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You did see the bit about self-links being a bannable offense, right?

You know what else is a bannable offense? That handbag with that shirt. This whole ensemble is a drag.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:59 PM on August 24, 2007

Curse you for that one glorious moment where I thought you truly enjoyed my repartees, carsonb, CURSE YOU!
posted to MetaTalk by Phire at 9:50 PM on August 22, 2007

Well, there's always this...
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 6:44 AM on August 21, 2007

Maybe there's a little guy down there who does semaphore.
posted to MetaTalk by myeviltwin at 12:07 PM on April 7, 2007

I'm nobody.
posted to MetaTalk by tellurian at 9:48 PM on August 8, 2007

"Thoughts?"

Your post advocates a:
[x] community moderated
[x] technical
[ ] social
[ ] legislative
[ ] economic
[ ] authoritarian
solution to crappy MetaFilter posts.

I'm afraid it won't work due to:
[x] the King of the Shitpile problem
[ ] Matt doesn't have time
[ ] the code... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by majick at 7:43 PM on August 8, 2007

MetaFilter: rife with intolerance of religious disinformation under the guise of intelligent conversation
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:36 AM on August 6, 2007

beetle_blue
posted to MetaTalk by vronsky at 9:49 PM on August 4, 2007

I think MetaTalk posts should be submitted with MetaTalk Post Requisition Form 1001-A, "Application for the Public Airing of Grievances Against Another User"

Date:
Your username:
Which user(s) are you are complaining about?

(If you are not complaining about another user, you are using the incorrect form)

Posts/comments that you object to:
Describe qualitatively how angry you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by milkrate at 9:48 AM on August 3, 2007

I'd like to point out that much of this rhetorical jargon was first coined by that greatest of Greek sophists, Yourmomides.
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 3:55 PM on August 2, 2007

If MetaTalk didn't exist, there would be nowhere for me to post THIS EXCELLENT SHINY THING.
posted to MetaTalk by Meatbomb at 8:45 AM on July 29, 2007

Posting Guidelines:

If you need a rule-book written by Gary Gygax to figure out what makes a good post, don't!

If you have to force yourself to make a post and it feels like work, don't! It'll feel like work to your readers, too.

If you have an agenda - don't post about it! Post about something else.

Still confused? View the FAQ.
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 11:41 PM on July 26, 2007

its your tax return, dios
posted to MetaTalk by quarter waters and a bag of chips at 12:34 PM on July 17, 2007

"there is no "aside from the sodomy thing" for this kid, and to dismiss it and then comment on the REST of the attack is a way to make the entire attack look tame and no big deal when the sodomy thing is precisely what makes the attack such a big deal."

Y'know, aside from that Holocaust thing...

"Yeah, it didn't lead to the most productive discussion, so perhaps not the best (nor the worst) FPP ever.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 9:42 AM on July 3, 2007

Do "I Saw U" ads in The Stranger really work?

Help me prepare for my hot date tonight!

What are the actual odds of getting a girl pregnant from a one night stand if a condom wasn't used? I thought she might be on the pill, and she's never had a boyfriend before.

There seems to be a rash on my privates. Is this invariably VD or could it just be an allergy to nylon?

Is there any real harm... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maxwelton at 9:22 PM on April 1, 2007

Wait - it was in a box? Ha Ha! I think you just killed Schrödinger's Braunschweiger sandwich!
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:59 AM on June 14, 2007

You know what? Giving marijuana to dogs is just wrong. Dogs are not stoners.

Dogs are boozers, that's why I only give mine bourbon. And occasionally heroin, but only when he needs the edge taken off.

The cats are all meth freaks and the birds are getting heavy into psilocybin. That's another story I don't even want to get into right now.

But don't give pot to dogs, it's not nice. Pot is for bunnies. They know how to do the whole 'munchies' thing.
posted to MetaTalk by quin at 5:04 PM on May 30, 2007

This is stupid - fictional characters don't die, they merely peacefully await their reincarnation in a sequel, prequel or racquel (the latter involves a fictional work in which the dead character in question comes back to be played by Racquel Welsh).

The point is, there are no "spoilers" anymore, because you never know when Kirk's gonna come back again thanks to some kind of space/time vortex. That's the beauty of postmodernism - if a character dies in one... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 7:10 AM on May 27, 2007

I want this mix badly.

