A civilized alternative to thread dumping: yon metatalk callout thread July 3, 2006 8:02 PM Subscribe
Ooh, and my pseudosnark was deleted. I feel kind of proud! I've never had a comment deleted before!
posted by zerokey at 8:08 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by zerokey at 8:08 PM on July 3, 2006
jason's_planet is annoyingly defensive in that thread, but I don't think it merits a MeTa callout. Just let it drop and move on.
posted by brundlefly at 8:11 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by brundlefly at 8:11 PM on July 3, 2006
Lame post. I am a "cat person" and that post sucked. The fight was fixed. Those cats weren't fighting. I've seen cat fights, and that wasn't what it looks like.
posted by Balisong at 8:18 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by Balisong at 8:18 PM on July 3, 2006
No, his defensiveness is undefendable, it detracts from the thread. Should we all have to be as amusing? Metafilter is nothing without prissy defensive rhetoric. Thank you zerokey you have restored this n00bs love for meta-whatever.
posted by econous at 8:18 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by econous at 8:18 PM on July 3, 2006
I wasn't trying to upstage you. I don't do that. My wording was really more for comedic effect. I didn't think your video sucked. My comment was, in my mind, along the same lines. I'm really sorry if it bothered you. Regardless of the content, I appreciate the effort put into posts, be they one link wonders or an encyclopaedic saga.
Apology accepted. I misread the tone of your comment and made it into something it wasn't. I, in turn, apologize my testiness.
OK. We're good.
posted by jason's_planet at 8:39 PM on July 3, 2006
Apology accepted. I misread the tone of your comment and made it into something it wasn't. I, in turn, apologize my testiness.
OK. We're good.
posted by jason's_planet at 8:39 PM on July 3, 2006
I'm a big pussycat compared to some other folks around here who eat whole kittens and metafilter newbies for breakfast.
Did anyone else laugh when they read this?
posted by Pacheco at 8:49 PM on July 3, 2006
Did anyone else laugh when they read this?
posted by Pacheco at 8:49 PM on July 3, 2006
Please tell me this is not it.. I almost had a cup of tea ready! [I nearly always have a cup of tea ready, or one on the cusp of being ready.]
posted by econous at 8:50 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by econous at 8:50 PM on July 3, 2006
Thus, I have a huge folder of research and incomplete things I haven't posted yet.
That's what I use Canadian newsfilter for :P I know I have a bit of time, but I can't hesitate too much because somebody else is bound to get around to the story eventually..
posted by Chuckles at 8:56 PM on July 3, 2006
That's what I use Canadian newsfilter for :P I know I have a bit of time, but I can't hesitate too much because somebody else is bound to get around to the story eventually..
posted by Chuckles at 8:56 PM on July 3, 2006
As for my time here and lack of posts, I'm in the same boat as tula. Moreso, I'm afraid someone won't like me because of a bad post. My issue, and I deal with it. I'm also a perfectionist. After my one crap post, I can't let something go unless it is perfect (to me).
I hear you. At risk of seeming corny, does anyone look brilliant while learning to walk? No. You stumble forward. You grab onto things. You fall on your ass a few hundred times. And then one day, you're walking!
Maybe if we allowed grownups to fall down the way babies do, to make mistakes, embarass themselves, etc., life would be a lot more enjoyable.
posted by jason's_planet at 9:02 PM on July 3, 2006
I hear you. At risk of seeming corny, does anyone look brilliant while learning to walk? No. You stumble forward. You grab onto things. You fall on your ass a few hundred times. And then one day, you're walking!
Maybe if we allowed grownups to fall down the way babies do, to make mistakes, embarass themselves, etc., life would be a lot more enjoyable.
posted by jason's_planet at 9:02 PM on July 3, 2006
At risk of seeming corny, does anyone look brilliant while learning to walk? No. You stumble forward. You grab onto things. You fall on your ass a few hundred times. And then one day, you're walking!
Speak for yourself. The day I learned to walk was a moment those blessed to view it will never forget. It was in many ways like the scene in 2001 when the ape picks up the thigh bone - trumpets sounded, drums rolled like thunder as the tension rose to an unbearable height, and then the heavens crashed forth with the sound of eternity. I rose, I walked, and then I tore down the Creator of this universe from his throne and smote him, his ruined husk lying smoking upon the barrier between this world and the next.
posted by Ryvar at 9:29 PM on July 3, 2006 [2 favorites]
Speak for yourself. The day I learned to walk was a moment those blessed to view it will never forget. It was in many ways like the scene in 2001 when the ape picks up the thigh bone - trumpets sounded, drums rolled like thunder as the tension rose to an unbearable height, and then the heavens crashed forth with the sound of eternity. I rose, I walked, and then I tore down the Creator of this universe from his throne and smote him, his ruined husk lying smoking upon the barrier between this world and the next.
posted by Ryvar at 9:29 PM on July 3, 2006 [2 favorites]
And quonsar's first steps thundered across the land. The terror of a new God spread throughout the land.
posted by cortex at 9:38 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by cortex at 9:38 PM on July 3, 2006
At risk of seeming corny, does anyone look brilliant while learning to walk?
