Another complex device. Which one could be next?
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:49 PM on June 13, 2003

Oh well, if this is Be Cruel To Penguins week, then play on.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:17 PM on May 29, 2003

Is that some sort of foreplay, mating dance? I had thought they might explode or some such bad thing but instead found it relaxing...

Postroad: are you using your mouse?
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:05 PM on May 29, 2003

I hate the sound of Frank Sinatra's voice. I can't fucking stand Ingmar Bergman movies. Kafka is boring. Mozart was a no talent pervert. John Ford sucks. Shirley MacLaine is a mad old woman. Orson Welles was an alcoholic show-off. I don't give two shits about Bob Hope.

America at its worst.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 2:53 PM on May 29, 2003

Thanks for the link repair, pzarquon! It's this damn Compaq shite machine that keeps forgetting to disregard the session data, like it was supposed to. ;)
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 3:14 PM on May 27, 2003

Wow. Are you people saying Americans are eager to find fault with anything to do with Bill Gates and Microsoft and Windows, as they secretly hate or envy them; but will go to great lengths to cover up the faults of Steve Jobs and Apple and OSX?

That is so against my impression of American consumers! Why would anonymous readers of Consumer Reports cover up for their Macs' faults? It's neurotic!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 4:23 PM on May 27, 2003

Then I read this comment of substrate's in my thread about a destructive rabbit. Something clicked. So I looked into what the web had to offer on this most enchanting of all breeds. And woe was me!

I live in an apartment; have one very large, fat, stupid, pathologically lazy and placid black Persian cat; no children; a lovely wife who likes everything tidy and ship-shape and an abiding desire to get an energetic, intelligent, loyal and tenacious dog. I.e. Nothing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 4:51 AM on May 15, 2003

Hey thanks bwerdmuller - I work at home, mostly. Will he kill my cat though? Even if I get him as a puppy?
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:16 AM on May 15, 2003

I hope this MetaFilter message works...
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:05 PM on May 9, 2003

Here's another one I'd prepared earlier. Hee hee.

If I can do it, anyone can!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:12 PM on May 9, 2003

Baldrick and others from zsazsa's hilarious link. And that Lee Hendrie sure is a handsome, intelligent-looking fellow, with the look of concentration that only the finest sportsmen can achieve.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:29 PM on April 27, 2003

And, while we're at it, here is Magazine City's fill-in form for other free subscriptions: "Please check off as many or as few magazines categories as may be of interest to you." ;)
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:23 PM on April 25, 2003

In the Gambrinus restaurant in Lisbon, I once saw Sean Connery drink nothing but water all through a big celebration dinner for "The Russia House" cast. He spoke in a very loud voice about golf and fishing. Nobody paid the slightest attention. What a tedious man! And, to make things worse, Michelle Pfeiffer, who I was secretly stalking, had left before I arrived at the restaurant, even before the meal began... What a let-down!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 7:07 PM on April 24, 2003

Yeah, they seem to have been MeFied. The second link was to one particular flame - the "Buy a Vowel" one. What can I say? The URLS are OK, both links worked well for me. Try again later - they're definitely worth seeing!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 10:53 AM on April 20, 2003

It's up again.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 4:05 PM on April 20, 2003

Though I meant though.

bloody imperialists
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:30 AM on April 11, 2003

Gough! What about British placenames, shoepal? They're truly inscrutable. Here are some I got from Bill Bryson's book Mother Tongue:

Barnoldswick - pronounced Barlick.
Worcester, Leicester, Chichester - Wooster, Lester, Chester.
Keighley - Keethley.
Wyardisbury - Razebry.
Flawith - Floyth.
Cholmondeston - Chumson.
Wymondham - Windum.
Saint John - Sinjun.
Culzean (Castle) -... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:06 AM on April 11, 2003

In Okeford Fitzpaine they actually changed the names round, just in case an enlightened foreigner presumed to get it right. You can't get more "local", a la "League of Gentlemen, than this. Damn them.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:08 AM on April 11, 2003

Bill Bryson also lists some names that, he claims, most Americans think they know how to pronounce but thay are actually pronounced differently by the locals. I'll leave out the local pronunciations to further the confusion:

Boise, Idaho; Gettysburg, Pennsylvabia; Pierre, South Dakota; Quincy, Massachusetts; Monticello, Virginia; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Biloxi, Mississippi; Yakima, Washington; St Ignace, Michigan; Concord, Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Arkansas... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:25 AM on April 11, 2003

Yeah, who do you think gives Miguel all his good links - namely all of them which are not via another site? Dig dig!

