If you're married or attached to a partner and have made the whole "death do us part" bit and promised to always stick together.. advice like "RUN NOW" is totally contrary to your mindset.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:24 AM on May 4, 2007

What a fun read! If I participated I guess I'd waste half of my life arguing with idiots too, but instead I'm going to watch TV.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:30 AM on April 13, 2007

For those involved:

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Use the r98 on this one.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 10:53 PM on March 31, 2007

Here's another spoiler.. at the end of Romeo and Juliet, they both die. Also, Jesus turns up in the Bible at the start of the New Testament. I have totally ruined those pieces of literature now. Ha!

(P.S. Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father!!!)
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 9:38 AM on March 13, 2007

You know.. I've always been convinced that PostSecret is fake. All the entries are way too similarly and 'arty' in nature. Perhaps it's just good editing, but I can't believe people constantly submit such arty entries. Sites like YouTube prove that people really aren't that talented in the mean.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 9:34 AM on March 13, 2007

Sometimes there are questions on AskMe which ask a question but then have a priviso in the "more inside" that says "No, I'm definitely not going to try [x]" or "Please don't suggest [y]". Is it wrong to pick up on these points and make suggestions on them even if you feel the original poster might have missed the point or be otherwise ill-informed?

The reason I ask is because it has come up a few times in the last few weeks for me. The... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 8:06 PM on October 16, 2006

Maybe. Probably should tone down the superlatives a tad ;-) Still, I think it is cruel to restrict animals from their natural behavior, but, you have a point about cats.. people probably get more protective than usual (never deal with kids or pets, I'm guessing).

I do, however, think AskMe is a venue where we should challenge opinions and preheld conceptions, considering people are asking total strangers for suggestions so are likely on-the-fence.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 8:22 PM on October 16, 2006

Just wanted to add some weight to supporting this question. Sure, it might not be a great question, but not all questions on AskMe are. I'd argue it's better than many.. such as the recent "I know I'm leaving, but when should they know?"
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 8:09 PM on October 11, 2006

All judgmental people are tossers.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 3:59 PM on October 21, 2005

I've often "thought" I had a certain username, tried to request the password, and never got the mail. Someone may simply have a bad memory and think they had your username.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 5:50 AM on October 20, 2005

My startup just got a round of funding too.. we're not quite at Yahoo! acquisition level yet, but that sort of thing is probably less than a year off due to our industry. :) Good one to Andy!
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 9:37 AM on October 5, 2005

posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 3:05 PM on September 3, 2005

Did somebody mention pancakes?
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:27 PM on August 27, 2005

I just noticed two posts (not mine) go from the "going to Texas to protest" question too. They were flamebait though, so good riddance.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 7:09 PM on August 16, 2005

MySQL's FULLTEXT indexing is very fast and very easy to use. Of course, I have no idea what DB is being used here.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:36 AM on August 9, 2005

You're not guaranteed the right to have children in any sense and you can certainly live a meaningful life without them. There are some things in life that I want that I will never get; that doesn't give me the right to overreact when someone mentions them or, worse yet, claim that I am entitled to them.

Like, say, sex, happiness, good health, or a decent diet. But, yes, if you can't ever have happiness, don't fret over it, it's only one thing in life.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:24 AM on May 14, 2005

I just wanna speak as a long time reader who now only reads the blue once every month or so.

I used to read the blue (and contribute, post, comment) every day. Multiple times a day. New stuff was coming through. It was cool, it was fun. Ever since around the time AskMe started.. MeFi Blue just started to fall off the radar. del.icio.us came into life, and suddenly I could see 101 interesting links, rather than 10 at a time. I could avoid politics, and spend my time doing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:56 AM on March 18, 2005

Everyone. Get your own GrokLaw.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:35 PM on March 12, 2005

If matt isn't banning people by ip (which I believe he is), he should be.

I agree with Mitheral above; this is a bad idea. Not only do many of us use proxies (or AOL), even those with direct DSL or cable modem can simply reset their modem and get a new IP address (unless you paid extra for static).. so banning by IP is pretty pointless except for short term (hours) bans.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 4:05 AM on December 30, 2004

I want to say: I am totally agree!
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 5:30 AM on September 23, 2004

I'm sorry, but I think this is all very cool. It adds so much flavor to the site.

There was a hidden design community with a few thousand graphic designers (mostly swankarmy folks) a few years ago, and it was even more insane than this. Someone worked out you could link an entirely new stylesheet in a forum post, so you'd go to view a thread and the style sheet would change about 20 times. If you had epilepsy, you were screwed.

Of course, you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 4:37 AM on September 23, 2004

I guess not.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 4:41 AM on September 23, 2004

I think you've all participated in this thread incorrectly, it's totally out of the MetaFilter spirit.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 2:31 PM on September 6, 2004

Matt, if possible, when you make your update, can you update FreeFilter's URL to http://www.bigbold.com/freefilter/ as I am planning to release an update sometime in the next few months, and that will be the final URL (works now). Ta! :)

BTW, gamesfilter used to be up and running, as I remember visiting it a few times. I believe it used FreeFilter initially, but possibly changed. Oh, and metaphilter seems to have disappeared too.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 8:18 AM on August 30, 2004

+1, Best MetaTalk Troll Ever
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 5:41 PM on August 12, 2004

I think 'quonsar inside' would be a better warning logo.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 2:32 AM on July 25, 2004

Oh well, I guess the time has come for a major policy decision to be made. Okay Internet.. here's the new rule to be added to the annals of netiquette!

