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MeTa post:
Users and tags and dendrograms, oh my!
I'm not sure I understand this, but I'm sure it's nice to be on a little twig with peacay jack_mo, being shaded by the leaves of jonson, madamjujujive and fandango_matt on the branch above.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 10:36 PM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Tags in RSS feeds
Cryptic can also mean (for some of us) Americocentric. It would still be nice to have a default-off mouseover option to see tags without having to click through to a post from the front page.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 7:58 PM on July 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Why deleted?
Where it says "turn the other cheek", it's not the companion half of the still-stinging bared buttock that should be proffered. Pick up one of those Florences raining down on your parade and read the directions on its label.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:28 PM on July 17, 2008
MeTa post:
"Wow, look at the Boobies!"
klangy, it never fails to amuse me, given your job, how well you're able to articulate important themes revolving around sexism. Thanks for that. It's a shame that the venue is this depressingly familiar shitepox of a thread.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 7:35 PM on July 10, 2008
The shorter wanker: La la la la la la la.....I won't listen to any objections that are not easy for me to understand or that involve me losing the right to say anything I fucking want or that mean that I can't see anything I want and anyone who disagrees with me is just an uptight dickish prude who should grow a pair, and to show you how much I don't care about your opinions I'll just mock whatever you say....la la la la la la la......................... ............................... ............. [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:20 PM on July 10, 2008
Merely out of curiosity batgrlHG: I know you've been away from the site for ?some years until recently and that someone posted links for you in the last couple of days to three enormous threads about sexism that played out here before Xmas last year. Did you read them? I ask because I've seen a few comments from you that purport to record what the state of play on boyzone is and has been on this site and why it's not so bad etc etc. So yeah, did you play catchup already?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 2:49 AM on July 11, 2008
If you're trying to say I need to go read your links and be quiet, I can certainly do so.
That's not what I said. But there is a very significant semi-recent history that informs both this discussion and the present 'state of the site' with respect to sexism contained in those threads. It's not required reading but without some knowledge of those discussions it's a tall order for someone to pass judgement on what the site "is" or "is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 4:36 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
I c*nt stop saying twat.
--"cun-nae do it," etc.--
Your friend was saying "can't", not cunt.
I use (very sparingly) both pronunciations of twat. That is maybe cultural seepage from both UK + US.
Fanny means vagina in Oz, just by the by.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 4:56 PM on July 9, 2008
cunny's slang as well
Sure, but as quoted it's slang for "can't" (well, really, isn't it just a local derangement-come-accented pronunciation rather than being true slang. Although I s'pose the fact that "cunny" exists may have influenced the way can-ae gets spoken.). I mean, I guess there's a minute chance they are saying: "cunt do it" but the most obvious reading is "can't". I've spent quite a bit of time... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 5:22 PM on July 9, 2008
Well jessamyn, I hope any such person isn't here any longer or you were later given an incredibly sincere apology. And chocolate. And free tickets to a show.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 5:32 PM on July 9, 2008
I'd much rather see "nasty words" than see nasty words being policed, or people self-censoring.
Huh? Those two things are not equivalents. Noone is advocating there be proscription on language by edict. But don't you self censor every time you open your mouth or compose a comment?? You don't call your boss "you old cunt" just because you're thinking it. I think the phrase is 'a bit of decorum'.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 7:06 PM on July 9, 2008
MeTa post:
5 minutes of great reading.
I agree with too many people here. The continual attraction to the blue essentially stems from what's at the other end of the link(s). I love that there are as many different styles as there are posting members. I also know that we all scan the site when we are happy, sad, tired, looking for stupid, hoping for deep, are open to anything or want specific types of material for whichever headspace we have on when we arrive.
So although on this occasion my first reaction to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:00 AM on July 3, 2008
caddis, take a powder. As has been said a few times here, the post was critiqued to thwart alkindsoftime's holding it aloft unchallenged as a template worthy of emulation or the somesuch. That forrest took it personally and that it appears like a gang of people were trying to discredit the post is collateral damage. Regrettable, sure, but in this peculiar set of circumstances in which the post was laid out before Meta, it was an understandable reaction and I hope forrest... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:58 PM on July 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Weekly World MeFi
--she could be in a wheelchair within a MONTH if she doesn't stop smoking crack cocaine, her dad revealed last night.--
--The doctors have said that medically there isn't any reason why she can't do Glastonbury.--
That's, to me, why it's a crap post: it's hearsay, overwrought and obviously ambiguous and therefore either unbelievable or manipulative or both. I'm not saying that I strongly believe it should be deleted (I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 10:45 AM on June 23, 2008
..as MJJ eloquently put it..
