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I'm baffled as to why this is something to argue about.

It's about the relative value of form vs. content. Original content is hard to come by; Catchy slogans about the content are churned out by Madison Ave constantly.

blue_beetle deserves every credit for a catchy slogan, but the value assigned to it by some members of Metafilter seems way out of proportion for what it is.

Now me, I enjoy a good… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:25 AM on September 29, 2011

You know, it occurs to me that the message at the centre of all this is almost certainly going to be used, if it hasn't already, as a justification for charging people to access things that could otherwise be free to access; e.g., paywalls on websites that are already sufficiently supported by ads.

But look at what you got for $5!
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 3:29 PM on September 29, 2011

We spent many a sultry evening just grepping each other in the dark.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 10:39 PM on September 28, 2011

Did we change the original philosophy which is "Metafilter is about the links, not the comments"?This has always been an irritating philosophy. If Metafilter is about the links and not the comments for you, fine. Don't read the comments.

I don't think it's quite that simple. The quality of the links on the main page is directly related to their intended purpose.

Just to pull an example out of thin air, a single link… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:32 AM on September 26, 2011

That's really not even what we're talking about here.

Are you accusing me of a derail? :-)
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:50 AM on September 26, 2011

Oh, God! There's a mote in my eye!

Speaking of which, iBooks finally beefed up their Niven collection.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:52 AM on September 12, 2011

I've seen supposed "shock sites" that have made me wince less than that advert.

You should see the goatse version.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:58 AM on September 12, 2011

I can type slower if that would help.

Note: Everyone needs a hug.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 4:20 PM on September 2, 2011

NO ONE EXPECTS THE AMISH IMPOSITION!
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 3:18 PM on August 31, 2011

Announcer1 (Bob): "Welcome back to game 5 of the MetaTalk world series, brought to you by Flame-O's, the lunchtime treat of bored office workers."

Announcer2 (Fred): "And what a series it's been. In the past few days we've seen acronyms assaulted, mystery meat basted, and in one case an all out foul mouthed brawl."

Bob: "A historic series indeed, Fred. Now up on the mound we have oneswellfoop . . . with… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:45 AM on August 25, 2011

Poet_Lariat: "5.8 ??? Back in Los Angeles we would have called that a speedbump."

luckynerd: "5.9 is pretty significant (says a native SoCali mefite). Glad y'all are okay. :)"

Okay, y'all need to make up your minds now.

That extra .1 is *huge*, man.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 11:42 AM on August 23, 2011

I am now feeling particularly obtuse.

Aww, don't worry, I think it's acute that you couldn't find it.

It's all right.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 12:27 AM on August 14, 2011

...for how to word an invitation for one night,

You made this abundantly clear in the first lines of your question. However, this argument has little to do with what you actually wrote.

The parent/childfree topic is a massively charged cloud of GRAR that hangs over Metafilter, just waiting for some foolish person to step out into the open. Today was your day to be the lightning rod.

Fortunately it looks like you got some good answers amongst the sturm und drang.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 4:51 PM on August 10, 2011

I'm completely befuddled by the idea that the stick-to-helpfulness of AskMe, which is the best feature of the subsite, has as proviso "feel free to be unhelpful and/or abusive in email" to the OP.

It's a reasonable proviso as it takes grandstanding and playing to the audience out of the equation. The OP is going to get all of the GRAR regardless, but there will likely be about 95% less GRAR if the G.I.F.T. is not in play.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 4:05 PM on August 11, 2011

I wonder if 69% of users have been favorited for pay.

Also, I wonder if the Kinsey folks were doing a <wink wink, nudge nudge> thing when they decided not to round to 70%.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 2:19 AM on July 25, 2011

Of course I wonder that about pretty much everything produced by the Kinsey Institute.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 2:56 AM on July 25, 2011

Dawkins brings all of the worst parts of religion (the strident voices, the condescension to non-believers, the conviction of having found the One True Way) to atheism.

The truth is that while he doesn't believe in God, he very much believes in religion. And religions (especially extremist) don't go down very well around here.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 1:29 PM on July 7, 2011

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posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 8:27 AM on May 22, 2011

Somewhat related question: has there ever been a legal request to break anonymity?
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 4:18 PM on May 18, 2011

4507 words to go before your next break.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 3:29 PM on May 10, 2011

Yep.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 10:55 AM on January 12, 2011

Ours is a forbidden love.
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 6:32 PM on July 5, 2010

Whups, posted too quick.

Congratulations on your marriage!
posted to MetaTalk by Tell Me No Lies at 6:33 PM on July 5, 2010