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posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 10:19 PM on July 26, 2011

I'm leaning towards sending my Awesome Religious Music As Chosen By A Godless Heathen mix.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 12:26 PM on June 22, 2011

If I want to put my mixes up online for people to download, what is the easiest way to do that? I mean, easy both for me and for them...
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 1:28 PM on June 27, 2011

Woooo assignment emails are out!
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 2:48 PM on July 6, 2011

I don't have a printer right now, so I hit on the idea of doing collages for cover art. I have now spent a ton of time working on said collages and I don't even have my mix finished yet.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:10 AM on July 10, 2011

I think it's really more a matter of this: people coming into a TV thread and talking about the books hurts the feelings of people who haven't read them, and there's no actual REASON to do it.

When I was reading the first book, someone came up to me and told me Ned dies. It fucking sucked. Yeah the books had been out for fifteen years at that point, but it sucked anyway. My intention in making this request was to attempt to shield TV-watchers from similar suckery.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 6:29 AM on June 15, 2011

The show is based on a series of books, of course people are going to be discussing them. It's perfectly natural that people want to do this. The claim that there is no reason to do is odd, imo. People talk, conversation drifts, it happens.

If a person wants to talk about something, but not discuss certain aspects of that conversation, it's better that they remove themselves from the conversation.

So, for a person who has… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 7:05 AM on June 15, 2011

I think everyone here knows what trolls are, right? You know their motivation, which is "to make people get all lathered up by saying stupid shit." Most of the time they don't even really believe what they're saying, and if they do, you're not gonna convince them. That guy showed up purely to drop a bomb in the middle of that thread, and the thing that drives me insane is the sheer number of people who responsed to him anyway. He started the derail of that thread,… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 7:41 AM on June 10, 2011

If this was actually a thing, I'd go. (I tend to unconsciously make really stupid faces in photos, so I have tons of terrible photos of myself and very few good ones.)
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:58 AM on June 1, 2011

I was born and raised in North Carolina, and you better believe I say y'all. As a white American of indistinct ancestry with a pair of fairly rootless parents, I, in an effort to Have Roots, cling to whatever small traces of Southern identity I feel I can legitimately claim. Hey, it's better than digging back 200 years and then saying "Oh I'm Czech." No, I'm not Czech, I'm a North Carolinian and I'll say y'all all I want, damn it.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:15 AM on April 13, 2011

I'm in but I don't exactly have an address at the moment (oh the joys of graduating and entering The Real World), so I'll email later.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:01 PM on January 17, 2011

I sent mine out a couple days ago (a bit late, sorry!) I've gotten one so far, from rhapsodie. Listened to half so far, it's great!
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 7:22 AM on August 26, 2010

Eh. I once knew a man who was absolute SLIME, and he somehow roped a very hot young girl into dating him. He was like 40+, she was 20 or younger. She was just super ignorant, and he was the first guy to pay any attention to her.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 5:00 PM on July 10, 2010

I think I just finished mine already... now, to decide if I should make two different mixes for my two swapsets, or just spend a bunch of time on making album art...
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 5:49 PM on June 29, 2010

Oh, I meant to add- obviously this is a lot of work to do every time you make lemonade, which is why I bought a whole bag of lemons, zested them all, made three cups of syrup with the zest, and am keeping the bag of naked lemons in the fridge to be juiced whenever I need.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:00 AM on June 24, 2010

I'm not clear on how much syrup, juice and water to combine to make lemonade, though.

I've been doing: juice of half a lemon, one to two tablespoons of syrup depending on how sweet you like it, fill tall glass to halfway full with water, fill with ice. But it's obviously fuzzy.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:31 AM on June 24, 2010

I'm in.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 4:11 PM on April 15, 2010

You're in London? Look here. It has a different meaning in the US.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:52 AM on April 13, 2010

Well dang
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:52 AM on April 13, 2010

Dang man, I was all "oh I guess we've all learned something new today, how nice" and then you had to go and get all weird on us.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 10:20 AM on April 13, 2010

Group joined! I actually just joined Couchsurfing a few days ago- my house has a profile but I just made my own personal one.

(We haven't actually gotten anyone to stay at our place yet- this town has too many willing hosts!)
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:44 AM on March 29, 2010

I turned it off. I really thought about participating in the experiment despite my reservations, but it seriously took about five minutes for me to give up and check the box. Which is probably why you didn't want to include that option at first. Sorry.

I should say that when I noticed the change, I assumed that the site was broken. And then I immediately came to MeTa to see if anyone else had noticed it yet, and to report it if not. Because that's how much it bothered me.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:04 PM on November 1, 2009

I'm just saying I find it odd that many people seem to choose which comments to read based only on the number of favourites attached.

