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MeTa post:
Men do have babies. Ask any transgender man who has had one.
"... Again, to re-cap, I brought this to MeTa to 1) identify transgression being touted by the transgressor as mere abject insensitivity, and 2) clarify language which is patently unacceptable/demeaning. ..."
posted by humannaire at 2:53 PM on July 26
Like helping a bar fight be "fair," this is fairly loutish behavior, in its own way.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 12:21 PM on July 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Call Olbermann, we got us THE WORST PERSON ON METAFILTER
"... So let's all be ashamed of him. ..."
posted by wendell to etiquette/policy at 5:36 AM
Sorry, but it's Saturday, and I'm going to listen to Car Talk, and then trim some overgrown bushes along the fence in the back yard. After that, I'm gonna change the oil in the truck, put a new front sight on a pistol, take the dog for a walk, and stop on the way back for a beer or two.
But good luck recruiting for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 3:25 AM on July 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Numeristerical!
When I say "19792" to the cashier at the Winn-Dixie supermarket, I generally get the buy-one-get-one-free "meat manager's special" on one pound tubs of fresh-never-frozen chicken livers, whether I brought a coupon, or not.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 2:42 PM on July 20, 2008
MeTa post:
I c*nt stop saying twat.
Years ago, I dated a woman who was a history professor at Boston College. I offered to take her on some motorcycle rides, and she enjoyed it enough that I bought her some gear. She started to think of herself as some kind of biker babe, and kept urging me to take her to a biker bar "for the experience." I avoided doing this, thinking that it might not go like she thought it would, but one Saturday evening coming back from the Cape, she insisted, again. Against my better judgment, I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 6:20 PM on July 9, 2008
MeTa post:
Don't ask me!!
"... Even a perennial best-answer-getting, paulsc (a nonlawyer, I am pretty sure), is notorious for the bad legal advice he gives in AskMetafilter. ..."
posted by jayder at 2:02 AM on June 16
I don't recall giving legal advice in AskMe, much less being "notorious" for it, and I'm mildly miffed anybody would mistake me for a lawyer, under any circumstances, particularly as I describe myself in my user profile as an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 6:06 AM on June 16, 2008
"... I'm going to have a lawyer about your interpretation."
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:17 AM on June 16
As long it's not my lawyer you're having asking.
Funny story. Once, I entered into a shareholder agreement for a sub-chapter "S" corporation, which agreement was composed by an old line Boston firm, and which, we were verbally assured, was "air tight." And... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 7:13 AM on June 16, 2008
"paulsc, this comment and this comment, where you are interpreting statutes and giving advice on the legal consequences of adultery, were what I had in mind."
posted by jayder at 4:15 PM on June 16
Oh, you mean, in the first case, where my first sentence reads "Regarding the whole issue of society having a general covenant with married people to assist them in the maintenance of the marriage, I think [emphasis added] there... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:51 PM on June 16, 2008
MeTa post:
MehCain.
It is one thing to have read a little history. It is quite another to have lived some. The difference is the willingness to consider the issues, against the memory of the taste of blood in your mouth, and heartbeats skipped as your jet falls towards a carrier deck.
I will take the risk of a man possibly losing his judgment at some point in the future, over the present certainty that another, younger man, who has never demonstrated any judgment,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 7:53 PM on May 14, 2008
MeTa post:
Look, Ma, I'm full of piss and vinegar
"Obviously we need to have threads where we trash the barely living, so as not to be offensive after they've passed. ..."
posted by papercake at 3:18 PM on April 6
I tried that. Worked out, pretty well, for the subject.
I could see it, particularly around here, becoming snarky VultureWatch, pretty easily. And then there's problem of getting an accurate death forecast for every obit worthy public figure,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 3:18 PM on April 6, 2008
And, uh, Smed? Get your keister back in the Blue pool.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 3:23 PM on April 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Scrump Goes For Broke
Whether or not this place is going downhill, there is a recurrent theme of elitism on this site that is not always warranted. Stone me for saying so. Dead, my ghost rises to reassert that observation. Where do I go to give unseemly (if not outright unwarranted) elitism a push towards Hell?
