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Miralax? PEG / Polyethelene glycol? The chemical itself absorbs water and turns into a gel. In mass quantities it's used for colonoscopy prep. In small doses it's a stool softener. I gave small doses it to our dearly departed Vash because he was having really hard poops, and it helped a lot. But if your poops are really loose I guess could gather up excess fluid and make things a little firmer. I think it's worth a shot.
posted to MetaFilter by seanmpuckett at 4:53 PM on June 1, 2024

Missed the edit window, but another better source with lots of interviews with people who were there describe it as more of a public dance party, at least before the cops moved in.
posted to MetaFilter by happyfrog at 2:52 PM on June 1, 2024

hi hippybear, no, Mardi Gras started (as a political demo) in Sydney in June 1978 in solidarity and response to a call from the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Committee to commemorate Stonewall. It was an annual public extravaganza by the time Priscilla came out in 1994. But that was Sydney, and things were very different across Australia (e.g. homosexuality was illegal in the state of Tasmania until 1997).
posted to MetaFilter by happyfrog at 2:45 PM on June 1, 2024

SCOSA - Self-Contained Overland Swimming Aparatus
posted to MetaFilter by quinndexter at 9:02 PM on May 31, 2024

awwww straight outta Busytown
posted to MetaFilter by supermedusa at 12:57 PM on May 31, 2024

jonp72 that link is amazing and frightening and so insightful. Everyone should read that.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 7:51 PM on May 30, 2024

Has the jury reached a verdict?

We have, your Honor.

Hit it!
posted to MetaFilter by Zonker at 5:37 PM on May 30, 2024

Sentencing date set for 11 July

"What would you think of a Slurpee promotion?" - 7/11 boardroom right now
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 4:21 PM on May 30, 2024

So, tee-totalin’ lil ol me went and did something completely out of character. I went and… got some gummies. They’re 10mg and I’ve been cutting em into quarters so I’m only getting 2.5mg. I’m not looking to get high - addictions run in my family - but I have not been sleeping well for years now. And so far these are working really well. I’m getting some decent sleep on the nights I’m taking them. The way I described it to my wife is that its not so much that it makes you feel sleepy, its that it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by azpenguin at 8:14 PM on May 27, 2024

Hippybear. Yeah, not my kink either. Apparently they suction them out somehow via a tube they insert into you.Glaf it was general anesthesia .
posted to MetaFilter by Czjewel at 7:45 PM on May 27, 2024

My medical issues are resolved. Cataract surgery is a life changer. 9mm kidney stone laser blasted and removed. I asked if I would be awake and the surgeon chuckled and said you do not want to be awake as I remove the bits and pieces of the stone through your penis. Over COVID now, despite being fully vaccinated. It was the worse. Went from 225 lbs to 175 lbs in two months. I'm putting the pounds back on by way of baby blue cheese on Italian bread. Oh, had stent removed from the kidney stone... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Czjewel at 7:06 PM on May 27, 2024

Yeah I feel like the 'actually I had a great time' crowd are missing the point?

Where she really brings it home is the YOU'VE BEEN ROBBED section at end - this is Disney overselling something they at best could not deliver and more likely never intended to, getting away with an incredibly inflated price tag because of fan's enthusiasm and trust in Disney, while taking economic advantage of actors and staff (and I'm sure designers, builders etc) that go above and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by litleozy at 5:48 AM on May 27, 2024

She’s so cool. Pretty neat she and Ed O’Neill still talk on the phone fairly often, and the MWC text chain, and supporting Christina Applegate through MS. I love the family folks choose.

Time for me to start watching FUTURAMA.
posted to MetaFilter by edithkeeler at 1:26 PM on May 26, 2024

The thing that I really came away with, it that it was possible to have a magical time, but very easy to fall through the cracks. And that at that price point you really can't justify folks falling through the cracks like that. It sounds like both the app was borked, but also that some folks didn't get any on-ramps. I love what the ideal sounds like, but do get that folks who didn't get it felt underwhelmed.

This is a point that some people who are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Fleebnork at 6:51 AM on May 26, 2024

(sleep)
(sobers up)
(water)
(coffee)
(brand new sockpuppet)
(reflects that it seemed easier to figure out how to switch to the classic theme when I was inebriated)
(checks thread)

oh

well
posted to MetaFilter by Sober Sockpuppet, Esq. at 8:42 AM on May 25, 2024

And generally bears, and I've had a lot of encounters with them, don't want to fuck with humans.

