Is this the thread where I get to forward my examined contention that Girls Are Pretty?
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:51 PM on January 23, 2008

Armitage Shanks, that's hilarious. I wish I could favourite it about 16 more times.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 9:49 PM on January 23, 2008

UbuRoivas, TPS' comment was in reference to konolia's, not AV's. As a sidenote, I suck cock(s) too, but only in solidarity. And because I'm closeted.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 10:06 PM on January 23, 2008

Brad Sucks + Mefites + Food = we're so there [yes royal we, i.e. just i]
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 10:53 AM on January 21, 2008

Upon marking half my contacts as crushes, I find the nomenclature insufficient. Can we get an "I'd Hit It" checkbox? So the activity updates would be like "Firas would totally do Chris"?
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:21 AM on January 20, 2008

I'm just doing my part in helping you retain your classy and unique moniker.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:40 AM on January 20, 2008

I don't get ANY memail! No "I want to have your babies." No "aren't you a handsome chappie." Not even, "your discourse on the subject of bourgeois decay is intriguing and also, I think you are a handsome chap and wish to have your babies." Nothing! Cleary the Fates have it in for me.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:58 AM on January 17, 2008

Is there a culture of bullying at MeFi?

lulz. That's really something coming from someone who's deeply invested in a conversational culture of noxious slithering mendacity.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 4:37 PM on January 13, 2008

Or he's just deranged.

Sexually repressed. It's hard to miss.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 11:26 PM on January 13, 2008

The sad part is that the gentleman is in the mould of the Alpha Attention Whore: not only is he a one-man carnival of immaturity and irresponsibility, but he's a parasite on the whole affair at hand. What does he have to do with GiveWell anyway? I'm waiting for Miko to be all like, "I know Holden Karnofsky. I criticized Holden Karnofsky. Holden Karnofsky had some reflective integrity. You, Cubeta, are no Holden Karnofsky."
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 2:33 AM on January 14, 2008

for new years' eve, mefi turns into LGF
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:42 PM on December 31, 2007

How is this like LGF?

No, I don't think Mefi is like LGF. That's why I hang here after all. But this "time to end careers" aesthetic is really a turn off. Also there is a strange streak of "omg ivy this, hudge fund that", which also leaves me cold. I'm also reacting to this strange thread linked from this one where there's like a 10:1 pileon over a relatively maturely argued point. wtf guys. make love not vitriol... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:33 PM on December 31, 2007

Well if you want to communicate the issue to someone who doesn't know/care about 'astroturfing', it's PLANTED QUESTION. (My bill is in the mail, payable to Firas' Awesome Brain™)
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 2:59 PM on January 2, 2008

Man you guys are such scolds. Have a bit of faith in your fellow man yeah? Not EVERYONE posts something EVERYTIME that incites a response which would be incoherent given a change the original poster made 60 seconds later. Sheesh.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 9:05 AM on December 1, 2007

Does it involve getting a medal for officially getting ModSlapped™? Coz I've been blueballed for three years now.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 9:48 AM on December 1, 2007

I see your inordinate fascinations put your worldliness to good use.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 10:18 AM on December 1, 2007

you guys are so lame
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:08 PM on August 28, 2007

I was going to go the "irritating but mostly harmless route"—and remain on it—but I agree with Avenger that the guy is totally inconsistent. Seriously, what the hell is a anarchist-libertarian-theocratic-rightist-vegetarian-self hating African American-misanthrope? It's like the guy's whole mind is fake. Which registers on the troll-meter rather intensely.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 6:53 PM on August 26, 2007

I find this whole affair just gawkingly ridiculous. Did I just read hundreds of words about a throwaway clause on a thread title on a subsection of an interweb site? I can't do this sort of thing much longer man. Not when there's so much neglected paint left unhuffed.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:08 PM on August 24, 2007

hincandenza, overkill alert. An ad-hoc p2p network will respond quicker than a single server? Writing the system to manage XML strewn across various CDN-style mirrors will be easier than just slapping together the php? Most performance bottlenecks on massive sites are solved by doing less DB hits (memcache, disk cache etc.) not by somehow spreading frequently-updated data around different hosts!
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 12:59 PM on August 15, 2007

hincandenza, i guess you have a point with closed threads. All of them can be served statically and things like faves added etc. can be updated periodically (ie. if i fave a comment in an old thread it's not crucial that the guy who loads it the next second has to see it was just faved.)

Are archived mefi threads cached on disk as webpages or are they generated each time you load them? I realize this is probably not in the cards but staticizing them and then moving them... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 10:34 PM on August 15, 2007

You didn't give a stereotypical deadbeat an ebonic voice. You gave a stereotypical 'ghetto' black man a deadbeat's protestations. Absolutely out of line.