Maybe this little blue/grey backwater of the Internet is the ne plus ultra of modern Web communities. I haven't seen a lot here that would confirm that, but it's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:32 PM on March 26, 2008
It occurs to me that most real communities eventually form teams of people who work together to deliver or act on community goals and ideas, and that the only "team" that this "community" regularly fields is the site owner and his employees. A Summer of Blue might call forth longboat captains and their first officers, mushroom archivists and those interested in remembering Those Who Have Really Left Us, as well as pilots and co-pilots of aeronautical interests.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 11:03 PM on March 26, 2008
"What do you have against the southern hemisphere?"
posted by dg at 2:27 AM on March 27
If this is you, signing up first, dg, not a g**d**m thing! OK, Summer/Southern Winter of Blue.
Amaze me!
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 11:34 PM on March 26, 2008
"People with killfiles shouldn't lecture on community. ..."
People with axes to grind need not lecture poor, ignorant illegitimi such as I, Alvy. Clearly, you're not Longboat #1 team material....
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 11:52 PM on March 26, 2008
"... in order to get fond of the place again. Or, to move on to wherever you suppose the greener pastures may be."
posted by melissa may at 3:32 AM on March 27
When, exactly, do you suppose I've ever been "fond of the place," melissa may? Where do you suppose "greener pastures" may be?
I'm not talking personal supposition. I'm talking personal... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:08 AM on March 27, 2008
\killfiles paulsc
posted by PeterMcDermott at 4:24 AM on March 27
Would that you really operated personal killfiles, PeterMcDermott.
I'd be honored, I guess, to be included in your kill list.
I apologize to anyone else, whose bandwidth I may have inadvertently wasted, that PeterMcDermott can't read this message. I confess, as an unwashed illegitimi, that the concept of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:53 AM on March 27, 2008
"... I don't do Mefi callouts and I don't do killfiles. ..."
I thought not. So, can we count you in, as First Mate on Longboat #2?
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 2:01 AM on March 27, 2008
"Consider me like Lloyd's of London. I'll be happy to take your insurance money, only to deny all liability when the ship sinks taking down all hands."
posted by PeterMcDermott at 5:21 AM on March 27
Thanks, Peter. I'll let you know, if and when the first MeFi Summer/Southern Winter of Blue Longboat #1 crew, sheds any salt spray on the depths of MeFi archives...
Supposing, that is, they bother to let me know...
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 2:29 AM on March 27, 2008
"Paul, you're a good sort, but when you get on this kind of repetitive riff it's unseemly. You've made your suggestion; let it float or sink on support other than your own advocacy.
/gratuitous "
posted by Wolof at 6:22 AM on March 27
Point taken, Wolof. But I can't help but notice that you didn't Favorite my original suggestion re: MeFi Summer/Southern Winter of Blue.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 3:45 AM on March 27, 2008
"... Let the thing gain its own momentum or fail for lack of same."
posted by Wolof at 7:05 AM on March 27
Clearly, Wolof, I've misread you, and I do apologize. But, truly, I say, if MetaFilter longboats ever spray salt over the archives of the MetaFilter database, by the Flying-Spaghetti-Monster, we are all doomed. Doomed! I say. Even those who have Favorited liberally, at the drop of any snark.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 4:15 AM on March 27, 2008
We cool.
posted by Wolof at 7:29 AM on March 27
I hope so, Wolof. Really.
But, um, about that Favorites thing.... Sure you can't reconsider? For, you know, the "community?"
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 4:36 AM on March 27, 2008
"You know, paulsc, for someone who's contributed so heavily to the site, particularly to AskMe... you sure can be an asshole.
Yes. Yes, I can.
"... Here's an idea: try actually being as good as you think you are. ...
With that kind of hostility at the core, I just can't see much positive happening."
posted by Malor at 7:53 AM on March 27
I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 5:05 AM on March 27, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi Made Me See The Light!
From reading MetaFilter, I've learned that Yahoo! Answers is a valuable Internet resource, and that professional web site moderation is a dour, depressing occupation. Also, I've learned that everyone needs a hug.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 2:20 PM on March 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Should we FPP the Obama speech?
