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MeTa post:
Spam from a MeFi user.
20,000 letters of support (or even just 500) would likely go a long way towards ensuring Matt doesn't have to deal with the kind of headaches he described.
I dunno, $50,000 goes a long way in alleviating headaches as well.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 6:15 AM on July 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Call in show needs callers
Or "red" is "red" because we are enculturated from an early age with basic uniform color structure (i.e. this is what real red looks like, this is what real blue looks like, this is light blue, this is dark blue). We see this red or this blue reproduced everywhere and we come to accept that red as the real red. If we relied on the color of the sky, well that changes with the time of day and the seasons.
Regardless of what you "see,"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 7:12 PM on June 11, 2008
MeTa post:
Scrump Goes For Broke
I've been commenting since Feb. 2005 and reading since late 2004. I would like to say that since those days early post-20k days I haven't seen much change except the site expand and diversify what it offers. The users and the nature of their comments have changed not so much either.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 7:05 PM on March 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Mustn't offend China!
Call me when you guys are ready to hand back the US to the native americans. Oh right, only Chinese do wrong.
Canadia.....fuck, it took me so long to figure out the dimness here that somone beat me to it.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 6:29 PM on March 21, 2008
MeTa post:
I can haz marketshare?
Also, you have my word, you will never level up here.
You just level down as user numbers increase. By the time we get into the deep six figures our average user will be so beneath our permissible standard in basic education that we will be totally unable to help them because we will be laughing so hard. At least we will be able to use their contibutions for a nice AskMe parody site.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 3:54 PM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe homework help
I don't think there would be a boo-hoo on the gray if the poster had not phrased his or her request as a "Give me...." If they had instead said, "Please help me with this complex problem I'm unfamiliar with...," then this conversation would not be taking place.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 6:48 PM on March 15, 2008
Yes, carefulmonkey...good for you.
Next time though, definitely begin your question with "Mother may I..." otherwise you will have few answers and much asshattery for your efforts.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 12:38 PM on March 17, 2008
But that advice about the reference librarians is priceless...they are starved for opportunities to help motivated students like yourself.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 12:39 PM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
The Infinity of Defining Chatfilter
Now that Foucualt is on the table...but seriously, I think he was the guy to mention a few decades ago.
Anyway, I'm not so sure this guy is a grad student in critical theory as much as perhaps he is a creative writing student who has an interest in it. But really, these are the perfectly normal kinds of questions that students who are brand-spanking new to difficult discourses ask. It's the hard task of the educator to figure out what they mean (this one is pretty easy)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 2:42 PM on March 13, 2008
LobsterMitten - I get to deal with this kind of writing from first year students in general education courses...which is where my charitable responses have been crafted. Charity in person usually softens the blow of getting a C- or D on what the student feels is the paper that should shift the foundation of Western thought. At least with novice students their reasoning *is* usually in good faith - they have been taught somewhere that being "intellectual" means using this sort of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 3:13 PM on March 13, 2008
Bakhtin's 'Speech Genres' or Marx's 'Economies'
Be a little more careful with your theory dropping also and all will be well.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 7:10 AM on March 14, 2008
MeTa post:
Whether you eat it or not don't ask us.
For $132 I will accept postal delivery of your questionable food product. Upon receipt, I will reheat the food and consume approximately 3 ounces. Every hour, for the next 8 hours, I will email you a two sentence description of how I am feeling that focus on whether I am taking ill or not. Any left-over foodstuffs become my property to dispose of as I see fit.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 4:01 PM on February 25, 2008
MeTa post:
cultural exchange program.
Sure, but seeing as I'm in Louisville, KY...the only things I can send are cheap tobacco, expensive bourbon, heart disease, diabetes, and a miniature Louisville slugger baseball bat for the next time someone tries to get fresh with you.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 8:49 AM on February 18, 2008
Forget packages. We should have a Mefi Exchange Student program. Trade our best and brightest to go learn about other parts of the world.
I don't know about you, but I personally would rather spend my postage on tasty treats. Anyone know what the going rate is for sending a student priority mail?
