But what about *time travelling* zombies?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:30 AM on August 10, 2007

Your favourite band wizard sucks.

Personally, I like the HP books and Movies. But then, I also tend to skip over the HP threads too. Because I have the magical ability to not read something even though it's posted on MetaFilter. I would recommend the same course of action, rather than coming in here to vent about it.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:55 AM on July 19, 2007

Seriously? *THAT* post got you all in a huff? Wow.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:21 AM on April 19, 2007

As a stopgap for this horrible problem, you could always modify your RSS reader to show excerpts as well as titles.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 12:06 PM on April 12, 2007

Wow, this callout is a serious overreaction. Klang just said "I think we've seen this before" - it's not like he started shitting up the thread with ascii pictures of elephants pissing.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:05 AM on April 11, 2007

I've heard a couple different definitions of teabagging. The first time I heard about it, it was as a "first dude to pass out at the party gets teabagged" ie he gets a picture taken of himself with somebody's nuts on his forehead/face. But I think this was a derivative definition of the nuts in the mouth thing. The Urban Dictionary seems to say that "to teabag" is the process of putting one's nuts into another's mouth. Is this term in the OED yet?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:30 AM on April 11, 2007

Blast, beaten out by Jessamyn AND schmegegge.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:33 AM on April 11, 2007

Man, I'm sad I missed this thread while it was rocking out. Looks like it was great fun! Damn you, long easter weekend!
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:51 AM on April 10, 2007

Huh? Did you read the thread?

Indeed I did. I love these "People going nuts due to some imagined persecution" threads. Why couldn't Davy have waited until today to do it though? Would have helped fill the day at work.

Yes, I'm just trying to fill the hours in my last 9 days of work before a 6 week vacation, followed by looking for NEW work
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:01 AM on April 10, 2007

Enjoy it now, if you like. But know that the law of Universal Schadenfreude Reciprocity means that if you delight in others' sufferings, soon enough someone will delight in yours.

While I don't particularly believe in that sort of karmic retribution, I wasn't aware that anyone in here was particularly suffering. It felt more like I was delighting in the *madness* of others as opposed to the suffering of others. And people can delight in my madness... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 5:24 AM on April 11, 2007

People need to remember this simple rule about MeFi: it's about the links, first and foremost. Then comes the conversation. You can't sacrifice the quality of the former and expect the quality of the latter to be any better.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:57 AM on April 4, 2007

Metafilter: a bunch of hurf durf sophmoric lol pathos assclowns

sorry
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:32 AM on April 4, 2007

How do I make an arrow, without MeFi automatically trying to "close it" after hitting post?!

<----- will do it.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 2:36 AM on April 5, 2007

Mmmmm, Catfry.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:38 AM on March 21, 2007

Any relation to Dr Leon Sumbitches, Mr CD?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 2:43 AM on March 22, 2007

I'm kinda sad that it got deleted, because it was fun and keeping me from killing myself at work this morning (although Peggle managed to save my afternoon). Ahhh well. Maybe sukiari will come in here to continue the debate! :)
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 10:26 AM on March 15, 2007

Also, starting your post with something like "35 percent of American women will have an abortion by the age of 45" means that people will take your post as being "about abortion", not "about support resources on the web". Hint - put the support resources first if that's what you want people to read about/talk about.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 10:30 AM on March 15, 2007

Abortions for some, tiny American flags for others!

Sukiari: As far as me being a troll, I'm not really.

I'm sorry, but to say that this comment:

Sukiari: Abortion is about the worst form of birth control out there.

is not intentionally inflammatory is being severely disingenuous.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:13 AM on March 16, 2007

It's only inflammatory to you because you disagree.

No, it's inflammatory because it's implying that people only get abortions because they are too lazy to use birth control. Of *course* it's the worst form of birth control.

