You think there's some important interest being served by these lawsuits.

just a teeny tiny little interest called THE RULE OF LAW.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 2:46 PM on July 4, 2008

short-tempered star.

short, tempered star.

FTFY.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 4:04 PM on June 28, 2008

"The first point that I think needs stressing is that oil and gas prices have been on a sustained upward trajectory for years. A gallon of unleaded regular was $1.55 in November 2000, and has more or less risen steadily ever since -- people were making a big fuss about $2.00 a gallon oil in 2004! The price of oil in 2000 was about 25 bucks a barrel, and it too, obviously, has risen relentlessly. Remember, in 2000, $60 dollar a barrel an oil would have seemed sky-high! Now it seems cheap. So... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:47 AM on June 27, 2008

to acknowledge this sad moment, i give you the george carlin universal cheer:

ratshit, batshit
dirty old twat
sixty-nine assholes
tied in a knot.
hooray.
lizardshit.
FUCK!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:34 PM on June 22, 2008

beaten to the FUCK!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:35 PM on June 22, 2008

start to turn the south democrat again.

ah yes, the good ol' days of the dixiecrats, when men were men, and white sheets weren't only for sleeping upon!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:37 AM on June 20, 2008

Right now, if you know you were wiretapped, you can sue the telecom companies for breaking the law that says you can't wiretapp

the EFF has filed a class action against at&t and others. the legislation essentially negates the suit and any other forms of recourse.

well, not just that. there's also the rule of law that is now more or less negated.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 2:22 PM on June 19, 2008

Fantastic video. Really enjoyable.

okay, that's three comments, now make with the spam post already, livesports! don't keep us in suspense.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 3:46 AM on June 18, 2008

Therefore to make a 32Gb iPhone they'd have to create a physically different board which would throw everything out of whack and probably isn't possible in the existing case.

except there's a 32gb ipod touch, which blows this theory totally out of the water.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:54 PM on June 9, 2008

man, two days ago i was listening to the new grand archives record, and after the last song the next up was grayson & whittier performing "tom dooley" on that 'people take warning!' comp and i had this whole flight of fancy on ol' tom dooley, for like 15 minutes, wondering what it was like when he was on the lam.

and now this post. is that more synchronicity or baader-meinhof?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 11:17 PM on June 4, 2008

or baader-nicity synchmeinhof?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 11:18 PM on June 4, 2008

what TPS said. just gawdawful stuff. the art must have been in tricking a gallery owner to let him hang that utter dreck.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 12:12 PM on June 4, 2008

wow, this is a goofy post. for the next 3 or 4 minutes before it gets killed, let's do thomas friedman anagrams.

here's mine:

man, thom (i)s fried!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 6:32 PM on May 28, 2008

hey, those are computer generated, aren't they?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 6:51 PM on May 28, 2008

like this awesome one:

Thomas Friedman: Ashamed, Firm: NOT!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 6:53 PM on May 28, 2008

The World is Flat: Wafted His Troll
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:03 PM on May 28, 2008

I still say "We now return to Bullit, already in progress " every time I swing a quick reverse in the car.

yep, still with me as well. also, the "fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down" line is one i bust out more sparingly, usually in the context of describing my visit to a mall in amarillo, tx.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:51 PM on May 27, 2008

where is neil hamburger when you need him?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 3:10 PM on May 25, 2008

"San Fransciso Values" would be an excellent name for a professional soccer team.

this is like one of those times when someone says "(previously used turn of phrase) would be an excellent band name" only it almost never is. except this is hilariously awesome. although i'm not exactly sure where "San Fransciso" is -- is that what they call the Typo District?

i humbly submit another suggestion for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 11:57 PM on May 24, 2008

Regardless, I'm looking forward to talking to you all in 20 years, when you're all far more wealthier and happier than you are today

some of what you are smoking, please. STAT!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:10 AM on May 22, 2008

needed something to mount on the front lawn

reminds me of my favorite emo phillips joke about catching a really large fish: "i wanted to mount it right then, but there were people around."
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 11:34 AM on May 16, 2008

i am shocked, shocked! that that's your take on it.

quick question, though... if it's the echo chamber and pointless thread your criticism implies, isn't reading the whole thing and remarking upon it even more pointless? i love how people like you have such endless appetites for such terrible food. but masochism is a disease, and you can get help, "Cool."
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 2:14 AM on May 14, 2008

*launches brick at adjustable cheese*

*walks away satisfied at size of dent and sound of dull thud*
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 1:43 AM on May 12, 2008

Metafilter: I fully expect my psot to vanish soon.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 8:16 PM on April 27, 2008

But it's just a silly-straw suck compared to the hard vacuum of space known as hip-hop.

statements within threads such as this are really helping me get in touch with my inner masochist.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 4:24 PM on April 20, 2008

i'm bewildered at the lack of attention to detail on most of these. if you're not going to try to recreate at least some of the details, why bother?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 1:30 AM on April 18, 2008

i think some of you may not be getting the point... the recent trend industry-wide is an increase in total dollar sales, but a decrease in tickets sold. meaning that fewer people are paying more to see the same stuff as ever.

