Activity from hippybear

Her comparisons of the Galactic Starcruiser experience to Spirit Airlines, and then extending that to the entire WDW Disney Bubble really sort of underscored some things for me in a way I hadn't really internalized before. It's good to be more… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by potrzebie
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I am quite sure the tables are assigned in advance of any proper game interaction. The implication here is that she was assigned this table for taking the cheapest cabin possible and purchasing none of the upgrades she didn't know were… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by potrzebie
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

I unfortunately do use a web browser which will erase my hard drive if I pause any video, so I literally had to watch it all at once. You people with other computer systems are lucky. [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by potrzebie
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Call it Twitter. Elon deadnames his child. We can deadname his corporation. [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by stormyteal
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

Stretching exercises to help release stored body tension?
favorited 45 times, recently by jasondigitized, emilynoa
Ask MeFi post - 4 days ago

The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous
favorited 119 times, recently by adrienneleigh
MeFi post - 4 days ago

netowl: So... you are lacking a ton of details about this case, and it's going to be difficult for me to summarize them for you here, but I will try. Trump did not pay Stormy Daniels directly. Michael Cohen paid her. And he paid her because the… [more]
favorited 31 times, recently by Jody Tresidder, Tom Hanks Cannot Be Trusted, May Kasahara, hydropsyche, CynicalKnight, tzikeh, cooker girl, exlotuseater, kelborel, gc, joannemerriam, JoeXIII007, mumimor, TrishaU, y2karl, Servo5678, The corpse in the library, OnceUponATime, CheeseDigestsAll, achrise, Reverend John, cowlick, Joey Michaels, The Card Cheat, introp, ichomp, biogeo, adrienneleigh, SPrintF
MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Mario is the Maître d'
favorited 24 times, recently by 2N2222, eye of newt, The Great Big Mulp, yamel, smartyboots, a fish out of water, ockmockbock, feistycakes, svenx, bolda, vrakatar, jy4m, caviar2d2, ob1quixote, JSilva, comradechu, JHarris, ASCII Costanza head, lisa g, GoblinHoney, DoctorFedora, zompist, jim in austin, Faint of Butt
MeFi post - 6 days ago

A full pro-shot show from my favorite era of Prince!
favorited 34 times, recently by banterboy
MeFi post - 6 days ago

Out Of The Shadows, Into The Spotlight [or so they hope]
favorited 17 times, recently by banterboy
MeFi post - 6 days ago

You didn't know how much you needed this until you read this.
favorited 15 times, recently by banterboy
MeFi post - 6 days ago

Jen and Dan chatting about work
favorited 10 times, recently by banterboy
MeFi post - 6 days ago

Oh dear lord, the Galloping Gourmet! I watched him because he had the same first name as me and I was maybe 4 years old and didn't realize how drunk he was getting during his shows. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Devils Rancher
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I just crossed the barrier. I'm not afraid anything!
favorited 25 times, recently by banterboy, treepour
MeFi post - 6 days ago

I think if I could find some curious young queer to pass a lot of my books along to, I would be thrilled to do so. The city in which I grew up had zero gay subculture and so when I came out much of the context I gained was from books of various sorts… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by annieb
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Yes, those are the original lyrics. She and He worked there, there was a conflict, he was killed, she's drinking herself to death. It's a happy song! At the Copa! Copacabana! [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Snowishberlin, eckeric, applemeat, caviar2d2, ob1quixote, JHarris, mostlymartha, kinnakeet, Faint of Butt
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

The Choir according to Just Watch is not available for streaming anywhere. Maybe it's floating around in the Bay? I have no idea. It is so so so good. Gareth goes into a community and pulls a bunch of them together into a choir where they sing… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by skoosh, njohnson23, camyram, bunderful, chavenet, emf, KingEdRa
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Very is an entirely pleasing album by PSB. It marked a turn toward optimism after their very inward-looking and truly amazing album Behaviour and their albums prior. It's also Neil's "coming out" album. It's a turning point in their careers… [more]
favorited 14 times, recently by esoteric things, chicofly, kitschfrau, Wolfster, my-username, desuetude, KingEdRa, Surely This, creiszhanson
MeFi comment - 6 days ago

Fish are smarter than we think
favorited 15 times, recently by chatelaine, syzygy
MeFi post - 7 days ago

Also, we've got PSB talking about Debussy here, which is entirely accurate because Chris is vastly educated, and we've also got Art Of Noise with their album The Seduction Of Claude Debussy [YT full album], and now I'm wanting to demand that two… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by ovvl, chavenet, emf, KingEdRa, mmoncur
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

(Addendum: I understand Klaus Nomi was a gifted pastry chef, and his lime tarts were truly special.) Somehow I suspect this line is going to stick in my mind forever. I have no idea why, but wow, my brain keeps latching onto it. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Sauce Trough, HearHere, grandiloquiet, jim in austin
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Greg_Ace: I totally get you not cleaning up your space enough to welcome visitors for years on end. It's a pain to keep up to the imagined expectations of visitors. I'm glad you got there. i hope to get there myself soon. [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by annieb, AzraelBrown, Glinn, Greg_Ace
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

As with many things in life, you start off wanting to play basketball, you end up designing a trebuchet. I remember I was making a pizza once.... [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

It's out on the Bay if you are so inclined. Copacabana 1985 is the search term. Not many seeds, but you can get it eventually. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Joey Michaels
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

My only bout with covid was one where I didn't even know I was sick. I only knew I should be testing because i was at a gathering where it was breaking out. But I never had any symptoms. My covid tests were entirely off the charts for over a week,… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

