MeTa post: The longest boat

It wasn't a Metatalk thread, it just sort of felt like one.

It was a Metatalk thread for another site. I think we should all shoot ourselves in the face out of shame, or go outside, or something. I was going to go outside today, but it's raining.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:29 PM on July 30, 2008

Are you the wicked witch of the west?

Well, I was going to go on a decently lengthy bike ride, which is not so pleasant in the pouring rain.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:53 PM on July 30, 2008

I don't do webdesign, so someone tell me: can Metafilter be haxed so that when I use the <ul> tag the browser will replace its default bullets with ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞? This would improve the site.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2008

MeTa post: Misandry and Ask Metafilter.

I see perceive some degree (not enormous) of bias, though perhaps not quite in the same way you do. (This thread is an example of what I see - I think a similar misogyny callout, even an overthought or somewhat overreaching one, wouldn't be met with as many "dumb shit," "get a hobby," "therapy"*, and "fabrication" responses and those making such comments would be put down by others.)

I do not think it is anything which can be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:02 AM on August 6, 2008

MeTa post: ?

This is the thread where I annoy people by asking if not owning a TV counts.

I might get one if it was left by the Dumpster, but I still wouldn't get cable OR an aerial.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:09 PM on August 5, 2008

The true way to win at Metafilter is to not care if anyone is favoriting your shit. Also perhaps in life.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:12 PM on August 5, 2008

Netflix supports pop-under advertisements (probably about half of those pop-unders that go to the length of defeating my Firefox) and should not be supported.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:21 PM on August 5, 2008

MeTa post: Misogyny Filter (?)

It is disturbing that the current climate in the USA is such that any woman may get pregnant through mistake or planning, and force the other person involved to pay for a child. It's a weird bit of sexism. Don't get me wrong--I understand how that has come about, and I have absolutely no idea how to deal with it in a manner that is fair and equitable to all parties involved.

I figured out an overview of a solution a while back.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:08 PM on August 2, 2008

He could not have sex with women. That'd be a reproductive choice.

Similarly, sundry sluts could have just not let men fuck them if they didn't want to be pregnant, so availability of birth control pills, non-abstinence based sex ed, etc. are not all that important to worry about.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:10 PM on August 2, 2008

To leap to the ultimate fate of any hypothetical baby is to skate right over the question of whether pregnancy can be coerced. And that is at the crux of the problem of contraception decisions. The burden of pregnancy doesn't fall equally.

? I explicitly considered the problem of coerced pregnancy and designed my hypothetical system such that the man cannot force abortion or force carrying to term, while solving the problem of the woman being able to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:56 PM on August 2, 2008

No, actually, in having sex, the man is waiving his right to decide not to have a child.

No, actually, in having sex, the woman is waiving her right to decide not to have a child. Abortion rights are unimportant.

Several arguments in this thread seem to come down to "If men don't want to have a child they shouldn't be such sluts," an argument which has been roundly and rightfully rejected when "men" is replaced with "women."
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:30 PM on August 2, 2008

I don't agree with one of the posters above (Tim?) that this should somehow result in him being able to insist on abortion -- forgive me if I've misread you.

You have indeed misread me, though I forgive you. My position is that when a pregnancy, wanted or unwanted, is discovered, the woman should have the sole choice whether or not to abort the pregnancy, with her choice based on the choices made by both parties as to whether or not they wish to be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:43 PM on August 2, 2008

How do we introduce choice for a man after conception that doesn't take away one of these rights?

1) A child has the right to be supported by his/her parents.
2) A woman has the right to do what she wants with her body.

I'll reiterate my suggestion which was: either or both parents may sign on for obligated support, but support may not be forced upon either.

I think perhaps my idea... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 11:24 PM on August 2, 2008

The decision to be willing to make child support payments for 18 years happens before you shove your dick in.

Rather than a choice to end the pregnancy he has the choice to not let the pregnancy happen (no sex or a vasectomy with frequent sperm count exams).

So, like I said, if this argument is accepted, logically we don't really need legal abortions because the women should just not have sex (or get... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:42 AM on August 3, 2008

A child is owed child support. Not either parent.

But then, if both biological parents will be forced to support a child, the consent of both should be required to have a child. Forced abortions. Or, if the consent of only one is required, forced carrying to term. And if two people should be on the hook because they're biologically related to the child, why not three? Four? Rope in the uncles and aunts legally. They consented just as much as the man... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:26 PM on August 3, 2008

I forgot: What I propose also does away with the whole Trickster Girlfriend problem.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:28 PM on August 3, 2008

No, it's not; I think a lot of people are conflating "pregnancy" with "child."

