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I cooked this recipe last weekend:

Roasted Eggplant Aubergine Soup

Ingredients
3 medium tomatoes, halved
1 (1 1/2 lb) eggplants, halved lengthwise
1 small onion, halved
6 garlic cloves, peeled
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tablespoon fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried thyme, chopped
4 cups chicken stock or low sodium chicken broth (or more)
1 cup... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 9:57 AM on April 14, 2010

Sure, there are some people you will never be able to have a productive discussion with--we see proof of that here every day. But one first step might be becoming a person who can have a productive discussion about things you disagree with.

Yeah, this. It wasn't that long ago (more than a year and a half, I guess) that like pretty much everyone on MetaFilter shit their pants with excitement over a guy claimingIt is that fundamental belief -- It is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 7:44 AM on April 14, 2010

I saw some (not all) of the posters in that thread casually spout off opinions about people involved in the Tea Party movement, opinions they have simply because they saw pictures of SOME teapartiers or saw interviews of SOME teapartiers saying stupid stuff.

I just have such a hard time taking St. Alia's point on this, because I have been to like 500 Gay Pride marches in my life and the coverage is always so balanced, thorough, and fair-minded. The... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by not that girl at 7:20 AM on April 14, 2010

Dude, you don't even have the stones to link to the comment that enraged you enough to post this. Bad form. Play the ball, and not the bunny.

That said:

Roast one eggplant in the oven at 180' celsius for 30-40 minutes.
Squeeze the eggplant out of its skin into a sieve, and push the juice out with a spoon
Put the pulp in a food processor with 2 eggs, a handful of chopped basil, 2 cloves of garlic , 1/3-1/2 a cup of grated... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by smoke at 5:40 AM on April 14, 2010

Oh, come on. Spastic? Really?
posted to MetaTalk by mkultra at 9:53 AM on April 13, 2010

I'm not at all interested in golf pants.

But if they sold cycling shants in that pattern, I'd buy a pair. Especially if they were Team Metafilter blue and yellow.
posted to MetaTalk by ardgedee at 10:56 AM on April 9, 2010

So something did come of the whole art idea after all
posted to MetaTalk by The Whelk at 11:11 AM on April 8, 2010

USE UR WORDS
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 10:29 AM on April 8, 2010

This sentence has exactly threee erors.

*sigh* I spent a solid 20 seconds looking for the third one until I got the joke.
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 2:22 PM on March 31, 2010

I tattoo them on my forearm, except the anon ones which are tattooed on my butt.
posted to MetaTalk by HuronBob at 9:53 AM on April 1, 2010

Sure, everyone applauds the quitters. But what about us people that are dedicated to our practice of smoking? Sure, sometimes after a heavy night when my mouth tastes like mothballs and my fingers are yellow I think about quitting, but I push through dammit. Where's my kudos for refusing to give up?
posted to MetaTalk by cyphill at 12:58 PM on March 31, 2010

We're just happy you're happy. Ignore the pantsless man with the berry-stained t-shirt.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 4:35 PM on March 30, 2010

You can't get pie over ip. The I and the P cancel out, and you just get an e.
posted to MetaTalk by qvantamon at 1:54 PM on March 25, 2010

cortex is absolutely wrong on this issue.
posted to MetaTalk by desjardins at 9:35 AM on March 24, 2010

So someone floated an idea to me in mail about the possibility of an art auction or raffle or giveaway or just make Klang feel better THING concerning all these bionic jokes.

I got a lot on my plate now, but I can say ...maybe.
posted to MetaTalk by The Whelk at 1:30 PM on March 10, 2010

HOLY SHIT I AM THERE!

I think there's only, like, two of us though. HOWEVER twitter is insanely popular in town and I can easily get people together on Friday.

Food: Glacier Brewhouse is good for lunch, dinner, as is Humpy's. Urban Greens on G St and 3rd has good sandwiches and a salad that I'm completely addicted to. Snow City Cafe is THE place for breakfast - the line is super long, but the trick is to call to get on The List a half hour ahead.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rhapsodie at 11:10 AM on March 3, 2010

> there is something to be said for the possibilities of a merger between cinema and found art.

Oh, absolutely. My specialty? Appropriation theory. Found footage is what I DO know more about than the average bear. But just because the blurry area between canonical forms of cinema and incidental forms of cinema which are now part of our social architecture is alluring doesn't mean it's not also full of ethical landmines. It's the interesting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:52 AM on February 18, 2010

little e: …as long as nobody mentions that damn Neil Diamond song about being a woman soon. Creepy, creepy pedophile.

FelliniBlank: I see your Neil Diamond and raise you a Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.

PeterMcDermott: Meh. I'll call your Gary Puckett and raise you The Coasters.

Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen (1960). Old-time... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by koeselitz at 12:20 PM on June 23, 2009

As I have before expressed my wishes to, after my death, have my corpse animated by a colony of bees or wasps, I think it only fitting to ask whatever craven caretaker mines my thorax for honey to please restrict my MetaFilter output to the green. The wars of the Blue and Grey are decidedly uncivil, and provoking the insects to further hostility when they cannot understand the emotions of man seems to be a recipe for disaster.

However, I believe they will be eminently... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 10:16 AM on June 20, 2009

"After tuning up my PT Cruiser, I was able to go 0 to 60 in 6 seconds in a school zone. All the signs said SPEED LIMIT 25. Am I liable for a ticket?"

No, but you are liable for driving the vehicular equivalent of Mom Jeans.
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 4:40 PM on February 8, 2010

How is this MetaFilter-related? HURF-DURF HURF-DURF
posted to MetaTalk by Mister_A at 1:11 PM on February 5, 2010

Random got me.... "What's the deal with users 13965 through 14006 inclusive? None of them have ever posted to the blue. Isn't it strange that MeFi has 42 consecutive silent accounts? "

The answer: yes it's strange, it's a 1 in 27,000,000 chance. Huh.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:16 PM on February 5, 2010

I like how you winked two times there, it really draws an evocative image of your state of mind.
posted to MetaTalk by contraption at 11:17 PM on February 2, 2010

Maybe a compromise would be a retooled Preview button? I always thought the preview was a bit clunky, especially since the Live Preview was disabled after you hit preview. Perhaps if the Preview feature was a little more streamlined, this would be less of an issue for people? Dunno.
posted to MetaTalk by Salvor Hardin at 8:21 AM on January 29, 2010

jessamyn: the AAUUUUGGHH IT'S problem

Seeing a possessive it's stare at you tauntingly from the computer screen builds character.

Y'know, like being told by one's parents that one wouldn't exist if not for a burst condom.

Good for the soul, that sort of thing.
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 7:41 AM on January 29, 2010

I know it's counter-intuitive, but there's value in the clunky, inefficient, slow-you-down, costly, time-consuming process of bothering to burn CDs, design covers, find addresses, mail them...and wait.

I had a massively annoying day. Receiving two CDs in the mail and a thank you from a CD-receiver today spared me from taking out today's trifles on my much-deserving car (with a crowbar in hand, ready to go). It kind of turned the whole listing ship around for me, thanks.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:03 PM on January 26, 2010

I really really really want the physical CDs. It's a nice little thing sitting on my shelf. I'm thrilled to have the mixes to download, too, but when I do my physical copies, I actually source the songs from the physical media (if I have that) so the sound quality is better. Plus, the whole ritual of creating the packages and going to the post office and receiving mixes in the mail... It's just totally groovy, and makes me smile.
posted to MetaTalk by hippybear at 7:11 PM on January 26, 2010

Personally, I think swapping a physical CD is getting obsolete - sharing a mix online seems easier and cheaper all round.

Easier and cheaper is overrated. I love that we exchange physical CDs. Even my non-Metafilterarian SO, who giveth not a damn about online internet communities, thinks it's pretty damn cool that I'm getting CDs in the mail every day this week.
posted to MetaTalk by desuetude at 3:41 PM on January 26, 2010

Here you go:



(I wish I could embed the Google Analytics map of the world, you can mouse over every country and get a result for now many visitors came from that specific country)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 11:22 AM on January 26, 2010

"LOL!!!" is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Or the mating cry of someone who doesn't want to be taken seriously on the Interwebs. I forget which.
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 1:09 AM on January 24, 2010

My sister told me the other day (while we were speeding down the 110 to see Pee-wee!) that when it opened, the slogan used to promote the freeway was "from downtown to Pasadena in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette."
posted to MetaTalk by scody at 12:34 PM on January 24, 2010

> How long does it take you to make a informative, couple of paragraph long, multi-link post?

Sigh. Once more, with feeling: a post does not have to be multi-link and (for Pete's sake) multi-paragraph to be informative. A post that consists of a single link can be excellent. Many multi-link, multi-paragraph posts are (in my opinion) crappy and not worth however long it took to construct them.
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 10:40 AM on January 11, 2010

I keep folders of ideas, too Miko. And jessamyn, I sometimes get ideas from books or other offline pursuits and then look the topic up.

