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Of course, omega-3 fatty acids and branch chain amino acids will probably give you the most results for the money, along with zinc and magnesium supplementation.

Charles poliquin goes into a lot of detail on why these are effective in his columns on t-nation, but in a nutshell: we're all deficient in omega-3 fatty acids because we don't eat enough fish, and what we do eat (beef, chicken) is fed on corn which is very high in omega-6 and low in omega-3. Branch chain amino... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zentrification at 4:06 PM on June 11, 2009

Are you offering to cook?
posted to MetaTalk by Lemurrhea at 8:00 AM on June 11, 2009

I feel like I'm partially to blame for this since there were three shooting threads by the time I saw the flags.

To be precise, there were two posts on the topic, and one stunt post by MetaFilter's resident hall monitor, who was apparently not satisfied with bitching in both the previous threads.
posted to MetaTalk by Combustible Edison Lighthouse at 4:19 PM on June 10, 2009

Dear Askme, my boyfriend wa*
DUMP THE MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLE
posted to MetaTalk by Damn That Television at 10:08 PM on June 9, 2009

I also can go on the record as saying I got somewhat entrenched in my position, which also isn't good. To say I don't care about these people's lives seems a lot more callous than I ever meant it to. I also failed to apply even the smallest amount of foresight to how what I wrote would be perceived by others (or might affect them).
posted to MetaTalk by cjorgensen at 12:29 PM on June 9, 2009

"Nobody is being savaged for failing to wail and gnash their teeth, adipocere. I'm annoyed at some people for feeling the need to announce their failure to wail and gnash their teeth and for further elaborating that they fail to care because the girls in question had it coming or aren't worthy of sympathy."

I see. So, it's okay to care differently or not as much, just as long as it is not done within earshot. Gotcha.

I think you're... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by adipocere at 8:19 AM on June 9, 2009

Once again, MetaFilter's champion moralizers clash in an epic battle over who the real victims are. Oddly, it doesn't go well.
posted to MetaTalk by Crabby Appleton at 8:31 PM on June 8, 2009

Oh hey I may have actually started this one!

I thought the thread was winding down at this point, but my initial assertion was that casual "it's ironic because you know I don't mean it and I'm using ALLCAPS" sexism is still pretty tiresome, and accusing other people of basically being closet rapists because they don't share your ideas about just how terrible what's happening to teen models is, is sort of a stupid fight to pick.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:38 PM on June 8, 2009

And you know what? Some of the comments in this thread are making me physically ill. Metafilter, I am so disappointed in you...yet again.
posted to MetaFilter by agregoli at 3:14 PM on June 8, 2009

What I wrote seems hyperbolic, but it's no different than what adamms222 and cjorgenssen wrote.

Affecting a "rapey frat boy" persona for the purpose of making a point is very very different from what either of those people wrote.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:50 PM on June 8, 2009

I think you'd be better off resolving to get better at meeting people in real life, where you can properly assess their physical assets at the moment of first contact.

I agree with this ... with the clarification that one way to meet people in real life is through normal dating sites.

You're going about it the wrong way by focusing on one trait you really like in women, then trying to find a site full of women with that trait.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jaltcoh at 8:33 AM on June 3, 2009

Someone should speak up dramatically for this child.

Yes. I am the child of a similar situation. I harbored doubts about my biological relationship with my father for years. When I would tentatively present these doubts to my mother (I was never very close to my dad), she'd smack them down in various ways, overtly and covertly, and I'd walk away feeling guilty, disloyal, and crazy - that my questions were the problem, my problem.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by twin1 at 6:10 PM on May 28, 2009

You wanted a kid? You're raising the kid? Kid calls you daddy? Your kid.
posted by TheOnlyCoolTim at 8:28 AM on May 28

This is possibly the most please-walk-all-over-me answer I've seen in AskMe yet, and the unbelievable number of favorites it has accrued are a testament to the "anything goes/family is more important than reality/preserve appearances at all costs" answers that seem to dominate this forum. If it's not his... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Optimus Chyme at 10:29 AM on May 28, 2009

Excessive Breederism on Facebook.

