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MeTa post:
1 + 1 = 0
Looks like 1 went #2 in that thread.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 11:31 PM on March 6, 2008
posted by vito90 If you're monogamous from birth and could never, would never, consider an alternative in your relationship then maybe you're not the best person to answer this question. Why? Because what answer could you possibly have other than DTMFA?
Perhaps something like, "Relationships involve compromise, and the question for all parties involved is the degree to which each person is willing to compromise about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 12:02 AM on March 7, 2008
posted by cortex There's (very roughly) two camps of people who use the word "polyamory"
I'm going to need, at the bare minimum, a Venn diagram.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 9:51 AM on March 7, 2008
posted by dios I said I don't care about who is fucking who. I don't judge such people nor criticize them. Hope they are having fun. What I was commenting is the linguistic bullshit of calling it that. It strikes me as silly. A term is chosen (with nice greek roots) in an attempt to normalize or cast it as new from of relationship.
If you don't care about who is fucking who, and you don't judge or criticize them for doing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 10:09 AM on March 7, 2008
MeTa post:
God be wi'ye.
posted by rocket88 It would just reappear a day later as Close Your Account 2.
Close Your Account 2: Eponysterical Boogaloo
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:38 PM on February 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Searching for users by email address?
posted by ND¢ Are you Ron Paul flapjax? If so I have a bone to pick with you. You have two first names dude. It just pisses me off. What next? Bob Frank? Larry Tom? Charles John? You suck.
Larry Craig!
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 9:59 AM on February 22, 2008
MeTa post:
I want to know what MetaFilter is thinking.
posted by andythebean It seems as though there are two (somewhat) conflicting ideas about what will happen if polls are allowed.
1. Having polls will hurt the quantity and quality of conversation.
2. Threads discussing the polls would be obnoxiously long and prevalent.
Which is it?
It's #3: Polls are stupid, pointless, a complete waste of space and time, and if you think posting a bunch... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 5:23 PM on February 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Wo bist du, Peter?
I like the suicide button. We ought to have a page of all the users who have used it. We could call it MetaKevorkia.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 7:06 AM on February 14, 2008
posted by ThePinkSuperhero Will we do this every time someone closes their account?
Yes. We simply cannot have enough Metaweeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 7:33 AM on February 14, 2008
MetaFilter: The cloth-covered nippleless monkey mother we need to feel cared about on the Internet.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 6:15 PM on February 14, 2008
MeTa post:
Caught Orange-handed
posted by amro Not to be a killjoy, but damn that's wasteful. There are lots of hungry people in the world.
World hunger cannot be solved with 75,000 Chee-Tos.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 1:30 PM on February 13, 2008
Feed the world. Let them know it's Chee-Tos time.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 1:52 PM on February 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Best Answers, STAT(s)!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur I wouldn't mind seeing Best Answers disappear.
I wouldn't mind seeing Beste Answers disappear.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:33 PM on February 7, 2008
MeTa post:
The nice way to say no is no, thank you.
Thank goodness you posted this angry rant here instead of a thoughtful, well-considered response in the Ask thread where it might have helped.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 3:57 PM on February 6, 2008
posted by anaelith Unfortunately, I've really got no interest in writing out a thoughtful, well-considered response that answers the question, so this is what you guys get instead. Sorry for, uh, killing the statistics? Or something.
Translation:
"Instead of being helpful, I'd rather be an asshole."
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:15 PM on February 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Waiting is not an option.
Jesus fucking unborn who's my daddy christ.
The question was not, "Should I have amniocentisis to determine the father of my child?"
The question was, "Is it possible to discover the father of a child when it has been conceived, but not born?
Please read the question before answering it.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:40 AM on February 6, 2008
MeTa post:
On we sweep with thrashing oar...
posted by dersins For what it's worth, they prefer "Frisco-ites" or "Frisco-nauts."
No, we don't.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:15 PM on February 5, 2008
posted by dersins Don't listen to fandango_matt. He is a known internet troublemaker who is trying to trick you into putting your foot in your handbasket when you get to the Gulf of Frisco area.
Ah, spoken exactly like a hipster who's never set foot in Baghdad-by-the-Bay.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:27 PM on February 5, 2008
MeTa post:
MetaFilter's Own Physics Quandary
I'm hoping the next episode will involve putting Slinkys on escalators, and whether radioactive cockroaches can fly if they're placed on a conveyor belt.
Also, why has Kari Byron been carrying a parasol? If Kari Byron stands with her parasol on a conveyor belt, can she take off?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 5:24 AM on January 31, 2008
MeTa post:
metametameta
A MetaFilter apology page? Yes. We could call it MeaCulpaFilta.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:19 PM on January 28, 2008
Looking out over the East River from my jail cell, and still running for public office, I realize that I have taken several actions in my life for which I owe public apologies.
