I cast my vote for pure maple syrup.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:40 PM on April 6, 2008

You know the name of the bar at Crif Dogs?

PDT.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:11 PM on April 3, 2008

Papakwanz, your intentions might have been reasonable or good, but you really fucked up, again and again, from the very start.

However many people piled on you in the thread, many more, myself included, simply raised eyebrows at your words, thought, "Christ, what an asshole," and moved on.

Seriously, if you didn't want to look like an apologist for institutionalized pederasty, you did a bad job, there and here. All your semantic... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:16 AM on April 3, 2008

...and please don't take to heart the implication that those who do not click "disable" do not have lives.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:28 AM on April 3, 2008

What a dick.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:59 AM on April 3, 2008

How long would it take for a monkey with a wooden leg to kick all the seeds out of a dill pickle?
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:52 AM on April 3, 2008

For the first time ever, I'm glad I'm on a BlackBerry.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:48 AM on April 1, 2008

Unlike, say, the img tag, snarky one-liners can't be turned off. That means discretion's involved in deciding which stay and which go. Deleting the bad ones is cool.

Too bad the same can't be done with images, but that's a different nut to pinch.

I had an answer deleted from AskMe the other day. I'd love to say my comment was an honest mistake, but I'd be lying if I did. I said before I wouldn't fuck around, but I never made good marks in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:21 AM on April 1, 2008

I dream the world down to a blade of grass every morning just before I awaken. While I go about my day, oblivious, the people arrive and break everything. I consume it all every night before bed, from a plate, along with a glass of milk. Mice take the crumbs I leave.

Every year or so I clean out the walls and find the mice have built a world out of my crumbs, bits of vibrant sea mashed into cathedral spires, great canyons shot into skies of purple gorse, quiet little... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 11:27 AM on March 31, 2008

It's the celery salt, for me, that makes a loaded-up Chicago-style hot dog the world's best tube steak. I live in Queens, and I gotta say, there ain't a dog in the five boroughs, can compete.

A course, New Jersey's got something going with them Italian-style hot dogs. And there's some famous joint up in Connecticut I have yet to visit that's said to cook a world-class frank. Jonmc said he'd take me there someday.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 6:55 PM on March 31, 2008

Pete Best? Hell, George Best!
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:13 PM on March 31, 2008

Celery salt: extravagantly talented and prematurely louche.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:09 PM on March 31, 2008

Kid's a drummer, digs prog? Has he heard the work of Christian Vander and his band, Magma? I recommend "Attahk" or "Udu Wudu" to start.

How about Otomo Yoshihide? His band/noise-collective Ground Zero is a little weird, even compared to Magma. "Revolutionary Pekingese Opera v. 1.28" is a good start, and the "Consume Red" and "Consummation" pair, while less drummy, feature some wild sujok... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 5:59 AM on April 1, 2008

Once every week or two? No way.

Once in a lifetime. Same as it ever was!
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 6:51 AM on March 30, 2008

If you look for racism everywhere, you will find it somewhere. That doesn't necessarily mean it's there.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 6:36 AM on March 28, 2008

If racism is everywhere, in everyone and every social structure in the world, then isn't the attempt to conquer it a mite quixotic?

If racism is everywhere, it's still better, like I said, not to go searching specifically for it. I have no problem with attacking racism that stands out from the baseline racism present everywhere. But if you search for something that's everywhere, albeit unintentional or societal, you'll find what you're looking for, and it may not be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:42 AM on March 28, 2008

I'm pretty sure there was a little more to what I wrote, but no matter; you're pithier. You win.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:50 AM on March 28, 2008

The balance of yin and yang here, in any of various invented dichotomies, provides the tension and the harmony that makes this place interesting. No matter how we see this site, and what use we might make of it, there is someone perceiving and acting in a way that we see as directly counter to our own. Not to mention differences of opinion. There are complex reasons for any contribution to this site, and while some comments are obviously counter to posted guidelines, most are just difference,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:21 AM on March 27, 2008

Why is the larger context such an impossible thing for people to accept?