I don't know how to make torrents, but here's the 'Please Enjoy' mix (66 MB, zip of AACs) as a straight download.
posted to MetaTalk by chrismear at 2:46 PM on May 19, 2007

does anyone read the posts down here?

Don't you hate it when it's the middle of the night, and you've read everything metafilter has to offer, and there's nothing left to do, and nothing on TV, and even the cats have gone to bed, and you're thinking, "Eh, one more beer. It's Friday", but you really don't need the beer, and your not sure how you're going to fill the time drinking that beer, but you know you're not going to be able to sleep anyway, so why the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by team lowkey at 1:19 AM on May 19, 2007

It's actually Burt Reynolds's mustache, because "Burt Reynolds'" is not an accepted liturgical archaism.

Dumbass.
posted to MetaTalk by Mister_A at 12:34 PM on May 17, 2007

Dude. We can't go acting like the Internet is surpassing and outmoding television if we openly aspire to be on television!

We not only don't care for the medium, we don't even own such devices. If we do, we certainly only keep them around for our Criterion Collection and PBS.
posted to MetaTalk by ODiV at 10:28 PM on May 9, 2007

MetaTalk: I flagged it, but just couldn't keep my trap shut.
posted to MetaTalk by Wolfdog at 7:43 PM on April 29, 2007

I will step out of the shadows and reveal the truth. I'm a triple-zero user, and I, like other triple and quadruple-zero users, am not human. Yes, I hear you gasp in disbelief, but it is the truth. Sure we may seem human, both on the internet and in real life, but we're not of woman born, but grown in a vast series of tubes, that run between the various MetaFilter Underground InnerComplexes. The earliest experiment, codenamed mr_stru, was a hellish creature, having several appendages of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Kattullus at 6:21 PM on March 29, 2007

I added this to the FAQ.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:04 PM on March 23, 2007

Now is as good a time as any to ask if http://www.metafilter.com/username.mefi/theusername will ever replace http://www.metafilter.com/user/usernumber as the username link. It's worked for a long time only on preview on metatalk but nowhere else.
posted to MetaTalk by puke & cry at 6:36 PM on March 23, 2007

Alright alright alright. I see no way out of this other than to insult all of you.

jonmc is a self-righteous attention whore who loves the sound of his own typing and has some deep-seated issues stemming from his being caught between blue collar roots, metropolitan life and a tech-savvy online community. Every day he goes online in the hopes that Paul Westerberg has finally started a blog; then, disappointed, he trods off to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:55 PM on February 12, 2007

(Also, keep in mind I'll be doing a mefi scholarship this spring, so you'll have that chance too to get a grand or two.)
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 6:40 PM on February 12, 2007

This is the most-favorites page that mathowie and I mostly look at, though we can also see the most "fantastic post" flags as well, though the latter seems like it's getting deprecated in favor of the former.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 2:23 PM on February 1, 2007

My arms are covered with laugh tracks these days. The first joke was free.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 1:09 PM on January 31, 2007

paulsc writes "it's pointless as a retrieval tool. The meta-noise is completely swamping this folksonomy, and users are reduced to stemmed guessing for the 23,910 unique tags by which wisdom might specifically be filed."

tkolar's numbers are great, but I'm not sure that they say what you think they say. First, as has been pointed out, unique tags add no noise. If I tag a question about Boston with the tag "Boston" and also with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:38 AM on January 24, 2007

Should be live on ask mefi and metatalk...
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:05 PM on January 18, 2007

This links to all users who have filled in the "What's the deal with your nickname?" field.
posted to MetaTalk by timeistight at 4:40 PM on January 12, 2007

Whoa, amyms's chatroom looks exactly like MetaTalk.

If you're refering to the link in my profile, it goes to an MSN Group that looks nothing like MetaTalk.

