Be warned, the article is full of spoilers and challenges the consensus on both movies.

I just finished reading your article and just had to say how immensely wrong you are. Every single person I've spoken with about The Dark Knight is still bubbling about how bloody awesome it was, but on the flip side those same people really disliked ALL of the prequels, especially Emo Annie.

Maybe Vader can be "The Dark Noooo".... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:20 AM on July 25, 2008

So... would have it been utterly (must resist...) impossible to, oh I dunno, make the opening somewhat tapered so the pour was more focused?

I don't drink milk anymore, but let me know when someone fucks up the heavy cream containers. I'll gut someone then.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 1:55 PM on June 30, 2008

Good thing I was already drinking when I read this.

Fuck, I never got to see him live.

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posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:33 AM on June 23, 2008

Fine. You want it that way? Baseball is now Calvinball.

I don't want pro sports, at all. But if there was a Calvinball league...
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 9:49 AM on June 20, 2008

"We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy"

Okay, just ONE of them. So there goes my plan of becoming homeless and hanging around high schools in Mass. hoping to score an... 18 way?
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:41 PM on June 19, 2008

This is kind of odd to me. Now that there isn't a decent way to sort out rentals into seperate queues for whatever reason, that means there's going to be a lot more bandwidth spent on organizing a single queue to try and quasi-replicate the same experience as before.

Plus it just will piss off anyone that was using it, but I guess that doesn't have a dollar sign attached to it so there's no way a corporation can possible calculate that I suppose.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 11:29 AM on June 19, 2008

How many people have been around men that could not shut the hell up, having this irrational compulsion to share every tiny little thought pinging around in their hollow heads?

It's still boring, an endless stream of inane chatter for no other reason than to drown out the silence. But, I do admit, coming up with interesting ways to shut them up is somewhat entertaining.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 11:02 AM on June 19, 2008

Okay, so does this make the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail actually alien artifacts, or do we have a Christian deity and crystal protoss running around on the same planet, both fucking around with humans?

Actually, it was the fridge that bothered me the most.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 4:30 AM on June 19, 2008

I think I've derived more enjoyment out of Robot Chicken's lampooning of him ("What a twist!") than anything he's actually done. Oh well.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 1:32 PM on June 18, 2008

I think if I ever eat oatmeal again, it shall be an "oatmeal meal".
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 10:20 AM on June 16, 2008

When I was a kid I played many sports, but frankly baseball was the most boring one. If you're on a team, you're standing around doing nothing for the most part. Basketball and football, you're always doing something, even if you're not directly related to the ball.

I think this has to do more with popularity than anything else.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:04 PM on June 13, 2008

Meh, this is just a viral advertisement for Bionaire. Wake up, people!

... Is it sad that I'm surprised that they actually offered air filters to people living in that choking dust cloud after Sept. 11th? Maybe I am really jaded and cynical, but I really figured FEMA just shrugged and flipped everyone off near the WTC.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:20 AM on June 13, 2008

So... we've still got IRC though, right?

Okay then.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 5:29 AM on June 13, 2008

And no one's mentioned anything about "Free Speech Zones" yet?

I was under the impression the original intent of Freedom of Speech was to protect a citizen from government persecution when expressing politically unpopular ideas/beliefs/what have you.

Or maybe politicians have a right to be free from hearing things they don't like?
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 3:57 PM on June 11, 2008

Funny enough, one concert I was at the lead singer encouraged people to use their cellphones like lighters. A bit odd, but since the club I was at didn't allow smoking it seemed appropriate somehow.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:28 AM on June 10, 2008

Does that mean the link button just entangles the strings?

Sorry, I'll leave now.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 4:04 AM on June 6, 2008

No, no. When you are in a foreign country and people don't understand you, you don't only have to talk loudly, but slowly as well.

