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Jason Huebel
Jason Huebel
NICE. Can't make a reasonable argument for judging a family so harshly, so you disable comments. That's how you take your ball and run home, folks. http://friendfeed.com/h0llywo...
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Normally, I wouldn't be so crass as to call someone out like this, but it just boggles my mind that there are people this rude and judgmental in the world. I know it shouldn't, but every time I come across someone like this I feel a moral obligation to speak up and defend the people who are being held to unfair, unreasonable standards-- "modern" societal standards. - Jason Huebel
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you've got thin skin, then this isn't the business to be in. - Akiva Moskovitz
Thankfully, I don't have thin skin. But I'm also not going to be accepting of that kind of behavior. If we don't speak up for each other when it counts, then what good is "community"? - Jason Huebel
Not only are so many of the statements there judgmental, they are just plain wrong. If you're going to post a rant about something, at least get your facts straight first. - Rochelle
and discuss. don't attack. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
+1 Natalie. I tried to stay cool, but arguments get... well... heated. Kind of comes with the territory. Hopefully my arguments stand on their own. I don't really agree with Quiverfull as an ideology (I'm done at three kids), but I do think the Duggars do a good job with so many kids. Note: not a fanboy, just believe in defending a family that raises well-adjusted kids. - Jason Huebel from Android
I guess it depends on how you define "community". - cecily
What bothers me is the double standard towards the Duggars. I might not agree with their lifestyle or their choices, but why is it ok to make comments that they should be stopped from breeding or she should be sterilized when women fight so hard to not have the same remarks made about their own reproductive choices? - Trish R
That's what bothered me too, Trish. That and the idea that because your taxes go to support social programs that you should have some say in the reproductive choices of people who use those programs. - cecily
My question to people who don't like the Duggars is the same as the question to people who are against gay marriage. How does their lifestyle and how do their choices affect your life at all? - Rochelle
People should just be happy the baby is doing so well for being so tiny. - Archangel ωαřмaiden
I say good for you Jason, for speaking up! I guess I could understand such vitriol from those two, if the Duggars were, or had been, on welfare, but since they haven't been and it doesn't look like they will, and in no way has the Duggars life choices affected them.....what the hell is their problem?? - Bonnie Foster
Huh, did she just delete warmaiden's last comment? That thread was bizarre. - Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
@Meg yeah, it was deleted. - Jason Huebel
this is a pattern of behaviour for this poster, IME. - Joe Silence
It took me a long time to stack the rocks in my head correctly so that I finally GOT IT that I can't be a champion of reproductive rights if I'm going to judge people like the Duggars. Pro-choice means you support those who want to use birth control or choose to get an abortion just as much as you support those who choose NO birth control. - vicster is...
18+ kids? o_O Wow... - Jemm
@Jemm, wow is right. No way I could raise 18 kids. I would end up in a mental institution. - Jason Huebel from Android
@Jason: I wouldn't dare to raise even one... which is one good reason I won't even try ;) - Jemm
Yeah, the "she should get sterilized" comment pretty much soured me on that whole thread yesterday. I may not be a fan, but their choices are their own. (I don't really like any reality-TV with small kids, not just their show.) - Jennifer Dittrich
I'm really on the side of disliking the Duggars, but to be taken seriously a view has to have facts to back it up. I know I've read that the Duggars get money from their church, which has every right to put it's money where it wants. But I do think that if the Duggars had fewer children the money they get could go to families that practice family planning and still struggle terribly. - Heather
Derrick
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Truffled Macaroni Gratin - http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes...
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"I have a New Year tradition. A bottle of champagne and truffles. I have both every year—I think it brings good fortune to have fortunate food on the first of the year. This year, it will be a bottle of rosé and this truffled macaroni gratin. How could that not herald great things? I start this off, like all great mac and cheeses, with a roux: but this roux begins with truffle butter. Once it is smooth and rich and dappled with bits of black truffle as eggnog is with cinnamon, I add in the cheddar, Gruyère, and the brie, and the rigatoni. I rub fresh baguette crumbs with truffle butter and bake them over the top. Drizzle with black truffle oil, and serve bubbling. It is a cauldron of happiness full of spells to enchant the new year." - Derrick from Bookmarklet
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Um. Yes. - joey
Oh my.....this sounds absolutely orgasmic! - Bonnie Foster
Want. Now. - laura x
Erica Joy made something like this a few days ago. - Admiral Anika
I made a macaroni and cheese as part of Xmas dinner, with the chicken and ham and drank it with a nice brut prosecco type sparking rose. this is lovely. - susan mernit
Wow. We love truffles as well and, for our fortune, we have really great truffles in Umbria... what do you think of this dish: tagliatelle+black truffles (from Gubbio) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Federica + Gabriele
Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
BBC News - Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
BBC News - Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks
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Rising prices and better alternatives may mean curtains for netbooks. The small portable computers were popular in 2009, but some industry watchers are convinced that their popularity is already waning. - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
I don't care what they say.....I love my little netbook! - Bonnie Foster
Kol Tregaskes
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What is your flickr URL? I'm here: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Feel free to add me. Don't forget about the Flickr Photography group here: http://friendfeed.com/flickr-... And there is also a FriendFeed Flickr group here: http://www.flickr.com/groups... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes
سلتون تو دوباره پریدی وسط بحث یه عده بزرگتر؟ :))))) - I /-\li
http://www.flickr.com/photos... please require to be added to see my photos :D - Valentina De Santis
I'm subbing everyone as I go. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I can't believe who I've missed here, thanks for the links! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.flickr.com/photos... Not much activity lately, thou. - Marcos
Andy, 2? That's just greedy, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
That is what a homepage is for. You can reach mine through the link in my profile. - Peter
Kol, once again, thanks for helping us all connect. There are some great photographers on FF. - Kevin Pedraja
Now that I'm going through and adding all of these people I'm discovering that Flickr needs a grouping functionality for contacts. - Kenton
I don't need to mention it here. You can just mouse over me to find out. The power of FriendFeed. - Nick B.
Wow, Nick. Way to play along. - Rochelle
I looked at at least two pages of every user who posted. I just started learning, so I bookmarked about 20 pages that I'll be coming back to. This was nice, thanks! - Ryan Massie
Feel free to add me: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Milton Ramirez - Milton Ramirez
Kol, I listed my url earlier but feel free to add me as a contact (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) - Johnny
A great thread. I do believe that I have subscribed to ya'll. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
http://www.flickr.com/photos... awesome thread! will have to check everyone out [I work there] - Criz
http://flickr.com/photos... (NSFW if you have safesearch turned off) - Michael Hocter
http://www.flickr.com/photos... . The quality of my stream varies depending on inspiration, if you're browsing I suggest my 25 most interesting images: http://www.flickr.com/photos... and my personal favorites: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Niklas Morberg
Http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaymeephoto - Chad McCoskey from iPhone
Thanks for all the links! I'll be going through them all today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks guys! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Keep 'em coming. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
just realized ,, ive been missing out on some awesome photographs .. AWESOME thread - johnpiercy
wow, thats a lot of flickrs LOL well, thanks to you I went to flickr and set up my url.. I was amazed this was available http://www.flickr.com/photos... - David Gross
Thank you all! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Couldn't find the page, Soner. - Kol Tregaskes
I just went pro :D http://www.flickr.com/photos... - MλTT
Cool. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks. - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Great shots, G. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
/micahwittman - Micah Wittman
Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
http:///www... - I haven't updated it, photo-wise for a long time, since I was getting dangerously close to exceeding the 200 item limit. - Tyson Key
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
This is me: flickr.com/photos/vestigialconsciousness/ - Parth Awasthi
there are some great pictures in this list! - Chris Rogers
Kol Tregaskes
Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, The Facebook Experience, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum
As we are now #Facebook users, what is your Facebook URL? ;-) Mine is: http://www.facebook.com/koltreg...
