MeFi post:
The good kind of Noise. And the non-racist kind of White.
favorited 13 times, recently by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST], sluglicker, mnsc, Hal Mumkin, Saxon Kane, zouhair, couch, eustatic, never used baby shoes, sidesh0w, sillygwailo, pyrex, ZenMasterThis
30 minutes ago
MeTa comment:
"And flameouts in Metachat are the favorite spectator sport of a significant portion of the MeFi membership. Usually they don't impress me so much, but dnab's performance is classic.
Eide, you're on, but be warned, I have seriouscat and ceilingcat..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by konolia, infinitywaltz, quonsar
7 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"It could be Xeni's version of "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job"... then again, after disemvoweling her own comments, TNH does appear a lot more dignified...
"All of us here at Boing Boing are human beings; but she's that and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nooneyouknow
10 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Ubu, I can't post any faster... I have to go and shove more furniture against the front door to keep the angry townspeople out every three or four minutes...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by JHarris, Blazecock Pileon, rodgerd
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I understand the stress and strains of human evil, myself.
And as much as I enjoy the music of DEVO, I don't think "devolve" is the right word for what happens at the tail end of epic threads (or as I like to call them "EPIC..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"the ignorant bigotry of people like randomstriker, wendell and jonmc.
Ignorant? Guilty.
Bigoted? No, I'd make the same joke about any case of "Foreign Accent Syndrome".
Or could it be that all Brits talk that way because they have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jonmc
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Here's a great mash-up double-copyright-infringement multiple theft that was posted to MetaFilter today and has been left undisturbed on YouTube for a year and a half: Video STOLEN from "Weapon of Choice", Audio STOLEN from "Puttin' on..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Popular Ethics, mullingitover, Monochrome, Dark Messiah
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"TNH put this into a comment @5:03PM (quoted in its entirety, because I'm pretty sure some of it will be unpublished when she calms down - emphasis mine to highlight her most trollish content):
Is it okay if I mention that I find some of these..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by dansdata, waxbanks, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, grobstein, nomisxid, delmoi, drezdn, rodgerd, Blazecock Pileon, Scoo, liza
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"I was on the L.A. version of Bozo when I was 6, and he DID scare the shit out of me, just because he was so much bigger than he looked on TV... especially the hair and the shoes. I got on for one of his competitions - a musical chairs-ish thing where..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"Near the bottom of the POLICIES page, they state:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, drezdn
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"You know, I barely remember a couple months ago BoingBoing had an item on a Saturday about something that had become a big deal on the web a couple days earlier but had been revealed as a hoax the night before. And the BB post was assuming it was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"If there were wifi in the cornfield, that'd go a long way toward neutralizing Billy Mumy's power, wouldn't it?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mkultra
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Longboat? Am I the first to think this thread would be best labeled "LongBoing"?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"So my blog is the reason I don't get laid? I thought I was blogging because I don't get laid. I'm confused." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by RakDaddy, nomisxid
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"What some people seem to be failing to realize is that even if you're not "evil" you can still be wrong." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Riki tiki, liza
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And the BB thread is only up to 754... which makes MetaFilter 33% more....
uh....
more....
well....
we may be 33% more something we don't want to be......" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Kattullus, Kid Charlemagne
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"TNH lost my repsect hours ago, but really screwed the pooch with this one: (cut and paste, unaltered except for my emphasis)
Most large, active blogs take material down, for a variety of reasons. Some do it more than others. May I refer you to the..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by liza, Blazecock Pileon, ShawnStruck
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, my microwave just dinged. My Hot Pockets are ready. Don't go over 1000 until I get back. Thanks." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by JHarris
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"In that case, cortex, when the BB Mod job opens up, you can take it. We'll even give you a going-away cake... I've got one with a big IE logo and the message "Congrats on Shipping" in my freezer. Don't know why nobody ever took a bite out..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by potch, delmoi
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"And if I didn't make it clear, TNH = Teresa Nielsen Hayden = BoingBoing Paid Moderator
I have seen cortex and jessamyn write some sprited defenses of MeFi's Allmighty Mathowie, but have never seen anything like this. That's why I love MetaFilter..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Another reason why I will ONLY purchase a gun if I specifically intend, with plenty of malice aforethought, to kill somebody. It's a damned fine tool for that purpose, for anything else, not so hot.