Because we are all so very small.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:34 AM on March 27, 2008

You know what else goes up and down?

That's right: the painted ponies.

Earworm!
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:43 AM on March 27, 2008

Marc Spector would kill Bruce Wayne in a heartbeat.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:29 PM on March 27, 2008

Moon Knight? Fuck off. He's just some looney nutjob rip-off of batman.

Eat shit. He may be a rip-off, as was, say, Darkman (who, until the Bayle Batman flick held the belt for best superhero flick) but he'd kill Batman and be back to the Temple of Khonsu in time for dinner.

You'd probably say Destroyer Duck sucked 'cuz it was a rip of Howard, or Megaton Man sucked 'cuz he was a Supes copy.

It doesn't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:06 AM on March 28, 2008

That said, Sgt. Rock would put both these clowns down. No contest.

Fuckin' A, he would. Though not without Ice-Cream Soldier and Little Sure Shot, at least. I bet Gravedigger could kill Batman, and I'm sure Jeb Stuart and The Haunted Tank could take him out, too. Moon Knight was a mercenary, which gives him an edge in a war zone, but his white costume is poor camouflage outside the Arctic Circle.

So yeah, they'd both be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:18 AM on March 28, 2008

Fuck that, I don't want some motherfucker riding my ass because I said I'd show, "Oh breezy, you checked yes; where were you last night? It was so much fun without you."

I was at home filing down bullet tips and making fuckin' waffles, do you mind?
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:50 PM on March 27, 2008

Yo Skot, if you're seriously quitting smoking, do a set of pushups or go for a brisk walk. Replace the cigarette with something that makes you wheeze and hurt a little. It doesn't replace the smoke. You'll still want one, but if next time the craving comes around, you'll think goddamn, another set of pushups? I gotta crave less, and you will.

Self-cutting might work, too, but pushups are a better habit to get into.

Sorry... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 12:41 PM on March 26, 2008

Are they always like that?

Only the ones people comment on.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:05 AM on March 27, 2008

Anybody else having any trouble with it?

I had captcha problems a few months ago, but that was on my attenuated BlackBerry browser.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:28 AM on March 27, 2008

Why fuck pigs or sheep when you can be fucked by dolphins? They'll even drown you, too. Bet you don't know what drowning while being fucked by a dolphin feels like. Just make sure you wait 30 minutes after a meal before getting into the water.

I'd like to fuck a tiger someday.

Right; where's that coffee? I'm slipping.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 6:24 AM on March 26, 2008

Is this a good time to talk about the alluring yet oxymoronic cetacean furry?

The drowning risk drops slightly when, instead of dolphins in the wild, it's a guy wearing a crotchless dolphin suit into your hot tub.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:16 AM on March 26, 2008

And a naive question draws out the latent bestiality proclivities, again.

Yeah, you got me. But think about it: if Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were cute little twin porpoises frolicking in a billion-dollar, solid gold pool, wouldn't you want to swim with them, in the biblical sense? And what if they were hermaphrodite dolphins with whom you could have a real give-and-take? What then?
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:33 AM on March 26, 2008

Solid gold!
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:52 AM on March 26, 2008

I like this idea a lot, only because it fucks with the exploitative record company paradigm that's existed so long. But the idea that huge dollar sums make records "major and mainstream" sticks in my craw. Then again, I can't expect other people to listen to the same things in music for the same reasons I do, and there are loads of folks who can't get past lo-fi production. So maybe three records for $80k isn't so astronomical; maybe it's necessary if you want to give the right kind... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:11 AM on March 25, 2008

If you poke and prod a Portuguese Man-o-war jellyfish long enough, it'll just lie there on the beach, drying in the breeze, before it gets really boring and you take your stick elsewhere.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:24 AM on March 18, 2008

Sometimes if you poke and prod at a particularly nasty lesion or suppurating sore, a little hand pops out, grabs your stick, and yanks you in for a journey under the skin.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:28 AM on March 18, 2008

Sometimes, people read the site for a long time before first signing up, and sometimes the people that do sign up decide to act like dicks once they do.

