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MeFi post:
Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
So, I just spent pretty much all day reading this thread. 1300+ comments, and the vast majority of them seem to be from people who are shocked, shocked, that some or all of the principals at BoingBoing appear to have engaged in hypocrisy, egotistical behavior, and / or douchebaggery.
I'm confused. Have none of you ever read BoingBoing before?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 7:50 PM on July 2, 2008
Wendell, what did you do, anyway?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:20 PM on July 3, 2008
the "Xeni is a man" thing
I see that a lot and I never understand it.
How could she be a man, when she's so clearly not even a human?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:45 PM on July 3, 2008
sorry
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:46 PM on July 3, 2008
Whaddaya mean "oh dear"? She's a robot, isn't she?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:55 PM on July 3, 2008
isn't she?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:55 PM on July 3, 2008
why should I feel bad ordering a "Rooty Tooty Fresh & Fruity".
Because "Moons Over My Hammy" is awesomer on every axis.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 11:17 PM on July 3, 2008
offensive/sexist/racist statement
Just to clarify, are you actually calling what I said "offensive / sexist / racist"? Really? It's any of those things to refer to Xeni Jardin as a robot? What the fuck does that have to do with sexism or racism?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 11:57 PM on July 3, 2008
At this point, it takes more than 18 minutes just to load this thread.
I'm posting this from the future!
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 12:34 AM on July 4, 2008
way to devolve the thread.
Dude, the third comment in this thread was about dildoes, and the sixth compares Cory Doctorow to one.
This is an improvement.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:35 AM on July 4, 2008
You mean when I am? Yeah, they will have issued them nineteen minutes go. Your time.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:56 AM on July 4, 2008
We're going to go over 1,600, aren't we?
Signs point to yes.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 8:33 AM on July 6, 2008
1914? Really? With 3 full weeks to go before thread closure? I'm betting the over on that one.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:16 AM on July 6, 2008
Chances are he won't be taken seriously as long as he's associated with this nonsense,
Or as long as he's not.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:59 AM on July 8, 2008
Is that sort-of more okay for people with made-up names?
Oh, didn't you know? She likes to imply that she didn't make it up. See the typically (for wikipedia) laughable talk pages (1, 2, 3 )for her wiki entry for some background.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:42 PM on July 8, 2008
I think Xeni Jardin's posts have been the best thing on BoingBoing in recent years.
Now that, ladies and gentlemen (and cortex) is how you damn something with faint praise. Well done, lukemeister.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 5:54 PM on July 8, 2008
And it's such a delightfully content-free reply, to boot:
have you noticed that the things you're saying about me are arguably more inflammatory than any of the things you quote me as saying?
"Arguably more inflammatory." Give me a break. Anything is fucking arguable. Dogshit is "arguably" more delicious than cherry pie, but that doesn't make it actually more delicious. I used to have a fairly high opinion of her ability to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:43 PM on July 9, 2008
They put it in the water. What else are you supposed to do?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:21 PM on July 9, 2008
Too bad we didn't hit this comment number on Friday.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:22 PM on July 9, 2008
Dude, gnfti, you gots to lay off the Domino's. That shit'll kill you stone dead.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 5:18 PM on July 9, 2008
I'm such a cheater.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 12:50 PM on July 10, 2008
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 12:50 PM on July 10, 2008
there'll still be the 2682 comment MetaTalk thread to beat.
Why would anyone be interested in being second best? Aim high-- 3647 comments high!
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:22 PM on July 10, 2008
Yeah, we wouldn't want to do that.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:09 PM on July 10, 2008
Or would we?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:09 PM on July 10, 2008
see what i did there?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:10 PM on July 10, 2008
At your age, languagehat, if you don't know where your muffin is, I think you need more help than any one of us is qualified to give....
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 5:54 PM on July 14, 2008
Hey, neat! My favorite year!
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 5:54 PM on July 14, 2008
(Not that one. That one.)