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I have a Page too but don't use it yet: http://www.facebook.com/pages... I only have 20 fans. ;-) #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes
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http://www.facebook.com/trenton... ...but watch out for the tumbleweeds rolling across my profile. - Trent Olson
http://www.facebook.com/hedwyg *sobbing quietly over here in my corner* - Ladybug Heather
I will have a little cry later................ - Kevin J Hatton
i have one but have used it less and less as FB has sucked more and more. i now log in a few times a month at most. - Joe Silence
Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes
Now I'm glad I got my vanity URL for FB. However I'm not about to go crazy friending y'all just yet as I hate the interface. - Kenton
*sigh* DO NOT WANT. Is there a way to opt out of this? If I wanted my FF content to go to Facebook, I'd put it there myself. - cecily
http://www.facebook.com/krynsky Haha. I was just going to ask when you were going to start this. - Mark Krynsky
iphigenie, just like my ff id :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I didnt really want to add everyone i know on friendfeed to my facebook, i like to keep them seperate as much as i can. but you know what, fuck it http://www.facebook.com/simon... add a note saying you;re from friendfeed if you add me, then i can group everyone up :) - Simon Wicks
http://www.facebook.com/wangyip .. edit: ditto what Simon said above - add a friendfeed or FF note in the message if you do add me - Wang Yip
http://www.facebook.com/scott... [EDIT: I only intend to had people to FB that I have subscribed to and/or interacted with here on FF.] - Scott of Two Countries
Simon, I thought that a while ago, then just added everyone too. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Just added you Kol :) - Simon Wicks
OK, you've all convinced me and as Simon requested, please note FF in the request. http://facebook.com/kenton - Kenton
Thanks, Simon. I've not started going through these yet. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I'm only going to add the people i actually talk to on here. I have a lot less people on my follow list than you, so its a bit easier for me :) - Simon Wicks
Remember, guys. According to FB, you're only allowed 5000 friends. Spend them wisely. - James Myatt
Hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Facebook.com/hoogenboom - Wes Hoogenboom from iPhone
If anyone of you are Gtalk'ers, check out the list here: http://ff.im/6mySB - Kol Tregaskes
/glemak on most services - mike "glemak" dunn
As if we weren't before? Were they really that many people here who didn't also have a FB account, even if they didn't list it in their profile? I've been with FB since 2004 - LANjackal
here. i am your fan now :D - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Thanks all. - Kol Tregaskes
Screw that. Find me here: https://friendfeed.com/jcunwir... - jcunwired
http://www.facebook.com/bigstar.... But I think you knew that already, Kol. :)==;) - Helen Sventitsky
Helen, yep. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Well, with this news it is pushing me to start using my real name for web services and to kill (or at least slowly stop using) the tomit persona that I have used for many years. Find me here... http://www.facebook.com/ronaldb... - tomit
http://www.facebook.com/julia... - but no hearts or flowers please..:-) - Julia Ault
http://facebook.com/thereal... - someone else done stoled my name before I could. Jeepers! - Tsali, The Native of FF
http://facebook.com/andrewr... - may as well change my "have met" Facebook policy! - Andrew Roche
I could never agree to their TOS. The fun of working for paranoid folks. - Neal Krummell
I was already a facebook user... http://www.facebook.com/cassidy... - Cassidy
ugh.. I hate doing this... http://www.facebook.com/timhoec... - Tim Hoeck
FF better figure out how not to destroy themselves (if possible) with this merger. Friendfeed in the FB interface will not work. I think FF really just f*cked themselves. - Ethan
Well http://www.facebook.com/elstudi... - Kol, your Posterous sharing post earlier today was more fun. - Eric Johnson
Ummmm the Facebook UI obviously won't be static, dude. They'll be making changes as the assimilation proceeds - LANjackal from IM
People who complain about FF+FB are like people who complain every time the FB home page changes. Even if it's better, they complain... - Gus
never spend any time there... not worth time... - Valeria Maltoni
I hate Facebook... - Oscar Mota
My company has one if you want to be a fan of a small web design and marketing firm :) http://www.facebook.com/pages... - Justin Rains
FB gets no link love from me facebook.com/tinapbeana - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I have to think very hard if I want to continue my existing Facebook profile or create a new one ... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
http://www.facebook.com/gbierma... - not like I use it much anyway... - Grant Bierman
I'm on Facebook, but I don't have a name in my profile URL (yet; I'm still new...). But if you want it, it's http://www.facebook.com/profile... -- if you friend me, tell me you're from FF. - Dennis Jernberg
I don't freaking have one because I never wanted to sign up for Facebook. :P Now I find out that through no fault of my own I'm technically a Facebook user? GAH. - Cheryl Jones
if u want facebook http://www.facebook.com/sefa... ███ - Sefa Karapinar
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.facebook.com/nzbuu/. I wasn't going to do this, but I'm going to indulge and see if I can make FB work like Scoble thinks it can. - James Myatt
LOL I knew you would do this :) http://www.facebook.com/parvez... - Parvez Halim
http://facebook.com/alex.covic - I will friend everybody - for those of you concerned with friend/family + privacy = you can create lists (just like ff-groups) to keep FF-users in a different corner;-). - Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Update: My profile may not have a name-type URL yet, but here's the short way to get there: http://profile.to/jernbergdr - Dennis Jernberg
"Like" only because I'll have to find you guys somewhere :( http://www.facebook.com/people... - Kamilah Gill
http://www.facebook.com/ozubey i knew this was coming, this is why i got my url with my FF nickname.:-) - Özhan Yiğitler
http://www.facebook.com/krz9000 i hope they write a proper friendfeed friend importer - Chris Hofmann
http://www.facebook.com/iainbak... +1 Chris, I'd hate to lose all the friends i've made here :(((( - Iain Baker
http://www.facebook.com/barryow... I hope they (FB) don't screw it up too much... - Barry Owens
http://facebook. com/mosyagin - massagin
http://www.facebook.com/gilbert.... Is there a simple way to add say the entire list above? - Gilbert Harding
http://www.facebook.com/mbravo - most updates autoimported from Flickr though - Michael Bravo
Thank you everyone. I've added you all but feel free to say no, I know some people keep FB for personal friends only. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
www.facebook.com/LANjackal - LANjackal from IM
lol I think this is wrong haha don't mind me I'm being silly - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
http://www.facebook.com/wordsfo... - I would really like to have FriendFeed friends there so Facebook could possibly be more bearable. - Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, that link takes me to the home page. - Kol Tregaskes
It does? try looking for Jannifer Stoddard - Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yeah, I've had a few of those from the list above, not sure what's going on there. OK, will do. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://facebook.com/carlton... And I love new peeps! ^_^ - Carlton Hackett
I have added you as a friend ;) - shâhin
I do not use it much LOL I just post to it from other sites so to fill up my friends stream, I do get messages and some status in text. Anyone who really wants to add me, use the facebook link on my profile. :o) - David Gross
www.facebook.com/drodzand you won't see much since I got the privacy settings on max in Facebook. Just another reason why I think Facebook is completely different from friendfeed. I hope they keep friendfeed running because I use both services in diametrically diverse ways. - David Rodriguez
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
http://facebook.com/brodiebeta I just posted asking for the same thing =) http://friendfeed.com/iphoneg... You rawk Kol - Brodie Beta
http://facebook.com/timedalkat Will be weird to integrate you folks with Grandma. - timedalkat
Cool, Brodie. :-) Thanks everyone! - Kol Tregaskes
Hey, FB is for real life friends :-). Not for random web strangers :-P? - Richard A.
Mine is http://www.facebook.com/daniel... and I am from Argentina (BA) - Daniel Alejandro Severo
http://www.facebook.com/alfpace but I don't use it very much - Alfonso Pace from iPhone
http://www.facebook.com/waltrup... ... Deja Vu... didn't we do this already one? LOL! If you send me a request, please just mention FF. KThnxBye. - Walt Ruppar
http://www.facebook.com/kimbers... (I can remember if I commented on this already. I don't see "You" on the list, but I'm tired. So, hopefully, I didn't. If I did, oh well. - Kimber Scott
Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes
. . . amy_beer. I think. I've never used it. No, I'm pretty sure. - Amy℠
Amy, it's not that. - Kol Tregaskes
I spend an inordinate amount of time there... - http://facebook.com/Americhick - Bette Cooper
facebook.com/wins1 I hv a FF list in FB, pls. mention FF to populate it. - Wins Fern
mine is david.grosz - David Gross from email
Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes
How do you get facebook.com/yourname? Mine is a somewhat longer Url... - TrafficBug
TrafficBug: You can get your custom Facebook URL here: http://www.facebook.com/usernam... - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
http://www.facebook.com/webalon... - looks like you can change it only once. Confucious say: "Choose your name well...." :I - Rob Schieber
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
I do like your photography page. I am a fan now. - Faraz Mullick
Isn't there a FB friend limit? - Araceli
There is, Araceli, although it was several thousand people, if I remember correctly. - Tyson Key
5,000. - Kol Tregaskes
I'm just loving the new Facebook beta. :D - Faraz Mullick
i sent a request (please please please by my friend), ;) - chaz2b
I always thought that FriendFeed was the new Facebook. ;) - Tyson Key
Facebook is the new FriendFeed. ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thanks Rob, I had forgotten my username for I always used my email address to login - I found there is a settings > username > change thing that lets you change your username once and then you get a facebook.com/username url! - TrafficBug
I am thinking about just using my Public Page more. Keep my regular profile for family and coworker data. Follow me here if you want more of the type of posts I do here of Friendfeed. http://www.facebook.com/pages... - tomit
nooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Tsali, The Native of FF from IM
I raise your bump with a "Hide" - LANjackal
http://www.facebook.com/DavidHo... - I use it to aggregate and share links on Internet music, open content and social media. - David Holmes
Trish R
Trish R
I'm such an introvert. I have a social hangover. Does anyone else ever get these? At least that's what I call it, when you need a quiet day to recover from all the holiday social interaction.
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yes I know what you mean - VAL D. Zone
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Story of my life. :) - rowlikeagirl
i know EXACTLY what you mean. i sometimes get them as soon as i've gotten home...or even on the way back from some event or gathering. - Joe Silence
Doesn't really apply just to the holidays, but I notice it a lot more after large holiday gatherings. - Trish R
Someone once defined introversion and extroversion to me this way: An extrovert is energized, or gains energy, from the people around them, while introverts expend energy around people. The definition was meant to emphasize that introverts don't necessarily hate people; many do enjoy the company of others. They are just exhausted by them, so they need time to recharge. I found the definition to be spot on for me. - rowlikeagirl
@rowlikeagirl, that definition is spot on for me, too. That's how I describe it to people who don't understand, and especially when people think extrovert means outgoing and introvert means shy and quiet. - Trish R
I just packed up my stuff and will be headed back to LA shortly. - Derrick from iPhone
I get those too. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I really like the definitions. - LB - not a snow bunneh
Im locked in a firehall for 10 hours ... I need alone time ,,, as soon as I leave - johnpiercy
Definitely understand that. - holly from iPhone
Yes. All the time. - Kol Tregaskes
I get those - Alex Scoble
Me too! - imabonehead from Android
I always do that the following day. Now I have a term for it. - Raphael, Raphael
aye, now i can tell my wife i have a "social hangover" instead of her just thinking i'm going nuts again. - Joe Silence
YES! I know what you mean, because it happens to me quite often. I enjoy seeing friends and family, but it is exhausting to the point that I could just collapse in the spare room for a day or so (if given the chance, which never happens.) - Mark "DerBingle" J
I'm extroverted (moreover) and it certainly applies to me too, Trish. - Micah Wittman
I definately have the social hangover today:) ..xmas was kind of intensive... - anjelina
Family 2 days in a row....lots of drama....you're right, definitely a social hangover! So good to be alone and quiet. - Bonnie Foster from iPod
Yes - Jenny Morman
Depends on the people I guess. Family in intimate surroundings energizes me. Crowds wear me out. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Tad
Tad
In all the time I've been an adult, I've never wrapped a single xmas present. I've always done something lame like use a gift bag, etc. Every year Lindsay tells me that she'd really like me to wrap presents - "It's the thought that counts." So this year I wrapped presents. :( They look like something a deranged 4 year old might have done.
