1. The post was bad; it needed some fleshing out and background links and compelling content.

2. Still: There are approx. 946 posts on the front page of metafilter right now; why did people choose that one to shit in? Isn't there one about fat people around?

3. I tend to agree with dead_. We don't do rap well, but yeah, we don't do "white trash" well either. The Great White nightclub fire was a real fuckin' beaut.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:19 AM on December 5, 2007

Posts about Mos Def or anticon or Cannibal Ox or the like get very little of that snark.

OK, so we do white-kids rap well. Though I guess it could be argued that gangsta rap = white-kids rap.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 12:38 PM on December 5, 2007

Wait, so if white people aren't allowed to debate the merits of "black" music, what the hell are all of us doing in this thread?

And I'm still waiting for someone to tell me whether it was Wayne Kramer or Rob Tyner who hated women? Or was it both? Surely one of you must have memorized Please Kill Me.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 2:44 PM on December 5, 2007

Except the guy taking us to task for not appreciating rap properly

Actually, Artw, my comment was directed at you.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 3:07 PM on December 5, 2007

If I could get paid to research random shit like this all day long, I would be happy as a dog with two dicks.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 2:53 PM on November 13, 2007

Who wants to get a collection going so we can pay veronica sawyer to research just how happy a dog with two dicks is?

I've actually been conducting research on this very topic. Here are the results.

God bless the MacArthur Fellowship.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 8:33 AM on November 14, 2007

My roommates and I are in a band. The band is called Hitler's Petrified Dick.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:11 AM on November 2, 2007

Shortly after 9/11, there was a spate of Get Your War On posts. Like eight or so over the course of a week, maybe? In that case though people eventually started posting GYWO just to be annoying. So I don't know if it counts.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:27 AM on October 30, 2007

Hey four panels, perhaps that thread would be the appropriate place for you to finally get answers to all those questions you had about the sex lives of retarded people.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 11:29 AM on October 12, 2007

Plutor, why did you comment without reading the article first? She's a notable and acclaimed writer, Christ. I mean, I realize that's not as impressive as being the cohost of a show on the Discovery Channel, but still.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:11 AM on September 21, 2007

Holy cow, Jenny Diski!
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 2:25 PM on September 12, 2007

This isn't about whether or not neocons hate Arafat or gays or whatever, it's about what the impact could be in the West Bank. And unfortunately for most people, AIDS means gay, so good for all of us that we recognize it doesn't. I bet the Palestinians aren't quite so enlightened.

Imagine if!

Whatever it is you're getting at, it still doesn't offer any rationale for the content of that lame attempt at a shit-stirring post.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:12 PM on July 13, 2007

What fresh hell is going on over there? Put me in the camp of "there is nothing wrong with the post." The whingeing old-timers need to set an example for the noobs lest mefi degenerate entirely into complaints and they'll tell us I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 7:57 AM on February 1, 2007

I suspect the dude who posted this question was sitting around yukking it up with his brahs, yeah, and I don't really care if the thread gets deleted (even if I did reply). But for my purposes, if it sticks around, it's actually a useful thread because it's a veritable repository of asshole-dom. Now I know of even MORE rappers whose records I won't be buying. (Not being disingenuous there--I did find a lot of the replies useful.)

And frankly, as a woman and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:26 AM on January 25, 2007

I agree with Omie Wise (as I pretty much always do).
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:48 AM on January 25, 2007

Yes, but they don't talk about them. The thread lists them.Which is the disturbing element - there is no room for discussion, since the thread was asking for "examples" for a "contest".

There is no room for discussion on any AskMe thread:
Open-ended chatty questions that don't offer a problem to be solved are detrimental to the long term usefulness of the site.

That's why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:02 AM on January 25, 2007

A front-page post might not be a bad idea, except for the fact that it would probably get a meta call-out as well.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:09 AM on January 25, 2007

(Um, I meant that in reference to the people who suggested the topic was better suited to a front page post.)
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:10 AM on January 25, 2007

I don't see any legitimacy in the "we didn't write it" or "they don't really mean it" nonsense....somehow many people can't seem to muster the courage to stand up to everyday misogyny.

What an unfair statement. Post hoc fallacy, too. You assume because a small portion of the mefi community (or the population at large, whatever) can rattle off misogynist lyrics, that they're all a bunch of womenhaters? You can't say that, and you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:30 PM on January 25, 2007

Please, clockzero, will you clarify what you meant by that, then? I ask this because when I'm not sitting at my desk arguing with people on the interweb, I actually do spend time standing up to misogyny.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:38 PM on January 25, 2007

I agree with Omie too, and as I commented last week, I think it's really fucking lame to mock someone's askme question just because you can.

It'd be one thing if all the comments in this thread were stricly conjecture on whether this guy is real or a troll. (I'm not entirely convinced he is real. If he is, my guess is personality disorder, or bizarrely unchecked compulsivitiy. But whatever.)

But if he IS... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:07 PM on January 18, 2007

I sound like a candy ass here (and I love your contributions, loquacious, I really do), but it seems a bit insensitive to make fun of anonymous question-askers, even if their questions are stupendously gross. But the subjects are usually embarrassing enough as they are--why the extra shaming? These are fellow mefites, after all--if you prick them (or peel off their toe caluses, as the case may be) do they not bleed?

