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He didn't come here to make friends.
posted to MetaTalk by BeerFilter at 9:31 AM on December 11, 2008

Next, carsonb'll be burning the magic wardrobe and Bill and Ted's phonebooth.
posted to MetaTalk by Ambrosia Voyeur at 6:47 PM on November 23, 2008

Well, it may be a series of tubes, but it's certainly not a pipe.
posted to MetaTalk by goodnewsfortheinsane at 9:21 AM on November 21, 2008

hugs everyone except Californians who voted for prop 8. For them, a punch in the dick.
posted to MetaTalk by rtha at 9:52 PM on November 4, 2008

Here's a modified version.
It has some nice padding, a border between the image and the comment, and uses the generic icon for people without uploaded images.
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 4:20 PM on October 23, 2008

How do I spot a whorehouse?
Men's club soda.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 4:01 PM on October 14, 2008

I know what FTW stands for, but I always read it initially as "fut the wuck?" (whether or not the original "FTW" was followed by a question mark). It seems like the sort of Spoonerism a conservative teenager would use in order to almost swear.
posted to MetaTalk by Flipping_Hades_Terwilliger at 9:44 AM on October 8, 2008

Yeah, but he's no cake.
posted to MetaTalk by davejay at 1:43 AM on October 5, 2008

Carsonb also looks very handsome today, don't you think?
posted to MetaTalk by Jofus at 1:29 AM on October 5, 2008

As always, carsonb has got it exactly right and summed it up perfectly. I stand by his comment 100%.
posted to MetaTalk by Elmore at 1:20 AM on October 5, 2008

Private or non-favorite favorites. I often favorite things as examples of some thing other than my endorsement of what they've said.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:25 AM on October 5, 2008

Metafilter: "porn everywhere" alternating with "hugs for everyone."
posted to MetaTalk by YoBananaBoy at 11:43 PM on September 28, 2008

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be. Whisper words of wisdom, let it be. And when the broken-hearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer, let it be. For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see, there will be an answer. Let it be.
posted to MetaTalk by orange swan at 5:45 AM on September 24, 2008

Does that make me a horrible person?

Yes, yes it does.
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:37 PM on September 22, 2008

HEY EVERYBODY GREAT JOB ON ANOTHER WEIRD FUCKING METATALK THREAD

GO TO BED
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:01 PM on September 17, 2008

More to the point -- now that I've had my lunch -- I think that not only could MeTa stand to have the "everyone needs a hug" note (did anyone make t-shirts form the iron ons I handed out at the Cambridge meetup way back when?) but maybe posting a thread to Meta should come with a set of checkboxes

[ ] I am not just me being peevish, I sincerely think this topic needs the attention of the whole community
[ ] This is not something that would be better suited by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:54 AM on September 17, 2008

No, no, no, a thousand times no. You are completely missing the point of MetaFilter having moderators at all. Under your formulation, Matt, Jess, cortex and vacapinta make all the decisions and set all the rules and the rest of us have absolutely no input into the discussion at all. That wasn't the way Matt set up the website in the first place, but he could have if he wanted to - after all, there were (and are) many, many examples of such strong-moderation communities aound to pattern the place... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:39 AM on September 17, 2008

I would like to hear from a mod why lulz-ifying an unequivocally doomed thread is "knob"ish.

Because, first of all, doomed thread or not it's against the guidelines to go lulz-ifying in AskMe. Check the FAQ; the bit about "...unless the askme is totally bonkers in which case, fuck it, GO NUTS!!!" was not omitted by accident.

And because, secondly, people are sometimes wrong about whether or not a thread is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 12:07 PM on August 13, 2008

So, there I was starting a search through MeTa for "censor" to find some real censorship. Then I find this odd search page, which declares that user "demo has been censored!".

Further investigation led to demo's MetaTalk post, which was definitely uncensored.
posted to MetaTalk by philomathoholic at 12:45 AM on July 18, 2008

a bicycle.
posted to MetaTalk by shmegegge at 1:06 PM on May 12, 2008

Which would have gone well with my "What's the closest thing to a fish's asshole?" joke.
posted to MetaTalk by Floydd at 1:05 PM on May 12, 2008

damn, deleted before i could add the obligatory anal rape joke.
posted to MetaTalk by quonsar at 12:52 PM on May 12, 2008

It's a trap.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 2:27 PM on May 1, 2008

I would like to start posting links on the blue, but I don't want to get dissed for posting something lame.

There are a lot of good resources linked here, and some good first-hand advice, about how to do a good job on a post you decide to make, but I want to sort of emphasize something: wanting generically to post something to the front page isn't a particularly good reason to make a post.

Enthusiasm, wanting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 4:23 PM on April 15, 2008

"Sooner or later, everyone goes to the zoo."

--Sloane Peterson
posted to MetaTalk by mr_crash_davis at 12:31 PM on April 3, 2008

So to go with Big Big Question, who wants to help me start 'Fiddly, Fiddly Question'?

BBQ seems to be going for the big whoah questions, but Fiddly Fiddly Question could target little questions like:

- How far from the edge of a table should a glass of liquid be to be 'safe' from falling off?
- Is it better to have a poop that wipes clean on the first try or one that makes your pants fit better?
- If species of trees had... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by robocop is bleeding at 9:55 AM on April 3, 2008

Oh, yeah?! Can your fictional flying car space orgy do this? Nyearrrrooooooooommmmmmm-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack!!!
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:53 PM on March 24, 2008

In the sub-basement of what was once an industrial park, the server continued asking questions to the void. The network was long-gone--the ethernet cables vaporized right where they emerged to the surface--but this didn't stop the server. It had a queue.

