Unicorn on the cob writes "Yeah but where is the thread damanding that Quonsar and JonMC have a drinking battle a la Raiders of the Lost Ark inside the Thunderdome?

"Apologies are great but do not make for entertaining daydreaming at my cubicle, you guys."

If you will it, dude, it is no dream.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:11 PM on August 7, 2008

I'm impressed with the bean-pondering skills displayed in nasreddin's comment.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:44 PM on August 2, 2008

painquale writes "I hate that stupid 'plate of beans' meme. If ever there was a slogan for anti-intellectualism, it's that."

R U SAYIN I R DUM?!!
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 3:21 PM on August 2, 2008

Metafilter: half the time I have only the vaguest idea of what I'm saying.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:23 PM on August 2, 2008

Damn, beat me to it!
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:24 PM on August 2, 2008

har har

Mother Nature, you'll have to do better than that if you want to stop this meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:19 PM on July 29, 2008

The thing with the quakes down here in LA is that they seem to happen regularly enough that I'm not nervous about a 'big one.' It seems to vent the pressure rather than hoarding it. Up in the bay area things have been ominously quiet for what, almost 20 years now? That's scary.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:05 PM on July 29, 2008

OMG I am so outraged.

Wait, what are we outraged about this week?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 3:03 AM on July 11, 2008

Pastabagel writes "Beer was drank."

Well to be honest, that was sizzurp I was drankin.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 7:38 PM on July 7, 2008

Afroblanco writes "Skeletor is a skeleton.

"Which means that all of us - each and every one of us, from Ghandi to Donald Rumsfeld - have Skeletor within us."


Likewise, this is why I believe every housecat has a little bit of Battlecat in it.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:47 PM on July 2, 2008

Favorite this comment to vote for enabling images in this thread.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 10:23 AM on June 20, 2008

I'd like to bring everyone's attention to the World on Wheels roller skating rink in beautiful, pastoral Culver City. They have a little event called Roller Disco. I have attended, and I can confirm that it is fucking awesome. They play a vast array of disco and funk until 2 am, and hold on, it gets better. Upstairs there's a bowling alley! Our troubles are over, dude. In the bowling alley there is, I shit you not, a karaoke bar.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 3:42 PM on May 29, 2008

Making me drive over the hills on the 405 at rush hour...you people are killing me. They're now offering 90 days same as cash on a fillup at the gas stations! My tank has been siphoned. I have in turn started siphoning tanks. Oh the huge manatee.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:12 PM on June 3, 2008

Oh, hey, apparently I'm late to the post-meetup party. Pics are up.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 11:25 PM on June 3, 2008

Ah yes, Roller Disco. Here's a link to the Roller Disco myspace page, the next one is June 28. Who's in?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 11:47 AM on June 4, 2008

Justinian writes "Also, I don't know how to rollerskate."

That's ok, the non-skaters can fall back on the alternate activites: bowling, karaoke, and drinking.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 5:54 PM on June 4, 2008

Justinian writes "Oh noes! The Anaheim meetup with Jessamyn et al is on June 28th! "

I suppose this might be a problem. However, roller disco is a monthly event, so it doesn't have to be this particular date.

Of course we could try to kidnap Jessamyn and take her on a bowlingkaraokerollerdisco tour of debauchery. I think she'd fight it until the ether took hold, but then later on she'd thank... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:27 PM on June 4, 2008

"BrooklynCouch's profile
This account is disabled. "

When I wished for him to be 'taken out' this wasn't what I had in mind, but it'll do.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:17 PM on June 2, 2008

The bottom line is, PP's reason for coming here is not what MeFi was intended for, and Metafilter is worse off for having him as a member. I noticed fairly quickly when he stopped taking a crap in the threads, and never in my most perverse fantasies did I ever think I'd want to read his trolling again. There's a fine game reserve in the form of LGF where he can live out his days with the rest of his herd. Here he's just a kid who refuses to stop shitting in the pool, and if you fool me twice...... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:07 PM on May 28, 2008

My overall problem with McCain's age is that, hey, he's lived his life. He's running on a platform of keeping everything the same, against a man who is running on a platform of Change.

We have in this century a sense of disillusionment in the wisdom of our elders. Through most of human history, illiteracy was the norm and the oldest people were generally accepted to be the wisest because of their lifetime of experience. In this... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:27 PM on May 13, 2008

gyc writes "I'm so sorry that you haven't been paying much attention to the election."

I'm sorry that you haven't been paying attention to the political spectrum, conflict theory, and functionalism. It works like this: the 'liberals,' the 'left,' 'democrats,' 'hippies,' 'commies,' etc, blah, are representative (in general) of the conflict theory school of thought. They agitate for change and work against the status quo because. In a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:14 PM on May 13, 2008

Pastabagel writes "The comparison is the age old Apple vs. Microsoft, but Apple has no comparable software product to the one in the post!"

No, the issue is that other people already do this and support OS X and linux (Google Sky, Solarium) and MS is late to the party with a one-trick pony.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 3:07 PM on May 13, 2008

Windows is like a bus. It used to be simple, and now it's a little more flashy, but it's still just a way of getting around.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:34 PM on May 13, 2008

There was already a thread about this. You created a new, redundant thread when you should've posted the update in the original thread.

