Culture of Death

April 5, 2005 1:43 PM

Culture Of Death A spoof on the recent Republican propaganda about the Democrats being pro-death... Onion-like.
posted by salminen (40 comments total)

See ya, salminen, ya shitty self-linker!!
posted by Floydd at 1:52 PM on April 5, 2005

Tha hammer! Tha hammer!
posted by infidelpants at 1:54 PM on April 5, 2005

Self linking is bad? I just put it together with a friend... Thought it was funny and wanted to share... Didn't mean to break some kind of norm here...
posted by salminen at 1:55 PM on April 5, 2005

You suck! Gore as a Khan is funny, but the rest of it smells bad.
posted by Mayor Curley at 1:56 PM on April 5, 2005

Self linking is bad?

Go take a look at the second para and think about what you've done.
posted by infidelpants at 1:57 PM on April 5, 2005

And on the posting page, the Almighty mathowie had written:

"Note: You read the guidelines, right? Because linking to your own site in this space will result in a deletion and your account will be banned."

And salminen still posted a link to a site, and it was bad.

Prepare to be bannanated.
posted by theFlyingSquirrel at 2:01 PM on April 5, 2005

Hmmm.. Didn't read those guidelines carefully enough. My mistake. Not trying to make any money or anything. Just thought it was funny. Apparently y'all don't, so ban away...
posted by salminen at 2:05 PM on April 5, 2005

MMMMmmm.... Banananation!!

It did make me chuckle a little, tho..
posted by Balisong at 2:08 PM on April 5, 2005

Post a Link to MetaFilter:
Found something cool on the web and want to share it with everyone else? Great! Just fill the blanks and it'll go live. A sample link is shown below. If this is your first post, please read the guidelines.

Note: You read the guidelines, right? Because linking to your own site in this space will result in a deletion and your account will be banned.

Kids these days, disliterate every one...
posted by Floydd at 2:08 PM on April 5, 2005

before this gets pulled...the idea is that someone else finds it funny Salminemineminem. Of course you think it's funny (although I must admit I liked the one about fetus powered cars).
posted by j.p. Hung at 2:18 PM on April 5, 2005

Too bad you had to self-link. I did think it was pretty funny though.

Democrats are proposing tougher environmental standards for the auto industry, focusing on low emission vehicles that run entirely on fetuses
posted by caddis at 2:19 PM on April 5, 2005

It is funny... like the first time I saw it on The Daily Show. I forget which correspondent it was that opened his piece with a little diatribe about how hard it was for the democrats to gain ground with their pro-baby-killing stance. I think it was some time during the final weeks of the last presidential election.
posted by odinsdream at 2:23 PM on April 5, 2005

If salminen was actually trying to put one over on us, he probably wouldn't have openly linked to it in his profile. Sounds like an honest mistake?
posted by dhoyt at 2:25 PM on April 5, 2005

Here's another tip: "Onion-like" ain't gonna win you any awards, either.

("Yes, I knew the horse was already dead, officer. I just needed to adminster a beating, and the horse made an awfully convenient target.")
posted by pardonyou? at 2:25 PM on April 5, 2005

Sounds like an honest mistake?

actions don't have to be thoughtfully malicious to be worthy of bannination. This cannot be described as anything but the strongest willful ignorance as self-linking is basically the only hard & fast rule around this place.

And the link was what might be called "perfectly ordinary" - as soon as I clicked it, it was obvious it was a self-link, because no one else would link to such a mundane, amateur site (major typos on the front page, etc) except the kid who'd thrown it together. Not that it was terrible, but MeFi's not s'posed to be "The Not Terrible of the Web"...
posted by mdn at 2:32 PM on April 5, 2005

This post is ten times less nauseating than yesterdays "million-dollar year" horrorshow.
posted by docpops at 2:35 PM on April 5, 2005

Dumb. But the domain name is funny, and has some potential.
posted by bwilliams at 2:39 PM on April 5, 2005

Yeah, if we get to vote at all, I would vote against bannination (simple post removal would suffice, I think) if this truly was simply an honest mistake.
posted by Yellowbeard at 2:47 PM on April 5, 2005

While I can believe it was an honest, if mind-bogglingly dense, mistake, I can't in good conscience defend it. I have a personal rule that anyone who describes their own output as "Onion-like" loses.
posted by infidelpants at 2:49 PM on April 5, 2005

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum...
posted by Dreamghost at 2:52 PM on April 5, 2005

It's ok, Dreamghost, I've got some you can borrow.
posted by MikeKD at 2:58 PM on April 5, 2005

I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt, but I really have trouble seeing that this is an honest mistake: the self-link rule is just about the only rock solid guideline here, and it's called out both in the guidelines and on the page where you make the post right above where you make the actual post. The fact that before this he had made just enough comments to get posting rights also makes me suspicious.

