I don't like Paul de Leeuw's shows. I found this one in particular slightly icky. But I agree with everything gnifti says in this thread. I learned a lot from these threads. I used to think that people on Mefi were smarter and less prejudiced than this.

I don't know if it is still necessary to repeat it, but just to be sure: this performance had NOTHING to do with paedophilia. Nothing at all. Paul was not "mimicking paedophilia" and there was no intent of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 5:27 AM on April 25, 2008

The Light Fantastic: did you actually read the comments? It has been repeated over and over again that there is no allusion to paedophilia in the video. None! Are you going to admit that you were wrong when you said: But please, don't insult my intelligence and tell me that the clip in question wasn't supposed to create this type of controversy?
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 10:47 AM on April 25, 2008

I agree with you that the Netherlands and the US aren't that far apart, gnfti, but with regards to this specific subject, wouldn't you also say that especially fifteen years ago paedophilia just was not as much on the radar in our country as it is in the US now? We still do not have most of the problems that the US has with pictures of naked children and with adult men being distrusted with children. The situation that taz described with the kid being hugged by a stranger could easily happen... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 5:18 AM on April 27, 2008

Wow, I am glad I found this through Meta, though I understand that that is not the way the site is intended to work. Thanks stbalbach. I know that pepsi-blue type posts are discouraged, but is this that different from a post announcing a new phone model?
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:30 AM on November 25, 2007

As a Dutch women mefite, allow me to disagree with gnifti and jouke. Just like the word cunt is offensive to many American women, the word "kut" is offensive to many Dutch women. People in my social circle (late twenties, early thirties, married or living together) sometimes utter "kut" for example when they hurt themselves. It is a swear word. Everybody (at least every adult) I know would say sorry after uttering it in the presence of a woman, but we don't make to much of it,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 3:53 PM on November 24, 2007

Thanks for clarifying gnifti. Personally, I feel there is a HUGE difference between "kut" when it is used almost unconciously (and that actually already excludes use in forums) as a swear word when something bad or extremely irritating happens, and "kut" when it is used to refer to a woman. I recognize that the words are the same, but the context is so different that I just do not connect the two that much. The way I understand it, in this thread, we are talking about the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:23 AM on November 25, 2007

This dahl soup changed my world because before that, I always disliked anything with legumes in it.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:47 AM on October 31, 2007

I often disable javascript on askMe because the live preview often (but somehow not always) makes it incredibly slow to type comments of more than a few sentences. I use Opera (as a normal desktop browser). It is not a big deal to just disable javascript but it took a while to figure out what was wrong with Metafilter/Opera.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 6:33 AM on September 26, 2007

Which links? The header links work for me and I don't see anything else in the top right?
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 5:13 PM on September 26, 2007

I agree with jacquilynne.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 2:52 PM on September 25, 2007

Thanks for looking into it matthewr. The mefi-navigator is the only thing I miss from Firefox for my day-to-day webbrowsing. It would be great if some javascript-savvy Opera users showed up. If not, I may ask it in the Opera forums and see if they can help, but I figured I'd ask here first if anybody got it working already.

My Opera is terribly slow with javascript on Mefi in general. I have to turn off javascript when I am writing an askMe comment, because the live... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 3:40 PM on September 3, 2007

I only now noticed that the highlighting of admins and thread-starters does work. That's still cool.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:03 PM on September 3, 2007

Hm. So, I have been hoping somebody else asked this question for ages. Really. Yesterday, I finally posted the question myself, and today Opera 9.5 Alpha gets released. Everything seems to work fine in this version. What a slick user interface it is now. I see it is even better than last year or so when I still used Firefox. Thanks matthewr!
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 9:36 AM on September 4, 2007

This thread was actually quite helpful to me. I always wondered why I hear so many stories of people who believe in quackery and are healthier than ever. I figure there MUST be stories from people who, say, don't believe in immunization and have their children die from measles, or don't believe in fluoride and get bad teeth. Now at least here is one example (and the HIV example in this metatalk thread, thanks for that), and I now see that they don't even connect the dots themselves: that it is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:04 AM on August 7, 2007

I agree with the more explanation on the metatalk posting page. I posted about a small bug once and I now think that I could have e-mailed that instead. Back then I thought e-mailing was just for the really urgent things and that the preferred way to mention these things was metatalk.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 8:14 AM on August 3, 2007

About the loose skin thing: many people who lose this much weight have surgery for the loose skin. Of course there would be a scar, but we do not know much about this relationship. I suppose they were only together for a short while, maybe she was a bit shy and good about covering that up. I agree it is more likely the story was made up, but you never know.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 11:15 AM on June 4, 2007

Thanks. I have no idea either. I had not even opened the other thread.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 4:47 PM on May 21, 2007

I wasn't going to add a me-too, but so that Matt can more accurately assess what "the majority" think: I agree very much with what languagehat and chickletworks said. AskMe is less interesting to me nowadays (maybe it is not a coincedence that I am in Europe as well?), and I think that that's a pity because I used to really like it.

languagehat said:I basically don't ask questions any more because I'm worried something "important" will come... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 9:07 AM on February 5, 2007

mathowie:"majority of users" means a year or more of metatalk posts. Isn't your own argument usually that only a tiny percentage of users reads metatalk? And I presume an even tinier percentage actually participates in those threads? I think it is very possible that the "majority of users" had no problems whatsoever with AskMe. That's why they didn't go to metatalk to whine about it.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 9:54 AM on February 5, 2007

Thanks matthewr. I did not know I liked the MeFi navigator so much but I really missed it already.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 2:32 PM on February 2, 2007

I think I may also have read the question wrong and I totally answered it with my own experiences in mind. I find it hard to talk about these topics over the internet, when you cannot see the person and cannot talk with them. I also gave advice that did not answer the question. I kept it to a minimum, but I know how hard depression is. What if my suggestion did help him?

That said, as someone who suffered from depression, I can say that those "go to church"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 5:30 AM on July 30, 2006

co.mments.com works for me.
posted to MetaTalk by davar at 5:07 PM on March 17, 2006