I'm being overly sensitive. OK, you can all line up to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:03 AM on January 10, 2007

the guy did point out his background, which lead to him asking the question.

Yes, after he clarified his initial question, I felt slightly less suspicious/squicked about it, but then I thought wait a minute: If he grew up on farms, why wouldn't he already know the best way to kill the dog? Makes me think it's a troll.

Anyhow, if it's legitimate, he got adequate replies to his question, deleted or not.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 2:44 PM on January 5, 2007

For all the pharisaic rocksnobbery on mefi, I too can't believe that the best we answers we could come up with was outdated whiteboy hipsterhop. I mean, I own all of that stuff, but I'm in my 30s, so it's allowed.

Paging dobbs! He'd have good suggestions.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:40 AM on January 3, 2007

Oh, and. This is still a stupid callout, caek, and here's the eleventybillionth reason why. You said in the thread: all the suggestions so far are frat-boy hip-hop (Jurrasic 5, I'm looking at you) or excrutiatingly middle-aged funk-soul

Which is not true at all. You are an expert Fratboy Ethnomuscologist, but I guess you're not familiar with, like, punk and stuff, but, yeah, it's not excruciatingly yadda yadda.

Also, absence of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:04 AM on January 3, 2007

the extra exclamation (extramation, if you will) points signify that I mean business.

I use commas for the same reason, Mister_A.

To quote the Roots, who, incidentally, I've booked for my baby shower, EITHER STAND TALL OR SIT THE FUCK DOWN.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:12 AM on January 3, 2007

Mister_A, quonsar: I am flattered that you both appreciate my big-dick style.

(And, I sincerely apologize: they are Finnish!)

Aha, confirmation! Like I said in the askme thread, the Scandinavians, they live for this shit.

It's a shame that they're all suicidal drunks.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:36 AM on January 3, 2007

Rats done bit up my sealed copy of Ultramagnetic MCs "Critical Beatdown" and WHITEYS ON THE MOON!
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:43 PM on January 3, 2007

There. Now it's dead.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:44 PM on January 3, 2007

hermitosis, have you ever been to Baltimore? It's a lot different from NYC, and I concur with mygothlaundry: it's a lot scarier (in places). When strangers are asking to borrow your stuff, it can mean something different than it does in NY. What is the point of this callout again?

Personally, the only neighbors who've ever asked to borrow money from me--in all the cities I've lived, including NYC--have either been addicts or con artists.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 2:52 PM on January 2, 2007

I am the funniest woman on the face of the planet and the only thing I find annoying about the post is that it was linked to on every friggin' blog in Hell's Half-Acre last week. I don't get why people don't bother doing a cursory Technorati search before posting a single-link post to a Hitchens bloviation on VanityFair.com.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 12:40 PM on December 12, 2006

Since I have you all here, can someone point out the origin of the hand-cutting-off flameout? (Apologies for the tangent, but I've been wondering this for months.)
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 7:06 AM on October 27, 2006

Ah, goody. Thanks. What is it about crazies cutting their hands off in outrage?
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 7:14 AM on October 27, 2006

I think that crabintheocean's original point, which is also supported by antifuse's comment, isn't immaterial at all. Whatever with the inherent institutionalized sexism--I'm not sure it's even worth trying to "enlighten" the guilty menfolk around here--the whole "male answer syndrome" (for lack of a less sexist term, lest the smartasses decide to decry it) thing is really, really, really annoying.

People don't read the question... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 7:32 AM on March 16, 2006

insomnia_lj, you're being completely disingenuous. Were you trying to make some sort of "It's the X, stupid" snowclone quip? Then freakin' say so.

Oh, and what a charmer you are! Hadn't seen that until loquax just pointed it out.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:11 PM on March 15, 2006

I happen to think that AskMe, in general, offers some pretty good relationship advice. (Naturally, there are certain people who consistently offer shite advice, too...assholes, opinions, etc.)

Here's my take. The reason why it seems like we advocate "Run for your life!" all the time is two-fold.

First, many people who come here looking for relationship advice seem to be in their early-to-late 20s. Having stayed too... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 7:27 AM on March 9, 2006

Could it be that a mefite is self-linking on the Washington Post!?!
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 10:57 AM on January 5, 2006

stop posting titfucking and asslicking threads on askme

Um, why? It's not as though they were particularly salacious. I daresay they were fairly clinical, even. Do they offend your sensibilities? Because thousands of people use this site; You don't have much control (or the right to dictate, either) over so many users.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 9:26 AM on October 6, 2005

I mean, "Sex101 For Dummies" is very, very lame.

Well, perhaps they teach about rimjobs in Italian primary schools, but it's still a bit exotic in some parts of the US. Besides, the question-asker wanted to know about e-coli.

I called 311 just now, to see if they could give me a definitive answer to the e-coli question, but they had me on hold for an hour and 15 minutes so I hung up. Maybe the anonymous... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 1:09 PM on October 6, 2005

Maybe I'm learning something about toobheads being overly sensitive to their addiction to the glass tit.

Holy cow, will you please read that aloud to yourself? You sound like Wulf Zendik or something.
posted to MetaTalk by veronica sawyer at 12:55 PM on September 8, 2005