I mean, you could say it's like Bach with yumminess, or it's like Mozart with yumminess, or it's like Wagner with yumminess... but no, Vivaldi is exactly the name because that's exactly what you want to communicate about the yumminess. [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by BlueHorse, DoctorFedora
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

I just want to put this here because 1 it is true and 2 it is so poetically and elegantly stated: there's something about that timing and that technique it's like Vivaldi with yumminess [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by BlueHorse, clavdivs, miles per flower, JHarris, Devils Rancher
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

I am referring to calling a website that now wants to be called X "Twitter". That's all. That's what mods are deleting my comments for. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by interogative mood
MetaTalk comment - 7 days ago

I mean the fun about old copies of The Joy Of Cooking is how utterly prairie housewife they get. Need illustrations on how to skin a squirrel? Yeah, they were in there. Want to use every part of that animal you've slaughtered? Yes, you'll have… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by snsranch, eraserbones, telophase, amanda, carrioncomfort
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

We're talking about Mary Tyler Moe and how Trump throws his cap in the air just like her at the end of the song. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by wenestvedt, Well I never, joannemerriam, whatevernot, ASCII Costanza head, queensissy
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

My mother sent me an entire set of The Family Creative Workshop, a series of books we had a subscription to in the Seventies. It's a remarkable round-up of all kinds of crafts. There's a list of the crafts listed here. We also have both volumes of… [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by wenestvedt, AsYouKnow Bob, blnkfrnk, Artful Codger, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

Literally every article I see is saying Trump wins in a landslide no matter what. You are maybe reading news sources which are doing horse race calling six months out from an election using flawed polling? The majority of the US… [more]
favorited 15 times, recently by Gelatin, Pendragon, snsranch
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

I figure if I'm going to retire to Eastern Europe or rural Italy in a few years You should probably check on the TV standard and the DVD region for those places you might want to move to? You might have to make sure to take US equipment… [more]
favorited 2 times, recently by TrishaU, wenestvedt
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

We seem to keep a whole raft of books that would be great for a visitor to browse, but we never have any visitors. But they would be delighted to browse our bookshelves if they were to visit. Actually, we keep books for a ton of reasons. We're… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by TrishaU, theora55, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 7 days ago

I'm annoyed by the typos in my comment above, but I think the content is still clear through context clues so I'm going to let it stand. There are three of them and they are... annoying. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by Well I never, The Potate, joannemerriam, Joey Michaels, ob1quixote
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I've not played Fallout at all, but I have watched gameplay of it enough to appreciate the moment during this episode where the vault dweller character walks up to the guy outside of his property and talks to him for a while and then is like all… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Phobos the Space Potato
FanFare comment - 8 days ago

I have a bunch of frying pans but only maybe two of them have the kind of sides that facilitate this. I'm much more likely to take a spatula to flip a fried egg. I do prefer to use moving the pan to fold an omelette, which is a thing that Julia… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by miles per flower, clavdivs, Pedantzilla
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Sure, you can use that as an example of how I think MetaFilter might be a better community if it were more self-reflective. If you disagree with that thought, then you are an exemplar of whatever you feel MetaFitler should be. I disagree, and think… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by interogative mood
MetaTalk comment - 8 days ago

Yeah, you gotta practice, but you also have to believe.'' I want to believe X-Files.jpeg [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Devils Rancher
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Hey hey! Happy Pride Month! [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by Snowflake, eckeric, hydra77, emf, seawallrunner, creiszhanson, rrrrrrrrrt
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

downtohisturtles: maybe put up on small bookshelf on a wall and put books on it and rotate them out of the closet onto the shelf from time to time? Small wall bookshelves are a nice way to have books if you don't have much space. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by downtohisturtles
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

OMG. I was feeling too lazy to post a list of the books I most treasure, but that one is in my top 10. The Cold War lives on in our bodies and minds. [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Artful Codger
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

House Of Leaves was based on an RPG but then the butter and the camel began to duststorm and octopus fnord froynlevyn wee;j wjfk x. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by solotoro
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Hey hey! Happy Pride! [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

So getting to an example that actually IN the article, there are people who have PURCHASED music through a service, not renting it but actually paid money to buy the songs, but now the licensing agreement between the music publisher and that online… [more]
favorited 45 times, recently by rosiroo
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I guess the hope is that there is enough of them to impact the outcome of the election. There are probably 3 or 4 different little contingent of Trump voters who have people likely to move away from Trump after these convictions. If 1% of… [more]
favorited 23 times, recently by rude.boy
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Don’t forget that while he was in office, many, many people refused to carry out his illegal orders (as well as just not talking to him about a lot of shit in the first place). IIRC he wanted to bomb Venezuela, and they tried once or twice to… [more]
favorited 28 times, recently by snsranch, scottatdrake, kelborel
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

My question stands: if he does win, and if he does proceed with dismantling American democracy – which seems extremely likely – what are you actually going to do? Are you going to accept it as a legitimate democratic result? The people have… [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by snsranch
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

Wow, that article that Nelson posted is a bit more unhinged with what it's talking about than these pull-quotes posted here thus far. The level of stochastic terrorism that seems to be acceptable in our society by certain parties these days is truly… [more]
favorited 1 time, recently by snsranch
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

I've long wondered about rosin cooked potatoes because I own a copy of Joy Of Cooking that contains it as a recipe. The rosin i'm familiar with is used on string instrument bows to help them grab the strings better, but I'd assume it can't be too… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by Aardvark Cheeselog, miles per flower, kozad, jellywerker
MeFi comment - 8 days ago

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