Oop, I thought I'd already said this: I'm in.

See you all soon-ish.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 8:27 AM on August 7, 2008

Confirmation bias.

Well, maybe not, but since those two words are probably the most common in AskMe answers after 'Aspergers Syndrome', I felt strangely moved to type them.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 7:36 AM on August 6, 2008

I recall seeing someone mention something about cory doctorow finally having chimed in.

He opined that he was 'jake' with the whole mess. Steampunk slang for 'cool', I believe.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:51 PM on July 30, 2008

(boo ya)
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 7:22 AM on August 4, 2008

Good to see you back, nickyskye!
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:31 PM on August 3, 2008

One went to 'Society & Culture', the second to 'Writing & Language'.

Ah, I didn't notice that. And I wasn't calling jujube out as such - it just seems that if re-asking caught on, Ask would get a bit gummed up.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:04 AM on July 30, 2008

onlyconnect wrote: Is it okay to keep asking a question [even after] you get an answer?

Is okay!
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 9:32 AM on July 31, 2008

So how exactly do I get my wife to go to work all day, overtime even, while I stay home making babies?

By taking a fecund mistress.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:53 PM on July 30, 2008

I'm not sure I understand this, but I'm sure it's nice to be on a little twig with peacay, being shaded by the leaves of jonson, madamjujujive and fandango_matt on the branch above.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 6:27 AM on July 23, 2008

I haven't been this excited since that time the man from the telly programme about the aeroplane on a conveyor belt joined.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:18 PM on July 21, 2008

Citizen Premier wrote: I had a dream O.J. Simpson wrote a book called "Yeah, I Did It."

He did, but it was very short.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:54 AM on July 19, 2008

The tags show up in NetNewsWire, and it's often pretty useful when deciding whether to click the links - eg., there's no way of knowing what this post from yesterday is about without reading the tags.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:50 AM on July 19, 2008

Kattullus: I think jabberjaw meant "trawl."

Nah, I'm betting he's a 'theatrical' gentleman in his dotage who's mistaken MetaFilter for the backstreets of Soho, and every last one of us for trade.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 12:29 PM on July 16, 2008

Ah, being new to the iPhone, I thought I was being dim and had missed a setting somewhere. Fingers crossed the developer will change his mind about the feature - this aside, it really is a super-useful app.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 5:30 AM on July 15, 2008

So, date, time, location?

I'm defo up for an Edinburgh festival-time meetup instead/as well, though. I'll be through most days in August, but not ultra-busy now that the film festival has moved to June.

I was hoping that I'd have an escape for at least a few hours.

Maybe the sgt. could suggest an out of the way spot free of jugglers and fire-eaters?
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:04 AM on July 11, 2008

I called someone a cunt on MetaFilter once, and the (fairly mild) reaction persuaded me to never do so again. I've probably deleted hundreds of cunts since, though, since it's hard to remember how extreme a term it is in the US compared to the UK (especially Scotland - I have to de-cunt my vocabulary when I'm down South). As for 'twat', I really like the way (some?) Americans pronounce it 'twot'.

So if a comment gets flagged and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 12:54 PM on July 9, 2008

rtha writes 'The same is true for nigger, and faggot, and a few more.'

Absolutely - that's what I meant, that it's possible to use an offensive word in a non-offensive way, and it's wrong to say that a word is intrinsically 'full of hate'. (As an aside, I'm having trouble thinking of an example of 'faggot' being used in a neutral or positive way, unlike 'queer' or 'gay' - perhaps another transatlantic difference?)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 1:27 PM on July 9, 2008

cortex wrote: As an aside, I'm having trouble thinking of an example of 'faggot' being used in a neutral or positive way, unlike 'queer' or 'gay' - perhaps another transatlantic difference?

For a long time, Dan Savage's letters opened with the salutation, "Hey faggot".

I have no idea who he is. A queer, I'll wager? That last sentence raises an interesting point - I have no idea whether... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:01 PM on July 9, 2008

zemblamatic writes 'I think it is sweet when you septics occasionally remember your puritan roots.'

COLONIALIST!
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:04 PM on July 9, 2008

ClanvidHorse writes 'There is also the interesting thing that some people will call someone "a sound cunt" meaning that they are a decent or good person so where that fits into the narrow American definition of the word, fuck knows.'

