yay for Matt: once the media brands you as an expert on something, you'll always be an expert, Googleable and stuff. it's an accomplishment of sorts, seriously -- you get from being famous on the Internets to being famous in the newspapers, it all adds up. in five years you'll have your own show on CNN or something and you'll subcontract the deletion of snarky comments and derails to some sweatshop in Macau.


(re. Apple vs Teh Man: I still can't believe that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:11 AM on February 3, 2007

getting grief for nothing is the point of MetaFilter
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:48 AM on February 1, 2007

look for silly fundy videos on YouTube or stupid flickr evangelical pages, that'll never get deleted
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:39 AM on January 30, 2007

yeah, dios gave us a proud defense of the petit bourgeois values of "work, consume, and shut the fuck up" and, as usual, not a fucking ounce of human understanding for somebody who -- the horror! -- may be different from dios himself and his similarly venal, petit bourgeois friends.

deleting such a goto example of aggressive crassness and consumer fetishism would have been a mistake -- it's a beautiful testament to the man's legacy here.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:40 AM on January 30, 2007

coming soon by anonymous:


- my husband is a serial killer and insists on keeping severed human heads in our freezer, what's the most eco friendly and least unsanitary way to warp them?

- what's the best lubricant to ram a 42-inches LCD HDTV up my ass?

- my roommate fell asleep 13 days ago on the couch and apparently hasn't woken up yet: the mild stench of putrefaction is annoying and scented candles aren't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:14 AM on January 28, 2007

SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Quitting Reading MetaFilter Now Greatly Reduces Serious Risks to Your Health.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:17 PM on January 25, 2007

thank god I barely understand half of what they're rapping about anyway
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:19 AM on January 25, 2007

I never, never see ads, do I have to thank Firefox?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:53 AM on January 23, 2007

I just didn't know that, if elected, Senator Clinton would be the first female president of the United States.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:27 PM on January 20, 2007

men who are like those who use Metafilter - geeky, smart, sweet, caring, and opinionated
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:07 PM on January 19, 2007

who the fuck cares anyway?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:05 AM on January 18, 2007

well, what can I say? you're a gem. that was incredibly sweet, W.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:13 PM on January 16, 2007

Bush's water boys are already shitting themselves thinking of '08, it's only considerate of mathowie, as our host, to hand them some baby wipes. and a few deletions.

his kindness should be appreciated by all.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:00 PM on January 16, 2007

at least she didn't link the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (that's in the subscribers-only WSJ pages)
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:32 PM on January 16, 2007

hopefully, an extremely overweight celebrity will die soon, so that we can finally have a MeTa perfect storm of ObitFilter haters vs MockTheFattiesFilter haters
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:04 AM on January 15, 2007

King of the Shit?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:11 PM on January 9, 2007

speaking of circumcision, I was surprised to see in the anastasiav baby foreskin thread that a lot of users here didn't circumcise their kids, i was under the impression that in the US/Canada/UK circumcision was still an almost universal choice
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:15 AM on January 9, 2007

flyin' the foreskin flag

that's an emo band name right?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 12:18 PM on January 9, 2007

Jesus Christ, do you guys not understand humor? I was joking.

Jesus Christ did not understand humor, either. The Barabbas thing was an elaborate prank gone bad, actually.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 11:39 AM on January 8, 2007

I understand Jesus dies at the end
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:26 AM on January 8, 2007

King Kong, too
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:26 AM on January 8, 2007

Now that's a buddy movie, matteo.

*opens Photoshop, pastes this head on Fay Wray's*
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:55 AM on January 8, 2007

JESUS
(kneeling over the corpse of Kong)
MENDOZAAAAA!

you know, there's a TROMA screenplay in there somewhere.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:03 AM on January 8, 2007

"My little lamb!"
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:12 AM on January 7, 2007

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posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 4:33 AM on January 4, 2007

the volume of questions is big because this once-small site has now almost 50,000 user accounts, it's silly to try to run away from reality. AskMe is more successful than MeFi, generates more traffic and, I guess, more revenue, good for AskMe. It's already weird that we can post every day in the blue and every 14 days in the green. Getting to the point where the ratio for posts in the blue vs posts in the green becomes every day vs every 21 days is just nuts.