I am not understanding the point of this idea, also coming up here:

No one has the right to have sex free of obligation to be responsible for a child. Not women, not men.

A pregnancy is not a child, but allowed to run its course it results in a child. The second quote is clearly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:38 PM on August 3, 2008

…By having an abortion, which isn't all slide whistles and afternoon tea. But yes, they get a veto, because it's their body. If they do not exercise that veto, they have equal obligations under the law.

I cannot think of any other situations where specific individuals may be forced to undertake such binding obligations and responsibilities as a result of another's unilateral choice. (I say specific individuals, differentiating from universal... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:22 AM on August 4, 2008

What you are suggesting is simply the way it was in the US in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. Child support was not easily enforced, and could be avoided by skipping town. In other words, it was your system: a guy who wanted to would say "yeah, I'll support that child" and a guy who didn't want to would say "nah, not my problem, ciao!" and move on.

The difference that keeps this from being a 1950s system is that abortion... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:54 AM on August 4, 2008

The only benefit to changing to your proposed system is to allow males to refuse any legal responsibilty for their progency, forcing it onto the females in entirety.

Only if the female chooses to bear this entire responsibility. No forcing.

The problem with your construction is that at no point does the man bear any legal responsibility unless he chooses to

In the current... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 11:51 AM on August 4, 2008

In the current construction, at no point does the woman bear any legal responsibility for a child unless she chooses to.

That's actually false... In your formulation, a man could choose or not choose to have responsibility before birth - a luxury that can not be legally afforded the woman.

Uhm, it currently is legally afforded to the woman. She can choose to have an abortion or choose the responsibility of having a child.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 12:26 PM on August 4, 2008

If they're equally responsible when they don't want the baby....

Right, they're equally responsible for the choice to have sex and equally on the hook for the risk of pregnancy. But in not conflating pregnancy with child, and in allowing the right to choose, the man is currently not responsible for the decision to have a child, but is equally on the hook for supporting the child.

You could put in all situations an equal... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 12:34 PM on August 4, 2008

He is responsible for the decision to have a child.

To my eyes, if we keep the right to choose, the woman is responsible for the decision to have a child. Literally, she gets to choose, on her own, child or no child.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 12:45 PM on August 4, 2008

she is by necessity, I think, left with a greater feeling of guilt

That's religion, which should not enter into laws in my opinion. I certainly know women who have had abortions and for whom it was a matter-of-fact thing, "I took this pill, I felt sick for a bit, the end."

create a second-class citizenship where you can elect which responsibilities you want, but she... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 1:44 PM on August 4, 2008

I still think that's leftover religious influence, and am wary of basing laws on hurt feelings. In any case, I was more or less stopping with this thread, seeming to have more or less reached its endpoint where anything else we can do is just start repeating ourselves even more, so I shall stop.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 2:41 PM on August 4, 2008

MeTa post: SLYT? WTF?

Sexy Ladies Yodeling, Theramining

I am imagining a female vocalist version of the theremin-using Beach Boys of Good Vibrations, covering Up On Cripple Creek. This could be very good or very bad.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 12:43 PM on August 4, 2008

MeTa post: that's what my daddy made me

I think there have been other periods in history which were similar.

Srlsly, anyone who thinks today's hipsters are something special needs to read some fin-de-siecle (of course I mean the fin of the 19th siecle) Decadent work.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:44 PM on August 1, 2008

I would certainly not claim to have read more than nasreddin. I was talking to the rest of you.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:24 AM on August 2, 2008

MeTa post: Alabama big pig followup

We haven't had any sort of update at all to the Homeland Security threat level in almost two years. I DON'T KNOW HOW SCARED TO BE ANYMORE.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 6:10 AM on July 31, 2008

MeTa post: Can You Repeat The Question?

Do these pants make my penis look too big?

An old cowboy and a young cowboy were sitting around the campfire, jawing after a long day of cowboy work. The old cowboy says, "Here's something you've never seen. I bet you a dollar I can make your horse laugh."

"You're on, old man, I'd love to see a horse laugh," the young cowboy says.

The old man walks over to the horse, leans in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:37 AM on July 30, 2008

MeTa post: Region filter?