That sense and 'daft cunt' for someone faintly annoying are the uses I've picked up from living in Scotland. A bit like 'the dog's bollocks' meaning something good in the South of England, I suppose. Do people... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:17 PM on July 9, 2008

brujita writes 'So far, I've made six trips to the British isles, I've read and seen plently of British/Irish books and movies...I have NEVER heard or read "You fanny!" the way one would hear "You cunt/twat!" in the states.'

What?! It's used all the time. Usually in a kind of exasperated way, and nowhere near as strong as twat/cunt.

BrotherCaine wrote: Jack_mo, take that back you baby sodomizing,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:47 PM on July 9, 2008

Not to mention a bundle of sticks. Words - they have all kinds of meanings!
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:54 PM on July 9, 2008

diddy ride

I have an insanely lascivious Northern Irish friend who uses the word 'diddy' all the time, and because of him, as far as I'm concerned it's the most perverse, upsetting and misogynist term in the English language.

BrotherCaine writes 'I'll concede later after I have time to look those terms up. Back to work.'

I'll burn you with my fuck, you [random Shakespearean insult],... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:43 PM on July 9, 2008

Mitheral writes 'This seems like a pretty poor reason.'

How so? It's offensive in this context, seriously offensive to some, so I'll avoid using it as much as I do in real life. The alternative of sending the whole of America to a Cunt Inoffensiveness Re-education Camp just so I can use the word seems like a bit of a hassle.

sgt.serenity writes 'If i remember rightly it was your naughty american pal that was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 6:19 AM on July 10, 2008

nonce slang for girlparts

That sentence can have a very different meaning in the UK.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 12:07 PM on July 10, 2008

If I've learned one thing from this thread, it's that the drongo are a family of small passerine birds of the Old World tropics. Still no idea why they lend their name to an Australian insult, though.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:02 PM on July 10, 2008

turgid dahlia writes 'Nobody ever wants to invade Australia to obtain our resources.'

What about that war with Hong Kong?
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 5:01 PM on July 10, 2008

theora55 writes 'This thread, however, is pretty annoying. Lots of "Oh, feminism, how tiresome".'

I think it's the endless, repetitive discussion of whether or not there's a sexist atmosphere at MetaFilter that folk are finding tiresome.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:24 PM on July 10, 2008

languagehat writes 'Yeah, if only those damn women would shut up and let the real people talk in whatever way comes naturally.'

Oh, come on languagehat, you know that's not what I meant. It just seems that, after the many (useful, valuable, enlightening) discussions on this topic to date, there's little to be gained by another thousand-odd comments on the same topic. Unless there are lots of new MetaTalk readers who might modify their behaviour in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:53 PM on July 10, 2008

Neato! But it won't help my stumpy baby. Seven months I've been checking on the poor sod.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 5:19 PM on July 1, 2008

Yeah, explanation please, plexi: I'm well confused. And also feel kind of sorry for Trentmoller if is his 'comeback' consists of such an embarrassingly dated song sounding like an inept pastiche of Faithless circa 1998, when he's done some decent stuff in his time (I only really know of his remixes, admittedly - eg. that one he did for The Knife from, erm, last year).
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:59 AM on June 29, 2008

roll truck roll wrote: There's also this, if the lofi version still looks too much like fun.

That's totally ace. Thanks for the link, roll truck roll.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 5:27 PM on June 26, 2008

It's mostly that a potentially good post was wrapped around an utter turd of a source that bothered me.

How is an interview with Winehouse's dad in the Sunday Mirror an utter turd of a source? If it was the NotW or the fucking Sun, you might have a point, but (Piers Morgan's Abu Ghraib photos aside) the Mirror papers have a relatively sturdy reputation - Paul Foot and John Pilger did some of their best work at The Daily Mirror, after all. It's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 5:45 PM on June 23, 2008

tellurian: the volume just seems all over the shop to me, from barely audible to eardrum shattering. I think I've adjusted the volume ten times now, and I'm only about fifteen minutes in.

Also, should I ever make a film with a voiceover, I will have to employ flapjax at midnite as narrator.