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@tad everyone starts out as a deranged gift-wrapper - Prolific Programmer from IM
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I'm embarrassed to show them to anyone - I guess I'll bring them out just before we open gifts so she and Avynn can have a good laugh. - Tad
I'm sure she will appreciate the personal touch. - Spidra Webster
Either way - I KNOW she'll like what's within the wrapping. :) - Tad
I used to wrap presents all the time. Now I don't give presents. Not giving or receiving presents makes me very zen happy. - Cristo
I think I may just unwrap them and take them someplace to get properly wrapped. - Tad
I'm all thumbs when it comes to wrapping gifts, so it takes forever unless I used "cheats" like gift bags. When my wife and I would wrap the kids' presents she could do 5 or 6 in the time I took to do just one (and, yes, I WAS really trying!) Then I worked at Borders books one Christmas as seasonal help, and they put me on--you guessed it--free gift wrapping duty! I had all of the... more... - Mark "DerBingle" J
Don't, Tad. Trust me. She'll be really amused and it'll be endearing. I've purposefully poorly wrapped presents for years because it brings on the 'awwwwwwww' factor in a big way. - Akiva Moskovitz
Uh. I hope Rochelle misses this thread. - Akiva Moskovitz
Tad, just get one of your girlfriends to rewrap it. ;) - Cristo
I like that the local 'gentlemen's clubs' have free gift wrapping while you wait. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo
Gift wrapping is a marketable skill. - imabonehead
This is one of those things men fail to learn because they know a woman will kindly (or impatiently) end up offering to do it for them. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
m9m - As for myself, the ineptitude was no mere affectation... I literally need about 45 minutes to wrap a frickin' CD! My "fine motor skillz" ain't so fine, it would seem. - Mark "DerBingle" J
I totally have the same disability. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com from iPhone
That a boy Tad! - Nicholas Kreidberg
One of my favorite columnists (Gene Weingarten, of the WaPo) had a wonderful piece a year or two ago about men and gift-wrapping: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Ladybug Heather
Practice makes perfect....;) My husband has actually been going through this for years....struggling to wrap his gifts....but I love them all, and he actually has gotten better with time! - Bonnie Foster
My mom could wrap presents professionally for Tiffanys or something. I mean, scary perfection that I have never been able to recreate, even going so far as to 'match up' the pattern on the paper when she folded it over (so you couldn't see the seam she would say). I am thinking of filming her doing it and making it as a how to video. Meanwhile, my father gets by with newspapers or leftover paper bags from grocery stores duct tapes / masking tape / leftover twine. I'm somewhere in the middle. - Andrew Leyden
I too was once like you, until I got stuck in a Macy's for a long time (waiting on someone), and spent it watching the gift-wrapping people. It turns out that at least for rectangular stuff, gift-wrapping is really pretty straightforward. I kind of enjoy it now even though the Mrs. usually gets the credit for the stuff I wrap. - Dave Roth
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Pismo Sunset (via Dare*2*Dream) - http://emmeffe.tumblr.com/post...
Pismo Sunset (via Dare*2*Dream)
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Love Pismo! I've gotten some great shots of sunsets there! - Bonnie Foster
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Twitter Snowball Fight Leads to Cop Brandishing Gun [VIDEO] - http://mashable.com/2009...
Twitter Snowball Fight Leads to Cop Brandishing Gun [VIDEO]
December 20 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
D.C. snowball fight promoted on Twitter resulted in a cop pulling his gun out of its holster on Saturday, according to reports. - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
Fa La La La Lindsay
Fa La La La Lindsay
Ok, here's something I'm too lazy to Google so you folks can tell me instead: What exactly is "minced meat" and does it taste as yechy as it sounds?
December 17 - Comment - Share
I think it's "mince meat" - and I have no clue what it is. - Brett Kelly from iPhone
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I always thought it was gelatinous nuts and it's disgusting. Uh...I'm also assuming you mean 'mincemeat'. - Admiral Anika
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... dried fruit, spirits, seasoning and meat. it sounds gross. - Mary Carmen
dried fruit (esp raisins), alcohol and a bit of suet as a pie filling. I've never had it but I really like raisin pie so I think I'd probably like mince pies. - Spidra Webster
BLEAH. it's disgusting. - holly
*pushes away from the table* - Derrick
I used to think meat and fruit couldn't mix but there used to be a Peruvian restaurant in town and they totally changed my mind on that with a sort of Peruvian tamale they made with raisins in it. - Spidra Webster
There's no nuts in it?!?! WTF did they feed me? I refuse to believe those crunchy bits were actual meat. - Admiral Anika
One of my great-aunts made mincemeat pies every Thanksgiving. I never tried it. - Katy S
I like it in moderation. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
"minced meat" is a common term in the UK for what we in the US call "hamburger." Mincemeat (or "mince," as it's often called) is a pie filling dating back to the middle ages that consists of small pieces of fruits, nuts, and suet, usually soaked in wine or other spirits. It used to be considered a great delicacy and has since fallen somewhat out of favor. - Mistletoe Glen
The preparation was also a good way to preserve meat way back when. It also adds filler (the fruits and such), extending the amount of meat that a person had to use. In that context, it makes sense, but I've never felt compelled to try a mincemeat pie. The aroma of the ones I've been near have not been enticing. - Katy S
Mince Meat is my porn name. - Tad
My grandmother used to make Mincemeat pie and made her own mixture, which yes, did include suet......however, there is no meaty taste....just sweet. Now you can buy mincemeat in jars to make pies, but there is no longer any suet added to it. She used to put "hard" sauce over the pie...that's just butter, confectioner's sugar, and booze.....like brandy, rum or whiskey....it was the best part! - Bonnie Foster
I like mincemeat pies from time to time. I've never had one that tasted like meat, though, and if meat was part of the mix it was barely recognizable. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Tad++ - Brett Kelly from iPhone
modern meaning of minced meat is identical to that of ground meat. IOW, minced beef = ground beef. - Joe Silence
My grandmother used to make it when I was a kid. It was like an extra spicy raisin pie. I ate it and didn't hate it, but then, no one ever told me it actually had MEAT in it! I thought it was "mincemeat" in the same way that the edible part of a nut is "nutmeat." Once I had eaten it, it's probably best that I didn't find out what it really was. - Mark "DerBingle" J
the mincemeat pies you get in the US are generally meatless. - Joe Silence
I'll try it - Rodfather
No, but what you can buy the filling (and mostly) what's made has changed from the original recipe. Still, its quite good if you like a very sweet pie. I recommend Nonsuch and Crosse and Blackwells. I would not recommend that you get the reconstituted (in the box) on your first go at it even though it is cheaper. It's rather nasty and will definitely put you off mincemeat forever. :) - Melanie Reed
+++ Glen Mistletoe - Melanie Reed
And don't forget to add the Brandy! Most important! :) - Melanie Reed
+++ Bonnie. Agree it is the best part. :) - Melanie Reed
This is the cookbook I have which has a good mincemeat recipe: "Great British Cooking: A Well Kept Secret" by Jane Garmey It has a great forward by Calvin Trillan p.254 - Melanie Reed
I'll bet that's an interesting book... The British aren't renowned for good cooking! - Fa La La La Lindsay
Lindsay, yeah. Ive enjoyed and tried several of the recipes. Colcannon, Poor Knights of Windsor, Toad in the Hole, Bubble and Squeak are a few of my favorites! - Melanie Reed
Mince meat is actually chopped dried fruit, as in mince pies - Ian May
Lindsay asked about minced meat, tho. not mince meat. - Joe Silence
I've never had mincemeat with meat in, only dried fruit. Tradition may have stipulated meat many years ago. - Ian May
@Joe, I didn't know there was a difference... I was asking about the dish that seems to be served around this time of year. :) - Fa La La La Lindsay
Minced in England is what is ground in the US - Ian May
but mincemeat (usually one word) is dried chopped fruit. - Ian May
If one goes into an English butchers shop and wanted some ground beef, one would ask for mince, or minced beef. - Ian May
@Melanie --What? Mincemeat involves Brandy? Well that explains a lot! @Joe --I shall cling to the hope that my grandmother's version did not, in fact, contain meat. - Mark "DerBingle" J
Mincemeat can and does vary a bit between commercial brands, and home made (which some do lace with alcohol) - Ian May
mincemeat pie is okay, but i'll go with apple or razzleberry or even cherry if i have to. - Joe Silence
@Mark I hope it explains good things. :) btw- a side note. If any of you have seen the remake of "State Fair" (with Pat Boone) putting brandy in her mincemeat is what wins the Texas State Fair competition for the mother. lol - Melanie Reed
putting booze in ANYTHING wins at the Texas State Fair. - Joe Silence
Joe ROFLOL ! - Melanie Reed
*lives in Texas and attends that fair every year* - Joe Silence
There is a lot of crap sometimes between US and UK about food and drink. Americans are led to believe English food is bland and the beer is warm; Britons are lead to believe that Americans eat nothing but donuts and McDog, and all look like those 'people from walmart' pics... - Ian May
*Joe, Was Texas Transplant and lived in North Corridor of Dallas for 2 years. Loved it. Still consider them a "second home" ;)* - Melanie Reed
@Ian: we do eat WAY too many corn-related products, that much is true. - Joe Silence
Melanie. I quite often make Bubble and Squeak, and I made Toad In The Hole recently too - Ian May
According to my copy of The Oxford Companion To Food, while mincemeat "rarely contains meat nowadays," it often did in the past. Some recipes today still contain suet. "The beef was sometimes partly or wholly replaced by suet from the mid-17th century onwards, and meat had effectively disappeared from 'mincemeat' on both sides of the Atlantic in the 19th century." - Katy S
And yes, I own an 850+ page reference book about food. - Katy S
Is there anything that there's not an Oxford Companion for? :D - Fa La La La Lindsay
Similar to what I remember being told about the origins of mincemeat, and why it was called such. - Ian May
"The Compleat Oxford Companion To Shaving Your Pubic Region, 5E" - Joe Silence
My mom uses it in her fruitcake. - Shevonne
+++ Katy S yep! - Melanie Reed
Shevonne meat, suet or mincement (fruit only) ? - Melanie Reed
fruit only...it says Mincemeat on the can - Shevonne
Joe, I read that the average US diet contains 4 main ingredients. Corn, Soy, Wheat, Rice. - Ian May
you forgot beef, fat, sugar, chicken, corn, fat, fat, fat, MSG and fat. - Joe Silence
Shevonne, I'll bet its a wonderful moist fruit cake. :) - Melanie Reed
Joe, still mostly corn though, after Nixon set up those huge subsidies for it back in the 70's. There wasn't HFCS before that. - Ian May
HFCS is a particularly American thing too. You don't find it in European products for example. - Ian May
i never found it in any food in SE Asia, either. - Joe Silence
American meat is largely banned in the UK, due to the use of growth hormones. UK beef was banned here for a good while due to mad cow, It's a crazy world. - Ian May
HFCS fucks me, I'm unpleasantly allergic to corn - mjc from iPhone
I largely avoid HFCS myself. I'm not allergic to it though - Ian May
HFCS is really bad for everyone in many ways. avoid it as much as you can. - Joe Silence
We mostly eat fresh meat and produce here - Ian May
Not fanatical about it, I just prefer it, The palate doesnt have to have a high fat high salt high sugar diet. - Ian May
Hey! I like mince pies- with mincemeat. Weird yes, nice also. But then, I like Marmite. - Pete
I consider this conversation both entertaining and educational ;) My grandmother rocked the mincemeat (in both pie and cookie form) every year around this time - and suet, suet, suet was the magic ingredient as it is with all the old recipes in our family. I don't even know how I would go about buying suet if I needed to. - Holly Rae
Atora. - Pete
Pete thanks for that. I will look into trying some. - Melanie Reed
Holly - If you ask most butchers, they can get suet for you. I've seen it in one of the grocery stores here every now and then, but a butcher is your best bet. - Katy S
And here is the clarified suet Pete is talking about available online: http://www.britishfoodshop.com/atora-s... - Melanie Reed
Suet is the thick layer of fat found around beef kidneys. - Ian May
Don't sell mince pies short -- see http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... -- delicious. - Stephen Mack
usually it is made up of beef but you can also get it in chicken or pork flavour, i use it to make pasta sauce :) - Loc
Fa La La La Lindsay
Fa La La La Lindsay
What is your favorite food during the holidays?
