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this kind of stuff, quidditch games, science fiction conventions, dorm lounge Smash Bros. sessions (and this may keep you up at night) is how geeks get laid

For me it was a protracted game of AD&D that went well into the night, and I failed a saving throw ... against being sexy.
posted to MetaFilter by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 3:34 PM on September 22, 2008

Did you mean: "TEH PRONZ IS SEEKRIT" ?
posted to MetaTalk by sanko at 2:59 PM on September 19, 2008

The idea kinda reminds me of this (which is geared toward women who date women.)
posted to MetaTalk by needs more cowbell at 10:15 PM on September 17, 2008

Jesus H. Christ. You know what I'm sick of?

Let's clear some myths up.

First. There is no "conservative voice" in this thread. Okay. I doubt very much the person(s) in question, who by name call them selves conservative, could articulate what Conservative Political Philosophy is without looking it up. And if they did and had any shred of intellectual honest they would see precious little of that philosophy at work in the Bush... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist at 8:42 PM on September 6, 2008

Or, you could just go with a Monster Thickburger. It's actually healthier to wrap some bacon around a stick of butter and eat that.

This sounds like pure hyperbole but it is very close to being a factual statement.

One stick of butter contains 800 Kcal. but is mostly fat; containing 92g of fat of which 58g are saturated. The bacon (assuming 5 relatively thin slices, cooked) would contain ~250 Kcal. along with 15g of fat / 5g... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iloveit at 6:46 PM on June 25, 2006

Sunday Bloody Sunday comes out near perfect.
posted to MetaFilter by GuyZero at 12:34 PM on September 10, 2008

/dances in ColdChef's birthday suit for jessamyn.

Yay! Three! Three kinds of creepy! Ah, ah ah!
posted to MetaTalk by Ambrosia Voyeur at 9:43 PM on September 4, 2008

The problem in The Netherlands is not keeping the seas out, it's getting rid of the water that comes in.

Current forecasts indicate that global warming would lead to greater rainfall in the Rhine valley, and that the rate of precipitation could peak much higher than it currently does. To prevent "pulses" of high water from overtopping the dykes that protect cities along the Rhine, some agricultural land in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by atrazine at 11:10 PM on September 3, 2008

even when Jessamyn was yelling at cortex (totally justified by the way)

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I guess I have to now.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 10:51 PM on August 29, 2008

And, lo, Jesus and the disciples walked down the path towards Nazareth, but lo, the trail was blocked by a gigantic brontosaurus.

And the disciples went running and screaming, "What a big fucking lizard!"

"I'm sure going to mention this in my book," said Luke.

"I’m sure going to mention this in my book," said Matthew.

"I’m not sure what I saw," said Thomas.
posted to MetaFilter by Cool Papa Bell at 1:58 PM on August 25, 2008

He believes it just might be possible to get the entire world off oil.

There's a misconception that some people have that oil refineries take in crude and produce gasoline for a while, then switch to producing diesel, then switch to producing jet fuel, then switch to producing lubricants, and that any given barrel of oil can be processed into anything the refinery wishes to.

That isn't the case. A refinery is a big fractional... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Class Goat at 9:05 PM on August 20, 2008

I think we can discount the rumour that a man with long hair and beard was seen entering the Fox's lawyers' offices whilst whispering in a strong Northampton accent, 'Yes, Glycon, we'll kill that film!' to a sock pulled over one hand.
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 5:29 PM on August 20, 2008

This is a really interesting FPP. I'm currently taking a year off to write my MBA dissertation, but during my course of study we got to work through (in the context of our classes) ideas for various businesses.

One concept that I pitchedfor a few of my classes was a low scale record label focused exclusively on live shows of pub bands.

If we look at bands that are capable of attracting, pretty consistently, 50 people or more to a show at a pub,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 7:04 AM on August 19, 2008

"I guess the opposite of a narcissist would be someone who is *so* concerned what people think of their actions that it limits, very rigidly, what that person is able to do."

This person's description of narcissism is really just his personal therapy. His view of narcissism is idiosyncratic. In particular, the classic narcissistic personality is paradoxically both indifferent to and extremely sensitive to other people's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ethereal Bligh at 6:50 PM on July 3, 2005

Suck it, haters, L.A. is much better than whatever craphole you're living in now, trust me.

You're so wrong it's utterly redonkulous.

I'm a Los Angeles native. My family has been in California for at least 5 generations, if not 6 - well before it was incorporated as a state in the Union. My grandfather helped work on the Mulholland water projects, my grandma worked in the aircraft plants during WW2 - later my dad worked on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:14 PM on October 16, 2007

See also, recent news about pipeline fires and sabotage in the region.

