Loquacious has it all.

All I was asking was - do we really need to be obscene while we deal with everyday web stuff-

If the answer is yes, then I stand corrected.

If the answer is no...then lets be better
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:09 PM on July 25, 2008

Well, fark.

Is there anywhere one can go that is more polite? If making light weren't so inexcusably libertarian...
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:15 PM on July 25, 2008

I believe cortex or vacapinta or someone makes the raw data available

please
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:17 PM on July 25, 2008

Transvision Vamp says hi
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:45 PM on July 25, 2008

Suck it up, bastards.


So any of you guys want to make a movie about psychics?
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:49 PM on July 25, 2008

BB mefimail me
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:52 PM on July 25, 2008

I thought projects had to be things that were done. Things that might happen, by meeting similar folk with simlilar ideas, that's not projects, that's just magic
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:56 PM on July 25, 2008

k - I know you guys got what is working. But what we have is the imagination based on what DR Who has left us
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 5:26 PM on July 25, 2008

Yeah, but no, but yeah.

a) Seriously, this is something that I noticed when I took a step back. If folks consider it before they casually/lazily abuse someone/something then my work here is done. I know I've been guilty of it and sure, it's a "get the hell off my lawn - OMG I am getting reactionary in my dotage" moment, but it might have resonated somewhat. Or not.

b) Note to self. Never post after midnight if alcohol is a factor - I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 1:06 AM on July 26, 2008

The search box is on the upperish right in my profile (firefox - win2k). And, too be honest - I've completely missed this while looking for something similar before - though, admittedly, I do have a tendency to overlook the obvious.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:22 AM on July 15, 2008

How the heck do you catch up after a MeFi hiatus?

Just read the dirty parts.

I tried turning my monitor horizontally by its edges to see which thread came open, but I think I'm doing it wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:35 AM on July 9, 2008

I know.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 9:38 AM on July 4, 2008

SEO Me
Feel Me
Touch Me
Heal Me

SEO Me
Feel Me
Touch Me
Heal Me

Listening to you, I get the ranking
Gazing at you, I get the place
Following you, I climb the the ratings
I get excitement at your mySpace

Right behind you, I see the millions
On you, I see the profit
From you, I get... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:40 PM on June 13, 2008

I'll swap England's fashionable London for a picture of two kittens in a beermug. Won't they be surprised when they fly into Heathrow!
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 10:20 AM on June 13, 2008

I will write a comic opera complete with overture in exchange for musical accompaniment. I'll still swap the entirety of London for a picture of two kittens in a beer mug and I am unsure which transaction will make me more famous.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:27 PM on June 13, 2008

An enormous, spinning, flaming, glinting, human skull.

And it shouldn't be smiling, because skulls are always smiling and it's just getting old. It should be, like, really sad. Sad that you have mail, and maybe a little angry, but not so angry as to attack your face with a machete, but maybe angry enough to smoke a defiant cigarette and write some poetry in a maternity ward, which is like the skeleton version of a cemetary.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 6:32 AM on June 6, 2008

And.... Scene!
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 9:57 AM on May 29, 2008

I am developing a little crush on this cute guy I see in the mirror

That's actually me. Its like ventriloquism, only at lightspeed.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:43 AM on May 23, 2008

Wow. A nice round number for his first, and then he gets the very next post (numerically). He's quick on the draw, I'll say that for him. Watch out, Doubles and Scams, here comes the VacAttack!

Ok, so that's kind of lame, but I just couldn't make a Vac-uum Cleaner joke work at all.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:58 AM on May 20, 2008

And some how relationship filter is ok, but we still can't have bears vs. monkeys?

Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to reconstruct *their* browsing histories? Some things man was not meant to see.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:06 AM on May 16, 2008

OPEN THREAD! OMG, did you guys see Gossip Girl?

Dammit! Went out last night and haven't caught up with my illicit downloads yet. Was it as awesome as I just know it was? I mean, Michelle Trachtenberg getting her hooks into Dan when Serena is all dubious morality girl and Chuck her enabler! Genius! Best. Show. Ever.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:42 AM on May 8, 2008

I just saw Gossip Girl and it was AWESOME. The rest of you folks talking about stuff? You keep doing that.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 1:35 PM on May 8, 2008

I have a copy of Cerebus 165 signed by Sim, Gerhard and Neil Gaiman. How do I get Dave McKean's signature also? Hope me metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:41 AM on May 5, 2008

10) rehab

11) rehab
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:50 PM on May 5, 2008

It better be. Also, MisterOptamystic, Claire tells me I am am not fat at all, I just sit with a curve. Just saying :p
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:18 PM on May 4, 2008

Letters should include writer's name, address, and daytime phone number and be sent to rants@wired.com. Submissions may be edited and may be published or used in any medium. They become the property of Wired and will not be returned.

From wired.

I'm thinking this does not include appropriation of thoughts by other sites without permission of the commenter via MeFi.

http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/16-04/rants

Case in point.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:55 PM on May 4, 2008

Way too late to notice that. I'm gonna put some music on, annoy my flatmates and rock out.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:06 PM on May 4, 2008

So it's doing its best to turn your brain into a giant genital.

And it's getting awfully good at it.

