It's not just grumpiness. I am just sick of the high cheese content on MoFi. Ever wonder why half the old guard are now on Metafilter? Yes, I know where the door is, I can show myself out, and I'll also let the door hit me on my backside for the amusement of all.
Using "wiki" to refer to Wikipedia is not hurting Wikipedia. It is simply misusing "wiki", and is often a sign of ignorance or laziness. Yes, I am well aware that idiocy and sloth are two of the principal forces of language change, and also that if merely pointing out people's irritating behavior was enough to change them then we would today be rid of boy bands, the Democratic party, and the Renault Clio.
Holy shit, thanks for reminding me to mininova season 2 of that! Though I thought season 1 ended pretty conclusively and I don't really see how they can beat that story.
Yeah, well, unpleasant odours are ten bushels to a shilling in communist China. Or so was my experience during my brief forays into the middle kingdom.
The thing about court jesting on teevee these days is not so much the powerless mocking the powerful as two hands of the same monster bashing each other. The democrats and the republicans are the same basic bunch of crooks, funded by powerful stateless corporations. Jon Stewart, to take the biggest example, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom Corporation, which differs from NewsCorp only trivially. A competent bunch of comics taking on the democrats and the left could easily do brilliant work; heck, they are quite the laughingstock all by themselves. If they do miraculously manage not to fuck up their 2008 chances, I shall be glad to see the democrats back in power. We can then shine a few spot lights at the mess in their own backyards. Maybe P. J. O'Rourke will start writing again. Show the current gaggle of talentless "funny" people how to write a proper sentence.
HFCS is an acquired taste, as I was surprised to find when I was stateside a month or so ago. For the last year and half I have been carefully avoiding HFCS (easy enough to do in Europe, where it's not in everything), and anything made with it now just tastes fake to me. I suspect it will be years before I am finally rid of HFCS, GM crap, pesticides, aspartame and gob knows what else you can find in merkin food.
[M]ake the small adjustments necessary to make it better
That's about as bloody likely as us solving global warming. I mean, are you or are you not living in 2007? Civilization is in decline everywhere because absolutely no one wants to make "small adjustments".
Honestly, I think social scientists/ethnologists/whateverists need to find better problems. What's next, the downside of democracy? Of clean, honest living? Of apple pies as grandma used to make?
It's not just grumpiness. I am just sick of the high cheese content on MoFi. Ever wonder why half the old guard are now on Metafilter? Yes, I know where the door is, I can show myself out, and I'll also let the door hit me on my backside for the amusement of all.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
Blah blah derail whatever. Go whine to admin.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Lopped off at the ARMs."
Don't worry, after 8 years of President Romney, you will be wistfully pining for the halcyon days of Gee Dubya.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The Free Encyclopedia Any Company Can Edit!"
Using "wiki" to refer to Wikipedia is not hurting Wikipedia. It is simply misusing "wiki", and is often a sign of ignorance or laziness. Yes, I am well aware that idiocy and sloth are two of the principal forces of language change, and also that if merely pointing out people's irritating behavior was enough to change them then we would today be rid of boy bands, the Democratic party, and the Renault Clio.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The 'act making Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief' includes the real-id."
This thread is, like, so old.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Rotten Meat"
Holy shit, thanks for reminding me to mininova season 2 of that! Though I thought season 1 ended pretty conclusively and I don't really see how they can beat that story.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The Free Encyclopedia Any Company Can Edit!"
Don't use "Wiki" to mean "Wikipedia", please.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Rotten Meat"
I guess it is a bit too late to be telling you to stop stuffing that tape recorder up your nose?
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The 50 best movie robots."
Nothing from Bladerunner? LAME!
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Karl, we hardly knew ya..."
White House spokesman Tony Snow to resign.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Two-nosed Dog."
Ja, zere was a hund with zwei noses, and zen one of zem was assaulted! Ha ha ha!
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Righteous blog post about the sorry state of health insurance in the U.S."
Some googled links:
- Dangers of HFCS
- The obligatory big-red-fonted alarmist page proclaiming that HFCS will murder your children, rape your dog, and drive your uncle into bankruptcy or something.
- Fellow who thinks all the noise about HFCS has a low signal content.
Caveat lector, as always.posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The downside of diversity."
Yeah, well, unpleasant odours are ten bushels to a shilling in communist China. Or so was my experience during my brief forays into the middle kingdom.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "My Right-Wing Dad"
If you don't respond to this comment, your morning coffee tomorrow will be secretly laced with owl semen.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Righteous blog post about the sorry state of health insurance in the U.S."
High fructose corn syrup.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Angkor was a city ahead of its time."
Wat's all this then?
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Richard Dawkins Proved Wrong:"
The thing about court jesting on teevee these days is not so much the powerless mocking the powerful as two hands of the same monster bashing each other. The democrats and the republicans are the same basic bunch of crooks, funded by powerful stateless corporations. Jon Stewart, to take the biggest example, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Viacom Corporation, which differs from NewsCorp only trivially. A competent bunch of comics taking on the democrats and the left could easily do brilliant work; heck, they are quite the laughingstock all by themselves. If they do miraculously manage not to fuck up their 2008 chances, I shall be glad to see the democrats back in power. We can then shine a few spot lights at the mess in their own backyards. Maybe P. J. O'Rourke will start writing again. Show the current gaggle of talentless "funny" people how to write a proper sentence.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "Righteous blog post about the sorry state of health insurance in the U.S."
HFCS is an acquired taste, as I was surprised to find when I was stateside a month or so ago. For the last year and half I have been carefully avoiding HFCS (easy enough to do in Europe, where it's not in everything), and anything made with it now just tastes fake to me. I suspect it will be years before I am finally rid of HFCS, GM crap, pesticides, aspartame and gob knows what else you can find in merkin food.
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
In "The downside of diversity."
[M]ake the small adjustments necessary to make it better That's about as bloody likely as us solving global warming. I mean, are you or are you not living in 2007? Civilization is in decline everywhere because absolutely no one wants to make "small adjustments".
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
Honestly, I think social scientists/ethnologists/whateverists need to find better problems. What's next, the downside of democracy? Of clean, honest living? Of apple pies as grandma used to make?
posted by fuyugare 17 years ago
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