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 5:57 PM on July 14, 2008
Hilarity ensues.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:15 PM on July 15, 2008
Followed the subsequent year by wacky hijinks.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 2:18 PM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Does WALL-E demonize fat people?
Does WALL-E demonize fat people?
No, it depicts (and holds up for ridicule) lazy people who refuse to get out of their chairs or stop watching their video screens for anything, while slurping down high-calorie concoctions relentlessly marketed to them by a giant corporation. That they are fat is a function of their lifestyle, not the reason they're held up to ridicule.
And anyway, it doesn't demonize those people; they're... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 3:55 PM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Can I has stock quotes?
I'm glad WSJ readers have a link to follow to a page that has, at the moment, this text prominently displayed:
Latest Posts
* Anime/Wallpapers : No.515932 by Anonymous
* Paranormal : I would never do that! He's an...
* Toys : FUCK YOU NIGGER
* Fashion : I lol'd
* Auto : DO IT FAGGOT
* Photography : but it also likes to cuddle on...
* Technology : Poorly argued;... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 10:01 AM on July 10, 2008
here's the rules.
Here's a slightly different version of the rules (NB: ED = NSFW), which includes a very important disclaimer: "There is no real set of Rules to the Internet, only a standard 3 on which everyone agrees (1, 2, and 34) and some bullshit rules that came out of nowhere."
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 11:38 AM on July 10, 2008
MeFi post:
MarineBio
Why do so many of your posts the last few months read like press releases?
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:09 PM on July 9, 2008
MeFi post:
The successor to TimeCube?
LOLCRAZYPEOPLE
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 1:08 PM on July 8, 2008
If someone posted a link to someone in a wheelchair who does something unique with it, it could spark some interesting discussions and break down some barriers.
Yeah, but this isn't that. This is pointing and laughing, which is mostly just kinda dickish.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 1:51 PM on July 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Ines Brun rides a track bike
Why would anyone chose to ride a bike that doesn't coast and that can't change gears? Well, why do you ride a bike instead of drive a car?
So that I can avoid spending several hundred dollars a month on gas. So that I can do my small part to postpone the inevitable. So that when the inevitable does come I'll be more capable of getting around than I otherwise would be.
Do you like the wind rippling over your legs as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 4:34 PM on July 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Collateral Damage?
OMG poor people criminals do crime even when they live in nicer neghborhoods! Who would have guessed?
Fixed &c.
Not all poor people "do crime," Sherlock.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 3:19 PM on July 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Blue Collar Babies
This story just keeps getting uglier:
BEVERLY, Mass.—The Horribles Parade in an affluent area north of Boston is supposed to poke fun and feature all things politically incorrect. But a float that spoofed the spike in teen pregnancies in a nearby city was too much for three parade judges.
The annual Fourth of July Horribles parade in Beverly Farms included a float with dancing girls with pillows stuffed under their shirts.
That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 11:21 AM on July 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Wow-e: Malthusian Fear Mongering Can Be Annoying
Earlier today I was trying to explain to a friend how the Voyager unmanned space probes have exited the heliosphere of our solar system...
[SNIP]
You know what she said to me? "Well, none of that will matter when The Rapture happens."
ZachsMind. Dude. You gotta get smarter friends.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 1:46 AM on July 4, 2008
Wow, melissam. That Mises Institute article is so spectacularly humorless that I'm tempted to assume it's all a joke. 1400+ words to tell us how unrealistic Wall-E is? Wall-E, the robot love story set many hundreds of years in the future? The one that's a freaking cartoon? Man, I hope for this guy's sake that nobody ever shows him Ratatouille. His head might explode.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 1:08 AM on July 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Short and Scrappy
This is one of those projects that sound like an awesome idea when you first think of it.
Then you go out and take the pictures and you're still all "This is going to be so cool; it's like I'm making an important statement here about the relative powerlessness of immigrants in our society, and how that means they have to dislplay a superhuman work ethic to succeed. And you're right to think that-- it's an important statement, a treue statement, and one that needs... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dersins
at 9:43 AM on July 3, 2008
