Wow.

Ya know... this last week has been a convergence of suck for me. My daughter needed some emergency dental work, and my car broke down on the way to the dentist! My daughter's tooth is fixed, and my car is in the shop awaiting diagnosis. I may be late in paying my rent this month. Also, due to a recent divorce, I owe about $12K to the IRS and another $9K to attorneys. It's pretty stressful and depressing.

But that comment has made me truly,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:22 AM on February 29, 2008

Jessamyn always gets to sidebar the good stuff, consarnit.

She also kicks ass at Scrabulous. These kids these days with their sidebars and wordnerdery and Dewey Decimal System. Bah.

sitting on pillow
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 10:03 AM on February 29, 2008

Good job languagehat!

And good job to your sockpuppet dirtylanguagehat as well!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:17 PM on February 28, 2008

Huh. I totally thought we were totally done. Totally. Oh my.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:20 PM on February 26, 2008

I doed a page!!! Glad I came back to check about brokenlink. I didn't use that tag, but with over 6,000 instances, it looks like I should be.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:04 AM on February 27, 2008

Black people don't hate dogs!!! Black people hate white people!

-Paraphrased from a Chris Rock bit.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 3:16 PM on February 25, 2008

Is it really THAT hard to wonder why black people in American might be afraid of dogs?

Oh no you di'int!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 3:54 PM on February 25, 2008

The word "retarded" is no longer used to refer to developmentally disabled people. Same with "moron", "idiot", and "cretin", all terms that are perfectly acceptable.

You don't call a retarded person a retard. You call your friends retards when they're acting retarded.


Things I learned from The Office.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:57 PM on February 26, 2008

In the future, please respond to boneheaded questions by flagging and moving on.
posted by cortex

Comment flagged as "no fun!"
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 11:07 AM on February 24, 2008

I am reminded of a story that my friend once told me:
I was talking to Marvin on Saturday night. He was wasted. He looked at my car and asked, "How much for a convertible?" I told him I paid $3,500 for mine. He said, "NO. How much for a CONVERTIBLE." I said, "What?" and he said, "HOW MUCH FOR A CONVERTIBLE." I never could figure out what the hell he was talking about.

That's a great story.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:43 AM on February 23, 2008

Can we please stop using the alphabet? It's so played out.

Just saying'.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:24 PM on February 23, 2008

Anyone who asks about concealed weapons should be shot.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 4:55 AM on February 23, 2008

Light fuse and get away.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:18 PM on February 19, 2008

We are The Adam's Family !

Addams. Two 'd's.'

*banishes hortense from the family estate*

NOOOOOOO!!!!111!!!!

Adam's. Like, you know... ADAM. And Eve. Adam.

I've read this whole thread without getting upset, but missing an obvious joke just pisses me right off!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 4:56 PM on February 17, 2008

God din make no Adam and Steeeeeeve!!!!!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:34 PM on February 17, 2008

well he made Adam Goldberg and Steve Buscemi

Buscemi was assembled from spare parts.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:57 PM on February 17, 2008

Obama: "I am a Christian."
Hillary: Believes in the atoning death of Jesus Christ.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:40 AM on February 18, 2008

I haven't seen anyone holding up a John 3:16 sign at a football game in years.

Well, the guy who started it, and was at the major events, has been otherwise occupied.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:55 PM on February 18, 2008

I would be willing to mail myself to a nice, warm place with plenty of photographic scenery. However:

1) NEVER feed me after midnight.
2) NEVER get me wet. (OK, well, almost ever.)
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 11:09 AM on February 18, 2008

I had to fight to keep White Whines up

Ooo, can we YouTube one of these Matt vs Jessamyn and Cortex fights? That would be FPP material for sure!

Yes, I verbed YouTube. And I just verbed verb as well. I told y'all before I wanted to action something.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 4:39 PM on February 15, 2008

I don't really see any way that would reinforce any circlejerkery that is already inherent in the favoriting system. There's no circle!

Just an unorganized mass of jerks.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 1:42 AM on February 15, 2008

Twins, creepy? No way!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:01 AM on February 14, 2008

My favorite thing is when I google in order to help with an AskMe, and the top result is the AskMe question itself.

But, yeah, I would have said this is a relatively weak use of Meta, except for 2 things:

1- It gave me an opportunity to talk about me.
2- Everyone needs a hug.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 4:52 PM on February 7, 2008

I don't want to see people use it as a measure of self-worth

Well then what the hell am I supposed to use?
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 3:29 PM on February 7, 2008

try google
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 9:46 AM on February 2, 2008

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: That guy has been self-linking since day one!

I LOVE MATT's FPPs!!!!

They make me realize I usually aim wayyyy too high before posting. :)

(Don't ban me bro!)
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:14 PM on January 26, 2008

Oh, and on a serious note, I doubt anyone would call out this FPP if it was posted by anyone else. There's plenty of self-admittedly stupid posts on the blue on a regular basis.

