In an alternate reality, Joe Horn is 11 years old. Back in 2006, he was paralyzed from the waist down by a freak accident while volunteering at the local animal shelter. The group of puppies he was with carried him to a hospital, where J.P. Patches visited every day while he recovered. Two years later, recently-legalized stem cell research has discovered a new treatment that restored sensation and control to little Joe's legs. After six months of intensive rehabilitation and physical therapy, a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 7:27 PM on June 30, 2008

I'm going to explain this so that everyone can just get along: Whenever you hear someone use some variant of the phrase "The Fed is printing too much money!", you can just skip over their entire comment. Don't bother reading it; you will only come out the other side that much dumber. People who actually know their shit will explain things in terms of credit expansion or monetary policy or any other terms that don't involve... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 9:06 PM on June 27, 2008

These guys just drive you batty, don't they?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 8:57 PM on June 27, 2008

While we're here: why does the user's page show whether or not the account is disabled?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 10:12 PM on June 24, 2008

Can we just globally search+replace "chatfilter" with "You didn't frame this correctly" and then link to a How-To for what the right way to frame your chatfilter question is?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 2:45 AM on May 30, 2008

Trolley, that was the point. Chatfilter is implicitly OK when it's surrounded by enough fluff and there's no documentation for people to find out which pieces of fluff you need to let your question stand.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 3:40 AM on May 30, 2008

Sure, women are shorter than men on average. But a lot of women are tall! And many are also taller than specific other men. My insight is piercing.

This is the basis of all bad discussion.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 3:54 PM on May 30, 2008

I'm glad that we as a nation website have been able to move forward from soft-posting Obama stories to the grey to soft-posting Clinton stories to the grey. Fan-fucking-tastic!
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 4:11 AM on May 17, 2008

Can we just get a greasemonkey script to fix it instead?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:10 AM on May 10, 2008

I need a sliding scale { dentist | psychologist } in [location] because { my teeth are falling out | I'm batshitdepressed }
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 9:51 PM on April 21, 2008

You don't want to use 'OMG' or 'lol' in your post. Or your comments for that matter
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:20 PM on April 15, 2008

You should ignore timeistight.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 2:35 PM on April 9, 2008

cortex said back in September that they were trying to cut down on jokey deletion reasons. Someone started a blog about it anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 2:54 PM on April 9, 2008

This question isn't nearly as bad as any number of novella-length "What do I do with my relationship?" questions. The guy wants some ideas on what to do with his life. I can't actually think of a more important question. What exactly is your problem here?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:09 PM on April 9, 2008

Also, mad props for starting a MetaTalk thread about something without actually posting a MeTa in the original post. You're doing a heckuva job.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:14 PM on April 9, 2008

These threads are only doomed because people choose to shit in them without any fear of recourse. Prefpara had a good answer, Burhanistan had a good answer, Cranberry had a good answer, there were some other decent answers in there as well.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:28 PM on April 9, 2008

Pony request: Can I filter out MetaTalk posts that are requesting features that have already been beaten to death a thousand times?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 9:48 AM on April 7, 2008

*starts fiddling with knobs on his monitor*
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 7:17 AM on April 1, 2008

This sounds like a job for a wiki FAQ (Frequently AskMe'd Questions)
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:06 PM on March 24, 2008

We shouldn't FPP it, we should continue to soft-post this and every other Obama story to the gray. Awesome!
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:00 PM on March 18, 2008

I'm really interested in knowing how people were being dorks about the Chatfiltery question.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 4:35 PM on March 17, 2008

stavros - Leave the Grocery Shopping to the Women

Decided to go grocery shopping after my wife saw some minute maid juice boxes in a circular on special at target stores .. She did a search for printable coupons online ,and to my surprise she found some minute maid coupons for target stores . She printed ten coupons and got ten boxes of minute maid practically free ... (lol) . Why can't us men think of these things ?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 6:56 PM on March 16, 2008

The OP tried to avoid this by saying "I won't try to couch my concerns in anything but incredibly selfish terms", is dealing with a loss of sex interest in his now-hostile spouse, and is probably on track for a divorce. Either way, he's in a rough spot and admits that he's not trying to sugar-coat his own perspective. If that isn't the right time to call someone a douchebag, what is?


P.S. RussHy, you're a douchebag
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:51 AM on March 16, 2008

The community consensus is that if your spouse starts to resemble Jabba the Hutt, you are obligated to somehow be sexually attracted to Jabba the Hutt.

I suspect the ensuing community consensus that is about to be hurtled at you will be that if you really, really loved Jabba, you'd muster the strength to change your sexual desire. This is the same process that Ted Haggard is trying, but with less Jesus^TM
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 7:01 AM on March 16, 2008

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Pro tip for bloggers: If you want to wank about design, learn about not specifying your font sizes in pixels.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 2:29 PM on March 11, 2008

Real adults don't need a button on a webpage to stop them from doing whatever harm it is they're bringing on themselves. If you don't want to post to MetaFilter anymore, there's a button-free way of doing it.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:23 PM on March 3, 2008

Fair enough; if you're such a tool you can't get off the internet, change your password to a fine GUID like {9ECE42E2-91A1-47C9-B9A8-04D1BB455BAA}. I will even provide you new GUIDs free of charge. Drop me MeFiMail with your current password and I'll change it for you.

