MeTa post: Clarification on reasons to delete answers

Seems the general consensus is that you should at least add a brief explanation to back up your reasoning for "No." You know, something like:

She wasn't 26, she was 19, but with legs like that it was hard to tell, I have to be honest. We met in this squalid little dive bar outside of Fort Worth, on her insistence. It was attached to a gas station and the only building within 20 miles, as far as I could tell. It even had those real swinging saloon doors on the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 8:46 AM on August 29, 2008

MeFi post: Major Hurricane Gustav heads for Louisiana

You live in the Quarter. The shotgun you live in dates back to pre-Victorian time. The bar down the street from you dates even further back, to when the French actually had the Quarter, and its popular mythology is that it was owned by the pirate Jen Lafitte, who fought with the Americans against the British in the Battle of New Orleans, on the Chalmette battlefield, just a few miles away.

You head out to do your laundry, which you do in a laundromat on Rampart that was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 10:29 AM on August 31, 2008

MeFi post: The Middler

Ok - the SSL/Cookies thing for dummies:

(full disclosure, former intern at Google, doing a PhD in computer security. None of this violates my NDA.)

First off, you need to know that when you are using a public wireless network (coffee shops, your university, etc), your Internet browsing can be eavesdropped upon by anyone else nearby. They can see which web pages you visit, which IMs you send, and which *ahem* adult image you are looking at.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by genome4hire at 11:17 AM on August 28, 2008

MeFi post: It tastes like burning

The thing about this blog is that it neglects the whole "Obama" phenomenon. How will this affect my taxes?

I know this is supposed to be a website for grownups, but I can see you there. Yeah, you. You know I'm talking to you. I'm on to you, kid. I know your dad walked away from the monitor for a sec to go polish his Ajax or tweak some CSS, and you thought you might get a quick look at some pictures of frogs having sex or something. It's all right, though,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Greg Nog at 10:44 AM on August 26, 2008

MeFi post: Sarah Palin as McCain's running-mate

Oh my god, really?

Really?

Look, to be fair, I was halfway through a post last night on my own site about how ridiculous I though all the hard-right Freepers/Cornerites/etc. were harping about Palin. She was basically their new Fred Thompson. But I am seriously dumbfounded that they would have been this stupid.

Don’t get me wrong, on a PR level this is masterful for McCain. He’s killed all the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 8:10 AM on August 29, 2008

Four years as a Senator is plenty of experience, but two years of governorship? No way she's prepared.

No, four years as a U.S. Senator plus eight years as a State Senator is more prepared than 18 months of governorship and six years as the mayor of a town smaller than your average community college. Can we be done with this one now?
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 8:18 AM on August 29, 2008

"I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"

"Thank God he's not gay, amirite?" she added.
posted to MetaFilter by notmydesk at 8:22 AM on August 29, 2008

I can't wait for the VP debates. "Governor Palin, Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
posted to MetaFilter by hydrophonic at 8:28 AM on August 29, 2008

pardonyou? writes "'I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection,' Palin said. 'Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?'"

Lots of Rupublican compassion for an extra chromosome, not so much for men born liking show-tunes and cock.
posted to MetaFilter by orthogonality at 8:32 AM on August 29, 2008

Here's a female politician it's okay to hate! And she's pretty! Let's break out the sexism!

Suggesting that someone is sexist because they don't like the Anti-Choice, creationist person who counts a beauty contest as election experience is like saying that because you don't care for Obama's healthcare plan, you are a racist.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 9:00 AM on August 29, 2008

I heard that there are so few women in Alaska that a "ten" is a four that brings a six-pack.
posted to MetaFilter by Bitter soylent at 9:04 AM on August 29, 2008

How tough will Joe Biden be able to get on her in the debate without people calling him a sexist pig?

As a feminist and supporter of full equal rights for pretty much everyone, I say, "eviscerate the shit out of her".

Also, McCain is a known skirt chaser who left his former-beauty-queen wife for a younger, might-as-well-be-former-beauty-queen heiress, and now wants to make a younger former beauty queen his #2. You... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mkultra at 9:42 AM on August 29, 2008

I get the experience meme now. That insight is like a kick in the gut. I know Obama's record, so I always just wrote off the problem of experience. But now, the problem of experience actually applies, and it's terrifying.

I'm going to have an honest question for my Republican friends that I know love this country: what if McCain dies?

