mefi quotes, no 56 ~ things people care about

[fiefoe]

All those exquisite, obsessive-compulsive drawers. Those brilliantly designed multi-layered wagon wheels full of nuts and bolts, washers, anchors,and fasteners. It puts the oooooh into screws.
posted by nickyskye at 10:52 AM on September 9

The steps and methods needed to achieve this transcendence, are, like all religious experiences, widely varied, of intense personal significance and more than slightly barbaric to one initiated in a different tradition.
posted by Grimgrin at 2:34 AM on January 4

That leaves individual combinations of these social and mental building-blocks... and if you really think all the people in a given subculture "look & act like & do all the exact same things as you", you're not looking closely enough at the way people are put together.
posted by vorfeed at 10:47 PM on December 22

Like, they resent the fact that after struggling to do well in their version of the game, somebody comes along and doesn't care at all about their games rules.
posted by Chuckles at 12:04 PM on July 22

Very few people hold fixed opinions about things that matter deeply to them. Instead the hold nuanced and thoughtful interests.
posted by salishsea at 11:04 PM on March 15

The trick here is to imagine all those comments as coming from jellyfish, who are naturally into radial symmetry and just don't understand all this fuss about someone whose symmetry is merely bilateral.
posted by No-sword at 8:32 AM on April 27

an expression of the love for visible complexity and taking pleasure in ingenuity that could be appreciated as a surface quality of created objects
posted by Faze at 1:45 PM on October 27

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