If Matt... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:59 AM on January 3, 2007

now if only they could find all those nucular weapons in Iraq the triumph would be perfect
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 8:31 AM on January 3, 2007

there's not much to debate, 237 favorites mean that either the wonderchicken wins or we might as well get rid of the favorites feature. MeFi has spoken, period.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:17 AM on January 2, 2007

(and yes, Matt said that the number of favorites would only be part of his decision, but still 237 is a landslide, that settles it)
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 10:18 AM on January 2, 2007

Favorites were a decent gauge of interest

20 or 30 favorites, yes, they're a decent gauge. 237 is a bit more than a decent gauge, it's overwhelming. teh people have spoken -- I understand that the results are embarrassing (it is indeed a blind, stolen link dump), but still.


If I have to vote for that to be the best post in order to be able to easily refer back to it later, then I'll remove it as a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 11:08 AM on January 2, 2007

just delete the damn post
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:30 AM on January 2, 2007

this kid could make a lot of money thanks to our little creepy fan club here. all he needs is a webcam, really.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:09 AM on January 2, 2007

give this man the goddamned Wii. or an enema.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:17 PM on December 29, 2006

their favorite Q&A sites suck
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 4:32 PM on December 27, 2006

strange, I was reading just last night Seneca's letter LXIII to Lucilius, where he explains the importance of being able to shed tears, of the right that one has always had -- even in Homeric times -- to weep for one day and do nothing else, and then Seneca explains how tears puncture the soul of a man of honor but they cannot break the soul. and how there is a time of tears and then life, however changed from its course, keeps going, and how we strive to make sense of pain... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 7:41 AM on December 24, 2006

why not? I say go for it
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 11:50 AM on December 22, 2006

OK, Jessamyn has spoken, but still, I don't deny that I'm dumb but I really don't get it: unless he's linking to a news story on his personal site or the news story talks about his personal site, what's the problem?
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:21 PM on December 22, 2006

(I mean really, if Miguel wins the Nobel prize -- lol -- and links the news in a FPP he'll get banned?)
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:22 PM on December 22, 2006

your favorite comment sucks
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 3:47 PM on December 21, 2006

Look, the question is "I think my son might be gay, what should I do?"

no, the question is "my kid is sensitive and holds his pinky out when he drinks: OMFG he might be a homersexualist" which is just insane. The Mayor is spot-on, it's so clearly a fake it isn't even funny. and that is the problem: most fakes, like "I just rammed a Tickle Me Elmo doll halfway up my ass but the batteries are dead, can I replace them while Elmo... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:31 AM on December 19, 2006

and by the way always check the batteries before ramming that Elmo doll up your ass.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:32 AM on December 19, 2006

I know mine pretty well, I'm sorry you didn't meet yours
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:44 AM on December 19, 2006

fuck notepad, the above should read:

...I'm sorry you didn't meet yours for tea, I'm sure she'd never have checked your pinkie for signs of gayness
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 9:50 AM on December 19, 2006

but Jack McFarland isn't doing a whole lot to distance gay men from the extended pinky.

yeah, but at least Sean Hayes is gay, right? Eric McCormack isn't, not to mention his character is the least sexual character in the history of drama -- God forbid one TV show has a gay character actually, you know, having some sort of a sex life. how ironic that Will is just a better-dressed Trappist monk. and, let's face it, his only lasting relationship is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 1:14 PM on December 19, 2006

and becomes more noise

MeFi: 2 posts by Alvy Ampersand, 930 comments
MetaTalk: 1 post by Alvy Ampersand, 967 comments
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 12:10 PM on December 19, 2006

the man paid his five dollars, he wants some answers. I don't see where the problem is.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 4:30 PM on December 16, 2006

this is your brain on MetaFilter
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:23 AM on December 16, 2006

up to now, I imagined Miguel as a bone-thin, extremely hairy, unshaven naked man in a dark apartment talking in broken English to cardboard cutouts of 1930's Hollywood celebrities as if they were alive -- a vision that always provoked merry laughter.

vacapinta's friend has ruined my beautiful dream -- if indeed the person in the video is Miguel of course, and not just a less windbaggy, better-fed impersonator.
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 5:43 PM on December 13, 2006

in my humor theory class

I laughed
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:23 PM on December 12, 2006

(and I for one would definitely read a thread about dios taking a shit in his kitchen, especially if his wife came home before he could clean the mess up)
posted to MetaTalk by matteo at 2:25 PM on December 12, 2006