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posted to MetaFilter by Spacelegoman at 10:47 PM on April 20, 2008

Last night I had hot fast sex standing up in the open air with a former Alvin Ailey and Paul Taylor dancer on a rooftop just over a terrace from which the party she was hosting was clearly audible, and 40 stories over an astonishing view up the Hudson River and Manhattan's west side as the sky cleared and the full moon burned through the clouds like a summer sun through a morning haze, and the cool spring air tickled my ass hairs like a gentle and encouragingly affectionate reach-back from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Now I'm Prune Tracy! at 2:59 PM on April 20, 2008

*sighs, drops out of Mr. T school*
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 6:57 PM on April 15, 2008

"Highlander is entirely appropriate."

Oh, indeed, but The Quickening was the subtitle to Highlander 2, whereas in his deletion reason cortex said Post 3, which doesn't correctly correspond to oh holy shit what has become of my life.
posted to MetaTalk by cog_nate at 3:43 PM on April 9, 2008

Speaking as a practitioner of analytic philosophy who wishes he knew more about continental philosophy (and who thinks he is probably sympathetic with some of its general themes), I'm finding the characterizations of analytic philosophy in this thread to be unfair. The word 'rationalism' is being thrown around a lot, as if it were the defining mark of analytic philosophy. But when I look around my department, I see a lot more Hume than Kant. Wittgenstein is being paraded as a defining figure... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by painquale at 5:13 PM on April 7, 2008

Many of postmodernism's most strident critics are Platonists or crypto-Platonists of one stripe or another. These people are the supposed heroes of the new rationality, like Daniel Dennett and co. One of the things these people are very careful about is discussing this ideological underpinning, because it is non-falsifiable twaddle. Postmodernism is highly offensive to these people, not because it encourages irrationality,** but because it makes several convincing arguments that Logocentrist... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mobunited at 11:23 AM on April 7, 2008

What made Improv Everywhere good was that their pranks were genuine interventions that brought into question everyday practices in a given space. If the pranks were inspirational, or magical, or whatever, it was only because they were, at their core, kind of scary. They walked the tightrope between creating a sense of the sublime and a sense of unease.

These latest pranks, though—this baseball game, and the Mall musical—are milquetoast acts of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aparrish at 9:05 PM on April 7, 2008

While the typical blog is written by one person wearing sweatpants reclaimed from the hamper, Metafilter is written by some 60,000 people wearing sweatpants reclaimed from the hamper.
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog at 5:10 PM on April 7, 2008

I've told one of my best stories ever on MeFi before but never in a thread on Best Stories Ever so here it is again:

Mid nineties I ran a hip video store--foreign films, art films, whatever. Lotsa regular customers. One set is a married couple. The internet was just sorta starting to become popular and I'd built the store a web site (and daily was hit with "What's a web site?" questions) and the husband in this couple keeps hanging around the counter and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 9:51 AM on March 31, 2008

A few pieces of advice, in no particular order:

- Advertise yourself as an IT handyman in the local area. Go out and do onsite desktop support & small projects for home users and small offices (Target accountants, law firms -- small companies too big to support themselves, but too small to afford a full time IT person.) In this way, not only will you pick up cash and make contacts, you will also expose yourself to many phases of the IT project world, from doing small... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by edverb at 1:18 PM on October 19, 2007

What's weird with gaming is that it there seems to be a pretty huge gap between the people at this professor's dinner party (that last touched a video game 20 years ago) and what we regularly think of as "gamers" (cut to 30-year old in parents basement with a xbox360 running a FPS for 16hrs/day).

I myself am merely a casual gamer, an hour here, an hour there a week, tops, and it seems like that almost no one markets to me (aside from Nintendo) and no one writes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie at 10:26 PM on March 30, 2008

I've been outside. It's overrrated.

Traditionally Outside receives extremely high ratings by those who like to see others play it, and these people are in many cases comfortably ensconced Inside themselves. Outside was released many years ago, it was in fact the first massively multiplayer game, and yet it has always managed to avoid the double-edged Retro tag. In its favor, continual user updates have kept Outside current; there are always new things... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by aeschenkarnos at 4:19 PM on March 30, 2008

The last time I was in Casper was the summer of 1988, following my freshman year of college. My grandmother had just died, and my cousin was flying in from L.A. for the funeral.

My uncle asked -- demanded, really -- that I accompany him to the airport with him to pick up my cousin. The two of them didn't really get along (family rumor has it that when my cousin came out to L.A. in the '70s to pursue acting, it was my dad who paid his SAG initiation dues after my uncle... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by scody at 3:19 PM on March 27, 2008

Jesus, I hate living in this timezone sometimes, because there are already like 144 comments, and this one should have been the first damn one (with all due respect to the Bomb of Meat:

IMMINENT DEMISE OF METAFILTER PREDICTED.
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:43 PM on March 26, 2008

Says this guy.