"... The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we've never really worked through - a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never [emphasis added] be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:36 PM on March 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Battle of the Flickr All-Stars
"... So, basically it reads to me like "these silly, hand-wringing 'sexism' comments against gratuitously sexual/objectifying remarks about women means that what women really want is not to be treated with the same respect men enjoy, but instead want men to act in an unnatural way (by not making those comments)." Which made me ask if the men who don't make such comments are therefore "acting like women"?..."
posted by taz at 2:06 AM... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 11:21 PM on December 29, 2007
"... I'm not sure about the we want men to "act like women" thing, because I guess I'm not understanding it."
posted by taz at 2:53 AM on December 30
That's refreshingly honest, I guess, but you do see, I hope, that it is pretty important that you do (understand it, that is), for the remainder of the discussion, in which you comment, to be meaningful?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 12:31 AM on December 30, 2007
"That was my question."
posted by taz at 3:36 AM on December 30
Nope. This, as I read your comments in this thread, was your question:
"So, basically it reads to me like "these silly, hand-wringing 'sexism' comments against gratuitously sexual/objectifying remarks about women means that what women really want is not to be treated with the same respect men enjoy, but instead want men... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 12:45 AM on December 30, 2007
MeTa post:
IAALBIANYL
In tax year 2006, I paid mid 5 figures US dollars for legal retainers, and got 1,422 pages of legal work in return. I ignored almost all of it, and profited, immensely. Now, I have, according to my current hires, better lawyers.
"(I regret that I must depart now. I'll be gone to at least the new year. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays. I appreciate the respectful and substantive back and forth.)
posted by dios at 9:13 PM on... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 9:53 PM on December 21, 2007
MeTa post:
Slapping someone in the face a bit too much ...
When the Spruce Goose was still berthed in Long Beach (around 1985), I bought a gray fedora at the gift shop, mostly because they had a size 7 & 3/4, and I was amazed a gift shop would stock that size. It turned out to be a pretty good hat by Baron of California, and I still have it, and wear it occasionally.
And I look just like Howard Hughes, when I do. From the back. From the neck up. If I'm wearing the hat pushed back on my head a little. Only he liked brown... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 11:56 PM on December 18, 2007
MeTa post:
What comes up...
"I can't wait to see paulsc's reaction when he's wrong."
posted by shmegegge at 5:58 PM on December 11
I booked $0 in action, on my offer. Not a single taker on e-mail, or MeFi mail. 0, zip, nada, not a single bet, nothing. At any odds.
Kinda kills the suspense, for me...
Aren't these the same guys that kept loading fresh pork sausage in a tube, and changing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 9:31 PM on December 11, 2007
I think I've effected a successful handoff of this topic now to Malor, simply by sitting back in my BarcaLounger. You go, guy!
I'm gonna go watch MythBusters.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 5:48 PM on December 12, 2007
"... Still, Jamie did land the plane simulator. ..."
posted by misha at 10:03 PM on December 12
ftfy.
Extra credit: Simulators are to airplanes as BarcaLoungers are to ____________.
Also, the majority of FAA air controllers are not air transport rated pilots, so if that had been A Real EmergencyTM, Jaimie would've been SOL trying to get instructions... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:18 PM on December 12, 2007
MeTa post:
Is "weird" AskMe too chatty?
OK. The house behind mine, separated by a 5 foot fence and a jumongous elderberry bush, is a rental, whose people occasionally, mostly on weekends, appear to include a kid, who could be 5 years old (if I paid him), who comes out on the back patio, way early, on Sunday mornings.
I've been playing Allman Brothers recordings on Sunday mornings, with the patio door open, and he and I, separated by the fence, the elderberry bush, and 25 feet, have been... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 9:11 PM on December 11, 2007
MeTa post:
AskMe screws the pooch
With all due respect to the opinions of ikkyu2, and the questions he's here posed, there's nothing in either the March or December posts by the OP that rules out that she's been misdiagnosed by professionals in clinical settings before March, or has been clearly re-evaluated professionally, and re-diagnosed by December. Her December post just announces that she's schizophrenic, and has a single sentence alluding to having had a psychotic break "which revealed that while I do have severe... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:13 PM on December 5, 2007
"What color is your blood?"
posted by docpops at 1:17 AM on December 6
Chartreuse. Sure, medicos poke and pry, and call in students, when they can. But it's never slowed down a billing cycle, so I guess it's not that unusual. Why'dya ask?