It sucks when you want to jump into a thread and agree with a certain viewpoint, but just as you're about to chime in, somebody in the group you're about to agree with yells, "And another thing! I'll tell ya, those Ay-rabs..."
posted to MetaFilter by cribcage at 8:20 AM on May 16, 2009

And the typical manner of coherency in your rejoinders, to boot. I used this as an occasion to point out an incongruity in how derisive remarks are received by the MF community, a position I'll note you've now devoted 2 comments and 0 arguments to responding to. Which, incidentally, is a good representation of your history of "arguing in circles" with me, which can really only be fairly described as arguing if the word "arguing" is redefined to include 1 or 2 line,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Law Talkin' Guy at 2:39 PM on May 16, 2009

Kkokkodalk: You asked Brandon Blatcher's to mention a comment that was offensive or combative. I think the comments that sticks with me is the "Get off your computers and go mingle with someone who doesn't look like you" comment, and the proposal of a moratorium of what Mefi's can do, if they do not personally know a black person. I do realize it was tongue in cheek.

I'm also going to define 'bomb' as something where the intent of the phrase is to imply... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by anitanita at 2:00 PM on May 14, 2009

I guess it might help to shoot for the lowest common denominator in all interactions with the site, but since we all like to think that MeFi is brighter than that, it's not fair to accuse posters of not initially spelling things out at a kindergarten level.

There's a big difference between taking care with the use of something as subjective as provocative humor or sarcasm or hyperbole when wading into deeply contentious territory and "initially... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:13 PM on May 14, 2009

what are you smoking?

This? It's free-base ibuprofen.

The kids are all calling it 'crock'. Some people say that's because you make it up in one of those slow cooking crockpots. Others say it's because you go through a crock of money when you're on a crock binge. And the guys who are really connected say it's because the whole thing is a crock of shit.

The Summer of Love is over, man. Even Cortex --... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by PeterMcDermott at 3:52 AM on May 14, 2009

Completely unlike all other MetaTalk callouts, which are uniformly polite and thoughtful and expressed in objective, unemotional terms!

Heh. So, completely unlike all other MetaTalk callouts, you expected people to be nice to the poster.
posted to MetaTalk by smackfu at 1:17 PM on May 12, 2009

use the pair of drawers you just took off. Hopefully, they were headed for the hamper anyway.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by notsnot at 10:31 AM on May 6, 2009

It really pissed me off to have the wife post in that thread. I too found the tone blasé. It feels like a violation of trust, somehow, to be concentrating on the problem of one poster, and then having the subject of the post just drop in to say hi, and thanks for your comments.

....Interesting; I had the opposite reaction. I took it as a sign that the wife was getting really pro-active in wanting to make her amends. Maybe... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by EmpressCallipygos at 9:23 AM on May 6, 2009

I enjoy it when insecure men squirm when they're roundly beaten at something by a good-looking woman.

Hear that, ugly girls? kldickson doesn't give a shit what you do.
posted to MetaFilter by adamdschneider at 12:37 PM on April 30, 2009

That's insecurist.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 11:42 AM on April 30, 2009

In fact I'm having dirty thoughts about you right...OMG I'm CURED!

that sounds about right, back in my carnie days I performed healings AND worked the burlesque show
posted to MetaFilter by little e at 4:46 PM on April 30, 2009

I agree that the presentation is indefensible, but on behalf of coders everywhere, please realize that we are not all socially maladjusted fuckwits. Some of the posts in this thread seem to hinge on that argument to explain this fellows actions, and it's also an offensive generalization.
posted to MetaFilter by WinnipegDragon at 9:55 AM on April 30, 2009

Good luck with that Ruby-Rails distinction, all you "IT workers."
posted to MetaFilter by cribcage at 9:14 AM on April 30, 2009

I guess I should hold back on some future questions, such as...