And according to your statistics that you listed, it seems to me that yes, a minority of Americans think that abortion is NEVER a moral issue... but the same statistic shows that the same sized minority... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:16 AM on March 16, 2007

err... it is nearly *always* morally wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:19 AM on March 16, 2007

Wait... do people actually go into back alleys and brawl after too much caffeine in a coffee house? That's awesome!
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:28 AM on March 16, 2007

What's even better is the repeated attempts to justify posting a self-link. "No other news sites had it... what am I supposed to do, wait??" - um, yes?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:13 AM on February 14, 2007

blasdelf: methinks these are two separate questions (though this question HAS been asked before, I'm sure). Your choke on a dick comment was in regards to somebody in askme asking about piracy. This is a question about whether or not it's ok to link to copyrighted material in FPPs.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:52 AM on February 9, 2007

they both come from the same line of pedantic handwringing

No, they really don't. One is saying "OMG Teh Piracy!" and the other is saying "Hey, can I do this?"
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:38 AM on February 9, 2007

Where's the stats post about the number of people who actually posted 2 weeks in a row on a regular basis? If I recall, there weren't many people at all.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:54 PM on February 4, 2007

Yes, practically unuseable. You never know when you're going to need to ask a question. Every once in awhile, more than one will come up in the space of two weeks.

I have a brilliant solution to your problem:

1) Open your word processor of choice
2) Type your question into it
3) Save your question in a file called "AskMe Questions.txt"
4) When your 2 weeks are up, return to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:49 AM on February 5, 2007

For what it's worth, I actually find AskMe *more* interesting now that I can actually keep up with the RSS feed. Before the new year, I was definitely burning out and just marking AskMe as read in Bloglines without reading anything. It would be a regular occurrence that I'd open up bloglines and see in the order of 100 new questions in the feed. After 8 hours. So, there's at least *one* person who doesn't find the site boring after the 2 week limit was instituted.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 1:41 AM on February 6, 2007

Brandon - I haven't seen one recently, and I'm too lazy to go look, but generally it's done here in MeTa. And only for extremely important questions.

And languagehat: How often do you have a question whose answer you can't wait 2 weeks to find out? Has it ever happened? If so, what percentage of all your questions asked fall into that category? I still don't see why people can't just throw their "I can't ask it right now but I want to eventually" questions... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:56 AM on February 6, 2007

It strikes me that those complaining need to try a museum exercise that an old friend of mine who's an artist taught me

MetaFilter is not an art gallery. Each post is not a special snowflake. A *tiny* bit of effort put into the post will let people know wtf you're linking to - especially those of us who read MeFi via the RSS feeds. There are no tags in the RSS feeds, so all we see is "Alex Gross" - that single link to a name means... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:58 AM on February 1, 2007

Dobbs: nobody's asking for an encylopedia entry. Take a look at the front page right now. A couple one link posts, with a one sentence explanation. That's all we need. It has nothing to do with a popularity contest, and everything to do with *making the site useful* to those of us who use it.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:18 AM on February 1, 2007

Oh, bullshit. We're not doing brain surgery here, and AskMe is the site with the "useful" metric. It was a small, good post.

In that case, why bother posting any explanations of ANY links? Why even allow the hypertext? How about every single link on MetaFilter be posted as a single link, with the text "Link". Then we can all do the legwork of clicking every single link to see what they are!

I actually... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:58 AM on February 1, 2007

Also, what stupidsexyflanders said.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:59 AM on February 1, 2007

And I should add that I don't have a problem with this callout. I'm not trying to defend the thread shitters, but rather I am just continuing their complaints here, since this is the appropriate place to discuss it - rather than creating a new thread about how no-explanation posts are annoying. :)
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:20 AM on February 1, 2007

That's enough for me to tell y'all to shut the fuck up, especially in the fucking threads.

Note that I did not complain in the thread, and that I also said I don't condone the thread shitting that occurred. Nor am I asking for encyclopedic posts (I dislike those too, though to a lesser extent). A single word, "Artist", would have given enough contet for hama's post.

