This thread is trying too hard.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 5:48 AM on July 1, 2008

Asshole beware?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:00 PM on June 23, 2008

Consider the color of my fedora: white as the driven snow!

But how do you get your whites so white?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 11:12 AM on June 13, 2008

Instanpundit: University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds's popular libertarian bull____. (4 letters)
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:19 PM on June 12, 2008

I can't wait until I have kids just so I can raise them right and show that it can be done.

Here's hoping they don't have asthma.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:56 PM on June 10, 2008

Yeah, obviously I was talking about asthma medication.

Sorry, I wasn't sure which of your sweeping generalizations were inoperative.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:15 PM on June 10, 2008

Weasels ripped my flesh.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:51 PM on June 10, 2008

This leaves me unsure whether or not to post my grainy out-of-focus possibly-fake cellphone video of a drunken cokehead smashing into the First Annual Take Back The Streets Vagina Bicycle Race.

P.S. Don't be such a dick.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008

Is their fight significant or likely to have far-reaching implications?

Yes.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 12:46 PM on May 29, 2008

I thought the implications were explained well here better than any other thread I've seen on this subject.

Me too, that's why my reply to prefpara was also a link to it.

Who quits smoking in the middle of a presidential campaign?

No kidding. And wouldn't being a smoker help Obama connect with all those Appalachian voters? I think he should pull out a pack of Newports at the first presidential debate.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:01 PM on May 29, 2008

Why on earth would you go there?

Yet another presentation of the D--s Fairness Doctrine makes people cranky.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:26 PM on May 29, 2008

I heard he has cartons of Silk Cut flown in on a private jet.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:17 PM on May 29, 2008

Obama is getting the same treatment -- piece by piece, fake "gaffe" by distorted statement, they'll build a narrative
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 9:10 AM on May 30, 2008

I love the whiff of cabal in the morning. It smells like... intertextuality.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:39 PM on May 29, 2008

So does this mean we can start banning murdering people who use the word "eponysterical" or "fixed that for you?"

Fixed that for you.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 4:35 PM on May 28, 2008

In the case of Metafilter, the user facing bannination can log in and post normally, but suffers a constant random stream of low-level technical glitches that gnaw away at their confidence and generally make their experience an unhappy one.
[...]
Nothing consistent, and nothing that can be attributed to malicious sabotage. Just a background radiation of technological harassment and site non-cooperativeness that pervades their experience of Metafilter.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 7:59 AM on May 29, 2008

Because I am center-right politically, and most people here are way, way, way left of center

"I am a reasonable centrist and the majority of people here are extreme leftists." Yeah, this is going to work.

Jut out of curiosity, was it a one-in-a-million fluke that you each moved into the one building in Park Slope where the other conservative happened to be living?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 10:32 AM on May 29, 2008

The comments thus far about d--s are short, small in number, relatively benign, and he hasn't been mentioned at all since last night. It would be just awesome if nobody took the bait at this point.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 10:46 AM on May 29, 2008

A couple times a day I find myself trying to apply the asshole flag.

You need to grease it up first.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 5:05 PM on May 22, 2008

The guy in the TED video claimed that this freaking software was going to mark the biggest change in "how we see the universe" since Galileo, for fuck's sake.

It made Scoble cry.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:26 PM on May 13, 2008

Visor, Mac-only software. MacSaber, Mac-only software. Tickr, Mac-only software. Delicious Monster, Mac-only software. Holding Pattern, Mac-only software. Talking Moose, Mac-only software. What are we talking about again?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:07 PM on May 14, 2008

Apple announces Aperture. What are we talking about again?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:16 PM on May 14, 2008

Don't be obtuse. If you have a point, make it. If you want to complain about Apple-themed posts, make a Metatalk thread about them.

I don't want to complain about Apple-themed posts, I'd just like to point out that "Whenever there are software posts on Metafilter, they seem to be of the Windows-only variety. It's pretty much a given, to be honest." is complete bullshit.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:47 PM on May 14, 2008

Is there somewhere I can move to where the pubic lice post is blocked?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 11:21 AM on May 7, 2008

Why are you commenting here? Flag it and move on.

Now that we've entered an infinite regression, this should probably be closed before it consumes the internets.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:39 PM on May 1, 2008

Speaking of numbers, this inconsistency is terribly bothersome:

MeFi: 0 posts, 0 comments
MetaTalk: 0 posts, 0 comments
Ask MeFi: 0 questions, 0 answers
Music: 0 songs, no comments, no playlists
Projects: 0 posts
Jobs: 0 posts

posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:19 PM on April 30, 2008

Where's the line? Does this cross it?
posted by Asymptote

Stop that.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 9:59 PM on April 28, 2008

Can we close this? I've pretty much reached my limit with people going off on a tangent.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 12:31 PM on April 29, 2008

I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.