December 17 - Comment - Share
Cheesy hashbrowns. - Jordan Hofker
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Gingerbread - by a mile. - Brett Kelly from iPhone
my Pumpkin Crunch. mmmm. - FF's Bubba of Arizona
rice pudding - Mary Carmen
Kris says: peppermint mochas, I say: pumpkin pie - Bren -- feeling merry from iPhone
Cookies!!! Plus, the peanut butter fudge that my former-babysitter makes. I've never tasted any that is as good as hers. I still get a plate-full of it every Christmas. - Katy S
Fudge, pumpkin pie, and Rum Balls! - Bonnie Foster
Punkin pie! - Jenthemum
Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
Sautéed Chestnuts, Onions, and Bacon Recipe | Simply Recipes - http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes...
Sautéed Chestnuts, Onions, and Bacon Recipe | Simply Recipes
December 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
I know within two bites if a holiday side dish is truly spectacular. Because I’ll have a nearly uncontrollable urge to elbow the turkey or ham off the table, pull the bowl to me, dunk my face in, and not come up for air until I’m finished. - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
I would love to try this....I've never cooked with Chestnuts before! - Bonnie Foster
Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva Moskovitz
I'm not nearly as profane as I used to be. My grandmother accidentally taught me how to curse like a sailor as the saying goes. I've gotten really good about keeping it clean but Audrey's starting to recognize words so I need to get it completely clean. Discussing this tonight with Rochelle, I realized that my favorite profanity is, of all things:
December 15 - Comment - Share
(and remember that I'm Jewish) - Akiva Moskovitz
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Jesus Fucking Christ. - Akiva Moskovitz
So, yeah, I really, really need to get over that one. Thanks, movies! - Akiva Moskovitz
I know why Jesus never fathered a child... Imagine having sex with a girl who just calls out your dad's name all the time... *goes straight to Hell, no waiting* - Johnny Worthington
Johnny, we've got VIP passes. - Akiva Moskovitz
Bahahaha - Mo Kargas
Me and mom did a pretty decent job keeping things clean, but the grandparents not so much. I think he pretty much knows how to say just about any "bad word" with conviction and perfect comedic timing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I think replacing it with obsolete swears is the best way. Jumping Jehosaphat! 'Zounds! Peter Paul and Mary! - Spidra Webster
Spidra, my personal fave is "Cheese 'n Rice!" - felicious
"Kelly Clarkson!" - Derrick
I'm just learning how to curse in foreign languages. That seems to be the diplomatic solution. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, that's what my mother did when she really felt the need to curse. I was the coolest kid in French class! - joey
...or you could just say what you mean. Like "ouch" or "oops" or "look what you did to my couch, do you think money grows on trees?" When you say what you really mean, there's no reason to try and appear more powerful by using profanities. (Full disclosure: I've been back in with religion for three years and I still have to catch myself after the first syllable. "Oh, fuuuuuuuuuuu...dge.") - Jeremy (on vacation)
Pick a more obscure language. I found cursing in Spanish when I encountered bad drivers wasn't exactly a smooth move. I had to switch to Swedish. - Spidra Webster
I usually go with "cheezits" (in case you dont get it, instead of jesus), "fudge cakes", and I'm trying to work in "crivens!" because its the funniest one I know. :) p.s. My bf's sister was all "We can't swear around the baby!" and she's the one that does it the most. >.< - Heather
"bah..." and "bloody" work for nearly everything when around the wee ones - Michael W. May
Frak!!!! BSG style ;) - Alemsah Ozturk from iPhone
Those frelling curse words... - Jemm
Sometimes I think its worse to make up a curse word. If you are a gonna curse, just curse....says the girl with no kids. :-D - Paulette Garcia Morris
"Blast!" is pretty satisfying. So is "Dadblagit!" - Jenthemum
"What the deuce?" - Jemm
I learned it all from my Dad - VAL D. Zone
My favs are "Jesus Christ in a handbasket" (holy shit); Holy Mary Mother of God (oh my God!); freakin' (fuck, fucking, etc.); and then go with bloody or foreign language terms, like scheisse (shit in German, said 'shy-suh'). Caveat - not Catholic and will probably go to hell anyway. - Cassandra
If I believed in Hell, I'd probably be headed straight down in a stretched limo. But I don't, so there. :-P - Jason Huebel
You could say just say '@#*!' (pronounced 'at-hash-splat-bang') or some similar combination. - Michael R. Bernstein
Thanks to friendfeed, I just go around yelling DYSP all the time now. - Alex Scoble
While I was breaking myself of the habit I'd say, "Bad words!" or "Curses." Three kids and only one picked up "shit" I dropped something in front of the toddler once. - Heather Solos
Akiva, you're welcome to borrow my name to help you gradually step out of the habit, replace Jesus Fucking Christ with Jimminy Fucking Cricket. Good luck dropping the habit though. - Jimminy Fuller
I didn't have a hard time not swearing at home, but I cuss like a sailor when I drive. I knew it was bad when one day I was stuck at a red light and Joelito busts out the f bomb. I have since attempted to clean up my act. - Michelle Martinez
my wife is trying to wean me off of this before our child is born in May. It's starting to work. I swear like a fucking sailor at home most of the time. - Bill Kinney
My kids are in full-on copy-everything-they-hear mode, and I'm trying to convince my wife to stop saying "crap." It's not a very bad curse word as far as curse words go, but it's a bit embarrassing when my 2-year-old says it to the neighbor. As for me, I don't swear much. - Stephen Mack
Well the "F-bomb" is one of my most favorite words, and I have to admit, I use it a lot at home (no kids here), but I've trained myself to pretty much watch my mouth when I'm out and about, and in front of my parents. - Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
SWEET: Merge All of Your Duplicate Gmail Contacts With One Click - http://mashable.com/2009...
SWEET: Merge All of Your Duplicate Gmail Contacts With One Click
December 15 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
Gmail has an array of useful and unique features that have really made e-mail a slightly more pleasurable experience (or more aptly, a less painful one). We love the fact that you can undo sent messages, stop yourself from e-mailing the wrong person, and customize your navigation bar. - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
Shey, Jamaican of FF
Shey, Jamaican of FF to Shey,'s feed, User Photos
Photos from my first day of school with my cousin - we're both 2 years old
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December 14 - Comment - Share
Don't make fun of my Annie lunchbox. - Shey, Jamaican of FF
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:) - RAPatton from iPhone
Wow, cute! I'm sure I had the same lunchbox. - anna sauce
Aileen Quinn went to my bride's high school - RAPatton from iPhone
Can we make fun of his Hello Kitty lunchbox? - Matthew DeVries
Awwww and both of you had adorable lunchboxes. - Admiral Anika
@Matthew Please do :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Your stance in the first picture makes you look like one of the Peanuts. Very cute! - Spidra Webster
Awwwwwwww! - Michelle Martinez
My coworkers wanted proof that I started school at 2 -- of course, this doesn't prove that I'm actually still smart. :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF
I love these. Thanks for posting, Shey. - Derrick
Adorable :) - Fatima
Very cute! - Bonnie Foster
Thanks, you're all very kind :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Awww! You're both so cute! - Carmen - Happy 2010!
You were one cute kid Shey Jamaican mon - sofarsoShawn
Good lord, that's some cuteness. - Ayşe E.
those lunchboxes are classic collectables I have my sons Dukes of Hazzard and my daughters Holly Hoobie - VAL D. Zone
Hey! I had a Mork and Mindy lunchbox! :D - AJ Batac
I had GIJoe - Matthew DeVries
WOW, I think I had that one too! - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Oh my gosh! Jamaican style! - Shevonne
Yup, the good ol' days :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Bindu Reddy
Bindu Reddy
How come we only hear about famous men being unfaithful to their wives. We don't ever hear about a famous woman being unfaithful to her husband...
