Your trend of planning meetups the night before swim meets continues to disturb me with its prescience. Then again, it is early and involves cake...
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 2:32 PM on January 26, 2008

since it's just layers and layers of ironic "Ha, this is hilarious because it's pidgin english" humor

No. It is the pictures of cats. Duh.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 10:23 AM on November 4, 2007

Dude. That thread is a bazillion comments long. I think it is past the derail threshold.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 2:27 PM on September 24, 2007

I think I did hear the resounding of a glove slap.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:41 PM on September 24, 2007

OMFG. I totally blanked. Frowny.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 4:46 PM on September 22, 2007

Maybe I can come Weds. Where is it?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 11:10 AM on September 23, 2007

Oh, Astoria. And on a schoolnight. Unlikely.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 2:31 PM on September 23, 2007

They're hipster internet nerds, a combination I hadn't even considered until I saw these photos. (No offense.)

I am pretty sure that description applies to 97 percent of NYC MeFites.

kkokkodalk, please always wear your hair like that.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 10:15 AM on September 9, 2007

I don't think distances are really comparable across cycling and swimming, so if anyone else was interested, I would rather make a swimming group there that was all swim. Or am I misinterpreting your suggestion?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 9:59 AM on August 12, 2007

So we could have a dusty little swimming annex attached to your robust cycling page? As nice as that offer is . . .

I'd like to have a swimming challenge for swimming if enough people are intersted (they may not be, but it's Sunday so I'll hold out hope a little longer). But I would like it to be about swimming and not a dingy add-on.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 11:31 AM on August 12, 2007

The homepage has a bike on it, FFS. You are a cyclist not a swimmer. How can one even look at it and think you are going to treat swimming equally? More to the point, how is most active even calibrated? Is it just going to be time or distance? Because if so it is going to be inherently cyclists. So what is in it for me that I couldn't get better by even just starting a group that was MeFi swimmers and about swimming, which, triathletes nonwithstanding is actually, you know, a different sport?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 12:37 PM on August 12, 2007

It is set up as a cycling group, right now, yes? The "most active" leaderboard, for instance, doesn't seem to differentiate between sports, leading it to be cycling dominated, no?

I am not against using we endure, but I don't want to just be a tab in some group about some sport I could give a flying fuck about. He did not and has not addressed any of my concerns, instead being like, well, it was easier to stick you in this corner. What is hard to understand... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 2:04 PM on August 12, 2007

Right. Which is what I was thinking might be an option. I just want this to be as real as the others and not a half-assed add-on, lost amidst a wholly unrelated challenge. I'm sorry I was a jerk in the way I went about expressing it.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:00 PM on August 12, 2007

i miss img and everyone who dose not is on de enemeez list
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:11 PM on August 10, 2007

(hard to type in batH)
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:11 PM on August 10, 2007

New York City (all 5 boroughs) -- #13 (10,439 population density/km²).

C'mon now, that's not fair: Staten Island has ten people, a million rats, and a decomissioned landfill.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:37 PM on August 6, 2007

The population density of the Los Angeles urbanized area is greater than that of the New York urbanized area, with 7,009 people per square mile versus 5,239 people per square mile.

Yes. Los Angeles and environs tend to have a blanket medium denisty spread over a kazillion miles. NYC has some really dense parts, some moderately dense parts, and then a lot of suburbs with growth regulations. So that statistic doesn't mean what you think it does.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:32 AM on August 7, 2007

I love you all. Especially sub'''x for claiming apostrophes are a persuasion. You just can't make that shit up.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:24 PM on August 1, 2007

I've never seen more bad answers to an AskMe before. I'm not surprised the poster got defensive, considering how hard she got attacked.

Seriously? That question is awful. People around here had the grace to explain nicely why lizzicide was wrong (and do the research to prove it), and all they got was coy argument and indications of some eating/body issues that the poster clearly doesn't have the perspective to apprehend. As evidenced by the posts in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 3:03 PM on July 29, 2007

MeTa brings me joy. When my day is gray, popping in here to see all sorts of shitstormyness makes me fee as though perhaps I have less worrying and more laughing to do. What I am trying to say is: You really should talk to my therapist before you shut this place down.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 10:24 AM on July 29, 2007

The Potter thread is about the series ending, not the end of the book. Perhaps the mods might like to make that clearer.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:43 PM on July 22, 2007

That place is right next to the best cupcakes in the city. I'll see what I can do.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 1:54 PM on July 22, 2007

Living in NYC, the users closest to me is useless, and I'd rather not have to click onto another page to find any of the New Yorkers I know. At the same time, I realize other people don't have that problem. Can't we make it work for everyone?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 4:59 PM on July 16, 2007

Just to be able to choose the number displayed. I don't need people 38 miles out, but 4 to 5 miles out would be nice. As it is, the number doesn't even cover 1 mile.

We could also ban New Yorkers, as long as I could choose which ones.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:11 PM on July 16, 2007

Also, I don't need to know who lives where. I just like to be able to navigate to pages from my own with less rigamarole. When you are stealing unrealiable internet, every page load counts!
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:14 PM on July 16, 2007

Could we maybe up the number while we wait then? It is a little, erm, draconian right now, no?

