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"Those dumb-fuck 20-something goons chanting "USA USA USA" in the darkness"

Allow me to jump in here for a minute. I rode my bike over to the White House (Lafayette Square) a few minutes after Obama made his announcement.

Yes. There were a number of dumb fucks shouting USA USA USA in the darkness, and there was a dude on stilts wearing an american flag bodysuit. (I should add that virtually all of these... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 8:27 AM on May 9, 2011

Keep in mind that obviously when I was still campaigning for president I had said that if I ever get a shot at bin Laden we're gonna take it. And I was subject to some criticism at the time because I had said if it's in Pakistan and, you know, we don't have the ability to capture him in any other way, then we're gonna go ahead and take the shot.

WASHINGTON | Wed Aug 1, 2007 7:26pm EDT

"(Reuters) - Democratic presidential... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by three blind mice at 2:10 AM on May 9, 2011

Were the children already in your house? Because that is disconcerting. I'm afraid to play it now; toddlers might come crawling through my windows.
posted to MetaFilter by desjardins at 12:35 PM on May 7, 2011

There are people who are reading the article who just disagree as well. I'm not sure additional hollering at them is going to really change things up much.

That said, I can get behind RTFA Day as a concept and I declare 5/6/11 MeFi RTFA day henceforth.

also most of those happy-looking lemurs have scrofula and/or head injuries.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:06 AM on May 6, 2011

Lemme see if I understand this.

1. A library had been offered funds specifically earmarked for having writers come in and talk. These funds could not be used on anything else, and they were going to go poof into the air if they were not used.

2. Neil Gaiman comes in and agrees to do a talk, then after giving his publicity staff their cut, hands the rest to two charity organizations.

3. Matt Dean froths, points, name-calls.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cmyk at 9:10 AM on May 6, 2011

I wonder how much funding I could get for a product that scans emails for the word "attached" or "attachment" that have no attachment and pop up a warning dialog box to the user saying:

Did you mean to attach something to this email?

It will stem the tide of emails every one of us gets every day that start with "Sorry - forgot the attachment" as well as the countervailing flood of replies saying... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kcds at 1:17 PM on August 12, 2008

I'll measure your gyro without touching it.
posted to MetaFilter by ZaneJ. at 11:47 AM on May 4, 2011

Undescribe, please.
posted to MetaFilter by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:58 PM on May 2, 2011

I'm going to be super dooper unpopular for saying this, but: Who cares?

Honestly, the US govt, hell Henry Kissinger has been directly responsible for killing more innocent people than Osama Bin Laden could have even dreamt of. There are no military actions, or protests, or celebrations about that.

Bin Laden is not unique in any way, not for hating the US, for his medieval conservativism, for killing thousands of innocents,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by smoke at 8:29 PM on May 1, 2011

White House just released Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate.
posted to MetaFilter by lilkeith07 at 6:01 AM on April 27, 2011

[This is a response from an anonymous commenter.]

I work for Domino's!

Pizza dough is shipped to us from the supplier in trays of pre-formed blobs of different sizes -- small through extra large. We let it "proof" or rise a little and store it in the walk-in refrigerator along with all the other food. The pizza toppings are shipped to us as well, and every morning food prep involves pouring the fresh toppings into the little containers... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by cortex at 9:36 AM on April 19, 2011 marked best answer

NON-STOP NYAN CAT cannot be stopped!
posted to MetaFilter by fearfulsymmetry at 3:09 PM on April 15, 2011

You guys, Lady Gaga can't read.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 11:15 AM on April 20, 2011

Then I reach across the table, squeeze my daughter's hand and offer a silent prayer for her, and for me, and for all of the mere mortal women who stumble their way into this most wonderful of callings. This blessed gift from God . . . that of being a Mother.

Does anyone have a glucose monitor? I'm not a diabetic, but I just inadvertently swallowed a couple gallons of syrup.

I'm a dad, and I love my daughter more than any... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mayor Curley at 6:38 AM on April 17, 2011

It sounds like you don't want to be in this marriage and are looking for us to justify you leaving.

I don't know what vows you took, but when I took mine, it was "till death do you part." My wife stuck by me through some pretty bad shit (a couple of nervous breakdowns and me almost leaving her because of my depression).

I'd say that I'm in the position of your wife (my illness has been depression) and in the past it has been a 6/7/8 on... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by TheBones at 6:29 PM on March 31, 2011

How is your wife the cause of your unhappiness? I see you blaming her, but I don't see exactly what's wrong other than you being depressed.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by anniecat at 6:20 PM on March 31, 2011

Ynoxas writes "The quote I remember is 'How much time does a baby take? All of it.'"

That's brilliant.

