Can we all just agree that nakedness of any kind, no matter how artistic, informational, or asexual, is NSFW? Really? Can we?

Only if we can also just agree that employers who go apeshit over the least bit of nudity encountered while browsing are jackasses who deserve to have all their employees up and quit as one.

Ya probably shouldn't be browsing MeFi at work, especially if encountering Mature Subject Matter is an issue. And... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:33 PM on September 29, 2008

I really hate the fact that ... the group responses are always going to include:

Things that are true?
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:15 AM on September 30, 2008

*shout*
*shout*
*let it all out*
*these are the things i can do without*
*come on*
*i'm talking to you*
*come on*

Thread rating: Needs more p0rn.

what a tragedy, the loss of the img tag...
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:12 PM on September 30, 2008

Now, if I may pile on here with a little whining of my own, since it concerns something that is also evident in the linked thread, and I didn't want to start a MeTa about it. It's the phenomenon of Comment by Pasting.

And I pile on with counter-whining: I really appreciate Comment by Pasting: when the poster has quoted the most-relevant, topical part of the link, it often saves me from having to read the entire article; and it certainly provides me... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:43 PM on September 10, 2008

[Posting by Pasting] I guess the definition of "most-relevant" is where it gets iffy.

Not in most cases. In most cases, the poster is supplementing the paste with their interpretation or opinion. That means the most relevant part is, indeed, the part they quote.

The exception is ericb, who often does not post anything more than the paste itself. OTOH, he usually pastes enough of the article that it's not a problem to figure out what his point is.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 4:43 AM on September 11, 2008

And this temple of intellect is to be a 72-year-old heart beat away from the presidency?

Hey, the USA gave the "CEO President" a chance. That edumacation thing didn't turn out so well for the country now, did it? Once burned, twice shy: clearly, it's just plain safer to leave the country in the hands of an n00b luser.

Maybe all y'all can get her to agree to hire an administrator to do all the real work for her. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 11:21 PM on September 6, 2008

It seems to me the librarian-firing fits in with the overall theme of Palin's action in office: she fired a shitload of people with the goal of replacing them with loyalists and cronies.

I believe this is known as the "Good job, Brownie" philosophy of leadership.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 11:27 PM on September 6, 2008

That's, like, so true, man! Except that with me, it was the same thing but there was also gasoline dripping onto my face, and the battery was sparking a little bit.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 9:50 PM on September 8, 2008

Opera is pretty much essential when reading 4000 comment Sarah Palin threads. Doesn't even make the browser breathe heavy.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 11:15 PM on September 6, 2008

I think the correct term is "OStards." 'cause as far as I can tell, all y'all OS geeks are a behaving like a buncha twats.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:47 AM on September 7, 2008

ArtW, you should quit digging your hole now.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:02 PM on September 7, 2008

Full Unicode is not allowed - named, not numbered entities are allowed.

¹ is a named entity. & works. < and > work. But not, strangely, ¹ ... an entity that would typically see a lot more use than the other entities I mentioned!

I don't understand why named entities would be stripped at all.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:02 AM on August 29, 2008

¹ is fixed?
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 6:33 PM on August 29, 2008

Awesome, ¹ is fixed! Thanks so much.

To bring a response back from MeFi: "No, just ^{before and} after. No "small" needed, and no big PITA."

Sticking the in there reduces the line-spacing irregularity that would otherwise occur.

The quick brown <sup>1 chased the howling minions of hell. The quick brown 1 chased the howling minions of hell. The quick... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 6:38 PM on August 29, 2008

...and, yah, I supppose if I could remember my convoluted extended key mappings, I could insert the character directly...

`¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠«‘“æ…÷≥≤`⁄€‹›fifl‡°·‚—±»’”ÆÚ¿˘¯ ...damn it's gotta be here somewhere... œ∑´®†¥¨ˆøπåß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬Ω≈ç√∫˜µŒ„´‰ˇÁ¨ˆØ∏ÅÍÎÏ˝ÓÔÒ¸˛Ç◊ı˜Â.

Or maybe it isn't on my keyboard. Huh.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 6:43 PM on August 29, 2008

Is this where a person can mention that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is a douchebag and a half?

Good. 'cause he is.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:54 PM on August 25, 2008

I'm afraid I gotta kinda admire the sort of neo-nazi who would jump out of a six storey window to evade police. That's some serious fucked-up ballsiness there, that is.

May the bastards rot in prison.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:48 PM on August 25, 2008

I have a suspicion that the camgirls thread was perpetrated by a bunch of MeFites taking the piss.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:09 AM on July 26, 2008

Transgenderism is handled nicely in Thailand.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:29 PM on July 30, 2008

(do they have special pronouns (?) for the transgendered?)
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:30 PM on July 30, 2008

Read A Piece of Blue Sky, an insider's exposé of the cult.

Locking children in the chain locker of their ship was the very least of their criminal behaviours.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 6:34 PM on July 26, 2008

parmanparman suffers inexcusable ignorance regarding the nature and history of Scientology.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:35 AM on July 27, 2008

An idea:

Plot posting user's name against user names in that user's posts, ie. who responds to whom.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:27 PM on July 23, 2008

God forbid a child learn that elephants pee!
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:34 AM on July 20, 2008

yah, having read that thread (thanks for making it a MeTa subject or I would have skipped it!) I gotta agree with loq. Sanctimonious smugness, indeed.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 5:01 PM on July 11, 2008

"deep inside" does not imply a direction.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 9:15 PM on July 13, 2008

"Deep inside Cheyenne mountain" doesn't imply "down."

