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It's Raining Florence Henderson: "I personally consider comment threads on the Blue to be the highest value of content this site has to offer me, and is also my primary source of engagement."

QFT.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:26 AM on October 20, 2021

oulipian: "Derail?"

Definitely, at least once a day. There's no reason to stay on the tracks, all the really interesting stuff is off the beaten path.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:23 PM on October 20, 2021

Of course MetaFilter is a part of that history.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:15 AM on September 11, 2021

Prince, of course, was the prophet:

(I was dreamin' when I wrote this
Forgive me if it goes astray)

But when I woke up this morning
I could have sworn it was judgment day

(The sky was all purple
There were people runnin' everywhere)

Tryin' to run from the destruction
And you know I didn't even care

'Cuz they say...

2000 zero zero party over oops out of time
So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:47 PM on September 11, 2021

Wordshore: "I bought a large wheel of cheese."

Is it your cheese? Or is it nacho cheese?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:15 AM on August 30, 2021

From Bklyn: "I never notice any typos until roughly edit window time + 2 minutes. "

And this will remain true for however long the edit window time is!

I think it's fine as-is, a happy medium.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:58 AM on August 30, 2021

In the late 1990s I struck up a conversation on a train with a young man who said he was a musician. We had a nice conversation, he got off well before my stop. As he left, he gave me a business card, which read: "Jason Mraz, Troubadour."
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:13 PM on August 16, 2021

The Unnameable
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:00 PM on August 4, 2021

I think FanFare is tragically overlooked, underused, and underappreciated.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:19 PM on July 25, 2021

June 2021 was a ridiculously strong month for pride posts.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:27 AM on July 1, 2021

The Sinister History of the Word "Moron," Explained
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:19 PM on June 28, 2021

I have a lot of soft and loose rules about favorites, but there's one hard and fast one: if I laugh out loud I _must_ click the +.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:17 PM on June 8, 2021

Just this week I was obsessing over Gregory Manchess's cover for Michael Crichton's (as John Lange) "Zero Cool"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:24 PM on May 9, 2021

carmicha: "Movies (not comfort fare) I never turn off when I stumble upon them:"

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Atomic Blonde
Wanted
Pulp Fiction
Point Break
Die Hard
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:33 AM on April 16, 2021

How do we feel (ethically, as a site) about posting things that dodge a paywall, like archive.is links (which is one way to read the NYT)? Is that OK?

One can also read NYT articles (and from many other paywalled sites) by opening them in a "private window"/incognito mode, but that can't be linked to.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:15 PM on April 11, 2021

Eyebrows McGee: "--sharing tips like extensions, incognito windows, archive sites, etc., that may help"

On preview, from what Eyebrows McGee said, I guess we're ok with it!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:16 PM on April 11, 2021

I'd still like to find this robot cartoon
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:31 PM on April 4, 2021

I had great English teachers from grade school into college. Many more good teachers than bad. Even the 7th grade teacher who had the "grammar" year was OK. The best advice I ever got was from a Professor in sophomore year at college: "Look at your syllabi and guesstimate how much time it would take to read all of that. Then, spend that amount of time reading whatever you want."
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:44 AM on April 3, 2021

Does anybody even read the comments down here?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:30 PM on April 1, 2021

Charles Portis' The Dog of the South.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:22 AM on February 27, 2021

I guess that given the current context it's to be expected that not everyone wants to go viral
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:46 AM on January 23, 2021

Can I just highlight a moment of monumental synchronicity that appeared this day on the Blue?

First this:

The Complete List of Trump’s Twitter Insults (2015-2021)

then this:

Dinosaur Butthole

in a matter of minutes, MetaFilter found an insult waaaaaaaaay better than anyone of that LOSER REPUBLICAN DINOSAUR BUTTHOLE
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:02 AM on January 20, 2021

BlueNorther: "Greta Thunberg wins Twitter today."

Very close runner up, Femi with "I'm disappointed Greta... I thought you didn't burn fossils"
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:26 AM on January 20, 2021

loquacious: "Speaking as a petrified dinosaur butthole I just want to say I've been really uncomfortable with the all the recent gleeful attention to the subject in the news."