I do not think this is terrifying because Palin is a woman, or a beauty queen, or a mother. None of those are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dosterm at 9:53 AM on August 29, 2008

You know what's really pissing me off about this pick? The sentiment among the smug conservative pundits that McCain "broke the glass ceiling" with this selection. Bull. Shit. The fact that they cannot see the enormous logical fallacy of that statement is just staggering. The proverbial glass ceiling will be broken by a strong woman who does so of her own merit, not because the condescending establishment saw fit to cut a hole in it big enough only for her -- and did so only because it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shiu mai baby at 10:06 AM on August 29, 2008

She might be inexperienced in absolute terms, but look at the bigger picture, people. Obama is claiming 12 years of experience out of 4.5 billion years of Earth, but Palin's got two years out of a mere 6,000 — she totally wins on the percentages.
posted to MetaFilter by enn at 10:20 AM on August 29, 2008

Oh, and she's an attractive woman. OMG METAFILTER RAAAAAAAAAGE!!!

I thought the Republicans were supposed to be the male chauvinists.

You know, I'm really naive in thinking that at some point in my life people will actually get it through their heads that feminism is as much about equally judging women's faults as it is about judging their attributes.

Whining that everyone here is ragging on Palin for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by XQUZYPHYR at 10:25 AM on August 29, 2008

You know, I'm really naive in thinking that at some point in my life people will actually get it through their heads that feminism is as much about equally judging women's faults as it is about judging their attributes.

I felt the same way when I had to defend my choice of voting for Obama over Clinton. Because I am a woman and a feminist, I was "supposed" to vote for Clinton. It took a lot to explain that being a feminist meant placing women... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by grapefruitmoon at 10:40 AM on August 29, 2008

Yeah, lets just ignore all the 'beauty queen' comments that are being attached quite liberally to most criticisms of this lady. I'm sure that has nothing to do with dismissing her based on her gender.

Does everything need a disclaimer around here?

At some point, this woman decided to compete in a beauty contest. She seems to be proud of her performance in it. Therefore, this decision is fair game for criticism, especially... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by butterstick at 11:00 AM on August 29, 2008

I think there have been some sexist comments in this thread, but I don't think bringing up the nominee for Vice President's days in a beauty pageant is sexist. Unless we want to assume that something like that is intrinsic to being a woman, which is more insulting that any mention of the contest - I'm a woman, I think beauty pageants are stupid and demeaning and I think poorly of women who participate in them. I don't want women involved in them as my political leaders and I don't want them... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Solon and Thanks at 11:03 AM on August 29, 2008

Beauty pageants are all about judging a woman on how she looks. Period. You can burnish it all you like by calling it a "scholarship competition," have the participants sing opera and twirl batons and proclaim their desire for world peace, but there's no getting around that winners are selected using the most shallow and inconsequential of standards -- ones that completely undercut every effort for equality that women have tried to make. In other words, it's the ultimate endorsement of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by shiu mai baby at 11:06 AM on August 29, 2008

You realize you are essentially questioning if a woman can be president or VP because she might get preggers, right?

You realize what a misguided question this is, right?

Aside from Palin hypothetically bearing a child, you realize the Republican party also does anything it can to make life miserable for almost all working pregnant women and low-income families trying to raise children in the United States, right?
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 12:44 PM on August 29, 2008

It's nice that she didn't abort her pregnancy even after finding out the fetus had Down's Syndrome. Good for her, happy happy.

You know what's even nicer? That she CHOSE not to abort. That not aborting wasn't simply mandated. Anyone who thinks that anti-abortion leanings give you the right to get all up in others' vaginas needs an attitude adjustment.
posted to MetaFilter by Dipsomaniac at 1:49 PM on August 29, 2008

Oh, so being against the killing of unborn life means McCain is anti-women.

McCain voting against the Violence Against Women Act is anti-women. McCain voting against equal pay for women is anti-women. McCain voting against family leave is anti-women. McCain voting against reproductive healthcare and education is anti-women.

McCain being against reproductive choice is just the nail in the coffin.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 2:03 PM on August 29, 2008

I guess that makes those who support the killing of unborn life anti-everybody.

Also, who supports the "killing" of "unborn life"? Removing your scientifically unsound terms here, people who are pro-choice aren't marching around crowing about how friggin' awesome abortions are. I'd suggest reading up on what pro-choice means before digging an even deeper hole.
posted to MetaFilter by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 2:25 PM on August 29, 2008

**To all those who say "talking about her derisively for being in a beauty pagent isn't sexist!!", I'd urge you to read onlyconnect's comment, which hits the nail on the head. You don't have to agree with her analysis, but if you weren't someone who thought that Hillary faced a lot of sexist bullshit in the primaries, you're not really the target of this anyway.

