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MeTa post:
Quarters for PhatLobley!
Fair enough - let's divorce meetup from Phat's quarters, then (or do two - I'm assuming people are more than welcome to shower him with small change anyway). When shall we meet up? My vote is anytime between this weekend and June 12th (the 13th-30th I am being dragged parentwards).
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 4:32 PM on June 4, 2008
I can probably do Saturday!
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 5:56 PM on June 5, 2008
I totally sympathize with my en-carred brethren re: parking, but I'm at the mercy of public transportation, and though A-squared has quite a nice set-up in that regard for a midwestern college town, it's still dead on Saturday evening in the summer. I can get around the downtown Ann Arbor area no problem, but Ypsi is waaaay out of my range.
(Should the majority of people meeting Saturday want to meet somewhere I can't make it, I will certainly not be offended. It sounds... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 10:47 PM on June 5, 2008
I will be there! May possibly need to finangle a ride back to where I'm staying this weekend.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 8:46 AM on June 7, 2008
S'all right, I doubt I could have done better.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 7:11 AM on June 9, 2008
MeTa post:
Not funny.
Speaking only for myself: it's not really the "joking about bad things" aspect that bothered me because, hey, metafilter. It was more the 1) "it's all about MEEEEEEEEEE!" nature of [son] QUAALUDE's comment, specifically, and 2) when several people spoke up to say, "Dude, cut it out, uncool," the thread got totally derailed by the jokesters declaring how it was so totally necessary and appropriate for them to keep on joking.
Guys, c'mon, can... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 9:05 PM on April 16, 2008
Oops, a lot of maybes in one sentence.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 9:08 PM on April 16, 2008
No, I believe the entitlement would be the people insisting that their cute little joke is more important than other people's a) comfort with sensitive subject matter and b) conversational interest, to the point that they will completely derail a conversation to talk about how their jokes were zomg totally legitimate even after they've already been called out.
[Speaking in the abstract, at this point, as this incident is far from the first time I've seen the phenomenon.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 9:14 PM on April 16, 2008
*pats owhydididoit*
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 9:18 PM on April 16, 2008
Hence the absurdism - perhaps I'm just feeling particularly cynical today, but everybody in the known universe has been decrying female genital mutilation for forever and a day, but are we any closer to eradicating it?
A little.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 10:14 PM on April 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Paging Dr. ColdChef.
Now I feel sorta lame because I don't think I have any expertise to offer except ... oh, well, there's the eponystericalness, I guess. And Old/Middle English literature, and Spider-Man continuity.
Okay, if you need help with any of those very important things, then MefiMail me! Otherwise, sorry, useless.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 11:35 PM on April 15, 2008
Rhubarb is REALLY good in jam.
Also dogs eat it sometimes, apparently.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 1:44 PM on April 16, 2008
MeTa post:
My story, on Metafilter
Hi HotPatatta! Congratulations!
Oh lordy, I can already tell those t's are going to be a problem for me.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 12:29 PM on April 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi Made Me See The Light!
The Green's taught me a lot of different things; nothing I can think of offhand.
The Blue's taught me that even intelligent, nominally perceptive people can create a boyzone, which, naively, had never really occurred to me before. Eh, I still like the place, but it's true.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 3:58 PM on March 23, 2008
-- Addendum: for completeness' sake, it's probably a straightwhiteliberalboyzone, but I am speaking of the 'zone I have experienced/perceived. YZMV!
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 4:01 PM on March 23, 2008
That's the main thing it's taught you?
Assuming you were asking honestly: yes, according to the precepts of the question. FPPs about homelessness and Hitler's home movies and cats with cerebellar hyperplasia and Bobby Dunbar (thinking back on the past few days) are great and all, but they haven't changed my mind about any part of my worldview.
If it makes you feel better about your worldview, I only started... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 7:42 PM on March 23, 2008
Er. your worldview, not your worldview. Damn html.
posted to MetaTalk by bettafish
at 7:46 PM on March 23, 2008
