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MeTa post:
Sideblog snaps and props
i've always had the impression that Ricky Powell is the originator of Oh snap! as you alluded to (but didn't state directly) in your comment in that other thread, D_W.
and that that was why his photo book was titled that -- he was indelibly associated with the phrase. in fact, wasn't his column in 'grand royal' magazine called Oh Snap!? and it was all jokes like this one: "I love poseurs who front like they have 'the kind' and then show up with some Haystacks... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 8:06 PM on August 4, 2008
*blushes, is confused*
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 10:15 PM on August 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefibrarian meet-up in Anaheim?
horace, my friend jason (who lives in park slope and is in anaheim for the conference but isn't a mefite) saw you on the bus today and was emailing me about it. you: wearing metafilter shirt, with mefi handle nametag.
so, there's that.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 12:04 AM on June 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Please, for the love of all that's holy
Agreeing with l-hat and shmegegge
except that they are not saying the same thing.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 3:02 PM on May 28, 2008
I am not PP, damn it!
dishonesty: the second-best policy.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 10:20 AM on May 29, 2008
can we get back to the discussion about the TV show we're going to collectively produce about three aggrieved conservative lawyers who all live in the same building in park slope and their twisted relationship with a left-skewing website?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 11:20 AM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Stinking of gin...
ask metafilter: come for the moralizing, stay for the lectures from uptight prigs!
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 10:59 AM on May 27, 2008
MeTa post:
What gives?
USian political posts in an election year are held to a higher standard of "please make an effort if you want someone to care about and considerately discuss your content" quality which was not reached by your five word post.
why was "don't do this here" the proffered deletion reason if the real reason was "your post didn't quite reach my standard of quality political posting in an election year"?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 12:55 PM on May 17, 2008
What we need is a Malthusian candidate. I'd settle for a Marcusian, though.
how about the Methuselahian candidate? McCain is so old OMG.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 12:58 PM on May 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Raising the level?
whereas of course if someone suggested they try posting at a right-leaning site they'd be positive they wouldn't be fairly treated
be great if you could come up with an example of a comparable right-leaning general interest site and maybe we can try a little experiment. but the hardcore rightwing sites countenance no dissent whatsoever.
and if this entire thread is not the biggest example of concern trolling i've ever seen, i don't know what is.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 4:19 PM on February 12, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLXtians! No - LOLScientologists!
what about Mormons? they're pretty kooky. are we allowed to LOL at them?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 3:28 PM on January 15, 2008
will scientology's tenets seem so absurd or outlandish in 100 years? how about 1000? how about when it has 100 million adherents? time and history does quite a bit to rehabilitate the outlandish.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 4:00 PM on January 15, 2008
MeTa post:
"Silent" comments on Projects
in agreement. who's afraid of the discussion? stavros' seemingly dim view of this place where he spends many hours notwithstanding, does anyone really think that someone's project (read: "baby") would attract the same vitriol that someone's mefi post about, say, bug fights or rape haiku?
the site protocol essentially says, among other things, you shouldn't be too invested in posts to the front page (thus the prohibition against self-posts and the more' against... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 10:51 PM on January 7, 2008
stavros, there was nothing sidelong about it -- i was making a general observation about your tendency to look at many of this site's participants and their comments in a less-than-charitable light. to me, you seem to be the proverbial diner who complains about how the food is terrible and also, comes in such small portions.
this is of course offset by your many worthwhile contributions, well-earned high status, and your clear love for metafilter, which leaves me... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 12:48 AM on January 8, 2008
But save your trenchant analyses of my character, mmkay? Go pick the nits off someone else.
i guess this means i'll have to get offa your lawn, too.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 11:33 AM on January 8, 2008
i fuck in the living woods.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 11:40 PM on January 8, 2008
MeTa post:
Fallout from the Givewell affair
perhaps you should retroactively link this thread in the old one?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 9:41 PM on January 6, 2008
phil, that most recent comment is much appreciated. what you said encapsulates what drew me to metafilter and subsites in the first place, and as i suspect you'll quickly learn, each of the subsites has a unique tenor, metatalk being of the gauntlet tenor. it is my favorite for that reason, although many of this site's participants don't have the same appetite for the scrum that perhaps some of us do.
was wondering if you'd consider allowing me to query you privately... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 11:39 PM on January 8, 2008
MeTa post:
hopefully nipping this in the bud
a few weeks back on metafilter there was an fpp about amusing english translations in chinese grocery stores
holy fuck. okay, stay with me now -- those amusing translations? exactly the same sort of thing sewell's "thug life" image on her livejournal page is highlighting. amusing. fucking. english. translations. from. chinese.
