Anything goes on MetaTalk? June 26, 2007 2:15 PM   Subscribe

I was a bit confused by Jessamyn's post. Are insults really kosher in MetaTalk?
posted by desjardins to Etiquette/Policy at 2:15 PM (122 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

Yeah. Didn't you know, fuckhead?
posted by sveskemus at 2:20 PM on June 26, 2007


Beaten to it. I suddenly wish I hadn't posted in this thread at all.
posted by sveskemus at 2:22 PM on June 26, 2007


Cheers, fuckface!
posted by kosem at 2:22 PM on June 26, 2007


Beaten to it.

Indeed.
posted by kosem at 2:22 PM on June 26, 2007


I'm just curious as to what was deleted. I still don't know if docpops was getting all sarcastic on my ass.
posted by tastybrains at 2:24 PM on June 26, 2007


Are insults really kosher in MetaTalk?

Evidently, and they are also cricket in the UK and fairplay in the US*.

* Void where prohibited, poopypants.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:24 PM on June 26, 2007


There are different camps on to what degree insults are or should be allowable/desirable/etc, but Metatalk is definitely more tolerant of it than the rest of the site, so if you're going to call someone a shitnozzle this is the best place on the site to do it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:26 PM on June 26, 2007


I'm not sure that I'd say that they're kosher in MetaTalk as much as they're the de facto currency of MetaTalk.
posted by CRM114 at 2:26 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Halal, desjardins, the memo has been sent out multiple times so there are no excuses, the correct terminology is halal.
posted by Meatbomb at 2:27 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Their are different camps on to what degree insults are or should be allowable/desirable/etc, but Metatalk is definitely more tolerant of it than the rest of the site, so if you're going to call someone a shitnozzle this is the best place on the site to do it.
posted by cortex at 4:26 PM on June 26


Eat more giant doughnuts, fatty me.
posted by dios at 2:28 PM on June 26, 2007


Christ, what an asshole.
posted by grouse at 2:29 PM on June 26, 2007 [3 favorites]


Fuck every last one of you shit-gurgling bilge-fuckers!
posted by loquacious at 2:29 PM on June 26, 2007 [2 favorites]


What are you, stupid?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 2:31 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


You all gots um stinky underwear and r stoopid and have stinkhead and stinkbreath and r uglee and oh yeah you r dum.
posted by The Deej at 2:31 PM on June 26, 2007


Bilge-fucking and shit-gurgling are most definitely haram. Stone them!!!
posted by Meatbomb at 2:32 PM on June 26, 2007


Their are different camps

Oh no you didn't!
posted by dersins at 2:33 PM on June 26, 2007


Fuck every last one of you shit-gurgling bilge-fuckers!

Your Momma's favorite song.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:33 PM on June 26, 2007


Halal, desjardins, the memo has been sent out multiple times...

Ixnay, chucko--it's either glatt or mehadrin.

To paraphrase Paris Hilton, That's glatt.
posted by y2karl at 2:36 PM on June 26, 2007


I am quoting from this insightful and wise MeTa comment.
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...When I want to read about carping and complaining and why a post was deleted, and why we should kiss LanguageHat's ass, and what new features the whiny babies want, I check out MetaTalk ("The Gray"). MetaTalk is much looser in what you can post without getting flagged by some whiny bitch, because they didn't think of as funny a comment as you. Posts can still get closed, if they are doubles, or just plain stupid. And comments can still be deleted. But there is much more leeway as to what is actually "on topic." For example: if the Post is someone asking for a new feature, like, "I want a really loud sound to play anytime my comment is posted," then an "on topic" response can be anything from "Great idea!" to "What a stupid idea you jackass! Die in a fire!" Also "on topic" would be: "My butt itches," "Hey look a bunny!" and "xtians lol!!!!!"

I don't often visit the other areas, so I will defer to those losers and jerkwads to fill you in on those.

...

About the MeFi culture: every MeFite thinks he/she is sooo damn smart and cool, and that every other MeFite is a drooling, brain-damaged scumsucker, and they have no problem in saying so, in sometimes brutal and distasteful ways. So, please, please, please, do NOT take anything said to you or about you personally, it's just the way these Neanderthals are, you pus-eating maggot.
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posted by The Deej at 2:36 PM on June 26, 2007 [2 favorites]


You're Momma's favorite song Flo!
posted by OmieWise at 2:37 PM on June 26, 2007


Oh no you didn't!

Huh. Turns out you're right!
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:37 PM on June 26, 2007


ABUSE OF POWER ABUSE OF POWER
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 2:39 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Oh no you didn't!

Huh. Turns out you're right!


Ex post edito ftw.
posted by dersins at 2:39 PM on June 26, 2007


Hey look a bunny!

You assholes
posted by tastybrains at 2:39 PM on June 26, 2007


Insults are haram, or at least they should be if your mama raised you right. They are especially haram in AskMe, although with the unrelenting shitstorm of stupid questions lately (there is such a thing), insult temptation is also highest in AskMe.

