</pompous windbag>

Alas, now I know who orthogonality's sock puppet is!
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:44 AM on July 8, 2008

I think that exact phrase queries put a bit more strain on the server than just plain simple ones

If you stupid fucks would purge the inactive accounts we wouldn't have this goddamn problem.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 6:25 PM on June 16, 2008

Something I wrote here was totally brilliant.

not really. I had nothing to do with that thread. I just love it.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 11:03 PM on May 24, 2008

Meant to link this. Christ, what an asshole.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 11:04 PM on May 24, 2008

"Nite Hammer Sows Exact Joy" is an anagram for "mathowie cortex jessamyn".
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:11 AM on April 28, 2008

So, you can take your little admonishment and lame-ass attempt at being cute and shove it up your ass.

This condescending attitude is extremely offensive.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:56 PM on April 19, 2008

this is a legal question not "what is your personal opinion about my life choices" question - take it to MeTa if you have to tell the poster off.

I suppose I understand the MeTa-as-release-valve theory, and I'm quite able to scroll past this post, but, really, if "you have to tell the poster off", you should smoke a cigarette, seek therapy, or enjoy a good wank.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:42 PM on April 11, 2008

Can you imagine a sitcom where me and quonsar and cortex and y2karl and mathowie and Miko and pb and languagehat were neighbors?

If you move to my neighborhood please don't raise my taxes.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:22 PM on March 21, 2008

Oh, go harpoon a whale, freako.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:55 PM on March 18, 2008

It's possible to stay current without becoming RedState/DailyKos.

This place is half an inch away from turning into RedState as it is.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:02 PM on March 18, 2008

You're pretty exceptional, iknowizbirfmark. Usually people have to contribute way more to the site than you have thus far before I find them as annoying as I find you. Keep up the fine work!
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 12:22 PM on February 22, 2008

and given that Scalia brought Thomas into the Church, and that Thomas is Scalias little shadow ideological pal, it shouldn't be surprising.

Yeah. They vote together a lot. So do Ginsburg and Breyer, who must therefore be members of the Spartacist League.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 9:31 AM on February 18, 2008

There's a libertarian streak here that informs many people's views on both sides, for instance.

Heh. Copyright and the Drug War. What else?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 1:49 PM on February 12, 2008

Sorry, I edited that to make it clearer, but usually there is a strong correlation.

I can buy that it was an edit for clarity, but I don't think you should be able to do that.

You disclosed the edit (though not at its site), but you only made the disclosure after someone copypasted your text downthread. You're one of the people who run the place, and I'm not (and no one really cares what I think, I suppose), but still I think it's a lousy thing to do.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 6:45 PM on January 30, 2008

that the best thing we could do was to “go shopping”

A perfectly Keynesian suggestion, no?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:03 PM on January 30, 2008

If it is OK to suppress the instinct to steal, and murder, and rape, and basically engage in the nastier, brutish parts of nature, why is looking at boobs any different?

I did not equate looking at boobs with violence and murder. Way to strawman. I said all are instinctual, but we are able to repress our instincts for some and yet find it offensive to be asked to repress our instincts for another.

It's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:06 PM on January 24, 2008

The "Shylock" remark was wrong, but Chassidism is a culture every bit as much as it is a religion, and culture is not off limits here-- especially in Ask Metafilter, which is about finding answers to questions.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:36 PM on January 17, 2008

"I have a problem with my stupid American landlord-- you know how they are. They're all absolute idiots. And if you've ever met them, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Anyway..."

Either you're arguing in bad faith, you're a complete relativist, or you are otherwise somehow incapable... ah, hell with it. klangklangston did a far better job of explaining my point of view than I could do.

I honestly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 5:03 PM on January 17, 2008

Are there special "legally-intimidating measures" for recovering money from the Hasidim of Brooklyn outsiders to the community can try that are different to things you'd do to get cash back off anyone else? So it's pointless as well as bigoted.

The answer to the question (for me personally) is "I don't know." Unless the questioner knows that the answer is no, then it's obviously not... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 6:58 PM on January 17, 2008

You know that they are, in fact, following obscure Hasidic laws.

Which ones?

Well, my last tailor (An Orthodox jew, but not a Chassid) closed at noon on Friday-- not an obscure law, but a departure from the customs of larger society driven by his religion and/or culture. And Chick-Fil-A is closed on fucking Sunday. Both of which piss me off as I think business owners should worship money, not God.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:07 PM on January 17, 2008

The lack of a capital J was an oversight. Please accept my sincere apologies.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:08 PM on January 17, 2008

Huh? How, exactly?

I reckon that the vitriol would have been a good bit more tempered if dude had gone to Michigan State and spent time as an accountant before joining Givewell.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:27 PM on January 7, 2008

Heh. My misunderstanding. Please ignore my prior comment.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:28 PM on January 7, 2008

Also, it's amazing how dazzled people are by the "former hedge fund employee" thing. Seems like it's almost always mentioned in the first or second sentence of any discussion of these guys. Are hedge funds really so impressive that they translate into instant credibility and cachet when the people move on to other lines of work?

That's the part of the whole thing that really baffles me. Almost anybody who got good grades from a highly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:46 AM on January 2, 2008

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
ORTHOGONALITY?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:58 PM on December 30, 2007

Oh, and that thread on the MeFi front page is an embarrassment to the site, pretty much guaranteed to drive away thoughtful conservatives

I'm surprised that no one has snarked about what he feels is an oxymoron in that statement.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:08 AM on December 20, 2007

I'm thinking about replacing my Steelcase desk with an IKEA Jerker desk. What do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 12:15 PM on December 17, 2007

The "Hostages, Clinton" post is fucking dreadful.

