WTF, y'all? Price ain't amused.

Vincent Price?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 3:33 PM on July 24, 2008

Has 'heinous' made a comeback yet?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:35 AM on July 22, 2008

Don't carriage returns still work in <pre>?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:22 AM on July 22, 2008

BGT

Big Gay Torry?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:25 AM on July 16, 2008

except as dictated by the triumvirate

And as pertains to IRFH.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 9:28 PM on July 14, 2008

Troll troll. Troll troll troll troll troll. Troll troll troll.

Troll troll troll troll troll troll troll troll! Troll troll troll troll troll?

Troll.

~Blazecock Pileon
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:20 AM on July 13, 2008

Just don't mention the war.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 2:33 PM on July 7, 2008

Acronyms are an amazing part of language. I have no idea what 'SEO' stands for, but that has never stopped me from following conversations about spammers.

I'm sure the same thing goes for tons of people w/r/t DVD, HTML, ATM, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:39 PM on July 1, 2008

A cat just ran across my keyboard. And it isn't even my cat.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 4:53 AM on June 29, 2008

I'll try to be there. Are we going to be an identifiable group for this one or are we just going to mill around as anonymous strangers like last time?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:19 AM on June 22, 2008

Yeah, the Quencher's debacle is what I meant to refer to. My fiance and I were there for an hour trying to decide if we could, collectively, summon enough extroversion to talk to the various large table groups. (The answer is: NO)
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 4:19 PM on June 23, 2008

Mine taste like purple. (Purple's a fruit, right?)
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 7:27 AM on June 2, 2008

You could seriously power a small town with Keith Olbermann's nightly indignation.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 9:02 PM on May 23, 2008

I guess I fail to see how blackness is tied to infirmity. Can you please "go there" or at least try to fill in the blanks? Because you're not the only one to make this comparison and it's kind of annoying that this is given credence without details.

It's because age is not tied to infirmity. My grandfather is older than McCain and would make a better president than anyone I know. He's also in better shape than I am; he... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 2:40 PM on May 13, 2008

What many people seem to be arguing is that senility or feeblenessis a factor to consider in picking the president: I agree. But the website in question (and many of the comments in this thread) is not about senility or feebleness, but is about age. The website was not called 'Things Less Senile Than John McCain.'
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 3:45 PM on May 14, 2008

I wonder how many people who think McCain's age should prohibit him from serving in office feel the same way about Ted Kennedy, who is four years older.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 2:16 PM on May 17, 2008

Is there a big Ted Kennedy Presidential push I'm not aware of, shakespeherian?

No, but I've never heard anyone talking about Kennedy's being on the verge of Alzheimer's or dementia, nor have I heard anyone argue that whoever is running for his Massachusetts Senate seat should win because he's younger and therefore his abilities have not diminished with age.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:22 PM on May 17, 2008

That's silly. You're telling me that Massachusetts residents continually re-elect Kennedy thinking, 'It's okay that he probably has dementia, since the rest of the Senate will even out his crazy vote. We only really need one functioning senator anyway'?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:26 AM on May 18, 2008

Since it was my post he deleted, can I pretend this thread is a shakespeherian call-out? I've always wanted one.

No you fuckers I'm awesome I'm never coming back again!
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 9:51 AM on May 18, 2008

Note for the future:

Threads, while started by individual posters, do not belong to individual posters, and as such one ought not attempt to control them or steer their direction.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:52 AM on May 12, 2008

roll truck roll, I am now extremely embarrassed because you called me out publicly instead of MeMailing me. Please do not address me directly ever again.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:08 PM on May 12, 2008

(Not this one)
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:27 PM on May 12, 2008

You missed the whole setup for the joke!
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:35 PM on May 12, 2008

How many Vietnam veterans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

YOU DON'T KNOW YOU WEREN'T THERE
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:49 PM on May 12, 2008

'Why doesn't this movie have a soundtrack?'

