When someone asks a question about what song was being played in this movie or whatnot, wouldn't it be rude or just useless to respond with, "That sounds like a music question. You know who could answer that? A DJ!"

If you think this is a good analogy, you don't understand how the law works.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:35 PM on June 15, 2008

I was just thinking, this isn't going to last long, when along comes Jessamyn deleting the kinds of comments anyone seriously thinking about this needs to hear. In fact, I'm not sure that this is a serious question, which is why I figured it was going to go. It's possible to take the guidelines WAY to seriously. If someone came along and asked, "What's the right way to slit my wrists," would you delete responses that didn't answer the question?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:58 PM on April 8, 2008

You're a junior in a liberal arts program and you think you've got a career?

35 years after having had a vasectomy, you want children? Have you picked up a new trophy wife, or something, HuronBob?

Wow, someone's got his panties in a knot over this. I guess we hit some sort of nerve.

Yeah, that could have been a lot clearer.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:32 AM on April 8, 2008

Listen carefully: this can be the sign of a serious problem with your computer. It tends to occur around this time of year. I would recommend that you backup your data as quickly as possible and do a full hard drive format and OS reinstall. Email's in profile if you need some help being walked through it.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 9:04 AM on April 1, 2008

I should be allowed to express my view also. And I am. And you've heard it.

Uh...okay. Did anyone ever suggest you're not allowed to express your view? Is there some reason that the fact that you find this offensive should concern other members of this site? Or are you just wasting our time with your precious, offended self, that secretly pines for the days when blasphemers like this would have been strung up like they deserved?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 12:10 PM on March 28, 2008

Someone should mail Quid, or he may never notice.

I emailed him as soon as I posted the thread, naturally.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 9:53 AM on March 28, 2008

What a ridiculous callout. Identify the particular stereotypes you think are at work here, or stop being so over-sensitive.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 2:52 PM on March 27, 2008

Personally, I'm all for the US annexing Canada--US politics would swing noticeably to the left.

Americans would move to the left in response to terror attacks from Canadian insurgents? I doubt it.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 1:02 PM on March 18, 2008

Here's hoping you have some ideas...

Here's an idea, 0bvious: stop intellectually masturbating in AskMe.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:31 AM on March 13, 2008

It's always painful to me to see an idiot who thinks he's a genius. Eventually life disabuses these people and they end up flipping burgers or operating on brains or some other kind of manual labor, but until then, they corner you at cocktail parties or on the telephone or in AskMe and spew forth their torrents of vapidity.

Are you kidding? Many of them end up with tenured positions.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 11:09 AM on March 13, 2008

Fucking Awesome.

It's true, there is almost sociological value in reading a question like this one. It's fascinating to see just how self-absorbed in their own pseudo-intellectual bullshit people can become when they spend too much time in "critical theory" academic echo-chambers.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 11:17 AM on March 13, 2008

*posts MeTa thread*

Have there been 20 now?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:10 PM on February 20, 2008

I notice that two of the tracks still have mystery artists. Are you just creating mp3s from the tape?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 3:14 PM on December 8, 2007

AngryVICTIM
Knows how to party

God, I'd love to hear what cortex could do with that.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 12:32 PM on November 15, 2007

This is one of the stupidest callouts I can remember. Dangerous to public health? Take it up with the government - the guy's asking about a legal activity. If you don't approve, DON'T CLICK ON THE DAMN THREAD.

And one whackjob murderer doesn't make it any more or less a legitimate question (hell, if anything, how do I arm myself for personal protection in this gun-ridden country is even more relevant now).
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 2:32 PM on April 24, 2007

Most of the rules aren't that subtle. If you've been reading for a year and still can't figure out where to post, what do you expect?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 7:44 PM on December 14, 2006

I LOVE that the first response is "dump her." Ah AskMe, how I love thee, you are so predictable.

In my own defence, it was not an automatic reaction to someone else's relationship problem - it really sounds like his fiancee is pathologically spendthrift and he's letting himself be taken for a ride. I mean, the guy dropped out of college because she won't pay her share of the bills. I think this advice pops up so often on AskMe because so... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 5:44 PM on December 14, 2006

What does it say about AskMe that a comment the admins agree should have been deleted for being a useless non-answer was marked as Best Answer?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 7:03 PM on August 18, 2006

i think this thread has just been godwined.

He said World War One, quonsar.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 7:16 PM on August 13, 2006

not reading every single news article

Are you kidding? I agree with the poster, this was widely reported and not all that difficult to figure out, if you'd been willing to put five minutes into research before cluttering up AskMe out of laziness.

This is way too common on AskMe (along with long-winded, boring chatfilter outpourings about relationship breakdowns). GFE - Google Fucking Exists. Use it. For instance, the first... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:07 AM on August 10, 2006

because information balanced with intelligent opinion is more illuminating than just reading and accepting news media at face value.