I remember Mencken (worse politics ever; best language skills, whether as user or scholar) once wrote an article about Baltimore pronunciation, where water was wooder, store was stewer, tiger was tagger, power mover was parramoor,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:26 AM on April 11, 2003

power mower, I meant. Also iggle for eagle; arnjoos for orange juice; orals for Orioles and beero for bureau. Well, how many murkins don't say arnjoos? [Still drawing from Bill Bryson's above-mentioned book here.]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:33 AM on April 11, 2003

Why is c-o-m-b pronounced comb, and b-o-m-b is bomb?

Exactly, wrench! Is it any wonder we foreigners can't cope? Rexgregbr: Bravo! Bravura performance, in fact. I'm Argentinian, I've lived in Portugal for over twenty years and I still can't speak/pronounce the exclusionist lingo. But when I visit Buenos Aires, my old friends can't understand me either. Portuguese is a devil's curse, to be sure.

Here are a few other... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:16 AM on April 13, 2003

Was it something about the shorts? Well, at least he's admitted he's got a problem. But is it all a question of waiting till he gets back from rehab? To what extent does cocaine - and substance abuse in general - explain much of the glitterati's outrageous behavior? Or perhaps the obsession with thinness? And does anybody still care? [via Gawker; apologies for the picture but I thought it would make reading the thread easier.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 7:44 AM on April 6, 2003

Here's my entry.

The Sea Queues line-up and loop numbers for their future massive hit "Cucumber Jam":

Andrew on percussion (loop 3); DancingPaul on acoustic guitar (loop 2); Adam on drums (loop 2); Rachel on bass (loop 1) and PLoser on bass (loop 4).

Wicked!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 3:41 AM on April 5, 2003

The Double Posters humbly sweep the floor with "Y.H.B.C. (I Searched and Searched, Honest)":

Amy on clarinet (loop 2); Milkbone on horns (loop 1); DJ Bee Jay (loop 3); DJ DraStik (loop 2) and Adam on drums (loop 2).

Humiliation never sounded so bitter. :)
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 9:40 AM on April 5, 2003

The way advertisers feel freer to exploit cruelty to animals or exploitation of women? Isn't it strange to sell phones or shoes this way? With supposedly hip products? I am a feminist and an animal activist, btw.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 4:24 AM on March 11, 2003

Oops - sorry Sparky and all. Should have known it was too good to be a first. Must try harder. Thanks for being polite and quick, jonson.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:17 PM on February 24, 2003

Here is the full London Telegraph obituary:

"Johnny PayCheck, who died on Wednesday aged 64, was a honky-tonk country singer with a reputation for hard-drinking, violence and general wild behaviour; he recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen hit singles, although he was best known for his cover of David Allan Coe's blue-collar anthem Take This Job and Shove It (1977).

The song, which inspired a film of the same name, was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 1:47 AM on February 21, 2003

Oops, sorry lazy-ville! And everyone else too.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 10:36 AM on February 17, 2003

Good points, 4easypayments and biscotti. I posted this because almost all the comments I heard on the cloning story (whether from men or women) were alarmingly predicated on Dr. Boisselier's appearance. And I found myself going along with them. Surely this can't be right?

Looking "suspicious" isn't the problem - it's how paramount what you look like is. And women have it (I'd say increasingly) harder than men. Isn't this unhealthy? Or is it some sort of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:01 AM on December 29, 2002

I don't. I love America. And I like real American food very much. But school lunch menus (a lot online) seem to come from nowhere. I realize they're very cheap but there's nothing fresh, nothing nutritious, nothing that doesn't depend on sauces. Also, for a foreigner (Argentinian) it's strange that the meals are all individual - each kid gets his taco or burger - and that's there's no communal cooking, as is the norm of school lunches everywhere in the world. All the food seems to be pre-made... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 2:02 PM on December 4, 2002

Oops, no - I meant cooking for a community; not the community cooking. You know, making big quantities of a nice stew, a side of beef, a savoury rice, bouillabaisse.

As for pictures are normally made to look better than the real thing, I had to laugh when I saw what the school suggests we do with the photographs.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 2:14 PM on December 4, 2002

Here are the very interesting posts about abandoned buildings that were mentioned: September 2001 (posted by Skallas) and July 2002 (posted by headspace). I did search (including clicking on most links in comments) and found no mention of Dark Passage (the main link). I did mention the other sites had already been "investigated on Metafilter". I'm sorry it wasn't clear and apologize for not including the links to the main threads in my post. They are both very good. Thanks also... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:10 AM on November 20, 2002

I did this ten days ago, using a new garbage email account, fearing the worst. So far, no spam.

