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Yawn. Some entitled assholes crossing the country at dangerous speeds in a car designed for rich idiots is exactly the kind of "adventure" that our soulless era deserves.

Mind you, I made the trip from Savannah, Georgia to Hazelhurst, Georgia in two and a half hours in a twenty-eight year-old Citroën DS21 with 360K on the clock and a blown suspension sphere spraying Dextron fluid in a continuous hundred mile stripe on the dusty Georgia... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sonascope at 4:45 AM on October 31, 2013

I also ask if he's worried about the public. Will a mob of angry citizens show up outside his house, demanding that he "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!"?

I''ll do it: What a bloody dickhead; he could have killed someone, killed himself, and undoubtedly has encouraged others to run the same risks. Why should he be above and beyond the law? I hope he's charged.
posted to MetaFilter by smoke at 2:24 AM on October 31, 2013

Kevtaro: "Two 22-gallon gasoline tanks stored in the trunk? They are lucky they didn’t get rear ended."

Doesn't sound like they were ever in much danger of being rear ended.
posted to MetaFilter by mannequito at 1:50 AM on October 31, 2013

This has to be a comment on the lack of good dental care for poor people in the US, right? ... right?

Think they're poor now? Soon they'll be indentured.
posted to MetaFilter by hal9k at 3:29 PM on October 26, 2013

I teach college kids (thankfully not online) and I would find the coy way you phrased the question frustrating, think you weren't paying attention, and probably say they same thing ("look it up in the textbook"). However, if a student came to me and said, "On your exam the correct answer was X, but I checked in the textbook and the author says it's Z," I would realize I'd made a mistake, thank the student for her attention to detail, give the points back to everyone... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by kettleoffish at 2:00 PM on October 22, 2013

"Dear professor,

There was an error on a recent test.

The question was:

Which of the above is not part of the Greater Antilles.

-Cuba
-Jamaica
-St. Thomas
-Puerto Rico

The correct answer is St. Thomas. However, the correct answer for the test was Puerto Rico.

As you can see, Puerto Rico is indeed part of the... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by KokuRyu at 12:02 PM on October 22, 2013

Is there a reason you're using this 1300/Columbus thing instead of the actual question?
posted to Ask MetaFilter by box at 11:13 AM on October 22, 2013

Babies don't have 100000 calories man. The earth in this scenario is made up entirely of healthy 150lb adults.

Admit it. You're high as fuck right now on your sofa with a bag of chips and a tub of ice cream.
posted to MetaTalk by octobersurprise at 9:06 AM on October 10, 2013

Tehloki should try What If. Not a physics question I know, but worth a shot.
posted to MetaTalk by TedW at 9:06 AM on October 10, 2013

Jessamyn you're doing a great job keep up the good work.

Thanks. If people don't have more questions about the original MeTa question, I'll be happy to close this, because "Idle bullshitting about tehloki's cannibal scenario" is actually not what MeTa is for. MeFi Chat is open for business.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:07 AM on October 10, 2013

It was basically a totally made up "just wondering" question where the criteria made it much more about tehloki's restrictions than any actual science or math problem. The fact that it was just going to devolve into idle bullshitting about zombies and cannibalism and a lot of non-answers to the question was just a tangential concern. tehloki is a long time user and the deletion reason was brief because I was pretty sure he would get my meaning. He posted it to food & drink. Come ON.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:31 AM on October 10, 2013

"I'm just curious" = pretty big giveaway
posted to MetaTalk by boo_radley at 8:31 AM on October 10, 2013

Deletion aside, now I'm just depressed that I can't figure out the math to do this. I'm almost certain I could have in high school (at least if you allow us to ignore population growth). Sigh...
posted to MetaTalk by Wretch729 at 8:40 AM on October 10, 2013

He posted it to food & drink. Come ON.

I mean, obviously it belonged in human relations! Duh.
posted to MetaTalk by octobersurprise at 8:51 AM on October 10, 2013

Glad that was settled.

Where are we going for lunch?
posted to MetaTalk by Brandon Blatcher at 8:54 AM on October 10, 2013

a single man left alive would be able to impregnate all the women in the world

FINALLY confirmation of what I have long suspected to be a common male delusion!
posted to MetaTalk by elizardbits at 8:58 AM on October 10, 2013

I would imagine that a lot of people would rather starve or commit suicide than eat other people. And then they'd maybe or maybe not get eaten.

Also, you've got to think about babies. Delicious tender juicy babies.
posted to MetaTalk by Metroid Baby at 8:59 AM on October 10, 2013

I now envision a single enormous man, like the Colossus of Rhodes, standing bestride all the women in the world who are simultaneously ovulating and impregnating them all with one mighty thrust.

lol irl
posted to MetaTalk by elizardbits at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2013

Can someone summarize the show, in a non-spoilery fashion?