I did read it, I do think Hillary faced a lot of sexist bullshit in the primaries,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Solon and Thanks at 2:26 PM on August 29, 2008

I for one fully support the killing of unborn life. For the same reason I support the killing of undead zombies and vampires. Because the whole concept is an oxymoron based on fantasy and I am generally Reality-Based.
posted to MetaFilter by wendell at 2:54 PM on August 29, 2008

"I'm trying to draw a distinction, I guess, between what is rationally in people's best interest and how they are likely to act in that situation, and how the Democratic ticket should take that into account when deciding on their strategy for attacking McCain/Palin. "

I think that's a fair distinction, and I will agree that it's necessary to win irrational voters in order to win the presidency. I might even go so far as to say that morons are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 3:27 PM on August 29, 2008

Oh, so now abortion doesn't kill a life? I wonder why people have abortions in the first place then? Oh, that's right, it's because if they didn't have the abortion, a human life would pop-out of them a few months later.

And if they had a miscarriage, it wouldn't. Don't try to reduce the complexity of human reproduction down to a simmple binary of "is it life/isn't it?" It's awesomely complex and nobody knows for certain the moment when a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 3:42 PM on August 29, 2008

Ask post: How do I let a guy know I want to sleep with him?

He's a boy so sex should generally be an inevitability if you are around him long enough.

Please don't gender stereotype. This one is old, tired and lame. Not all men are hounding for sex 24/7 and the idea that sex is something women should be able to have from any party merely for the asking isn't particularly productive either.

No reason to just give it away, make him earn it, which he will likely do if he tried... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by DarlingBri at 7:48 PM on August 25, 2008

MeFi post: Juno no no

Snyder, it's because for every movie where the character goes ahead and has an abortion (wow, I can think of maybe 2 or 3), there are so so many where she doesn't--or worse, conveniently miscarries, thus getting her out of having to make a choice either way. It gets old. Apatow ironically addressed this in the "smashmortion" scene, but at the same time, if you're a woman, his movie can feel like just another in the deluge of Hey Go Ahead and Have that Baby, It'll be Great, Gals!... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by emjaybee at 2:33 PM on August 22, 2008

MeTa post: Slapping someone in the face a bit too much ...

Hitting on random women might be tacky or annoying or whatever, but he didn't say anything disrespectful or stalkerlike.

Hitting on random women on the street is disrespectful. Someone who does that is basically so obsessed with getting what they want, so convinced of their own attractiveness that they want to throw out a big "Fuck You" out to the fact that 99% of women have to deal with that skeevy shit every other... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by schroedinger at 7:43 AM on December 19, 2007

MeFi post: Career Objective: Fail

I once received a resume that had the applicant's profession listed as "Gentleman Adventurer."

You better believe I called that guy in for an interview.

Turns out he wasn't a gentleman at all! And his adventure was just backpacking through Europe. Boo. I can take some exaggeration on a resume, but you better not conjure up mental images of monocle wearing men slashing their way through the darkest jungles in search of forgotten... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by robocop is bleeding at 11:55 AM on June 2, 2008

MeTa post: It was the best of MeFi. It was the worst of MeFi.

Some of my Metafilter bookmarks:
Anglo Women are an endangered species!

Past life as a Samurai.

I am a Mutant with an enlarged brain, and a device implanted into my head but its very sensitive to electromagnetic fields.. please help me avoid them
Phones are bugged
Need Resources on Mind Energy Changing DNA

Bus boyfriends
No longer rockin' the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by meehawl at 12:45 PM on February 17, 2008

MeFi post: Return of the Beat Generation

Man, I guess you never really think about how competitive the world of crazy-ass alarmist newsreporting is. You just figure that it's like, 5 guys knocking out stories about rap music and raves and how 5 year olds are smoking crack or whatever, and that's basically it. But then you stumble across this story by a hungry, young upstart named Kim Komando, armed with a vision and a dream that's going to blow the whole world of alarmist reporting apart and take it in strange new directions, and you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Tiresias at 11:13 AM on August 9, 2008

MeFi post: Will no one think of the zygotes?

If these conservative fruitcakes had their way, masturbation would be made illegal, because semen ejaculated without an egg in the vicinity is the death of potential life.

No, they won't go that far, because it's not really about life, at least not most of the time.

I've said this before, but I'll rehash: when you ask if there should be exceptions to the no-abortions rule for rape and incest, virtually every... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Malor at 2:15 AM on August 10, 2008

I WAS having sex while I was in high school.

[...]

Even if I weren't now opposed to sex before marriage

Or you could perhaps let people make their own decisions. You seemed to enjoy that capacity; why not extend that to the rest of us proles. We're animals. Animals fuck. The notion that others should rail against their own biology -- when you admittedly failed to do so yourself --... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Dark Messiah at 2:41 PM on August 10, 2008

MeFi post: You wouldn't think that this would be such a hard question.

Also, I see that people are quoting the Bible. Good. That allows me to deploy my new counterverse.

