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MeTa post:
Metafilter - lessons learned from the BB problem?
do I recall correctly that this is a reference to a really incredible Ray Bradbury story?
Nah, that's the Twilight Zone. Who is this Ray fellow again?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 2:30 PM on July 2, 2008
Damn, I would have sworn the corn field was a Ray Bradbury invention.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 4:23 PM on July 2, 2008
jessamyn wrote...
[a few comment and follow-up removed ...
Not for me to judge, but I think you may have missed one.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 5:53 PM on July 2, 2008
Pelt preparation.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 6:28 PM on July 2, 2008
$20 SAIT.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 6:45 PM on July 2, 2008
(anal sex)
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 6:46 PM on July 2, 2008
Huh. I went out googling for SAIT and discovered that it's not a very well known acronym. I almost decided that it must be a metafilter thing, but then I checked and it's only been used 14 times here.
Apparently it's just the acronym of choice for connoisseurs of nun jokes.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 6:53 PM on July 2, 2008
I'm very curious about what wendell did to earn his time-out in that thread.
He took a rather misogynist potshot at some folks. Not like him, really.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 8:09 PM on July 2, 2008
Just because we don't care much for baseball doesn't mean we're entirely ignorant of how the game works; all those tall black men in helmets & pads running around & trying to throw the puck into the bases...
That's all right, here in the states we're pretty much convinced there *aren't* any actual rules to cricket. Y'all just mess around on a field for a while and then call it a day.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:02 PM on July 2, 2008
Hey, at least our guys wear codpieces. We know what goes on in those rugby "scrums".
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:11 PM on July 2, 2008
True. And ice hockey is pretty much just a tavern brawl on ice with someone keeping score.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:27 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
First things first.
Screw that. I'm going to make a random link within my post the most important one, then randomly use bold and uppercase on my other links.
So you'll just keep doing what you've been doing, then?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:09 PM on June 29, 2008
What's this about horses, then?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:00 PM on June 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Account Closing Protocol
I now refuse to join any site that doesn't offer a way to close accounts. I don't need a bunch of random accounts running around -- I prefer to close them if I'm done with them.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 9:51 PM on June 24, 2008
And this is why the big red button is sad and unnecessary.
Once again, I now refuse to join any site -- especially one that requires my email address -- that doesn't have a clear way to close the account.
Sure, it turns out that Matt is a good guy who doesn't send spam mail to his account list. But I didn't know that when I joined, and having a clear way to shut down my account removed a large obstacle to me opening one in the first place.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:18 AM on June 25, 2008
It seems to make some people happy, but it add nothing to the site.
Just to clarify, a site feature that makes some people happier adds to nothing to the site?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:32 AM on June 25, 2008
I have no idea why people use the Recent Activity page
I use it as an alternative to Television to keep my crying two year old inner child entertained.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 2:43 PM on June 25, 2008
When you outlaw.... oh, fuck it.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:39 PM on June 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Weekly World MeFi
Dude was A FUCKING PENGUIN, and we were supposed to believe that he wasn't accustomed to cold temperatures?!
A common misconception. Galapagos penguins live on the equator year round.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 9:32 AM on June 23, 2008
Do you realize that there are only two references to "caveat posterior" (Latin for "cover your ass") on the entire internet?
Whups, three now.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 1:11 PM on June 23, 2008
Do you realize that there are only two references to "caveat posterior" (Latin for "cover your ass") on the entire internet?
Maybe that's because "caveat posterior" does not in fact mean "cover your ass."
Next you'll be telling me that "carpe carpe" doesn't mean "seize the fish".
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 2:45 PM on June 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Happy Mefi-day to me!
.....I....AM.....SPARTA!!!
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:10 AM on June 20, 2008
Everywhere you go in the world has a particular cocktail of bacteria fighting it out throughout the eco-system. The battleground is extensive, and includes the intestinal tracts of all of the humans in a particular area.
This is why people have stomach trouble when traveling -- they're essentially carrying an invading army in their stomachs, and until that army is defeated by and replaced with the local organisms there is a tremendous amount of discomfort.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:02 AM on June 20, 2008
But, no, I don't want an enema. That's just an elaborate scam so you can take pics of my tush and sell them to the tabloids.
Damnit. Was I that obvious?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:25 AM on June 20, 2008
I am capable of encountering a post with blatant factual errors on the internet and simply moving on with my day without needing to correct it.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:52 AM on June 20, 2008
"Rob! ROB! Wait, Rob! Rob? Where are you going, Rob? Rob. Rob. Uh...Rob? ROB! ROOOOOOOOOOOOB!")
So basically it's just Michael's part on Lost?
"Walt! WALT! Wait, Walt! Walt? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT!"
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 9:12 AM on June 22, 2008
Ooh! National Log Off And Go Outside day! How could I have forgotten...
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 6:15 PM on June 22, 2008
MeTa post:
One is feets, the other is boots?
Local vs. International is a red herring. The boot post:
a) Editorializes in the FPP to the point of just making shit up
b) Is extremely poorly constructed from a link standpoint
c) Covers an issue that would be fairly marginal even if a) & b) were corrected.
Really, the only reason to leave the turd up is so that we have a new reference for how not to make an FPP.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 7:02 AM on June 19, 2008
It was a much better story when only right feet were showing up. That was cool.
Also, the police have ruled out foul play. Where's the fun in THAT?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 10:04 AM on June 19, 2008
Localfilter: has anyone seen my keys?
Try behind the couch.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 1:19 PM on June 19, 2008
So we're going to keep having the car boot story reposted until we're out of assholes?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 8:33 AM on June 20, 2008
What can I say? At least APS isn't a duke frat boy.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 4:42 PM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
How to recall conversations with other users
the FAQ is being FAQd,
Okay, that doesn't even make any sense.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 1:00 PM on June 15, 2008
How many days have their been without someone asking how many days there have been without a MeTa thread?
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 5:31 PM on June 15, 2008
Mom; Apple Pie.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 7:13 PM on June 15, 2008
Apparently I loathe this person for reasons altogether unrelated to any argument I must have imagined I'd had with them. I wonder why.
Well, going from the Metafilter demographic data, I'd say it's for one of the following reasons:
40% They're an insufferably arrogant "professional"
20% They're a hippy freak who thinks they live in the sixties
20% They're an establishment sell-out who... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 8:54 AM on June 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Answers, not opinions.
I guess there's really no such thing as a derail in MeTa.
Joyful words to live by!
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 4:33 PM on June 10, 2008
BTW, tkolar, I disagree that my not having children somehow invalidates my opinion.
I dunno about invalidating it, but your rant does bring to mind John Wilmot's famous quote: "Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories."
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 9:32 AM on June 11, 2008
I didn't know Martha Stewart even had a MeFi account...
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 12:54 PM on June 11, 2008
Medical "science" is nowhere near out of the snake oil phase in many aspects.
Oh for fuck's sake. God I hope you're reincarnated in the middle ages.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 1:16 PM on June 12, 2008
MeTa post:
Palestine
In 4th grade, Ricky McBride blamed me for Pearl Harbor. I didn't do it so I socked him in the nose.
Without warning, I'll bet.
posted to MetaTalk by tkolar
at 11:40 PM on June 10, 2008
