That was fun. Especially trying to explain metafilter to the civilians, who looked on confusedly.

Next time, a Go tutorial hosted by Phrontist?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 6:48 AM on May 24, 2008

Also, the claims of early graduate dregrees and suchlike reminds me of un owen. Whatever happened to her?
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:30 AM on March 10 [+] [!]

UN Owen is around and posting via her "husband's" account, InnocentBystander. I found this out because they posted virtually identical stories (1, 2) about getting bullied at a young age.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:19 PM on March 10, 2008

By the way, I liked UN Owen. What did she do wrong besides asking for money?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:20 PM on March 10, 2008

I think UN Owen should be allowed back. She may be a scammer, but she also coined one of the most memorable phrases of AskMe, one which lives on in the lexicon.

Also, I believe sansgras.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:45 PM on March 10, 2008

Just an aside, and for what little it's worth, but like a lot of stuff we think we made up here, that was an SA Forums catchphrase (and used elsewhere, but I think it came from SA before SA started its sad spiral into internet irrelevance) years before it appeared here.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:59 AM on March 11 [+] [!]

Really? Oh well. But did we every really get any proof that UN Owen wasn't for real? I don't think she... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:03 AM on March 11, 2008

Yes, let's officially convene a coram nobis hearing for UN Owen.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 6:00 AM on March 11, 2008

I'll be around on the 28th.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:27 AM on March 11, 2008

I'm begining to suspect that Phil is engaging in a subtle form of flame-baiting here, one that uses highly rational-seeming language, but is nonetheless primarily seeking attention and -- in this case -- a strongly negative emotional response that would then back up his original claims.

This thread would be closed by now if his tone were just a little more aggressive.
posted by nobody at 5:53 PM on January 13 [3 favorites +] [!]... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 4:37 PM on January 13, 2008

If they want to do this right, they should start with listing the questions they feel best explain whether an NPO is "effective" or not, identifying which metrics are available to them, see which metrics can answer these questions, and then try to identify metrics that could answer these partially answered questions. It sounds like they're starting with naming metrics without even asking the questions.
posted by dw at 6:06 PM on January 2 [+] [!]... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 3:22 PM on January 2, 2008

So basically, the only advice a lawyer can feel safe giving is: "Talk to a lawyer?"
posted by empath at 4:53 PM on December 22 [+] [!]

That's right. We can give you information but we can't give you advice individually tailored to your situation.

The idea is to use Askme for legal research assistance, not legal advice. So instead of asking "My landlord wouldn't give me my security deposit.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 2:40 PM on December 22, 2007

UbuRoivas, your disengenuous blindness towards the actual facts of this case bespeaks an agenda. For all your supposedly liberal credentials, every time I've seen you address anything having faintly to do with women's rights on metafilter, it's always to say, "stop whining about your perceived oppression little lady, you're just blowing things out of proportion." You seem to want to claim to be a feminist (what with your lesbian roommates and all), and yet you work hard, very hard,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 7:32 AM on November 8, 2007

She just sat down one day and thought "would I rather do less work and eat lousy food, or do extra work and eat good food?" Both my parents are very into food, so apparently the answer was simple.
posted by bugbread at 1:45 PM on November 8 [+] [!]

Wow, bugbread, and that answer made you think the division of labor in your home was actually fair? It's not hard to learn how to cook decently, you know. Doing a crappy job at... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 12:47 PM on November 8, 2007

Dersins, what we're doing here is arguing about people's stories about their families. If bugbread doesn't want his family commented upon, he shouldn't have brought his story up as "proof" that women can serve men happily.

(And besides that, I'm honestly amazed that her answer would have dispelled all of bugbread's concerns.)
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 1:08 PM on November 8, 2007

Yeah, Ubu, it was Stokkegate I was thinking of.

I totally understand the idea of being fed up with wasting political capital on meaningless crusades. But that's simply not what's happening here -- somebody is being asked to do something that in a real, concrete way, may or may not embody sexism and foretell more to come.

