Activity from five fresh fish

I think the type of company we keep says a lot about the type of people we are. There is no validity to the opinions held by some people. It is a disservice to the community and our society to treat those odious opinions as debatable. It… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MetaTalk comment - Last month

I'm dying for a post-doc to come do a very broad study of "tin ear" and the commonalities tin users share. Substituting "lonely hearts dating club" and "looking for a mate" for "social club" strikes me as… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MetaTalk comment - Last month

Chuckles is not interested in good faith discourse, but trolling. IMO "lolbro" is a very restrained response to that dipshittery. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by adrienneleigh, rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

I can't believe anyone could watch the Jazz interviews and persist in making stupid statements about children's ability to know their gender. It would take a powerful will to remain so ignorant. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

I can not imagine why any trans folk would remain on Mefi. They might as well hang out on Reddit. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by adrienneleigh
MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

Social conservatives seem to make the most noise about that of which they are most guilty, so my guess is that the Arizona legislature is comprised of illegal alien transexuals. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I could swear that a restroom in the long park south of the Golden Gate bridge, near the Haight-Ashbury end of town, had a circular trough urinal. Recent threads about most emarassing work moments now have me wondering if I peed in a sink... [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

openly exposing their penises at urinals That's really not the way it works. Also, women's toilets should have urinals of some sort, and a dispenser for those female pee funnels. At least at those venues where there's a mile-long line… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by adrienneleigh, rosiroo
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

InDesign is fantastic, but Ventura remains the best for long-document layout. It's just dreamy. Or was dreamy, because no one but Quark competes against Corel for fucking things up. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Hogshead
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

No. This may be a regional thing. It certainly doesn't depict the rural society I grew up in. It was hick/redneck/jackass, but not like that. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by btfreek
MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Move it every 72 or you'll lose it. Guaranteed he's serious. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rakaidan
Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Organizing a workshop.
favorited 2 times, recently by nat
Ask MeFi post - Last year

You killed Farley, you bastard! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Suedeltica
MetaTalk comment - Last year

I've never regretted not spawning. [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by Taro
MeFi comment - Two years ago

What kind of person watches someone slam someone's head into a kitchen counter and thinks "wow, time to take a photo"? A photojournalist. Duh. Come on people, this isn't exactly rocket science. People who pride themselves as… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Two years ago

People need to get over themselves. The uncharitable readings are a problem with the reader. People are usually pretty blunt around here. No one in this thread, including OP, has done anything like denigrate this month's community effort. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

Not in response to anyone. I was fooled by the post initially. But before clicking through I realized that surely I'd have heard about several hundred scientists going missing. So I didn't click, cause fiction on the web ain't my thing. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

The CBC satire radio show This Is That regularly results in people becoming astonishingly upset that they've been fooled. I've been fooled by it, too. There's nothing like working up a good head of steam over some outrageous this or that, to… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

To me, even without tags, it was self-evidently fiction. There's no way that 300 people actually disappeared from an American research facility without it being in the news for weeks. … Just imagine the ongoing cadre of conspiracy theories and… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

OP apologizes in the blue early in-thread but, hey, let's take him back of the shed and whip him anyway. Oh, gosh, I wonder why he's a little acerbic now. [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

Believe it or not, "trying something new" is not the first step you should take. People seem to habitually fall into that silly trap. What really works is just trying. Sex begets horniness begets more sex. It's a… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by hlagol
Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Konolia, you can tell me God exists till you are blue in the face. That doesn't change the fact that there is no such thing as god. If it comforts you to think of me as stupid and obtuse, doesn't bother me a bit. Really. Your faith in… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

And skallas would like me to believe that occured all by itself with no outside help. I don't think so. Girl, you need to read some books by Richard Dawkins and Stephan Jay Gould. You simply could not be more wrong about sentient meat, and… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

I don't understand how you can continue to spout scripture at us, Konolia. It's as inane as using Alien as an argument on the dangers of space travel. You don't seem to be capable of comprehending atheism is. You don't understand… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

I also grew up drinking natural water, and my mother did give me floride drops. I've never had a cavity, nor have I broken a bone. And I sink like a rock if we stop dogpaddling when I'm swimming. I also chew ice cubes and break bricks with my… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Oyéah
MeFi comment - Two years ago

Polyamory, in the form of serial monogamy, is the dominant culture. True monogamy is an exceedingly rare thing. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Verg
MeFi comment - Two years ago

Basically, people need to get over themselves. Seldom is anyone particulary confused by "American" and seldom is "you-ess-Ian" used insultingly. In both cases, context counts. "Fucking American assholes" is insulting,… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

