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How is it that I'm able to read mathowie's email?
posted to MetaTalk by gman at 7:26 PM on September 9, 2010

I haven't been spending much time on MeTa so I'm just now seeing this thread.

Please, no fighting and drama. I have a enough stress and performance anxiety going on to try to make this miracle opportunity work out for the best and get stable and self-supporting, which has been a struggle and coming in fits and starts. The fact that the economy is deeply buried in the shitter isn't helping much either, because it's usually easier for me to find freelance/temp work.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 6:38 PM on September 4, 2010

I'd favorite that comment to help offset your loss, and file that favorite under Other Random Crap so I wouldn't have it cluttering up my truly important favorites, if I could.
posted to MetaTalk by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 4:26 PM on September 3, 2010

Now that a couple of people in The Teeths have received it:

Presenting the revised and expanded, re-released and slightly superfluous original soundtrack to the hit indie summer blockbuster hit by Andrei Tarkovsky, Dolphins Can Fly, Too, starring the hit-related acting talents of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Neil Patrick Harris!

Front cover

Dropbox link

Disc One
The Brunettes – Stereo... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dandeson Coates, Sec'y at 5:51 PM on August 27, 2010

something equally erudite and scody will add it.

maybe they've just got me on some swell drugs flowing thru the ol IV right now, but I have to say i think it's very charming that for all your misanthropy, the insult you come up with for me is that I am a loose woman when it comes to doling out favorites. Yes, tis true, I am a comment slattern! A fast favoriter! I have the Sporting Life Blues (and Greens and Greys)! You have found me out, sir, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 7:08 PM on August 30, 2010

Always...

Wait.

NEVER...

forget to check your references.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 12:54 PM on August 25, 2010

Once of my favorite bands is the alt country group 16 Horsepower. Though a bit dark at times, I've always enjoyed their lyrics, music and arrangements. Rather than put together a CD of just their music, tempting as that way, a mix bands in that same genare seemed more interesting. I went to Last.fm and played the radio station for 16 Horsepower and listened to that for a few days, making a list of stuff that caught my ear. A little more listening to those bands, cut a few from the list and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nomadicink at 8:47 PM on August 20, 2010

My advice for airplanes ranges from hash brownies to a bump of xanax and some red wine, and my advice for airports is get high before you go, then play the moving-sidewalk-high-five-game (which surely needs a name that's a little briefer but still as descriptive). My advice for driving is T. Rex, my advice for boats is canned beer, my advice for horseback is that you can't ride horses drunk, dumbass. My advice for acid is take one to start and redose before you peak, my advice for mushrooms is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 10:34 PM on August 11, 2010

THIS IS NOT A RECIPE FOR CHICKEN SOUP

Ingredients:

Chicken.
Water.
A pot.
Some other stuff.


First you'll need some chicken, preferably with fatty skin and bones on it. A half a chicken, a whole chicken, chicken legs or drumsticks, whatever. In tonight's particular instance it was a frozen pack of drumsticks, about 7 or 8 of them.

You need a big pot... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 11:39 PM on July 30, 2010

Are other how-to questions about tax evasion cool, then?

IANATL - But is it actually tax evasion if you're living below the poverty line and wouldn't actually have to report or file anyway? At 700 bucks a month you're not exactly talking about someone who is ripping off the IRS or Federal Government - much less taking some lofty position of "only little people pay taxes". For fuck's sake, we're not talking about pounds of loose gold bullion... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 6:23 PM on July 30, 2010

Hi, I'm "homebound and friendless." As you might notice, I'm no longer anonymous. There's a reason for that. If I'm going to face the bigger fears, like leaving the house and talking to people offline, I need to face a somewhat smaller one, which is to be more open with "normal" people online about my situation. So, here I am, uncomfortably naked for all to see and judge and possibly ridicule.

I've been lurking this site for several years. It's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Faraday Cage at 12:20 PM on July 30, 2010

Don't you have to comment again to get a thread that's been removed from RA back on it?

No, you can add threads back in by clicking "manage posts removed from recent activity" at the bottom of the page.

I wonder if removing should just morph into collapsing. Maybe we could call it "mute", and then anything you have "removed" would just show up as a single line item inline with the ability to "unmute" to show all comments.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 12:03 PM on July 27, 2010

For just about as long as I can remember, there has been a general consensus that if you are going to post general headline news to mefi, it should be held to a fairly high standard. That wasn't the case here. That combined with framing that many people found offputting (cortex: "...and a bunch of flags coming in"). I trust that if cortex said that, it is true. I see no nefarious plot on the part of the mods to encourage threadshitting, that's crazy talk.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 6:59 PM on July 25, 2010

I use favorites to prop the door open.
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 1:45 PM on July 24, 2010

great detective work, cortex!

I do think everyone could stand to be more civil when it comes to these discussions.

I am with you there, dear Marisa of the Precious Thing - one can never have too much civility!
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 12:34 PM on July 22, 2010

Oh shit, this is the guy who posted a whole metatalk on how to make his first post super-awesome like a wedding night. And *this* shit is what he thought would be the awesomest posts evah?