TheOnlyCoolTim wrote: Well, heck, since you're the ONLY COOL TIM I guess we're gonna just have to take your word for that.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 8:28 AM on June 17, 2008

Burhanistan: "Sometimes the random Fad Gadget video gets thrown in for good measure."

I found every last Fad Gadget (RIP) 7" and 12" in a charity shop in Leeds a couple of years ago, for 50p each. Best day of my record purchasing life.

Except for that time I rimmed a chicken.

They're like little fluffy dinosaurs, right?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:00 PM on June 12, 2008

I am not your beautiful wife.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 6:21 AM on June 5, 2008

pwb503: "I take offense to being called a troll."

I only accused you of trolling because of this:

Sorry if the SFW tag is incorrect for some. In my opinion, if you need to be told what you're looking at is "dirty" then it's SFW.

Which I took to mean that you knew full well that many would find the images problematic, and added the emphatic SFW to make a point. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:56 PM on June 4, 2008

It's a bit I AM ASKER, HEAR ME ROAR!!! in the plain theme, maybe?
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 11:39 AM on June 4, 2008

I'm an anchovies (oil packed, not salt), small Pantelleria capers and green peppercorns man myself, which is probably unpardonable heresy to hardcore oven-modifying pizza crackpots, but tastes abso-sodding-lutely delicious.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:37 AM on June 3, 2008

I've had pizza with an egg (just the yolk, usually) plopped in the middle lots of times in France - just barely set, presumably added the second the pizza comes out of the oven so it can cook a little bit on the way to the table, which means you can swizzle it all over the other toppings before you tuck in. Lovely. It's called Pizza alla Bismarck, though I somehow doubt that the unifier of Germany was an eggy pizza man.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 4:23 AM on June 4, 2008

How music-ish do the Wildcard ones have to be, or do folk not really care? Because I'm sure I could record some interesting noises according to the Wildcard rules, and edit the tape into an interesting sequence, but the results probably wouldn't be music by any usual definition (and I'm not quite enough of a wanker to suggest I'd be making 'sound art' or 'field recordings' or whatever).
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:51 AM on June 2, 2008

Right-oh then, field art sound recording here I come. Now I just have to find that minidisc recording of a nurse removing a plastic tube from a hole in my side... sluuuurrp-POP!-whimper.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:33 AM on June 2, 2008

Cranberry wrote: "Now I just have to find that minidisc recording of a nurse removing a plastic tube from a hole in my side... sluuuurrp-POP!-whimper.
posted by jack_mo at 3:33 AM on June 2 "
This comment is useless without pictures

Here you go. Possibly NSFW, probably NSFSP (Not Safe For Squeamish People).
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:47 AM on June 3, 2008

Always got the impression that Etsy was for crocheted hemp dreadlock sheaths and hand-tooled tofu gewgaws for your shrine to Gaia, for some reason. I stand corrected - defo some nice stuff available.

Still, not sure I'm willing to buy from a website that uses the word 'dude' in an official capacity.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 1:39 PM on May 30, 2008

I get incredibly wound up by the use of 'gay' to mean 'rubbish'. It's the only thing I have in common with old duffers who get incredibly wound up by the use of 'gay' to mean 'gay'.

Anyway, the tag should go, and we can all make a mental note that aftermarketradio is a bit of a knob.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 11:36 AM on May 29, 2008

Oop, should've previewed.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 11:37 AM on May 29, 2008

I reckon the best link I've posted, though it's not the most favourited, is this one, which links to a lovely website about bit-part actors.

Other than that, nothing to report.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 9:05 AM on May 23, 2008

The Strunk & White Stripes would be a great name for a covers band. Or pub quiz team.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 6:21 AM on May 13, 2008

* piece of some kind made with instruments you have never ever played but must play for the purposes of this challenge (probably not very cost effective, tho)

I went to a gig/art thing where everyone in the audience had to play, on the condition they only picked up an instrument they'd never played before. An hour later, we were basically playing Krautrock, except for the two-year-old kid there, who was on more of a free jazz tip.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 2:57 PM on May 13, 2008

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/twitter-tools/

Apt.
posted to MetaTalk by jack_mo at 3:55 AM on May 10, 2008