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MeTa post:
5 minutes of great reading.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Wait, you just disabled the account you had for almost four years over the fact that some people didn't like the style of your post?
Some people will ALWAYS dislike your posts. It's nothing personal, and nothing worth taking your toys and leaving over.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 12:22 PM on July 3, 2008
See, I'm not seeing the "drama queen" or the "got pissed" in Forrest's comment.
Well, he did disable his account in response to a few people saying they didn't like the style in which his post was written. That's evidence of some variety of oversensitivity, although whether it's drama-queenery, pisseditude, or something else is up for debate.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 3:15 PM on July 3, 2008
But I don't really miss insomnia_lj posts or y2karl posts
I see where you're coming from with insomnia_lj / markkraft, but you're fucking nuts if you really mean that about y2karl. He's posted some of the best posts in the history of metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:56 PM on July 3, 2008
Yeah, no, these are the posts I meant and he's largely knocked that off.
No, yeah, I figured you meant the iraq / bush stuff. I just wanted to go on the record pointing out that, despite his reputation, he's far from a one-note polticsfilter guy, and has not only linked to but also created the absolute best of the web many times right here on metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:48 PM on July 3, 2008
Oh, yay! Dave Faris is here to shout at me again! Excellent! I love when that happens!
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 12:17 AM on July 4, 2008
Exclamation point!
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 12:26 AM on July 4, 2008
MeTa post:
They erased his face!
When I first load the MeFi Twitter page, I see all the happy, smiling user avatars. Then, a few seconds after it all loads, every avatar changes to this.
Just out of curiosity, why on earth would you even bother to load that page? I mean, I begrudgingly understand why some people find Twitter entertaining, or even useful, but a page that's nothing but twitter updates from a seemingly endless stream of vaguely connected people?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:52 PM on June 30, 2008
we think Twitter is rilly stupid
If you'll actually read what I wrote, that's not what I said. I don't, in fact, think twitter is really stupid. "Rilly," on the other hand...
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 8:08 AM on July 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Ugh, all RIGHT, mom, I get it.
These responses are all wrong. Dangerously wrong. If you follow this advice you will end up in prison.
Or the hospital. Or the morgue Or or all three. At the same time. But in different countries. Because you've been parted out and shipped around the world.
Consult a competent professional who is licensed in this field immediately, or you will live to regret it, if indeed you live at all.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 11:40 PM on June 30, 2008
MeTa post:
MeFi Follow-Up: Joe Horn is Cleared of All Charges
Uh, they weren't black.
Uh, they were.
The guys Horn shot were named Hernando Torres and Diego Ortiz and part of an organized Colombian home burglary ring of illegal immigrants.
Note: I'm not saying that makes it open season, but try to get the facts straight.
This is one of those cases of the pot calling the kettle Colombian, isn't it?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 5:05 PM on June 30, 2008
From the article you linked:
Mr. Horn is white and the burglars, he told the 911 operator, were black.
Emphasis added. I don't think that's what we can call confirmation.
Did you look at the picture in the article I linked? I think we can call that confirmation, crankyhat.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 5:36 PM on June 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Quickest way to Metafilter Lofi
If mortgate rates go down again, will those lofi mefi wif hifi scifi doofi refi?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:25 PM on June 26, 2008
the apparently improbable 'Mee-Fie'
Nothing improbable about the correct pronunciation.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 2:37 PM on June 27, 2008
MeTa post:
29: Happy Happy Joy Joy
Not quite all, actually...
Good point. Poor travel. It's totally the pb of metafilter subsites.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 2:01 AM on June 27, 2008
Are all those people getting this as a joke in a way I don't?
It may sound like an unfunny joke to you, but it's popular because it's actually not a joke.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:43 AM on June 27, 2008
MeTa post:
It's an AskMe Miracle
Although it strikes me now that Jim Jones could be a bit... well... stash-of-tinned-food-and-a-shotgunny, y'know?
He always struck me more of the remote-compound-in-south-america-and-some-kool-aidy*.
[*]Yes, I know it was Flavor-aid, you pedants. But you don't hear people talking about "drinking the flavor-aid," now do you?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:30 AM on June 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Account Closing Protocol
If someone didn't want to "belong" to this "community", wouldn't someone just quit posting to the site, and reading it? And what of the posts someone has previously posted? Would a request to delete all of someone's own posts be complied with?