At absolute best, this was someone who doesn't understand what Metafilter is, and couldn't be bothered to find out.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 3:03 PM on April 5, 2005

Here it comes...
posted by 327.ca at 3:05 PM on April 5, 2005

Hey, you know what? I like this post. Because it reminded me that there's a new _Onion_ out today.

This _Onion_, yes, it vibrates.
posted by gurple at 3:07 PM on April 5, 2005

Banning is overrated. I propose we just type in every single Metafilter cliche we know. That should be sufficient punishment - not just for salminen, but for all of us.

I, for one, welcome our new self-linking overlords.
posted by Joey Michaels at 3:09 PM on April 5, 2005

Fair enough... It was an honest mistake... Otherwise, I obviously wouldn't have set it as my homepage or used the same name here as appears in the whois record.. But, you're right, I should have read the rules more carefully... Ban if you like... Thanks to those few of you that liked it nonetheless... :)
posted by salminen at 3:11 PM on April 5, 2005

I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum...
posted by Dreamghost at 2:52 PM PST on April 5 [!]


It's ok, Dreamghost, I've got some you can borrow.
posted by MikeKD at 2:58 PM PST on April 5 [!]

EEWWW!! Borrowed bubblegum!!!
posted by Balisong at 3:16 PM on April 5, 2005

Metafilter: That should be sufficient punishment.
posted by leapfrog at 3:29 PM on April 5, 2005

no one else would link to such a mundane, amateur site

For someone who's been a member since 2001 you seem a little naive :-)
posted by clevershark at 3:32 PM on April 5, 2005

Metafilter: Borrowed Bubblegum
posted by InfidelZombie at 3:36 PM on April 5, 2005

Wait for it... wait for it...


Boo-yah!
posted by stet at 3:43 PM on April 5, 2005

Come on, this was much better than last week's bananation, that LaShawn chick. If I had a vote, which obviously I don't have, I would give him a chance: new user, got all excited to post his first FPP, never read the rules. Make it a tradition: forgive one self-linker everytime a Pope dies.
posted by nkyad at 3:51 PM on April 5, 2005

Self linking is bad? I just put it together with a friend... Thought it was funny and wanted to share... Didn't mean to break some kind of norm here...

Bwhahahahhaa!

That's a funny one. Come on now. Which of you jokers registered the "salminen" account?

Just thought it was funny. Apparently y'all don't, so ban away...

Banning isn't based on non-funny self-linking, it's any self-linking (with scattered, limited exceptions).
posted by scarabic at 3:55 PM on April 5, 2005

Yeah, I don't think Salminen needs to be banned - but this thread should be zapped from the front page.

He'll think twice before he self links again... lesson learned and all that.

Course, it is shitty that he stole graphics from the Onion website...
posted by wfrgms at 4:07 PM on April 5, 2005

ban ban ban ban, ban ban ban ban BAN (to tune of Dragnet).
posted by punkbitch at 4:15 PM on April 5, 2005

Yeah, we did take those graphics from The Onion. Really the whole format is taken from The Onion. I think of it as a tribute to what is probably the most consistently funny site on the web.
posted by salminen at 4:17 PM on April 5, 2005

Yea!!! Tribute Banananation!!
posted by Balisong at 4:25 PM on April 5, 2005

(I don't think you should be banned, merely warned,,)
posted by Balisong at 4:26 PM on April 5, 2005

BANS ALL AROUND! BANS FOR EVERYONE!!!

I think we should all express our personal love of digital fascism as loudly and stupidly as possible. It's nice to see so many agree with me.
posted by Ryvar at 4:28 PM on April 5, 2005

This post is ten times less nauseating than yesterdays "million-dollar year" horrorshow.

Hallelujah.
posted by blendor at 4:31 PM on April 5, 2005