are you still going to pretend you don't get it?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 4:37 PM on January 6, 2008
MeTa post:
GiveWell, or Give 'em Hell?
heh. eLie.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 6:42 PM on January 2, 2008
so phil, was this "PhilCubeta" or "The Happy Tutor"?:
You will not confess, nor will I torture it out of you. You will not apologize, nor will I demand it. I will not make an example of you, Miko, Cortex, Jasmyn, Rumple, Stephen Dodson, RCM, or the others who ran in that pack keening like dogs who have tasted blood. But you will feel disgust and may even regret and feel shame for what was done in the heat of the illusion of your own virtue... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 4:33 AM on January 6, 2008
Dude, he's already apologized for that—did you read his comments? Again, let he who has never committed the sin of overreaction and temporary asshattery (Hat Maui, old buddy, I'm looking at you) throw the first stone
i was asking those questions in earnest. it's clear that "PhilCubeta" as he presents himself here is sincere enough, but his characterization of what transpired on his blog as "wolves keening after a taste of blood"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 3:12 PM on January 6, 2008
MeTa post:
What will the Bhutto assassination mean for the future stability of Metafilter?
My comments on the blue and green have, and will continue to be, entirely unobjectionable.
you are not the arbiter of whether your comments are objectionable.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 5:07 PM on December 28, 2007
divine_wino, that was inspired. perhaps from on high.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 8:02 PM on December 28, 2007
I've read through the entire history of Metatalk
aw, hornswoggle. you haven't even read through this thread. to wit:
Nothing Tex said was as vitriolic and as "bashing" as this screed
no? how about:
Look, if we called out every thread full of hysterical liberals savaging... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 1:17 AM on December 29, 2007
Well, you know Hat Maui, my dear friend, that Jesus was a Capricorn...
he was also way cool. he turned water into wine, and if he wanted to, he could have turned wheat into marijuana, or sugar into cocaine, or vitamin pills into amphetamines...
...no wonder there are so many christians!
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 1:26 AM on December 29, 2007
MeTa post:
Trainwreck Thread
And your use of a double quote in place of an apostrophy indicates you wrote that entire sentance [sic]
also impressive.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 3:51 PM on December 24, 2007
MeTa post:
Why was my reply to post 78716 removed?
All else aside, tard and feathered would be a great band name.
allow me one suggestion: tard and the feathered
that notwithstanding, kudos! "___________ would be a great band name" has a terrible, profoundly unfunny history on this suite of sites. thank you for making great strides in mitigating that ongoing injustice.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 3:31 AM on December 16, 2007
MeTa post:
Mefi Musicians... up for a challenge?
so is this post a bug or a feature request?
and dobbs, are you sufjan's butler, you little name-dropper, you?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 1:14 PM on November 11, 2007
I don't know Stevens; I do, however, know his manager and that's too close for comfort for me to make an FPP to the blue about him.
uh, i think the kevin bacon laws would apply here such that "knowing dude's manager" != "post about something he's doing would be self-link." but then i'm one of those "legislate from the bench" -type liberals.
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 12:22 AM on November 13, 2007
MeTa post:
inline youtube keeps going away?
while we're at it, whether the inline playing works for me on any given occasion seems completely arbitrary. initially you said that clearing the cache helps, matt, but i've found that there's no reliable predictor of whether it will work. it appears to me to be random.
as an example, today i tried that justice link and it worked on the front page. then i tried that biz markie link, and it didn't work on the front page. going inside the thread, the biz link worked, but... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 8:20 PM on October 24, 2007
MeTa post:
LRB Shoutout
Acquiring Jessamyn would be an awesome book/song/band title.
sorry, IRFH, but in my deeply researched study of "___________ would be an awesome band name" on metafilter (which was published in the February 2006 issue of The Journal of Fabricated Studies), i have come to the conclusion that this statement is never true in any permutation, and if metafilter were in charge of naming bands, every band in the world would... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 6:02 PM on October 10, 2007
nice, cortex. seems like a compendium of that search data is in order (nudge). i mean, aside from the fake one i did for my study.
and IRFH (or as i like to call you to myself, "erfah"), you should have gone with your first impulse. speaking for myself, i would have understood that by "awesome emo band name" you meant "totally awesome in its lameness." but i get you, ya know?
posted to MetaTalk by Hat Maui
at 7:08 PM on October 10, 2007
