Australian. Not offended. Not. Even. Slightly.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 5:24 AM on March 22, 2008

Fake. Burn it with fire, or at least stop giving it attention.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 8:13 PM on March 10, 2008

I don't own a sewing machine. My wife does, but it's an ancient model manufactured long before memory cards were invented. I don't know how to use a sewing machine. I have precisely zero interest in using a sewing machine, let alone in using a sewing machine to embroider something that looks like it came out of a clip art collection circa 1994. The only reason I even know these things exist is because a friend works in a sewing store - we dropped by for a chat, my eye was drawn to the shiny... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:59 PM on November 14, 2006

sewing machine barriers

Manufacturers, even.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 10:00 PM on November 14, 2006

Phrasing matters, especially when one of the two tags you used was warez.

I used the tag becuase the post was about warez, and because "possibleintellectualpropertyinfringementdependingonthelawsofyoursoverignstate" is a stupid tag, and so I could find it easy later on. You know - like what tags are supposed to do?

And anyway, oooh, scary warez. Somebody call the FBI. Or maybe they're too busy chasing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 2:40 PM on November 15, 2006

crap, forgot the /i.

n00b.

Ask your question next week

No. You can't make me. You're not my real mother.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 7:45 PM on November 15, 2006

The questions suck. Good call, Mr Gunn.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 10:55 PM on October 8, 2006

WTF is wrong with you people? Of course she's morbidly obese. She's carrying a hellava lot of junk in the trunk, on her thighs, and her arms. Doesn't mean she isn't curvaceous, voluptuous, hawt or whatever - I'm damn sure she is. What it means is that her weight will cause her to develop a range of diseases, one of which will kill her.

Take it from somebody who had a BMI of 42.8 about six months ago (now down to 38.8, if you can use the word "down" like... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:32 AM on September 25, 2006

And what's Pluto's BMI?
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:35 AM on September 25, 2006

(diet soda, airpopped corn)
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:45 PM on September 25, 2006

What do you mean?

- Copy URL
- Highlight clicky text
- Click 'link'
- Paste URL
- Click OK

You don't have to spell out the whole address.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 11:54 PM on July 18, 2006

Get off my lawn.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 8:54 PM on July 13, 2006

Probably memepool.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 6:13 PM on May 4, 2006

I find your username and question strangely ironic.


posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 8:04 PM on August 29, 2005

And I just lost The Game. :(

fuckfuckfuckfuckFUCKFUCK!
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 12:00 AM on July 27, 2005

Cool - I didn't notice til you pointed it out. Thanks! ;)
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:44 PM on May 9, 2002

I'm having a hard time lately coming up with anything to say about ANY of the posts.

Make empty, throw-away one-liner comments that contribute next to no content or value. Sure makes me feel like I'm somebody - I mean, contributing to the gradual decline of MetaFilter has to be better than not contributing at all, right?
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:51 PM on May 6, 2002

Riight. 'FPP' is soooo much more jargon-y than MFP/MTP/MFC/MTC, and folks will feel part of the crowd much faster having to learn four acronyms instead of one.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:16 PM on May 1, 2002

Argh - make it STOP! None of you look anything like you're supposed to.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 6:00 PM on April 30, 2002

how were we supposed to look obiwanwasabi

Well...I dunno. But not like that.

It's strange how you (well, maybe not you - perhaps it's just me) make little mental portraits of the folks whose words you're reading. For example, I always pictured Miguel as Kevin Spacey in 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil' before I saw that damn press photo (which reminds me - my mefiswap cd's are done).... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:48 PM on April 30, 2002

I listened to riffola and jpoulos's MeFi mix CDs. Outstanding - something to aim for this weekend!
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:42 PM on April 23, 2002

Homer: Arafat...Sharon...Arafat...
Marge: Bart, are you going to Arafat the lawn today?
Bart: Okay, but you promised me Sharon money.
Marge: I Arafat, I Arafat!
Homer: Arafat...Sharon...Arafat...
Lisa: When Bart's done, can we Arafat to the Sharonvies? There's an Arafatinee.
Marge: Of course! All work and Sharon play makes Arafat a Sharon Arafat.
Bart: Arafatsharonarafat?
Marge: Sharonarafatsharon!

posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 7:22 PM on April 17, 2002

The 'did you mean foo' thing still shows up for mistyped searches that score some hits.

