Kindly refrain, if you come from a hunting-oriented background, from ridiculing. A whole new world of possibility has bloomed before me.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:35 AM on August 15, 2007

It's Cabelas. They specialize in outdoor activities, with an emphasis on hunting and fishing.

Well, duh.

Is this one of those "lol, people into hunting and fishing are gross and the people into them are tacky" posts?

No.

Because I've always found going to Cabelas or Bass Pro Shops really entertaining, but not quite worthy of a post.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:50 AM on August 15, 2007

Sigh. LOLRURALS.

What is it with you people? Are we all caffeine-deprived this morning? Firstly, you don't know whether I live in the city or the country. As a point of fact, the only place I've ever seen a dead deer lashed to a pickup is in Brooklyn, New York. And I'm a Mississippian by marriage, too, for what that's worth.

Next time I'll post about, I don't know, some famous person's death.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:54 AM on August 15, 2007

Shove it up your ass, NDc. Then take it out with a Butt-out tool.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:54 AM on August 15, 2007

LOLMISSINGTHEPOINTROCKET88

Yes, sweetie pie, they did. Are ya with me so far?
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:56 AM on August 15, 2007

scratch, drop the snarkiness, I said I never found it worthy of a post, but I'm enjoying yours.

Good. I need a friend right now... *sniffles*
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:00 AM on August 15, 2007

Go ahead and delete, mods, if you feel the need. FWIW, I am well aware of what Cabela's is and who their target market is. I was not, however, aware that they sold THESE PARTICULAR PRODUCTS, which made me laugh out loud.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:05 AM on August 15, 2007

silly animal anal tool

Damn, I knew I forgot a tag.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:06 AM on August 15, 2007

The people in this picture are breaking the law. They aren't supposed to sit on that particular wall and there is a big fine for sitting there. I cannot imagine why this law exists.

Um, to keep homeless people from sitting on the wall??


Anyway, w/r/t the preachiness of the captions, I didn't think it was preachy. It just sounded naive to me, as though he had never heard of these whaddaya-call-em... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 9:07 AM on August 13, 2007

I loved "Lucy" (ha!), the first one, except it lacked verisimilitude since nobody got blind drunk or engaged in dirty joyless animal sex. Also, when I tried to get to the next page, my computer bumped me out and into an ad for "adult material detection software." So I'll probably get fired, but that's cool.

Also reminds me of those Family Circus parodies from a while back: "Daddy said I shoulda been a `bortion and then he passed out!"
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 11:21 AM on July 26, 2007

A PSA recommending that people of a certain ethnicity get screened for diabetes is not racist

Not a great analogy, b/c diabetes has a genetic component, according to your argument, and speeding is an elective activity. And fun, too. But I'm a female person so I'm exempt from all responsibility and advertising in this matter. Also I can cry myself out of a ticket.

Tangentially, the motorcycling community's "loud pipes,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:40 AM on July 25, 2007

Rob Cockerham is so goddamn funny. I mean that.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 5:27 PM on July 8, 2007

So I'm all for recycling and minimizing landfill, but I wonder what kind of noxious gases this process will produce. Or are the "combustible gases" mentioned in the first link implicitly not harmful? And what about particulates? I'm a scientific idiot, so be nice to me if it's obvious to science folk that the whole process was devised to help solve the problem of particulate pollution.

Also, "autofluff" is my new favorite word.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 9:33 AM on July 8, 2007

[on preview] Hee! I'll bet weapons-grade panda has been just quivering with excitement for a chance to post that link into something even vaguely related.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 9:35 AM on July 8, 2007

But I just bought three months' worth of lowfat yogurt!
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 10:07 AM on June 19, 2007

11. No abortions or birth control, in cars or otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 10:01 AM on June 19, 2007

men's preferences never change

No?
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 9:58 AM on June 19, 2007

Well I'm the type of guy who's into getting high on a Friday afternoon
So now you know I'm a regular Joe and I'll tell you what I like to do

I like to make the scene
In my machine
I like to make the scene
I leave 'em in another state
Whenever I accelerate

I live for Cars and girls, cars and girls
I live for Car, cars and girls
I live for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 11:06 AM on June 18, 2007

I seem to remember learning somewhere that the different shapes of bottles in early days (17th-18th c.?) evolved because so few people back then could read. The stubby, wide-shouldered bottle contained this, the tall skinny one that, etc. But the bottle guy's page doesn't say anything about illiteracy per se, unless I skimmed too fast, though he does go into shaping itself. Maybe it's implied.

