It's more okay than photoshopping someone's head onto a turnip. And that's considered an all time highlight of British tabloid journalism.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 8:32 AM on July 3, 2008

Hi.

We are just shy of 500 comments to go before we beat the record holding 56002 thread. If everyone stopped by to say "Hi", we'd be there by morning.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:46 PM on July 2, 2008

Thanks. Been here 4 years, and I've learned nothing: 56002
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:52 PM on July 2, 2008

I'm flagging, but in a different way.

Did anyone point out violetbluevioletblue.net yet? It's an archive of the "unpublished" posts.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 5:25 PM on July 2, 2008

I'm really curious to see to what degree she has Stockholm syndrome. There hasn't been too much of an update about Clara Rojas, but reports at the time of her release, and the existence of her son, suggested that she was very friendly with her captors.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 2:48 PM on July 2, 2008

I had no idea MetaFilter hated Hitchens so much.

His political views clearly don't universally chime with those of your average MeFite (pro-atheist=good, pro-iraq war=not so good), but he's sincere enough about his beliefs that he's prepared to test and refute his previous position on waterboarding.

Get your cameras out now, folks, cause you won't see that very often from anyone on Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 10:31 AM on July 2, 2008

Although daska is right to point out that the UK is not included, the US are still ruling over Brits when it comes to cannabis and cocaine use. Comparison with the most recent British Crime Survey demonstrates that although the yoof of Britain are just as deep into illicit substances, the elderly have a long way to catch up.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 3:21 PM on July 1, 2008

Adam Yauch was actually first credited as director for Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! (although the tagline was "Finally, Hörnblowér is taking back what's his.").

The real MCA wouldn't have made that mistake. Unless it's deliberate, to throw us off the scent of MeFi's first celebrity self-linker.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 1:28 PM on June 26, 2008

The first video doesn't appear in the pop-up because the uploader has disabled embedding.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 12:43 PM on June 4, 2008

Are most people unaware of how far they can get on the reserve tank?

I have a Smart which isn't in the TankOnEmpty database. It has exactly 5 litres of fuel in reserve, which gets me about 50 miles down the motorway, as long as traffic is flowing freely. I've twice run it out completely, which didn't seem to do it any harm.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 3:16 AM on May 8, 2008

Is it just me, or have top bars suddenly become the fixies of beekeeping?

I also get the feeling that it's deliberately luddite. I have english National hives, and to my mind they're simple, easy to inspect, light to handle, and good producers of honey. I'm not sure I can see any real advantages to a topbar hive.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 5:58 AM on April 24, 2008

I hadn't noticed it at all during the week. However having read this post, I'm now experiencing (probably) an olfactory hallucination of a manure smell in my sitting room. I'm going to take a bath until I'm smelling correctly again.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 8:15 AM on April 20, 2008

I also went to the Camino del Rey in 2001, intending to walk the whole thing.

I turned up without ropes, harnessess, carabiners, or in fact any climbing ability or knowledge. I got a little way beyond the first enormous spiky fence with a terrifying warning sign. I decided sensibly not to try and jump the first large gap, between two wobbly sections of concrete, 50ft above a raging torrent of whitewater. In retrospect it's not something I regret wussing out of.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 1:53 AM on April 7, 2008

Also for my money, the Mt Hua Shan Trail doesn't look quite as terrifying as the arête of the Vallée Blanche. It's a 2m wide, 100m long snow ridge, with the path tramped into slippery ice by the passage of hundreds of people wearing ski boots. It's a 2600m drop to the left, and about 800m to the right. If you want to ski the Vallée Blanche, you have to go down it first.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 2:01 AM on April 7, 2008

From today's Guardian:

Calling Carla: Brown enlists first lady to give Britain style

by Avril de Poisson
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 3:11 AM on April 1, 2008

You are not alone as a domain name addict. My ex-flatmate owns youfuckingcunt.com, only so he can have the email address:

whatareyoulooking@youfuckingcunt.com

Slight derail: how is work on drinksyourmilkshake.com going?
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 5:15 AM on March 20, 2008