December 11 - Comment - Share
There were rumors about Jacky O. Cher comes to mind as well. Elizabeth Taylor probably didn't get married 8 times by being faithful. I agree it's not as common though. - Cristo
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Weren't there more rumors about Kennedy though? - Bindu Reddy
Maybe women are more discreet....or sneakier...however, you want to look at it. ;) - Bonnie Foster
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I would guess Cleopatra had her share of affairs. :) - Cristo
Plenty...often incestuous - Itachi
I think maybe it's cause women get attracted to powerful men... the men than find it really hard to resist :)) - Bindu Reddy
Men find it hard to resist women that are attracted to them? - Cristo
Well men find it hard to resist attractive women who are attracted to them.... - Bindu Reddy
Why not ask about how this story would be completely different if it was Tiger with the golf club to the back of the car and not his wife? - Uncle CW™
It's all about the narrative. And the narrative that sells is the cheating husband, I guess. - Chieze Okoye
Also, CW's point is very good, too. It would have been a totally different story altogether (again, the narrative that sells). - Chieze Okoye
Madonna - Nick Lothian
Some reporter actually did a story on this - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a... - Bindu Reddy
So a man with a cheating wife that takes a Golf Club to the window of the back of her vehicle is not equal to a cheating husband who's wife takes a Golf Club to the back of his car window? - Uncle CW™
Well that depends.....if the cheating wife has 11 boyfriends (what's the equivalent title to "mistress"), and counting, then I'd tell the husband to go for it! - Bonnie Foster
I am pretty sure its because women tend to be more discreet. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
Also, men are, by default, considered the aggressor in a relationship (accurately or not) and so are assigned the burden of the consequences. If a wealthy/powerful woman has an affair with a man (or men), it's assumed that he was a willing participant and in no way "coerced." I happen to believe that none of Tiger's mistresses were truly "coerced" either, but that seems to be irrelevant in the world according to MainStreamMedia. - Mark "DerBingle" J
Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
Rippol Will Tell You What You Want to Watch Right Now - http://mashable.com/2009...
Rippol Will Tell You What You Want to Watch Right Now
Rippol Will Tell You What You Want to Watch Right Now
December 14 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
Name: Rippol Quick Pitch: Rippol is an intelligent video discovery engine that leverages social network interaction and intelligent machine learning to enhance content discovery. Genius Idea: Like BoxeeBoxeeBoxee, Rippol is an entertainment dashboard that houses video content from all over web. So content from sites like Revision3, HuluHuluHulu, CNN, Fox, Amazon, MSNBC, FanCast, Netflix, YouTubeYouTubeYouTube and MTV is all readily available for your online viewing pleasure. Rippol, however, is entirely web-based and even more focused on perfecting video recommendations. - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
Jason Huebel
Jason Huebel
Has anyone seen The Good Wife? Is it any good?
December 14 from IM - Comment - Share
I've watched it and I like it. So far I think it's been a pretty good part for Margulies... - Bonnie Foster
Joe Pierce
Joe Pierce
5 movies that can make me stop doing anything and just watch. No matter what. Do you have any movies like this?
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December 11 - Comment - Share
Serenity, The Maltese Falcon, Inherit the Wind, - cdogzilla
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Friday, The Blues Brothers. - Kamilah Gill
Aliens, Man on Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction - ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shaun of the Dead, The Third Man, The Commitments - aden
My Cousin Vinny, Unforgiven, Galaxy Quest, High Plains Drifter, Nixon. - Derek Coward
Rear Window, Bonnie & Clyde, Mulholland Drive, Singin' in the Rain. More, I'm sure. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Magnolia, Snatch, Pulp Fiction, Amélie, Carlito's Way - Ubqtous
Casablanca, Forbidden Planet, The Empire Strikes Back, The Incredibles, Army of Darkness - RAPatton from iPhone
the original Day the Earth Stood Still, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Lawrence of Arabia, Dances with Wolves and the "Alan Smithee" cut of Dune. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
you all have good taste. - Joe Pierce
The Goonies, Big Trouble in Little China, Tremors, The Thing and Serenity - Scott
Movies You Stop Flipping the Channel For! :-D I have many of the same as above. Aden - I think I love you. :-) - Paulette Garcia Morris
Once Upon a Time in the West (Director's cut), Danton, A Clockwork Orange, anything directed by Kubrick, Kurosawa, or Scorsese. - Gary Fredrick
Rear Window and every re-run of the Gilmore Girls no matter how many times I've seen it before. - Mark Horne
Dr. Strangelove, Reservoir Dogs, Mulholland Drive, Pixar (anything) - T. Brent, technopeasant
A League of Their Own, Beauty Shop, Mean Girls, Star Wars and The Parent Trap (the original). - Admiral Anika
The Breakfast Club, American Pie, The Last of the Mohicans, Footloose, Reality Bites. - Mellissa
Can't change the channel on Liar Liar, A Few Good Men, The Rock, The Chronicles of Riddick . . . - Helen Gynell
Clerks,Dazed and Confused,Ferris,Fast Times and last but not least my fav .Better Off Dead..oh I have to have a 6th ...Office Space - VAL D. Zone
oah yes make that 7 Breakfast Club...... - VAL D. Zone
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Big Trouble in Little China, Flatliners, Close Encounters of 3rd kind, Rope - Red Label
School of rock, Remember the titans. Liar Liar, The cable guy - Patrick from twhirl
Interestingly enough, I've never seen Pretty Poison. But the rest of the list is spot on. - Jason Huebel
12 Angry Men from the original list; add to that The Andromeda Strain (original, obviously), Zoolander, The Chronicles of Riddick, and Hero. - Mark H
I love your choices. :) I have to think about it. Wizard of Oz is definitely on the list. - Blackeyed P
Young Frankenstein, Tootsie, Dirty Dancing, Casablanca, Annie Hall. - Bonnie Foster
Pale Rider - ha3rvey (Ho)^3
I am sneaking another one on Weekend at Bernies - VAL D. Zone
Bonnie Foster
Bonnie Foster
Nexus One vs. iPhone: What Google Needs to Succeed - http://mashable.com/2009...
Nexus One vs. iPhone: What Google Needs to Succeed
December 12 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
The Google Phone has graduated from rumor to a Twittered thing of beauty, with the likely name Nexus One. This “Google Phone” is also being tested by the company’s staff. Now it’s time to talk about the elephant in the room: the very real and very successful iPhone . - Bonnie Foster from Bookmarklet
Mike Nayyar
Mike Nayyar
FUCK I'M ALMOST IN MY MID-20'S
December 10 - Comment - Share
Pffffft bitch, I turn 30 in a month... Shut your pie hole - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
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Oh PUHLEEEZE!!! - Mark "DerBingle" J
If Worthington hits 30...I think I just found my 2012 scenario - Mike Nayyar
bah - i'm closing in on 50 - and if i'm not whining then I don't want to hear it - bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I assume that is hex? - Eivind
I turned 30 at the beginning of this year. It's no big deal. - Curtiss Grymala
The real crisis: I'm suddenly becoming David Wooderson. "High school girls (Me: And all college girls): I get older, they stay the same age" - Mike Nayyar
Quit ya whinin! - Mo Kargas
OH NO! Is that supposed to be bad? I liked my mid-20s. - Admiral Anika
*sniff sniff* Do I smell nappies and grape-flavored bubble gum? Why there must be young whippersnappers hereabouts! - Spidra Webster
meh. glad my mid 20s are over. They sucked. - Kamilah Gill
OH SNAP ME TOO. And I think I totally wasted the first half of them. - Penguin It's Cold Outside
All the snapping sounds like elderly HIP BONES GIVING OUT! - Mo Kargas
I'm inclined to agree with bear above... you'll live. - Jim Misses SP
At least y'all didn't just recently gain eligibility to use the Denny's Senior Menu... - Mark "DerBingle" J
I qualify for Medicare next year. HAH. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
mmmmm Denny's pancakes. I remember a time when they were as big as your head and only cost a nickel! That was before forks were invented so we had to eat them with our hands. Damn hot they were too, not like today. Cold as ice now.......and small. - suzanne
you youngins this old hag is 60....... - VAL D. Zone
LOL, Val. I bow, I bow. - Jim Misses SP
i'm more than twice your age and still rockin'. you're far from done, lad. :) - Joe Silence
Mike Nayyar I love dazed and confused - VAL D. Zone
I was rocking til I got arthritis so bad I had to quit work and everything but in my mind I am still jumping around the concerts and traveling...........I miss all that the most but at least I have my FF to keep me company............. - VAL D. Zone
Okay Val you win on arthritis but I'm still the Eldest. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Suzanne? *dead* ROFL - Admiral Anika
Suzanne ++ - Andrew C from Android
*adjusts onion on belt* Boy, I say boy... I got bunions older than you! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo
+1 Mark.....mid 20's....that means your brain is finally cooked! Start appreciating your adulthood! - Bonnie Foster
Mid twenties? I had those for breakfast! - Jason Hill
If I hit my mid 20's, do you realize that according to the Mayan calendar, we all DIE?! THIS IS SERIOUS SHIT, PEOPLE. - Mike Nayyar
Are you saying we shouldn't let you get to your mid-20s? - Andrew C
bad = good; sick = cool; ill = cool.... I think die probably equals live or orgasm or something in whippersnapper-speak. I'm good. - Spidra Webster
Admiral Anika
Admiral Anika
FACT: fudge, brownies and just about anything chocolatey that isn't pure dark chocolate is just disgusting. Don't even get me started when vile little pecans or walnuts are added.
December 10 - Comment - Share
Well. I thought we could be friends. I was wrong. :P - EricaJoy
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You know, I can take care of all that non-pure-dark-chocolate stuff for you. Because I'm a giver :) - Archangel ωαřмaiden
Ah a chocolate bigot are we then? - Brian Sullivan
I prefer chocolate snob. - Admiral Anika
I love fudge and brownies, but I'm with ya on the nuts. I generally don't like nuts in my chocolate. - vicster is...
