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MeTa post:
Don't ask me!!
Yes, there's a reason for that. They're typically written like this . . . (awesome high-altitude lesbian nun hypothetical omitted)
UbuRoivas' law school was a lot more fun than mine.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 8:30 AM on June 18, 2008
MeTa post:
metaask
Tricera on Top . . . of Obama is probably the best place for a newbie to start.
Personally I liked Obama's Eager To Plesiosaur. But I couldn't stomach all that gay stuff in Obama Grabs His Ankylosaurus.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:10 PM on June 10, 2008
MeTa post:
OK to email a mefite?
Corpse is not telling the truth. No one lives near corpse. I know this.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:02 PM on May 30, 2008
Yeah, that's true I guess. That's why I cling to my guns. And my atheism.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 7:31 AM on June 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Why the gender discrepancy?
Welcome aboard all you minorities... you can become oppressors too.
Pot, let me introduce you to kettle over here. You two *might* have something in common!
So you're saying that this is the pot calling the kettle white?
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:24 AM on May 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Facts do not respect majority opinion.
In future, can't all linguistic AskMes just be rerouted to lh's MeFiMail and be done?
No, because sometimes (albeit very rarely) he's wrong and when that happens he can be a gigantic asshole about it. He's a very smart guy who knows a lot about language, but he's just a language hat, not a language God.
P.S. Of course he's right here, "red" is absurd and his answer should have shut the thread down.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 7:56 AM on May 30, 2008
Also: I have to assume the people saying that the question was "how do you pronounce . . . ", and was therefore asking for personal and idiosyncratic pronunciations are trolling. "How do you pronounce" is obviously synonymous, here, with "how does one pronounce".
Also: It's pronounced Throat-Warbler Mangrove.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 8:02 AM on May 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Fightin' Obama and the howlin' wingnuts
My sense, Artw, is that jessamyn kind of blew it here by "skimming". She saw the (admittedly upsetting) concentration camp images and thought they were being used just to inflame the debate -- essentially to Goodwin the wingnuts and nothing more. What I'm not sure she realized is that the debate is about Obama's assertion that his Uncle liberated a concentration camp and the right wing blogosphere's attack on that assertion, so the images were actually relevant, not just fodder.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:38 PM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Please, for the love of all that's holy
Okay, I'm sorry but . . .
MetaFilter: touches of cleverness and/or stupidity.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:12 PM on May 28, 2008
Not everyone can be named Steve. Some people have to be named Adam.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 8:15 AM on May 29, 2008
I'd never heard of the hellban before, but it's brilliant. Think of the potential for gaslighting! You wouldn't even have to implement it, mods, just drop in and mention that it's been implemented. Then we could start ignoring the trolls and they would completely freak out.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 8:34 AM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Burning Blue
. . .mind your own business.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 5:43 PM on May 8 [2 favorites +] [!]
What's the opposite of eponysterical?
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 4:12 PM on May 8, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe != AskToBeJudged
Successful law students (and successful lawyers) don't have un(der)treated ADHD. They don't have self-confidence problems (if anything, they tend to have arrogance problems). They definitely don't allow false items to stay on their credit report. They don't have trouble with deadlines. They know how to handle impossible workloads, and don't spin their wheels trying to get started on a project.
Bullshit. I have all of these problems (including a false... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 2:57 PM on April 29, 2008
dmt (about me): I would want at least five years of successful practice under my belt before I started making assertions about my status as a successful lawyer. Furthermore, attempting to refute a proposition by citing unsubstantiated anecdotal experience is at best poor form. Do not try this is practice.
Leaving aside what "you would want" (who cares?), and without making this anymore about me than it already is, I have to respond that I've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 7:11 AM on April 30, 2008
MeTa post:
"Harmful" Flag
I'm confused again. I thought AskMe answers had to be answers. I got caught up in this earlier today, so I'll ask Jessamyn for some clarity: saying "that is awful advice" and explaining why isn't an answer. Is it close enough to an answer that it gets to stand?
Consider your example:
Q: How Do I whiten my teeth?
A1: Try a solution of bleach and ammonia! [Terrible, potentially deadly answer, but an answer.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 12:26 PM on April 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Are snarky one-liners being deleted in the Blue?
Shitting is pleasant for the shiter, even if, upon shitting, the shiter wishes he has not shat in that particular place - dawson
Nothing should ever be done that should be done. It has to come out like a good hot beer shit. A good hot beer shit is glorious man, you get up, you turn around, you look at it, you're proud, the fumes, the stink of the turds, you look at it, you say God I did it. I'm good. Then you flush it away. Then there's that sense of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:13 AM on April 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Taste the rainbow!