"Why do white guys prefer tits, and black guys prefer ass?"

METAFILTER NEEDS TO OPEN UP A CHATFILTER SECTION.
posted to MetaTalk by sixcolors at 1:36 PM on April 28, 2009

Actually, maybe I will bring tiny little flags on toothpicks to the next meetup and pass them out as conversation necessitates. You will all get "offensive/sexism/racism" flags in your drinks like umbrellas.
posted to MetaTalk by little e at 6:31 PM on April 23, 2009

I'm not a developmetal expert, but I understand it's at least a very popular notion that girls and boys have different brain development phases, and little boys are more inclined to develop motor and spatial skills sooner than girls, whereas girls develop social and language skills sooner.

Since I've spent the last year working at my daughter's co-op preschool, I'd go with this. Although there are outliers, of course, it's pretty uncanny how the kids... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by padraigin at 12:04 AM on April 22, 2009 marked best answer

Clearly, if we're going to have a MetaFilter's Style and Conventions Guide For Wholesome, Hive-Accepted Communication, we should also discuss the use of the serial comma. This is a critical issue to me, as I find that the serial comma INTERFERES WITH THE READABILITY OF THE SITE and that I am UNABLE AND/OR UNWILLING to kowtow to the mumblings of the incorrigible idiots who would dare defy the MSACFWHAC's explicitly defined stance on the use of serial commas.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by disillusioned at 3:01 AM on April 22, 2009

Why are there youtube commenters on metafilter? Did the tubes get switched around?

Anyway, I was skeptical about this not being useless but she gives good solid and sex-positive advice with no-nonsense. She isn't trying to be edgy, funny, or overly cute from what I've seen, just being factual and straightforward about a subject that usually is met with garbage, titters, or misinformation. We may not need another practical sex-columnist, but it certainly couldn't hurt.
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 12:39 PM on April 20, 2009

xmutex: "Flagged as "blew your fucking mind"?"

Flag burning is unpatriotic! Quick, someone teabag this guy.
posted to MetaFilter by defenestration at 2:24 PM on April 15, 2009

I second reading a book (or a magazine); I thought an elliptical would be too jerky to allow me to read comfortably, but it's not. (Look for paperback books with slightly larger print.)

The other thing I do is to set myself little mini goals. So I'll work out fairly comfortably for five minutes and then calculate how far I'll go, distance-wise, if I maintain that pace for the full thirty minutes (or whatever). So, say that I see that I've gone 300 steps in five minutes... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cider at 1:35 PM on April 15, 2009

No link here.

Then don't post here.

Who here likes pancakes? I love pancakes.
posted to MetaFilter by aaron at 3:42 PM on July 5, 2001

I don't like having to say something like this, but I'm unsurprised when things you say get deleted because you have a habit of coming across as condescending, and you often don't answer the asker's question. It gives the impression that you're commenting to make yourself feel superior by using the asker as a punching bag. If someone posts something like that, it makes complete sense for the mods to delete it; leaving that sort of thing up doesn't contribute anything worthwhile, and it can... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Nattie at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2009

Everyone gets unsolicited advice from everyone. Thinking that's due to some kind of patriarchy and the big bad ol' men are trying to keep you down is really just a little arrogant.

Then I'm arrogant. But then I'll make cortex run the numbers to show that I'm also right. At least I'm right on MetaFilter.

My best piece of advice, which is for everyone, is starting an AskMe answer with

- I can't believe... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:42 PM on April 7, 2009

Ms. Saint: "I completely agree with this. I really think it's detrimental, not just to the thread but to the asker as well, to offer a judgment like this unless such a judgment was specifically asked for. There's such a huge gap, even, between "Honey, you were raped" and "To me, it sounds like you may have been raped, and I think you should keep this in mind." You see the same sort of thing happen in non-rape-related threads, too, but they're a bit less... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Phire at 10:19 PM on April 7, 2009

I shouldn't even ask this because this thread is borked and reframed in so many odd and different way right now.