It's not like saying "wimmin" instead of "women."
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 4:21 PM on November 8, 2007

Signal, were you talking to me? I got the trickiest part (subjunctive) right and abstained from the part I wasn't sure about. And "querida" (or carinho) is what I'd say to my Spanish girlfriends; I don't think I ever heard "dulzura" there.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 1:41 PM on October 10, 2007

As long as you don't wear the pink jeans, you should be ok.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 4:59 PM on September 9, 2007

Hey, this happened to me and gsteff in DC! Except for that two other mefites actually did show up but we didn't have a big enough sign...
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 10:02 AM on September 7, 2007

Bunnycup, I think you're giving WAY too much legal advice on the internet, personally. You'll notice that no other Mefi lawyer actually chimed in on that one.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 6:07 AM on August 29, 2007

I went to one wedding where they did that dance-of-the-married people thing, and one crazy couple simply refused to get off the dance floor at their appointed time. So in the end, it was just them (married only 15 years) and the 60 years married couple at the end. It was very strange. I guess people just get weird ideas in their heads at weddings.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 7:05 AM on July 13, 2007

You know, they are two different cases. In Colorado, you just need to get parental notification, not consent. The girl can still get an abortion, she just has to tell her mother first. You don't need parental consent in Florida either, but the judge in that case ruled initially that the girl couldn't have an abortion. Here's a chart for future reference.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 1:46 PM on July 1, 2007

¹ See infra.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 3:34 PM on June 19, 2007

There used to be an old guy playing the erhu on the 6 platform at Grand Central during late rush hour and into the evening for years. He looked a lot like Deng Xiaopeng, and was far and away the most skilled and nuanced erhu player I'd ever heard.

Really? I hope this isn't the same one who sounded so grating that I'd almost offer to pay him to stop playing. I'm not saying that to be cool & snarky -- it was seriously painful to listen to. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 10:33 AM on April 9, 2007

I don't really like it. Change the disfavored class to race or sexual orientation rather than gender, and I'm pretty sure it'd be deleted without question.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:12 AM on January 25, 2007

The problem isn't the "asking" or the "discussing" -- it's the obvious "enjoying" inherent in the question.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 11:37 AM on January 25, 2007

Maybe the question shouldn't have been deleted (I think it should have been) but it certainly never should have been posted. It was locker-room guy talk, the kind of thing those boys who posted it probably wouldn't have engaged in in a mixed-gender crowd of friends. Askme is great for asking questions you'd be embarassed to ask in public, but I don't think that should be a reason to discard all social norms of politeness.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 12:48 PM on January 25, 2007

I want to come! Can I get a cab home from Abyssina, though?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 2:31 PM on January 23, 2007

Some mental illnesses, such as OCD, can be marked by pressured speech and writing, so I wouldn't mark this guy down as fake (or undeserving) just because of the style of his post. Quite the opposite.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 4:56 PM on January 18, 2007

Yeah, I think that "our" Borat frat boy took the high road: an ABC Exclusive Interview.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 3:38 PM on December 8, 2006

My ex boyfriend and all his sock puppets - Because it's just so obvious

My brother - years of experience
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 12:18 PM on November 30, 2006

I thought of that too matthewr - but my purpose in posting to metatalk was to address these kinds of messages in general, and that's something you can't really talk about without a real example. I'm not *that* paranoid about having my "name" associated with the comment one time; it's the general principle I'm worried about.

Also, I don't believe the comment was sarcastic.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:12 AM on November 6, 2006

Meatbomb's question was just putting a funny decorative touch on a sinking ship that was not long for this world, IMO.

I don't agree - the question was too long and too ranty, but the specific problem of "what rights to class action objectors have" is pretty important, and the answers were serious and helpful until the Meatbomb was dropped.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:29 AM on November 6, 2006

You know what's really annoying about all this? The fact that it is actually perfectly legal in many cases to fire someone for having an affair.