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 2:41 PM on February 18, 2008
country ham, biscuit mix
Is there a ham and biscuit that's native to Louisville rather than just being a pan-Southern country staple? If so, I'll bite. You can keep the Hot Brown though.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 4:45 PM on February 18, 2008
I'm not sure I can receive or send beer in KY, but anyone who shows up in Louisville from other parts gets a fresh pint at one of our own rock solid brewpubs.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 4:06 PM on February 20, 2008
MeTa post:
You get more with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.
Student shows up in my office with obvious dummy-for-intimidation, I...
(a) acquiesce out of fear so student can go be overly self-congratulatory about how that solved the "problem" and think it might possibly work somewhere else.
(b) ask student that we meet alone, which is perfectly within guidelines (outside of the grievance process or if the student requests counsel to be present) and then be a little nicer because obviously the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 2:48 PM on February 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
What does God think? God is amazed at how much energy has been expended in this thread. God says Konolia wins for insigating with so little effort such excitement and passion in his name. God says, "Konolia, you are a wise leader for planting the seed of my name and letting it grow like a garden among my flock of disbelievers." God knows an opportunity when God sees it...and so does Konolia.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 10:09 AM on February 18, 2008
Submerging your identity deeply within any ideology, in the way that many ideologies (religions, political positions, or whatever) demand that you do or else be unworthy, is really, really bad for you.
I've been reading this thread with a lot of interest, particularly regarding the ideological stakes that are being made.
I don't want the sense to get lost that we are all completely indoctrinated into an ideology, whether it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 2:13 PM on February 18, 2008
MeTa post:
No effing way
Uncle Stavros: Pwally, that was an awful post.
Pwally: Y.eah! Awful good!
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 6:19 PM on February 14, 2008
MeTa post:
Raising the level?
Part of the problem, Dios, is that the current culture of Metafilter begs for the wittiest bonmots and rapier turns of rhetoric that it's members can cook up. Going back through my own posting history, I've noticed that my responses on AskMe are much more substantial than on MeFi. Part of the reason is that I know anything I put on the Blue is much more likely to garner a snark than a substantial response in return. This snark leads to more snark and usually outright hostility (I'm guilty of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 12:28 PM on February 12, 2008
MeTa post:
more inside
Metafilter: I used to masturbate too much, but now I call out.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 3:56 PM on April 18, 2007
This is the way the world ends....
This is the way the world ends....
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 4:28 PM on April 18, 2007
Metafilter: Got more junk in the basement than Rocky Balboa.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 5:50 PM on April 18, 2007
MeTa post:
Grow a skin, people.
I read the snark as dismissive, not defensive. I suspect it's dismissive because the OP demonstrates a fairly substantial lack of awareness of the rhetorical situation in which he/she is writing and the audience he/she is writing to. The "vein of defensive nationalism" is really just a parroting of the misplaced activism demonstrated by the OP. Unfortunately, the parroting by the other posters of this lack of awareness doesn't do much to point this out in a way the OP would likely... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 3:55 AM on April 4, 2007
MeTa post:
I would like to host a MeFi MeetUp as part of a...
But my standards of tackiness as regards to fundraising are probably quite a lot more restrictive than those of many.
Maybe plinth should sell hoagies door-to-door? I'll buy one, two if the lettuce is prewrapped in cellophane to keep it off the bun.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 3:47 AM on September 8, 2006
MeTa post:
Civilisation Vs. The Middle Ages. This has got to...
I find the referencing to his former comments to be, quite simply, McCarthyism in that by signaling the other comments, our reaction to him is somehow supposed to change because of the content of his views.
Argumentum ad...
Hominem
Invidiam
Odium
Metum
Misericordiam
Naturam
Nazium
Odium
Populum
McCarthym
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 12:08 PM on August 24, 2006
No, "septic" is an old anti-American bit of Brit slang from the 1700s, playing of the perception of the Colonies as a nature-damned, undeveloped place to live. Stuck out in the woods, as it were, where there was basically nothing "'cept ticks".
Though that pun might have been in play for a while, it is not the proper etymological origin of the word, which the OED traces back to usage from at least 1605 and deriving from late Latin and Greek.
posted to MetaTalk by mrmojoflying
at 12:29 PM on August 24, 2006