This is an excellent thread and I agree with pretty much all of the advice offered so far. My [on preview, copious] thoughts:

Brott's Father books are all pretty good, but The Expectant Father is the best, and certainly a better book for you right now... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Songdog at 7:52 AM on June 28, 2006 marked best answer

Hi friends. Thanks for your concern. My family and I are all fine and unscathed, I'm so thankful to report. I was waaay out in Saitama (north of Tokyo) teaching English to little kiddies at a classroom in a huge new shopping mall. I was on a 20 minute beak between classes, about to step into a food store, when the huge structure started to shake...

I made a beeline for the nearest exit. The quake was LONG. Standing out in the parking lot was like standing on a raft. The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite at 7:56 PM on March 11, 2011

I was really curious why...

It was a Denial of Syrup Attack.
posted to MetaFilter by CNNInternational at 1:06 PM on February 15, 2011

(How's that edit feature coming along?)

Every time someone asks about it, we reset the clock.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 12:17 PM on February 13, 2011

It's not that he's after Piven. He's after somebody that can represent liberal academia. The idea is to create an atmosphere of fear around the teaching of ideas. The goals:

1. Scare Piven herself into not speaking as much/as vociferously.
1a. Scare other liberal academics ("Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't discuss this... look what happened to Piven.")
2. Scare CUNY into shutting her down
2a. Scare other universities into not hiring... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by rouftop at 2:09 AM on February 7, 2011

protip: to make Glenn Beck go away, don't link his fucking website.
posted to MetaFilter by clearly at 1:08 AM on February 7, 2011

I swear to God I saw these photos 3 years ago.
posted to MetaFilter by sciurus at 4:09 PM on February 4, 2011

Yes, the important thing about enormous (and enormously powerful) media conglomerates is their logo.
posted to MetaFilter by DU at 8:54 AM on February 1, 2011

Oh wow. Oh wow. Rhaomi, thank you thank you thank you.

Hi! I'm Yoz Grahame, mentioned by rdc above, and I was the main web hacker working on ST and its associated sites. There is a massive post to be written about The Digital Village but it's way past my bedtime, so here's a frantic braindump with lots of 12-year-old TDV linkage...

The first version of starshiptitanic.com was designed as a promotional brochure for tours on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by yoz at 3:30 AM on December 23, 2010

On my iphone, I click on the timestamp, reload, and then hit the back button. It takes me back to the selected timestamp with the reloaded comments below.
posted to MetaTalk by chiababe at 2:07 PM on January 8, 2011

We don't even know if the woman is alive or dead, and some of you have already tried and convicted the gunman and the entire American Right wing for assassinating her.

Good point. This may have simply been a case of self-defense.
posted to MetaFilter by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 11:56 AM on January 8, 2011

You know what irritates me? That someone with a stick up their ass wants to create this pointless Metatalk ON CHRISTMAS DAY and give the mods extra work to do ON CHRISTMAS DAY. Did that get through to you? It's fucking CHRISTMAS DAY and you can't give the mods a day off?
posted to MetaTalk by MaryDellamorte at 11:56 AM on December 25, 2010

no way

Yahweh.
posted to MetaFilter by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 4:15 PM on December 23, 2010

In other news, Pat Robertson just got diagnosed with Glaucoma.
posted to MetaFilter by Ufez Jones at 4:11 PM on December 23, 2010

The post is fine for Metafilter. Don't blame the poster for the behavior of commenters.
posted to MetaTalk by Roger Dodger at 11:37 AM on December 21, 2010

Semi-seriously: not really. We have an admin-facing user page for each user which has such boring things as "send password reset email" and a few other little functions. We have a list of comments/posts that you've had deleted. We have your IP history. We know who has flagged you. We don't know who you have flagged [except by working backwards, or by seeing it at the time]. We can leave notes to each other but in practice we rarely do this. We'll leave a note if we banned/time-outed... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 6:47 PM on December 14, 2010

jessamyn: I am for some reason too lazy to sort the list myself at this time.

I have a huge project I have to finish no later than tomorrow on which I still have an immense amount of work to do. Procrastination empowers me to sort that list. Here you go!

computers & internet (31971)
media & arts (16339)
travel & transportation (12170)
work & money (11929)
health... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 3:30 PM on December 12, 2010

God, this is even scarier than I had first realized:

• Manual braking was continued and the airplane stopped about 150 meters before the runway end.
• After some confusion which of the VHF radios remained available the FO contacted fire services who requested engine #1 to be shut down. The crew replied engine #1 was already shut down but was advised that the engine continued to run. The crew recycled the engine #1 master switch, but the engine... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Plutor at 12:43 PM on December 6, 2010

Guys are so easily lead like puppies.

