What would lead someone to create the Ballbra men's underwear?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This Is Against The Rules. -- jessamyn

posted by jayzallme

vinyl sleeve heads

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The first four words of this deletion reason are actually the cover of the debut album of Tommy Double and the Conjoiners. -- cortex

posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese

Riot Right Clit Click Shave Save

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This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- cortex

posted by freshwater_pr0n

Best Weblogs About Media and Journalism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: put it projects, thanks! -- jessamyn

posted by jlori

*insert line from video here to render joke unfunny*

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This post was deleted for the following reason: We've seen some of this previously, and you admit that you main link isn't up to snuff, and you're being super defensive in the thread? And you decided to go with "cunt" for a username? This may not be the best way to debut your new account. -- cortex

posted by cunt

Dry Cleaning v Radioactivity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ugh. So this is the latest in a long history of posts to sites you either run or edit? Not cool. -- cortex

posted by tombola

Securing Pakistan's Nukes

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Put this in the open thread. -- cortex

posted by scalefree

"I can still actually feel her smell"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Alas, a double, and recently. -- cortex

posted by amyms

Over on the r i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i ght....

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a grindy grindy OMGXIANS post and really isn't a great post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by adamvasco

"I always hesitate to say things like this in interviews because they tend to come back to haunt you, but if I were an Arab-American, I would insist o

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. Creepy! -- cortex

posted by dawson

I play poker (and lose).

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if your one tag is metafilter and your point is metafilter then this maybe needs to go on metatalk. Calling out an ex-user in this fashion detracts from what might otherwise be a decent post. -- jessamyn

posted by timsteil

Not Romney Says Monitor Editors

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link blog op ed filter -- jessamyn

posted by parmanparman

How seo effect search engines results ?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a bad idea. -- pb

posted by emilio

... the grave deeper.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Let's all just revel in the irony of this deletion. -- cortex

posted by Pants!

Handbell hero

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The truth? You can't handbell the truth! -- cortex

posted by boo_radley

Huckabee on Foreign Affairs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link typoed op ed with a lot of RWAR RWAR RWAR language in it and a lot of elided pullquotes. This isn't really a great post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by shivohum

A new dawn

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This post was deleted for the following reason: doppelter Pfosten -- cortex

posted by ruelle

Because everyone needs a little tightening now and then.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The whole "don't self-link or you'll get your post deleted and your account banned" thing isn't exactly a minor policy point around here. -- cortex

posted by blatant gizmo

Christopher Hitchens Gives a Dramatic Reading of Tom Lehrer's "A Christmas Carol"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If you're going to post an example of Christopher Hitchens being a provactive dick, it should probably be something just dang superlative, not a short video of him bitching about Christmas and butchering Tom Lehrer. -- cortex

posted by pjdoland

Sexy Women in Space

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This post was deleted for the following reason: not much here beyond zomg hot women -- mathowie

posted by nixerman

The Future is Now

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Four lightweight articles (one is a paragraph blurb!) trying to make a general point doesn't really add up to a quality post. -- cortex

posted by Chinese Jet Pilot

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The content here -- celebrity's age, get surgery -- isn't exactly new stuff, the presentation of the photos kind of sucks at that, and you've bizarrely pushing people toward some other bulletin board. This is a pretty strange post. -- cortex

posted by craniac

Rabbit pulled out of a Language Hat

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This post was deleted for the following reason: To metatalk, before the horses get randy again! -- cortex

posted by cogneuro

Is France Ready For A FLILF?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: bleh. -- jessamyn

posted by Skeptic

HEEYUKYUKYUKYUKYUK

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ha ha! -- cortex

posted by pyramid termite

Underrated Beatles Songs start at Song of the Day

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This post was deleted for the following reason: good morning, self-link, banned. -- jessamyn

posted by randyripoff

The Bali Roadmap

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a single link to a news wire article on a hot button topic. If you're really passionate about global warming, you might want to make a post with more depth and content. -- jessamyn

posted by AceRock

Teddy Muhammad

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This post was deleted for the following reason: The Teddy Bear product thing is kind of lame and banal mean-spiritedness, and the rest of this is just recapping updating on the still-open thread that you linked. Probably better to just drop this as an update comment there than start a huge argument here. -- cortex

posted by lunit

He turns to me and says "That’s the Spice Girls - they’re this like, girly f*ckin’ band from England in Scotlandshire."