Once, I won a supermarket sweepstakes even though my second cousin was a box boy in that very store. I would like to apologize to Safeway Food, Inc., and its employees. I would like to apologize to my family, who have stood by me, and especially to my wife Karen. A wiser and more loyal spouse... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 3:09 PM on January 28, 2008
posted by Horken Bazooka fandango_matt: Ipsilante, Michigan And now you owe Ypsilanti an apology
I demand you apologize for demanding I apologize for something for which I neither owed you an apology nor you had a right to demand an apology from me.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 12:00 AM on January 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Sit, ubu, sit.
Woof!
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 1:48 AM on January 28, 2008
The Web. Everything is there.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 3:08 AM on January 28, 2008
What we need is a site-wide ban on the words "douche", "douchebag", and "douche nozzle" when used as pejoratives. Using those words as insults was more sexist that anything else in that thread.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 10:37 AM on January 28, 2008
posted by ThePinkSuperhero Oo, oo! And we could play "Go, Fish"! "Do you have Cold Chef?" "No, go fish". "::pulls Cold Chef's button out of the pile::"
"Do you have . . . quonsar?"
"No, go pantsfish!"
"Uh oh."
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:06 PM on January 28, 2008
MetaFilter: A few people came in with their armpit farting and decided this was a place they'd like to set up shop.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:10 PM on January 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
posted by RussHy I can avoid looking at them, but sometimes I feel them looking at me. They follow me around the room.
Eyes, or breasts?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:04 PM on January 23, 2008
posted by Forktine Honestly, the answer to "how do I not stare like a pervert?" is "don't stare like a pervert."
However, staring like a concerned citizen is perfectly acceptable.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:16 PM on January 23, 2008
posted by Krrrlson *forms Concerned Citizens for Breast Study and Conservation PAC*
Yeah, that's what we need. Another group of citizens to make mountains out of molehills.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:40 PM on January 23, 2008
posted by jerseygirl In the name of science, tomorrow I will be staring at the crotches of all the men I encounter.
Scientifically speaking, will this be a double-blind study?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 5:53 PM on January 23, 2008
Ask MetaFilter: All they cared about was a bouncing roll of man-flesh.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 6:02 PM on January 23, 2008
Did anyone suggest to the OP that the woman may be flirting with him? Or is that just totally out of the realm of possibility?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 6:17 PM on January 23, 2008
I can picture jonmc going to work tomorrow morning, bleary-eyed and hungover, being berated by his boss while homeless drunks try to sell him spit-shined and urine-soaked paperbacks. As the day draws to its unremarkable close, jonmc trundles home to an evening of Kraft Mac & Cheese, several Budweisers, and late-night drunken posts on MetaFilter about how sad and wretched and pathetic his life is but he's too lazy and stupid and worthless to change it so we all much share in his... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 8:54 PM on January 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Generic Celebrity Thread Blues
Don't forget,
"Duty compels us to cut celebrities down to size and expose their flaws to a cold and skeptical world."
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 11:12 AM on January 23, 2008
I'd submit it's because the former is a fact and the latter is an opinion.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 12:46 PM on January 23, 2008
I wonder if the people who felt compelled to act like jackasses in the Heath Ledger thread could explain why they didn't act the same way in the Sir Edmund Hillary thread.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 4:11 PM on January 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Is this something I'd have to have a Metafilter account to know about?
Everybody needs a shrug.
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 1:47 PM on January 23, 2008
posted by potch If you're not contributing, it's noise, and the comment should be deleted. Every time.
Hey, great idea. What's the definition of "contributing", and who decides?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 1:51 PM on January 23, 2008
posted by potch Well, this site is known for its level of self policing, so I'd hope that decisions would be made in that vein. Additionally, I was specifically referring to the practice of "I don't know what this is" comments, not all comments, as referred to in every other part of this post.
So if I'm understanding you correctly, you want the community to root out and delete all comments that say "I don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:13 PM on January 23, 2008
If "ignorant dismissal" bothers you so much, why can't you just flag those comments and move on?
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 2:56 PM on January 23, 2008
I guess I'm having a hard time imagining how your ban would be implemented--if some questions can say, "I don't know what this is" while others cannot, we need you to explain why some can stay and others must go. What about cases where the offending phrase is used ironically, satirically, or sarcastically? Must those be deleted as well? How will this be determined, and who will decide?
Rather than imposing a ban which is impossible to define, let alone enforce,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fandango_matt
at 3:16 PM on January 23, 2008