Snob it is then. - Brian Sullivan
Wow, I can't imagine not liking brownies, fudge, chocolate cake... it boggles the mind! - Fa La La La Lindsay
I used to hate chocolate cake until I found a nice, moist, well-made one. Hershey's milk chocolate is disgusting (except for Symphony). I have no idea how I used to eat so many Kisses. I can't even get them down anymore. - Kamilah Gill
brownies without walnuts are NOT brownies. they are little chocolate step-snacks that nobody loves. Walnuts rule! especially in brownie land!!!! - Morgan Haley
Not in my world, Morgan. So, I'll just keep my insanely good, rich, sinfully delicious brownies WITHOUT walnuts to myself. :p You're on your own, mister... - Bette Cooper
When I make brownies, I use good quality dutch-processed cocoa. It makes a world of difference. They are dark and rich. Kamilah - Hershey's has lowered their standards in recent years. I'm pretty sure the percentage of cocoa has dropped in their products. Not that it was ever high-end chocolate, but it was once better than it is now. - Katy S
Walnuts to the rescue! Save the naked, neglected brownies from their plain-ness! - Morgan Haley
Why walnuts, though? Toasted almonds sound tastier to me. - Katy S
No Nuts in Baked Goods (tm). - cecily
Cecily - I normally don't use them in baked goods. The exceptions are a couple quick breads I make and some almond blondies that have slivered almonds across the top of them. EDITED TO ADD: I do make pecan pie, so I suppose that counts as baked goods with nuts. - Katy S
++ cecily! I am fully onboard with your philosophy. - Jennifer Dittrich
Cecily++. Dark chocolate is gross. Maybe my definition of dark chocolate is different though. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
The No Nuts in Baked Goods brigade is something I pilfered from Jason Toney. - cecily
Pecans > walnuts. - Derrick
ah, i see fellow member of the No Nuts in Baked Goods Brigade has responded. i have a mild allergy to some nuts and don't like most others. that said, i can't get behind this pure dark chocolate doctrine. ancho chile in dark chocolate is The Bizness. and i enjoy a good milk chocolate, sometimes with caramel. - tiffany
What about a flourless chocolate cake? SO GOOD. - Andrew C
Nuts are good in chocolate (especially hazelnuts), milk is not. Milk chocolate should be banned. - Christopher A Carr
Hmm...something that Anika and I agree on foodwise? Well, except for the nuts bit, but I'm totally with you on the dark chocolate bit. - Alex Scoble
I like both dark and milk chocolate, but either way it needs to be high quality. - Katy S
You obviously haven't had Lindt Lindor chocolate. - Bryce Roney from iPhone
It's taking a lot of self-control for me not to make brownies right now using my dutch-processed Bensdorp cocoa. - Katy S
Oh, I forgot... Hershey's so-called dark chocolate is gross, too. I like proper dark chocolate. Katy, you're probably right about the cocoa reduction. They shouldn't even be allowed to call that garbage chocolate. - Kamilah Gill
I think in Canada there are minimum requirements of cocoa inclusion before something can be called "chocolate" -- most "chocolate bars" here are labelled candy bars because of the requirement. - Brian Sullivan
I'm not partial to nuts in baked goods......and I prefer dark chocolate....but let's be honest....I love any kind of chocolate I can get my hands on! Dark, milk, no nuts, nuts..... - Bonnie Foster
Bonnie, you need to come to my house and hoover up all this chocolate my MIL gives us. No one here really eats it. - Admiral Anika
LOL Anika....I'd hoover away! - Bonnie Foster from iPod
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i was gonna say something, but then.... - http://www.lanidianerich.com/wp...
i was gonna say something, but then....
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a classic. - Joe Silence
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ROFL - rowlikeagirl
I can barely believe the awesomeness of this picture. Where is it from?? - Chieze Okoye
bunches of places, the list is infinite, :o - chaz2b
But what about the source picture? - Chieze Okoye
o' you mean what movie is this from, i dont have a clue :( - chaz2b
Well, to be honest, I'm sick of Betty White's Shit! - Morgan Haley
I love this! I think it's from the TV show Boston Public....she was a regular for awhile. - Bonnie Foster
Thank you Bonnie! I didn't realize that she was on that show. - Chieze Okoye
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Roasted Parsnips with Horseradish-Herb Butter | Simply Recipes
December 9 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Share
"Note to those who run from horseradish - try it anyway. I can't distinguish the horseradish from the flavors of the parsnips and butter, and neither could my parents until I told them what was in it. The flavors of the ingredients are a perfect complement to each other." - Michael W. May from Bookmarklet
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I'd give this a shot. - Akiva Moskovitz
i've never tried parsnips. had to google them just to make sure what they were. but i'd try this. it looks like pasta. what's the texture like? - Morgan Haley
Parsnips are like a more fibrous carrot, texture-wise. The flavor somehow has a lot of cinnamon notes. - Andrew C
I'd say 1/3rd carrot, 1/3rd turnip - Michael W. May
I've been adding minced or dice parsnips to many things of late for a nice bit of texture and taste. I bought some fresh horseradish last week and now I know one reason why *chuckle* - Michael W. May
I'd definitely try this. - Bonnie Foster
I <3 Parsnips and I <3 Horseradish so this looks like heaven :) - Penny
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I've never felt more loved!
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<3 Awwwww!! - aden
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<333 You're gonna make me cry, D!! - Derrick
omg thats beautiful..................... - VAL D. Zone
Awwwwwwwww - Sparky
Oh how cute! - Bonnie Foster
def cuteness overload... - Robyn Hawk
that's the cutest picture! look at the pup! Close up! :) - Anna Lynn M.
I cannot stop looking at this picture......... - VAL D. Zone
too cute for words. - Blackeyed P
mega cute !! - Peter Dawson
So beautiful :-)) - Anna Haro
Love it. :) - Louis Gray
totally AWWWWW - Morgan Haley
WOW! The best. - Martha
:D - Josh Haley
somebody's jealous? and incredibly cute... - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
♥♥♥♥♥ - matmazelange
please adopt me too :) - Irrisolta Confusa from BuddyFeed
It's all fun and games until you need to move your arm. - SuezanneC Baskerville
1UP Suzanne - Josh Haley
bumpage - Trish Haley
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Got this in an e-mail from someone.....frankly, laughed my ass off......... - Bonnie Foster
me too, i'm going through my old email right now, and sorry that i missed it when it was fresh, ;) - chaz2b
I am finding this so funny...and disturbing that I find it so funny. - Kamath (नमः)
Zee.
Zee.
So, in your opinion, be honest now...is Friendfeed still alive and kicking? (update: seemingly so. :) )
December 7 - Comment - Share
yes. very much so. - John Wang
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Yes, but has started to develop some health problems and needs a doctor's visit. - Alex Scoble
It is for me - Mo Kargas
It definitely is for me. - Curtiss Grymala
I just got here. It's the best platform. - Jeremy (on vacation)
for me it is ................. - VAL D. Zone
It's still kicking :). A little less a guess but still :) - alfred westerveld
Yes. - Jim Misses SP
hell ya ......! - johnpiercy
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD! - Morgan Haley
Yep, still kickin'! - Beau Liening from iPhone
Does a bear poop in the woods? - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Ok, so I don't live here anymore, but I still check in for conversation and positivity. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
for sure - Josh Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home. - Brian Sullivan
wow. For you maybe, Brian. - Jim Misses SP
Yes! - Anne Bouey
But I am still here. - Brian Sullivan
Yep. Certainly not as crazy as it was 'back in the day' but it's definitely still kicking. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm making a concerted effort to pop in and find some great stuff to share - Alistair (alpinefolk)
As far as I can tell, it's still alive. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
TBH, I feel like I use FF much more now that before the acquisition. So for me, yes, it's very much alive and kicking. 8^D - Chieze Okoye
I'm tellin' ya: it's the librarians' fault. - cecily
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!! - Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure! - Christopher Galtenberg
yep - Wayne Sutton
Yes. - pea
Yes. - Kamilah Gill
Somewhat less so than the previous old days... - TrafficBug
being bought by Facebook has definitely dampened my enthusiasm, but yeah, its still alive and kicking - Jeffrey Canton
Still seems pretty lively to me. - Gordon Herd
This was asked eight hours ago and has gotten 19 likes so far. Not a resounding "yes." - Robert Scoble
Compare to @ericschmidt who was added to 700+ lists and 12,000+ followers in 24 hours over on Twitter. - Robert Scoble
But 34 comments, and nearly all "Yes". - Nils Sandin
Nils: sorry, that's not a resounding yes either. 34 people do not a service make. - Robert Scoble
yes, affirmative. - bora "head" basman
The service works for me, so I don't fret about the other new or old services. Both have their place. - Nils Sandin
werd. - imabonehead
Haha. I must say I'm starting to see more and more threads like this. The discussion is definitely coming back. - Roberto Bonini
Twitter for headlines, FF for discussions. - Nils Sandin
it is to me - barbarars
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it - Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past] - Markingegno - Donato from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return. - Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes! - Iván Abrego
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people. - Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc. - Louis Simoneau
its going to die soon - Farshad
FF is like a small country town. Not a big population but people stop and say "hello". - Barak B
Yes, indeed! - Andrew Terry
Is this a bit like a band you feel you've discovered becoming mainstream? - plooptionary
Yes, it's very much alive and kicking! - Michael Fidler
+Louis Simoneau (& I answered above earlier) - Kamilah Gill
as far as I can tell, yes. - Derek Coward
Yep - RAPatton from iPhone
I'm here - Jimminy Fuller
Still alive. :) - 3Cinteractive, L.L.C. from twhirl
You bet. Still the best interface and most interesting conversations - Alan Morris from iPhone
Yep. Cranking along just like Jaiku. - Ken Sheppardson
Yep, I just saw that one of those Twitter Social Media Guru's found the place and followed 4k people in 5 minutes. - Jimminy Fuller
yes. those who say otherwise can go somewhere else. - Aron Michalski from BuddyFeed
Hey Zee, from what platform did you originally post your question? I'm seeing it via Friendfeed by way of a friend. - Rich Reader
@Rich on friendfeed itself - Zee.
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead. - Uncle CW™
No. We're all dead. Go away. - Mistletoe Glen
I'm standing under the Mistletoe O_O - Micah Wittman
Zee, regarding your question, and I'm no Godin apologist, but his '1000 true fans' comes to mind http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b... - Micah Wittman
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way. - Micah Wittman
I'm not done yet. Christopher Galtenberg http://friendfeed.com/zee... and Louis Simoneau http://friendfeed.com/zee... make great points. - Micah Wittman
Sure is - Herb Hernandez
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here. - Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.! - Petr Buben
Always..! - ★ Soner Gönül
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter - Ian Rudy
still here. - Mike Nencetti
alive - gemella
kick - Kevin Fox
Yes. The primary thing that has changed is the content. - Steven Perez
And it no longer buys us flowers anymore, the bitch. - Akiva Moskovitz
I think this thread proves what is fact.... - Mathew™ one of a kind
WOW - I guess so!!! May have to come off digest... - Robyn Hawk
O Hai There! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore - Itachi
Mark "DerBingle" J
Mark "DerBingle" J
Note to Fellow Christians: Don't assume because someone says they're Christian that they represent represent "good" values. Many horrible deeds have been masterminded by self-professed Christians... deeds that line up better with the Satan camp than the Jesus camp. Just sayin'...