As for the search, it's not as bad as it sounds; somebody on a homebrewing list asked if bottles needed to be rinsed if they were sterilised with Betadine. That's my story, anyways, and I'm stickin' to it :)
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:22 PM on April 14, 2002

Try turning it off.

It's already off. Changing the 'safe' setting appears to have no effect on the 'beer bottle betadene' search.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 10:21 PM on April 14, 2002

you're actually Wasabi Obi-Wan, the well-known advanced tennis player from Arcadia?

Bastard! The net just isn't ready for two mustard-related Jedi.

posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 12:32 AM on April 15, 2002

I think that this might be a bad idea.

You would say that, now that you're here. Of course, had 'we' implemented your policy when we hit the 13,000 mark (and I challenge you to demonstrate that signal-to-noise was any different then), you wouldn't be here.

And a 'screening' process? What would you suggest - an essay? Swimsuit competition? An 'how I'd make MetaFilter a better place if I were a member' speech? Screening... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 11:06 PM on April 7, 2002

No personal attacks made, BlueTrain - I simply noted that had your (rather unoriginal) policy been implemented sooner, you wouldn't be here, and that I don't think much of your 'screening' idea. If it was good enough for you to join without being subjected to a 'cut-off' or 'screening', why isn't it good enough for everybody else? If you choose to take that as a 'personal attack', there's very little I can do about it.

If you're really concerned about signal-vs-noise,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 12:07 AM on April 8, 2002

User numbers don't mean much anymore - it's the 'member since' date that counts. 'Sure, you're only four-digits, but you're like, so totally post-911, lamer.' Or 'Oh yeah? Well, I was here last millennium.'
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:21 PM on April 11, 2002

{godfather}You don't discuss Mr Cardoso's user number. *slap* {/godfather}
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 5:11 PM on April 10, 2002

A hundred pointless
heckling haikus - another
great MetaTagline!

And am I wrong for
thinking that way? Release the
pastel-suited jack...oh, bugger.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 3:32 AM on March 29, 2002

I know how you fell jonmc. Sometimes it feels like everybody else lives a life of glamour, riding high in glorious tech/media jobs, surfing wirelessly from their Bluetooth PDAs, lounging around at SXSW (I still don't know what the hell that is), taking fabulous photos, wearing fabulous clothes, listening to fabulous music and meeting fabulous people.

Then I think about it for a second, and realise that they're mostly unemployed single Americans with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 10:52 PM on March 20, 2002

and the owner takes the dish off your bill, TIP FULL PRICE!

And if you order a sandwich, tip as though you had ordered the lobster, coz carrying a plate to your table is carrying a plate to your table, regardless of what's on it.

And if you order something like a Coke, but change your mind and make it a juice, tip as though you had ordered both - the wait-person had to write the both down, after all. Hell, add extra coz they... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:03 PM on March 21, 2002

Hey, all I was saying was that aaron's story should give people a little perspective

Here's some perspective for you, aaron:

Your parents are still alive, and one of them has a job. You have somewhere to live and clothes to wear. You get enough food to have a weight problem. You have access to medical services.

You aren't forced to do physical labour, and being unemployed is not a crime. You have... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:14 PM on March 24, 2002

Lovely. Just lovely.

I didn't attack aaron. I didn't complain about his post. I wasn't trying to persuade anybody about anything. I simply pointed out that he has a lot to be thankful for, and that perhaps his 'depression' wasn't proportional to his problems. Now I'm a 'cock', 'left-wing hater', 'vicious', and I have 'brain cancer'.