I was playing Santa Claus, you asshole. I fucking Bobby Deniro-ed the weight on just to take the goddamn picture. Plus...HURRICANE, you shithead!*


* "HURRICANE" is now officially my excuse for everything. Caught shoplifting? Hurricane. That waitress I was flirting with? Hurricane. Naked in the mall fountain, wrapped in a blue tarp? Hurricane.
posted to MetaTalk by ColdChef at 6:37 PM on March 19, 2008

Fuck You! This is arguably the most important speech any politician has made in many decades, Matt has given it a somewhat tacit OK and the tenor in this post has not been overwhelmingly negative. Did you make that decision on your own? I am posting the speech. You can delete it if you want Dr. No but given that a significant number of people would like to see it on the blue, even if they are not a majority, it deserves to be there.

You know, fuck you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:54 PM on March 18, 2008

The excitement surrounding his candidacy represents, however, an intense desire of millions for a vitally new way of doing things -- for substantive political chance. The buzz around him is evidence of a growing rejection of the old political agenda, and raised hopes for something new.

Maybe it's just working out exactly what it is that would be different. I mean, Clinton in 92 was all about "change" too - (see here about halfway in, eg).... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mdn at 9:25 PM on March 18, 2008

I meant to indicate that a finger-wagging comment about substance and the appropriate use of the blue from a guy who A) admits he doesn't get anything out of an intelligent, nuanced speech of the history of class and race in this country and B) is known for making posts about arguably the most insubstantial human beings of our generation... is that ironic? Or just hilarious? I can't tell. I'm too hopped up on all the kool-aid!

It's funny how my posting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Stynxno at 7:32 PM on March 18, 2008

But its Obamaaaa!
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 11:43 AM on March 18, 2008

Re: why Obama might do better with caucuses, there are also arguments that because it's only a 1-2 hour event, people who can't get off work or who have non-standard shifts may not be able to attend, and those sorts of union workers are a pretty strong base for hillary. Also there have been some claims of foul play, but that could be within the "normal" levels of unfortunate but statistically equal on both sides.

I always attribute a little too much conspiring... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mdn at 1:04 PM on March 17, 2008

I'd like to offer my unqualified apology for flunking my Apology Qualification Certification Exam.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 7:58 AM on March 17, 2008

The community consensus is that if your spouse starts to resemble Jabba the Hutt, you are obligated to somehow be sexually attracted to Jabba the Hutt. I don't think it's shallow to say that I have never gotten an erection from Jabba the Hutt. The thread says a lot more about the insecurities of some people who are worried that they look like Jabba the Hutt than it does about the OP.
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 6:51 AM on March 16, 2008

obama-fap - Metafilter's next great American pasttime.
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno at 7:59 AM on March 10, 2008

There's no point in a mission to Mars if there's no return trip. "Yeah, we put a man on Mars. Big whoop." Why don't we just shoot a corpse up there? I bet that's even cheaper. Heath Ledger was a pretty good actor. NOW HE'S THE FIRST MAN ON MARS!
posted to MetaFilter by CarlRossi at 11:21 PM on March 7, 2008

My name is Marga Go meh zzzzzzzz
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 5:44 PM on March 9, 2008

Since we're talking about him, I just want to point out that 1 is currently my least favorite poster.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:23 AM on March 7 [+] [!]

To be fair, I think we've both been someone else's least favorite poster at some point.

Yup, high up on my list as well. Has been warned, doesn't seem to care.

I like this because it makes it seem like you warned him... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 8:16 AM on March 7, 2008

lol?
posted to MetaFilter by ND¢ at 2:42 PM on March 5, 2008

Pomegranate is actually not that hard to eat. Take a knife, score it all around the side, drop it into a bowl of water. Let it sit for about a half hour. Then start peeling it apart with your hands. Keep it underwater. The pith floats to the top, the seeds sink. When you're done peeling it, just drain the water, and you have a bowl full of delicious seeds.

Versus my instructions for eating a pear*, I would say that's pretty difficult.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Bookhouse at 7:31 PM on February 25, 2008

Why yes, jessamyn. This is my ten-thousandth Metatalk comment.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 6:30 PM on February 25, 2008

If you favourite this post, I will spend a fraction of a second thinking what a sucker you are for favouriting this post.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 1:28 AM on February 25, 2008

That was absolutely brilliant.

The die was cast with the initial Sara Silverman piece. She scored huge points with the whole shock value of using the word fuck, but then she really added a layer on top of that by claiming to be sleeping with a much more popular and attractive man than Kimmel. And to top all that off, she ups the funny quotient by doing it in song and also being a parody of different music styles and videos styles. It worked on five or six levels.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by flarbuse at 8:33 AM on February 25, 2008

If 500 people favorite this comment, I'll disable my account.
posted to MetaFilter by hermitosis at 3:54 PM on February 10, 2008

(Also a d1 is spherical with a large 1 printed on it. I beleive you get two extra large d1s with every set of billiard balls. Each set also contains an unfortunate number of "weighted" d1s which have been rigged to roll numbers other than 1, so watch out for those)
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:58 PM on February 2, 2008

No, you need to put it between a sun lamp and the female Led Zeppelin, then you'd have a turtle eclipse of the Heart.
posted to MetaTalk by ludwig_van at 6:13 PM on February 1, 2008

Jesus Christ, can someone please help me figure out how to jimmy open this fucking ATM before the cops show up, hypothetically?
posted to MetaTalk by Divine_Wino at 9:57 AM on January 31, 2008

I've made that suggestion like a million times, Plutor.
posted to MetaTalk by quin at 7:50 AM on January 29, 2008

You know what? It's reaching the point with you, thehmsbeagle, where I'm beginning not to care what you're saying, even when you have a valid point (and make no mistake, you have a very valid point here with those crappy comments.)