Another one word single link post - at least... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 1:01 AM on February 2, 2007

Your point being that dios likes to shit on threads? He's not the only one, not by a LONG shot. For a lot of people, Metafilter exists pretty much for them to shit on threads. Shrug.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:57 AM on January 31, 2007

Wait, I have a great idea for an answer to that question, so nobody steal it, all right? Does tracking with your ear to the ground really work?

What? Somebody said it already? Damn!
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 1:49 AM on January 25, 2007

I'm surprised at the repetition-hatred over here. It seems like most AskMe posts get a lot of repetetive answers and it's not always because people want to OMG get in with the asker.

This is true, except in MOST cases, people that repeat answers will say something like "I agree with so-and-so about X" or "I 2nd the suggestion for X" - in the ASavage thread, many of the dupes were of the "Here's a great idea that I totally... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:16 AM on January 29, 2007

Sometimes they make for fascinating reading which allows me to learn more about how the world works because a good answer will explain the real-world principles which were applied to get the hypothetical answer.

Are you really implying that would have happened with this question?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:46 AM on January 10, 2007

I didn't really think this was all that gross, but then I guess that just makes me gross.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:38 AM on January 10, 2007

To me, part of the whole appeal of metafilter to begin with is the interesting tangents that conversations take within the threads.

Sure, but the key word here is "interesting". The male circumcision debate here on MeFi is a dead horse. It died many years ago. Now all you get is people yelling back and forth at each other, with the common knowledge that nobody is going to convince anybody of anything, but trying their damnedest any way.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:35 AM on January 9, 2007

To me this means we should practice it more until we can 'do it well'.

No, please god no. If it's been proven that nobody intends to change their opinion on a subject (as it very clearly has in the case of the circumcision debate), to the point where every discussion of the subject just turns into yelling back and forth, it should enter into the realm of "We don't need to talk about this anymore" subjects.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:32 AM on January 9, 2007

Umm, also most of my brown friends born outside of Canada were uncut... but they were born outside of Canada, so I obviously wouldn't include them in the Canadian circumcision rate :)
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 6:33 AM on January 9, 2007

This thread has really made being back at work this week much easier. Thanks, AmbroseChapel. A+++, would fave again!
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:42 AM on January 3, 2007

Wooza wuzza?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:23 AM on January 5, 2007

This is some fascinating stuff. I'm not really convinced that just because the answers/question ratio is the same that each question is actually getting an appropriate number of answers. Seems to me (in my experiene of reading a fair whack of the askme questions that get posted every day) that there's a not small number of questions that get way more than 15(ish) answers, which would tend to skew the average a bit higher. And upon further review of the thread, people asking for stdev and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 4:01 AM on January 5, 2007

White, check (although 1/32 Mic Mac). Male, check. 25-34, checkity check check. Though I believe I was under 25 when I started reading, and simply wasn't able to join at that point.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 3:25 AM on January 5, 2007

Whatever. I'm not allowed to be offended, I'm not allowed to be pissed off.

You can be as offended and pissed off as you want. But ignoring the people whore are genuinely trying to engage you in rational conversation certainly isn't helping your cause. The fact is, you are accusing caddis of being homophobic when he uses the word "fruity." People here have pointed out to you that caddis is a pretty forward thinking character, generally... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:03 AM on December 19, 2006

*tap tap tap*

Is this thing on?
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 8:23 AM on December 19, 2006

it was a homophobic statement, even if he didn't mean it that way

Umm... if his usage of the word fruity wasn't in any way relating to homosexuals, then technically it WASN'T a homophobic statement, correct? The only place it was homophobic was in your mind. However, it's pretty undeniable that you have been screechy and shrill (and willfully ignored those of us trying to talk to you rationally, preferring instead to be shrill and screechy at those... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 9:30 AM on December 19, 2006

Would you really ask to have your account deleted out of protest for having a (clearly metafilter related) askme question deleted? That seems kinda silly.
posted to MetaTalk by antifuse at 7:36 AM on December 19, 2006