For some, acting like a dick isn't a decision. They were born dicks.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:33 AM on March 18, 2008

I bet if youse dried out the deletion reasons a bit, the dicks wouldn't be as comfortable insulting the mods. Sets a tone, ya know?

That said, anyone who calls Jessamyn a bitch is a ratfuck who deserves to be thrown down the stairs. She is a light unto the world.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:22 AM on March 18, 2008

threatening to throw anyone down the stairs for any reason has got to be just as bad as calling anyone a name

That's a great point, Faris, but your conclusion is stupid.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 10:15 AM on March 18, 2008

You don't even do well with the shithead troll crowd, Faris.

And I should know.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 1:04 PM on March 19, 2008

Here I thought Dave Faris was a dick.

But he apologized to Jessamyn for her decision to be offended by his innocent comment. Then he dredged up a couple of his own apologies as character witnesses and threw in some laments over others' inability to forgive him his trespasses, just to keep things fair.

Now I'm convinced.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:21 AM on March 24, 2008

You're right, Jessamyn, and I'm sorry. And to Dave Faris, as well. I was being an ass. Neither of you deserved it.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:50 AM on March 24, 2008

New metafiltrist seeks enlightenment on manners and the proper use of the little [+].

"The little [+]," hmmm. Anus, perhaps?
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 6:19 AM on March 24, 2008

I've learned that the humorless have to ask if there's a joke afoot, and that the hilarious can't tell when you're playing it straight.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:03 AM on March 23, 2008

FREE BOB AVAKIAN
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:33 AM on March 22, 2008

I made a joke in AskMe once, knowing it would be deleted, because I hoped whoever deleted it would get a little laugh out of it. Just after posting, I realized what an asshole I was for doing so. I refreshed and my comment was gone, so I replaced it with a real answer to the question. Since then I've resisted the temptation to crack wise in the green.

Cutting up in class or joking around in a business meeting is different: someone might actually think you're cool.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 11:26 AM on March 19, 2008

asshole[sic]

Hey, what's with the [sic]? If I'm being twitted, I wanna know; I'll go in guns blazing and worry about apologizing for being a royal arse later.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 9:17 PM on March 19, 2008

It's because you misspelled arsehole.

You misspelled "misspelt." Let's have some fucking consistency.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 8:08 AM on March 20, 2008

All you fuckers bandying about "vitriol" need to go read Brighton Rock again.

Dynamic work is often destroyed by the performer reaching the peak too early and discovering that there's nowhere left to climb. Good stage or screen writing is often rendered one-dimensional by this kind of acting, marked by a shouty, overwrought delivery completely lacking in nuance. Music that, in the hands of an early-peaking performer, crescendos early and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:14 AM on March 19, 2008

Yo Dizzy, by bizarre co-inky-dink, the instance of "vitriol" in this thread got quoted right below my comment, though it's really a cumulative thing over many years of threads. Maybe I shoulda started a MeTa on it, but it seems pretty minor in retrospect.

It's no better than Godwinning, though, in effect shouting "fire" when someone lights a cigarette. It's bad form, and it detracts from cogent, reasonable thought.
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 7:56 AM on March 19, 2008

I was just talking about the word "vitriol," Ampersand. And I explained in a subsequent comment that my problem with the inappropriate use of "vitriol" was, like your problem with dismissal of Australia, was cumulative over many threads and many users. I'm sure you read it.

I understand why you take it so personally and get so wildly bent out of shape over my pointing out how damaging your inappropriate word choice is to your otherwise reasonable... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 10:44 AM on March 19, 2008

I'm sorry, Alvy Ampersand. I didn't even realize I'd called you a fucker (though I clearly did; my bad). Fair's fair. I gotta say, though, Graham Greene wrote a lot of books. Maybe I could just stick to the Entertainments.

Like I said, I thought about a separate MeTa on "vitriol" to keep it general and to not target individuals, but I figured that would end even more poorly than this.

Sorry for insulting you. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by breezeway at 12:09 PM on March 19, 2008