A teenage boy, stricken with cerebral palsy and facing life upheavals from his recently passed father, leaving him and his pregnant mom alone, writes a story about the dying father he's always hated.
posted to MetaFilter by Brandon Blatcher at 1:53 PM on September 29, 2013

I think it should be emphasized, when trying to explain the show, that although it's often a masterpiece of storytelling with careful plotting and a very clear sense all along of the arc of the show, it essentially is a very intense cluster of character studies. Not just of Walter White, the high-school-teacher-cum-meth-producer, but of the people embroiled in his metamorphosis, from his former student who helps him cook, to his family.

The show slowly scrapes down into... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Ivan Fyodorovich at 1:53 PM on September 29, 2013

Winner: Best Formatting, MeFi Awards 2013.
posted to MetaFilter by the quidnunc kid at 1:19 PM on September 29, 2013

Tight, Rhaomi. Tight tight tight!
posted to MetaFilter by bicyclefish at 1:16 PM on September 29, 2013

All three of my kids did this in kindergarten/preschool. The two elder only did it once, and the youngest did it twice. All four times were in September, and the teachers calmly informed us that at least one kid does this every year because KINDERGARTEN IS SO AMAZING OH MY GOD THERE'S SO MANY CRAYONS AND LOOK THERE'S A NEW KID AND AHHH THERE'S A SLIDE AND WHOMP.

None of them suffered any lingering aftereffects. The doctor told us to make sure they... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Etrigan at 12:15 PM on September 25, 2013

Jacqueline: I know that I'm not going to shoot up a Starbucks.

Hooray for you. I don't know that, and have no reason to believe you just because you tell me that. What I do know is that, between me (without a gun) and you (with one), only one of us can actually shoot up a Starbucks, even if you say you never would and I were to declare my intention to do so.

It's why I can't take the arguments from gun fans and constant... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by gadge emeritus at 10:58 AM on September 18, 2013

Oh no, an insult? Pistols at dawn, sir!
posted to MetaFilter by octobersurprise at 6:53 AM on September 18, 2013

I'm not trying to be insulting, I'm really not. But I believe that the choice (as a private citizen) to carry a concealed weapon makes everyone around you less safe.
posted to MetaFilter by Potomac Avenue at 6:53 AM on September 18, 2013

I just got so angry I had to stop working and just stare into space for a while being angry and then my eyes got dry because I wasn't blinking just being angry.

I remember when I was in fourth grade this kid behind me in line ripped my lunch ticket and I thought I wouldn't be able to get lunch that day and I cried, but the adult was like OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO GET LUNCH BABY. And I was reassured that school was a safe place and I could trust the adults around me to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by prefpara at 1:00 PM on September 6, 2013

Hold on. The article says "The new lunch program states that if kids, not on the Free and Reduced Lunch program, don't have money to pay for their school lunch, they will go hungry for the day."

So in other words, the poor kids aren't subject to this rule - they get their lunch. The kids whose parents (presumably) have enough to pay for their kids' lunches, but let the account run empty (even after a heads-up) don't get lunch.

I'm as... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by pipeski at 12:55 PM on September 6, 2013

Kids are freeloaders by nature. You've got to nip it in the bud.
posted to MetaFilter by ChurchHatesTucker at 12:48 PM on September 6, 2013

...someone has to hold parents to account for very, very basic things like either paying for lunch or applying for the free lunch program.

Absolutely!

Which is why this situation where the kids are being hold accountable for the actions of their parents comes off as sadistic at best.
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 12:46 PM on September 6, 2013

All kidding aside, klangklangston is correct. I used to be an elementary teacher. If this happened in my school, guess what would happen? I would end up having to take what meager money I made and pay for a bunch of school lunches, because if the kids don't eat, they certainly aren't going to learn. And then, after the umpteenth time that I had to tell my own children that, no, we can't go out for ice cream tonight (because I couldn't afford it,) I'd see red. And then next time there was a staff... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nushustu at 12:41 PM on September 6, 2013

"...the district says that if a student goes through the lunch line and doesn't have enough money to pay for it, the lunch staff is instructed to throw the meal away."

A confused Charles Dickens rises from his grave to protest this abuse of suspension of disbelief.
posted to MetaFilter by griphus at 12:38 PM on September 6, 2013

"Since you've lapsed in your payments for your auto insurance, we're going to drive over your dog."
posted to MetaFilter by nushustu at 12:36 PM on September 6, 2013

"Part of the reason we're doing this is to help hold parents accountable."

Part of the reason you're starving children? What's the other part?

These people need to examine their lives.
posted to MetaFilter by selfnoise at 12:34 PM on September 6, 2013

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posted to MetaFilter by Philosopher Dirtbike at 10:57 AM on September 6, 2013

Go crazy?

