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MeTa post:
Following in someone's good footsteps ...
I get dirtynumbangelboy and blazecock pileon confused all the time.
That's odd, Meatbomb, I get you confused with Krrrlson and dios all the time. Must be your comment history.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:17 PM on August 7, 2008
An easy way to tell the difference: Two are often funny and not attention whores.
At the same time, you mean.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:59 PM on August 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Apology.
At least you have that Second Account For Making Jokey Comments to fall back on! :P
Not classy at all.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:35 PM on August 6, 2008
MeTa post:
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If you don't want your favorites, I'll take 'em. Give 'em to me.
I'll put 'em in someone else's shirt pocket, pat him or her gently on the cheek, and say, "Now go buy yourself something nice."
Yeah, that's what I'll do. Yeah.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:28 PM on August 5, 2008
MeTa post:
Haha! Let's make things worse.
I flagged it, as well. Probably not the greatest use of Ask Metafilter, even if it isn't strictly against the guidelines. Guess we'll see what the motivation was to keep it, soon enough.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:45 AM on July 31, 2008
I really don't get all the sneering in here.
I do, and I have a theory for it, but REDACTED.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 1:46 PM on July 31, 2008
but th mds wn't lt m tll bt t bcs th'r fscsts
No need to bring the Welsh into this.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:10 PM on July 31, 2008
And to show my support for dgaicun's very generous offer, I'll throw in an additional 45 minutes of quality anal sex to go with it.
Is it pledge drive week at Metafilter again?
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:29 AM on August 2, 2008
Is there a way to get the totebag and the umbrella without the anal?
Sure, but you'll miss out on the Bruce Springsteen DVD set. Don't you think the Boss is worth a little anal?
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:53 PM on August 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Alabama big pig followup
I like how smoothly Fox News works in the obligatory terrarist reference ("cutting off his head..."). It's just red meat for its dumb readership gristle for the mill.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:32 AM on July 31, 2008
MeTa post:
Hubbard tested, Xenu approved!
Scientology, whether it has one member or a million members is a religion in America - a country that has no law that disallows a person from belief in anything they want - be it Jedi, Catholic, atheistic Judaism, Satanism, or even Scientology.
I'll tell you about the Force for $9 a ticket. /lucas
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:01 PM on July 26, 2008
Is Scientology a cult? It is not.
By reasonable standards, Scientology meets many of the characteristics for a cult, by how it idolizes its leader, deals with "outsiders", establishes gradients or levels that members can attain within the organization — and, accordingly, how it generates income — and how its organization handles internal dissent, among other criteria.
If it were an ad for the Evangelical... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:45 PM on July 26, 2008
Would you also say the Jehovah's Witnesses are a cult? Or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
You're evading your responsibility here. I'm not playing this game with you.
You are claiming equivalence between Scientology and, to paraphrase, Lutherans, Muslims, Catholics, and Jews, at least.
Since Scientology is generally understood to have cult-like attributes, you need to show us how... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:08 PM on July 26, 2008
By reasonable standards, Scientology meets many of the characteristics for a cult, by how it idolizes its leader, how it maintains a theology known by all to be derived from science fiction, how it deals with "outsiders" and outside views, how it dissuades followers from interaction with the "outside" world, how it promotes end-justifying-the-means violence against GLBT people and other non-followers, how it establishes gradients or "membership levels" that members... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:43 PM on July 26, 2008
By reasonable standards, The Church of Scientology meets many of the requirements to be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), far more than any other self-proclaimed religious organization in the U.S, and more than some of the organizations that have been targeted by RICO (Hell's Angels, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Major League Baseball...)
According to a U.S. District Court Memorandum of Decision in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:50 PM on July 26, 2008
Blazecock, as someone who has hated Scientology since the death of the Finnish anonymous remailers (and their related Hate-On for their critics around the same time), I think you're wasting your time posting facts about Scientology. It would probably be better for your blood pressure and reduce RSIs to your fingers/wrists if you gave up.
Oh, I'm certain I'm done here. I'm just waiting for the subpoena, now.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:14 AM on July 27, 2008
Well, I'm rabid in my belief that it is not anyone's job (not the governments or a website administrators) other than our own to protect ourselves from our own gullibilty.
That's a fair point. It might also be fair to say that advertising grants a certain legitimacy to the advertised party, which in this case is not a good thing. To paraphrase above, given RICO statutes and the abusively litigious behavior of associated Scientologists, taking ad... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:38 PM on July 27, 2008
Let's not get into false piety, here.