It's the same as if you'd impersonated the ex in ebonics mulling getting his babies so she can get section 8/child support/whatever.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:02 PM on August 10, 2007

Hay guise, someone need to make a Single-Link-Posters Pride Club, like a pledge where we go, "we, the undersigned, hereby swear to never put more than one link in our post just to make it seem yummier despite a lame topic, for we have faith in our lame single links, forever and ever Amen."
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:30 PM on July 26, 2007

Yes, but I'll wait to get ceremoniously smashed and renounce my membership for when I get 1,000 favorites.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:34 PM on July 26, 2007

Loto: OH. MY. GOD. THAT'S THE NICEST THING ANYONE'S EVER EVER DONE FOR ME, I AM GOING TO DANCE ON MY KITCHEN TABLE WITH THE BLINDS UP WHILST DROWNING IN CHAMPAGNE AND DOUSING MY BEWILDERED ROOMMATES IN RED WINE JUST FOR YOU YOU TOTAL DARLING OH MY GOD *FAINTS*
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 6:06 PM on July 26, 2007

AS IN LITERALLY DOUSING THEM, I.E. SPRAYING IT ON THEM SOMEHOW BUT THE DROWNING IN CHAMPAGNE IS METAPHORICAL KTHXBYE
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 6:08 PM on July 26, 2007

4) Skip the web community drama, email her instead.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 11:07 AM on July 28, 2007

Isn't (6) an alias of (4)? Are you disputing the classiness of my urbane advice, CORE TEKH?
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 12:03 PM on July 28, 2007

The problem with AskMe is that you can't respond to sneering twittery if the guy shoves in a half-hearted anecdotal sentiment below it. So stop being a twit plz.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:27 PM on July 24, 2007

It is not. Tell me again what part of So, in part, you want "an air of authority" to suck up to a "Submissive" who might someday become your girlfriend? Tell me, when you do anything together who pays? And how old are you (and she)? is warranted here? What an jackassed thing to say.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:31 PM on July 24, 2007

I guess I'm just irritated at low jabs in askme responses in general. Eg. "You darling. That is precisely the sort of wide-eyed innocence that will serve you well should you wish to pursue a career as a catamite." Like, huh? Clearly not all of us have the whoring experience some others have.

I don't mean to start getting pissed on everyone else's behalf but it still sucks. You're correct chudmonkey in that I don't actually expect anything to change here. Er. Ok.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:52 PM on July 24, 2007

Kevin, he intimated that:

• The questioner and his prospective girlfriend were BDSM fetishists, including which roles they'd occupy
• One of them was prostituting themselves out to the other
• One of them was underage

It's a general sliming of depravity wrapped in protofeminist outrage and it's difficult to miss.

Well.
I guess you could read it as asking who pays for dinner and what the age differential is.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 6:27 PM on July 24, 2007

It's fine lemuria, it's not the suggestion of becoming a catamite that set me off but the diminutive cooing tone behind it. Anyway I obviously need to get less defensive about online jabs, let's pretend this thread never happened :)
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 9:07 PM on July 24, 2007

No, Afro, but we can spank them.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:25 AM on July 25, 2007

I'd pick a major fight over that last comment davy were this mefi handle not tied to my real identity :)
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 11:49 AM on July 25, 2007

For what it's worth, I think davy's responses have been clear and gracious. I'd totally misread that line of his.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 1:37 PM on July 25, 2007

For that bit I went with the wheelchair & viking armor thing. Nobody's throwing out their handcuffs coz 'davy on metafilter' disapproves.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 3:33 PM on July 25, 2007

Well, no one can accuse you of straying from your point.

Which is good and right.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 5:05 AM on July 25, 2007

use a wiki ppl
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 4:49 AM on July 24, 2007

Oh
  My
God
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Blimp!
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 12:33 PM on July 23, 2007

Copy/paste.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 7:14 PM on May 25, 2007

So like, what browser are you using fourpanels? You could get the answer in the first comment with that bit of info.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 3:08 PM on May 25, 2007

pyramid termite, close, but you're giving him way too much credit for analysis. He's more of a full-bore uncited synthesis type.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 10:45 PM on May 23, 2007

What's with the gratuitious nastiness round these parts, people? Must I submerge you all in a LOVE BOMB?!
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 11:09 PM on May 23, 2007

grown up to be rather stunning.

Said he, running his hand through his silver hair while stepping out of his new mercedes. The matron of the family immediately decided that this would be his last invitation to their house.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 1:00 PM on May 24, 2007

Damn! White jeans + coffee = oh noez!! :(
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 1:35 PM on May 25, 2007

Wait, so Roald Dahl is antisemitic, Enid Blyton is sexist, and now RL Stine doesn't exist?

MetaFilter ruined my childhood.
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 12:54 PM on May 25, 2007

My my the tension just crackles in this thread. Let's skip the formalities and get right to orgy.metafilter.com
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:27 AM on May 24, 2007

I don't ask much. I don't ask much. I don't ask much. I beg only that a man be left at liberty to get through his considerable day's duties without having an infernal model flung upon his tender sensibilities. A model, forsooth! No cellar in this realm has wine enough to console us; not as chivalry's very spirit lies a-drowning, gripped under the icy fingers of these here "no-literal-policy" advocates. You'd be mistaken, Sir, to assume they're... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 8:48 PM on May 23, 2007

Gentle lady,

I fear your confidante mistook me in her dry-mouthed excitement! It is perverse depravities I expressed familiarity with. For the perverted confections, I recommend you write to Monsieur de Sade.

*spins on heel, stalks off grumbling about bloody libertines and the world today and so forth*
posted to MetaTalk by Firas at 11:37 PM on May 23, 2007