September 24, 2008

• Dubai's development has long been criticized by environmental activists, who say the construction of artificial islands hurts coral reefs and even shifts water currents. They point to growing water and power consumption. We're rich, and f**k the rest of the world. Funny, I'm thinkin' they eventually won't be able to buy a new environment.
• Since when is posting a single link to an article from the Daily Mail a quality post? We can all read the tabloids. Work harder on your submissions.
• Be cool man. This isn't teh blue. This is the home of Dogs In Shawls, remember.
• Wasn't that deleted? It at least had humor value and wasn't from a damn tabloid that millions of people can read off google news. It was an unusual quirky link. This is just shit. And why can't rotateblacksheep post this onto their previous post on a similar story, again from the daily fail? Seriously, if you dont' have anything good to post, blacksheep, don't post. Look at the other submissions on here that get lots of comments and try to figure out what it is about them that is good, then emulate it. Posting shit from the fucking tabloids just doesn't cut it.
• Also, the CAPS. Lose them.
• No, it wasn't deleted. It was mocked at the time but is now held up as a paragon of good posting, I think you'll find. Lie down on the floor and keep calm, man.
• Yeah, clam out, unclench, etc. We're trying to *encourage* posters and posts, not bitch people out because they don't meet some fuzzy standard.
• I, however, score a not too shabby 8.75 on the International Fuzzy Standard.
• *Cough* Is that a frogman voyeur, or a manta ray behind the nude bather's aquarium glass?
• *shakes monitor, checks color* Funny, it LOOKS lavender. Feels blue. Surely this is MonkeyFilter? Wait! I know how to check! SLYT testing. Begin in 10,9,8,7,6...
• Ah fuckit. Let's have a total flame-out. Who wants me to call them a cunt first?
• I LIKE THIS POST THERE ARE PRETTY PICTURES I LIKE FISH LETS GO STAY AT HOTEL THAT SLIDE LOOKS LIKE FUN AND RESTAURANT
• Book now. Previously on the Palm Jumeirah.
• Only $7,650 CAD to stay for a week in the Terrace Suites ... I couldn't find a price for the Lost Chambers suites. I want to sleep with the fishes!!!!
• Pre-vert
• Please DO pardon my lack of intellectual pretensions, Scary Corn Imp. Everyone else did get the point. Tabloid, ostentatious excess, ecological f**kery = incongruity of subject matter, location, pretty pictures. Watch Rome burn and tune up your fiddle. Except in your case SCI, it's probably a f**king Stradivarius! FYI, I'm not Rotate. She's a very dear friend and the sister I'd always wished I had. Rotate's recovering from surgery at the moment and tunes in to Monkey Filter on her laptop. She's not up to posting yet. I'm using her computer until mine is up and running. Suck on that fat boy!
• heheh, the old 'it's my brother/sister/room-mate/somebody on my network' line. Yeah, sure. I don't have access to the IP logs of this site. I guessed you were rotate by the style of your posts. It was just a guess, & I wasn't even sure of it until just now, when you made the excuse about having the same computer. You wouldn't have said that had you not had the same originating IP address, why would you? Just deny it. Unless you think someone can look at the logs. oops! It is very unlikely given your writing style that you are not rotate. Seeing the defensive comment, I'm now certain you are. It's doesn't matter, anyway, who cares if you change your nickname? People do it all the time. What's the problem? Has rotate put her foot in it? It's not an 'intellectual pretension' to make a post from more than one (poor) source, it's standard on community blogs that you put a little bit of effort into a submission rather than just lift something off the standard feeds. Unless you want to get flamed. If you think what I said is bad, try this shit on Metafilter. It's kind of a courtesy to the other members of the site. This is basic internet 101 stuff. You could at the very least do a quick search for other links to the subject, in this instance you could have done a quick google news search for other stories about this resort, or posted its entry from Wikipedia (which is still weaksauce, but it's at least a sign of effort) as part of the extended. Some links here are by nature single link YouTube posts or something, but they're usually quirky or unusual. Daily Mail is not. You might as well post stories from CNN. Maybe MoFi will put up with it, they're starved for posts laterly. Difficult to say. What's the problem with intellectuals? Is that a 'tell'? Have you got a chip? Spill it. More interesting than this submission, anyway.
• Hey! Get in here! Some folks are set to arguin' on teh interwebs! *pulls up chair* *pops beer*
• A bona-fide MoFi throwdown. By gorry, it's been a while!