Like you're talking to a dog, right? /kidsinthehall
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 3:30 PM on May 28, 2008

Well, when there's a nickle to be saved in materials cost, isn't it the lawful duty of a responsible corporation to do so? I mean, someone has to think of the shareholders, the most downtrodden class of people to ever exist.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 6:47 PM on May 25, 2008

Whoa, wait a second. That EW article says the guy was able to bench 405lbs, but had a resting heart rate of 120. Something is extremely wrong there. When I was weightlifting (granted it never was competitive or anything, just to keep in shape really) my heart rate went way down. To the point where a nurse who took my blood pressure did a double take and asked if I was a triathlete.

Maybe it was the 'roids that caused his heart rate to skyrocket?
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 10:35 AM on May 19, 2008

Just rule 34.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 5:56 AM on May 16, 2008

I love when he gets up from the chair and has a little hissy fit. That was just precious. Hope he got a sippy cut full of soothing warm milk afterwords.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:20 AM on May 15, 2008

Needs Achievements to really addict the poor impulse control crowd.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 10:50 AM on May 11, 2008

I was buying soem yogurt (yoghurt, whatever) at the grocery store the other day. It was a greek variety, similar to Fage. The lady bagging my groceries looked at it dumbfounded and asked me what it was. I told it it's greek yogurt, it's much richer and thicker than other yogurts. She made a face at that and said she wouldn't like it then, she likes the yogurts that are more liquidy.

I'm still not sure why she felt the need to comment on my damned yogurt. And greek style... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:49 PM on May 10, 2008

Dammit, I hate it when my vitirol gets in the way of typing. I meant to say it's like a food, not a good. Maybe good food would be better? Uh oh, I can't stop editing my thoughts now. I better go eat some yogurt, flush them out.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:51 PM on May 10, 2008

Well, I have the 50G. At least I got a decent deal on it, and I was using a TI-82 before that. Bleh.

I don't use the RPN mode on it, though. I keep meaning to start using it, but right now I really don't have the luxury of shifting my world view so close to my Calculus final.

I used to drive a stick, and I wish I still did, but the car I recently bought is an automatic. Got a deal on that, too, heh.

Standard QWERTY for me... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 6:18 AM on April 26, 2008

Actually this is kind of interesting to me. I mean, if she's getting a nose job, face lift, breast augmentation, isn't this pre-emptively telling her children that the genes she passed down to them just aren't good enough and they should go through the same procedures if they want to be accepted as beautiful?

Mommy wasn't pretty enough on her own, and neither are you kid.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 2:55 PM on April 18, 2008

She, um, takes more than the unwrapping scenes in her film career. I imagine keeping her composure is a good skill to have in her profession.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 11:28 AM on April 15, 2008

I want a cellphone implanted directly onto my neural cortex so I can just communicate telepathically. No talking at all FTW!

Hey, I may get a brain tumor, but at least I won't look like one of those idiots with a bluetooth headset wandering around a grocery store babbling to themself.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:02 AM on April 15, 2008

I made an infusion of vodka with some Scandinavian hard pepper licorice.

It was absolutely horrible. I felt like someone Rick Roll'd me into making it and the punchline was that I wanted to sneeze after taking a shot of that.

Only one of my friends would take a shot, and he was gasping for water since it was so salty. No one else would even touch it after that.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 6:04 AM on April 13, 2008

I felt like I was reading the label on a Dr. Bronner's magic soap bottle, but instead of quirky and funny it was just weird and sad. Maybe funny but not ha-ha funny?

I think that those "photodiamines" are really unclever Rorschach tests. That's supposed to look like a "slut's low neckline", seriously? I thought I was looking at a really bad picture of a waterfall at first. Maybe it says more about the presenter than anything else.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 2:58 AM on April 3, 2008

Yeah... Creative can go to hell. I bought the original SB way back when so I could use the speech pack for Wing Commander. Back then, it was awesome. Amazing how little advancement they've made in the past almost 20 goddamn years. Now about the only time my computer crashes is when the drivers for the craptastic Audigy 2 ZS I have foul up and cause an infinite loop.

The next rig I build will be blessedly free of Creative and their horrible, joy sucking hardware.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 11:08 AM on March 30, 2008

One thing that occurs to me is that Vault merely asked these people which law schools produce the better employees. They did not ask them which law school graduates they pursued most vigorously in hiring.