Waves back. Moves Mach5 off potential ban list.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:23 PM on July 16, 2007

It is more of an inconvenience than having a slightly larger box to ignore?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:29 PM on July 16, 2007

Are you still mad I was right about the AskMe limits? Because those were draconian too.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:30 PM on July 16, 2007

dame, the problem was that people in major cities had 300+ nearby users showing, which was about three times as long as their own user details, so I moved to instead just showing ten up front with a link to more.

I understand that. But 500 to 10 is a pretty big cut. So in the meantime, would it be horrible to have like 30?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:11 AM on July 17, 2007

Because then I have to wait for both pages to load when I am stealing Internet. And it makes me feel unloved. I am apparently the only one with this problem, though, so I suppose I shall suffer.

*Places hand upon brow. Sighs.*
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:29 AM on July 17, 2007

Can you make me feel loved, too?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 9:39 AM on July 17, 2007

I had the cable people out here twice--twice!--and they couldn't do it. But everyone around me has it.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 3:17 PM on July 17, 2007

It was a better thread than the LOLMetal thread, even though that was was popular.

That is not true. LOLMETAL spawned a song. What did this spawn but a bunch or whirling nerd-cogs?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:26 PM on July 9, 2007

"reign of terror"?

How else would you steer the horses of the apocalypse?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:33 AM on July 2, 2007

I guess it's just weak that the very mention of Lane Bryant gets that "Heavens NO, darling, you're not plus-size! You carry it so well!" Ego-stroking, belittling bullshit reaction. Call a spade a spade. Wear the tent that fits.

/5'9" 12-14

I'm those specs (well, depends on the store) and I'm not a fat ass. So, uh, maybe you should keep your downers to yourself.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 4:37 PM on June 29, 2007

So anyone else who wants to give me lessons in self deprecating weight humor is welcome to post a memo to my (I will reiterate) 5'9" size 16-18 12-14, 228 209 pound, ass.

Yeah, see, you can be 5'9" and a 12 and weigh like 165. So just cause you think you are a fat ass doesn't mean we all are. Or that being a 12 means we aren't fit. So your "humor" is off base, just like the response that was deleted. Which was my point.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 3:42 PM on June 30, 2007

It is titled "Opinion." I am pretty sure a mod deleted the comment where the poster, when told "no one really knows," wrote, "Well what you think?" How is this not chatfilter?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:16 AM on June 26, 2007

Never underestimate people's desire for rules and the lust to enforce them.

Oh, honestly. AskMe has like four broad rules and if you can't even pretend to try to stay on the right side of them, then you deserve to be axed for idiocy and/or contempt. To be passable all the question would have to say is: I know there is no definitive answer, but what are the most popular/plausible/common explanations for why humans sleep? We have already covered that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 8:56 AM on June 26, 2007

What? MetaChat has fewer standards and more hugs? We knew that.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:48 PM on June 26, 2007

Seriously. Is June AskMe of the Flies month?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:26 AM on June 26, 2007

Tokyo.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 9:21 AM on June 26, 2007

How is that thread even okay? Is it the "I'm writing a play" ruse?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 5:47 AM on June 25, 2007

cording to the libertarian rule of "just answer the question", if someone asks whether marijuana or alcohol are better solutions to life's problems, our only options are to either promote one or the other or say nothing.

I have not found that to be the case on AskMe, within reason. In your example, I am pretty certain respectful responses suggesting "neither" to be the answer would be allowed to stay. Likewise with the shrink post... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 10:18 AM on June 24, 2007

It's also the standard response when someone unexpected knocks on your door.

What kind of scary place are you from?
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 4:18 PM on June 23, 2007

Seriously, I am with hermitosis, TPS, and cortex. This is a Bad Idea. I don't like the idea of meetups being that much more obvious, especially just to save someone the trouble of clicking the "metatalk" link. It just skeezes me out. If you don't know enough about the site to click on all the linky parts, maybe you shouldn't come.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:32 AM on June 21, 2007

You know, that sounds meaner than I meant it to, but I don't know how to express how uncomfortable the idea makes me. Having some investment in the community or a tie to someone here strikes me as a reasonable barrier.

Not to mention, if we did move them to the blue, I would probably try to move to less-announced meetups: emailing people, not putting the location in the thread, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 7:38 AM on June 21, 2007

I don't love it but it seems a reasonable compromise.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 8:40 AM on June 21, 2007

Uh, can we make it six and some peeps can come later? Cause if it is seven, I may not make it. Some of us only work till five.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 6:44 PM on June 16, 2007

If you haven't seen many meetup threads, the thing is, I am lazy. I like to see people, but I am lazy. So I don't go uptown because it is far from my train. Has nothing to do with cool. The cool kids drink in Bushwick.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 9:20 AM on June 17, 2007

Like for instance, I think I may bow out. Cause I love you all, but not enough to sit around with my thumb up my ass for two hours.
posted to MetaTalk by dame at 9:23 AM on June 17, 2007