Also: Nifty link!
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:35 AM on June 18, 2007

I hadn't realized there was such a huge body of anatomical exhibition art out there,

Oof.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 11:37 AM on June 15, 2007

Good photos -- love the Sark "breadbox." For prison drama, though, Oz kicked Prison Break's ass but good.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 11:34 AM on June 15, 2007

This is definitely what the suffragists had in mind. You go girl. (Not.)
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:46 AM on June 15, 2007

My favorite is the one that says "MATH."

(It does say "math," right? And not "meth"?)
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 3:04 PM on May 31, 2007

I buy jonmc's defense. It's an interesting rock 'n' roll tragedy (way more so than the Britney Breakdown). Plus now I don't have to worry about trying to remember who's Felix Pappalardi and who's Felix Cavaliere.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:23 AM on May 30, 2007

And since we're on the subject of Mountain, I maintain that heavy metal is descended from Mountain and those kinds of bands, rather than Led Zeppelin and their ilk.

Nothin' like an interesting theory to derail a thread. Sadly I don't know enough about Mountain to argue, though I wish I could. Who wants to pick up the ball?
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 11:20 AM on May 30, 2007

Yeah, but public library circulation is up. Let's not jump to unsettling conclusions.

This may or may not have been a stunt, but it seems to be provoking the same kind of outrage that occurs every time a library weeds its collection. That is, it gets rid of outdated scientific and technical books, those that haven't circulated in years, crappy ex-best-sellers, Marilu Henner's 1989 memoir, etc.

Long story short: Bookstores aren't archives -- not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:24 AM on May 29, 2007

I don't think every book ever printed is a precious snowflake worth dedicating shelf space to forever and ever amen -- but a books-to-inmates program would have been a far more charitable and selfless destination for books no one wanted.

"No one" means "no one." We'd be doing the inmates a disservice if we sent them those Windows 3.1 manuals and Stillman Diet books.

Also, I wish I'd chosen "precious... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:34 AM on May 29, 2007

Yes we are.

(Billy Idol is still here? WTF?)
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:19 AM on May 26, 2007

What someone should really do is find a way to match up women who want breast reductions with women who want implants. Waste not, want not.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 4:26 PM on May 24, 2007

MRR could be boring, yes, and hard to read due to tiny print, but it was OURS. Remember, those scene reports sorta functioned the way the Interweb does now -- to link people who might've been geographically distant but psychically (philosophically, that is, not ESP or whatever) on the same wavelength. I always liked Flipside better, though, 'cuz all that politics crap in MRR seemed like preaching to the choir. "Peace Punx Unite!" ad nauseam.

I've still got 'em,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:01 AM on May 23, 2007

Or PBJ on white, with potato chips comprising a crunchy middle layer! Booyeah!
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 12:40 PM on May 22, 2007

Say, does anyone remember that garage rock song from the 60s whose chorus goes "We all love peanut butter"? Because it's certainly apropos here.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 12:51 PM on May 22, 2007

Well, Queen was glam rock which had a pretty explicit queer subtext from the beginning, and the same could be said of Judas Priest's S&M leather image. Free, on the other hand, was pretty much basic barroom blooze rock, so Fraser's homosexuality says one: gayfolks are everywhere, let 'em join the party, and two: blooze rock is for the gayfolk, too, welcome to the party.

Ergo, the common denominator must be the mustaches.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 12:48 PM on May 22, 2007

Papa never gets his bike back.

