other's quirks, some of which we knew could not be excused and were forgotten, and one in particular that should have been dismissed as harmless but could not be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by herrdoktor at 5:21 PM on July 4, 2015
the biggest difference between me eating alone versus me eating with others...

it's HOW I eat in private* that must be concealed from the rest of humanity

While we're on the performativity of dining status, I'd like to bring to your attention the unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men:
I found that women did change the way they ate depending on the gender of their dining companion.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MonkeyToes at 4:21 PM on July 4, 2015
If you haven't tried it yet... Put a teaspoon on some vanilla ice cream...

Add fresh cracked black pepper. Ditto with strawberries.
posted to MetaFilter by feckless fecal fear mongering at 3:55 PM on July 4, 2015
A nice cheddar with tiny sweet gherkins.
posted to MetaFilter by sammyo at 3:27 PM on July 4, 2015
Tater tot sandwich.

Cook up tater tots. Nice and crispy like. Put on white bread. Add ketchup, slice of velveeta. Add fried egg if desired. Serve with side of tater tots.
posted to MetaFilter by TheWhiteSkull at 2:55 PM on July 4, 2015
In private, we all add peas to our guacamole.
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 2:32 PM on July 4, 2015
MeFi post: Was the American Revolution a mistake?
The entire point of the article was to remind Americans that their glorious Revolution was in part an attempt to preserve slavery and the ability to freely rob and kill Native Americans

Buh? No, the entire point of the article was that without independence slavery would have been dispensed with sooner and the Native Americans wouldn't have been fucked over, and the disagreement mostly boils down to "But the same people who were assholes in real... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:07 AM on July 5, 2015
mettez les shrimp sur le barbé
posted to MetaFilter by feckless fecal fear mongering at 7:59 PM on July 4, 2015
The idea that the Brits were better on slavery seems incoherent to me. The colonists were Brits. The South were not the only British slave colonies.

Surely the biggest reason the British empire could forbid slavery was precisely that it had lost the largest den of slaveowners. Without the South, what the UK had was Caribbean slavery— which had very different logistics and demographics. In the early 1800s, blacks outnumbered whites 20 to 1 in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by zompist at 4:10 PM on July 4, 2015
But I'm reasonably confident a world where the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: slavery would've been abolished earlier, American Indians would've faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government that makes policymaking easier and lessens the risk of democratic collapse.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kanewai at 3:34 PM on July 4, 2015
Christ, that kind of rote snark is tiresome.
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 3:19 PM on July 4, 2015
Yes, but in this case those things genuinely are great, and it's a genuine problem with democracy that it so easily enables things like ethnic cleansing.
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 3:11 PM on July 4, 2015
6 Common Mistakes Every American Revolution Alternate History Makes
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 2:18 PM on July 4, 2015
MeFi post: “Don’t Worry About Money, Just Travel”
I have a friend who writes this type of advice. She has managed to travel around the world with no money. She works in the u.s. for a while to save, living extremely cheaply while there, then goes to an inexpensive part of the world (like parts of Asia), travels until she can find a job teaching English or working at an English owned shop or bar, then plops down in that country for a while.

So no, it doesn't require a lot of money. But it involves other sacrifices, like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tofu_crouton at 7:04 AM on July 4, 2015
Actually, we have conversations about how everyone should just go ahead and travel here on metafilter - they're usually couched as "so many Americans don't even have a passport, what hicks they are, not like me". And since having a passport costs money, and the primary reason to have one is to travel abroad, telling someone that it's hick not to have a passport is basically telling them that it's hick not to expect to travel abroad within the next few years.

I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Frowner at 6:53 AM on July 4, 2015
"Just do it and worry about the cost later" is the carelessly thrown match that ignites the shitty decision bonfire.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank at 6:39 AM on July 4, 2015
"You should do it now, before you get settled down and have responsibilities like a mortgage!"

-A person who has not paid attention to the college debt situation.
posted to MetaFilter by Drinky Die at 6:34 AM on July 4, 2015
Have never heard this advice given in my life. How could it be? Travel is something that costs money.

I hear it a lot; it was a common refrain at university when I was there 20 years ago (I studied a few different foreign languages, so). Seconding how much it has to do with privilege. Everyone I've heard it from has been upper-middle-class or higher.

You also tend to hear it often in Europe, but here it has more to do with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fraula at 6:33 AM on July 4, 2015
The important thing is to get out there and learn to survive on your own and experience a real, authentic foreign country!

But certainly not like a tourist!
posted to MetaFilter by thelonius at 6:31 AM on July 4, 2015
I haven't taken a vacation in 10 years. I have close family out west that I haven't seen in at least 15 years, because of the expense.

Traveling, especially from my deeply land-locked US home, is extraordinarily expensive, even just traveling within the US. To travel internationally is something akin to engaging in fantasy. Even something as simple as, say, doing an overnight trip to one of the two regional amusement parks is crazy expensive, once you add-up all the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Thorzdad at 6:31 AM on July 4, 2015
Oh this reminds me of my worst interview experience ever. I was working part time for a library in a position that demanded six years post secondary education and three years experience. The part time pay was below LICO (Canada's equivalent to the poverty line) and I had held the position for several years while juggling multiple other jobs, going to school to upgrade my education, and being the only breadwinner for my children. A full-time job (doing the exact same tasks as i was currently... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by saucysault at 6:29 AM on July 4, 2015
Have never heard this advice given in my life. How could it be? Travel is something that costs money.

You're more lucky than I am, then. It feels like every time I've turned around in the past four or five years I hear someone exhorting other young adults to just drop everything and go backpacking in Europe/wander around Brazil/take a temporary job in France/go see Australia/whatever. Or, of course, study abroad. Lack of money is no object! Plane... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sciatrix at 6:27 AM on July 4, 2015
Have never heard this advice given in my life. How could it be? Travel is something that costs money.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex at 6:06 AM on July 4, 2015
MeFi post: "Adblocking is the modern speeding"
This article brings to mind a thought that has been bouncing around for the last decade. If you will indulge me, it began while I worked in the advertising industry.

There are a few maxims in the advertising industry. The first is from television, where if the viewer is not paying for the content, than the viewer is the item being sold... to the advertisers. The second is a study from the automotive industry, where as a company's sales sagged, often they increase... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nickrussell at 12:16 PM on July 4, 2015
Also, getting up to use the bathroom during television commercials is the modern machine gun bank robbery from Heat.
posted to MetaFilter by maxsparber at 10:40 AM on July 4, 2015
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