Everything includes Meatbomb.

It's true! And that screenshot's months old.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 1:26 PM on July 28, 2008

Don't we have a lot of Vikings here?

[_] the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:01 PM on July 28, 2008

MeTa post: Thought or not

it's generally a hilarious idea to occasionally do some light drugs and then participate on Metafilter. They know who they are, and I love them dearly.

Who knows who in the what now? The drugs?

I'm going to open a beer shortly, but rationally that's a hard drug. Still counts?
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 5:36 PM on July 25, 2008

how there were now "self-replicating potatoes"

As someone who may or may not self-replicate in the future, I just had to like, sit for a moment, and laugh, and laugh some more, and ponder the absurdity of calling these specific potatoes "self-replicating."

In related news, I have indeed opened my beer, motherfuckers. I am slightly saddened to report that I did not allow it sufficient time to cool to the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:01 PM on July 25, 2008

Feh, I have ruined your data!
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 8:35 PM on July 25, 2008

Maybe we need to invent a word that sounds ugly and profane but has no backstory, no meaning until we apply one to it.

Suggest shouting benign and inane things in broken German learned from KOMPRESSOR songs, watching Das Boot, Hogan's Heroes, etc. "DER LANDSCHALTGESTALTUNG IST KAPUTT" is broken Babelfish-German for "THE LANDSCAPING ORGANIZATION IS DEFUNCT!" but it sounds pretty angry if you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 11:07 PM on July 25, 2008

MeTa post: Where everybody knows your name...

What the fuck is a rotato?
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:42 PM on July 25, 2008

MeTa post: I HATE YOU ALL (EXCEPT OBAMA)

This is the worst Metatalk post ever and the worst Metafilter deleted post ever. You should feel bad about yourself. Also, please contact the creator of that website and tell them they should also feel bad about themselves. Then get in touch with both Mr. Obama and Mr. McCain and tell them that they are bad and should feel bad.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:11 AM on July 24, 2008

Judas was the real Son of God / Christ, and sacrificed his life and became a historical pariah to prevent Jesus Anti-Christ from completely fulfilling his plan.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:26 AM on July 25, 2008

MeTa post: Musings

The value landed in the romantic section because inspiration is a romantic concept in the general sense (rather than a rational concept).

Yes, this is totally more about Ode on a Grecian Urn than about falling in love, and I support this usage.

Duh, it's not romantic, it's Romantic, you know, like late 19th century decadence and melodrama.

Romantic is, in my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 8:21 PM on July 21, 2008

Flightless birds, as named by Apple or imitators with stupid corporate internet speak, are eMus.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:22 PM on July 21, 2008

Jessamyn wins at vocabulary. I shouldn't self-aggrandize but I am not at all used to being defeated with vocabulary, so kudos.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:44 PM on July 21, 2008

That seems to be the consensus. So, what social networking protocol doesn't suck?

Having some real friends in real life.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:10 AM on July 22, 2008

MeTa post: He likes education, thinks he's innocent, so what?

I would also support the deletion of this as I disapprove of Metafilter participating in the HOLY FUCKING SHIT A PRETTY NON-POOR WHITE WOMAN IS MISSING/DEAD trope.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:40 PM on July 18, 2008

He didn't say he cares about missing/dead poor/non-white women, just that he dislikes people caring about rich white ones.

Don't forget looks. If she was still middle/upper class and white but homely I bet no one would have heard jack shit about this.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:13 PM on July 18, 2008

At least it wasn't cake farting

Cake farting shouldn't have been deleted. For example, the internet practically started with Mr. T and Chewbacca eating my balls.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 3:48 AM on July 19, 2008

They need to do way instain modders> who kill posts. becuse these posts cant frigth back?
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:28 AM on July 19, 2008

HTMFAIL? Because of the angle bracket in my post? Look it up, I wasn't trying for HTML.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 10:05 AM on July 19, 2008

MeTa post: AskMe Answer Generator

The only people I know who had a creek running through their house were poor hippies.

Because they lived in tents/vans in the woods? When I lived weekends in a tent in the woods there was a creek.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 5:32 PM on July 18, 2008

Tehanu, could you tell me where you found a profile of Jessamyn's bottom? Was it on MetaChat?

One may read this in two ways, though I wouldn't suspect Jessamyn to be into one of them.
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 7:43 PM on July 18, 2008

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