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MeTa post:
Is it time for MetaFilter consignment?
I will trade some of my unflagging enthusiasm for a sense of purpose that doesn't involve the internet.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn
at 11:36 AM on June 13, 2008
Would someone like to swap this ruffled feeling of hungover ennui for, say, a box of Krispy Kremes?
posted to MetaTalk by Jofus
at 6:36 AM on June 13, 2008
Ask post:
Beware the fourth day
I use the same technique for dieting as I did for giving up smoking. I call it the Upper Brain Against The World Role-Playing Technique and it can be summed up thusly: "Fuck you, body!"
I am as weak willed and pathetic as anybody else with a reptilian brainstem is. I love smoking, drinking and wellying down the KFC. The only thing I've got going for me is an obstinate streak a mile wide.
I take that obstinate streak, I assign it the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Jofus
at 6:09 AM on June 18, 2008 
marked best answer
MeFi post:
School Defends Drunken Driving Hoax
The real leason here is that the police will lie to you as part of their job. And that's an important leason to learn early.
posted to MetaFilter by Ragma
at 5:21 PM on June 12, 2008
I'm wondering who "the terrorist" is.
Given the source, probably a cat.
posted to MetaFilter by D.C.
at 7:58 PM on June 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Sometimes you can't yell.
God, I would love to have some wannabe rock star singer do background vocals for me like this. Just day to day stuff, like being in a meeting:
Me: Yeah, I think if we implement these changes, we will cut our call volume considerably.
Röck Dude: ♫ Cut down those calls through ♪chan-gezzz♪ Woo!♫
Me: We are going to need to establish a some new training classes for some of the existing employees.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by quin
at 7:45 AM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Nu?
Gasp. You had a comment deleted? This is the end of metafilter as that has never happened before.
posted to MetaTalk by 517
at 11:08 PM on April 27, 2008
MeTa post:
Boobs + Cured meat /= Best of the Web
jessamyn: bacon bra yes or no?
*cortex: i think it's meh, because, hey, I saw that two weeks ago and whatever. On the other hand, people seem to love that shit.
*cortex: Except for the XXXX-and-counting have instead flagged that shit.
jessamyn: yeah I think it's mostly good natured except for the "she's fat" and "she's ugly" comments [I paraphrase]
*cortex: yeah
jessamyn: but my quesiton is whether I'm going to wake up to it in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn
at 9:21 PM on April 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Paper Pussy
Hey, does just what it says on the... hey, it's a box!
Smells like AOL in here.
No it doesn't. AOL smells like many things - including fire, brimstone, anguish, and fail - but it doesn't smell of wet tissue, hand lotion or sometimes batteries. And cat.
At least, it doesn't usually smell only like that. Usually there's some fire or torment going on when it's AOL. Like... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious
at 6:54 AM on March 26, 2008
Flagged.
posted to MetaFilter by Ceiling Cat
at 10:16 AM on March 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Queuing questions.
In the sub-basement of what was once an industrial park, the server continued asking questions to the void. The network was long-gone--the ethernet cables vaporized right where they emerged to the surface--but this didn't stop the server. It had a queue.
The third wave of bombings had collapsed the ceiling, destroying almost all the other racks in the room, but the server remained. It was closest to the large metal cage that held the enormous emergency power supply. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ian A.T.
at 5:20 AM on March 17, 2008
Try this Cool MeFi Hack!
You will need:
- a pencil.
- some paper.
- some string.
- some sticky tape.
METHOD
1. Tie the string around the end of the pencil. If you have no experience of knots, ask an adult to help you.
2. With some sticky tape, fasten the end of the string to the side of your monitor. Be carefully that you don't accidentally stick... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid
at 5:26 AM on March 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Possibly the best Craigslist post ever
This is just a straightforward, funny single-link post, for fuck's sake. Just click on the fucking link and have a laugh. I'm tired of hearing all your oh-so-cooler-than-thou bullshit comments. Stop wasting my time with all this fucking snark.
posted to MetaFilter by chrismear
at 4:37 PM on February 13, 2008
MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
This even though to the best of my knowledge I was never rude or hateful when discussing same.
This may be a matter of perspective. The specifc issue that this was centered around was that you would show up in threads discussing homosexuality and gratuitously interject your opinion that gay people were sinning and/or sinners. This was unacceptable -- and I'd call it hateful personally but we don't need to debate the minutia of it -- and is why we... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn
at 12:51 PM on February 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Mefi's own
"I won't tell you what the outcome was, but the pilot and his entire flight club got it wrong.''
OMG! Adam Savage just violated the first two rules of flight club!
posted to MetaTalk by The World Famous
at 12:24 PM on November 1, 2007
Ask post:
I was in nursery school (about 1969), and I was...
I was in nursery school (about 1969), and I was passionately interested in astronomy. My dad had read me lots of books about the cosmos, and I was as educated about such matters as a four-year-old could be.
One day, I was arguing with friends about the moon. I said the moon was like a small planet. They disagreed. Finally, I called a teacher over to help settle the matter. I KNEW I was right, so I was looking forward to the teacher vindicating me. We asked her if the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by grumblebee
at 6:37 AM on February 2, 2005
MeFi post:
The History of the Super Mario Franchise.
Talk of Super Mario Bros. always brings a smile to my face. If it weren’t for those games, my childhood would have been a lot less exciting. I grew up as a carney. My parents were carneys and my grandparents and great-grandparents were carneys. My father was a concessionaire who sold food at fairs all over the U.S. and Canada. He sold popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones, candied apples, funnel cakes, and fiddlesticks to name a few. We lived a very nomadic sort of life, traveling around the country... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by inconsequentialist
at 7:54 AM on November 9, 2007
MeTa post:
Astro Zombie wants to kill us all.