Now... 'scuse me while I get back to crafting my perfect cat-scan post.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:20 PM on January 26, 2008

(Oh, and it's not too late to tell everyone this callout is just a joke.)
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:26 PM on January 26, 2008

I clicked it. Watched it. Thought "eh." And was ready to move on. Without flagging. Then I saw who posted it, and left my comment. Had it not been Matt, I would have left no comment. But he was just begging for someone to parrot his tags in the comments. Begging for it I tell ya.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:02 PM on January 26, 2008

YESSSSSS! I CALLED IT!!!!!

Can we close this now?
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:23 PM on January 26, 2008

I Accuse My Parents!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:31 PM on January 26, 2008

YAYYYY!!!!!! My daughter may never again get to use the iPod Touch I bought her.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:43 PM on January 24, 2008

I always welcome good, healthy debate, and I try to learn something from opposing viewpoints. But the increasing unnecessary snark in obit threads, along with the "lol you are a retard if you believe in (whatever)" comments can make that "close account" link very tempting.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 9:58 AM on January 23, 2008

There are only 35000 usernames but the front page claims 65003 users...

It's people who completed the sign-up process vs people who just started it.
posted by jessamyn

So it's actually like I am user number 10,000 or so!

Ya! Kickin' it O.G.-style byotches!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:01 PM on January 22, 2008

Yep. I knew hermie before he was cool.

Wait. Are you cool yet?
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 4:01 PM on January 16, 2008

Compare and contrast. Both my daughter's desk and my kinda desk are in the living room of the apartment. She has more real estate. I think she needs to pay rent.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 7:53 PM on January 15, 2008

And here is my U.S. Government day-job desk. I'm surrounded by some of my day-job designed posters to remind me what I do for a living.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:06 PM on January 15, 2008

I wouldn't say it was boring. MacBook Air is very lustworthy. A big leap in laptop thinness, but, no, not FPP worthy.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 7:25 PM on January 15, 2008

I think I have been transparent from day one with a link to one of my websites in my profile. Because of my freelance work, I've had my info on the web pretty much since anyone cared about the web. I didn't see any reason to hide it here.

Ramifications: Zero. No one cares who I am.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 10:46 AM on January 15, 2008

That just isn't true, The Deej. I care.
posted by Meatbomb

*removes personal info from profile page*
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 1:36 PM on January 15, 2008

I take care of the "real identity being exposed" problem by acting only like tehloki, and not my true self, in front of other mefites. All they get is a seamless, thoroughly filtered tehloki experience.
posted by tehloki

So, at the meetups, you greet every MeFite by saying "You're my favorite!"?

Ha! I slay me!

posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 5:22 PM on January 15, 2008

Well, I flagged the deleted thread, and I hardly ever flag things, even if I don't agree with them. My reason was that, (aside from linking to random "evangelical" quotes, many of which in no way represent anything even close to evangelical thought, and many others that seemed like deliberate wacky trolls) I thought linking to the lady whose son killed himself was just sad, but presented in the context of LOLXTIAN. There is noting LOL-worthy or mock-worthy of such a tragedy. I didn't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 3:24 PM on January 15, 2008

Alright!!!! I've got the branding iron and the tar and the feathers!!!!!

Huh. What.

Over already?

Damn.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:35 PM on January 14, 2008

Whither "whence"?
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 12:04 AM on January 14, 2008

-Firstly, do not use adverbs where nouns or adjectives are more appropriately.
-Never use a preposition to end a sentence with.
-Be sure the number of your verb agree with those of your nouns and adjectives.
-Don't splice two sentences with a comma, it looks amateurish.
-Always assiduously and absolutely avoid all ancillary alliteration.
-Repeating adverbs is a very, very, very bad idea.
-To egregiously and unnecessarily... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 7:54 PM on January 13, 2008

carsonb, that is so cool! You are my new (life-lacking) hero!!!

But I'm disturbed to see my word cloud so prominently features percoset, chucklehead, and quin.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:48 AM on January 12, 2008

Flagged as fantastic!
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 6:59 AM on January 12, 2008

It's percoCet, you amateur!

See what it does to you.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 8:32 AM on January 12, 2008

Any chance of turning Travel into a non-shadowy back alley?

Now you did it. The Cabal may have heard that. Nice knowing you.
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 10:20 AM on January 12, 2008

cortex says: we should just have a stuff.metafilter.com front page that tracks all of it as a sort of Portal To Fun.

I think the wiki serves this purpose well; it's accessible to everyone and has already gathered an excellent amount of MeFi ephemera. Sometimes I feel like a broken record in MeTa, but read the wiki! read the archives!
posted by carsonb

Wait. Did I just enter some weird admin/member flip-vortex?
posted to MetaTalk by The Deej at 3:54 PM on January 12, 2008