Best Of MetaFilter

"Here's what I wish I'd understood before becoming a farm woman"

A bingo story, sort of. "Too embarrassed to leave once I'd sat down in class, I ended up eight weeks later with a boiler operator's certificate..."

"[T]he best flasher response I ever, ever saw was non-human."

"Here's why reality TV works for me."

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"When you are carrying a leg through a hospital, it is a very conspicuous item."

"Autocorrect isn't actually working from a dictionary as you imagine it."

"We were assigned two different Metafilter threads to read for this class..."

"The political movement that learns how to get its supporters to do this would be unstoppable. And yet, no campaign ever figures this out..."