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We desperately need a MeFi Open Blimp. You pay $10 to broadcast your message, whatever that may be, and the Blimp will carry it over this great land of ours.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 1:28 PM on December 18, 2007

IS THIS THE SCREAMING THREAD?!?
posted to MetaTalk by puke & cry at 7:54 PM on December 16, 2007

The question is, are they nevessary for this question?
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium at 7:21 PM on December 14, 2007

I time the restroom breaks and make sure no one eats at their desk for a large call centre.
posted to MetaTalk by Meatbomb at 11:46 AM on December 14, 2007

I wouldn't be fit to have admin duties in Ask because I would delete about 93% of the questions with a rubber stamped "Oh for goodness sakes, stand on your own two feet" message. That is because I am not, at heart, a very nice guy, I guess.
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog at 11:55 AM on December 14, 2007

Also, soccer is often played by actual athletes who do things like stretch, and take care of their bodies.

Ultimate, on the other hand, is often played by naked, stoned hippies.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 4:01 PM on December 13, 2007

I need a tug.

My old friend Rick, the guy who got killed in the Bali bombing in 2002, was a big traveller during the same years I was, roughly from the late '80s into the late 90's. We'd meet up, by plan or by random, in dive bars and airports and run-down hostels and back 'home' in Vancouver, every year or two, for a day or a week or longer when our paths crossed or we were heading in the same direction, and, inevitably, drink a lot and tell tales.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:45 PM on December 12, 2007

ludwig, my statements about critique and requirements was directed elsewhere.

what do I think being good at listening to music is?

You know how there's that dude at the party who will put on some obscure shit that noone has ever heard of and try to "explain" why it's so great? That guy is bad at listening to music. The person who shuts his shit down and puts on Love Shack and everyone starts dancing. That person is good at listening to music.
posted to MetaTalk by billyfleetwood at 10:28 PM on December 11, 2007

Hey metafilter! Guess what I've been listening to!

- Shit you don't like

- Shit you don't care about

- Shit you're sick of

But I want you to know what it is! You've read my comments, now see what music I like. I'm a unique snowflake and you're sure to be impressed!

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if Franklin Fucking Dee Roosevelt was user #666, I wouldn't care... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Mayor Curley at 4:24 PM on December 11, 2007

Wow. 'Philosophy' continues to come up with even more idiotic 'innovations.' There are plenty of silly things in this article. To begin with:

Not only are philosophers unaccustomed to gathering data; many have also come to define themselves by their disinclination to do so. The professional bailiwick we’ve staked out is the empyrean of pure thought. Colleagues in biology have P.C.R. machines to run and microscope slides to dye; political scientists have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 7:49 AM on December 11, 2007

Thank you for your metatalk post! Your metatalk post is important to us! All of our vituperitive assholes are currently busy but your metatalk post has been placed in a queue and will be dealt with by the first available snide, arrogant harpy! *TALL AND TAN AND YOUNG AND LOVELY THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA GOES WALKING AND WHEN SHE PASSES EACH ONE THAT SHE PASSES GOES AH! WHEN SHE WALKS SHE'S LIKE A SAMBA THAT SWINGS SO COOL AND SWAYS SO GENTLE THAT WHEN SHE PASSES EACH ONE-* Thank you for your... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 7:53 AM on December 11, 2007

*taps microphone*

THREAD 15426, MAY I PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION?

Thank you.

My name is George Prisser, but you can call me Mr. Prisser. I am from The Ministry of Silly Threads.

It has come to my attention that user #206, one singular Mr. Wendell, has attempted to start a silly thread here in your fine council of Meta, err, something or other. Doesn't really matter, does it? Just a small stand of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 2:25 AM on December 10, 2007

Great callout.
posted to MetaTalk by 31d1 at 2:32 PM on December 9, 2007

- Favorited because I'll be able to use this comment to catch the author in a contradiction one of these days.

Wow, you people are hard-core. You're actually favoriting stuff to use as ammunition? That never occurred to me.
posted to MetaTalk by jayder at 9:42 AM on December 9, 2007

"Ok ok, aside from shame on you, what is your point here?"

Shame on you, dipshits?
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 7:21 PM on December 5, 2007

So, stupid stupid question here, but: what does "sexism" mean?

Not a stupid question at all, a very good one and not at all easy to answer. Sexism is the water we all swim in, and it's only relatively recently that we've started to notice it and try to describe how it works and what might be done to start dealing with it. (Tip o' the hat to Mary Wollstonecraft.) Sexism, first off, is not "hatred of women."... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 5:47 PM on December 5, 2007

if she moans "oh god oh god oh god oh MAYBE oh MAYBE" she is schroedinger's mom?
posted to MetaTalk by Rumple at 11:50 AM on December 4, 2007

"... Bunch of bloody Brad Goodmans in there... "I don't have any credentials -- or training -- but I have a Ph.D. in pain..."
posted by kmennie at 11:24 PM on December 3

In the three years I've hung around AskMe, if there is one thing I've learned, it's that it often works best, when one Commenter tells one Asker a story...
posted to MetaTalk by paulsc at 10:41 PM on December 3, 2007

Mister Rogers was a great man! I loved him!
posted by interrobang at 3:34 PM on April 3 [+][!] [edited at 4:15]

Fuck you, interrobang
posted by MimsyBorogoves at 3:40 PM on April 3 [+][!]