the question the main article is asking is, in an era of fragmented audience and declining record sales, what is the entity that will develop any act into an arena-filler? it just doesn't exist. so what happens when the current (old-ass) arena... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 6:18 PM on April 11, 2008

similarly to the record business, where most acts lose a label money but the ones that go big will pay for the failures, you have to take certain shows and risks over the course of your relationship with an agent or artist manager that you know or suspect will take a financial hit in order to get the more lucrative stuff. so live nation, or AEG live, or whatever other large promoter that might be producing arena shows needs those "whales," if you will, to make the other stuff viable.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 1:37 PM on April 12, 2008

the mediocre-est of the web.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 12:23 PM on April 11, 2008

People who want things like back yards, and 3-car garages

in other words, people who give not a shit about reducing anything.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 4:01 PM on April 6, 2008

claude is clearly agitating for the right to arm bears.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 3:31 PM on April 5, 2008

jonmc & jessamyn: hipster-ocrites.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 3:21 PM on March 31, 2008

up to 12 songs? what kind of crap is that? everyone knows a good mix has at least 20 songs.

thank you for bringing this worthless crap to my attention, jonson.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 4:04 PM on March 25, 2008

OMG you guys it's a totally awesome rick astley video! "Never Gonna Give You Up."
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 11:23 AM on March 7, 2008

I don't think I can name a single female who does this

lisa lampanelli, paula poundstone, kathy griffin, amy sedaris (especially via her 'strangers with candy' character jerri blank), janeane garofalo, sarah silverman -- they all self-deprecate about their own physicality. it's a natural part of pretty much any good comedian's act. you are permitted to mock others to a much larger degree if you mock your own shortcomings. people generally aren't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 9:29 PM on March 5, 2008

It just gets hard to dissect out any idea of "innate" women's sexuality or men's sexuality from the social contexts in which sexuality is constrained.

how can you have sexuality (or much anything else for that matter) without social contexts? would people that live in more tribal or primitive circumstances that are largely untainted by modernity and "mass media" have a truer approach to innate sexuality?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 8:43 PM on March 5, 2008

You kind of can't, except the masturbatory kind.

ok, so then what was your point again? it's difficult to do the thing that you can't do?
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 9:11 PM on March 5, 2008

kinda not getting the buckley-disdain this thread is replete with. to dismiss him as only meaningful in the context of the tragedy of his death or as an npr-crowd pet (you have, i assume, listened to npr enough to make such a snide insinuation, but not enough to be the very sort of listener you imagine you loathe -- that's a neat trick) or even more absurdly, as simply a '90s rocker dude with a guitar and a pretty voice who conceals his immateriality with bombast and bluster, as the posted... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 9:06 PM on March 5, 2008

To quote Patton Oswald, "There ain't no way they're gonna' get outta' this pickle!"

possum on a gumbush, them duke boys are gittin' away agin'.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 12:11 PM on March 3, 2008

the times weighs in, somehow turning it into a question on comment-poster anonymity. i am reminded of that splendidly nutty gifthub kerfuffle.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 12:03 PM on March 3, 2008

You can quote Ann Coulter or you can quote Noam Chomsky, it's all the same fucking thing: the hope that there will be some fucking war that will change things once and for all.

this is almost too dumb to respond to, but for the record: chomsky is a pacifist and has dedicated his life to stopping wars. coulter is a ghoul who cheerleads for the powerful over the powerless. the fact that you could falsely equate them says you need to read more.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 1:39 AM on March 3, 2008

So, can I come to their house and paint various slogans on the walls?

sure, but only because your analogy is so precise.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 1:38 PM on February 28, 2008

people who can hardly write a complete sentence or in some cases even find the shift key trashing William F. Buckley Jr.

you're right -- buckley was, if nothing else, a master at finding the shift key.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:12 PM on February 27, 2008

Get a dictionary.

yeah, get the dickshunary of mispelings.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 7:22 PM on February 27, 2008

Conservatism is a belief that the current order of things is imperfect, but that attempts to radically reorganize society will result in worse conditions for most people/society

i repaired your statement to improve its accuracy for your benefit. no thanks needed.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 9:02 PM on February 27, 2008

nope. it was a goof on "fixed that for you." sorry it was over your head.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 9:53 PM on February 27, 2008

also, referring to yourself in the third person in a post about your act of posting the post is a nice touch.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 3:22 PM on February 23, 2008

Boy, kids sure are stupid!

"Haha, look at how stupid and unoriginal little kids are" aspect of this

FWIW, that wasn't really my intent. i found it funny because kids are funny. i guess the "dumb shit into comedy gold" post framing implied that i think the kids are stupid, but that's not the case. i just wanted to incorporate "alchemy" in there, because, well, SCIENCE!
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 8:32 PM on February 20, 2008

yeah, or the "cautionary whale" of juno.
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 10:10 PM on February 20, 2008

we fondled mercury with our bare hands

man, i remember taking mercuric oxide, putting it in a test tube and then putting that over a bunsen burner so as to extract the mercury. no ventilation whatsoever, and then we played with the mercury, all at the instruction of our beloved teacher. this was in sixth grade.

*twitches*
posted to MetaFilter by Hat Maui at 12:14 AM on February 21, 2008