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 10:46 AM on June 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Facts do not respect majority opinion.
More interesting to me is how you pronounce the "(read:boring)" out loud when reading from a text. Elongate that first syllable for emphasis, alerting your audience to it being a bracketed imperative? Ought one drop down a tone for the second word?
That's the only dimension for conjecture with regards this convention because, as LH more eloquently advised, it's a literary and not a spoken convention.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:47 AM on May 30, 2008
MeTa post:
Clinton Obama Filter redux
she had invoked Bill Clinton and RFK to place herself in the same narrative that she was just like them
Balderdash. I watched her interview with the newspaper editors live. It was date-stamping June in the primary race in historical/precedent terms within the wider (and the most sane of her remaining arguments) observation that it's strange and unwarranted that so many people and news outlets are calling for the race to be ended when it is so close... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 5:28 AM on May 24, 2008
MeTa post:
BragFilter
--I borrowed an old white bedsheet and a pair of scissors from the family members with whom I was staying, drove 13 hours a day for two days--
I was sure that was a NASA joke unfolding.
Probably Kircher because it was essentially the final catalyst for converting my OCD into my own site, but I really enjoyed putting Dellschau together and Tirrocchi netted me some contest $Mefi.
I am most proud of the many comments that I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:49 PM on May 23, 2008
MeTa post:
why does MeFi work, in 500 words or less?
Yeah, bummer. It was definitely a worthwhile read. I do remember there was a lot of brouhaha about the style sheet (I'm imagining that's where the grief surfaced) but I thought it was all put to bed effectively. Can't imagine what else could have caused such a pantytwisting reaction.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 11:59 PM on May 7, 2008
MeTa post:
When the cat's away the mice will SPAM.
If I were voting it would be for the status quo (ie. no more mods) excepting that new users' first posts go in a queue. I disagree with Brandon Blatcher - any spammer that got past the mod's quick scan would get sussed out by the members. And if they are really good at crafting the post so it's undetectable as spam then they were going to get a post up on the front page anyway and there is no real defense to that.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 6:43 AM on April 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Is an Infoviz of MetaFilter copying, stealing, or remixing?
loquacious and stavros, you are both equally able to manglefly the language into unchartered territories and we all absolutely sometimes occasionally love it.
loqacious, it was a bit uncalled for mentioning the email contents. stavros, your character has not been harmed by it. Please both just carry on as you both like to carry on.
philosophistry reminds me of a friend who steals your car to drive down to the shops, returns it without your... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:16 AM on April 8, 2008
MeTa post:
Scrump Goes For Broke
--More people more noise. You can't stop it, you can only hope to contain it.--
I would like to see a trial of there being a 15min comment free period following a post going on the front page. It's the initial rushed one-liners that frequently set the tone of the thread so *maybe* a time-gap would help reduce the autoresponders and also promote reading of the links. Sure, it's a big maybe but it would be interesting to see if there were any... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 3:27 PM on March 26, 2008
I'd say that's done far more good than harm to the site.
That's only the viewer's perspective. As we find out from time to time - and as mathowie and cortex have outlined above - the back end experience for the mods is an entirely different matter. They could still let specific people join - those related to fpp sites etc - during a sign-up moratorium of course.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 10:00 PM on March 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi Made Me See The Light!
A couple of specific instances come to mind - I was sure both that glass was a supercooled liquid and 'flowed' over time (it's not and doesn't); and that putting alcohol in your ear to dry it after swimming was a bad idea (E.N.T. specialists say it's ok). Both of these were fairly strong held convictions and I was wrong. I'm sure there are many more, most being in the subtle-over-time evolving changes.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 4:25 AM on March 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Learning to resist the dismiss
Oh give me a break. It was a joke on the blue.
Actually it was just another lame, knee-jerk cliché, unsuccessful fave whoring moment of noise. Not so much as a scintilla of effort was invested into making it smart or memorable. I'm not offended that you were referencing Australia with that limp shtick; I'm just amazed that you would in any way think that it was a positive or useful or actually humorous contribution to the site.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 4:19 AM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
Deletion of post about racist Australian Mayor.
seanyboy, you're sending mixed messages. Misrepresentation can't be claimed if the plight is also ignored. You also can't get all hand wavy about what is missed when you're not sure if anything was missed.
