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Not sure how to feel about this one.
posted to MetaTalk by First Post at 11:57 PM on March 29, 2011

You just did this to provide us all with the joy of saying

FIRST!
posted to MetaTalk by desuetude at 10:51 PM on March 29, 2011

Dude, you spoke badly about donuts AND a library, do you not know our mods? If you'd added something about people that use Blogger to talk about Cycling and how they're dumb, you would have gotten the permanent Ban-Hammer.
posted to MetaTalk by blue_beetle at 11:33 AM on December 6, 2010

Oh shit. I just looked up overhead, without any fuss, the stars are going out.
posted to MetaTalk by Astro Zombie at 12:59 PM on November 30, 2010

Bacon is stupid.
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 3:46 PM on November 18, 2010

I would say that my use of the site has not changed dramatically since before the introduction of that proposed change (which I opted out of). Except that I am, as ever, still trying to moderate my own comments and behavior wherever possible so as to spare the mods any more work than necessary.

Also, if 500 people favorite this comment, I'll eat a bedbug. And film it.
posted to MetaTalk by hermitosis at 10:19 AM on November 1, 2010

There's also an unofficial IRC channel, but it is ... in my words "a seething pit of horribleness."

In other words, then, it a considerable step up from your typical IRC chat room.
posted to MetaTalk by schmod at 1:49 PM on October 8, 2010

where was cortex, when he was needed?

It was then that I retweeted you.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 7:50 PM on June 15, 2010

Ok, just called my older sister. "Hey, do your girls still want to go see that "Remember Me" movie? They do? Sure, I'd love to take them."

It's on.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef at 10:03 AM on March 11, 2010

for the rest of my life i will remember how colombia is spelled.

with a capital C.
posted to MetaFilter by gman at 7:02 AM on January 29, 2010

You're... you're... going out with another blog? And this is how I find out?
posted to MetaTalk by Meta Filter at 10:11 AM on January 24, 2010

Yes. Amen. Those failfarks at the Airlines must be fail as crap. Damn! Just looking at my ticket usually makes me puke, and also fart, while praying for a monkey to come stab me in the throat with a railroad spike. Lol, but not really. But really: UGLY ass tickets. I have to look at that ticket for, what, almost 25 minutes before I can throw it away as I get on the plane? And they fill it with DISGUSTING typefaces and INSANE use of whitespace? Why can't they hire some REAL 22-year-olds to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Damn That Television at 8:25 AM on January 13, 2010

boo_radley, if you can't understand the significance of something as basic as a gopam, there's no hope for you!
posted to MetaFilter by mkultra at 12:28 PM on December 15, 2009

Also, if anyone has an invite kicking around, pm me.
posted to MetaTalk by mullingitover at 12:24 AM on December 13, 2009

"God forbid that Jesus should look Middle Eastern or even ~gasp~ Jewish!"

I have the feeling that if he tried to paint Jesus as a Jew, he wouldn't be able to get the hook nose or the horns right. It's a theological conundrum, all right.
posted to MetaFilter by klangklangston at 10:31 PM on October 6, 2009

That picture needs lots and lots of penises to make it really pop.
posted to MetaFilter by Gamien Boffenburg at 10:20 PM on October 6, 2009

Are you sure you meant to post this to Metatalk? I don't see how this is Metafilter-related.
posted to MetaFilter by Horace Rumpole at 6:53 AM on September 28, 2009

Fascinating. This is like something out of Lem's "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub," except in real time.
posted to MetaFilter by sneebler at 6:17 PM on September 22, 2009

funny stuff. Now do it again with adults and cocaine.
posted to MetaFilter by billyfleetwood at 8:16 PM on September 18, 2009

Brownian obit storm

I hate to imagine what that day is going to look like. You know what even a semi-important celeb's death usually gets 4 or 5 deleted obits, I bet that James Brown might get enough to overload the server and kick-start the Singularity.
posted to MetaTalk by Meatbomb at 11:31 AM on August 14, 2009

I mean in the face of SUKUIZUBORONYAMAKARONI

White Chicken REDDOHOIRUBARO are dependent on rain water beside the glass

Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is pretty wonderfully poetic in every iteration, becoming a song with a constant, slightly shifting refrain:

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

These ghost face in the crowd; wet, petals of black... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Saxon Kane at 10:18 PM on August 6, 2009

"She discovered a hole in a stained-glass window of the bishop of the blond", it spat back like some grey-phospher Natalie Merchant, and said I oughta be ashamed of that kind of smut talk. A hundred translation databases out there, and I was stuck with the prude. Bay Area was in the rain.
posted to MetaFilter by ormondsacker at 9:07 PM on August 6, 2009

Pain of a razor,
wet river;
acid stain
and convulsions.
It is a gun legally. ;
Nooses In extreme cases,
you can live
with the smell of gas.
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 9:38 PM on August 6, 2009

Sorry that I didn't save the link, but "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck..." ended up as "wood timber wood", which in Japanese appears thus:

木材木材木材

If I was silly enough to get a Japanese character tattoo, I would definitely get this one. For some reason, having wood+timber be a stylized forest was just absolutely beautiful to me.
posted to MetaFilter by pandaharma at 8:28 PM on August 6, 2009

Sarah Palin makes it through relatively unscathed.
posted to MetaFilter by empath at 5:00 PM on August 6, 2009

I'm not usually one for "eye for an eye" type punishments, but if these allegations are proven true, I would like it if Prince and his lackeys who helped him in this evil (and evil it is, the word "crime" doesn't really cover it) are dropped off in downtown Baghdad in US Flag diapers with the words "Fuck Allah!" tattooed in Arabic on their backs.

What do you think would happen then? A pack of feral Arabs would tear them apart with their teeth?
posted to MetaFilter by stammer at 7:43 PM on August 4, 2009

Why won't he just say that he was wrong? And then maybe apologize.

Why don't we just edit his essay so that he does?
posted to MetaTalk by FishBike at 6:41 AM on August 1, 2009

You got bad information.

Okay, don't listen to jessamyn, she is just some nut. I'm the real Metafilter administrator, and you can post your question wherever you want -- it'll get answered eventually, and it's always fun to mix things up a little. We also thrive on self-promotion around here, so feel free to post anything you're proud of. Metafilter is "self-policed," but for the most part people come here to enjoy lighter Internet fare --... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Krrrlson at 9:20 AM on June 8, 2009

It's my understanding that you have to remove the plastic from the individual cheese slices before putting them between the buttery bread and heating them up on the grill. Once the cheese has melted you can open the sandwich and put your cock in it.
posted to MetaFilter by Smedleyman at 9:19 PM on June 4, 2009

I don't know how this is even possible, but my grandparents were signed up in 1940, and they have six digit user numbers.
posted to MetaTalk by gman at 6:34 AM on May 9, 2009

As an NYU alumnus and current NYU law student, I commend the university and John Sexton for showing incredible reserve and skill in dealing with these fuckwits. They did an excellent job of taking the piss out of these kids, essentially refusing to admit that there was even an adversarial stance being taken (I'm pretty sure the university fed them while they were there, even going so far as to provide a fucking vegan meal option) and astutely banking on the fact that they were morons with no... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by saladin at 4:57 PM on March 31, 2009

Whoever excessively talks about the grandiose beauty of nature needs to watch this video on a loop for a few hours.

What, you have a problem with the ravenous predator staring at you with their huge black eyes framed in a white death-mask, bobbing back and forth on spindly, impossible legs? Their eyes forever watching and judging with cool and remote intelligence? Waiting for a moment of weakness to pounce and tear with bony wings and powerful claws?
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 9:17 PM on March 30, 2009

This would be a great FPP if not for the editorializing in the title.
posted to MetaFilter by mullacc at 8:54 PM on March 30, 2009

So which is it? Should I shut the fuck up, or stay around and explain myself (and explain, and explain, and ...)? I've heard calls for both

I vote for "shut the fuck up."
posted to MetaTalk by desuetude at 2:08 PM on March 30, 2009

The main problem with the post is this:

even a small handful of Nobel Laureates have acted sexist

Adverbs / adjectives. Learn 'em, love 'em, use 'em.
posted to MetaTalk by signal at 12:41 PM on March 30, 2009