Maybe you can find some sort of underground catfighting network and make some money off your badass kitty. The Rules of Catfight Club #1 - The first rule of Catfight Club is, you do not talk about Catfight Club. #2 - The second rule of… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Mitheral
MetaTalk comment - Two years ago

I think it is enough that almost everyone agrees with you that abortions are not a desirable aspect of our human nature. Is it not enough for you that everyone agrees that fewer abortions is a good thing? Good grief. Why do you insist that we… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Korean War-era film points out that military service should be understood as part of citizenship and that training in the everyday duties of citizenship is a part of the preparation for military service. A good idea, especially if used… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by lon_star
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Welp, I think I'm done with the franchise. That was a dull, nonsensical movie. Insulting, really. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mazola
FanFare comment - Over two years ago

Massive favourite. Bang on, mek. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by argonauta
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Oooh! One landmark: while preparing to go out for the evening, I think to the symphony, my wife was chattering away at me and I was mindlessly chattering back while at the same time considering committing suicide and whether she'd be okay after I… [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by bendy, Poeia8Kate, Glinn, wemayfreeze
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

The real problem comes from angry, violent cowboys, packing heat and actively seeking trouble, posing as (unauthorized) neighborhood watch heroes, desperately wishing they had a badge, frustrated by rejection from the cop brotherhood, frustrated by… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Because I also find it hard to create a scenario in which Zimmerman would initiate physical force. My eyes rolled so hard that I was blinded. Dude was investigated for domestic abuse, probably diddled his young cousin, punched out a… [more]
favorited 19 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Okay, listen up: you can not make your own orthotics. Period. For starters, you can not put your foot into its neutral position without the assistance of a foot-knowledgeable helper. You need to be standing up while someone else manipulates your… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rdr
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

And this sort of thing--"douchebags who have got themselves overly worked-up about how people spend their small change"--I mean, damn, that doesn't help. I mean, I can feel protective of my generous internet friends, right? Without that… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by rosiroo
MetaTalk comment - Over two years ago

One's feelings define the reality of the situation for oneself. You, pla, do not define the reality experienced by others. You can only define it for yourself. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Yah, no. Not being trusted right off the bat doesn't lead to being "injured". My feeling uncomfortable to share an elevator with a stranger doesn't lead to "injury". And being told that it sucks when a creeper does his creepy… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

If someone wants nothing to do with me in certain contexts purely because I belong to a risk group, that is a deeply alienating and fundamentally unjust experience, no matter how practical the policy is. Suck it up, you privileged male… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Hama, do you simply not get that poor people must spend all of their money just to live? That a consumption tax is a tax on all their income? Do you simply not get that wealthy people do not spend most of their money on living? That a… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by jb
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Now it looks like Scott Adams' Mom has set up a sock-puppet to defend him. [more]
favorited 34 times, recently by Monochrome, (bra)
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Yes: people that use the word "proffer" sound like a boob. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Rykey
Ask MeFi comment - Over two years ago

We are rapidly entering a new social age. It's an upheavel: our traditions of privacy and anonymity are going, going, gone. Used to be you could up and run away, move off to escape one's reputation. No more. Used to be one's idiocy was noted only… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Tehhund
MeFi comment - Over two years ago

Why should we have to absorb population from nations that can't control their rutting? By god, that is one hellaciously stupid thing to have said. I am deeply embarassed for you and your parents. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Five years ago

Sweet Jesus, this is a freaky little bit of website. But it's not real. Type "book," and it will go poke around the bookself in the background. Type "blanket" and it goes into a scripted blanket routine, rather as if it were… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
MeFi comment - Five years ago

Nothing is going to change until men take responsibility for their behaviour, and stop believing that other human beings exist to be used, hunted, punished. I'll tell you what: I'll take responsibility for MY behaviour. I can not take… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - Five years ago

\o/ Steve Holt! [more]
favorited 16 times, recently by bendy
MeFi comment - Five years ago

Heh. I'd love to say something nasty about the douchebag, but I honestly think his piss-poor sockpuppetry has worked out just great. Not for him, of course, but for everyone else. I've eliminated Dilbert from my environment. I can't imagine… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by bendy
MeFi comment - Five years ago

The entire self-made, pep-talk, self-empowerment industry is built on bullshit and placebos, pitched by creeps and narcissists. But it makes people try something new in an attempt to break out of their ruts. Not that it often succeeds… [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Litehouse
MeFi comment - Five years ago

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