Don't mind if I do! WAAAAAGGGGGRRBRBRBLLLBLBLBLBLB
posted to MetaFilter by EndsOfInvention at 8:04 AM on September 6, 2013

David Lynch wants his audio processing equipment back.
posted to MetaFilter by Rory Marinich at 7:23 AM on September 6, 2013

Message : they girlfriend no shower, they no shower metafilter. why no?
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 11:38 AM on February 24, 2009

No. This is a bad idea. This is a thing you should do under the supervision of a doctor and if you have a doctor who says this is not right for your condition, you have a right to a second opinion which I suggest that you get. Your questions show a long history of medical anxiety and concerns about this and other issues. I would wait until your appointment with the social worker that you said you had scheduled and hold off on any major self-medicine until you can get a professional opinion.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jessamyn at 12:32 PM on August 29, 2013

All in favor of a permanent metatalk queue say aye
posted to MetaTalk by ook at 1:07 PM on August 29, 2013

I am however, questioning the validity of his story and asking is it at all possible that there might be another side to this tale?

No you pretty clearly went on a diatribe about how this is all ok because of 911 and then told everyone you were ready for the flames. Now that you've gotten some you are backtracking.
posted to MetaFilter by AElfwine Evenstar at 8:22 AM on August 23, 2013

Like what? He really is an Indian American Hindu terrorist?
posted to MetaFilter by sweetkid at 8:21 AM on August 23, 2013

God, it never fucking ends, does it. Do you think he was making it up for attention? Or are you just assuming that he must have done something wrong or suspicious because omg so scary he's not white?
posted to MetaFilter by elizardbits at 8:22 AM on August 23, 2013

I flew from DTW to PHX on Oct 10, 2001. There were still Reserves guys in the halls with machine guns, guys with dogs everywhere, and I was stopped by a brand-new TSA agent at the hastily erected security checkpoint in the hallway at DTW. He upended my suitcase and dumped out the contents on a table (they're better about this now, at least), because I was wearing a Grateful Dead shirt, and he figured he'd get an easy drug score. He didn't find anything, because I'm straight edge and just... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by RogueTech at 8:16 AM on August 23, 2013

Dean358, I do not understand. You are pleased that you and your neighbors are forced to go through insane nonsense that couldn't possibly, in any universe, do anything to keep any of you safe because you are scared over an unrelated attack that happened 12 years ago? What you've said makes no sense. I'm a native New Yorker and have friends who were killed on 9/11, but that doesn't mean I put a lollipop up my butt and wear a shaving cream Santa beard whenever a TSA person tells me I am required... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by 1adam12 at 6:49 AM on August 23, 2013

I also lived a few minutes walk from WTC. I worked across the street, above the Century 21. My wife watched people jump out of the building as she held our 6-month old son.

I would be happy if we adopted some real security, but what we have now is not only ludicrous security theatre, it is evil. When 'land of the free' becomes nothing more than an ironic joke, then maybe the terrorists haven't won, but we have definitely lost.

I wish everyone in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bashos_frog at 6:43 AM on August 23, 2013

Many years ago, we flew as a family to DC from ATL. Our three-year-old son got selected for special screening, and I followed him to the side area where he just sort of looked at me while the guy did a half-assed check of his arms and legs. I asked why he'd been pulled aside. The guy looked at me with me with a straight face and said

"He's been identified as a person of interest."

YOU GOT HIM. YOU GOT THE JACKAL. EXCELLENT POLICE WORK.
posted to MetaFilter by jquinby at 6:31 AM on August 23, 2013

But I live three blocks form ground zero and I was home on 9/11

9/11 won't happen again for decades and decades, because the MO for 9/11 didn't even keep working all day. You do not need to worry about anyone flying an airline flight into a building for the rest of your life, because the 9/11 hijackers ruined hijacking for everyone. If anyone tries to hijack an airline flight (with panicky Americans) in the next few decades, the passengers will tear... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:30 AM on August 23, 2013

there may be another side to the story and/or he might -- key word "might" -- have contributed to escalating the situation.

Sure, there may have been.

But I can tell, that in my case of a five year old boy mentioning a sword, being detained for hours, having my children body searched by hand numerous times and ignored by officials and then for the ensuing ten years all four of us being on a flagged to fly list...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kinetic at 6:21 AM on August 23, 2013

Do I thing the TSA is a fantastic agency? Of course not -- it's mostly security theater. But if someone getting on my flight tests positive for explosive residue do I want them getting right on my plane??? Um, I'm gonna say nooooooo. Was there perhaps another side to this interaction? We have no way of knowing.


i) They searched his possessions as soon as this detector went off, and found nothing.
ii) They admit... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 5:54 AM on August 23, 2013