'Psh, everyone can just bring their iPod into the theater.'
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 6:54 AM on May 7, 2008

I think that begins as soon as the post goes up.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 8:45 AM on May 7, 2008

So the weight of all the commas is holding down cortex's shift key?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 2:22 PM on April 30, 2008

All posts that I disagree with should print in size-72 Comic Sans.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:10 PM on April 29, 2008

I used to pass Quenchers every day on my commute, but I've never been inside. I, too, would recommend not walking there from the Western stop.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 6:41 AM on March 31, 2008

You're talking about this Friday? Sort of short notice, innit?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 6:05 PM on March 31, 2008

I might be able to make it, depending on work schedule which I haven't checked yet. Therefore not a solid Yes.... yet.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 6:10 PM on March 31, 2008

UPDATE

I am free Friday! So let's do this thing like we mean it.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 8:43 AM on April 1, 2008

Meetup # 1 Friday, Apr 4th, 8PM(ish), Quenchers Saloon, until we get silly, hop the blue line, and go mock the Trump Tower. Or somethingnerdy, hop the Fullterton Bus, and go watch independent films at Facets.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:22 AM on April 1, 2008

Wait where can I get a Team Zissou hat?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:55 PM on April 4, 2008

(he said, not Googling)
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:55 PM on April 4, 2008

Okay hows about in The Future™ someone puts a big ol' INTERNET DORKS MEET HERE sign on the table or something.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 6:27 PM on April 6, 2008

I am totally stealing your javascript.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 7:25 AM on April 1, 2008

Everyone who has commented that they don't get it has just confessed to not ever reading conversations before posting.



So let's kill them.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 7:59 AM on April 1, 2008

Projects becomes all sorts of awesome colors.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 9:21 AM on April 1, 2008

I also want to say that I'm so terrified of April Fool's Day that I have, so far, been afraid that every FPP— including the one about before- and after-death photos (which were amazing)— is actually a RickRoll.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 9:35 AM on April 1, 2008

Pony request: can we vote for favorite users?

And the winner gets to wear a great big hat? HOT DOG
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 12:57 AM on March 16, 2008

The puppy had had its cat declawed.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 7:27 PM on March 16, 2008

L.H.O.O.Q.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:12 AM on March 13, 2008

I admit it: Sansgras is my sockpuppet!

/isn't well-known enough to have a sockpuppet
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 8:33 AM on March 10, 2008

And if I was Beth, the integral part of her story is that she claims to be a doctor. I'm claiming to be 20, a former graduate student, not a doctor.

Honestly, to be fair, I can imagine saying something like this myself— it's pretty clumsy, rhetorically, but makes sense if you read it as someone trying to point out that the claims are different, and therefore the noted similarities don't matter. I don't think the 'I'm claiming' is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:47 AM on March 10, 2008

Okay but I'm not talking about who is ultimately to blame, because we all know that obviously only white people ever do bad shit. I'm talking about the attitude that these specific not-white people have regarding other groups, and how they are prejudiced against them in racial terms: What makes that not racism, i.e., how can you possibly justify saying that racism is only something that white people do?
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:05 PM on February 15, 2008

Racism is a white invention and a product of the Enlightenment.

That's just ridiculous, as has been pointed out already. People (both white and not-white) were racist a long time before the Enlightenment, and people (both white and not-white) continue to be racist today in relation to many different ethnic groups, not always involving white people in any way, and not always existing in western culture. Surprise! Other people exist.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:29 PM on February 15, 2008

I GUESS THAT SHOWS ME
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 10:40 PM on February 15, 2008

Wait I want to use daggers!†

†Unfortunately I have nothing of substance to say.‡

‡Much less footnote.
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 11:24 PM on February 15, 2008

So whites force the Koreans and the blacks and the Mexicans to live in the ghettos. And they fight with each other - the ghetto is a wretched, violent place to live.

And we blame the minorities, rather than the majority that created the problem in the first place.

You see, though, the problem with this is that it's all incredibly distanced and theoretical and doesn't seem to apply specifically to a whole mess of situations.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 3:17 PM on February 16, 2008