You're a real piece of work, interrobang--Mister Rogers was a great man!
posted by iliketurtles at 3:42 PM on April 3 [+][!]

Hay guys, why's everyone being so mean to interrobang?
posted by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by interrobang at 2:39 PM on November 30, 2007

Asperberger's on the internets seems like shorthand for "I am terribly awkward in social situations because I am a genius".
posted to MetaTalk by xmutex at 3:12 PM on November 29, 2007

My life has been very tumultuous for the last 6 years. I've moved back and forth across the Atlantic. My life gone through many cycles of disintegration and renewal. MetaFilter is literally the only community I've belonged to continuously during that time (first as a lurker then as a member). I'm deeply emotionally invested in MetaFilter. I'm hopelessly infatuated with this place (I realize this makes me sound like a complete dork). However, I believe that a large chunk of regular MetaTalkers... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 12:08 AM on November 29, 2007

Back when I lurked I'd stick mostly to the Blue and Gray and that's what I still do. The other subsites are great but they don't make me feel like a man when a flameout hits my vein, when I'm rushing to comment I feel just like jessamyn's son, and I guess I just don't know the real answer to your question, amyms. But yeah, when the snark begins to flow then I really don't care anymore. Ah, when the MeTa is in my blood and that blood is in my head then thank mathowie that I'm as good as dead,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 5:10 AM on November 27, 2007

Flagged it all. Just clicked random flags.




















I don't really understand the flags.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 1:13 PM on November 25, 2007

political correctness has arrived and is trying to institute sharia on metafilter, several bold female operatives put this in play (under the false flag that they were being intimidated from contributing) and the allure of victimological cant along with the fear of denunciation seduced many others of both genders into sheeplike endorsement of some tired shibboleths.

Dear Bruce:

In real life, I am polite and ladylike and rely... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by thehmsbeagle at 11:03 PM on November 24, 2007

As a white southern gentleman, there's a lot in this thread that I simply do not understand. The big words, mostly.
posted to MetaTalk by ColdChef at 2:55 PM on November 24, 2007

At first, I was honestly apprehensive about this, simply because I don't like feeling like part of some fragile "victim" class - I'm not a delicate flower that requires protection from them nasty mens. I personally have never felt like Metafilter was a sausage party, but then, maybe I've been hanging around the wrong side of the internet too long.
After giving it some thought, I believe this is a perfectly reasonable solution to what is clearly a pervasive problem -... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by louche mustachio at 12:54 AM on November 24, 2007

konolia writes "I have an even harder time understanding why anyone NEEDs an explanation."

That's because you're an idiot.


...


WAIT! Before you get all offended, I'm not calling you an idiot. I was just writing the kind of comment that quonsar wrote. Or, at least, the kind of comment that he came across to me as writing. Perhaps you found his comments much... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Bugbread at 7:42 PM on November 24, 2007

Hi, guys! I'm new here! So what's the deal with this place? Is it like Fark? How do I do the Photoshop contests?
posted to MetaTalk by Totally Not Dr. Elvis Steve Whatever at 8:27 PM on November 23, 2007

Can't...eating...
posted to MetaTalk by kirkaracha at 10:34 AM on November 22, 2007

someday you're going to run across a youtube link that features the taumeson-pitch-perfect combination of owmyballs, prog rock, and glenn beck, and you're going to want to post that single link, and the idea of padding it with additional links will nauseate you, detracting as they will from the majesty that is thirty seconds of Glenn Beck taking one in the jewels while singing "Roundabout." And on that day you're going to regret this callout.
posted to MetaTalk by stupidsexyFlanders at 7:44 AM on November 20, 2007

...a unique departure from my normal behavior.

Hardly. For instance, there was this bon mot you deployed when Paris Hilton went to the pokey. I have never forgotten it. It is thoroughly brutal. And that it came from you, with your stated commitment to gender equality -- well, that just made it all the more awful.

Here is what you need to understand. It does not matter, one iota, whether you think a woman is exceptional,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by melissa may at 6:17 PM on November 17, 2007

Being big, bad and dangerous is OK for playtime, but the world is in deep shit and could do with a lot more considered discourse. This may not be the best place for it.

If you think you've found the Archimedean point from which to change the world for the better, may I be the first to suggest that you go there and start hefting that long, long lever?
posted to MetaTalk by anotherpanacea at 2:08 PM on November 16, 2007

Astrozombiezone? Devolving? Yes, this is a really cool place for Astro Zombies.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 9:25 AM on November 16, 2007

It's really hard for me to relegate assholery to a gendered zone.