However, in that thread, you're pulling the same shit you'd probably bitch about if it was woman asking a question about something female related and a guy chimed with the kind of dismissive, condensing comment that you made. That's fine,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Brandon Blatcher at 4:17 PM on January 23, 2008

Someone doesn't manage to refrain, sadly, which is why we all keep getting spam.

Well, then.

Let's find everyone who buys penis creams, herbal viagra, or penny stocks based on unsolicited recommendations from strangers with names like "Dr. Chauncey Ayala" and "Ulysses Triplett" and shoot them in the face with a bazooka.

Problem solved.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 1:34 AM on January 18, 2008

I like how regional slags fall to pieces outside of context. (Scouser?) You know someone's getting slagged, you can kind of guess at the context, but all in all it just reads as nonsense, a template filled in badly as if in the style of a MadLib.

Q: What's the difference between [regional group partition] and [object with identifying characteristics]?

A1: [unflattering parallelism between the two that depends on... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 12:54 PM on January 16, 2008

Another non-anon. My reasons for being non-anon: it never occurred to me to be anonymous. People need each other. (And I guess everyone needs a hug, too). If this makes me a bliss ninny, so be it; the world needs bliss ninnies too.
posted to MetaTalk by lleachie at 5:30 AM on January 15, 2008

From : Astro Zombie 3
To : Astro zombie
Subject : Narf
Message : Narf narf narf.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 9:25 PM on January 10, 2008

Language FAT! haha.
posted to MetaTalk by hermitosis at 8:01 AM on January 10, 2008

So I've stayed out of the big gender discussions on the grey until this one. As a radical feminist, most of my positions have been well-enough represented to the point where it's just not worth it for me to get involved, especially because I know I'm outside of the mainstream. The same is true with this thread, where I feel that there's no question that there is very little legitimacy to those who don't see a problem with the discourse that's happening here. As is always the case, I have... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allen.spaulding at 11:12 PM on December 29, 2007

God, a fight between delmoi and bruce?

Lovers of capitalization and grammar sigh somewhere.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 6:26 PM on December 23, 2007

Here is everything you need to know:
Liechtenstein Successfully Tests Teeny Tiny Nuclear Bomb
Rappin' Rodney, can't get a break
Garmies: far, far TMI
McHatma McGandhi
How to cancel the Google
Strange foreign objects in dog feces
THE GOLDEN AGE OF COLONIC IRRIGATION
FAQ: What is "Rickrolling"?
The Treaty of Westphalia
Meatbomb wins anti-caption... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Meatbomb at 11:37 AM on December 19, 2007

I really like beards.

It's saddening that suddenly hipster boys are sporting them, because I used to think of beards as a marker for a certain kind of manliness (the kind, for instance, that is suspicious of too much man-grooming and probably knows about mysterious things like roofing) and now you don't know if the guy is THAT kind of guy, or if he's just really into Destroyer.
posted to MetaTalk by thehmsbeagle at 11:36 AM on December 19, 2007

"- monty python skit quoting?
- alien something or other?
- moleskine?
- fixie?
- t-shirts with code on them?
- giant belt buckles?
- hemp anything?
- TEE-vee?
- snakes on a plane nonsense?
- stuff to put in your clean hair to make it look unwashed?
- jewlery made out of perfectly functional items that were taken apart to make jewelry out of?
- leatherman?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 10:43 AM on December 19, 2007

but going verbal George Foreman on him is more likely to make him stick to his guns

Stick to his guns, perhaps, but not to the handy George Foreman nonstick grill!

Besides, I personally think the OP would be a little more attractive as a sandwich, possibly layered with some bacon and avocado.

on preview: *flings self at turaho*
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 2:50 PM on December 18, 2007

There's some weird male fantasy that involves being able to charm, seduce or otherwise do some sort of magic on any female on the street and have sex with them. That a charming Frank Sinatra character, overcoat slinged over his back would stand next to a woman on the street, light a cigarette and smoothly utter, "Hey blondie, it is too cold for someone as beautiful as you to be out on the street. How about we get a cup of coffee?" And of course she would swoon and be incredibly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by geoff. at 2:42 PM on December 18, 2007

I have a natural accent - I am often thought to be either British or Eastern European (having lived in both places), despite being born and raised in the States.

Some day you will look back on that and cringe. I hope.

Frankly, anonymous guy, I feel like you're the end product of way too much cheesy internet porn.

There's a dense mythology of men telling other men that there are lots and lots of girls... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by thehmsbeagle at 1:39 PM on December 18, 2007