Look, no one is saying you can't beat on your "men have it tough" drum all you want.

Where did this come from? Was there really a proportion of people in here espousing this? You know what, forget it. I don't think it matters at this point

Once somebody pulls the pin on the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by P.o.B. at 9:14 PM on April 6, 2009

You know, I was going to demonstrate that I didn't say the person had a problem with alcohol etc., but then I thought that maybe the best thing to do was to ask this:

Is this thread really helping the poster? They've had enough drama. They have their own interpretation of the event. Are you really helping them by putting your own frame on the event and then generating a whole bunch more drama? Because if you are not, I suggest you try helping the poster, who is actually... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ironmouth at 8:13 AM on April 6, 2009

Why is the ad hominem always busted out immediately when somebody decides to take the wrong position on a gender issue in here? There's so much name-calling in this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by tehloki at 11:26 PM on March 30, 2009

I asked this question a fair while ago but will try and summarise the conclusion to this particular little exercise in social awareness:

After reading all of the above comments and advice (which I thoroughly appreciated, thanks all), I gave him a few days to cool off and then rang up for a chat. We essentially both acted like the adults we are, instead of the jealous kids we had been playing at, apologised for each being insensitive/overzealous/arrogant etc., explained... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Surfyournut at 3:54 PM on March 19, 2009

First she explicitly denied consent several months earlier when she said she wasn't interestedPreviously, as in several months ago, we discussed the fact that neither of us is interested in pursuing any anal play.

This is most certainly not an explicit denial of consent. The best example of an explicit denial of consent is the "no" she used as he tried to have anal sex with her.

I have been very... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ironmouth at 6:56 PM on March 18, 2009

Duke sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by PenDevil at 2:00 PM on March 18, 2009

I don't think it's AskMe's place to tell someone whether or not they were raped. Yes, the OP may have been raped. It is NOT our call.

This. A thousand times this.

Okay, I am trying to think how to say this without sounding like I'm rendering the guy inculpable and pulling a blame-the-victim thing, because I am NOT -- I am pointing out why I believe that the only people who really know what happened and WHY are the OP and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by EmpressCallipygos at 8:25 AM on March 18, 2009

Also: there's always a chance for a hurricane which means: END OF THE WORLD SEX AND DRINKING!
posted to MetaTalk by ColdChef at 1:33 PM on March 17, 2009

My thoughts on this, as a runner/triathlete/weightlifter who has done yoga regularly for a few years. If you are looking for something that will totally work your body over, you might be looking in the wrong place. But beyond that, you just may never get flexible enough to touch your toes (I insert here as Exhibit A the example of my husband, a seriously good runner/ironman triathlete who will never come anywhere NEAR his toes during yoga practice). Yoga tends to stress the point that people... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by smalls at 5:39 PM on March 16, 2009

You know, I've had Burhanistan personally attack me at least once too, possibly more than once. Whose That Guy now?
posted to MetaTalk by DU at 12:27 PM on March 17, 2009

I forcefully say "No," but before I can finish he ends up shoving himself into my ass with no preparation. I screamed in pain, and he immediately stopped and began apologizing profusely. He said that he didn't know anything about anal, as in needing to be prepped, lube, etc. I was sobbing and bleeding, and we took a shower together so I could calm down. He was washing me and telling me he loves me and the last thing he would want to do is hurt me. He said that he knows I am... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Ironmouth at 12:30 PM on March 17, 2009

Also, why does a call-out have to be dramatic and full of flames?

Generally, it helps if it isn't lame and full of moral outrage, especially when the person posting it was calling for someone one's death.
posted to MetaTalk by Brandon Blatcher at 9:53 AM on March 17, 2009

I'm kind of shocked how quickly metafilter has turned from hostile towards women to hostile towards men.
posted to MetaFilter by tehloki at 4:39 AM on March 13, 2009