I'm trying to put very very hot water into this comment but it's doing anything.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 2:11 PM on July 23, 2008

My answer deleted. Please explain why.


Should play Rorscach in new Watchmen movie. Would be perfect casting.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 6:39 PM on July 18, 2008

Can we also add in a benefit concert with a bunch of Mefi Music bands playing? I am dying to see what some of those nutcases look like
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 11:12 AM on July 14, 2008

IT IS WHAT IT IS

Used exclusively by TV know-it-alls to summarize something they do not understand, repeatedly vomiting it up at the end of thoughts where they have to mask the fact that they have just said several seconds or minutes of NOTHING.

(p.s. not pointing at you spock! in fact, i can't even tell why you used it)
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 4:42 PM on July 11, 2008

Telling someone to shove it is not exactly violent. Relax. I called the internet police and told them it was a false alarm.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 4:32 PM on July 11, 2008

I bet he links to example.com
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:11 AM on June 13, 2008

The best thing I've done is to never post in a MeTa thread
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 4:06 AM on May 23, 2008

If we can't discuss politics, and we can't discuss religion, and we can't discuss race

YES WE CAN
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:25 AM on February 20, 2008

Your favorite poetry sucks, like all poetry
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:57 AM on February 16, 2008

OMG this is exactly like that one time when a guy posted a link to something, but I didn't understand why. And then I just waited and waited, but I never did find out.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 5:57 AM on February 1, 2008

Tennis references are always weird on the internet
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 5:01 AM on January 29, 2008

If this is just nerve gas, how come I know everything in such detail? I've never been here before. How come I know so much? What the hell is going on around here? Who the hell are you people!
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 6:27 AM on January 13, 2008

Bodyguard you are but a nail that must be hammered...BANHAMMERED.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 4:26 AM on January 11, 2008

THIS WAS AWESOME
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:13 AM on January 1, 2008

I, for one, am still open to the whole bribing thing in exchange for looking the other way.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:38 PM on January 2, 2008

BURN THEM
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 2:18 PM on December 22, 2007

Usually the mods do a pretty good job of cleaning up the aftermath of deleted comments. This time there were a few remnants so you could tell something was gone. It's not an exact science.

As for your comment about all men being either cheaters or liars. I wouldn't have flagged it, but it is ridiculous. You're either a troll or you've gotten the short end of the stick in your personal life. I hope you're just a troll though.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:56 AM on December 17, 2007

SHNARF SHNARF LIONO
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:03 AM on December 15, 2007

Yeah it's really not hard to figure out which guys have used steroids and/or other performance enhancing drugs. Just like Lenny, you're looking for guys who started out with lean and mean builds and wound up looking more like slightly out of shape bodybuilders

After writing this, I figured surely someone must have documented something like this, and here you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:38 PM on December 13, 2007

people that buy Celine Dion albums

this is true, I've seen this
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 8:05 AM on December 11, 2007

I just switched from FF over to IE7, suck it haters
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 4:26 AM on December 7, 2007

Sometimes I open my coke up in front of women on the street. So what.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:03 PM on November 29, 2007

This thread will be closed shortly
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 11:41 AM on September 17, 2007

It's better than his weekly question about moving from Bermuda to North Carolina
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 8:57 AM on September 17, 2007

I don't know what was unanswerable or hypothetical about that question.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:27 AM on September 4, 2007

Teeny Panther?

I don't know, maybe I'm stretching
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 3:15 AM on September 2, 2007

OMG, it is SO a popularity contest
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 9:45 AM on August 14, 2007

I have been favorited the most when you consider the total number of users which joined November 29, 2004 and whose map coordinates are Lat/Lon: 39.210218, -77.239729
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 9:49 AM on August 14, 2007

So basically you could really just boil the contest down to a single stat: Number of times side barred:
Pastabagel: 2
Others: 1
General population: 0
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 10:31 AM on August 14, 2007

I'm adding a comment to this thread
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:51 PM on August 5, 2007

How about you just let folks flag MeTa posts, instead of just comments? After you see enough flags, delete away. There are enough folks here who will flag the kinds of posts we're talking about, and in a quick enough timeframe that it will be gone before the real pile on begins.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 8:56 AM on August 3, 2007

I am drinking the blood of posters whose stuff gets deleted from Metafilter. When they are drained I drink the blood of posters who post about the deleted post to MetaTalk.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:48 PM on August 2, 2007

That's the real question of the moment.

No, the question is whether it is fresh
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:56 PM on August 2, 2007

Glug, glug, glug, I'm still drinking your blood
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 2:13 PM on August 2, 2007

Isn't it time someone started a new MeTa thread about a post that was deleted from the Blue? Want. Fresh. Blood.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:02 PM on August 2, 2007

I think digg has too much news, but Metafilter has too little. For just the right amount, I like to watch the E! channel on TV.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:47 PM on August 1, 2007

Thanks for posting this! If I know what you were talking about, I would totally be up in arms over it! Matt, this would be the final straw, I am theoretically very angry with you!
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:11 AM on July 23, 2007

That was totally awesome
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 11:57 AM on July 16, 2007

So you don't have internet access, instead you call 1-800-ask-mefi, and leave a question. How are you going to read the answers?
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:14 PM on June 28, 2007

Someone delete my comment, I can't believe I fell for this. Good gag post, acro.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:15 PM on June 28, 2007

However, this concept would work great for music.metafilter. Just call up and start playing. The first music recording studio using ONLY a telephone call.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:17 PM on June 28, 2007

Hey stavros thanks for the heads-up, works great
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:43 AM on June 27, 2007

I'm just looking at this from a self-development point of view

Look, the OP could have said 'there are many folks in history who have had epiphanies/transformations. can you give examples of these and how they happened'

Instead he took an epiphany/transformation from the New Testament, which is only somewhat factual at best, which has a large bit of the supernatural to it, and asked what might have happened out there besides... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 5:33 AM on June 13, 2007

Flagged
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 7:35 AM on April 19, 2007

I'll start: An armed society is a polite society

The 19th century wild west and the caribbean of the 18th century are good examples of polite societies.
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 11:35 AM on April 16, 2007

Burn them
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 11:46 AM on April 10, 2007

Man, I can't believe Mefites are living in Bushwick. My family used to have a roofing supply business there, on Irving Avenue. I worked there summers as a teen and pre-teen, and it was, hmmm, educational. I learned what needles and crack vials looked like, saw cops bust into a crackhouse around the corner, was dragged inside by my dad in front of a fistfight that turned into a knifefight. Saw two girls fight each other like I have never seen. First time I saw a prostitute. Anyway, that was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 8:51 AM on January 3, 2007

Hey is it safe to come back in here yet?
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:32 PM on January 3, 2007

Whoa, I'll stop back later
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 12:32 PM on January 3, 2007

We should combine those two questions:

help me find the receptionist at my dentist. she was so hot, but i broke her camera, so she moved somewhere else. does anyone here know her?
posted to MetaTalk by poppo at 1:11 PM on November 15, 2006