But without saying "you shouldn't have made that choice" or "old bags shouldn't have babies" or whatever other junk.

But she has the right to say that women should not get abortions?
posted to MetaTalk by youcancallmeal at 1:04 PM on August 29, 2008

Modified: Did you know? The future will be different and a lot of the changes will be bad and comical!

Scientists are saying the future is going to be far more futuristic than they originally predicted.
posted to MetaFilter by basicchannel at 1:51 PM on August 26, 2008

After about a half an hour you realise Juno isn't really quirky and edgey but practically conservative propaganda. Abortion as an option dissapears in a second, and adopting away the baby is instantly considered the right solution (despite the fact that she has a loving and supportive family etc). Garners character is a loon with serious control issues, but these are all swept away when she fulfills every real womans dream of becoming a mother (despite being in the middle of a divorce). Juno... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Iteki at 1:20 AM on August 24, 2008

Say Anything. Lloyd Dobbler is nothing but a creepy stalker.
posted to Ask Metafilter by teleri025 at 9:23 AM on August 24, 2008

USC. Apatow. Figures.
posted to MetaFilter by sourwookie at 2:05 AM on August 24, 2008

Staying in a world of relative freedom, learning, and exploration is way more desirable than becoming a "productive" member of the 8-to-6 workforce.

8-to-6 sounds so depressing. It's funny when a 9-to-5 work week, the old shorthand term for drudgery, begins to seem really cushy.
posted to MetaFilter by Telf at 8:36 AM on August 24, 2008

My favorite comment is the one complaining that "That air of smugness on Metafilter will be the eventual cause of its demise."

Who are they kidding? The air of smugness is what keeps me coming back.
posted to MetaTalk by Solon and Thanks at 12:59 PM on August 9, 2008

Nothing will wipe a smile further from my face than someone telling me I should smile. Especially a stranger. The gall!
posted to Ask Metafilter by amanda at 1:22 PM on August 6, 2008

I'm a nanny, so dropping the f-bomb would be the equivalent of giving myself a pink slip.

I've been really good at training myself just not to cuss, but the one thing I haven't been able to rid myself of is the propensity towards taking the name of the Christian Lord in vain. Which has somehow become so multi-purpose as to be combined with the f-bomb in times of great distress. "Jesus Fuck" gets a lot of mileage.

At... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by grapefruitmoon at 4:46 PM on August 6, 2008

This sounds so much like me that I could have written this question word for word. (I'm not entirely sure that I didn't and am not suffering from amnesia.) It's hard, losing a lot of weight and looking in the mirror and thinking "but... but I'm still fat." It kind of feels like being a living sketch, where you can still feel the old outlines of your body superimposed on the newer lines. Where I used to know precisely what size clothing I wore, now I have no... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Metroid Baby at 11:28 AM on August 6, 2008

The world is confusing enough without breaking stories mysteriously rewriting themselves from one moment to the next.

I blame Cory Doctorow.
posted to MetaFilter by elfgirl at 12:31 PM on August 5, 2008

I lol'd at, "I'll see you at the debates, bitches."

Maybe she's not such a vapid waste of skin after all.
posted to MetaFilter by Hugh2d2 at 6:56 AM on August 6, 2008

I believe that merits an 'Oooh, snap'.

I do like being pleasantly surprised by people.
posted to MetaFilter by Happy Dave at 7:30 AM on August 6, 2008

Well, I guess this'll be bred out of the population pretty fast.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 1:15 PM on August 4, 2008

Guinness Cupcakes - these are pretty fantastic, they stay very moist. I wasn't too sure about the icing though, I ignored the instructions somewhat and mine turned out far too sweet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by kg at 3:37 AM on August 3, 2008

'Only celebrities like Barack Obama... worry about the price of arugula,' wrote campaign manager Rick Davis

Well, I'm sure American arugula producers care too, even if there's only eight of them. Why don't Rick Davis and the Republican Party care about hardworking American farmers?!? Why does John McCain implicitly condone the denigration of red-blooded workers of the earth who harvest their livelihood from the fertile American soil in states such as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Alvy Ampersand at 10:02 AM on August 2, 2008

The way he voted to give the telecoms immunity was dreamy.
posted to MetaFilter by mattholomew at 4:59 AM on July 30, 2008

I deal with kids and their parents on a daily basis, and I can assure you that there is an entire spectrum of parental involvement out there. Sure some parents are more involved than others, but my sample size is almost certainly greater than his, and I assure you, there are many parents out there who cannot be bothered to bathe their kids or see that their teeth are brushed, much less micromanage their social schedule.