The third wave of bombings had collapsed the ceiling, destroying almost all the other racks in the room, but the server remained. It was closest to the large metal cage that held the enormous emergency power supply. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ian A.T. at 5:20 AM on March 17, 2008

><//*><*\\><><//*><*\\><><//*> ... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 11:10 AM on April 14, 2005

I personally would be amused to see what he (or anyone else, for that matter) would dredge up on me.
posted by pjern at 6:12 AM on March 6

pjern1 is a 22 year old female gymnast who enjoys cosplaying as a middle aged mall santa at roleplaying and anime conventions. Her current username, once solipsist, derives from her love of Anne McCaffrey books as translated into swedish. She had asked mathowie to change the username from solipsist... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shmegegge at 10:18 AM on March 6, 2008

This is the unstyled April 1 page from last year. I'll have to dig in my email and see if I can find one that calls the stylesheet that is already on the server. If not, I can create one.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:03 AM on January 12, 2008

"A modal logic formulation of self-defeating challenge-response knowledge systems, or: STFU you damn morons", by Emmett A. Philtor, University of Liffe. Lecture Notes in Computer Trivia vol. 666, Spring Rolls Verbiage, Beltin' / Heyderebub 2008.

When citing this thread, please include reference to DOI 10:1337uSUX.
posted to MetaTalk by Iosephus at 8:10 PM on January 10, 2008

Room temperature rye, straight from the bottle.
posted to MetaTalk by saladin at 2:52 PM on January 6, 2008

Seriously, y'all. We're breaking bread with each other in two days. You folks are gonna make me cry, and my tears are made of burning acid. They didn't call me "Little Burning Flower" at Mrs. Sullivan's Ninja School for Girls because it was cute.
posted to MetaTalk by katillathehun at 6:11 PM on January 1, 2008

Givewell? Nothing but a bunch of phonies.
posted to MetaTalk by wemayfreeze at 1:57 PM on December 31, 2007

For those of you who didn't get the point of the OP, I wrote a short essay that I believe summarizes the main points:

An essay on MetaFilter post writing
The subject of MetaFilter post writing is a controversial issue. The constantly changing fashionable take on MetaFilter post writing demonstrates the depth of the subject. Remarkably MetaFilter post writing is heralded by shopkeepers and investment bankers alike, leading many to state that its influence on... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by burnmp3s at 2:08 PM on December 21, 2007

Also yeah, thanks for supporting the plain theme. My dirty secret little secret is that I can't stand all the colors, black on white text is where it's at, so when people say "the blue, the gray, the green" I just imagine a civil war drama.
posted to MetaTalk by Divine_Wino at 4:27 PM on December 6, 2007

Preview would go a long way towards fixing this if preview actually behaved or looked anything like the actual post.
posted to MetaTalk by 31d1 at 3:20 PM on November 30, 2007

So this and this were posted this morning,

Also, it's youtubesday
posted to MetaTalk by delmoi at 8:08 AM on November 20, 2007

carsonb is the milkman of human kindness.
posted to MetaTalk by maudlin at 6:41 PM on October 19, 2007

In the alternative, if people are only interested in another free format swap, then having just discovered Yacht Rock, I have a kickass playlist of Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Steely Dan and Hall & Oates music in the works. So smooth!

THIS IS ME PREPARING MY STABBING KNIFE TO LET YOU OUT OF THIS CRUEL WORLD, FUCKO.


Err, I mean: Here's my mix. ANGRY TECHNO. IT IS GOOD FOR THE HEALTH OF YOUR BOWELS AND... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 2:09 PM on October 17, 2007

carsonb, I second that.

I have been on a work jag, so I am glad to learn of that post. And while on the topic of carsonb posts, let me say that for someone who didn't post much in your first few eons here, you have been making some really nice posts lately - thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by madamjujujive at 5:03 PM on September 19, 2007

☺Test
posted to MetaTalk by Rhomboid at 2:34 PM on September 14, 2007

I can't believe I'm fixing broken quotes on exploits so that the exploits don't get broken.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 2:19 PM on September 14, 2007

Please, please, please work.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:54 PM on September 14, 2007

Can anyone help me find the provocation for Dave Faris's snippy comment about jonson's posts?

Dave Faris needs no provocation to be snippy. It's his raisinette.
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 1:28 PM on September 12, 2007

I'd love a way to see all the posts/comments that have been flagged as "fantastic".
posted to MetaTalk by tehloki at 5:21 PM on September 11, 2007

Hi, my name's turaho, and, uh, something you might not know about me is that .. I have a good attitude towards menstruation. That's right, I'm the guy! The guy with a good attitude towards menstruation!
posted to MetaTalk by turaho at 7:44 AM on September 10, 2007

Apostrophe abuse is a paramilitary and recruiting organization. From the kewpie dolls of the textiles industry, as we chatter meaninglessly here in Los Angeles, supposedly a freedom-loving wacky melting pot of weirdness and creativity. Why would it draw more power, C_D? *up late toggling between NASA TV, ESA and NASA/JPL sites.* Ooh, NASA TV for replays already. MayorCurley for the "brown note". Having worked in offices and campuses both small and watched the walrus video. Ew. And woah,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 4:18 AM on September 9, 2007

I know what Tempe tastes like.

Cottonwood trees, creosote bushes, tweakers, spoiled yuppie loinfruit, crass commercialism, overused cars, heaping piles of bird shit and just a touch of unwashed, remaindered hippy as a garnish.

It's the same taste you'd get if you blended an organic food co-op, a P.F. Changs, a Chili's and the sticky-greasy Birkenstock of a street busker together into a smoothie and baked it on the dashboard of your car in 120 degree heat.
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 2:16 PM on September 6, 2007