I've only received two mails from them - one with the impressive ordination document to print out (choose good paper and nice, black ink for maximum effect and framing purposes) and another offering me a paid course in the ways of flock-keeping which I reluctantly declined.

Great fun was had by all (you can enroll friends and enemies) but I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:14 AM on November 18, 2002

Brilliant website, full of unexpected pleasures! Thanks, Morphic and Ray Girvan - see two posts down for ample justification of my gratitude!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:53 PM on November 17, 2002

The link I gave to Michael Jackson's website also provides a beer search, which is probably more complete than the Oxford one, but not as systematic. I found 21 for Mexico, 26 for Canada and 3 for Korea. The problem is that the references are buried in general articles which, though interesting, are not as quick and direct. Jackson, also well-known for his whisky and whiskey knowledge, must be the one person to have tasted more beers in the history of the universe! His Canadian competitor... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:30 AM on November 17, 2002

Serendipity: I just found a very good Belgian and Dutch beers database when I clicked through to Morphic's post, just 2 posts up. Not only that: Ray Givran's wonderful Apothecary's Drawer also links to the Oxford Bottled Beer search engine. Since he's also a Metafilter user, perhaps he could contribute a link that also mentioned Argentinian beers (not that they're any good)...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:49 PM on November 17, 2002

Catherine Bennett has made the best of a bad job. It's very difficult not to say, about the British Royal Family (after Prince Charles' embarassing habit of writing to journalists and so meddling in politics) that they they brought it on themselves.

I'm Argentinian and a republican, of course - but I can't imagine the UK without the K. They seem to be somehow on the left of British politics now (and Charles Kennedy the equivalent of a Maoist) while retaining some... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 2:29 AM on November 12, 2002

Dash; I'm 52 with a 34 year old daughter. Only 30 years ago there was no problem with naked children. In South America and Southern Europe all children go naked on beaches and nobody notices. But lately (I remember the controversy with Sally Mann) we've all become more sensitive to this, because of the relatively recent surge (or media surge?) about pedophilia.

Argentina (my country) and most Latin countries are just now drafting laws about pedophilia - it was assumed... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 7:25 PM on November 9, 2002

Thank you, tweebiscuit. In my search I did find a lot of dubious "erotic" websites with photographs by Sally Mann and Jock Sturges (doubtless unauthorized, for their integrity is well known) but they were not worth posting, of course.

This website may be entirely "above board" and my comments may be even unjust and insulting to them - as it is an officially approved site by international nudist organizations and there is no sexual activity or even... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 7:41 PM on November 9, 2002

This is child porn. It shouldn't be spread, on MeFi or elsewhere.

Isn't porn about sex? This isn't about sex. Foot fetishists may find Manolo Blahnik advertisements highly arousing - but it doesn't make them porn.

The danger is if everything which may arouse a small minority of people is deemed "porn" then you risk there being no distinction between child porn (children engaging in sexual acts) and photographs of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 8:21 PM on November 9, 2002

Wow, this thread certainly answered my questions and doubts - and added new ones I'd like thank all the people who contributed so much to this thread and prevented it from going awry as it could well have done, given the subject matter. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 11:03 PM on November 10, 2002

adolf hitler wasn't just 'put' into office. people liked him, alot of people liked him. he reminds me a lot of dubya, in a lot of ways

Godwin meet Slippery Slope; Slippery Slope meet Godwin.

(It was that "a lot" that lost me. )
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:04 PM on November 4, 2002

Thanks, VelvetHellvis! This is empowering and truly diverting.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 5:01 PM on November 4, 2002

Some tasty post left-overs: Here is a note on the chile/chili spelling, an interesting Texan recipe for Bad Attitude Chili and, last but not least, a recipe for Argentina's great contribution - chimichurri sauce. It is spicy and warm, South American and European, but not scorching - just delicious!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 6:18 AM on November 3, 2002

I should add that the answers on the Faulkner quiz don't work, bwahahahaha!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 10:45 PM on October 28, 2002

JohnR: I only meant that they both sound the same to me. I like classical music but certain pop music I appreciate.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:55 PM on October 18, 2002

As if Sanrio's Kitty wasn't creepy enough - indeed!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:53 PM on October 18, 2002

The U.S. is the worst superpower imaginable - until you consider the alternatives.
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:53 PM on October 18, 2002

Japanese mayonnaise is the best!
posted to MetaFilter by Carlos Quevedo at 12:52 PM on October 18, 2002