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MeTa post:
MetaFilter: It is what it is
*stands up, clears throat*
Man, FARK is always taking it in the dumper around here. I'll say it: I check out FARK pretty much daily. Sometimes they have good links. Sometimes they're shit. Just like some other site whose name eludes me right now. (I generally don't bother with reading comments, as they don't do "discussion" well there, which is what I think most people here get shirty about occasionally, which is fine. Though I will occasionally check... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:31 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
I c*nt stop saying twat.
Twelfth Night, Malvolio, reading a letter:
"By my life, this is my lady's hand! These be her very C's, her U's, 'n her Ts; and thus makes she her great Ps."
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:00 AM on July 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter - lessons learned from the BB problem?
Huh, whenever I think about the word 'void'
For me:
Lloyd, Lloyd, all null and void,
Looking for the truth but trying to avoid, Lloyd
Dissed in the Malibu, not sure what to do
Every damn time.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 3:30 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Mark askee answers
I came to this thread wondering who Mark Askee was and what we had asked him.
"Are you the guy with gingivitis?"
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 10:00 AM on June 4, 2008
Awesome!
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:19 AM on June 4, 2008
No, wait, I hate it. Change it back.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
Aw, Matt, I was just joshin'.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:45 AM on June 4, 2008
MeTa post:
It's "great" !
"Did you see this? 'Putt it between my tit's!' That's terrible."
"Bustler Magazine has been going downhill for years."
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 2:41 PM on May 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Performance art?
Do the cats' brains explode?
What happens to a cat defurred?
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:06 AM on May 2, 2008
I hate myself.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:07 AM on May 2, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe != AskToBeJudged
I'm probably a bad person, but the original question just seemed like another fine entry in what I like to think of as AskMe performance art. Anonymous poster creates absurd question framed with the most ludicrous possible circumstances; madness ensues. Whee!
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:49 AM on April 29, 2008
I think that we can all agree that only ADHD-afflicted debt-ridden single-mom stripper-lawyers are the only people who get to say anything in that thread, or this one, or, frankly, anywhere.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 10:19 AM on May 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Creepy Dutch TV Host + Paedophilia Thread.
Do the Duth
You're the boss!
*does the Duth*
It's the dance craze that's sweeping the nation!
Uh, anyway, the post and the resultant thread are a complete disaster.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 1:32 PM on April 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Seeking clarity on mod communication
I don't quite get what's going on here but we haven't warned stinkycheese about anything.
Which makes languagehat's assertions in the thread rather puzzling. I'm not interested in going to bat for stinkycheese (there's a sentence I didn't anticipate ever typing), but allegations of "obscene, threatening, borderline psychotic" behavior are pretty strong, particularly when the Jess/Matt/Cortex are cited as being aware of and interceding against them.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 12:35 PM on April 16, 2008
the Jess/Matt/Cortex
Sigh. *glares at mutinous fingers*
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 12:39 PM on April 16, 2008
our angle is "don't use MeFiMail to stalk or harass people"
The over-moderation here is getting really stifling. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST IT'S LIKE YOU CAN'T STALK OR HARASS ANYONE ANY MORE
*futilely tries to tip over police car*
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 1:17 PM on April 16, 2008
MeTa post:
BIRTHDAY PONY?
It would be sort of awesome if on your birthday, MeFi would redirect you to this.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 3:20 PM on April 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Best Answer AWOL?
super grumpus
Man, I would buy this comic. C'mon, Marvel! Bring me Super Grumpus! It can't be any stupider than House of M.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 12:42 PM on April 7, 2008
MeTa post:
This is chatfilter, AMIRITE folks?
No, I guess not, but it's tiresome. It's dull, it's overwritten, and best of all, it's homeworkfilter. As an added bonus, you've got the whole "we're not really talking about genuine misogyny if we all agree ahead of time to pretend to be clinical about it re: popular culture" thing going on.
I don't know the poster at all, and it's obviously come up before, but . . . ecchh.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:43 PM on April 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Lets not derail obit threads
Nah, he isn't funny because he died of cancer that he got from smoking cigarettes (products he had no genuine use for,) that were marketed to him, and that he bought and used and defended as some kind of icnoclastic "stick-it-to-the-man" gesture of defiance and free thought.
That's interesting. Could you please provide me with some cites showing when they linked pancreatic cancer to smoking?
I'm a little cranky... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:22 AM on March 26, 2008
Yeah, but some genius is going to go find the links showing the increased risk factor that smokers have for pancreatic cancer and thusly "prove" that it was the evil cigs the whole time. It drives me insane.