And I also see much better names: Chaos,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TedW at 2:45 PM on July 31, 2008

I would imagine that more than a few people here and elsewhere will tell you about how wonderful the teaching profession is, how it’s fulfilling and righteous and noble. These people are all correct, but there’s another side to the whole thing, and people don’t like to talk about it, because to do so makes one sound like a prick. I’m going to be that guy right now. I’m going to tell you about some of the serious problems with the teaching profession. Not to discourage you exactly, but because... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by nushustu at 11:58 AM on July 31, 2008

Why the fuck do people worship Ender's Game? I sniffed that O. Henry ending out, like, 30 pages in.

Maybe because I watched The Last Starfighter first. Damn, always loved that Robert Preston.
posted to MetaFilter by sourwookie at 11:03 PM on July 29, 2008

Say what you will, but the longer we allow the court system to simply strike down laws enacted by a democratic majority purely on the basis of those laws being unconstitutional, the more people are going to think that's exactly what the court system is supposed to do.

You've been warned.
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer at 11:14 PM on July 29, 2008

By this logic, Metafilter's about 70% closet former rabid fundy Christians.

It's true: Seven out of ten Mefites sneak out of the house on Sundays to attend Baptist service. Even the Jews. It's scandalous.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:56 PM on July 29, 2008

In other words, your favorite writer sucks, when he doesn't tell stories, but gives his opinion on politics/religion/sexuality.

Actually, my favorite author is fucking awesome when he gives his opinions. Being a Pratchett fan has its perks.
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 1:29 AM on July 30, 2008

> I see it as a woman's discovery of her freedom and independence.

Sure, and just like Thelma and Louise, the only way to resolve that "problem" is to have her die at the end.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jessamyn at 4:35 PM on July 28, 2008

First they came for the communists, and I was going to speak up, but Fred said that if I did he'd tell everyone the shit I told him in our clearing sessions, so I shut the fuck up.

Then they came for the socialists and the trade unionists, and I was going to speak up, but the guy from the central office said that when I kept Sally in that room so she could get clear, that was kidnapping and if I didn't shut up they'd shop me to the cops.

Then... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:54 PM on July 26, 2008

I added dianetics.org to the ad-block list.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:26 PM on July 26, 2008

Cat Pie Hurts, you are the bigot. Scientology, whether it has one member or a million members is a religion in America - a country that has no law that disallows a person from belief in anything they want - be it Jedi, Catholic, atheistic Judaism, Satanism, or even Scientology.

Er, you're making a mistake here.

There's Scientology the religion, which is pretty out there as far as wackiness goes, but is still... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dirtynumbangelboy at 1:06 AM on July 27, 2008

Someone may correct me, but John Carpenters "The Thing" is based on "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell Jr. and I dont think it was credited.

I'm not sure this counts (not a book), but "Barb Wire" which takes place in an unspecified 21st Century time, is kind of sci-fi-ish (maybe) and is a blatent rip-off of Casablanca, almost down to the dialog. It's a hysterically bad film and a guilty pleasure of mine, I confess.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by elendil71 at 8:58 AM on July 25, 2008

I emailed the client and told her the working arrangement she's suggesting is not really how we operate

That's smart. I have been running my business for three years, and when I finally realized that I could say, "that's not how I operate," it was liberating as hell.

No, you're not being unreasonable at all. You're free to decide how you want to do business, and it sounds like you have made that clear. Screw her.
posted to Ask Metafilter by jayder at 4:03 PM on July 26, 2008

28 year-old nonwoman here, but I recently read The World According to Garp by John Irving and thought it was excellent. It reminded me of The Catcher in the Rye (a high school favorite) because of some of the themes, and made me think I wouldn't relate to the Salinger novel at all if I read it today. I guess that was a big deal for me...
posted to Ask Metafilter by substars at 9:32 PM on July 27, 2008

If you have to link to their wikipedia page, they aren't famous enough for a MeTa announcement.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 3:03 PM on July 21, 2008

That comic was fucking insane. And ugly. This ignorant, hateful fuck goes to all the trouble of penciling, writing and lettering his very own hate comic, only to send it out uninked? With almost no panel borders? How am I to properly absorb his bigotry when it's so hard to read, huh?

It's amazing how many things this comic proves Rinehart terrible at. He can't spell. He can't draw for shit. He doesn't know what a pedophile is, or what letters the word... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by EatTheWeak at 12:35 AM on July 19, 2008

MetaChat is kind of butt. There, I said it. But you knew it anyways.
posted to MetaTalk by Burhanistan at 10:57 AM on July 18, 2008

Metafilter: some obnoxious in-joke.
posted to MetaFilter by mek at 1:29 AM on July 14, 2008

Oh, I forgot to mention this excellent book: Start Where You Are, by Pema Chodron
posted to Ask Metafilter by desjardins at 2:48 PM on July 8, 2008

if you were a child-free person working at Google, it would probably chafe that the company was subsidizing the guy next to you to the tune of $37,000 per year.