The guys down at the Eagle beg to differ. Hippy.
posted to MetaFilter by GenjiandProust at 4:06 PM on May 24, 2024

That was a thoughtful, compassionate article. Thanks for posting.
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 1:44 PM on May 24, 2024

Just as an FYI/PSA, the "egg" language is solidly in the "language cis people shouldn't use" category. It's quite arguably inappropriate to use about anyone but oneself and some people find the whole egg discourse problematic.
posted to MetaFilter by hoyland at 8:18 PM on May 23, 2024

I hear you kittens for breakfast, I too bounced off of Sinfest back in the day, it was a little too sarcastic and nihilistic, even when it was supposedly good. I didn't get into Goats either for that reason.

I don't intend to keep leaving these remembrance stones for oneswellfoop in every webcomic thread, but he would be here writing full-page comments on the history of the medium were he still around. I don't know if I'll ever stop missing him.
posted to MetaFilter by JHarris at 3:57 PM on May 23, 2024

I'd never heard of this webcomic, and wow, do I wish I still didn't know about it. Like, not only is tats' ideology totally abhorrent and disgusting, but their writing is lazy and nonsensical. 0/10, would not read again.
posted to MetaFilter by Saxon Kane at 3:27 PM on May 23, 2024

Put this on AirPlay to the TV. This is fun. Watching Sheila E back there behind the drums just playing and jamming on them as naturally as breathing is so good.
posted to MetaFilter by azpenguin at 8:20 PM on May 20, 2024

A year ago I was living out of my car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Nine months ago I checked myself into a hospital, ghostlike and barely alive..
Six months ago I was living in a medical respite facility for the homeless and starting dialysis.
Three months ago I was living in transitional housing.

At age 56 (almost 57), I finally have a girlfriend, who kept me alive when I wasn't even sure who I was and didn't know if I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by JustSayNoDawg at 1:27 PM on May 20, 2024

Pro tip: if your 'faith' compels you to commit heinous, sociopathic acts like this, to the point of being willing to harm your own child in order to follow some abstract sense of 'morality', maybe you need to renounce this faith instead of trying to accomodate it?

well, they are following an abrahamic faith.

that particular abraham was commanded by his god to sacrifice his son isaac. and he basically got... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by i used to be someone else at 12:27 PM on May 20, 2024

Today I love free because we are getting a free roof (sans deductible).

Our roof was pretty old and, after a recent hailstorm, started leaking. We kind of figured the insurance company would just say too bad, an old roof will do that but we had them come out anyway. We set most of the money aside from an unusually good month (we are in sales, things vary) as a start on a fund for a repalcement roof, figuring the cost would fall to us. We just found... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 12:52 PM on May 20, 2024

I see that we have passed into the portion of the Metafilter immersive experience where people who have watched a four hour video of one person’s trip to the Starcruiser now know more about it than three people who spent three days there each.

One of the things that drives me a little crazy about Metafilter is the tendency to approach every discussion as a battle between two teams.

If you approach Nicholson's video as a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by yankeefog at 5:56 AM on May 20, 2024

I feel this needs context - context which can frankly disappear into a very deep hole along with the people supporting it.
posted to MetaFilter by edd at 6:15 PM on May 19, 2024

This was a Bell 212 Helicopter sold to Irans Air Force during the Shah back in the 1970s. It was the classic Huey seen in every Vietnam war film. New ones haven’t been manufactured since the late 1990s but they are very common and used all around the world I suspect parts are easy to get. They have bought the Russian made MI-17 as a replacement. If there was any kind of maintenance or spare parts issue they would just stop flying VIP’s in the Bell 212’s.
posted to MetaFilter by interogative mood at 6:10 PM on May 19, 2024

I would encourage people to consider that Jenny may not actually be providing the full picture either.

Well of course not, there was a pole in the way!
posted to MetaFilter by gc at 3:36 PM on May 19, 2024

“This isn’t Scooter. This is his attic-dwelling secret brother Segway.”

😆
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 4:12 PM on May 16, 2024

Jacques Somerton, I presume?
posted to MetaFilter by Ishbadiddle at 6:01 AM on May 16, 2024

If you haven't read the lyrics analysis that hippybear referenced in the Genius Lyrics link, please consider it. The lyrics are incredibly dense with wordplay and slang I at least wasn't aware of, and the interplay between the dark lyrics, the upbeat music/dancing, and what's happening cinematically/narratively is really something. This whole thing is breathtakingly layered
posted to MetaFilter by treepour at 10:13 AM on May 16, 2024

Lol, not a bot, just a real live aging woman. Possibly it's so predictable because it's...so true. Possibly so annoyingly frequent because women are, you know, saying it.