Well, fuck.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:10 PM on May 4, 2008

Nah, we've solved that one: we just strap ourselved to a BBQ rotisserie, switch it on, and the spinning is completely negated.

This is why so many Australians are tanned. And crispy.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:08 AM on May 2, 2008

Surely the 2/3 abbreviation states question could be solved by regular expression? I, for one, had no idea that ME was Maine (assuming Cortex spoke truth) and would have been forced to google a two letter word in order to fail to guess its origins.

In other related events, your (MA)ssachusetts(MA)ssachusetts so large, you have to divide her in Harvard to see where she coming from.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:18 PM on April 30, 2008

Much like an elephant, MeFi never forgets.

And when we see something we don't like, we piss on it.

And when aroused, we...

*recalls disturbing images from the discovery channel*

nevermind
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:50 AM on April 23, 2008

Blocked at work because "sex" is filtered. Is this some kind of Last Tango in Paris butter related activity?
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:51 AM on April 22, 2008

This would be a great idea for reminding those of us that need it what an arsehole we can be at times.

Can I have mine filtered to remove my obnoxious drunken shite? I'm pretty sure I said something worth saying back in 2006.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:08 AM on April 15, 2008

Oh, man. I'm so conflicted. I just had a second date, and there was lip nibblage and everything, so does that mean I'm single, or taken? I mean, no vows were exchanged, but I'm kinda unlikely to just randomly crack on to anybody - but what what if Winona Ryder MeFiMails me and says "I haz sekret metafilter akkount to follow ur awsum postage - u r teh hawt wiv ur mousey pikky in profilz"? Or what is she sees 'taken' in my profile and doesn't?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:08 AM on April 11, 2008

UbuRoivas: are you sure that was her, and not, say, the 'Winona' sockpuppet account I signed up for while drunk with the express intention of then getting more drunk and finding email from 'her' in my mailbox the next morning that I certainly didn't remember sending so who else could it be? Because I've fallen for that one myself. More than once.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 6:24 AM on April 11, 2008

SO WHEN DOES THE HOT BABE CLUB ME OVER THE HEAD AND DRAG ME BACK TO HER CAVE?

2012, according to the Mayan calendar.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 11:35 PM on April 11, 2008

There is no such thing as an ethical anything EO.

James Watt would like a quiet, sepulchral word.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 7:02 AM on April 4, 2008

Ah, My first shoutout. From Murphy's of all places. It seems like only yesterday they told me to get the hell out and never return.

/wipes tear.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 5:17 AM on March 20, 2008

c.f. Sorry, this is kind of lame local news centered around an attention grabbing xtian homophobe
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 6:50 AM on March 13, 2008

Whoops - I didn't read carefully enough to see the word 'candidate' either, having gone from here to the deleted post.

[Snark....withdraw!

Advance....other Snark!]

Crikey. A racist Australian. That's new.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 7:36 AM on March 13, 2008

Apologies if I seemed to be tarring all Australians with the same brush. I applaud their recent change of government and the moves they have made to redress the balance, but I'd be lying if I didn't think mock surprise at the discovery of a racist Australian running for Mayor somewhere was wildly innapropriate*.

*because as a country it: was condemned by the UN for its institutional racism in 2000 (the first developed country to be so) and widely... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 9:11 AM on March 13, 2008

"Oh yeah, Australia is a fuckin' racist as shit country" but it's another person chiming in with a negative story. It was an aside and as I said above, I know Matt didn't mean anything offensive by it, but it's another stick on the bonfire, it contributes to the shorthand association of Oz=racism without it having flowed from any deeper discussion or context.

I plead guilty. Having taken a step back from the thread and considered it a bit, I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:04 PM on March 13, 2008

but kudos to metafilter in general for getting me to rethink it and reshape my thoughts.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:14 PM on March 13, 2008

I had to do this. Tom Lehrer, as listened to by Jim Morrison at a young age.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 4:47 PM on March 13, 2008

I'm a 48-year-old woman with a lot of cats and too much free time.

I am Mrs Buttons, one of Klang's cats, preparing a searing analysis of identity fraud for 60 Minutes
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:01 AM on March 7, 2008

The catch is IE8 will only run on Vista.


MWHAHAHAHAH!
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:08 AM on March 4, 2008

but seriously, that probably isn't true
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:10 AM on March 4, 2008

caddis: Just a website
dnab: just a website
quonsar; just a website
Ethereal Bligh: Just a website

And above all, above all...

talk.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 5:41 PM on March 3, 2008

Back in the days when actually I knew young people, there used to be a post-relationship break-up thing known as "the feeb". It happens to practically everyone, alas, and can be easily identified by that moment in time when you're with your ex, on fragile good terms, and you tell her that 'yes, your makeup does look shiny'. You know the person well enough to know what disconcerts them, and you play upon it.

Everybody knows this is a control thing, and that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 2:15 PM on March 3, 2008

he idea of having even one artificial impediment to me getting the hell out when I want to "for the good of the community" gives me 1d6+4 heebies and 2d8 jeebies

In v4 it's a special feat you get at second level. You don't even have to roll.
posted to MetaTalk by Sparx at 3:17 PM on March 3, 2008