Christ, what an asshole!

(boy does that ever depend on the inflection; imagine it being said in the voice of a small child on a field trip just in gobsmacked awe of the prehistoric pooper)
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:37 PM on January 20, 2021

giving it another shot starting January 21st

Wait, is Dry January a drinking game? I've been doing it so wrong...
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:38 PM on January 12, 2021

hippybear: "It's a false flag operation distracting with non-lizardian celebrities "

false frog operation, surely.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:36 PM on January 3, 2021

There were no cellphones. I used to organize events with my friends in advance. Hey, let's meet at the diner and then see that movie at 9. If someone didn't show up, you didn't worry and went ahead and did whatever it was.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:08 PM on September 27, 2020

Do you have precognitive dreams? Is time just a flat circle?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 8:58 AM on September 8, 2020

Slarty Bartfast: "It's sock-sock, shoe + tie, then shoe+ tie. "

You're wearing 2 ties?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 6:36 AM on September 8, 2020

MetaFilter: Even worse. Any other ideas?
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:42 AM on August 14, 2020

Here's another list of ethnic slurs.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:29 AM on July 10, 2020

I wonder though, I would kind of like to know who is out there posting racist or ethnic slurs. Deleting them seems a rather polite treatment.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:05 PM on June 26, 2020

Made a simple flowchart
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:25 PM on June 23, 2020

I had to flush my MetaFilter cookies, but then that holding page went away.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 11:54 AM on April 20, 2020

OLDEST BOOK
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:39 PM on April 1, 2020

I watched Alexander Ekman's "Play" last night, and found it soothing.
and I think The Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense" is wonderful, distracting fun.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 5:09 AM on March 22, 2020

I am astounded and horrified that [business fiction] seems to be an actual genre . . .

I spent a good part of last year reading Atlas Shrugged; it was my bedtime reading and I usually only got through a page or so of its incredibly bad prose before dropping off. But I waded all the way through it. It is hilaribad. But not funny enough to repay the effort. And that economy! The trains! The magic metal!… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:18 AM on March 18, 2020

"Books don't get better; at best they don't get worse."

Discuss. I would like to know about books that contravene this rule, and get better after starting off badly.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 10:31 AM on March 18, 2020

Limbo

trope ... cheese, and voluntary amputation

Limbo
Limburger
Limb-o


I see what you did there
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:58 PM on March 18, 2020

Middlemarch Madness!
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:15 PM on March 18, 2020

This was posted to the Front Page today: COVID-19 Global Real-time Visualizations
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 7:30 AM on March 7, 2020

Bill & Ted was his Gilbert Grape, Speed his Titanic
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 2:38 PM on February 20, 2020

Also, it's Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil Predicts an Early Spring, and Bill Murray gets a new orange Jeep
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 1:16 PM on February 2, 2020

MetaFilter: one of the reasons I spend all my time in Modern Dark
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:59 PM on January 31, 2020

Somebody set us up the mob.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:45 PM on December 10, 2019

Atom Eyes: "I was going to suggest MeTooFilter, but then I thought better of it."

MeTwoFilter

or maybe

MetaFilter II: Electric Boogaloo
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 4:20 AM on November 24, 2019

I'm fine with negative comments in FanFare. It's a public service. Thoughtful criticism is usually more useful than hot takes, of course.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 12:42 PM on November 16, 2019

The Underpants Monster: "It's like 900 degrees outside. My name is useless unless it's cold.
posted by mittens 2 ¾ hours ago

You could do a post on cute kitties with white paws."

Or on beefcake/hotties from a renowned university.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 3:50 PM on October 8, 2019

Burhanistan: "Mega Thread! Mega Thread! Mega Thread!"

Two threads enter, one thread leaves.
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 9:46 AM on September 25, 2019

MetaFilter: I should probably give in to it
posted to MetaTalk by chavenet at 8:11 AM on August 27, 2019