“If we don't do OnlyFans, we're living from one social security check to the next,” said Michelle Hardenbrook, a 72-year-old OnlyFans creator, who lives in Northern California. “What are you going to do if you have [a health crisis]?” or if “our house caught on fire? Or all the plumbing broke... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cocoagirl at 6:16 PM on May 15, 2024

The intersection of capitalism, Americanism, aging, and womanhood is brutal.

I swear, this kind of sentiment is so predictable on metafilter, it could be posted by a bot. Especially since the article seems to indicate that on the contrary, capitalism may be quite the friend of these aging women.
posted to MetaFilter by 2N2222 at 4:42 PM on May 15, 2024

bacon
posted to MetaFilter by philip-random at 5:44 PM on May 14, 2024

I was hired to teach today! It’s only part time though. It makes me want to never get paid again to write code because that's nothing in comparison with someone paying me to violin. My students are great, they’re sharp and funny and I’m so thrilled to get to do this. I am teaching a class with only two students in it, which is kind of funny. It’s great for the students, but it’s better for the school if that number isn’t so low, of course.
posted to MetaFilter by wurl1tzer_c0 at 8:12 PM on May 14, 2024

If Books Could Kill: Conservatives vs. Pride Month
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 6:26 PM on May 13, 2024

You know shit is getting grim when the corporations back off from "rainbow washing." "Sorry, queer folks. We love your money, but not enough to put up with boycotts and bomb threats!"
posted to MetaFilter by Ursula Hitler at 3:56 PM on May 13, 2024

This is an extraordinary show.
posted to MetaFilter by vverse23 at 8:19 PM on May 12, 2024

Whack a mole game
Heard for the very next time
Whack a mole game
When your post breaks copyright
posted to MetaFilter by chavenet at 8:43 AM on May 11, 2024

Wish Ren and Stimpy hadn't milkshake ducked so egregiously... Had some bits that still resonate...
posted to MetaFilter by Windopaene at 8:59 PM on May 10, 2024

This guy doesn't seem to be that familiar with the style he's supposedly mimicking. The music he picks (1940s-ish big band) is about 10 years outdated for the mid 50s era he's shooting for, the narration is far too matter-of-fact, and he calls these "Super Panavision 70" — a film format whose main feature was that it was very wide (2.20:1 instead of the 16:9 he made these at).
posted to MetaFilter by jonathanhughes at 7:14 PM on May 10, 2024

(S. 1½ tsp)

Tenor: Then asked he of her
Bass: Have you any onions, and have you savory?
Tenor: But she answered him not, saying
Alto and Soprano: Onions have I, but savory have I none.
Tenor: Whereupon he scolded her
Bass: Then thou art an unsavory rapscallion!
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 4:48 PM on May 9, 2024

The problem with this story is that Hall & Oates is objectively awesome. Creed and Styx, not so much.

You have made a powerful enemy this day.
posted to MetaFilter by The Manwich Horror at 10:15 AM on May 9, 2024

Mercury poisoning is a real thing that happens.

I'm old enough that I got to play with mercury during a science class when I was a kid.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 9:29 AM on May 9, 2024

Todd in the Shadows on Drake/Kendrick
posted to MetaFilter by box at 3:43 PM on May 8, 2024

they sucked his brains out!
posted to MetaFilter by They sucked his brains out! at 12:33 PM on May 8, 2024

Fascinating from beginning to end.

Bunch of things surprised me, including the process of making hemispheres out of flat plates, which I would have said was very unlikely to even work

And gluing the mirrors to the ball, because the mirrors do not actually touch each other — they couldn’t really because six identical circles can’t all touch a central seventh except on a surface with zero curvature — which I think must mean there’s a lot of skill... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jamjam at 6:19 PM on May 6, 2024

The trouble with that is that Kamala is consistently less popular than Biden.

Let’s not do the thing where we call female politicians by their first name but male politicians by their last, please.
posted to MetaFilter by rhymedirective at 5:07 PM on May 5, 2024

this is very important stuff
posted to MetaFilter by philip-random at 2:50 PM on May 4, 2024

"Your haiku is good, and with a bit of structural revision it could be great."
"😚👌"

Oh my God, this shit is irritating. Hippybear's cue should have been sufficient but clearly wasn't. Maybe this will work:

This Be The Verse
By Philip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Don Pepino at 4:12 PM on May 3, 2024