Next time just post a video of a cat passing out and all will be forgiven.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:32 PM on April 9, 2008

orange swan writes "Now if only someone had been around to take a picture of Matt's face when he discovered that he'd been banned from MeFi."

You'd have to be quick to catch him in the five seconds it takes to run a sql insert statement and reinstate himself.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:57 PM on April 11, 2008

My apologies for that mess, jess, I really didn't think it would be that bad. I wanted to fix the original trainwreck and make it worthwhile, but alas.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 7:13 PM on April 8, 2008

This is why we can't have nice things.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 7:15 PM on April 8, 2008

Marxchivist writes "I thought this was was worth discussing... usually is not an indicator of quality conversation to follow."

I could've been more accurate and said 'salvaging' since I really only got into the topic from the previous wacky attempt at a post about this.



LarryC writes "It was Newsfilter.

"(Which is bad, by the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 7:27 PM on April 8, 2008

LarryC writes "Pointing out the poor quality of a thread within the comments is important. It shows new MeFites what is and is not appropriate. After all, no one but the mods ever see the flags. "

I won't insult your intelligence by pretending that you really think shitting in threads makes metafilter a better place.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:24 AM on April 9, 2008

One last note, in this latest post, newsfilter+bummer, man = deleted post, right?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:47 AM on April 9, 2008

As opposed to a one-link youtube flickr video post to a cat passing out, which is apparently best of the web.

Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 9:11 AM on April 9, 2008

Artw writes "The deletion of this post is Americas Tibet."

You owe me a new keyboard.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 9:26 AM on April 9, 2008

LarryC writes "Mullingitover, no one shat in that thread. There were a couple of very mild comments pointing out that it was not a good post by commenters who did not further engage the thread. That is nowhere close to shitting in a thread, and is something we have done at Metafilter for years and years.

"It is true that Matt said a few weeks ago he wanted less noise and more signal, and I thought twice before posting my comment. But... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:49 PM on April 9, 2008

Aww, I would've come but I was in SF that day. Next time.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:35 PM on April 7, 2008

Smedleyman left because of the stupid comments of less than ~0.3% of metafilter's members (245 comments in the thread, 71,008 mefites)? Fuck that guy.

*ducks* Hey, he's still alive!
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 11:53 PM on April 6, 2008

Scientology really is a religion. There's no disputing the fact that they own real estate, and real estate ownership is what distinguishes a religion from a cult.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 11:21 PM on April 3, 2008

Wow, someone is eventually going to regret having this line of argument locked in their permanent mefi record, and I ain't talking about tk.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:41 AM on April 3, 2008

mr_roboto writes "That thread is total chatfilter."

I agree. Metafilter has really gone downhill lately.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 6:16 PM on March 28, 2008

Scrump: "I used to be able to point people here and assume that it was self-evident that MetaFilter was of a higher quality, just from a cursory read. That's no longer the case."

Did you not see this page, or are you intentionally not factoring it in just to make your point?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 3:13 PM on March 26, 2008

I think the only way to really put this matter to bed and prove that Metafilter is still as great as it ever was would be to enable the img tag in this thread.

*prays*
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 4:23 PM on March 26, 2008

I'm all in favor of jacking up the price of admission by about 1000%, and not just because I already have an account. Meanwhile, can't the links in fpps get wrapped in nofollow to break any SEO shenanigans?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 7:55 PM on March 26, 2008

Could we perhaps, instead of deleting google-gaming posts, wrap them with nofollow and then googlebomb them so they're only high in the search results for 'soulless fuckers'?
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 9:50 PM on March 26, 2008

the pp account may be disabled, but the goading spirit lives on at 2 AM in MeTa.

Let's all get some sleep m'kay? I don't see what good is going to come from this talk of killfiles and seamen.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 2:18 AM on March 27, 2008

acoutu writes "Is it the $5 or the age of the user making the comment?"

I think it's the community, or lack thereof. I might be going out on a limb here, but I'd bet that 99% of youtube commenters don't think that anyone they know will read their comments (bringing the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory into play), whereas most MeFi posters have some investment in their identity here. I think for most MeFites the $5 is a small token of their... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:05 PM on March 25, 2008

Damn, that thread is a commercial for trolling. It works. Everyone helping one manipulative asshole get them frothed up.

Don't feed the trolls, folks. It's not an empty slogan. Seriously, stop. You're hurting metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 8:24 PM on March 19, 2008

TrolleyOffTheTracks writes "Who are the trolls?"

One person (guessing who it is I'll leave as an exercise for the reader) is trolling, and the poor saps responding angrily are helping him succeed in his trolling career. It's one thing to simply debunk with a link and move on, but diving into the muck is just demonstrating that trolling works here.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 9:14 PM on March 19, 2008

A mefi meetup? In the valley? Like, oh my god.

I'll be there, fer sher.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 11:49 AM on March 9, 2008

Thanks for coming out, to those of you who made it. I feel like a true sportsman now.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:52 AM on March 15, 2008

Wow, I was just about to come here and post that an election fever subdomain was really the best way to keep election politics crap from defiling the blue. It won't be me, but people are going to continue to post annoying election politics links.

mathowie writes "I hope we can limit ourselves to maybe 1 election post every few days"

They can't say you're not an optimist.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 10:46 PM on February 21, 2008

Pictures are up on flickr, check 'em out!
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 1:10 AM on January 4, 2008