Look, this is not some single dimension story (speaking here of the larger picture about indigenous Australians) that can be ground down into a bite sized chunk so that enlightenment will flow from a series of articles, no matter how well written, in a single post.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 1:45 AM on March 13, 2008
Misrepresentation can't be claimed if the plight is also ignored.
I withdraw that.
But I also don't know if it's true or not.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 1:51 AM on March 13, 2008
seanyboy, funnily enough, the member whose post was deleted, lives in Queensland. On the face of it, that person hasn't been able to present the thing so that it pasts muster here. Just because they are close to the action anyway (or for that matter, that I'm in the same country) doesn't guarantee that the material will be judged properly or presented well. Some (most?) of the worst posts I've seen on Mefi relating to Australia have been posted by Australians.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 2:14 AM on March 13, 2008
I've been to Australia and witnessed some pretty obvious anti-aboriginal attitudes from lots of whites there.
Another 2 week holiday authority? You do realise that's fairly inflammatory don't you? Throwaway lines like you've posited here don't really foster discussion so much as they paint a situation with an inherently prejudiced brush. There's no context. Where did you go, who did you meet, what did you see or hear and what are the chances are that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:18 AM on March 13, 2008
kbanas, so you're comparing Australia to South Africa under apartheid? Thanks mate. I didn't say context by way of suggesting loopholes or justifications. It's so we understand what people are actually talking about. There's a lot of difference between telling a poor taste joke and excluding people from work and both can have racist causes.
Matt, I knew you didn't say that with any malicious intentions at all. I was only trying to get the point across, obliquely or... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:38 AM on March 13, 2008
shmegegge, I am always happy to hear your opinion, honestly. But the way the sentence was laid down didn't need any comparisons as you provided to judge its effect. I fully accept that there is a continuum of reactions and I'm closer to the sensitive end. I understand why you or anyone else might read it differently than me but I'm suggesting that the way you parse it is not the only way. You see simple observation, I see another piece of hearsay on the pile. I'm not angry but yeah, I'll grant... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:20 AM on March 13, 2008
because as a country it [..] participated in the Cronulla riots
No. Some pisshead wankers that live near me (I live in Cronulla) participated in a riot. The country didn't.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 9:23 AM on March 13, 2008
Oh I've found myself empathising with Americans a few times when they've been had the whole weight of the US foreign policy dumped on them as if they were individually responsible. One drunken Irish guy I remember in particular was outrageously over the top rude to this group of (really really great) guys I met on a long train trip, basically screaming abuse and blaming them for GWB and every other US fuckup. I admired how calm they remained actually.
It's not that I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 10:15 AM on March 13, 2008
Well, I've lived in Australia for about 41/2 years in total in the last decade or so. Does that qualify me to make a comment?
Way to place the emphasis on the 'slight direct knowledge' and not the 'generalisation' of my comment.
But you know, in my experience, if you can ignore their predeliction for wife beating and that rancid smell, Canadoreans usually have any number of useful observations to contribute on any number of useless subjects. :-P
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:57 PM on March 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Response to a point about the best way to answer an AskMe.
the embassy staff would try to get the visa renewed
You do know that it's not your embassy that issues visas right? It's the immigration department (or equivalent name) of the country your are in or going to visit. Your embassy only comes into it if there's a problem with your passport. The question as it was laid out had nothing to do with the passport; it was a visa problem, pure and simple. I thought what you wrote was noise.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 7:31 PM on March 7, 2008
XMLicious, unplug and go for a walk.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:10 PM on March 7, 2008
Why do you come into threads like this and urge people to give up posting in it?
Because we care: for your mental health
There's nothing to psychoanalyse. You seem overinvested in this discussion. I'm urging you to leave it alone and relax. As I now shall. Promise.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:37 PM on March 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Magnanimity
Good call all around. burnmp3s, I was reading about kiva just this afternoon - saw it briefly mentioned by the author of the mirabilis weblog. Looks to be a fine way of helping.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 6:22 AM on February 29, 2008
MeTa post:
LanguageHat on PRI
That was great, although a little disappointing in not being supplemented with a string of spoken Russian cursing. The 'emotional shock' languaghat mentions works much better when you hear it I think.
posted to MetaTalk by peacay
at 8:26 PM on February 28, 2008