If someone depraved and vile like 'picture of two men raping a goat up the crapflap' is going to be linked on the Internet, you must actually point out that a picture of two men raping a goat up the poop shoot might be considered offensive, and that it might not be safe for work, because there are some naive... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 10:52 PM on July 17, 2004

Ever since the mefi clones came out, it's kind of taken away all the demand for my code anyway. Most of the clones are open source in some way, and anyone who wants to can extend those as far as they want.

That's true, but I don't think it's a worthwhile reason. I think that if there's a reason why open sourcing MetaFilter might not set the world on fire, it's due to ColdFusion.. I've nothing against the language, but very few people have the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:33 PM on July 13, 2004

Now I've read the whole thread again, I think I overstressed the CF thing a bit, when it's clearly been mentioned a couple of times there. Sorry, got caught up in my own chatter!
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:54 PM on July 13, 2004

I think the whole ColdFusion "problem" is a little bit overstated. The developer's version of CF is free and reasonably priced hosting is available.

But many of the people who have the resources to get larger projects underway would have their own servers (or a larger hosting arrangement they are more than happy with), and would rather stick with Perl / PHP / Java, et al., rather than adopt a dying technology like CF. CF is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 5:50 PM on July 14, 2004

Perhaps I'm missing something, but there haven't been that many new members over the past couple of years (17000-17500 almost spans two years).. yet comments have climbed steadily. This must mean that the average MeFier is contributing a lot more than ever before. I wonder if this is due to the media exposure this site has been getting.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:52 AM on July 11, 2004

I just worked out I now have 1500 total comments, so I've contributed 0.21% of all the comments in MeFiLand, and I'm a freakin' lightweight :-)
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:54 AM on July 11, 2004

(200K comments/year for X users in 2001, and now 200K comments/year for X+Y users in 2004.)

Thanks for that. My brain must have fallen out when I posted my comment. I got that the graph was total comments over time, but somehow reinterpreted it to think that commenting activity had gone up ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 1:50 PM on July 12, 2004

I've often invoked password reminders incorrectly when I've gone back to sites I used to frequent 'years and years ago' and thought I had a certain username which I probably did not. I wouldn't get the tin foil out just yet.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:57 PM on July 2, 2004

Hitler.

This thread is now over.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:40 AM on June 30, 2004

A pub in a railway station? Strike me down if I'm wrong, but this seems unoriginal for an Internet meet ;-) (The nasty pub in Victoria station having been used for this purpose many a time.) Points for originality would go for a flashmeet.. everyone meets at a busy public place at 7.07pm, shout out 'PANCAKES!' and runs into the nearest pub. :-D
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:42 AM on June 22, 2004

I don't get it, it's just a regular text box with some HTML source in for me.. but I'm using Safari. I'm not sure if WYSIWYG would be useful here, this is a site high on text and low on formatting. WYSIWYG would probably see this dynamic change, and not necessarily for the better.

This does give me an interesting idea though.. building a textarea which works in Flash, so it could provide WYSIWYG editing in all major browsers on all major platforms.. and since over 90% of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 10:23 AM on June 21, 2004

Heh, I signed up for filepile back when it started (even though I wasn't initially impressed) but could never remember my login, username, and had no record of it in e-mail. Perhaps I should do something similarly bold to get back in there :-D
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 10:19 PM on June 12, 2004

There seems to be some suggesting that Matt putting an ad up would detriment from everyone's enjoyment of the site. Wha? I personally find the 'register to vote' link more jarring than if there were an ad for Web hosting or something in the spot.

Advertising is not the devil, and Matt would be an economic fool not to take as much (ethical) advantage as he can from this site. After all, he could have spent the time that he used building, promoting, and maintaining this... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 5:18 AM on June 2, 2004

why am I wasting my time with these losers when I could be spending it with sluts and plants.

Sluts and plants! They're the new 'hookers and blow'.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 10:09 AM on June 5, 2004

With all of the preferences for 'I can do odd numbered Mondays and even numbered Tuesdays but not alternating Saturdays' etc, perhaps the meet should be a three day long conference in a hotel, then we just use the hotel bar all day long. (Sorry to be a smartarse, this is just how we do it with the industry meetups ;-))
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 11:54 PM on May 23, 2004

Also, I'm sure almost anyone can judge if a picture if NSFW within half a second of seeing it, in which case you smash Alt+F4 immediately or scroll back up very quickly before anyone can register what they saw over your shoulder.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:20 PM on May 19, 2004

He should put it on eBay. Oh, that's already been done? ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 1:29 PM on April 25, 2004

Hahaha, excellent, I love the colors! I know it's not, but I can pretend it's a homage to the late (and more garish) FreeFilter color scheme.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:36 PM on December 9, 2003

Gah, you're all acting like wet cockdocks.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 2:55 AM on December 7, 2003

The lesson is.. don't use old rude terms to insult people, mm'kay? Invent new ones! :-)
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 2:59 AM on December 7, 2003

[..] I hope all the other non-assholes on here see it as a matter of politeness, and not as the man trying to take away their freedom of expression or whatever.

So you don't mind the non-non-assholes remaining assholes then?
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 6:15 AM on December 7, 2003

Did you know the new filepile vibrates?
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 1:23 PM on November 22, 2003

That's an interesting history lesson, as the USA fought to get rid of Europe at any cost.

Clearly you didn't learn any history then. Sure, the USA did that, but WAY after Europe colonized North America (i.e. 200 years after). The person you were responding to was correct, Europe did, effectively, 'build the US'.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 1:53 AM on November 16, 2003

Oh crumbs, am I the only one using <strong> and <em> instead? Doh.
posted to MetaTalk by wackybrit at 12:59 PM on November 9, 2003