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There was the whole Inquisition thing, for starters. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
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Just heard a radio quote from a Sarah Palin supporter. Her sum total rationale for supporting Palin? "Well, she's a Christian, so she has good values." - Mark "DerBingle" J
Good point Mark. I've long struggled with this issue. It's likely at the root of why I don't want to call myself a Christian anymore and why I'm having difficulty finding the right church environment. - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Sad but true. - Bette Cooper
Mohandas Gandhi: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - William Harryman
...and lets 4get the Catholic scandel (sexual abuse) in Ireland. Just being a Christian is not enough..one needs to practice and have true human values. - Peter Dawson
All religions have had their share of extremists and hypocrites. We've got far too many people attaching certain evil actions to specific religions. True human values really have no religious boundaries or affiliations. - Allan Besselink
Well said Allan. Wish more people realized that. - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Let us remember that it was the disciples (students) of Christ that were first called Christians. If you are not disciplining yourself to follow Christ, then the label is completely useless. With that - I think we need (as Christians) to start being able to say that someone is NOT a Christian if the values do not match up with Jesus'. A person can CALL themselves a vegetarian, but if I see them wolfing down a Harris Ranch Filet Mignon, I can say that they are NOT, in fact, a vegetarian. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Yep, the problem is when you see intolerant, rude, disrespectful, and/or immoral people being seen as being Christian. Going to church doesn't make you a good person, any more than drinking diet soda makes you healthy. - Alex Scoble
And no, I'm not equating diet soda with church...just saying that actions make you a good person, not your ideals/beliefs. - Alex Scoble
Standing in a garage doesn't make you a car, either. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I really believe a lot of this discussion is directly pursuant to the "Sola Gracia" teachings that were a backlash against the Catholic church from the Reformation theologians. Martin Luther couldn't understand the book of James because it spoke about the idea that one cannot claim faith when actions do not back up that claim. "What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has... more... - Jeremy (on vacation)
Or sitting in a toilet make you a piece of shit - Itachi
As someone once said, Alex, "The Church is not a museum for saints; it's a hospital for sinners." - Mistletoe Glen
The problem I have with a lot of true Christians is that they do not distance themselves from the self-professed Christians who firmly belief that they are the only true Christians. It's a few bad apples to give the orchard a bad reputation. - Rene Wirtz
Alex, that sounds like a good thought, and on the outside of things it would seems so, but the truth is: none of us are good. Jesus did not come to make bad people good, He came to make dead people live. And when a person has that "life" on the inside of him or her, from that source come good works to others. Jesus gave us an interesting criteria about who were Christians: He said "If... more... - Melanie Reed
Faith without knowledge is trouble just waiting to happen. - Paul W. Homer
+1 Melanie - Jeremy (on vacation)
Nor should one assume that if one has good values that they're necessarily a Christian, right? - Mr. Gunn
Sorry, Melanie, but you can believe all you want...that alone won't get you where you want to be. Belief without action is mental masturbation. Righteous action without belief is still righteous. - Alex Scoble
An action is just an action. Righteousness is in the eye of the beholder. - Akiva Moskovitz
/me smites Akiva for the common good. - Alex Scoble
I consider "Christianity" to be the most hypocritical of all faiths. And yes, I was raised as one. I fail to see where it has made most of those who profess to belong to it better people. - LANjackal
Christianity is what saved me from being a hypocrite. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Guess that makes you an expert then. - Akiva Moskovitz
Whoops I can see where this one is going. Hiding this topic. See y'all - LANjackal
I'd agree that Christianity probably hasn't made most of its followers better people. BUT the handful of guys I've met who truly, deeply came to understand Christ's teachings and rebuild their lives around them (in prison) are some of the most remarkable people I ever hope to meet. I'm still an atheist, but damn. "True" Christians, if that's what they're called, are really amazing people. (however I haven't met many!) - Lo
I agree, Lo...true Christians are amazing, because they practice what they preach. Unfortunately, there are a lot more that preach opposite to what they practice. - Alex Scoble
Fruit. You gotta look for the fruit. If there ain't any fruit, then you gotta wonder. - Mellissa
All but the most insanely fundamentalist of Christians today would not recognize (and would likely be appalled by) the Christianity of 400, or even 200 years ago. The more influenced a flavor of Christianity has been by Enlightenment values, the more benign it is. - Christopher A Carr
Unfortunately the sign in front of a church in Cedar Rapids is gone now, but it said "God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts." - Rene Wirtz
++Rene - Bonnie Foster
Mark, yes I agree with your original statement. And conversely, many kind and self-sacrificing acts by real Christians go unnoticed by those around them. This is not an age hallmarked by appreciation for the quiet and discreet. God Himself works everyday to provide good things for us and how often do we notice or praise Him for it? Yet he does. And I know I could not make it without... more... - Melanie Reed
A guy claiming to be Christian may even be one of those Gnostic bastards, reading the wrong Gospels, am i right? :) - Eivind
And NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!!!! - Morgan Haley
Melanie: "God Himself works everyday to provide good things for us..." How do you know? That's just an empty assertion. - Christopher A Carr
:) Not empty, Christopher. I have made an assertion and it is based on firm evidence that I see everyday. And it is based on knowledge from those whom I trust who have also seen that evidence before me. - Melanie Reed
I think you may be confused as to what constitutes reliable "evidence." - Christopher A Carr
I may be confused as to what constitutes the inverse of an Augmented Matrix, but I am not confused in the least about the reliable evidence of a loving God. :) - Melanie Reed
Can you think of anything that would amount to evidence *against* the existence of a "loving god?" Anencephalic (brainless) infants, comes to mind... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped... - Christopher A Carr
Or, does the Semitic deity Yahweh have a special plan for brainless babies? - Christopher A Carr
What about parasitic twins? - Christopher A Carr
What about autistic? What about Asberger's? What about ugly? What about stinky? - Jeremy (on vacation)
Christopher, Your second two points are closer to the truth, yes: He does have a plan for them. - Melanie Reed
Brainless babies can't do anything but respirate for a short time, then die. What could possibly be the point? - Christopher A Carr
The point is that you and I can't resurrect and heal them but God can. - Melanie Reed
Christopher, this life isn't"the point" at all. Those unfortunate souls will be taken care of where there is no sickness and pain. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Why cause a brainless baby to be birthed in the first place? - Christopher A Carr
He didn't. We did. - Melanie Reed
Everything that happens is part of your deity's plan, correct? - Christopher A Carr
What is your point? - Melanie Reed
So, original sin causes anencephaly? - Christopher A Carr
I thought your deity was in control of the universe? - Christopher A Carr
A single act of Disobedience led to that anencephaly and a host of other problems. - Melanie Reed
What a vulgar belief system. - Christopher A Carr
Christopher, the universe is not a playground, is it where we do what we want and someone makes it better and we go on doing whatever we want?. Would that be controlled or would it be tyranny? - Melanie Reed
An all-knowing deity knows everything, right? Including the fact that this "disobedience" would happen. So "he" is ultimately responsible for every single infant that is ever born without a brain above its face. - Christopher A Carr
Anger is understandable. But God is not to blame. That is our responsibility. And responsibility has hard consequences that tear at the heart. It hurts God. That is why He has made a way out for us. And that way is open to you and anyone else who wants to accept it. - Melanie Reed
You just avoided the issue by regurgitating religious platitudes. - Christopher A Carr
No, truth. - Melanie Reed
Let's say you're an all-powerful, all-knowing deity, and you decide to create a universe. If you're genuinely omniscient, you'll know everything that will ever transpire in this universe -- including who you'll be "required" to torture forever, and who you won't. Any such being is ultimately responsible for everything that occurs in its universe. - Christopher A Carr
Does your deity know if I'm going to be tortured forever? If not, he's not omniscient. - Christopher A Carr
What is torturing you, Christopher and do you want to DM me? - Melanie Reed
Your god sends people to be tortured forever in hell, yes? - Christopher A Carr
No, Christopher, we decide by our choices in regard to heaven or hell. But I think you may mean hell in another sense? - Melanie Reed
No, I mean hell in the Christian sense. Does your deity know ahead of time if I'll be going to hell or not? - Christopher A Carr
In other words, when Yahweh created my soul, did he know what would happen to it? - Christopher A Carr
Christopher, God has the ability to exercise foreknowledge but not the way you and I tend to think of it. His thinking is higher than ours and it allows for choice always as long as there is life! You have a choice. - Melanie Reed
Did he know if my soul would end up in hell when he created it? Yes, or no? - Christopher A Carr
I can not answer something that would put me in the position of judgment on you or anyone. That is not mine to decide. What God is saying is that your future is not cut off unless you make that choice. And God is giving you and me and everyone else the same opportunity to make that choice. - Melanie Reed
I'm not asking you to judge anything. Is it your understanding that your deity knows everything? - Christopher A Carr
God knows the beginning and the end of a matter. - Melanie Reed
All matters? - Christopher A Carr
What I have said above. - Melanie Reed
Are you are saying there are things that Yahweh doesn't know? - Christopher A Carr
No, I didn't say that. - Melanie Reed
He didn't immediately know where Adam and Eve was, when they hid in the Garden from what I've read. - Eivind
Then I am forced to conclude that Yahweh (were he to exist, a fact for which there is thankfully ZERO evidence) created the vast majority of souls for the purpose of having something to torture for an eternity. - Christopher A Carr
Elvind, He did know. - Melanie Reed
No Christopher, he created humans out of love. He took the risk to allow everyone to make their own choice, knowing some would not make a wise choice and cause pain to themselves and to others would result. - Melanie Reed
Ah, I see. He was just pretending he didn't know, like you do with small children. - Eivind
Elvind, no, he wanted to give them the chance to own up and be honest. - Melanie Reed