God, I want a cigarette.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:40 AM on March 26, 2008
This is why I try to just mostly lurk any more. Once again I come off like some yammering crank. My apologies.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:04 AM on March 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Mustn't offend China!
Oh, man. Oh, well, no time to develop restraint now.
Metafilter: Fucktown USA
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 3:22 PM on March 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
YAY! I cannot get enough of this stuff.
*rolls around in filth*
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 1:51 PM on March 11, 2008
(Though I am guessing that the admins are lighting their hair on fire. My condolences.)
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 1:52 PM on March 11, 2008
You people amaze me.
U,N.Owen/Innocentbystander is a real person, with feelings.
Yes, well, we are pretty fucking amazing.
Did you bother to read any of the many, many well-linked posts that document the fairly awesome swath this person has cut across the 'net in her very purple travels? I don't have any sense at all as you apparently do that this is anything close to a "real" person, much... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:49 PM on March 11, 2008
Metafilter: I need to just go apeshit.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 8:55 AM on March 12, 2008
I didn't really dig into either of these, nor did I pin them on one or the other of the two folks involved, but there are at least analyzable artifacts like that.
Relatedly, cortex, all artefacts are palimpsests with infinite layers. Here, settle down--you comfy?--I have a lot of theories on this, and I want to bounce some of them off of you . . .
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 2:02 PM on March 13, 2008
. . . our greatest defining tool. Yet, the metaphors we evolve to expand the potential of language can themselves only be made to refer back to the language which created them. An infinite loop emerges in most definition.
Cortex? Hey, buddy, stay with me! You looked like you were nodding off for a second.
Anyway, as new technology emerges we use it to 'add' meaning to artifacts which are already partly defined. By looking at the world with ever... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 10:56 AM on March 14, 2008
. . . In a sense, I use the word definition as it is used to describe digital photography, i.e. the greater the pixel count the higher the definition. TRUE, PERFECT definition in this sense, can be understood as a digital image with an infinite number of pixels. The only model than can describe the world is the world itself.
I want to uncover the fractal-like capacity of language, metaphor and definition, most specifically in the archaeological examination of texts,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:31 AM on March 17, 2008
. . . the thing defined changes in its relationship to the world, I do believe that there is a contradiction in what you have said, Cortex. When the relationship something has with the world shifts we are left with at least two levels of definition, the original and the new. The new definition is not removed completely from the old, the new contains the old within it. To truly understand the Morning and the Evening star, in all its glorious philosophical history, we need to . . .
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:35 AM on March 18, 2008
. . . I apologise if this creative approach blurs my questions.
Meaning will tend to explode occasionally.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:15 PM on March 18, 2008
My favorite--by which I mean "most confusing"-- example of Colin Farrell's acting "business" is at the very end of this clip from Minority Report. To express his displeasure that Tom Cruise is getting away from him, he grits his teeth and punches his own palm. I always like to imagine that he got the idea for doing this by imagining what Mimi Rogers or Nicole Kidman would do in the scene.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 11:56 PM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
I can haz marketshare?
im salty that i just wasted 2 seconds reading this crap.
YES. I am incorporating the phrase "I'm salty" into everyday conversation starting now. HERE I COME, WORLD!
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 1:08 PM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
BOTW
BARL
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:19 AM on March 13, 2008
Mine does not have an associated full phrase. When I used to play trivia on AOL (I know), BARL was my nonsense acronym that I made up solely so the LOLers and ROFLers would ask me "What does BARL mean?" I would either say nothing or respond something like "I can't believe you don't know that."
AND NOW YOU KNOW . . . the rest of the boring story.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 10:31 AM on March 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
It's sort of astonishing that the least depressing aspect of this thread turned out to be jonmc's dreary, lumpen bleating.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 12:26 AM on January 24, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLXtians! No - LOLScientologists!
I, personally, love it when my position is mischaracterized, and then when I clarify my position, am called "defensive" by the person who was mischaracterizing in the first place. But I'll bet Jessamyn doesn't know anything about that, because she hates black people.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 3:22 PM on January 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Just The Facts, Ma'am
Man, I never get MeMail, and my AskMe responses are always horrible and useless. I must be doing something wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:41 AM on January 11, 2008
MeTa post:
BushFilter.
I didn't come griping to you during the Maggie Thatcher years, did I? Incidentally, can we close this hopeless thread?
posted to MetaTalk by Skot
at 9:53 AM on December 19, 2007