Should I be worried?????
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:34 PM on December 5, 2007
AskMe may have jumped the shark when lawyers show up, asking for legal advice.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 9:12 PM on December 6, 2007
One reason that people show up in AskMe with health questions, sadly, is that they see doctor-patient relationships they'll be facing as both adversarial and unbalanced. As much as most American doctors would like that not to be the case, and genuinely feel that they encourage a trusting therapeutic relationship, the experience of patients is often far different.
As patients, people often see doctors as:
Mandated reporters
Insurance... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 6:45 AM on December 7, 2007
"I'm not asking for rhetorical effect; I want to know what you think."
posted by ikkyu2 at 8:25 PM on December 7
For those who don't know, my brother is a 54 year old man, who has had schizophrenia since his mid-20's. I have his permission to discuss his case, as I have here before on MetaFilter and in other public circumstances, in efforts to aid others understand this condition. My brother's mental illness has been managed... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:03 AM on December 8, 2007
MeTa post:
Tough Love
"... Bunch of bloody Brad Goodmans in there... "I don't have any credentials -- or training -- but I have a Ph.D. in pain..."
posted by kmennie at 11:24 PM on December 3
In the three years I've hung around AskMe, if there is one thing I've learned, it's that it often works best, when one Commenter tells one Asker a story...
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 10:41 PM on December 3, 2007
MeTa post:
Possibly, Secret Santa
If it wasn't for Secret Santa events, I'd never get to re-gift all the still wrapped crap I've held over from last year's Secret Santa events, in anticipation of this year's. Count me in.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 4:13 AM on November 26, 2007
MeTa post:
Mefi's own
"... Do you really think you're making any sort of a point with it? ..."
Yep. My point is simply that your wallet, apparently, can't cover your mouth. In other words, for all your "certainty," you are not certain.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:07 AM on November 2, 2007
"... It proves nothing except that you're being kind of a jerk.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 4:14 AM on November 2
It proves you don't believe, as you say you do, at market rates, EB. Because the whole point of odds is to let you lay off risk, to those who believe as you do, and can absorb it.
You've talked, already, past your wallet.
I'll give you another day (24 hours) to lay off your silly.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:23 AM on November 2, 2007
"... I'm making the mistake of taking you seriously here, since you and I both know that your bet is a stunt, but, no, that doesn't follow. ..."
I don't post here, EB, to "win."
I post here to remind you, that in every rush down a runway, based on Bernoulli's Principle, an act of supreme faith occurs.
A man, with 3 figures of flight hours, does a pre-flight inspection, loads his... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 1:49 AM on November 2, 2007
"... So the conveyor belt has no effect."
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:14 AM on November 2
Fine, my argumentative friend. You, and your pilot, will have no trouble, according to you, taking off from a 15 foot conveyor. Suck your 172's nose up at 55 Knots Indicated Airspeed (KIAS), and hope your 15 foot long conveyor is tracking, true. You won't actually be flying just yet, but your nose wheel will be off... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 3:18 AM on November 2, 2007
"... If that were true, a plane with sufficient thrust could fly even with no lift at all. ..."
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:31 AM on November 2
Sorry, really, DevilsAdvocate. Please, take up your objections with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who probably agree with you, and hate every minute of the time they spent confirming your hypothesis.
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 4:42 AM on November 2, 2007
"Now, paulsc, you're just inventing things that EB has never said, nor yet implied. Two can play at that game: ..."
posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:34 AM on November 2
You may be right, Aloysius Bear. I am trying, perhaps too hard, to keep Ethereal Bligh from killing himself in a stupid training accident.
I'll shut up, while he violates the flight equation, and just pick up his pieces in a Kentucky Fried... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc
at 4:55 AM on November 2, 2007