"Deep inside Space Mountain" implies "up." At least, I imagine most of the interesting stuff in Space Mountain is above ground level.

"Deep inside the cow" rather implies a more or less horizontal reaching-inside.

"Deep inside the palace" could just as easily be upstairs from the ground-level gate.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:10 PM on July 13, 2008

My God, it's full of beans!
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:01 AM on July 14, 2008

Is this where we drop a

.

Or where we say mean things about the deceased? I'm no longer sure of our cultural standard regarding this type of post.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:53 AM on July 13, 2008

LOL. dnab has blocked me in MeMail after calling me pathetic.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:14 PM on July 4, 2008

When a dozen people you claim to have "previously respected" tell you that you are wrong and being an ass...

...well just maybe you are wrong and being an ass.

Give it some thought.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:23 PM on July 4, 2008

Since you decided to go there--which is pretty fucking rude, by the way--how about we put up what you said?

Hey, here's an idea: let's do exactly that. I responded to your initiating email with:Words mean things. The legal definition is all there is when discussing copyright infringement. Casual use of language is not useful and not desirable when discussing copyright infringement.And I also said:I had thought you were smart enough... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:37 PM on July 4, 2008

Remember Stephan Yan? Well, those of you who said Stephan would wok, it turns out you were right.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:23 AM on July 1, 2008

Remember Warwick David? Well, those of you who said Warwick David would ewok, it turns out you were right.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:27 AM on July 1, 2008

Oh, crap on a stick: it's Warwick Davis.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:27 AM on July 1, 2008

To make up for that, Shortfellas. Five dwarfs. Five million in diamonds. One heist. A feature film about little men with big ambitions!
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:28 AM on July 1, 2008

Live and learn, plexi.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:06 PM on June 28, 2008

Let's push him/her into a flame-out! What fun!

Or, you know, not do that.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 9:49 PM on June 28, 2008

Being the smartest website on the web is like being the winner of the Special Olympics.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 4:32 PM on June 20, 2008

Mine are consistently full of coded stock phrases

Lucky you. Mine said it flat-out.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 10:08 PM on June 20, 2008

You're talking out of your ass.

That would be a helluva sideshow performance. I know I'd pay good money to see it.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 12:58 PM on June 22, 2008

Well, given that you wouldn't be #1 on the list if you hadn't done the test multiple times under multiple accounts, I'm gonna call it like I sees it. The list doesn't reflect who is able to fairly score the best, even with the siteowners' adjustments, because of shenanigans like yours. Gaming the system is sabotage. No ass-talking. The people who do 'well' on that site are not quite as smart as they appear.

Winning an IQ test on the Internets...... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 5:38 PM on June 22, 2008

I think everyone's one-year anniversary should be marked by a MeTa thread about our favourite threads!
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 4:31 PM on June 20, 2008

I'm not sure where the line is between the squalid little car boot story and the squalid little feet washing up on shore story, but I think there definitely is one, and on an international blog like Metafilter, when is a story too local to be featured on the front page?

Are you retarded, Faris? Almost every freakin' day we get a post about some asinine US-only political scandal that is of utterly no concern to 99.99% of the world's population, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 5:10 PM on June 19, 2008

Holy shit, do you ever have a bee in your bonnet about car boots, tkolar!

You don't happen to have family that operate a car boot business, do you? I'm terribly, terribly sorry that I've brought such aggravation and upset to your life. I really did not mean to turn your life upside down.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 4:28 PM on June 20, 2008

Only seven colors makes the blocks worse than useless as an educational toy because one of the most important features of the blocks would be familiarity with the colors of the spectrum alone and in combination.

You'll be surprised to learn, then, that not all cultures use the same colours in describing the basic colour set; and that no cultures base their colour sets on the colours of the rainbow (what with rainbows lacking black, white, and brown).... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 5:45 PM on June 3, 2008

you're suggesting (for example) that my 2-year-olds should be given hardwood scraps and sharp saws rather than pre-made wooden toys.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, get their 2 year olds to do it.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 6:54 PM on June 3, 2008

A partial refund on the blocks seems like it'd be a fair settlement. Especially in light of the ridiculous shipping charge.

I, too, believe the kid won't care about the colours: heck, I doubt a 2 year old has many ideas about colours at all — you ever seen their fashion sense? Atrocious!
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 7:41 PM on June 3, 2008

What kind of parent would let a toddler loose with a SawZall?

Not a SawZall. That'd be absurd. I'm pretty sure he meant a jigsaw. Perfect for your two year old handyman.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 9:26 PM on June 3, 2008

the way I'd do it (were I to be entirely serious) would be buying scraps from the hardwood flooring place (since they sell by the pound and not by the foot, and they're usually already sanded)...

...and I'd dip them in food colouring as dye, and give 'em to my kid just as they are. Because when it comes to making towers and little walls and roads and forts and stuff, it really isn't so important that the blocks be all identical or fit together like... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 12:19 AM on June 4, 2008