I don't, for the most part, partake in flaming other users, or escalating conflicts with invective or dismissive language, and perhaps this is in some way due to my girlish sense of cooperation. I have undoubtedly experienced hurt feelings over being the target of that kind of activity. It's hard to read that stuff, makes me flush. I have felt like my outness as a girl around here has caused me to draw... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ambrosia Voyeur at 10:21 AM on November 16, 2007

OMG, a definition! My worldview just shifted completely!
posted to MetaTalk by aramaic at 2:02 PM on November 15, 2007

I've been used to being SILENCED ALL MY LIFE.

As HAVE I. It is extremely frustrating, ISN'T IT? Every time I try to SAY SOMETHING PROFOUND, a bunch of SARCASTIC HIPSTERS have to go and RUIN EVERYTHING. Just because I'm passionate about INSCRUTABLE ISSUES, and just because I express myself like a DERANGED LUNATIC, doesn't mean that I SHOULD BE censored. I'm going to go have some TOAST now, and maybe take a LONG WALK around my BLOCK.
posted to MetaTalk by pardonyou? at 6:22 AM on November 15, 2007

That's OK people. I've been used to being SILENCED ALL MY LIFE.
posted to MetaTalk by AngryVICTIM at 3:14 AM on November 15, 2007

first, open a fake myspace account...

That would be funnier if klangklangston hadn't already made the same joke in the thread.

Also, if it were funnier.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 11:48 AM on November 13, 2007

Note to self: Get revenge plans from Yahoo.

u shud total egg her hose lol
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 11:40 AM on November 13, 2007

"quonsar, are you trolling or just dumb?"

Mu.
posted to MetaTalk by Eideteker at 3:55 PM on November 13, 2007

Somewhere in this burlesque show, there's a kid begging not to be born.
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis at 2:14 AM on November 13, 2007

Cortex, you don't subscribe to the "If it's maybe mildly broken, have a go at completely fucking it up" philosophy?
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog at 12:11 PM on November 12, 2007

Great. What a spectacular direction to go in. I now pledge my allegiance to whatever points you wish to make, as you are clearly a beneficent observer.

It's my cynical pessimistic asshole version of Occam's Razor. Call it Asshole's Razor. When I see someone on the internet writing like a careless dumb person, where all I can see is their writing, should I think that they're probably pretty dumb and careless (and just maybe their boyfriend probably... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by TheOnlyCoolTim at 2:58 PM on November 8, 2007

“How do they like it if I march in with my own agenda & tell them that they're oppressed, and liking the american way of life doesn't change the fact that the capitalists are fucking them well & truly up the ass?”

I think you're right and good for you for saying so.

At any rate, this whole line of reasoning is full of shit. We're not talking about women in some little village in Ecuador and languagehat and I and others... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ethereal Bligh at 11:00 PM on November 7, 2007

I like that in threads like this you can tell who's right by the number of favorites their comment received. BUT SOMETIMES OPPOSITE COMMENTS HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF FAVORITES WHAT DO YOU DO! You add up the number of favorites that each of the favoriters has received, thus weighting their opinion.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 7:58 AM on November 7, 2007

We are in the worst economic crisis of most people's lifetimes.

Having lived through the Oil Bust, I can tell you that at this point, we're not even close yet to the worst of my lifetime.

Our government and mass media openly lies to us all the time, openly commits mass murder against foreigners for no obvious reason, supporting torture and depriving citizens of their rights.

Oh!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dw at 12:31 AM on November 6, 2007

Weird fact about the candidate: he spent a couple years of his childhood living and traveling with some circus performer relatives, apprenticing in a few different bits of the life but particularly acrobatics and clowning. Though they were only distant cousins, those folks were some of the closest family he ever had.

That's right, you heard it here first: Ron Paul, stilts-kin.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 2:59 PM on November 5, 2007

People should feel this way. The whole sum of human knowledge amounts to jack shit compared to what there is to know. My education has taught me a bit of what humanity knows and a lot about what humanity doesn't know or where no one's figured out how to apply, or bothered to apply, our knowledge.

When I was a child I thought upon becoming an adult I weould just know how to deal with every adult thing. How to deal with the laundry, how to manage finances, pay my taxes,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by TheOnlyCoolTim at 9:57 AM on November 5, 2007

I wish I was a little bit taller, wish I was a baller, wish there was a stable dollar.
posted to MetaFilter by eschatfische at 6:50 AM on November 5, 2007

zardoz, I think your difficulty is included in this statement:

the plane moves forward, and the belt magically moves backward at the same speed. ... if you were watching the plane from the side, it would appear motionless

If it's moving, it isn't going to appear motionless. In the first instance, you have the plane moving relative to the surface of the Earth. In your second instance, you've magically eliminated the plane's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kirth Gerson at 10:10 AM on November 2, 2007