If certain schools produced better employees, would they not be the schools that are recruited the most heavily?

Sorry if that is a stupid question, but I can't read that statement without my head trying to eat itself.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 1:27 PM on March 26, 2008

Thank you for the responses, prefpara and goneill. I suppose the high cost of admission to prestigous schools such as Yale has to justify itself somehow.

Of course I say this knowing that I have zero probability of ever attending an Ivy League school, so there's that.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 3:31 PM on March 26, 2008

Supply Side Jesus? Is that like Trickle Down Jesus? Or maybe that's for Catholics?
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 5:42 AM on March 15, 2008

I'm going to pick this up once I finally get around to installing The Orange Box and Steam, but since I just got the Rock Band drums I'm going to be busy with those for awhile.

AudioSurf looks like it could be a hell of a lot of fun though.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 5:22 AM on March 1, 2008

That's just what the world needs. Tattoos that can display porn.

Man... that makes tramp stamps a whole lot more interesting of an idea.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 1:05 AM on February 28, 2008

Bananas are full of win. Simply because, if you're male, it's always fun watching people of your sexual preference eat them. Ahem.

Anyway, no nectarines? That is an outrage! When they are ripe and juicey there is nothing more tasty, nor easier to eat.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 10:39 PM on February 25, 2008

I love the end quote, about the woman keeping her mouth shut around her husband's boss. She must really want him to get that promotion!
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:33 AM on February 16, 2008

The animated Clone Wars shorts were pretty good. I enjoyed those much more than episodes 1-3.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:51 AM on February 12, 2008

Please tell me he's offering cake or death.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:02 PM on February 8, 2008

Time to unpack the ol' zombie shotgun.

Then finally we can get that Zombie hunting license I've so desperately wanted!
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:04 PM on February 1, 2008

Ah come on, seriously?! Fuck!

I'm pretty sure if I was getting chased by a hulking predator that wanted to eat me, I'd have some words appropriate to the situation too.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:48 PM on January 26, 2008

Where are all the chicks? Pfft, there are no women on the internet! Wasn't there an essay posted to the blue recently proving this? Do your research!

Anyway, I saw a cam with a pig sleeping (I hope, anyway) in a corner. I wish there was a cat curled up on it's head, though.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:00 PM on January 16, 2008

I'll throw in that if you absolutely must have auto-pay for anything, for the sake of your FICO score, use a credit card. The first time I signed up for a gym I didn't have a CC, so I used my debit card. Once I had a credit card I tried several times to move the monthly charge from one card to the other with no luck. I finally just became disgusted with the gym's service and cancelled my membership.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:15 PM on January 15, 2008

I just got GH2, and I'm amazed at how badly I'm doing at it. I started at medium but dropped to easy since I was failing songs. I think I'm improving, but we'll see how that goes. I think I might switch to my right hand on the frets and left on the strum bar.

I still want Rock Band for the drums and vocals, though.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:17 PM on January 11, 2008

In Soviet Russia, eHarmony is rejected by YOU!
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:04 AM on January 11, 2008

They should team up with companies like these (maybe NSFW text) to sell the complete package: a penis that smells like a crisp oceanic breeze and semen that tastes like a crisp green apple.

Crisp green apple? Oh come on, the REAL money is going to be in chocolate and coffee flavours.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 11:47 PM on January 10, 2008

Last year I went to the Big Cat Rescue down in Tampa, FL. They have this enormous tiger, Shere Khan, 800 pounds. I got to feed it a steak, and not just like a normal steak, no. More like a huge 5 pound slab of meat. The tiger just swallowed it whole.

For the most part I was in complete awe of that creature but there was a tiny, monkey part of my brain that wanted to run for dear life.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 12:48 PM on December 26, 2007

When I was a kid watching original ST episodes, I always wondered what the hell was wrong with their camera everytime a woman was onscreen. Eventually I figured out it was deliberate, but that really didn't raise my opinion of it.
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 7:56 PM on December 18, 2007

Anyone get Ate my Balls™ yet?
posted to MetaFilter by Talanvor at 8:03 AM on December 8, 2007