Between
Sorry, I don't post often and not really sure what I'm doing but thought it was important enough to post.

But thanks for being an arse about it. :)

and

Not all of us have a TV on. Thanks for the post.

I just want to retch.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 12:22 PM on November 30, 2007

Brief lamentation from the OP's ideological archenemy about how difficult he finds it to balance his dislike for the cartoonist against the respectable quality of the cartoon and obvious worthiness of the cause.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:50 AM on November 30, 2007

Wow. DaShiv, great comment.

Indeed.

EB's meMail campaign is just about the lamest thing I have ever seen. I'd call him a dick, a pussy, or an asshole, but those are gendered insults, and by doing so, I'd draw the penalty flags for having insulted these precious, precious voices that (while so instrumental to the site) cannot handle a bit of offensiveness.

You going to pad the walls while you're at it?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 2:58 PM on November 24, 2007

The offensiveness of your comment I can handle fine Kwantsar; it's the balls-aching dullness that's doing me in....
Only moral gnomes, piss-poor wannabe comics who'd be better shutting up and possibly a slavering woman-hater with Tourette's of the typing fingers could possibly have their speech restricted in any meaningful way by this.


Hrm. Well, with my comment I hadn't really gone down the road of determining what, exactly,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:42 PM on November 24, 2007

Well, on the other hand, there's the fuckin' door.

You're proving his point.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:34 PM on November 25, 2007

His point's been addressed. Over and over. He's not raising an objection that hasn't been raised. He doesn't like the answer. Okay. The answer is clearly unlikely to change. I don't think the mods are gonna get rid of the tag because BigSky, in reply #1081 to this post, said for the nth time that he thinks it blows. Maybe they will. That'd be really amazing. But they won't, so it won't be that amazing at all. Therefore. Suck it up or walk. You want people to shoot from the hip? There... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:39 PM on November 25, 2007

I don't remember Bunnyfire. Or Miguel. They are before my time. Oddly, however, I don't feel any gaping sense of emptiness, loss or unfullfilment in my life. At least, not as concerns these two names.

Miguel was the best of metafilter-- the only highly prolific poster whose lively, polite, and clever contributions I consistently enjoyed reading.

In light of the prevalence of blowhards, windbags, and one-trick-ponies among... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 12:06 PM on November 24, 2007

What were the deleted comments?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 6:25 PM on November 18, 2007

User 47172 is the lamest douche on Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:47 PM on November 16, 2007

How long until someone comes along and accuses mothershock of using MeFi not only to write her book, but to pimp it as well?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 5:09 PM on October 29, 2007

buy corn, bitch.

That trade is pretty crowded.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 6:40 AM on October 17, 2007

Is this the point in the thread where someone posts a lengthy portion of a lengthier work, verbatim, into the thread? I like it when people do that sometimes.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:02 PM on October 14, 2007

matt/Jess/cortex: please close this shit NOW so I can make a post complaining about you closing it. Which you may then immdeiately close.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 5:23 PM on September 11, 2007

What happened to majcher?

...is a language can't you read?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 11:26 PM on September 8, 2007

That looks like fun. PS Stynxno your girl has cute legs.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 9:08 PM on September 8, 2007

If by "rocked" you meant "depressed me to such a great extent to be reminded of how fucked up healthcare is in the states" then I agree completely.

Really? Uninsured people choose to spend their savings on a vacation rather than health insurance, and "healthcare in the states" is "fucked up"?
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 2:43 PM on September 8, 2007

The question was hypothetical, but not unanswerable.

I learned something from the responses, and it pisses me off that mix tapes are okay but this isn't.

Yeah, yeah... there are guidelines, there aren't hard and fast rules, this is a community, no one cares what I think, et cetera.

andrew, nice to see you back here.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 7:51 AM on September 4, 2007

Jessamyn: If I ran the world, and was a total autocrat here, I'd be more inclined to delete any "help me name my X" or any "help me make a mix CD about Y topic"

cortex: in practice askme is more permissive than it'd be if I was doing ruthless preference-driven editing.

Seems like you're desperately begging us to read between the lines.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:12 PM on September 2, 2007

How totally non-threatening and older brotherly are the Metafilter male responses though?

She, a total retard, just jumped, and they were all there, ready to catch her, no judgments, thoughtful advice at the ready.

I'm both charmed and totally suspicious.

Heh.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:23 PM on August 30, 2007

that there are a few nasty people here who like to cross the line from spirited argument to personal attack's in one's offline life.

DESERVEDLY FUCKING SO, WITH PUNCTUATION LIKE THAT!
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 4:27 PM on August 27, 2007

This callout somehow manages to be lazy, silly, and ideologically motivated. Bravo!
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 8:16 PM on August 26, 2007

Navel-gazing at its very worst.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 1:55 PM on August 13, 2007

When I need to find an Objectivist defense of music piracy, I always know where to go.

You may not know that Rand was to some degree a proponent of intellectual property rights. I'd imagine that some/many objectivists are just as split over the issue as we small-l libertarians are.

Furthermore, given the level of snark directed at the invisible hand around this place (you can practically set your watch to it), I believe Cool Papa Bell's analysis is the right one.
posted to MetaTalk by Kwantsar at 3:02 PM on July 23, 2007