When you come on something good that can stand alone, a post almost writes itself:
5 minutes
15 minutes
15 minutes

Some take a little crafting or fleshing out:
1 to 2 hours
2 hours
2 hours
5 to 6... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 10:42 AM on January 11, 2010

This seems like an odd post for the gray.
posted to MetaTalk by JanetLand at 5:40 AM on January 1, 2010

effluvia: But did you have taters for lunch

It's funny you should ask. What happened is we stood talking in the produce section for a bit (I'm not very outgoing, generally, and I got the sense that she wasn't either) about MetaFilter, various links we each remembered from the site (she mostly reads AskMe, which I don't read much, to be honest, so there wasn't much overlap), etc., and then she mentioned that her parents were participating in a block... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shakespeherian at 1:18 PM on December 30, 2009

Yay! Someday, I will fuck all of you as thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 3:12 AM on December 30, 2009

My copy of uTorrent bears the inscription "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" in a tasteful san-serif font.

When I turn it over and read the finely printed instructions densely engraved it says many things, but a relevant point is this: Whenever in doubt about a creator's will or intention about file sharing - just ask. Most musicians that aren't selling out arenas are highly approachable, and even many that are selling out arenas are also approachable. Many respond... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 4:10 AM on December 13, 2009

Man, this thread was a lot more boring than I had hoped. Way to go. SAME ARGUMENTS FOREVER!

"I might as well say people shouldn't shoplift or litter. Which, of course they will anyway. But, of course, they shouldn't. I do not think the onus is upon the grocier to come up with a system which "works" with shoplifting. Obviously, they have to be pragmatic, but again, the "it's easy so it should be legal" argument just doesn't fly.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 9:51 AM on December 13, 2009

The noble synthesizer is your go-to cheesy porn instrument, AFAIK.

Not "Yackety Sax"? You watch some weird porn.

Now I'm just wondering what a Metafilter porno would be like, and wishing I hadn't thought about it. I'm sure it would have lots of banjos, though.

It would start when the portobello delivery man rings the doorbell, and someone lets him in only to find that he... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:51 PM on December 12, 2009

Understand that if there is some kind of consensus on what term to refer to this waning decade as, I'm going to use one of the other choices, just because you made this post.
posted to MetaTalk by eyeballkid at 6:01 PM on December 9, 2009

Silver wrapping looks good on you, carsonb.
posted to MetaTalk by MonkeyToes at 9:35 AM on December 5, 2009

you goddamn people are monsters.

Who's gonna favorite my posts now?
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 10:30 PM on November 21, 2009

Aw, self-favoriting isn't any worse than masturbation, as alluded to and specifically noted upthread. Alone, in private, fine. Natural, even! The problem is when you walk into a room and someone is there self-favoriting themselves. Surprise! Pants around ankles, [has favorites +] turgid and exposed (sometimes quickly retracting to just [+], sometimes proud), that innocuous bottle of lotion you never paid much attention to now leaking gooey, slick intent one spurt/click at a time. And you're like,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 7:19 AM on November 20, 2009

Nobody puts babby in the coroners!
posted to MetaTalk by WinnipegDragon at 8:19 AM on November 6, 2009

Have all 5 mods ever weighed in so quickly before?

Yes they have, once.

From what I can see, only 11 previous MetaTalk threads have *ever* had all 5 mods comment in them, and no threads anywhere else on the site have (which is surprising to me). In descending order of how long it took for all 5 to make their first comment:
8091 minutes: post #15658 - Metafilter Infodump: more stats than you can shake a stick at.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by FishBike at 3:57 PM on November 6, 2009

If folks have suggestions for alternative link text to "faved", we're happy to hear ideas.

How about "saved"? It's more neutral and, I think, describes more accurately the actual function of the thingy.
posted to MetaTalk by Sys Rq at 12:24 PM on October 31, 2009

"I'm going to hell for this, but Hairy Seldon?"

Too soon.
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 9:05 AM on October 17, 2009

MetaFilter the T-shirt, MetaFilter the Coloring Book, MetaFilter the Lunch box, MetaFilter the Breakfast Cereal, MetaFilter the Flame Thrower. (The kids love this one.)
posted to MetaTalk by Rhomboid at 5:05 AM on October 17, 2009

Just as pb giveth, so he taketh away.

I didn't get to see mine to get properly outraged/amused, but I think this would be a cool feature if it were (a) opt-in for reasons already enumerated; (b) relabeled as "top tags for askme answers" (since that's what it is) rather than the more loaded "interests," and (c) had a cutoff threshold to eliminate the obvious noise.

PS there's a GreaseMonkey script for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cj_ at 12:29 PM on October 11, 2009

It has long been my opinion that the inability of the average user to distinguish genuine disagreement from trolling is a good yardstick for determining just how much of an echo chamber a given site is. If you are unable to discern that someone simply does not agree (with or without evidence to back it up) from someone who is tossing out broad bait in the hopes that something will rise to the surface and snap, you are not getting enough dissent in your diet.
posted to MetaTalk by adipocere at 6:41 PM on October 9, 2009