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November 19, 2008 7:21 PM Subscribe
KVETCH : Am I venting or not?
I don't get it. If I wanted to kvetch anonymously, I don't want to post it on my Twitter feed for all to see. If I wanted to kvetch publicly, I could just post it on my Twitter.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:38 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:38 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
What TPS said.
posted by desjardins at 7:53 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by desjardins at 7:53 PM on November 19, 2008
That's our word, dammit. You verkakte goyim with your webs and your points and your dynamic content, you should get your schmendrick tuchises off the lawn.
posted by cortex at 8:02 PM on November 19, 2008 [5 favorites]
posted by cortex at 8:02 PM on November 19, 2008 [5 favorites]
The submissions to kvetch.com don't appear in your public timeline, ThePinkSuperhero. They're private direct messages to the kvetch account.
posted by Zozo at 8:11 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by Zozo at 8:11 PM on November 19, 2008
Is one permitted to ride in an airplane on the Sabbath?
Yes, as long as your seat belt remains fastened. In this case, it is considered that you are not riding, you are wearing the plane.
posted by netbros at 8:11 PM on November 19, 2008 [5 favorites]
Yes, as long as your seat belt remains fastened. In this case, it is considered that you are not riding, you are wearing the plane.
posted by netbros at 8:11 PM on November 19, 2008 [5 favorites]
If I wanted to kvetch, I'd do it in person.
Most of this isn't kvetching. It's just whining, which is what you're left with when you take all the joy and cleverness out of the kvetch. Bitching and whining.
posted by louche mustachio at 8:16 PM on November 19, 2008 [4 favorites]
Most of this isn't kvetching. It's just whining, which is what you're left with when you take all the joy and cleverness out of the kvetch. Bitching and whining.
posted by louche mustachio at 8:16 PM on November 19, 2008 [4 favorites]
* scoots across cortex's rug and lawn.
posted by boo_radley at 8:37 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by boo_radley at 8:37 PM on November 19, 2008
wow this site was down for so long! i remember it being far, far cooler in like 1998 or whenever. about the only thing that hasn't changed is the mud-brown background. it used to have a way-cooler dial thingy and you could kvetch about driving or work or other related things... does anyone else recall this?
posted by lonefrontranger at 8:38 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by lonefrontranger at 8:38 PM on November 19, 2008
Kvetch used to be super awesome - in the late '90s. This version - doesn't really get to the heart of what the site used to be. Which is kind of sad. However, I am glad that Powazek is still out there doing his web thing.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 8:38 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 8:38 PM on November 19, 2008
I miss the old kvetch.
posted by ktrey at 8:41 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by ktrey at 8:41 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
I miss the old kvetch.
yea ktrey, on playing with it, me too. the whole twitter-interfacey thing is tres-lame.
meh. bring back the old kvetch. it was full of snark and awesome.
posted by lonefrontranger at 8:44 PM on November 19, 2008
yea ktrey, on playing with it, me too. the whole twitter-interfacey thing is tres-lame.
meh. bring back the old kvetch. it was full of snark and awesome.
posted by lonefrontranger at 8:44 PM on November 19, 2008
Kvetch? This is no kvetch -- this is caca! Feh!! (/unclehenry)
posted by not_on_display at 9:46 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 9:46 PM on November 19, 2008
Eh, I could be watching Seinfeld right now, you know. Instead I'll just sit over here in the dark corner and eat wet cigarette butts like a dog.
posted by trip and a half at 11:18 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by trip and a half at 11:18 PM on November 19, 2008
(The old) Kvetch is part of the Library of Congress September 11 Web Archive
posted by twoleftfeet at 11:19 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by twoleftfeet at 11:19 PM on November 19, 2008
meshugaas?...THIS. IS. KVETCHING!!!