At this point, I humbly suggest that all fpp's about conflicts in this region be accompanied by pipeline maps or oil field maps. We all know these conflicts are about energy, but the conflicts are going to be spun in the media and by governments as ethnic conflicts or battles for political (rather than economic) independence solely to agitate the local people to action and to keep the corporate and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 8:36 AM on August 8, 2008

Here's some gallows humor related to the trench warfare prevalent during WWI, and the great number of men who died uselessly engaging in it. It's from Black Adder Goes Forth:

Captain Blackadder: How are you feeling, Darling?
Captain Darling: Ahm- not all that good, Blackadder. Rather hoped I'd get through the whole show, go back to work at Pratt and Sons, keep wicket for the Croydon Gentlemen, marry Doris. Made a note in my diary on the way here.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shmegegge at 10:56 AM on April 17, 2008

The device mostly hid a small copper cylinder from microwaves in tests at Duke University, North Carolina.

The copper cylinder was then heard to yell "Olly Olly Oxenfree!" at which point it came out of hiding and the microwaves were all like "Oh my God! I totally didn't find you!"
posted to MetaFilter by shmegegge at 8:44 AM on August 11, 2008

optimistic (though generally accurate) life advice:

01. The universe exists, even though you didn't ask for one.
02. Learning how to make the most of the finite time and space granted to you is a satisfying lesson.
03. Everything is made of magic.
04. Your body is an amazingly versatile instrument and a surprisingly durable vessel.
05. It is a testament to the power of human bonding that even though individual humans... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:23 AM on August 7, 2008

So, ah, I've actually written about what DNAB's talking about, over at a free site I run for registering and recovering stolen bicycles. (selflink, yes, but relevant)
posted to MetaFilter by bhance at 11:06 PM on July 29, 2008

Crowds attract assholes, film at all the fucking time.

I don't hear much clamouring for outlawing minor league baseball. What about John Mayer concerts? Bars? No? How about birthdays? More people got hurt in the last week at any one of those things than they did at Critical Mass. Hell, let's just blame everyone, everywhere, who's ever attended any sort of event, for the violence that has inevitably occurred there.

If we're going to play... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by regicide is good for you at 6:24 PM on July 29, 2008

I got a hilarious email from an editor regarding a story I just filed about the kind of content street kids put up on their Myspace pages. One quote in the story is pulled from a comment box where this kid is basically bragging about intimidating a witness, which he was subsequently charged with and jailed for.

The editor was like,

"How do we run this? Do we use all caps?

Did he actually write ‘NI99A’?"
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 7:08 AM on July 22, 2008

in a way that you may find more difficult to misconstrue

Excellent. When you do get around to it, do you think you could try being even more haughty and condescending? Because that really helps get your point across.


Look, for what it's worth, I agree with much of what you said up here. That human-level AI is possible is a hypothesis at this point. Statements that it's absolutely possible... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ook at 1:56 PM on June 11, 2008

Every once in a while I find myself wanting to jump up on a table and just kind of like scream, as in the case of, say, this, where what I would be screaming is OH FOR GOD'S SAKE, IT'S FAKE ON A STICK! IT IS TEN TONS OF INDUSTRIAL GRADE FAKE! IT IS SITTING ON A PEDESTAL LABELED "A VERY FAKE THING" IN THE CENTER OF THE MAIN CHAMBER OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF FAKE! THERE IS NO LITTLE DETAIL YOU NEED TO PICK UP TO GIVE AWAY THE FAKENESS—IT IS A SHRIEKINGLY IMPLAUSIBLE... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 10:29 PM on May 27, 2008

Great blog. I'm working on an undergrad robotics problem at the moment and some of this is surprisingly helpful.
posted to MetaFilter by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 9:41 AM on March 26, 2008

That that wasn't a rickroll is somehow deeply disappointing, mudpuppie.

Cortex, we've know each other for so long. Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it. Inside we both know what's been going on. We know the game and we're gonna play it.

I'm sorry you're disappointed, cortex. I want to assure you, though, that despite the fact that you're disappointed in me, I'm never going to give you up. I'm never going to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mudpuppie at 3:06 PM on March 12, 2008

... I would love to see what happens if that question gets posted on Yahoo Answers.

There's exactly one way to find out.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 2:30 PM on March 13, 2008

If 500 people favorite this comment, I'll disable my account.
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 3:54 PM on February 10, 2008

I would pick this thread as the worst, and my comments activity page as the best.
posted to MetaTalk by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 12:15 AM on February 17, 2008

Why do you think it's so common for women to fake orgasms?

I don't know if all women fake orgasms. In Portugal, for instance, it would be considered silly and slightly demeaning for the man - as if he somehow needed that sort of reassurance.

Sex is a lot more honest here. If you come, you come. If you don't, you don't. No big deal. There's certainly no discussion afterwards about "how good it was for you".... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MiguelCardoso at 8:13 PM on August 19, 2002

Cutting and pasting it from Metafilter is kind of annoyin

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posted to MetaFilter by meehawl at 2:12 PM on August 24, 2007