• I know absolutely nothing about originating IP addresses or logs, whatever! Rotate has a different internet service than I do, if that's what you mean. There are more than a few in Australia. We're not reliant on single mob 'roo post. Wallabies are different from kangaroos too. Defensive? Yes I am, more at the moment because Rotate has had cancer, her right breast removed and then rebuilt during surgery. She has to go through chemotherapy for a while. I've been scared for her. That ok by you? I'm complimented you think Rotate and me have similar style. The fact Rotate gave me this PC is about HER character and generosity not about facile perceptions or shallow inferences. Supercilious pratts? Sensitivities of a mollusc? Arrogance of belief in exclusive tribal membership? Might be an idea to think about all beginnings on this vehicle of communication. It's a tool that "can be used to illuminate or obfuscate." But tools can ponce about with directives on what to comment on or where material should come from. Thanks for the tips. I read the Posting FAQs. I don't use Google. Too restrictive. Needed a laugh tonight. Thanks for that too.
• *removes glasses, grabs folding chair*
• :D LMAO!
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• *hands out Playbills, helps GramMa find her seat*
• Cappy, that better be your thumb at the bottom of this here popcorn...
• It's a small world. Turns out that Scary Corn Imp lives next door to meredithea.
• Thanks for speaking on behalf of all of MoFi there, SCI. Pretty sure I have my own opinion, and as admin, I WIN.
• For one brief, shining moment, it was like having BasilDrak back again.
• I hate when I miss out on the fun! *grabs an empty from the floor and savors the last warm drops*
• *takes seat, starts whacking people on shins with cane* Dammit, you young whippersnappers, I want to see a good asskickin'!! MonkeyFilter: I, however, score a not too shabby 8.75 on the International Fuzzy Standard. MonkeyFilter: Supercilious pratts? Sensitivities of a mollusc? Arrogance of belief in exclusive tribal membership? MonkeyFilter: Who wants to call me a cunt first? MonkeyFilter: This is basic internet 101 stuff. MonkeyFilter: Please DO pardon my lack of intellectual pretensions MonkeyFilter: The old 'it's my brother/sister/room-mate/somebody on my network' line. Yeah, sure. MonkeyFilter: If you think what I said is bad, try this shit on Metafilter. MonkeyFilter: As admin, I WIN!! Hot damn! We haven't had a good poo-fling around here in a long time. They're always so profitable for gleaning taglines. *puckers up to kiss SCI* Oh, Kitfisto? I love this game. You're the cunt first. *runs and hides*
• Aah, sweet release...
• Dubai is a fucking mad place.
• Who wants me to call them a cunt first? Would you call me a cunt, please, and tell them I want it at the door with the engine running in fifteen minutes, please?
• That's why you're filtered at work, you know.
• Um...wow.
• D'oh!
• This ended much better than I thought it might. *prepares cheese sandwich*
• Beetroot on mine, please Grammy.
• I AM BORED AND DEMAND MORE ANGER
• HEY SCARY CORN IMP WHY NOT MAKE ANOTHER 911 CONSPIRACY POST? MAKE SURE YOU PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO IT THOUGH. AND DON'T USE CAPS.
• Eh, stop winding up the natives.
• Alright, but I strongly suspect we're being played. Of all the single-link posts we have here - and we have a lot - why pick this one to complain about? What does SCI have against rotate? Or Blacksheep? What history does he have with either of them? Why does he suspect they're one and the same? There's way too much here to be just some random crank who doesn't like this post.
• It looks that way, sure. I'm hoping they'll leave it off and avoid conflicting on MoFi, and so far they have (thanks, people). So I don't want to start that up again.
• Oh, let's do!
• Also.
• Koko, rocket, and Ralph, go to your room. GramMa's told you not to fight.
• I have a room with Koko and Rocket? Hmmm....possibilities!
• I WANT FIGHTINESS TOO. YOU'RE ALL GAY!!!!
• You smell like beetroot. IN A BAD WAY.
• Yeah, like there's a good way.
• I'M GOING TO EAT BEETROOT TOMORROW ON PURPOSE!!!!
• Aha, is this were we get to fight over beets? *eats juicy, sweet beet, grins menacingly at other monkeys*
• I love beetroot! In my hamburgers! But kit's beetroot...erm.
• Math.
• Rocket88 and tracicle. I suspect SCI has issues? Could be a mysogynistic or paranoid streak I triggered? I don't see why it's so peculiar for a couple of friends to have similar tastes, or to have common interests. Even to want to join the same site. There must be more than a few who've done the same. Husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend. It can't be that unique surely? I love beetroot in my hamburgers too tracicle. We must be related. ;)
• ROTATE AND BLACKSHEEP AND BEETROOT ARE NOTHING MORE THAN TRACICLE'S SOCK PUPPETS.
• Yeah, just drop it Blacksheep. The water, it is under the bridge. Have some beetroot, but not kitfisto's.
• /* re-registers as username "BeetRoot" in a longshot attempt to gain admin privileges */ /* accidentally types BeetRot instead */
• *lifts bread lid* I'm NOT eating this beetrot sammich!
• Beetroot on a hamburger!!!! Bleaurgh!!!!! Actually, I might try it. Just on someone else's burger. And Blacky, DON'T DROP IT!! THIS AM FIGHTY THREAD NOW!!!!
• Not now. Boiling up some beetroot. Needed a slice of heaven.