Apparently, I learned to walk all by myself, silently, at night in my crib. The first time my parents saw me do anything close to walking was when I learned how to escape my crib and put my legs to well practiced use by scaring the crap out of them by -running- into the kitchen at 10 months. Ever since then, they've thought that I am brilliant.
So it pays to practice behind close doors.
posted by zerokey at 10:07 PM on July 3, 2006
Apparently, I learned to walk all by myself, silently, at night in my crib. The first time my parents saw me do anything close to walking was when I learned how to escape my crib and put my legs to well practiced use by scaring the crap out of them by -running- into the kitchen at 10 months. Ever since then, they've thought that I am brilliant.
So it pays to practice behind close doors.
posted by zerokey at 10:07 PM on July 3, 2006
Think I'll just drag this over here for some taglinery:
MetaFilter:
DO NOT ENTER
RITUAL DANCE AREA
THANK YOU
posted by Gator at 10:10 PM on July 3, 2006
DO NOT ENTER
RITUAL DANCE AREA
THANK YOU
posted by Gator at 10:10 PM on July 3, 2006
I never learned to walk. I had the knowledge of bipedal locomotion imprinted upon my thought patterns by a race of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional squirrels. After ritually attaching a pair of genetically engineer monkey legs to my lower torso, their chanting cacaphony awoke the demon dewelling in my lower intestine (near the colon), thrusting me unceremoiniously to a standing position. Utilitizing 7-dimensional allegory theorem to plot a course to the nearest Chuck-E-Cheeses, I commanded the legs to move. Because the legs retained what might be called a "muscle memory" they began, in short order, to walk. Albeit in a haphazard monkeyish fashion, they walked nonetheless.
posted by blue_beetle at 10:28 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by blue_beetle at 10:28 PM on July 3, 2006
Still waiting for the Talk pages.
Still unconvinced they'll be a Good Idea.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:09 PM on July 3, 2006
Still unconvinced they'll be a Good Idea.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:09 PM on July 3, 2006
It was important that the Community have a frank airing of feelings on this issue. Well done, all.
posted by nanojath at 11:23 PM on July 3, 2006
posted by nanojath at 11:23 PM on July 3, 2006
Still unconvinced they'll be a Good Idea.
I'm pretty sure matt wanted to make some kind of talk page for each thread, although searching fails me. Anyway, I think it would be a good idea.
posted by puke & cry at 11:55 PM on July 3, 2006
I'm pretty sure matt wanted to make some kind of talk page for each thread, although searching fails me. Anyway, I think it would be a good idea.
posted by puke & cry at 11:55 PM on July 3, 2006
Yes, we've discussed it at length, several times. As I said, I remain unconvinced. We'll see, I guess.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:05 AM on July 4, 2006
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:05 AM on July 4, 2006
YouTube links are the new Israel/Palestine
if you don't like YouTube (God knows I don't) they're better left unread.
posted by matteo at 2:06 AM on July 4, 2006
if you don't like YouTube (God knows I don't) they're better left unread.
posted by matteo at 2:06 AM on July 4, 2006
With enough donations*, I could register enough sock puppets to write an automated callout script that would open a MeTa thread for every FPP.
* Because I don't like paying for things myself.
posted by Plutor at 5:03 AM on July 4, 2006
* Because I don't like paying for things myself.
posted by Plutor at 5:03 AM on July 4, 2006
Nix on you! My ol' man kin lick yer ol' man any day o' the week! 'Cuz everybody knows yer ol' man eats dead dog san'wiches!
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:23 AM on July 4, 2006
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:23 AM on July 4, 2006
One nice thing about talk pages is that the grey won't be clogged up with shit like this. Not having seen the original thread (before this callout, of course), I still have no idea what happened.
posted by Eideteker at 10:01 AM on July 4, 2006
posted by Eideteker at 10:01 AM on July 4, 2006
Gator: Thank you! Finally, a tagline I can enjoy. I was wondering what all the fuss was about.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:25 PM on July 4, 2006
posted by Jon Mitchell at 11:25 PM on July 4, 2006
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I didn't post it myself because I can't stand Youtube posts.
I have d
But wait...I watch almost every YT post that comes along. And like many of them! So, I don't complain, and I get to keep my brief chink of crankiness to myself, all the while enjoying that which has made me cranky.
As for my time here and lack of posts, I'm in the same boat as tula. Moreso, I'm afraid someone won't like me because of a bad post. My issue, and I deal with it. I'm also a perfectionist. After my one crap post, I can't let something go unless it is perfect (to me). Thus, I have a huge folder of research and incomplete things I haven't posted yet. I'll get to it eventually. Another reason for this is that I want my post to be at least half as fantastic as a great many posts here.
posted by zerokey at 8:03 PM on July 3, 2006