While you may well have other very serious problems, aaron, I could only go on those you chose to share,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:04 PM on March 24, 2002

Whoa - I was channeling hincadenza for a second there :)
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:09 PM on March 24, 2002

a self made man with a hard earned degree (ooh, a University degree! Swoon!

Pull your head in. What degree? I said I went to university. I also said I ran out of money. I came out with good grades in a swag of first and second year subjects - no degree.

what puzzles me is why such a superior individual would feel the need to kick a bloke when he's down

I tried to help him up by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 1:49 AM on March 25, 2002

Puh-lease, people - get some perspective. It was one front page post. It'll probably never happen again, and that would be true whether Su had decided to play MetaFascist and take it to MetaStalag not.

My 6-year old niece must've seen a Lost in Space rerun recently. A few weeks ago, she started proclaiming that she was 'doomed!' at the slightest inconvenience. 'We're out of peanut butter - we're doomed!' 'I can't find my socks - I'm doomed!'. It was cute at first,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:36 PM on March 18, 2002

Sorry - roast? In Australia, we 'toast' somebody's success, and give them a good 'roasting' if we're unhappy with them. Does the American term mean something different a la 'pissed'?
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:07 PM on March 14, 2002

*boggle*

Let me see if I get this straight. You put somebody on a dais, and then proceed to insult them with the lowest gutter-humour you can muster - dribbling cocks, Chinese-eating Jews and Dr Ruth's pussy indeed! - in front of their friends and family, for the whole evening.

How, where and when did this practice begin? For the love of God, why?
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 6:12 PM on March 14, 2002

I think it's the steroids and meth that bother me. 'Taking the piss' out of somebody is a national sport here, and the example in your link was in much the same vein as our local prduct, but this seems like really spiteful, hurtful stuff. I can see these people making arse-wiping and erection jokes with Christopher Reeve on the stand.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 8:00 PM on March 14, 2002

think Great Train Robbery

Now that we're Bandidos, and presumably fleeing to South America, I guess I'll have to learn the lingo. Estou com fome! Quanto que é aquele abacaxi?

posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:04 PM on March 14, 2002

Strike discussion, insert decision.

You're such a dick, BlueTrain.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 7:58 PM on March 12, 2002

What the hell does that imply? Metafilter/Metatalk are now your personal mob justice beacons? You're actually proud of knocking a questionable site off the internet?

That's rich.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 1:57 PM on March 13, 2002

Big difference between that and a single user trying to gather up some mob rule.

"Here's to hoping anyone searching for Critical IP at google sees this...if you feel like sharing this message with anyone else, just copy this HTML and post on your site..."

If that wasn't 'a single user trying to gather up some mob rule', I don't know what is.

Or perhaps you were simply doing what Miguel did -... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:44 PM on March 13, 2002

You know, people wanting to run others off line because they don't like their site/OPINIONS is really silly.

You're right. We need more sites advocating child abuse. More asbestos, more asbestos!
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 7:18 PM on March 13, 2002

Not the site, it's content, or the "principles" that those things should bring up.

So you're saying that, on 'principle', sites that advocate child abuse should be permitted, because web designers put a lot of effort into them. Nice one.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 3:44 PM on March 14, 2002

Admit is, skallas - you just want to see Miguel's head explode a la Scanners when he tries to keep himself bottled up :).
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 9:58 PM on March 13, 2002

"eleveners" (as I call them) should be given special privileges.

I'm all for moderator privs for users with prime numbers for user ids. There's only 1400-odd of us...I mean, them.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 3:41 PM on March 14, 2002

Wow - cool idea.
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 4:47 PM on March 13, 2002

Why such little response?

I think everybody's still over at the angry mob party :)

Can't we do that by clicking on a username and checking his/her history anyway?

You can, but you need to keep the user details in one window / open 'jump to users comments' links in another (placing load on the db each time) / switch between the two, or keep using the good ol' back button in one... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by obiwanwasabi at 5:44 PM on March 13, 2002