Disclaimer: Beat-boxing basset hound is advertising some kind of Swedish telecommunication service.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 8:50 AM on February 19, 2008

This is so sad. He's only asking $1 per album, with another 300K cd's thrown in as a freebie

No massed produced items bought indiscriminately will ever be worth a whole lot of money. This is no sadder than huge worthless collections of Beanie Babies or Star Wars toys. He's clearly straddling the border of obsession and mental illness. If this was really about preserving music he'd be selling off the duplicates in order to pay for digitisation of all the vinyl and 8-tracks.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 3:08 AM on February 19, 2008

Cortex's reasoning above lays out the logic of it exactly.

They can't kill themselves without the traveller to start their simultaneous induction process. Imagine being a blue eyed person on the island. You spend each and every day wondering if there are 99 or 100 blue eyed people. You never get a date to refer back to 99 or 100 days ago, when everyone could synchronise their logical processes. You have to wonder though how the islanders ever got through their first 99... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 10:00 AM on February 15, 2008

How do they place and manipulate the camera? Is it on board the ISS?
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 7:02 AM on February 10, 2008

May 1st is the start of the season for trout on the river where I fish, so I have to endure not only the winter of ice and snow, but also 2/3rds of spring before I get to catch another trout. I've been catching up with back issues of This Is Fly, and dreaming of my first cast.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 6:09 AM on February 1, 2008

It's somewhat ironic that so many people who intend to vote Democrat are opposed to Nader even standing, when that simple act would actually enhance the status of the US as a democracy.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 6:04 AM on February 1, 2008

"Join us later for Playboy's expose, "Why Do Single People Masturbate More?"

I'd be very surprised if that were actually true.
posted by psmealey at 7:11 AM on January 24 [+] [!] "

I saw a great presentation on the sex lives of women insured with Kaiser Permanente, that I think is still unpublished, showing clearly that divorced women were having three times as much sex as married women. So I'd... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 9:42 AM on January 24, 2008

The 1980's is missing Alas Smith and Jones, The Lenny Henry Show, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and Jeeves and Wooster.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 2:50 AM on January 24, 2008

Here's a piece from a recent Granta about Chinese cricket fighting. I read it recently without any sense that such an activity might be objectionable. I think some bug blood sports probably are acceptable given appropriate cultural context. (Disclaimer: FPPed site is borked, and I haven't seen how awful it is)
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 7:41 AM on January 6, 2008

Like Sonic the Hedgehog, only slow, and with less hedgehogs.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 6:36 AM on December 7, 2007

I don't think he was worried so much about complications from screening, as complications from unwarranted prostatectomy for slow moving non-lethal tumours.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 8:59 AM on November 29, 2007

Professor Michael Baum who was one of my medical school profs, is indeed a "vocal critic" of breast cancer screening.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 9:09 AM on November 29, 2007

And Kowalski, you must be an academic, because you don't seem to have the slightest insight about the motivations of the overwhelming majority of physicians.

This is undeservedly patronising. All doctors should be trying to be doing the best for their patients, and that means relying on best evidence, not anecdote.

If someone chooses to forego treatment for prostate cancer that's their decision, but to not even check... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:10 PM on November 29, 2007

There is a reasonable debate to be had here, but framed by such poor links this is just trolling for more WTFcrueltytoKITTY!1!!1!!! responses.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:10 AM on November 28, 2007

Here are your starters in the reasonable debate:
1. Aren't dwarves / small people able to decide for themselves whether they should participate in dwarf tossing? See HC Mabuse's comment above.
2. Should places / peoples with culturally sanctioned traditions that clash with modern notions of animal cruelty be allowed to continue them in a closely regulated way?
3. Is any "humorous" representation of such activities a legitimate topic for marketing?
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:57 AM on November 28, 2007

I see your comical story about a unicorn with 16 million hits, and raise you a laughing baby with 29 million hits, that I also think has never been on metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 3:52 AM on November 28, 2007

I missed this thread and got my own Xmas number one FPP about Malcolm Middleton deleted. Following Cortex's advice to the letter I'm re-adding it here:

Could a song called We're All Going to Die really become the UK Christmas number one single? In both 2005 and 2006 the UK Christmas number one was the winner of the X-Factor. This year the fight is on to reclaim Christmas for real music. Led by Colin Murray, the nations' pop cultural anti-establishmentarians are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:29 PM on November 26, 2007

Although I'm 100% with Goldacre on this one, Winterson's final paragraph makes a lot of sense:

I would like to see homeopathy better regulated. I would like to see the Society of Homeopaths engaging with its critics, as well as initiating more research. There will always be rogue homeopaths and bad homeopaths, but that is true of any profession. Above all we should be careful of dismissing the testimony of millions who say the remedies have worked for them.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 11:32 AM on November 19, 2007

HURF DURF flagged as offensive. Just because you tagged it as "lolcrazypeople", it doesn't automatically become ironic and cool.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 1:03 AM on November 14, 2007

Good Guardian story on this too, headlined Cocaine Galore!
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 5:57 AM on November 1, 2007

The only person with any expertise in this subject in this thread, so far, is me.

I'm way way late in this crazy thread, but I claim expertise on the topic. I just had a study published about female ejaculation, and I've written a text book chapter on female genital cosmetic surgery. There is zero evidence to support the g-shot, and I think it's shocking that anyone would offer it in good faith. Matlock does a lot of procedures with minimal evidence,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 2:39 AM on October 31, 2007

Ming Clambell?
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 11:43 AM on October 28, 2007

Double, although only in a comment.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 8:29 AM on October 25, 2007

Joel Ronson had a blog, which like his father he has now abandoned. It was relatively precocious, but featured no instances of swearing.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:01 AM on October 23, 2007

Goldacre and Ronson are not the same person. I misread the post in the same way initially, seeing "Bad Science column" instead of Bad Science colleague.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 5:39 AM on October 23, 2007

"For this reason the Energy Watch Group was founded due to the initiative of the German parliamentarian Hans-Josef Fell and further parliamentarians from other countries. It is supported by the Ludwig-Bölkow-Foundation. In this project scientists are working on studies independently of Government and company interests concerning

- the shortage of fossil and atomic energy
resources,
- development scenarios for regenerative... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 7:12 AM on October 22, 2007

My blog seems to have almost as many Google Reader subscribers as daily visitors, suggesting that most "bloggy" people do know about RSS now.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 4:05 PM on October 15, 2007

MetaFilter: constantly bitching about how you don't like links

But my real point is what's up with that "mobactically"?
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 11:56 AM on October 10, 2007

Andy Goldsworthy has made holes in gallery floors. I saw the archive images at his show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, but I couldn't find a relevant link for the post.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 7:50 AM on October 10, 2007

Too soon? White people are the majority audience for rap, so the top ten rap songs for white people is just the top ten rap songs period. This list would be better.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 7:08 AM on October 10, 2007

Am I wrong for thinking that the "overweight" people do indeed look overweight, and that the "obese" people are uniformly obese? Not one of these photos surprised me in the slightest, although obviously it's hard to guess who is normal and who is overweight between a BMI of about 23-27.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 6:21 AM on October 3, 2007

What's the total opposite of a . ?

This is a bit of a . moment for me. Seems to have a "last days of disco" air about it. GHP DJing at bAsTaRd provided some of my greatest nights out ever, and the mashup scene has been one of the only music scenes I felt truly engaged with, since I was a teenager anyway. He will be much missed, though these downloads will assuage the grief.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 11:11 AM on September 21, 2007

Thanks djeo, that's working a whole lot better.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 11:40 AM on September 21, 2007

kavasa, "plain old writing" is not enough for a great paper. Sure there are a lot people sending papers for peer review with an utterly inadequate basic command of written english, but people who consistently write great papers are actually great writers, not just good proof readers. It's analagous to thinking that Strunk & White is a really good book for learning to write well, when really it's only a good guide to not writing badly.
posted to MetaFilter by roofus at 9:27 AM on September 13, 2007