Real question, though: Why does the user info page even indicate that the account is disabled?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:34 PM on March 3, 2008

Well, that's that then. Since this thread is about to be closed, can I just bring to everyone's attention the fact that hermitosis only needs another 70 favorites before he has to make good on his promise to disable his account. C'mon people! We can do it!

I just chipped in. My understanding was we had a matching favorite program where a fellow volunteer would match my favoriting. Who's matching mine?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:43 PM on February 26, 2008

I wonder how well this would end if the question was "Help me find that picture of Hillary Clinton looking really beat down and tired in a senate session - a class full of 8th grade political studies students are counting on it!"
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 11:08 AM on February 22, 2008

I'd request that the rest of this thread concentrate on 1 having a high user ID rather than the actual content of anything he's said. That's how everyfuckingthing else that's happened with him so far as gone down, and I don't see any reason to violate that Noble Metafilter Tradition.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 2:51 AM on February 15, 2008

OP specifically said they'd be willing to buy two seats if required. Practically every answer in that thread was off-topic.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:57 PM on February 13, 2008

Dear MetaFilter: My collicky newborn weighs 450 pounds, but the airline says children under 18 months can share a seat with their parent, so I guess I'll just get one ticket. The question is: where can I change his diaper? Obviously the restroom is out (we won't both fit), so the lap of the person next to me is acceptable, right?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:36 PM on February 14, 2008

HI I'M ON METATALK AND I COULD OVERTHINK A SHORT STACK OF PANCAKES
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:08 PM on February 12, 2008

Anonymous wanted to know if there was a way to get paternity results before a child was born. The answer is yes. Are people afraid that someone would hear about a medical procedure, not take the effort to even google it for a few minutes, then go to the doctor to request one, and have the doctor not inform them of the risks before doing the procedure?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 10:53 AM on February 5, 2008

+1 dios

I clicked on it expecting a real story of someone who was a real Nazi. Someone no longer being a neocon is hardly compelling.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 9:47 AM on January 29, 2008

I respect your right to be outraged about things that I don't personally find very noteworthy.

You're in MetaTalk. Don't go to a gun show and complain that everyone's looking at firearms.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 11:16 AM on January 29, 2008

ADVISED TO USE SCRIPT STOP POST ANSWERS AS YOU FIND THEM STOP SEND TELEGRAM TO CORTEX FULL STOP
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 6:27 AM on January 27, 2008

It's ironic you would make a call-out here since your "Don't do that because it's rude!" answer is hardly going to help someone who's asking "How do I stop doing this thing that I know to be rude?"
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 3:51 PM on January 23, 2008

there are some questions whose answers are so shockingly obvious that if you have to ask them at all you're probably beyond help

Seriously, if I went to this thread and said "Stop crying! You're being a baby. I've never had this problem.", do you think anyone would treat that answer with a shred of respect? It seems people were able to offer constructive solutions there despite the fact that "Don't cry!" is just as constructive as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 5:41 PM on January 23, 2008

Seems to be a much more detailed response than the "just don't" a lot of people are casting it as.

It's longer than "Don't do it", but doesn't actually say anything more. Don't confuse verbosity with clarity. "I don't do it because it's rude" doesn't help because the poster already knows it's rude, which is why they're asking the fucking question in the first place. It's a non-answer and if it didn't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 11:28 AM on January 24, 2008

I think the idea is that AskMe should be useful without the knowledge that SCDB is just making stuff up that sounds reasonable (and not indicating it as such)
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 8:13 PM on January 10, 2008

Can we rephrase it as "Should people be forced to wade through a sea of unmarked conjecture in order to find actual fact-based answers?"
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:22 PM on January 10, 2008

On that note, can we get a "Misinformation" flag for AskMe?
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 12:23 PM on January 10, 2008

If we mocked every minor improvement that went on around here... we'd be doing about as much mocking as we already are
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 10:54 AM on January 10, 2008

bruce, are you aware of "thug life" as a motif? "[Tupac] declared that the dictionary definition of a 'thug' as being a rogue or criminal was not how he used the term, but rather he meant someone who came from oppressive or squalid background and little opportunity but still made a life for themselves and were proud"

Not that it has any bearing whatsoever on the situation, but there are specific connotations of the phrase you don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 1:07 PM on January 6, 2008

If you're suggesting a threaded comment model, that pony's been beaten to death.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 6:23 AM on January 4, 2008

See previous thread.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 7:52 AM on December 17, 2007

I also think that people (not only men) who say that they only have eyes for their S.O. are ridiculous because they are suppressing a natural human trait, and denying the fact that that trait exists

That is emphatically not the assertion you made. Having eyes for someone is not the same as cheating with them.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 8:35 AM on December 17, 2007

I flagged it because I was under the impression we were living in the new MetaFilter sexism-free world. It wasn't racist or terribly offensive, but it was sexist, so there you go.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 9:57 AM on December 17, 2007

But then I could say the same about, say, a lot of computer or sports-related questions.

If half the people who posted computer-related questions hadn't tried rebooting their computer first, then that would be true.
posted to MetaTalk by 0xFCAF at 6:23 PM on December 14, 2007