Maybe all money is dirty, on some level. I agree with you that it's not a black and white situation, but, jon, come on, certainly there's some difference between a site advertising the promotion of gangsterism by convicted gangsters, and you going into a bar for a beer? I don't think you buying that beer is what keeps your local organized crime outfit in tracksuits and gold chains.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:48 PM on July 27, 2008
Organized crime and cults arent that different in that you usually can tell what you're getting into if you have half a brain.
Maybe you're right. But I suspect the decision to remove the ads is based less on "protecting users" so much as it is a personal choice not to take money from gangsters. That's just my personal theory, however, a completely uninformed opinion, and I could be wrong. If I'm right or at least close, I think I can get... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:07 PM on July 27, 2008
Can we talk more about fluffing?
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:06 PM on July 27, 2008
Oh man, I have to dig up my UCB discs now. DAMN YOU NOLA!!! *shakes left-handed fist*
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:15 PM on July 27, 2008
Are we shilling for the Nazis?
Well, there was that thread about Prussian Blue.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:17 PM on July 27, 2008
MeTa post:
Men do have babies. Ask any transgender man who has had one.
Bigotry against some sexual minorities is permitted. If the target is a woman, boyzonery doesn't get tolerated. If the target is some other minority, it depends on the situation and the sympathies of the parties involved. It's an unfair world, sometimes, and like you, humannaire, I wish it was better.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 1:57 AM on July 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Thought or not
Acceptable: Douchenozzle, jerkface.
Unacceptable: Doucheface, jerknozzle.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:57 PM on July 25, 2008
Douché, monsieur breakfàst.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:01 PM on July 25, 2008
How about a swear jar? We could buy iPhones for people with the most favorites at the end of the year.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:07 PM on July 25, 2008
Is there anywhere one can go that is more polite?
I hear that LRB is punctual about tea breaks at 4 PM every day. Their digestives are a scrumptious delicacy.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:20 PM on July 25, 2008
MeTa post:
I HATE YOU ALL (EXCEPT OBAMA)
No worries. Bush just signed an executive order to begin offshore drilling for bandwidth.
This is a complete scam. It'll take TEN YEARS just to bring PPP service to Albuquerque.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:55 AM on July 24, 2008
I think at a certain date unknown to the rest of us, mathowie should delete all the accounts with the MOST comments.
My loophole is to start a new account every year or so.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 4:28 PM on July 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Too much steampunk?
So you're asking for it to be unpublished?
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:32 PM on July 23, 2008
After steampunk, there will be steamwave. After steamwave, there will be steamemo, or what I shall now call steam-o*.
* trademark pending
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:03 PM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Users and tags and dendrograms, oh my!
Burhanistan and desjardins, I am your father. /vader_breathing
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:57 PM on July 22, 2008
The problem with dendrograms is that they are difficult to read or interprete with more than a handful of classes (here, "users").
After traversing beyond a small distance between clusters, the between-cluster distances become unreadable.
It might be more communicative to put tags into a small set of color-coded classes ("computing"->red, "newsfilter"->green, etc.), label usernames in color based on majority... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:05 AM on July 23, 2008
Not sure how readable that would be with 80 different tags in the 'small' version.
Not very readable at all. But if you further classify tags into larger and more abstract categories, say seven or eight "main" tag classes, then you could color code users. You might also use font size to communicate another dimension of information.
If you use usernames instead of dots, your size requirements blossom by an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:45 AM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
He likes education, thinks he's innocent, so what?
Good cull very happy. Now make babby.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 7:39 AM on July 19, 2008
I notice that there have been several posts on the front page today that were deleted without having someone make a stink about them on Metatalk. WTF?
There seems to be some back-hair poking out of your shirt collar. And you seem to have over-applied your make-up today.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:50 PM on July 19, 2008
After all no one would spend $69 for t-shirt.
People give lots of money to Urban Outfitters, and that shop is run by crypto-fascists.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:24 PM on July 20, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe Answer Generator
Clearly not, as the linked to thread on Metchat is still there.
Oh, I know. I'm not suggesting the "policy", as such, is consistent. As always, these things depend on who's involved.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:07 PM on July 18, 2008
The policy, as written in Metachat's FAQ
That policy has been changed, then. Some issues were fair game not too long ago. I don't particularly care, either way, but I do agree that it would be good for Metachat stuff to stay there.
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:20 PM on July 18, 2008