This is always a big problem with Americans who define equal as same (ie, specifically rather than categorically). So the idea that someone gets a handicap parking space while the rest are forced to march a hundred yards each way can actually cause resentment among Limbaugh listeners. They... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Brian B. at 2:15 PM on July 5, 2008

Wait. So I'm supposed to be shocked, surprised, and stunned that a group of loonies who reject the majority of modern social and technological advances, who believe that education past 8th grade is a bad thing, who, in other words have a generally medieval mindset.

I'm supposed to be stunned that these medieval mindset people treat animals in a medieval way?

Ummmm.... Nope, I figure that after they finished beating their wives, sexually... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sotonohito at 4:18 AM on July 4, 2008

Maybe someone can help me understand the link a little better? Is this about puppy mills (bad!), the Amish (curiously obtuse, possibly enlightened, maybe just a little fucking crazy, need to be taken down a peg) or the ne plus ultra - an AMISH PUPPY MILL - Holy fucking shit. These people are truly everything we suspected - just as depraved as every other cloistered society determined to shun the civilizing trappings of modernity.

If you ever actually spend any time... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by docpops at 6:27 AM on July 4, 2008

I'd vacillate it.

What?
posted to MetaTalk by Burhanistan at 12:38 PM on July 2, 2008

Yup- the pre-nup isn't the problem. I heart pre-nups. The problem is how he's handling it. Pre-nups are always uncomfortable but they shouldn't be acrimonious. At the FIRST whiff of acrimony you call the whole thing off until you can get a counselor and then a mediator.
posted to Ask Metafilter by small_ruminant at 3:50 PM on July 1, 2008

It is the state's largest cash crop, generating nearly $14 billion, more than grapes, vegetables, and hay combined.

And no taxation without legalisation.

Now can anyone in Sacremento think of a way to close that massive Republican budget shortfall?
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice at 12:49 PM on July 1, 2008

Here's a true story about how awesome Pixar is.

As some of you know, when the trailer first came out, my girlfriend, Courtney, burst into tears at the trailer. She was emabrrassed but somewhat amused by this, as so she made a video of herself watching the trailer on her computer, knowing she would start crying every time that little robot said his own name.

After a few months, she started to get trickles of emails from people at Pixar who said... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 12:18 PM on July 1, 2008

For god knows what reason I decided to subscribe to Boing Boing's RSS feed a while back and whenever one of Cory Doctorow masturbatory posts comes up on Google Reader I just groan. So yesterday I went to Yahoo Pipes to try to create my own Boing Boing feed without Doctorow posts, and someone else had already done it.
posted to MetaFilter by bertrandom at 10:35 AM on June 30, 2008

I wish they'd deleted every post mentioning Little Brother. What a waste of my attention.
posted to MetaFilter by yeti at 10:49 AM on June 30, 2008

I bet I would have gotten sick of Palnuick in half as many books if he had a blog as well.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:44 PM on June 30, 2008

Nonsense. The people at BB, as far as I know, have always been clear it's their site to do with as they please. Also, speaking entirely theoretically (and as I believe PNH suggested on his site), if one of the BBers did it for personal reasons for which they choose not to discuss with the general public, then accusations of "hypocrite!" are likely to be met with "who gives a shit what you think, it's my life and site" and summarily dismissed.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton at 3:59 PM on June 30, 2008

Mr. Scalzi, with regards to your first point I can't speak to and either commend or criticize others' behavior, I can only do that for mine. I'm not attacking his wife. I don't even know who initiated this, so I'm not even attacking any one person at BoingBoing. I'm not going to even recant the fact that I really like Cory's books and the future and principles he espouses in them, even if I find certain parodies of his annoying aspects to be very directly on-point. I'm criticizing the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike at 3:59 PM on June 30, 2008

I'm here for the steampunk hate.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 5:18 PM on June 30, 2008

While I'm sure the moderators here delight in the idea that they do no wrong

What the fuck? It's precisely this kind of ad hominem twisting of words that's getting people pissed at Patrick in that ML thread. I did not say, nor do I believe, that the moderators here "do no wrong," and I resent your implying that I'm some kind of sycophant. I can link to plenty of my comments yelling at Matt over the years if you don't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat at 5:29 PM on June 30, 2008

Boing Boing is the Fisherman's Wharf of the internet. Just some lame San Fransisco thing that everyone ends up at at some point.
posted to MetaFilter by Stonestock Relentless at 7:15 PM on June 30, 2008