I believe iconomy may have been taking note of the fact that the first three letters of your handle are a common first name in the English-speaking world, while the fourth is the letter 'm' and the fifth can be used to make the same sound the letter 'c' makes in the word... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by and hosted from Uranus at 6:48 PM on January 6, 2007

Dear AskMetafilter: my girlfriend wants me to unleash my imminent torrent of lovesludge on her face but I don't know if my consistency will be what she desires... should I change my diet?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhomboid at 7:32 AM on January 3, 2007

Also, there was a MetaChat thread once on what not to post to Ask MeFi, and some people posted the questions to Yahoo Answers (e.g., How long can a normal, healthy 8 week old kitten survive inside an adult python? URGENT?). This MeTa thread has more examples.
posted to MetaTalk by danb at 5:03 PM on December 27, 2006

We aren't going to Hell in a hand basket. We aren't even going to Hell in a Hummer. Simple reason? Red tape and incompetence. Truth is, our infrastructure isn’t elegant enough to have a single point of failure. And our social engineering is even less dependable. The secret to our ultimate survival will be inertia. We won’t be overthrown because we don’t have enough to offer anymore to be worth the trouble of having to manage us. We are the super high maintenance SO that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:14 PM on October 23, 2006

The constant changes remind me of those double headlight kits that came out after 1958 when all the new cars had double headlights. All these bells and whistles are sort of like a continental spare tire kit and extra tail fins and a double headlight kit put on a 1957 Chevy. It's like the front page can't have enough buttons. Maybe we need some pull down menus and dancing Geocitie sidebars, too. Or tiki lights. There just aren't enough buttons on the front page. We need more. And more. and more.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl at 7:20 AM on October 23, 2006

Hi. I'm a city *girl*. Couldn't pee on a fire if I wanted to. Please to be explaining repercussions.

Well, some girls can pee standing up. You just need to practice.


Peeing on a fire is... very nearly one of the most awful things on the face of the planet. Worse then Goatse.cx. Worse then Tubgirl. Worse then 5 pounds of mutated silicone-injected cock in your lap.

I think I'd rather have a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 11:49 AM on March 31, 2006

Prufrock comes down from the mountain as a bull.
Looking for a young wife. Less sullen, now,
in assumed virility, snorting and pawing at potential admirers
posed in dioramas along the Boulevard.

He muscles his way into the club, getting by on bad lighting
and passable enhancements, apparently.
I seriously doubt the bouncer recognizes his name,
let alone his particular species of allusion.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:27 PM on October 17, 2006

I will pay everyone who marks this comment as a favourite $100.*

Note: I will note actually pay everyone who marks this comment as a favourite $100. Indeed, I will pay you nothing. But favourite this comment anyway. C'mon, you know you wanna.
posted to MetaTalk by Effigy2000 at 3:48 PM on October 2, 2006

Please do not favorite this comment.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:54 PM on October 2, 2006

I'm entirely disinterested in whether or not this comment is favorited.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 3:57 PM on October 2, 2006

Mom always liked you best.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:59 PM on October 2, 2006

fuck this, I'm gonna go work on my 1991 honda. you all suck!

Excuse me, Mr. Snarkypants! Your Honda? I believe we all paid for that particular anodized-neon lump of cocksled.

You can have the keys back after you fix the "ridiculous edgecase". Meanwhile, we're all piling into this clown car and taking it down to the railroad tracks for some sweet, sweet jumps.
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 5:16 PM on September 29, 2006

pretty error pages are for metafilter pussies.

fuck this, I'm gonna go work on my 1991 honda. you all suck!
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 4:44 PM on September 29, 2006

I use a comment's anchor to bookmark it (for whatever reason). I don't use the favoriting system. how does your proposal, Pontius Pilate, take into account the fact that favorites is a self-selecting demographic of MeFi? not everyone uses the +. so where do my favorites fit into your further step? why don't you want to read the comments we non-favers fave?

anyway, the importance of a good discussion on MeFi (as silly as that sounds sometimes)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 7:37 AM on September 9, 2006

What I want to know is how you discovered this?

>He marked one of mine as a favorite...

Don't act like you don't check yours, SCDB.

/Tabs over to member page, F5ing like all get out. "C'mon, validation! C'mon..."
posted to MetaTalk by Alvy Ampersand at 2:42 PM on September 4, 2006

Well, it's kind of like a mormon masterbating. Sure, it ruins a dream, but I'm doing it myself and in the end it's a good thing.
posted to MetaTalk by mathowie at 5:09 PM on September 1, 2006

Here ya go, Divine_Wino

###

mathowie's community weblog
(with apologies to Arlo Guthrie
and mathowie
and pretty much everybody else)


This song is called mathowie's community weblog, and it's about mathowie, and the community weblog, but mathowie's community weblog is not the name of the community weblog, that's just the name of the song, and that's why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by False Dichotomy at 4:18 PM on August 31, 2006