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This post was deleted for the following reason: NSFW: Lame. Sorry Astro Zombie. -- jessamyn

posted by beaucoupkevin

The Best Entertainment-Related Gifts

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This post was deleted for the following reason: An skimpy EW blog entry and a product page for a novelty wonka ticket? There doesn't seem to really be a post here. -- cortex

posted by Coherence Panda

heroine

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Been there, Dimmocked that. -- cortex

posted by plexi

Miles and Miles of Shiny Things

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This post was deleted for the following reason: wish this wasn't lame. alas, it is. -- jessamyn

posted by Stynxno

Clarity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a press release and a wikipedia article. While I agree it's sort of inteersting news, newsfilter posts are held to a sort of higher "why shoudl I care" standard since it's a huge melting pot of nerds from all over here. -- jessamyn

posted by jimfl

Small moves, Ellie, small moves.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: And good for her, but a link to a defamer about water cooler celebrity stuff that anybody who cares has already heard about is pretty weak stuff. -- cortex

posted by ikahime

7-year-old shot 6 times

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is an awful story, but local sensational-violence newsfilter with a botched summary and a donate-here link is pretty off the mark for an good metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by k8t

Merry Christmas

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like a pretty bad idea. Sparking a debate—especially with provocative presentation—shouldn't really be the primary justification for posting. -- cortex

posted by 31d1

Little Miss Muffet sat on her crumpet

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is crappy fight-starter of an op-ed. -- cortex

posted by plexi

Mitchell Report

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I'd say wait until the report really comes out. -- mathowie

posted by stupidsexyFlanders

I CAN HAZ DARKNESS PLZ?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Can't start a fire / can't start a fire without a spark / this post's for hire / even for doublepostin' in the dark -- cortex

posted by InnocentBystander

the Gap

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Throwing together some blurby news bits is probably not a great way to approach a post about something as emotionally and culturally charged as this. -- cortex

posted by plexi

Biore Nose Strip Zit Contest?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: popped. eww. -- jessamyn

posted by emilbus20

ZOMG! I want one!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Meh. -- cortex

posted by jlowen

Bad dog. BAD.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ayuh, that dog sure was humping the crap outta some inanimate objects alright. -- cortex

posted by Brandon Blatcher

Making "The Shining"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yep, it's a double. -- cortex

posted by dhammond

4 Star Review of the Bic Crystal

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A sarcastic review on Amazon (a) is pretty thin for front page material, and (b) has been done in at least a half-dozen previous posts. This post has been flagged something fearsome. -- cortex

posted by spock

Combinatoric economics (beta)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh / The phone, the tv and the news of the world / Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh oh / Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies / Put us back on the train / Oh, back on the chain gang -- cortex

posted by klangklangston

What does "matures" mean?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by parmanparman

The enchanting Joseph Smith

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This post was deleted for the following reason: we've done jack chick and lolxians a fair amount here already and this is a link to a comic, a mefi post and a mefi tag search. -- jessamyn

posted by barjo

Mind over METAL!!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: two rhino box set posts in two days is probably one too many. -- jessamyn

posted by jonmc

Crazy guy sues everyone who was mean to him online

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Closed randi forums kinda neuter this for the vast majority of readers, unfortunately. -- cortex

posted by ObscureReferenceMan

How to be evil with your photos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Well, people seem to think this pretty much sucks. (Curious, though, from the blog: "The winners will be announced here on 31st February 2008." Handy.) -- cortex

posted by sim.possible

Wikipedia-like interface, but for pornography.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: With you having just just posted this (twice!) to reddit, bidding for SEO jobs for "an adult website", and other hits for a marc miller pimping the site, this is looking like a pretty blatant self-link. -- cortex

posted by mxmiller

Chimps are smarter than you

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Still up for debate is how chimps would stack up in the "avoiding double posts" category. -- cortex

posted by Mwongozi

Sperm Donor 'Dad' Must Pay Child Support

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "the topic is a dead parrot" but thanks for trying fff. -- jessamyn

posted by five fresh fish

Verizon disconnects 2 lives

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a single-link newsfilter post with extra dog torture for extra "look at these assholes" characteristics which make it not really that great a post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by daninnj

Incredibly Secluded Houses

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This post was deleted for the following reason: incredibly doubled posts! -- cortex

posted by Ritchie

Should we kill feral cats who kill endangered birds?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just talked about this, including Stevenson, a couple weeks ago. -- cortex

posted by shivohum

Donate sperm? You may owe child support!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link newsfilter post about a likely-to-be-hot-button topic is not a great post for metafilter. If you have your own blog, this is a good place to put this. -- jessamyn

posted by Sukiari

On the last beat, drop dead.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: they cut off my link / now I'm a double post / gosh darn you -- cortex

posted by divabat

A book lovers paradise

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This post was deleted for the following reason: If you're going to just link to a store front, it's probably a good idea to tell people what's so awesome about it that's making you put it on the front page. -- cortex

posted by hadjiboy

At the Library? At the Library!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Miko has been snared by the wily cryptodouble! -- cortex

posted by Miko

Fast Food Linux

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a really thin post (forgive an unkind reference to, say, Slashdot in 1998?); the collapse of objective quality-detection is a big part of why linking to your friends' stuff is generally just not okay on the front page. -- cortex

posted by willlangford