posted by sourwookie at 11:20 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by sourwookie at 11:20 PM on November 19, 2008
Although I don't really miss the old kvetch (I did visit a few times, but it wasn't a regular stop on my rounds) and I do like the cleverness and design of this new kvetch ( I have a weakness for the ol' web2 burst-of-rays retro iconography), I continue in my quixotic, get-off-my-lawnian, doomed one-note pushback against the continuing Twitter-championed slicing and dicing of our thoughts into smaller and smaller quanta. It's the Eratosthenes' sieve of our attention spans, and instead of prime numbers falling out, it's a fucking hail of canonical cheese sandwiches pelting down out of the aether, satisfying our desire for an ongoing background hum that unfortunately turns out to be the choral sound of our brain cells giving up the ghost.
I know, I know. Shut up old man, and go back to your 'books' and archaic 'long-form weblog posts'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:29 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
I know, I know. Shut up old man, and go back to your 'books' and archaic 'long-form weblog posts'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:29 PM on November 19, 2008 [1 favorite]
And you know, I would twitter-kvetch that in hope of it appearing to complete the pomo strange-loop self-referentiality, but the next level up of meta-irony is that I don't think I could boil it down to 140 characters.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:36 PM on November 19, 2008
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:36 PM on November 19, 2008
Well played, ktrey. Now someone should twitter that to kvetch.com.
posted by mosk at 1:32 AM on November 20, 2008
posted by mosk at 1:32 AM on November 20, 2008
You mean MetaFilter's own powazek's KVETCH.
I was a regular back when they had the chat thingie. Kvetchers gave me the courage to ask a woman out, on my first real date after my divorce, 1999 or so. That was cool.
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:45 AM on November 20, 2008
I was a regular back when they had the chat thingie. Kvetchers gave me the courage to ask a woman out, on my first real date after my divorce, 1999 or so. That was cool.
posted by MrMoonPie at 5:45 AM on November 20, 2008
"KUDOS" IS NOT THE PLURAL FORM OF "KUDO", YOU CHOWDERHEADED HR PERSON
phoo, I do fell a little better.
posted by everichon at 9:00 AM on November 20, 2008
phoo, I do fell a little better.
posted by everichon at 9:00 AM on November 20, 2008
"Feel". This is what I get for calling our hr person a chowderhead.
posted by everichon at 9:01 AM on November 20, 2008
posted by everichon at 9:01 AM on November 20, 2008
another vote for powazek's original version. god i loved that thing. for that matter, i loved all things powazek. for a while, anyway. i was also delighted when i found out that he's one of the early members of mefi. even tho' he don't come here much no mo.' i'll always consider him one of the movers & shapers of the internet.
posted by msconduct at 1:28 PM on November 20, 2008
posted by msconduct at 1:28 PM on November 20, 2008
Just wanted to chime in to say: Hi!
And: Here's some context: http://powazek.com/posts/1434
And: It's okay if you don't like it.
And: Wow, for people who don't seem to like kvetching, you guys sure do a lot of it.
posted by fraying at 2:58 PM on November 20, 2008
And: Here's some context: http://powazek.com/posts/1434
And: It's okay if you don't like it.
And: Wow, for people who don't seem to like kvetching, you guys sure do a lot of it.
posted by fraying at 2:58 PM on November 20, 2008
Wow, for people who don't seem to like kvetching, you guys sure do a lot of it.
Metafilter: the kvetching it's OK to like.
Just riffing on the ol' Plastic tagline, of course. We love you, fraying.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:00 PM on November 20, 2008 [1 favorite]
Metafilter: the kvetching it's OK to like.
Just riffing on the ol' Plastic tagline, of course. We love you, fraying.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:00 PM on November 20, 2008 [1 favorite]
Derek, I'm not exagerrating when I say you changed my life for the better. No shit.
Thank you for kvetch.
posted by MrMoonPie at 6:57 PM on November 20, 2008
Thank you for kvetch.
posted by MrMoonPie at 6:57 PM on November 20, 2008
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