Well here's this one guy's problem. He grew up with a disability, was tormented and bullied most of his life, grappled to regain self-esteem and everything else. He's an adult now trying to figure out how to interact with people, women especially. He's never been on a date with a woman. His friends sort of tease him about this. He's caught between trying to take their word for how things work in social... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn at 5:28 PM on November 29, 2010

What is it our government likes to say about poking into our privacy? If you've done nothing wrong, what do you have to hide? So why are they so worried about their own secrets being leaked?
posted to MetaFilter by Jacqueline at 11:19 AM on November 28, 2010

Well, as long as Julian Assange promises that releasing this latest round of information will prevent wars and terrorist attacks and more death, I guess everything is okay.

Why do grown adults say things like this?
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 11:02 AM on November 28, 2010

Yeah, derails belong in desubway.
posted to MetaTalk by Joe in Australia at 4:48 AM on November 24, 2010

Here's a (rhetorical) solution to this problem: prior to the advent of CNN, news in the United States was the responsibility of three major networks, a public television network, and a combination of radio stations and newspapers. Subsequently, those networks still exist, but have been supplemented by the vast swath of the internet and a series of political entertainment channels (admittedly, lots of newspapers have died in their too, but that seems a separate problem). The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by l33tpolicywonk at 10:14 AM on November 14, 2010

So essentially, people were telling me to do something that would end in my suicide, and scolding me for not doing it.

I do not mean the following in a snarky way whatsoever.

If you are actually in danger of suicide based on an answer from someone on Metafilter, I think there are some inherent and significant issues that, to me, would suggest that your mental well-being might be better served by avoiding... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 10:34 PM on November 11, 2010

freshwater_pr0n's, unless you detailed your relationship with your mother in your in question there's really no way anyone could have known that.
posted to MetaTalk by 26.2 at 10:11 PM on November 11, 2010

Ok, so I didn't read any of the articles or videos or whatever the links are, and my clock's all wonky from travel, and I was having a great evening until I came across this post and its replies.

Please don't ever post anything about ear wax again. For me. You may owe me a new laptop.

Ear wax is the only thing in medicine that makes me ill. And I've dealt with a lot of gross stuff. First of all, I grew up with dry, crumbly ear wax. Growing up, my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by herrdoktor at 1:42 AM on October 19, 2010

Modernnomad (and r_nebblesworthII, who favorited above):

I am opposed to the backscatter machines and invasive patdowns and other "security" measures on privacy grounds, on health grounds, and on ethics grounds; however, all of that is neither here nor there, it's all missing the point. Whether they can see your face AND your naked body image, whether they keep the photos or not, whether there are still undiscovered radiation exposure consequences, whether the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hal Mumkin at 10:28 AM on November 11, 2010

He was interviewed on The Daily Show.

And U of M has modified his campus-wide ban.
posted to MetaFilter by morganannie at 10:16 AM on November 9, 2010

Stagger Lee: while I appreciate the spirit in which you made your comment, you're reflecting exactly the attitude which American society seems to be going through the birthing pains of erasing right at this moment.

Demanding that children, specifically GLBT children, should learn "social camouflage" in order to avoid bullying... That's exactly the attitude which was prevalent in the 1950s toward all queer persons. Just learn to fly under the radar, keep... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 12:00 PM on November 4, 2010

How they did it?

1. demonize liberals at every chance you can get;
2. Lie lie lie about their agenda;
3. Create an enemy in every race -- Obama in the White House, Pelosi in the House, etc;
4. Work as a bloc to oppose any legislation that might be claimed as a victory by the opposition;
5. Lie lie lie about that legislation;
6. Scapegoat;
7. Pump money into an energized fringe;
8. Throw... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 1:40 PM on November 4, 2010

I just finished a grueling 16 hour day, working as a Special Precinct Board Officer. We counted absentee ballots all day long. All these votes were Early Voting from what we call "satellite sites," portable voting sites we run in grocery stores, libraries, city halls, college dormitories and class buildings, etc. throughout the city. Conservatives and Republicans hate early voting and absentee ballot programs, they say it promotes vote fraud. Bullshit. It promotes voting among people... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by charlie don't surf at 10:55 PM on November 2, 2010

I would say that my use of the site has not changed dramatically since before the introduction of that proposed change (which I opted out of). Except that I am, as ever, still trying to moderate my own comments and behavior wherever possible so as to spare the mods any more work than necessary.

Also, if 500 people favorite this comment, I'll eat a bedbug. And film it.
posted to MetaTalk by hermitosis at 10:19 AM on November 1, 2010

That's it, pb is fucking fired.

After all these years I find out in a comment? A text message would have been a little more personal. Plus I think that was my only mistakes.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 10:35 AM on October 30, 2010

That's it, pb is fucking fired.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 9:47 AM on October 30, 2010