Are you "wondering" about "obliviation"?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:57 PM on June 24, 2008
And it doesn't make any sense to me why anyone would click on a link to "officially" close their account,
And yet, people do. All the time. The world's a strange and uncertain place.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:36 PM on June 24, 2008
dersins, are you privy to the logs here at MetaFilter?
Nope.
how frequent would that be?
Often enough that it gets remarked upon in metatalk on a regular basis.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:58 PM on June 24, 2008
And I'm coming off as aggressive? Well, fuck you!!!
Get off the pipe, sluglicker, get off the pipe. It's clearly not doing you any good.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 11:31 PM on June 24, 2008
Or, y'know, just click that button. The one on your "edit profile" page. The one that says "Close Your Account." You know you want to. And if you change your mind later, well, you can always ask them to let you back in. They'll probably do it.
Probably.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 11:33 PM on June 24, 2008
Goodnight sluglicker. Do you mind taking a couple of those excess commas with you? TIA.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 11:48 PM on June 24, 2008
Cooler than cool, klangklangston.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:41 AM on June 25, 2008
On the other hand, I would think my second comment, which was early in this thread, should have cleared things up.
On the third hand, that's the comment where you say:
And it doesn't make any sense to me why anyone would click on a link to "officially" close their account, your explanations notwithstanding.Because of that, it seems odd to have such a link.Which sounds an awful lot like you're calling cortex and jessamyn liars.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 12:27 PM on June 25, 2008
What can I do to make you feel better?
A plate of cookies would be nice. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:15 PM on June 25, 2008
Brandon Blatcher, you promised that our tubgirl cookie thing would be our secret! I can't believe you've betrayed my trust like this! That's the last time I agree to let your mom serve us cookies!
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:32 PM on June 25, 2008
Exclamation point!
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:34 PM on June 25, 2008
You're confusing me with some other black Mefite
Huh?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 2:09 PM on June 25, 2008
MeTa post:
National Lampoon's Palestinian Vacation
He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
I agree, but I'm frankly not sure why this is a metatalk post. It's either good enough for the blue, or he should post it to projects. However, it feels out of place here.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:14 PM on June 24, 2008
Some day, faaar far in the future, there will be a post to one of the MetaFlavors that does not recive any comments questioning its right to exist.
I understand that you're being hyperbolic, but there have been thousands of such posts. They all have a few things in common:
1. They don't suck
2. They are posted to the correct area of the site.
Baby_Balrog's blog definitely passes test #1... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 1:27 PM on June 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Go Team?
Since when was George Best in the Beatles? Silly egg-head munters.
I know, right? Everyone knows he was in the Wedding Present.
Yes I know the second song isn't actually on that album, but so what? It's fucking excellent.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 3:20 PM on June 20, 2008
$20SAIT
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 4:02 PM on June 20, 2008
Anyone who figures out how to game the system to come out as #1 is certainly a helluva lot smarter than those who don't.
Actually, anyone who thinks it's worthwhile to go to the effort to figure out how to game the system for a lame web IQ test is almost certainly substantially dumber than those who recognize that the almost nonexistent reward isn't worth the effort.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:12 PM on June 22, 2008
What shining morals you have. So wonderful you are here to tell us the truth and protect us from internet trickery.
I didn't say you were a bad person for engaging in internet trickery. I just said you were dumb for bothering.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 9:07 AM on June 23, 2008
Feeling a little oversensitve this morning, wgp?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:07 AM on June 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Spelunking for doubles
In fact, we should definitely fix it.
Is that the royal we, the schizophrenic we, or the kindergarten we?
Please check your nintendo we jokes at the door. tia.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 10:18 PM on June 20, 2008
Which port?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 7:53 AM on June 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Happy Mefi-day to me!
They don't make movies like Repo Man anymore.
Agreed. But this is still the best song on the soundtrack.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 2:59 PM on June 20, 2008
that number is what a buddy of mine called 'the platonic ideal of a punk song
Ooh, let's have the "Were the Descendents punk or were they hardcore?" argument. That one's always fun.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins
at 3:03 PM on June 20, 2008
