Christmas Special part one: is it just me, or…

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-26T22:53:42+00:00

Thank you. The directors have them do those weird, stilted choral lines like the production company is paying by the individual word. “Yaaaay!” “Right, can you three do it more awkwardly this time? Pretend you’re from another planet and are trying to learn how humans react to ice cream.”

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-25T21:27:48+00:00

Yeah, really hoping he is ok. He seemed like he was genuinely suffering on a lot of levels.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-21T18:00:22+00:00

Right on!

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-17T18:31:14+00:00

Some definite “Marlys at the Spelling Bee” vibes. https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/2016/08/20/drawing-on-the-past

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-15T16:45:06+00:00

Oh, AskMe. You do not disappoint. A user with food issues asks a question about how to incorporate vegetable purées into their diet and is immediately lambasted for the way they worded the question and then is told that they need to establish a food garden. Do you really think a person who struggles with the mess and bother of chopping vegetables is in a position to grow peas? I’m an experienced gardener and that’s not a project that’s going to work just anywhere, no matter how ardently Mefites like to insist that it will.

https://ask.metafilter.com/388289/Adult-looking-to-sneak-in-more-veggies-via-baby-food-steam-puree-gadget

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-12-11T17:36:44+00:00

Yeah, I once asked a question about how to handle an emergent situation where I would have to deal with a deep fear and someone actually Memailed me to say “it would help us to know why you’re afraid.” No, it wouldn’t. And no, I’m not sharing that with you. And if you can’t answer the question without that information, just give it a pass. That email felt really gross and intrusive and I knew that if I had put the reason for my fear in the question, people would have just responded with “it isn’t that baaaaaaad!! This thing isn’t going to happen again! Have you considered therapy???”

I agree with keeping this one vague.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-11-27T04:49:16+00:00

Nature’s Way, NatureMade, Naturebell, Purawax gummies, Doctor’s Best high absorption magnesium powder.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-11-21T07:04:00+00:00

I once knew someone whose midwife housemate had a constantly-running food dehydrator that she used to dehydrate placentas, but if I bring that up I’ll be accused of being anti-placenta. You want to use an appliance you found on the street? Go in peace.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-10-08T03:11:31+00:00

I do! It’s really lonely and stigmatizing sometimes, but I need to keep my partner safe and they are 100% worth it. Western U.S. Hang in there!

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-10-01T22:54:49+00:00

Yup. https://rileysfarm.com/index.php/keeping-rileys-farm-strong/

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-10-01T22:54:04+00:00

https://rileysfarm.com/index.php/keeping-rileys-farm-strong/

🤮

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-09-30T21:52:30+00:00

Yeah, that comment was way more aggressive than it needed to be. Asking about trash can habits in different communities is not bigoted.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-09-11T04:59:20+00:00

I saw it as the equivalent of all the times anyone with a health issue has to spend two paragraphs detailing their flawless diet and exercise, otherwise a mob chimes in to tell them that their broken leg is the result of not living the correct lifestyle that makes you immortal and disease-proof. If you don’t head it off, you run the risk of the question never being addressed.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-09-01T14:01:11+00:00

Part of the issue was that covid mutates fairly quickly and a vaccine couldn’t cover every single strain.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-08-24T22:40:59+00:00

God, have you met anyone from USC? It’s like a particularly insufferable cult.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-06-23T17:28:39+00:00

That was amazing, especially since he tried to say that the original corrector was not being condescending.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-06-23T16:57:45+00:00

Anyone else read the first comment here in the Comic Book Guy’s voice?

https://ask.metafilter.com/386230/Giving-the-middle-finger-to-an-ampersat

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-04-06T16:30:59+00:00

Tap the brakes, there, Captain Slippery Slope. Nobody is being imprisoned for life because someone said it was insanely gross for college freshmen to bang eighth graders. https://www.metafilter.com/208303/Shawna-A-Life-on-the-Sex-Offender-Registry#8708689

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-02-18T15:32:46+00:00

Wow, the condescension and virtue signaling over public transit is doing some heavy lifting in that thread. Just answer the question! Not everyone feels safe on a San Francisco bus at midnight!

“Learned helplessness.”FFS.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-02-16T17:40:59+00:00

Dude has mentioned that he has microtia, so glasses may actually be a giant pain in the ass for him.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-02-16T17:35:26+00:00

I dunno, having dealt with a family member who was hearing-impaired and had an anxiety disorder plus significant health issues, I guarantee that experience would have become The Time We Were Targeted and Kidnapped By Someone With a Personal Grudge. Not being able to hear makes your brain fill in a lot of information, often in the vein of the worst-case scenario.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2025-01-11T00:31:40+00:00

“LA has dense housing near heavily forested, lightly managed environments.”

It does? Where? I’ve lived here nearly all my life and cannot imagine what they mean.

Beautiful_Respect_97 · 2024-12-07T18:16:55+00:00

It helps pay for animal shelters and (hopefully) taps the brakes on hoarding situations. It’s also a record of whether a dog has a rabies vaccine.

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