It's probably just Anti-Proton Radio-Isotope Latency First Order Operations Lag Syndrome. You get it with the higher-end video cards.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:11 AM on April 1, 2008
MeTa post:
I thought we were progressive
Except we have some leeway in not exactly answering the question asked as long as we're trying to help the person. If you're offering a reasonable solution that falls slightly outside the parameters of the question, but you're not a dick and are being helpful, then the mods will probably let it stay.
posted by ODiV at 4:23 PM on February 13 [+] [!]
Not to derail the lovely haiku thread, but isn't this exactly wrong? I've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:50 AM on February 14, 2008
MeTa post:
Sit, ubu, sit.
The catfight in that thread between Ambrosia Voyeur and MaryDellamorte was smoking hot. And not a single boob did I stare at once!
For the love of God, Montressor, close the thread before it's too late!
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 8:22 AM on January 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
450 posts later, super late to the thread, and all I can say is... again with this?
TPS and hmsbeagle and a number of other users got upset about boyzone issues before and Number 1 agreed and so, over the course of well over 1,500 messages in two threads it was decided that there should be an (oddly named) "offensive/sexism/racism" flag. Some people hated it (OMG THOUGHT POLICE) some people felt it was needed (OMG BOYZONE/WHITEZONE); everyone got very heated... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:54 AM on January 24, 2008
Cortex, I have to respectfully disagree here. Isn't konolia saying "the cure for bad speech is more speech"? And isn't that right (occasional MeFi censorship notwithstanding?) We're not talking about physical threats or even uncomfortable gazes here, we're talking about words, and I think konolia's point (maybe, though I wouldn't presume to speak for her) is that if you are fighting the good fight with words, then walking away is cowardly--or at least "fragile". If you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:29 PM on January 24, 2008
Right on, sisters. Fight the power through doing laundry.
posted by Rumple at 6:53 PM on January 24 [+] [!]
Eponysterical? Or do I just suck at laundry?
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 4:06 PM on January 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Meh
It's a regular Meh-th lab around here.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 1:53 PM on December 22, 2007
MeTa post:
AskMe screws the pooch
There's been some discussion of legal questions here, and as someone who wouldn't dream of giving specific legal advice (because I'm a lawyer) but frequently makes specific medical suggestions (because I'm not a doctor, but I happen to have a seizure disorder which I think just makes me the bees knees on all things epilepsy related), this thread has really given me reason to think.
And what I think is this: I'm going to be a lot more careful in my posts from now on.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:57 AM on December 6, 2007
MeTa post:
Muster Up for Halo 3, MeFites!
I'll pick up a copy since I finished BioShock last night. I've never played anything on Live, though, because I suck so badly that it's just humiliating. I played a little Halo 1 when it first came out -- do I need to know anything special to play Halo 3?
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:20 PM on September 28, 2007
Oh and by the way, you'll be shocked to hear that my tag is:The Bellman.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 5:05 PM on September 28, 2007
MeTa post:
Suspicious minds
felix betachat: "Really, don't sweat it. It's well established that MetaFilter is just me and 50,000 bots anyway."
What did you do with felix alphachat? I liked him. Bugs and all.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:12 PM on September 26, 2007
Metafilter: Like most places (Fark, Slashdot, etc).
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 3:52 PM on September 26, 2007
MeTa post:
NYC Meetup: Revival, Manhattan.
Cortex: I don't know if you're shooting with a Canon, but if you are then I know that Canon 50mm f1.8 well and it's a great lens for an incredible price. You're going to love it. HOWEVER, I saved up and traded mine in for this 50mm f1.4. Yes, it's $300, and yes it's only one more stop, but my God is it an amazing lens. You want fantastic short DOF effects? Open it all the way up and you got 'em. I'm very far from a pro and all I can do is lust after DaShiv's full-frame sensor and super-fast... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 11:45 AM on September 23, 2007
Excellent point, smackfu. But the way-ay-ting is the hardest part.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 4:30 PM on September 23, 2007
MeTa post:
I LOVE YOU ALL PLEASE LOVE ME TOO
I'm late to this and I usually wouldn't bother adding anything,, but I haven't seen anyone post this, so let me just mention that that the main reason I despise the use of mass-favoriting is that it fucks up the threads in which it occurs. The previously-linked "By Request" thread now has 328 posts. As far as I can tell (though there is no way I'm going to read it) 90% of those are noise -- people jumping into the thread posting crap (often literal nonsense, in fact) in hopes of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:18 AM on August 29, 2007
I got lost in my parentheses there, sorry. For the first "and" in the second paragraph, read "or" and it sort of makes sense, but you get the idea.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 9:20 AM on August 29, 2007
MeTa post:
what?
Carrot Top sucks cock
Try saying that five times fast in full pirate regalia.
posted to MetaTalk by The Bellman
at 12:56 PM on August 16, 2007