But Melanie, he knew when he made them who would and who would not make certain choices (so there's not really a choice). Why make a soul that's destined to be tortured forever? - Christopher A Carr
How do you know these things, Melanie? They're not explained in the Bible. - Eivind
Christopher, knowing what someone will do and causing them to do it are two different things. This is why God warns Cain in the beginning: "That thou mayest not sin" Choice. Always. Choice. There is always hope, Christopher, and the fact that you are asking gives me hope! - Melanie Reed
Elvind, yes, its in Genesis. - Melanie Reed
I always wonder about the fate of otherwise good people who believe other things, or are never even exposed to the One system (whichever one that may be) that could save them. - LogEx
Melanie, but if you know that someone will do a thing that leads them to eternal torture, why create them in the first place? - Christopher A Carr
LogEx, God gives all of us an opportunity no matter where we are to make a choice, - Melanie Reed
Well, LogEx, I have an answer for you that comes right out of the book that claims to be the Authority. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage... says that all people will be judged fairly and based on their own deeds. - Jeremy (on vacation)
So, I'm set then. - LogEx
If you've never erred. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Melanie, not in my copy. God asks Adam where he is. He answers, rats out Eve, and then God makes them clothes (and takes away the snake's limbs?). The next chapter is about Cain and Abel. - Eivind
Christopher, maybe I wasn't very clear: the concept of choice means that you and I and everyone else have the ability to be influenced for good or for bad. - Melanie Reed
I think Christopher is assuming God precludes free will. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Elvind, yes, God asks, not to find out what He already knows, but to give Adam and Eve a chance to confess what they have done which is what you would do for someone you loved and respected. - Melanie Reed
Yahweh: I'm going to make souls x, y, and z -- souls x and y will need to be tortured forever; I know this because I know how they will behave, because I know everything. But I'm going to create them anyway. In fact, the vast, vast majority of all the souls I create will "chose" to be burned in hell forever, but I'm OK with that, and will create them anyway. ...nice deity you got there. - Christopher A Carr
Melanie, that's just projecting onto God what you would have done. It doesn't say anywhere that's why he did it? - Eivind
Elvind, I don't think I would have handled it so well as God. ;) His response is in keeping with His character and nature. And the rest of scripture provides testimony . - Melanie Reed
Melanie is quite good at weaselisms. - Christopher A Carr
Ok. It's Eivind btw. (no worries, VERY common mistake :) ) - Eivind
Is there more than one Way? If so, what are they? If not, what about the other 6 billion people? http://www.adherents.com/Religio... - LogEx
I guess that depends. Is there an absolute value for "right?" I'm going to say there is. I believe that Charles Manson was wrong for what he did. There's no gray area there. Now that I've established that there is an absolute value for "right," then it behooves me to investigate why. - Jeremy (on vacation)
Eivind, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to miss-spell your name. - Melanie Reed
Hehe, almost every English speaker who sees it in writing makes that mistake :) - Eivind
Lewis (C.S.) decided that he felt that "right" and "wrong" were hard-wired and not up to the whims of the individual. In doing that, he felt he had to investigate the ... Author, if you will of those immutable laws (along with gravity, et al). He then looked at the myriad of religious texts that claimed to be "the way" and finally settled on the bible. Christianity was just the end of his search for the reason for "right." - Jeremy (on vacation)
Nothing supernatural in the way of an "Author" is required to account for our preferences for some social behaviors over others. Foundationaly, we are a species of highly social primate. On top of that, moral and ethical mores evolve (in a memetic, cultural evolutionary sense) over time. ...Our species has been on this planet for 200,000 or so years. It seems rather odd to me that Yahweh only took an interest many thousands of years after the relatively recent emergence of agriculture. - Christopher A Carr
Melanie has DMed me. Evidently she is "troubled" for me, and wants to know if I need her help. Arrogant? Sanctimonious? I don't even know what to call that. Amazing. - Christopher A Carr
I assume practical tasks are out of the question? - Eivind
Practical tasks? My house's gutters need replacing. - Christopher A Carr
Well, ask for help with that :) - Eivind
Not a bad idea. - Christopher A Carr
I'm afraid she would only offer to pray that they be miraculously fixed. - Christopher A Carr
Why does that make you afraid? You're certainly brave enough to call out someone's private messages in a public forum; surely having someone pray for you wouldn't be that bad. - Mistletoe Glen
Pretty sure Christopher didn't mean that kind of "afraid." - Chieze Okoye
Glen: Feel free to pray for my gutters. - Christopher A Carr
May I suggest you pray to Vishnu, The Lord of Maintenance. - http://www.saigan.com/heritag... - Eivind
Wow! Apparently this thread had legs while I was out! I haven't read most of the comments, but I should perhaps interject something here that I should've been stated up front... my initial statement, though directed at Christians, can surely be applied to ANY religion, and indeed, to any belief system. (This would included, for example, political beliefs. Hint hint.) Jerks and... more... - Mark "DerBingle" J
Said another way... when any individual or group starts telling you that God is on their side (instead of the other way around) it would be wise to gather your loved ones and any belongings you can carry, a find refuge as you prepare to see the worst that man is capable of. - Mark "DerBingle" J
Personally I direct All Prayer to "Oh Lord" which I find to include All passing Gods & deities excluding none. Besides that moment of suspension of disbelief this has sufficed for many years to satisfy. Now that I am older & have experienced the world this seems to be overdoing it on my part. All physic seems to stem from Man?? Where is God in the Sense plane? Mind Readers & Physics... more... - ThatDBD
Christopher, I was wondering why you had not considered the possibility that the mother had been exposed to fetogenic or mutagenic substances? That being the case, that again, wasn't God, but our choices to use substances or expose others to substances that are harmful to 1st and 2nd generation. - Melanie Reed
Mark Krynsky
Mark Krynsky
Ok, the next person who tweets its cold is getting smacked in the head with my frozen trout #stormwatch #californiaweatherwussies
December 7 from Twitter - Comment - Share
"Geez, I can't believe it's only 50F today! So cold...and raining. What WILL we do?" *braces for trout* - Derrick
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I only complain because I'm INSIDE and it's cold. :::hides behind Derrick::: - Nurse Katie
Looks like I'm gonna need a bigger trout. - Mark Krynsky
Please to be keeping your trout to yourself. - Yolanda
Shhh, don't tell #copenhagen #climategate Oh, the irony! >.> - pitlord
Still cold here, too. :p - Bette Cooper
Is "frozen trout" a euphemism for something else you want to smack me with Mark? - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Frozen Trout? Isn't that a shitty punk band from Fargo, ND? - Morgan Haley
Hey, we don't claim them. Also, it's 10F here right now. - Jordan Hofker
Can we complain because it's RAINING? - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's so friggin cold! - Alex Scoble
Please can some of my fellow FF'ers that live in climates that ARE ACTUALLY COLD please chime in here and back me up. I lived in Chicago until I was 13 and that was cold...what we have on the west coast is a mild chill compared to that. - Mark Krynsky
Backing you up from Indianapolis. Just under two hundred miles south of Chicago. - Kamilah Gill
It's not that it's colder than those places, though, Mark. It's that it's cold and it's not SUPPOSED to be cold. In St. Louis, 50 degree weather doesn't bother me at all. It's SUPPOSED to be colder than that. Cold in LA feels psychologically colder than it does in places that actually get cold. Especially when your heater doesn't work so it's 50 degrees inside your apartment, too. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's near freezing here in PDX...it's cold. - Alex Scoble
When I lived in Chicago, it seemed people still usually wore coats and turned on the heat when the temperature was 50 degrees, though. :D - Victor Ganata
hush yer mouth Victor :P 50 is nothing. I bet those were california weather wussy transplants, not true Chicagoans... - Kamilah Gill
Living in NE gives me the right to smack back with a frozen cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee. :) - Heather
I used to walk about 10 blocks to school every day in the snow during winter. Many of those days were sub-zero degree days made even colder by the windchill factor. I welcome this wannabe chilly weather with open arms knowing what true cold really means. - Mark Krynsky
Just because your parents were NUTZ and lived in a place like that doesn't give you the right to go swinging your trout around at anyone that has the good sense to live in a proper climate. :P Now.. that I've said that... Damn I'm hot.. I need to pull off some of these layers... as is proper people cloth themselves when its cold outside. - Uncle CW™
Cold is my hometown in Montana. Currently -11 with 86% humidity. 8 degrees in No. CO right now. - Steve
We are wusses in So. Calif....and it is cold and rainy (ducks from trout).....but I think it's a nice change and season appropriate! - Bonnie Foster
Lo
Lo
How much of your gmail space are you using?
December 5 - Comment - Share
Can't believe I'm only at 23% - Lo
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Rocking at 72%. I use it for work and transfering graphics heavy PDF's. - Adrian
19% - LANjackal
0% 12 meg. - Mike Nencetti
About 2%, I think. - Jason Huebel
0% because I don't use gmail. :) - Rochelle
%68, Having groups ingests. - Acharad-Sami-
64% - Eric Logan
If you factor in that I have multiple gmail accounts (on Google Apps for Domains, in particular), my percentage is probably a lot lower. - Jason Huebel
0% @ 19 megs - Derrick
8% on one account; 3% on the other. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I love the diversity of answers! - Lo
You are currently using 348 MB (4%) of your 7398 MB. (I delete like crazy) - Blackeyed P
But they make such a big deal out of how you don't have to delete anything! :P - Lo
5% - Marissa
Lo, sure you don't have to - but you can - Chris Heath
You are currently using 889 MB (12%) of your 7398 MB. - Irma Vermaat
.8 GB (2%) of 27.2 GB - Gunny doesn't side-hug™
about 20% - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I am using 32% out the 7398 MB i have. - Milton Ramirez
I love my gmail, but not my only account, and I do delete, so only using 1%. - Bonnie Foster
3118MB (42%) of your 7398MB. - Kol Tregaskes
346MB of ~7400 -- not that much. I'm a deletin' fool. - Jennifer Dittrich
5% 403MB - Bill Rawlinson
Personal: You are currently using 405 MB (5%) of your 7396 MB. Work: You are currently using 3156 MB (12%) of your 25600 MB. - Andy Bakun
You are currently using 578 MB (7%) of your 7399 MB. (and that's the account that all the others forward to) - April Russo (app103)
16%. That's a lot for me. I usually keep my folders pretty clear, but I have a heap of videos to .wmv 's to watch. - Mellissa
Not more than 1% in any of my accounts. I keep local archives of my personal accounts and keep the server purged. - LogEx
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