From now on, whenever someone quotes from the Bible regardless of the quote, I will quote this verse. Let us pray:

Ezekiel 23:20: She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose semen was like that of horses.

And doesn't that quote just sum up the religious view of women and sex? Not only... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pastabagel at 8:55 PM on July 30, 2007

MeFi post: Give us this day our daily unleaded

True story: when I was younger, my folks and I were driving back home from a trip to Disneyland. It was a long, long drive and we were dead-dog tired from the journey. It was late at night and we were extremely hungry, too. We decided to stop at a KFC a few miles from our house to grab some dinner before we got home.

My mom and I walk inside the KFC and start ordering. After we're done, mom confesses to me that she was really worried they would be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 9:50 AM on July 30, 2008

As an atheist, I'm always amazed at the number of Christians who have a lower opinion of their deity than I do.
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 9:42 AM on July 30, 2008

Ask post: I'm in a loving but sexless relationship. What should I do?

This man is your best friend. Your lover is still out there.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:10 PM on July 30, 2008

MeFi post: cuil kids?

Google should buy Cuil just to fire these guys again.
posted to MetaFilter by Avenger at 9:14 AM on July 28, 2008

MeFi post: Israeli paper publishes Obama's stolen Western Wall prayer

I used to work in a movie theater right down the street from Marilyn Monroe's grave in Westwood, which is tucked into a tiny cemetery surrounded by high-rise buildings, and also contains the graves of Natalie Wood, Truman Capote, and the girl from Poltergeist. People left notes at Miss Monroe's grave all the time, and, I feel guilty about this now, but I would steal them before work and read them when I had a spare moment. I was just unendurably curious about what sort of notes people would... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 7:04 AM on July 27, 2008

Your current president's prayer would've probably read like a letter to Santa.
posted to MetaFilter by slimepuppy at 6:31 AM on July 27, 2008

MeFi post: Carlos Is an Asian at Heart

I relate so much to that Carlos kid. Like him, I was a gifted Latino kid. So gifted that, yes, people often asked me whether I was really Latino.

I am. My parents grew up in a village in Mexico and came to the United States as immigrants. I grew up in a 2-bedroom house that we shared with two other families.

Education meant nothing to my parents. I was sent to school because it was the law. By the time I was in 2nd grade, teachers were telling... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vacapinta at 4:17 AM on July 24, 2008

MeFi post: "This is why I carry, even in church."

One can only hope that Adkisson does not get the death penalty either, so he can spend the remaining years of his life getting intimately acquainted with inmates who want to educate him on gay sex.

Um, no. Revenge fantasies involving prison rape show that one is no better than the target of one's anger. Better to wish that he should come to his senses and be forced to live with the guilt of what he has done.
posted to MetaFilter by fleetmouse at 12:53 PM on July 28, 2008

MeFi post: Speaker for Himself

I'll never forget the day gay marriage was legalized here in British Columbia. I remember looking into my wife's eyes, trying to wrap my head around the fact that we couldn't be married anymore. I couldn't look away from the pain those eyes, the sense that I'd let her down, that all the promises we made weren't worth a hill of beans now because the gays had destroyed marriage. And democracy. That was important to us to, what with the stolen elections and the illegal surveillance and the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Naberius at 11:36 PM on July 29, 2008

Ask post: Please help me make some sense of our relationship

After my last devastating breakup, I realized something very clearly: love does not conquer all.

You can love someone, and they can love you, and there can still be no way to go forward together. All the parsing of subtext and all the untwisting and retwisting of narrative threads cannot undo this. Heaven and earth sometimes remain unmoved, no matter how much our hearts wish to move them.

Everything ends. All relationships end, whether by... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by scody at 1:04 PM on July 22, 2008 marked best answer

MeFi post: 'The Politics of Fear'

She went 43 years without once being really proud of her country.

America: Love Being A Minority Female And Therefore Getting The Short End Of Almost Every Stick There Is OR LEAVE IT
posted to MetaFilter by DU at 7:09 PM on July 13, 2008

That's the funny thing about irony, sometimes you say something that really cleaves and hits the mark but everyone in the room still thinks you're a fucking asshole for saying it.

And you know what? You probably are.
posted to MetaFilter by The Straightener at 7:02 PM on July 13, 2008

MeFi post: chomp

Maybe you'll watch it, and nod that yes, you understand poor people. You've seen it on television.

You can take your own sanctimonious smugness and shove it deep and far up inside your poophole. I am a poor person. You have no freaking clue where I've been, how I've lived and what I've had to do to survive. I don't have a graduate degree. Hell, I never graduated High School. These erroneous indicators of social strata are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:36 PM on July 11, 2008

Page: 1 2 3 4 5