Dollars to donuts he's shilling something and as cj_ says, playing MeFi like a fucking harp.

Mobile phone news is not interesting. It's all over the web. If I want to read fanbois arguing about iPhones and Nexus 1s and shit, I can head over to EndGadget or... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fourcheesemac at 5:03 AM on July 20, 2010

Love that tag.
posted to MetaTalk by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 7:54 PM on July 20, 2010

Ya know, sometimes it seems like you just can't fling poo into a crowd these days without getting poo on people.
posted to MetaTalk by pracowity at 10:23 AM on July 20, 2010

I just think there should be a clarification somewhere

This is fine. You are all fine. Is that clear enough?

I'm talking about the very unsexy digital divide at the HOPE conference in Manhattan tonight for 15 minutes. Around 8. I expect none of you to be there.

But like cortex said, these edge cases are why we're spending the time getting IRL working. As far as I personally am concerned, it's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:01 AM on July 16, 2010

I was looking for something similar on a more practical level (trying to help another online community) not too long ago.

* MeTa question looking for 2007 essay (I self-link because there's some other interesting stuff there, including a book reference)

* article by mathowie from 2001 (so, before the closing of new accounts, the $5 rule, etc. IIRC, I joined in part because of this article.)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by epersonae at 2:41 PM on August 13, 2008

Here are the flags I would like to see. If I ran this site as a total dictatorship.

- derail/noise
- wtf
- I will flag this instead of being a dick in the thread, but really, this sucks amirite
- "not best of the web" is not a reason we delete posts ever - do not use this flag. take a walk.
- typo making me itchy and can't rest unless you fix it
- someone doing that THING we just talked about not being... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 1:04 PM on July 14, 2010

11 years and I STILL HATE EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU.
posted to MetaTalk by eyeballkid at 9:23 PM on July 14, 2010

Aw, I hate every fucking you too, man.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 10:03 PM on July 14, 2010

Simple Solution: Sidemounted Shotguns

See, this is the real reason true road warriors ride flat bars. Shotgun shells fit nicely in the bar ends and you can hide the trigger and safety in the straight brake levers.

I once met a drop-bar rider who scoffed at the idea and said "I never get passed, so I put shells aiming backwards in the ends of my drop bars" but the very first time he fired 'em from his brifter... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 1:47 PM on July 13, 2010

Goddamit.

You can't change other people, just your reactions to them. </askmeplatitudes>
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:58 AM on July 2, 2010

I point them to this handy summary.
posted to MetaTalk by zamboni at 12:06 PM on June 30, 2010

Can we sidebar this so that infrequent MeTa readers will still catch it? Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by arcticwoman at 6:14 PM on June 28, 2010

I ask the following as someone who has run one of these before: before signing up to participate please try to think ahead to what your life will be like in mid-August 2010. Will you have just moved? Just started school? Will your life be "like totally crazy right now man for the next year or so"? If so, please do not sign up to participate in a mix CD swap now when hypothetically burning five CDs, placing them in padded mailers, driving to the post office and determining the correct... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ND¢ at 12:12 PM on June 28, 2010

Number of best answers isn't available anywhere though, right?

Here are the people with the most best answers.

You could look for yourself on that list, then divide it by your total number of best answers. (If you're not on the list, maybe you don't have so many best answers after all?)
posted to MetaTalk by Jaltcoh at 8:16 AM on June 28, 2010

I can't believe you seriously think that telling someone to stop reading the site for a huge portion of the day is more reasonable than people voluntarily (not as official moderator policy) putting the details about their ejaculation after, rather than in, the front-page intro paragraph.

I don't mean to be a pain here, but I see this as an odd American problem where we've somehow gotten used to the idea in our country that people talking about sex,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:45 AM on June 27, 2010

Vodka? No thanks. I prefer my own recipe which I call:

Wrecked 'em? I Nearly Killed 'em!

Pour into a shaker half filled with crushed ice:

4 oz. orange juice
2 oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
1/2 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. fresh-squeezed key lime juice
2 oz. Puerto Rican gold rum

Shake vigorously then pour into an enema bag. Float 2 oz. of dark rum over the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by MrBaliHai at 9:26 AM on October 21, 2003

Faster! Faster! Mix Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters!
Still, barkeep, let thy touch be tender
Upon the MetaTalk offender
Lest members of that esteemed forum
Be sprayed with hundred-proof Santorum
posted to MetaTalk by stonerose at 10:04 AM on October 21, 2003

I must not care.
Care is the mind-fucker.
Care is the belittling breath that brings unwanted obligation.
I will face my cares.
I will tell them to fuck off and ignore them.
And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
Where the cares have gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 6:05 PM on January 15, 2007

An example from my experience:

I was downsized from IBM in 1999, which left me with a COBRA payment of $776 a month to continue my insurance, having just lost my job. I couldn't afford that, (it being more than my mortgage), so I opted to go without insurance until I found another job. The economy crashed, and I got laid off again. Being in your 50's without permanent employment is becoming more a normal situation in this country- aged employees carry an insurance... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by pjern at 2:01 PM on June 8, 2010

So basically there's no hard rules regarding this...its just whatever the mods feel like doing depending on their personal preferences backed by some general assumptions.