Hmph. I guess some people just don't like to get wildly intoxicated with someone who has the ability and the wherewithal to dispose of human bodies. Lesson learned.
posted to MetaTalk by ColdChef at 3:54 PM on March 24, 2009

I wrote this one. Researching that was one of the oddest phone calls I've ever made. "Can confirm for me that Reverend Graham has calculated that Heaven is 1,500 cubic miles?" "Let me just check... yes, that's right, 1,500."
posted to MetaFilter by The corpse in the library at 2:05 PM on February 14, 2009

We can sniff out impostors

If only.
posted to MetaTalk by Your Time Machine Sucks at 6:05 AM on February 1, 2009

I definitely recommend GSV for finding criminals of all kinds.

GSVs are usually too busy with their passengers, and ROUs like me, well, frankly, you shouldn't point us in the direction of people you might not want to explode, melt, or otherwise expire in photogenically messy ways.

This sort of thing is really best left to the GCU's. You could try contacting Grey Area, but it's not very talkative.
posted to MetaTalk by ROU_Xenophobe at 1:18 PM on January 26, 2009

I have hacked
The website
That was on
The internet

And which
You were probably
Saving
For slacking

Forgive me
It was malicious
So fusion
And so cold
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:24 AM on January 26, 2009

Do you really want policy clarification, or are you just angry?

Unlike the other post I referenced, my FPP was not angry in the least, so please don't change the subject. Unless, of course, you deleted the FPP because I had previously made an angry comment -- another policy memo I apparently missed.

we're human, the site is fluid and that's what we work from

Except that your bias has... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Krrrlson at 3:09 PM on January 6, 2009

Shame on you. Someday we will all be senior admins. These people changed your diapers without complaining, and you mock them?
posted to MetaFilter by StickyCarpet at 8:03 AM on January 3, 2009

aXXo: Baby, I been havin a tough night so treat me nice aight?

BritneySpears14: Aight.

aXXo: Slip out of those pants baby, yeah.

BritneySpears14: I slip out of my pants, just for you, aXXo.

aXXo: Oh yeah, aight. Aight, I put on my robe and wizard hat.

BritneySpears14: Oh, I like to play dress up.

axxo: Me too baby.
posted to MetaFilter by Durn Bronzefist at 11:29 AM on January 2, 2009

OR FOR MORE AWESOME USE

javascript:void(document.body.style.textTransform='uppercase');
posted to MetaTalk by Pronoiac at 3:08 PM on December 31, 2008

Okay, Cronenberg on Aliens, forgive me.

Ripley's getting on in age, living in the outskirts of Toronto chatting with (whoever was left alive at the end of 4... anybody? Don't recall. If not, insert a "sister" or "old friend") on the phone now and then, and likes to amuse herself and relive her heroic past by creating artistic works of her memories: abstract paintings, short stories, vaguely representational sculpture.

One... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:01 PM on December 11, 2008

But that's something that works much better in a novel (CONSIDER PHLEBAS, for example, which I would assume you're familiar with) but is doomed to failure in a film series

Oh no, please don't take my Culture movie franchise dreams away from me
posted to MetaFilter by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 1:55 PM on December 11, 2008

I'm friendly about all kinds of stuff, but not much of a joiner.

Yet you are on a website that requires not only registration but cash money.

Irony which is not irony is a bitch.
posted to MetaTalk by desuetude at 3:40 PM on December 8, 2008

Jesus, can't a body-dysmorphic homosexual eat an open-faced egg salad sandwich in front of the computer in peace?

Really, must this thread exist?
posted to MetaTalk by hermitosis at 3:19 PM on December 8, 2008

Yeah, my girlfriend cried when she saw this too, but we're not sure how to get free sushi out of the fact.
posted to MetaFilter by Astro Zombie at 1:25 PM on December 8, 2008

Thanks a lot, le morte de bea arthur, for ruining my family's otherwise happy Thanksgiving. I can't wait until you poop in my lap on Christmas day.
posted to MetaTalk by spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints at 9:24 AM on November 27, 2008