Except for fishfucker, obviously.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 10:22 AM on April 29, 2008

Top 50 favorited comments, as of the last dump. (Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player.)

MeFi Comments
61699#1714437 447
68959#2007979 428
58583#1588699 299
62394#1742245 288
60808#1676227 268
68451#1987427 241
65823#1885985 225
62819#1759009 197
66144#1897448 197
64104#1811119 181
67578#1951436 175
66363#1905746... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 12:45 PM on April 28, 2008

This user page gives me an error.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 12:20 PM on April 21, 2008

so basically what you're saying here is that australians are witless, socially backwards goons that can't help themselves

To be precise, he's saying that australians are socially backwards goons that can't help themselves, and he's demonstrating that they're witless.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 5:22 AM on April 17, 2008

Technically, we could implement something like that if we decided it was the way to go. Practically speaking, that's at odds with 8+ years of how metafilter has worked, and it'd be an odd move to make on the front page

But it's done all the time here in MetaTalk, so presumably it wouldn't be that difficult to implement or that strange to see on the front page. If you take any action at all it sends a message, so in the case where the post would have... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 11:26 AM on April 17, 2008

Actually no, it isn't done here much at all. With very few exceptions, no comments get removed from MeTa.

Sorry, my mistake. I misread cortex's comment. I was just referring to the idea of closing threads without deleting the post, which I'd argue is a lighter form of moderation.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 11:52 AM on April 17, 2008

Which reminds me: cortex, any chance of an, errrr, fresh dump of the mefi db? Maybe with titles included for the post*.txt files?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:12 PM on April 17, 2008

Would it be a big change for Australians' comments to be visible only to other Australians?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 7:49 PM on April 17, 2008

Does Dave Faris have buddies?

No, he's like totally unpopular. Don't sit with him at lunch.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:02 PM on April 16, 2008

I really can't fathom why you'd act like owning up to one's mistakes merits a response like that.

I think it was the favoriting of said owning up that merited the response. And it is kind of sycophantic. It's like applauding a guy for wiping up the big steaming dump he took in a crowded room.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:27 PM on April 16, 2008

Now I think much less of you, regardless of what actually happened.

Wow. That's the stupidest thing I've read here in a long time.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:39 PM on April 16, 2008

Now I think much less of you, regardless of what actually happened.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:53 PM on April 16, 2008

always some variant of "you r all gay"

The major variant being "your all gay".
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 7:26 PM on April 10, 2008

this is already going so terribly badly that I don't see much of a reason for it to continue. what is there to "discuss" about child rape and how lousy it is?

I was just in the middle of deleting that derail at the end, but yeah, it's kind of a bad news post. Not much to discuss really aside from "wow, sounds awful

I would prefer to not have to read one more thread that makes jokes about the pubic hair of teenage girls... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 8:46 AM on April 9, 2008

I find myself in total agreement with ikkyu2's argument for deleting the thread, while at the same time wanting to avoid any action that might encourage his Übermenschen pals to come here.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:41 PM on April 4, 2008

I find this idea of topic scoring kind of charming. What else:

Douchebag is leading scumbag by 2:1.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:44 PM on April 2, 2008

I can't believe this pithy, dismissive, early comment in the thread didn't get deleted.

Pre-emptive favoriting.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 8:11 AM on April 2, 2008

I hope no one is on acid and visiting MeFi today.

I have to change my work habits just because it's April Fools' Day?
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 1:25 PM on April 1, 2008

I know they are the tenants of Christianity

Jesus is (slum)Lord.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 12:48 PM on March 28, 2008

Another example from today.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 10:59 AM on March 28, 2008

"Will the Korean doctor rob me blind??" might be a racist question if "Korean" referred only to the doctor's ancestry.

Since it refers to the doctor's location, it could only be racist if the country was irrelevant to the question.

Since the particular country is clearly relevant to intellectual property issues, it's not irrelevant to the question.

Therefore it's not a racist question. QED, ergo elk.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 3:09 PM on March 27, 2008

No, I wouldn't Mr. Shanks, just hoping you could answer that question for me, as it bothers me too, and I have difficulty laying off the bait.

Ah, sorry, I thought you were being rhetorical. I'm not sure most people can be expected to lay off the bait without avoiding the discussion altogether, which is rather disappointing when it's about someone you actually like.
posted to MetaTalk by Armitage Shanks at 2:34 PM on March 26, 2008