It was deleted because we all know that financial crises are caused by the Jews, not the blacks.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 7:04 AM on September 30, 2008

Six or seven amazing posts of his ago, I thanked him in thread for his consistent awesomeness. He sent a MeMail thanking me for the compliment.

So, he's consistently posting great stuff, and he's a courteous fellow. Pretty much the ideal MeFi user. Thanks, Kattullus!

(And Ubu!)
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:13 AM on July 30, 2008

Dammit! I only have 24 posts!

Pay close attention to when I do another one so you can run this all over again, ok signal?

Thanks for doing this, it's kinda neat. I'm disappointed to see that its use hasn't taken off like I'd hoped, so I don't have a branch with other users of the "tutsnuts" tag.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 7:13 AM on July 23, 2008

Yeah, that's roughly what I do, too, liquorice. Nice to know that it's not unique to me, but common to many blog-reader types.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 4:34 AM on July 23, 2008

Hmm... I'd be down for late August brunch, like the 4th or 5th Sunday. But if I'm the world's only person with that view, it doesn't make sense to change things around.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 10:58 AM on July 22, 2008

Oh, man, I'd love to go. It would be tight-- I am not entirely sure where I'll be living then, and I might still be far away from there-- but I will make it if at all possible.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 4:48 PM on July 10, 2008

What chococat said. B is the correct answer.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 4:33 PM on June 17, 2008

Wow, that Peggy Noonan column DaShiv linked is blistering and perceptive. Only about 1/10 as great as DaShiv's post, but still well worth reading.
The headline Wednesday on Drudge, from Politico, said, "Republicans Stunned by Loss in Mississippi." It was about the eight-point drubbing the Democrat gave the Republican in the special House election. My first thought was: You have to be stupid to be stunned by that. Second thought: Most party leaders in Washington... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:23 AM on May 17, 2008

Originally a pointless "make fun of anon" thread, this is now an ever-so-slightly-more-pointful "make fun of electroboy" thread. Close, mods?
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:47 AM on April 30, 2008

dawson, it was the astroturfing for himself + astroturf bad-mouthing other charities, + setting up an email account bearing the name of a new employee to do further astroturfing.

konolia commented,: "You know, I think maybe you just need to go out and get a real job, then give your own money to a good charity." I think that was well-received because many people felt that the entire GiveWell enterprise may be as concerned with self-promotion and self-regard... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 10:27 AM on April 23, 2008

Ever notice how white people conduct themselves in the Balkans, in Nazi Germany, in colonial Congo, in the Jim Crow South, in Pinochet's Chile, in Stalin's Russia?

It's no wonder they couldn't hold onto control in Zimbabwe-- their reputation preceded them, so they were kicked out.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 12:11 PM on April 18, 2008

IQ isn't a particularly important number because IQ tests don't measure innate intelligence.

If they did, then Dutch army conscripts in 1952 wouldn't score 30 IQ points lower than conscripts in 1982.

Ascribing political results to group IQ is a little like saying that rich people are rich because they have more money. Well, maybe, but that doesn't really tell us anything about how they got there, or what it might mean for the future. IQ is a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 3:01 PM on April 20, 2008

bigsky,

As I pointed out above, IQ doesn't measure innate ability.

Even if you have inarguably established that black Zimbabweans are worse test-takers than white ones, you have not explained (1) why/how/that low IQ = bad governance; or (2) whether the actual leadership of Zimbabwe is taken from the low-status, low-IQ majority of the black population; or (3) why Zimbabwe would be different from South Africa or Botswana in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 10:00 AM on April 23, 2008

This is fun and exciting. Thanks for posting this thread!
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:30 AM on April 10, 2008

Those of us without greasemonkey skills can always just search for "favori" to see which comments have been favorited. I guess that doesn't work too well in a thread about favorites, but it'd probably work OK in that Charlton Heston thread.