PS: I am not anyone's lawyer.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:00 PM on October 30, 2006

I would like to suggest that future such trainwrecks be properly labelled for easier comprehension and subsequent derision. Eg, W = Wife; H= Husband; G = Girlfriend; GH = Girlfriend's Husband. Also, I still can't figure out who A is in this scenario.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:43 AM on October 26, 2006

Oh, and maybe this is a more useful comment, Bageena. I've been harping on this in AskMe lately, so I'll say it here again: You're not going to get good answers to legal questions having to do with a specific set of facts, like "is this blackmail," on Askme. Issues of timeliness and attorney-client privilege mean that you need to go to a real-life lawyer to protect yourself if you think you're suffering a legal wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:46 AM on October 26, 2006

During my brief yet illustrious reign as a policy debate second-place trophy winner, my partner and I took great pride in the fact that we spoke at normal speeds, while our opponents talked really fast during their speeches but couldn't answer any of our cross examination questions.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 12:16 PM on October 17, 2006

I'll try to make it if I get out of work on time! Could I catch up with the party in the middle of the course if I get there late?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:45 PM on September 14, 2006

Wake me when the NYTimes finally quotes a comment that is more than a line or two long. I hate the fact that they use snark as filler in their articles.

I agree in general, but the Link by Link column seems intended in part to highlight the snark of the week, so it's not really filler in this case.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 3:35 PM on July 10, 2006

I might be in town on Saturday looking for apartments -- I'll try to make it.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 2:45 PM on June 17, 2006

I won't be there after all -- try again in the fall??
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 6:37 PM on June 20, 2006

I'll be there! I've never been to an Uno's, so it will be fresh and exotic for me. How will we meet up at the theater?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:33 PM on June 7, 2006

Oh no! We got there a little past 8 and gave the hostess clear instructions, or so we thought... We'll have to try it again later in the summer.

The global warming movie was good. I'm totally voting for Al Gore.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 10:42 AM on June 11, 2006

I'll be there! What about Au Pied Bistro on M st?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:24 PM on June 2, 2006

It's the "They must be very proud of their product" bit that gives the comment the distinct odor of hucksterism.

While it's clear that financial self-interest shouldn't be an automatic criteria for banning, there's more than enough evidence here that the poster's primary intent was profit rather than information sharing. I think that's where the line should be drawn: selling things, ok; salesmanship without a genuine belief in the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 11:29 AM on March 12, 2006

I've been exiled by my insane stepmother from the family abode for Christmas. The bright side? She never made me get a lobotomy , plus I get to have Christmas this year with an old friend arriving from out of town as we speak. We're going to eat prime rib and pumpkin pie.

Happy holidays. Make the best of it! (And merry christmas to my MeFi siblings and friends -- you know who you are. I'm glad you escaped being lobotomized too.)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:56 AM on December 25, 2005

It also seems like WCityMike could have found a less google-indexible way of bringing making the association, as well.
posted by cortex at 10:04 AM PST on September 19 [!]

This seems to me to be the key. Anyone who posts here revealing as much personal info as RCM has should obviously be aware that they are not anonymous. However, that doesn’t mean that the whole wide world should be able to go back and track down what they said. Just... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 12:58 PM on September 19, 2005

I'm probably overeager about this because I just graduated, but (after consulting MeTa in the above thread) I'm perfectly happy to participate in legal discussions of a general nature that don't involve "advice." So I'm happy to, say, attempt to explain the doctrine of incorporation with respect to the Second Amendment during a discussion of Katrina, but not to answer someone's question about "my landlord did this...is that legal?"
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 3:44 PM on September 13, 2005

"internally displaced person" -- what a load of horseshit.
posted by mischief at 11:10 AM PST on September 11 [!]

Actually, "internally displaced person" is a quite well accepted term of art in the human rights field.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 8:38 PM on September 11, 2005

I don't want to be pedantic, but there's actually a good (ie, non-PC) reason for the term, mischief.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 9:14 PM on September 11, 2005

or to imagine the spin the news media would put on it: "Look at those America-hating anti-war people desecrating the memory of the 9/11 dead!" I realize that that's blatant spin, but let's not hand 'em raw material on a platter what do you say?
posted by jonmc at 5:25 PM PST on September 1 [!]

That's why we need the perfect slogan, which makes clear we hate what's happened to our country. Any suggestions?
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 5:44 PM on September 1, 2005

Poifect!

It looks like I'm going alone, though...so look for me on CNN with my t-shirt on.
posted to MetaTalk by footnote at 7:10 PM on September 1, 2005