The waiting period for gun sales in California..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"'Horn, a retired grandfather'
Okay, enough jokes, the copy editor just over-edited "...a grandfather of (quantity) who had retired from a (number) year career (doing something)..."and did you really want to waste your time reading all..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ClaudiaCenter
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Sometimes you just gotta quote "The Music Man":
You can talk, you can talk
You can bicker, you can talk
You can bicker, bicker, bicker
You can talk, you can talk
You can talk, talk, talk, talk,
Bicker, bicker, bicker
You can talk all..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by minervous, RussHy, doctor_negative
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I snooze, I lose. Overslept. Went to sleep soon after this was posted (and not checking MeFi last thing before bed? Stupid.) and woke to a world without George Carlin and 300 "."s and "fuck"s to read. I was worrying about some of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by porn in the woods
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Maybe the problem is that Hate Speech has become the only kind of Free Speech that is OK to do in the U.S.
Taking pictures of public buildings? Nonononono...
Taking video of police on duty? That's a paddling.
Whistleblowing on government..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by magstheaxe, dopeypanda, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, etaoin, jb, Abiezer, Jimbob, radiocontrolled, anthill, stinkycheese
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"If Michael Reagan can do it, we all can.
I've said here before that the only reason I'd ever purchase a gun is specifically as a tool to kill someone with. Because there are better tools for every other supposed purpose to own a gun.
That said,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Jimbob, nonmerci
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The more I learned about how the God of most religions (including the one I was raised in) judges people and what for, the more I WANTED to not believe He was real. Making the evolutionary move to Agnostic unbeliever and then to full Atheist..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Senor Cardgage
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"NEWS FLASH: The Blogopticon chart was cropped. There's more to see and it's here. (via)" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dizzy
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"But if this has become the only area where the U.S.ofA. is freer than any other country, I say Death to America.
Fortunately, it isn't.
Actually, Class Goatse, there are a few countries where the Right to Bear Arms is freer than here. But those..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Riki tiki, etaoin, Jimbob
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"...Switzerland, where every adult male is legally required to own a rifle and legally required to fire it a hundred times per year?
You confuse "having the right" with being "legally required", but then, America's Right to Bear..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by etaoin
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"He kicks puppies.
But he does so for exceptional yardage and accuracy!" [
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favorited 17 times, recently by lazaruslong, wzcx, The Bellman, Reverend John, spiderwire, malocchio, agropyron, Abiezer, Rock Steady, sequential, ErWenn, hal9k, cashman, Blazecock Pileon, tarheelcoxn, Dizzy, lukemeister
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Although this might be a good place for me to repeat for the umpteenth time my story about being a "staff comedy writer" for a radio show (not TV) in the 1980s and the only one on the staff who was NOT funnier when stoned (the main reason I..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ludi
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Before the poison in the Flavr-Aid (not Kool-Aid) takes us all out, let me say that paulsc is semi-right in that Obama is not in as strong a position as many of us think, and hopefully, he is not too full of himself that he would forget that he is..." [
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favorited 13 times, recently by shinynewnick, Space Kitty, Slarty Bartfast, Arch_Stanton, Hot Like Your 12V Wire, The Bellman, Optamystic, pardonyou?, octothorpe, paulsc, psmealey, punishinglemur, namespan
Last month
MeFi comment:
"If you think who is Obama's VP/running mate isn't important, I have two words for you: DICK CHENEY. Mrs. Clinton could move into his office and not change a thing. Seriously.
But I'm just as interested in McCain's running mate. I sincerely suspect..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by blueberry, Blazecock Pileon, brain cloud
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Winner of the Best Quote from the Health Care Derail: "there's this huge health insurance industry that never should have come to exist in the first place." BINGO! Just because everything CAN be turned into a trillion-dollar high-profit..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
Last month
MeFi comment:
"It's kind of like that adjunct professor in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who excitedly refers to incidents popular books that have absolutely no discernable bearing on the subject at hand and still manages to get the reference wrong.
No,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dabitch, koeselitz
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Good answers to "now what" sorts of questions should not include ther phrase "relax" in them, among other things.
Unless they involve reaching orgasm or Frankie Goes to Hollywood songs (or, more likely, both - I can't believe..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Well then, Jaltcock, you've proven that the mods were right to delete your question because you intended it to be "politically incorrect" which is a code word for obnoxious, offensive and bigoted.
BTW, I have lived my entire life as a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hydropsyche, delmoi, meadowlands
Last month