In general, I don't think this would be a great feature, because favorites are, as Miko et al point out, a pretty uneven indicator of goodness. We don't need to encourage the one-line snark stuff that often messes... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:58 AM on April 7, 2008

Really, 1? I thought people were arguing that you were his alter ego.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 12:43 PM on April 3, 2008

Miko is pretty great, on the green and the blue.

And a thread dedicated to that fact is Good for MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:57 AM on March 16, 2008

To what extent can scriptural support be found for this?

The practice of Christianity, like support for a given political party or Grateful Dead fandom, can easily be severed from any underlying principles. It need not happen that way, but it can and does.

It is pretty galling to see the religion founded by Jesus, of all people, used as some sort of paganistic God/country/family totem, but hey, they know not what they do.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:22 AM on March 4, 2008

It makes the lot of us sound like xenophobes (to a degree). I'm not sure it'd be kosher to mock him based on his religion, sex, sexual orientation, or skin color, either.

OK, OK, we'll always pronounce your name "Az-WEE-pay." Geez.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 10:41 AM on March 4, 2008

I vote to eliminate the "close your account" feature.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 12:00 PM on March 3, 2008

MetaFilter used to be cool, til the theater people started signing up.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 6:23 PM on March 2, 2008

Fantastic! Congrats, lh.

But now I have that damn drum/piano noise from that show in my head, and I haven't heard it in probably 2 years.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 3:36 PM on February 28, 2008

The "Close Your Account" feature is Bad for MetaFilter, and I wish it would disappear.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:20 PM on February 28, 2008

I miss quonsar.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:30 PM on February 15, 2008

They sure as hell do, or at least the vast majority of black people that I've known. Also, the vast majority of white people.

Because watermelon is fucking good as hell.

True story-- I am a white person renting a room from a black family. Earlier today, I went to put my 2-liter of Diet Coke in the fridge, but someone had put a bunch of watermelon on the top shelf, and I had a hard time getting the Coke to fit.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:40 PM on February 15, 2008

NPR weighs in: 'Stuff White People Like' Blog Hits a Nerve.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 3:08 PM on February 26, 2008

PeterMcDermott's comment reminded me of this John Waters interview:

Later, when I showed them in a class I taught at prison during the '80s, the reaction was racially divided. Oddly enough, when I showed Pink Flamingos to my class—and I had a good class, because the warden gave me the smartest and the worst, the smartest people who had done the worst crimes—and every black person left when Divine ate dog shit. They never came back, dropped the course.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 7:27 PM on February 25, 2008

@klangklangston:

It's "pish posh," I'm pretty sure, not "pish tosh."
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 8:17 PM on February 23, 2008

I take it back-- I think they're both correct. This slang dictionary says that "pish tosh" is a verb, while "pish posh" is an exclamation meaning "nonsense!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:21 AM on February 24, 2008

It's extremely non-profound, but I really enjoyed this thread about the world's tallest man saving a dolphin. Light and funny.

My favorite pile-on was this one, where the original poster manages to take a few sympathetic souls and turn them against himself.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 6:13 PM on February 17, 2008

if you quit yourself, then you can have us unquit you any time. ... We felt that it seemed sort of silly for people to have to go through us if they were mad at the site and/or just needed a break. This is the sort of thing a user should be able to do themselves.

Why not allow people to reactivate their accounts for themselves, too, then, jessamyn et al?

I think people are more likely to reactivate themselves than to contact... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 10:36 AM on February 14, 2008

Fair enough, cortex. I'd still favor a few-days delay, or a couple of screens to click through, or having to respond to an email, or something, rather than leaving it for people to email the mods. But you obviously know how people are reacting and using this stuff better than I do.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:25 PM on February 14, 2008

I disagree with what people are saying in this thread. I think there are some solid discussions about politics around here. For example, I was glad to get to go back and forth with koeselitz and others in this thread.

We are, unfortunately, living in a politically charged era. Are there really that many places that are better for this kind of discussion than MeFi?

I agree with dios that the hit-and-run style of commenting can go way... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:37 PM on February 12, 2008

Given that I won mkultura's league last year, I think that the league set out in this thread is a patently inferior interloper.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 3:28 PM on February 9, 2008

I will go to a Cinci meetup if I move to Cinci.