In 1998, I was bitten by a black widow spider in New Orleans' French Quarter the morning after a three day Halloween drinking and drugging binge. We were on our way to where our cars were parked, gearing up for the 9 hour drive back to Austin.
I was waiting for my friends to buy some coffee, sitting on a stoop playing with a puppy that one of them had bought from a homeless kid the night before when I felt a slight prick on my right forearm. Admittedly, I was still a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Item
at 10:14 PM on November 11, 2007
MeTa post:
Mathowie in London
HEY GUYS HOW DOES THE 4TH SOUND TO YOU?
posted to MetaTalk by flashboy
at 1:04 AM on September 19, 2007
We can't take Matt to a Wetherspoons. He might get an accurate impression of British culture.
posted to MetaTalk by flashboy
at 1:15 AM on September 19, 2007
MeFi post:
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
No, the YouTube version of this thread so far would look like this:
so phuckin' old, wevs
posted by nzero at 2:17 PM on August 9
lol bet they used a wackom cheaterz
posted by exogenous at 2:26 PM on August 9
OMG THAT MUST OF TAKEN SOOOO LONG
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 2:27 PM on August 9
STFU exoGAYnous
posted by cortex at 2:29 PM on August 9... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cortex
at 3:15 PM on August 9, 2007
MeFi post:
Chess tactics explained in plain English
But let me again emphasize, to be good at chess, you need to study and read a bit.
But you also have to have the talent.
I used to be, what I thought, was a pretty decent chess player. I easily beat most people I played and could defeat most of those hand-held computers that were coming out in the 1980s.
Then, one day, a friend invited me over for a smoke and a drink. Seeing that he had a chess table... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice
at 1:33 AM on June 20, 2007
MeFi post:
Yay, Internet!
I'm glad that lots of people -- not just Julie, Amanda and those present at City Hall that rainy afternoon -- are getting warm fuzzies from this story! I was especially touched by the comment from "Dave", who is Amanda's dad.
I keep getting requests for an MP3 version of my rendition of Praise You. I'm going to have to set aside some time in a quiet room and record it.
In the meantime, I would suggest that all of you find your... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by AccordionGuy
at 10:10 AM on June 12, 2007
MeTa post:
London meetup?
If there is some general sort of agreement
On a meetup thread? You've got to be joking. Tell people when they're coming or they'll walk all over you with their having a life nonsense.
posted to MetaTalk by cillit bang
at 2:51 AM on April 25, 2007
MeFi post:
SHOOT THINGS
This is a great game. Of the dozens of iDevGame entries over the years, the ones I still love to play include Kiki the Nano-Bot (3d puzzle game), Raptor (vertically-scrolling shooter), MAFFia (cartoony blow-em-up), and Black Shades (unique first-person-shooter).
posted to MetaFilter by churl
at 5:48 PM on April 22, 2007
MeFi post:
safe2pee
This is real? I have never cared one whit what equipment the person pissing next to me has or doesn't have. As long as they are not pissing ON me.
And the one time I did care?
I was at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for the Hagler v. Hearns fight. After drinking free cocktails for four hours before and then REALLY drinking after that fight I found myself in the swanky VIP bathroom next to the Six Million Dollar Man. Yes. That's right. Lee Majors.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist
at 5:10 PM on March 16, 2007
MeFi post:
Down in front!
I see why they didn't go with:
"Vulva, it's what girls have down in front,
Vulva, ..."
posted to MetaFilter by falcon
at 3:29 AM on March 1, 2007
MeFi post:
How the Cube was found.
Bury chunk of worthless material in dirt 110 miles north of corporate hq.
Interesting factoid - the Cube cost quite a lot of money to manufacture. It was done to a very high tolerance and hand finished, meaning that it actually isn't all that less expensive than the granddaddy prize of treasure hunts, the Masquerade golden hare.
Why was it buried in 'dirt' (as opposed to what? gold?) 110 miles north of 'corporate hq' (well, we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon
at 3:07 PM on February 15, 2007
MeTa post:
"Everybody's Interesting" Metafilter's...
In deference to Jess, I won't write the Tom post.
For the people who are interested in knowing what the heck she and I are talking about:
In the late 90s, the Internet was -- well, we were all there. A luminous chandelier of possibility. It was not hyperbole to say that the universe was unfolding in front of our eyes. Home pages were being bought and sold for frankly unrealistic sums of money. And there, face pressed wistfully up against the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by felix
at 12:41 PM on February 6, 2007
Ask post:
One Man's iTrash
think of the iMac as a really big laptop - the panel attaches to the computer in the same way it does in a laptop. the "I wanna use my laptop screen as a monitor" question comes up every so often and the answer is always no - the electronics to make the screen work are different from what you'd find in a normal monitor. (though, AFAIK, the internal connector is LVDS, so you might be able to hack something up.. I'd be very surprised if it worked, though.) you could make it into a really... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mrg
at 12:48 PM on January 23, 2007
MeFi post:
banksy has freed his bits
Those of you who are dismissing Banksy seem to have forgotten to link to your entirely unforgettable, really and for truly subversive portfolios, the artistic and satirical brilliance of which will be celebrated far and wide, and when word of it reaches him, cause this Banksy charlatan to never again darken the door of a paint store.
Links please. I look forward to being sunburnt by the radiance of your genius.
posted to MetaFilter by Optamystic
at 2:04 AM on January 19, 2007
MeFi post:
Eat Me.
Some people will go to any legnths to avoid working a day job. Which is a good thing since I wouldn't want this dude manning the helm at the Burger King.
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc
at 8:30 AM on January 17, 2007
This guy is so full of himself.
posted to MetaFilter by Cat Pie Hurts
at 8:41 AM on January 17, 2007