Pee Wee does.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 12:43 PM on May 22, 2007

I'm not going to argue whether or not the professor is a "lamewad," but I will argue that the crude and nasty thug-worshipping faction of hip-hop subculture is only an extreme manifestation of the materialism, misogyny, and anti-intellectualism that prevails in mainstream U.S. culture.

I work in the children's department of an inner-city public library. The great majority of kids who come here treat the place like an arcade. They come to play video games for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:25 AM on May 22, 2007

Nicely put, Sangermaine. There are still plenty of trade schools, though. But the line between trade schools and colleges is somewhat blurred since many of these for-profit schools have names the Whatsit College for Medical Transcription. (Drives me bananas.)
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 7:32 AM on May 22, 2007

I would have objected to the news report, too, but for different reasons: That's some mighty poor journalism.

Hey, what's SLOEWGAF? (I think I can guess the last three letters, thanks.)
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 12:09 PM on May 17, 2007

Revolting, yet strangely attractive. If I didn't know what they were, I might think it was abalone.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:19 AM on May 17, 2007

Once the Republicans hear that libraries are putting a crimp in Free Enterprise, they'll become an endangered species.

During a boring library school class it occurred to me that public libraries may be the last holdouts against privatization of formerly public institutions: cf. charter schools and for-profit prison contractors.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:50 AM on May 16, 2007

Deja vu all over again -- I just reread 1984. Guess there's no need to quote that business about how we've always been at war with Oceania.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:43 AM on May 16, 2007

I wonder why the fuck his mother thought it was a good idea to buy smack for him.

Well, she was a hippie.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 6:25 AM on May 10, 2007

I would have put "The River" at the top, not the bottom, personally. And where are "Angie" and "Wild Horses"?
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 1:06 PM on May 9, 2007

Oh, and where's "Shake Some Action" (F. Groovies) and "That's Entertainment" (the Jam).

I guess my favorite sad songs suck.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 1:07 PM on May 9, 2007

Robocop wrote: The worst was the rusty razor blade someone stuck into the textblock of a high shelved serial here on campus, so if you reached up to grab the book off the shelf, you'd get the tetanus. This beat out the copy of the 1970s child porn mag "Naked Angels" by leaps and bounds.

Robo, as far as I'm concerned you win, even beating out the bacon strip and my own prizewinner, the tiny bag of heroin plus $600 in cash. (How did I know it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 10:15 AM on May 9, 2007

Were these side effects really unexpected? Has anyone ever FOIA'd government or Dow Chemical or Monsanto records to find out about what these scumbags knew and when they knew it? I just find it extremely hard to believe that nobody foresaw the so-called side effects.

To me the most horrifying birth defect linked to dioxins is anencephaly, in which babies are born without a forebrain. They are blind, deaf, unconscious, and unable to feel pain. They are usually... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 2:25 PM on May 7, 2007

Ananecephaly...yeah, that's where they know they've got a problem when they hold up the neonate in front of a really bright light and notice they can see it shining through the kid's cranium. Or so an OB/GYN once joked...I was too busy being horrified to remember to laugh.

Hospital humor is the blackest of the black.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 3:30 PM on May 7, 2007

That ain't nothin'; one o' my kidses teachers sez that "Library" is pronounced "liberry". No lie. Straight jacket, dog.

I work in a liberry and I've concluded it's simply a dialect pronunciation.

Also, you misspelled "dawg."
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:12 AM on May 3, 2007

Liberry rhymes wit Febwary.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:17 AM on May 3, 2007

No one goes around showing off that he is illiterate,

Maybe not, but we sure as hell go around bragging about our aliteracy, at least here in Amurca.

Reading, writing, playing the piano, and doing math are highly unnatural activities (unlike speaking, say) which we are not naturally evolved to do. Instead, we take abilities we have evolved for other purposes and subvert them because it is so useful to learn these... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:07 AM on May 3, 2007

Yuk yuk yuk! Good one, Dizzy.
posted to MetaFilter by scratch at 8:04 AM on May 2, 2007