None taken. The general policy is "please do not ask questions about how to do things that are illegal because they may be deleted" And there has been an ongoing discussion about what that really means in MeTa over the years where we've simplified that by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 3:33 PM on June 1, 2010

Someone who's not deathly lazy wanna help a mefite out?

I started this. Maybe someone else can find some other examples so it doesn't look so weird and empty. I'll look through my favorited stuff on MeTa and see if there's other stuff I could add.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 4:22 PM on June 1, 2010

Updates in MetaTalk may be weak because weak updates are, as far as I can see, just politely closed rather than deleted.

1. The person who posts a weak update catches no official shit for it, maybe just a little grumbling from other members, and has the satisfaction of seeing the update remain in place. Mission Accomplished. From the poster's point of view, there's little reason not to post an update about an ax they haven't quite finished grinding... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by pracowity at 11:56 PM on May 25, 2010

Also: LA mefites, who needs what back? Mr. Z, I got your Hellboy and Venture Brothers and (I think) a tupperware thing what had the mac and cheese (so good) in it. I will trade these gladly for a taste of that mythic beer you teased me with.

Anyone else? Scody, I think I have some dish of yours where the brownies came from—the ratatouille was good, but the brownies were heavenly—but I'm not sure.

also in the spring cleaning if anyone is like, I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 8:50 PM on May 21, 2010

I'm definitely leaning towards types

- standard meetup [hangout time with mefites, nonspecific]
- "I'm in a thing" meetup [performances, music, djing, conference talk]
- "I made a thing" meetup [art openings, book signings, garden walk]
- "let's do this thing" meetup [book club, hiking club, event-specific thing w/ mefites]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 1:33 PM on May 18, 2010

See, the thing is, I know websites - even MeFi - collect data on me, along with my ISP, my phone company, my gas and electric company, and who knows who all else - and I accept that as a necessary evil to engage fully in the New Wonderful World Wide World. I just don't like being reminded of that necessary evil at every moment.

"Welcome back, yhbc! Oh ... are you wearing that shirt again?"
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:22 PM on May 13, 2010

it's a cunning stunt
If you spoonerize this you get a crude answer to why someone would want to become a gynecologist.

It saddens me that the explanation for an obvious joke gets more favourites than the joke itself.
posted to MetaTalk by five fresh fish at 8:20 AM on May 13, 2010

"I guess I wonder where all the grumpy resistance to more information is coming from? Is it just a general feeling of "You format your posts your way, bunky, and I'll format my posts my way," or do people really hate the idea that those who haven't heard of Badu could get some context without having to pull up Wikipedia? The former I can get behind, grumpy as I may be, but the latter just seems like more of the creepy "If you don't know as much as me you should be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 11:10 AM on May 4, 2010

No, will just lead to marginal newsfilter junk on the front page.

Then flag it as such. I've heard the mods here are pretty good.

I don't mind the glut of updates to MeTa but it doesn't really seem like what MeTa is specifically for.

This whole thing does reflect a sort of flaw in the MetaFilter functioning. That is, there is no clear policy on what happens when an old story... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by philip-random at 10:43 AM on May 1, 2010

HOLY FUCK GUIZE

THE NEW ALBUM "YOUR FUTURE OUR CLUTTER" BY THE FALL IS OUT

AND IT'S FREE FOR STREAMING ON THE INTERNET HERE!

would've made this a FPP but I wasted mine, but oh good fuck it's good, go listen NOW
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 7:28 PM on April 26, 2010

apparently people from the U.S. like to add in five letters before and three after when spelling 'it'.
posted to MetaTalk by gman at 3:59 PM on April 22, 2010

Also, what Florence Henderson said.

Well, she said that nothing happened when Barry Williams [SPOILER] took her to the Cocoanut Grove, but I'm not so sure I believe her.
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 3:58 PM on April 22, 2010

Favourite this comment if you think favouriting is a reasonable solution.
posted to MetaTalk by UbuRoivas at 3:48 PM on April 22, 2010

SPOILER: Leaving milk unrefrigerated.
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 11:38 AM on April 22, 2010

People are funny. They guard their media consumption with more jealousy than starved dogs guard their food.

My media consumption is funny how? I mean, funny like I'm a clown? I amuse you? My media consumption makes you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How is my media consumption funny?
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:42 AM on April 22, 2010

Rory Marinich, you make a lot of great points there, much of which I agree with.

As far as your notion of 'empathy' I think much of what you're referring to can be explained by and contained within paralinguistic and contextualization cues. But these things also exist on the internet! The differences in communication styles and resources available to people involved Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC; internet, texting, chat, etc.) vs. face-to-face interaction, or... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:05 PM on April 14, 2010