That really isn't what's happening. IF someone is already skimming a thread, then sure, maybe they look more closely at highly-favorited posts. But I HIGHLY doubt that anyone is actively choosing not to read any unfavorited posts. (In fact I love finding a comment with no favorites that I think is good. Because then I favorite it.)
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:01 PM on November 3, 2009

I know a guy who used to look EXACTLY like Al Frankin.

A few years ago, he was sitting in an airport and a couple came up to him and said, "Hey! Al Frankin!"

"I'm not Al Frankin."

"Oh, you don't have to pretend with us. We KNOW who you are! We are such big fans!"

"I swear, I'm not Al Frankin."

"Oh, we won't tell anyone you're… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:19 AM on October 29, 2009

Are Lesbians Stealing From Your Children?

Are Muslims Molesting the Queen?
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 8:28 PM on September 16, 2009

Well, they don't even live together, so they probably aren't married.

Honestly, the people who are angry at the OP seem to really be angry at someone else. Can s/he really help it if s/he doesn't want to spend the rest of her life with this person? Should s/he just 'get over' this incompatibility issue?
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 12:38 PM on February 27, 2009

Well, they don't even live together.

Cites? (Not that it matters, really. I just thought it was interesting.)

The OP wrote: "We live in the same building but hang out every day and spend every night together." That certainly seems to imply that they have two separate apartments.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 10:11 AM on February 28, 2009

Why would the OP say 'but,' though, if they did live together? "Oh, my husband and I live together, but we hang out every day!" It doesn't make sense.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 2:08 PM on February 28, 2009

I live about 1500 miles from Mexico and 700 miles from Canada. I have never left the US, but it's not because I didn't want to. It's because, for even the lower middle class, it is financially incredibly difficult to do it. For example, it would cost about 15% of my entire family's income for us just to travel to Poland, where you are, pracowity.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 1:07 PM on February 11, 2009

The point is not how easy it is to travel, but that in traveling one encounters customs, ideologies, religions, languages, politics, and expectations that are radically different than those back home. And that in experiencing these differences, one can gain insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the way things are done back home.

Obviously, but that's not the point. The point is, Americans don't lack these things because they don't want them.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 9:46 PM on February 11, 2009

This is just my high school of course...

There were some trips like that at my school, but not all were paid for by fundraising. I know that the madrigal choir did fundraisers and traveled all over the place, including various parts of Europe.

The language classes sometimes had trips, but generally the students paid for them out of pocket, although they were likely to be cheaper than going by oneself. I had the chance to go to Rome with a group… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 1:27 AM on February 12, 2009

That'll be fr0zen & xteraco.

Holy shit! I just read this whole thing and man oh man is it shitty.

Another example of this:

http://ask.metafilter.com/87340/How-do-I-reestablish-my-wife%E2%80%99s-trust-in-me

http://ask.metafilter.com/87340/How-do-I-reestablish-my-wife%E2%80%99s-trust-in-me#1289737
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 2:06 PM on February 4, 2009

DYFS isn’t talking much about the Campbell’s situation, but the kids being taken away has nothing to do with the names and birthday cake issue in December, according to Sgt. John Harris, Holland Twp. Police in Milford, N.J.

Repeat: THE KIDS BEING TAKEN AWAY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NAMES

YES. The statement "Gilson said his department did not receive any reports of abuse or negligence" means, simply, that child… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 12:41 PM on January 14, 2009

I'd be down for this. (No work conflicts, I just got fired!)
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 5:25 PM on January 12, 2009

"The Station" is Southern Rail and not Padgett Station, right?
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 4:34 PM on January 13, 2009

Yeah, that should work for me.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 10:26 PM on January 13, 2009

Some of us don't use it (or twitter) because we're not narcissists. Has nothing to do w/privacy.

And some of us use it because we want to keep in touch with our high school friends... because no one we know is in the phone book (since they only use cell phones)... because it's a convenient way to organize club business and invite people to shows and events... because it's great to have access to all the photos taken at a certain party rather than… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 12:30 PM on November 23, 2008

I just so happened to have a homemade donkey head hat lying around from a production of Midsummer Night's Dream. So I threw on a suit and went as the Democratic Party, which gave me an excuse to yell insults at all the Sarah Palins.
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 6:33 PM on November 1, 2008

Ya probably shouldn't be browsing MeFi at work, especially if encountering Mature Subject Matter is an issue. And you probably shouldn't be snooping on your employees' web habits, let alone being shocked to find out there is, gasp, shocking stuff on the internet.

Story time! I work in a popsicle store. I work by myself, and sometimes it gets pretty dead in there. The owners are very cool about computers and books, as long as you drop everything to… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by showbiz_liz at 11:41 PM on September 29, 2008