You mean uninformed opinion, speculation? Because unless some mefites have access to the inner thinking of the British security services, that's all that it would be. Though it's good to see that people will never give up their sophomoric pretensions to superiority merely because they mindless question anything they read in newspapers.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:30 AM on August 10, 2006

Yeah, that's all we need to do. Attract the teen crowd. That would really make this a better site.

What do you mean, Afroblanco? joshuak, for instance, has been a valuable member of this community. Well, okay, so he's never commented in the blue, and only once in the grey (about himself), but he has posted nine questions to the green, including such valuable questions as, "My parents gave me a car, but it's not cool enough! Waaa!" and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:06 AM on June 30, 2006

This thread has fewer responses, but more of them are answers, because it doesn't get sidetracked by the fact that the question is a scam.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 7:37 PM on April 25, 2006

I agree with jenovus - neat, except losing the back button is a real pain. Is there any way to change that?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 6:19 PM on April 25, 2006

I feel we'd all be a lot happier if only we all had our cats circumsized.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 12:20 PM on April 19, 2006

Metafilter: the lesbian asking the question is a girl
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 2:56 PM on April 15, 2006

Yeah, Optimus Chyme, do you know how many Mefi-reading Muslim Saudis you just offended? In future, please be sure to censor yourself when making points about self-censorship.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 1:55 PM on April 16, 2006

*As opposed to Mefi-reading non-Muslim Saudis? Nevermind.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 1:56 PM on April 16, 2006

It's one thing if you're in conversation with someone. But if we have to "be polite" in print, lest we offend someone somewhere, we've sacrificed freedom and debate to irrational sensitivity. If people don't like what someone has to say, they don't have to read it; or they can write something in response.

I mean, what's next:

Christ didn't really rise from the dead today.

Wouldn't want to offend Christians.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 2:38 PM on April 16, 2006

Essentially, if you're going to go knowingly offend people, it should either be in making a point directly about them

By this standard, the comment you objected to qualified. It made a point about the illiberal censoriousness of many Muslim countries (and how we wouldn't want Metafilter to take their offence into account).
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 7:41 PM on April 16, 2006

Hear, hear, cribcage. pieoverdone, since when were we obliged to marry people who want fundamentally different things in life than we want, just because we started dating them?

No, wait, you know what, I'm not going to argue with you over this. But you should listen to what others have said: you've come across as bitter, intolerant, irrational and a little bit crazy in this thread. I can only imagine what your deleted comments were like.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:06 PM on April 5, 2006

Crap, should have previewed - cribcage, I was applauding this, though I would have said the same thing to fandango_matt (gay relationships have no biological purpose, which is not to say there's anything wrong with them).
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:08 PM on April 5, 2006

Alright, konolia, out with it. Where's Jimmy Hoffa?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 5:25 PM on April 19, 2004

Maybe this is taking this too seriously, but I think this really shows contempt for Metafilter and for the effort that Matt puts into the site. It's also sort of ironic that it would actually take more effort to post the question to AskMe that it would to Google it.

But the fact that jimbler is a double idiot is beside the point - it's the disregard for the simple, clear guidelines, and the waste of other people's time that's the problem.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 8:26 PM on April 14, 2004

The post wasn't lambasted because people disagreed with the viewpoint of the poster, it was because it linked to an article that was not only not the best of the web, but biased, dishonest and false.

We're expected to read that and not call Krrrlson on it? It was a pathetic post, that distorted an issue (either willfully or negligently) and debased the memory of the Holocaust by comparing it to an administrative decision applied equally to two antagonistic groups on the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 1:56 PM on March 26, 2004

What do you do? What do you do? [/more keanu]
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:02 PM on March 8, 2004

I'm torn. XQUZYPHYR is right that the post was inflammatory, and McBain's just aggravating things in the thread with comments like this. So cool it a bit, McBain, please.

But he's got a point that he shouldn't have to put with lazy, baseless denunciations without any evidence to support them. But then again, what's the internet for?
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:08 PM on March 8, 2004

Of course, McBain, by being so inflammatory in your post you've diverted discussion and attention from Krugman's article. One would think you could have posted a toned-down version of your preemptive rebuttal as a comment.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 10:16 PM on March 8, 2004

Candidates have to meet certain standards - including popularity in the polls and fundraising - before the Secret Service will give them protection. I doubt that Nader's going to meet those standards (I don't think he did last time).

And I certainly don't think that Matt is going to have a problem just because evidence of Tlogmer's idiocy and bad taste is linked to from Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 11:49 AM on March 8, 2004

Worst post ever? C'mon, there must be worse.

This post also had the honour of being called worst ever.
posted to MetaTalk by Dasein at 4:29 PM on March 1, 2004