Which might happen later this year, am not just bing a jerk.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 7:12 PM on February 2, 2008

I found it here.

No, no wait, here.

Ok, for reals this time, it's here.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 9:50 AM on February 2, 2008

I will give any admin $50 American money to change every link in this thread to a rickroll. Cortex, I'll give you $30.

Hold out for Canadian money before you do it, cortex.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:40 PM on February 2, 2008

From the article: It's because our audiences are starting to be as big as those of the mainstream media, and the mainstream media have taught us to be afraid of saying what we really think to those audiences.

The phenomenon of watering things down to reach/placate wider audiences existed even before ARPANET.

The "voice of the blogosphere" isn't really even a thing. The fun thing, with the Internet, is that there... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 6:46 AM on January 31, 2008

burnmp3s-- if you have an electronic version, please MeFi Mail me a copy of your "Places Where I Can Take My Pants Off" list. Definitely would have helped me avoid a few rough situations.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:58 AM on January 16, 2008

My Googlegangers include a Australian official of some sort and a famous SNL character.

Maybe I'm anonymous because I am still starting out, career-wise; or maybe I'm just chickenshit. Both are decent enough explanations.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:51 AM on January 15, 2008

In high waisted pants, leather suspenders, 4" heels, red lipstick and nothing else, most women look spectacular in a fedora.

Strange-- I've been listening to "You Can Leave Your Hat On" a lot the past few days. Randy Newman said once that the character in that song was meant to be a huge nerd.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:26 AM on December 19, 2007

Thanks homunculus for keeping the conversation going, and keeping us informed.

This sort of callout was maybe possibly occasionally plausibly defensible sometimes back in the pre-(remove from activity)-link-in-the-Recent-Activity-section era. But in this ever-changing world in which we live in, currently, it is not.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 8:13 AM on December 12, 2007

I agree with languagehat, macrone. As unfathomable as it is, I think he really does go with the redundant line rather than the sensible one.

Nothing Paul ever did was as bad as John's cover of "Stand By Me," btw.

Sorry for getting around the posting limits by posting an uninformative comment in an aging thread.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 5:20 PM on December 13, 2007

John's "Stand By Me" is the moral equivalent of Michael McDonald's "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (or, if you like, Elton John's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"). It's a completely superfluous Vegasification of a classic. You'd have thought that John would have been beyond that by that point.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:01 PM on December 16, 2007

Here's one list of new names from the report.

Larry Bigbie (confessed)
Brian Roberts (based on an admission to Bigbie)
Jack Cust (based on an admission to Bigbie)
Rondell White (Kirk Radomski)
Roger Clemens (Brian McNamee)
Andy Pettitte (Brian McNamee)
Gregg Zaun (Kirk Radomski)
Ron Villone (Kirk Radomski)
Miguel Tejada (performance-enhancers provided to Tejada by teammate... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:36 PM on December 13, 2007

This is all pretty darn haphazard. Not much is proven, and no one is exonerated. But it will generate a lot of noise.

And I'm surprised there are Brewers fans who weren't already pissed about spending $10m on one year of Gagne. I thought he was a super buy-low candidate for an NL team. Not so much as a buy-high type.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 1:38 PM on December 13, 2007

Great work. Thanks for doing this.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:46 PM on December 9, 2007

wendell is right. We need more emoticons.
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 2:44 PM on December 9, 2007

I share the concern expressed in TOCT's initial post, even if the tone isn't the greatest thing of all time, and am glad to see Jessamyn's response.

Oh, and Tim posted something to MetaTalk complaining about something on MetaFilter! *points, laughs*

That's standard procedure, right?
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 12:31 PM on November 8, 2007

Goddamn white male meateating breeders and their world view that thinks everyone eats turkey on Thanksgiving.

Sit up like some fool and eat turkey? That’s the day your forefathers jerked me!
posted to MetaTalk by ibmcginty at 8:02 AM on November 7, 2007