Because it is arch-treif, I did not say, and would not say in the green, for example, "If I were to teleport a literal viking from a literal longboat floating in the North Atlantic in the 11th century and put him in my literal driveway with two literal buckets of water, one soapy and one clean and then give him a literal sponge, I bet he'd wash a better car than you, homo-incompetentis." But oh my how I wanted to. In the gray, it is slightly less haram, but since we like to build a fence around the guidelines, my posek advises me to watch what you say and to guard your tongue from evil.
posted by kosem at 2:43 PM on June 26, 2007 [2 favorites]


Stone them!!!

Err, ok. Got a light?
posted by loquacious at 2:43 PM on June 26, 2007


Metafilter: if you're going to call someone a shitnozzle this is the best place ...to do it
posted by metaname at 2:43 PM on June 26, 2007


I don't like the looks of that kosem fellow. Let me know if you hear of anyone's goat gone missing, yeah?
posted by loquacious at 2:45 PM on June 26, 2007


Are insults really kosher in MetaTalk?

We have a bunch of things to balance here. People get very upset if they feel that someone has insulted them and there isn't a place for them to retort in kind. This goes double if the person who is considered the insulter hasn't provided an email address in their profile. So while I'd prefer to keep insults in email or preferably mostly off the planet altogether, MeTa is where you come if someone offended your sensbilities and we won't let you vent in AskMe.

That thread in AskMe is a mess, frankly, because it dredges up some very personal feelings for a lot of people and yet some of the experts (both the this happened to me kind and the doctor kind) could be being a bit more useful and a little less snarky. Add to this that the question could have been phrased much better to start with and I've been trying pretty hard to just keep it civil or chanell people this way.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:46 PM on June 26, 2007


You may need to pull a cortex on that last comment, jessamyn.
posted by dersins at 2:49 PM on June 26, 2007


*charnels dersins*

And, for the record, from her. I learned it from watch her.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:50 PM on June 26, 2007


Use your words.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:52 PM on June 26, 2007


Let's be clear about something right now. By saying "well, if you're gonna do it, then this is the place to do it," nobody is saying that it would ever be ok to start a metatalk post by saying "For the record, desjardins is a waffle stomping, filthfucking butt muncher." Metatalk is not for specifcally starting a thread to insult someone. But if a thread ELSEWHERE gets out of hand and the tensions are a'rising, then it may be brought thisaways so that if insults happen they don't happen in ask or the blue.
posted by shmegegge at 2:52 PM on June 26, 2007


Man, I never thought of myself as the goody two-shoes type, but I can't even come up with a decent insult. The worst thing I've called someone in recent memory is a FIB, which around these parts is as common and original as "jerk."
posted by desjardins at 2:53 PM on June 26, 2007


You just did that so you could undo it, didn't you cortex?
posted by dersins at 2:54 PM on June 26, 2007


Sorry coach, I can't pitch today. I pulled a cortex.
posted by found missing at 2:54 PM on June 26, 2007


Honestly, my typing has really been in the shitter for the last few days. Typing too fast and not proofreading; stupid little errors like wrong or missing suffixes or incorrect homonyms, that sort of thing. It's kind of driving me crazy.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:57 PM on June 26, 2007


Nothing good will come of this.
posted by Dave Faris at 2:58 PM on June 26, 2007


I had to google waffle-stomping, and now wish I hadn't.
posted by desjardins at 2:58 PM on June 26, 2007


I don't like the looks of that kosem fellow. Let me know if you hear of anyone's goat gone missing, yeah?

::steals, showers with, and subsequently waffle stomps loquacious's goat::
posted by kosem at 3:00 PM on June 26, 2007


Honestly, my typing has really been in the shitter for the last few days. Typing too fast and not proofreading; stupid little errors like wrong or missing suffixes or incorrect homonyms, that sort of thing. It's kind of driving me crazy.

Welcome to my world. I have done this here for the last 3 years.
posted by dios at 3:02 PM on June 26, 2007


I FUNKED YOUR MOMS WAGNALLS
posted by quonsar at 3:08 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


About the MeFi culture: every MeFite thinks he/she is sooo damn smart and cool, and that every other MeFite is a drooling, brain-damaged scumsucker

You mean this isn't the case, you fucking Neaderthals?
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 3:27 PM on June 26, 2007


Mitch: I've had a hell of a day and even worse week. And all I want to do is get some fucking sleep.

Beanie: Whoa. Whoa. Why the F-ing? Why in front of the kid? All ya gotta do is say "earmuffs" to him, and you can say "Fuck, shit, bitch."

Frank: Cock. Balls.

Beanie: I'm just trying to make a point, Frank. You don't have to celebrate it.
posted by Durin's Bane at 3:39 PM on June 26, 2007


"You may need to pull a cortex"

Later. Cinemax is still showing family fare.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:01 PM on June 26, 2007


Oh, and:

Metafilter: I have done this here for the last 3 years.

Shitnozzle.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:02 PM on June 26, 2007


Jessamyn didn't post shit, dumbass, she COMMENTED IN a thread which was...

Ah, I give up.
posted by snsranch at 4:29 PM on June 26, 2007


I hate all of you needle dick lock picking bug fuckers.
posted by eyeballkid at 5:00 PM on June 26, 2007


you all suck
posted by oaf at 5:11 PM on June 26, 2007


Go eat a bowl of fuck.
posted by aubilenon at 5:12 PM on June 26, 2007


You are the Crown of Creation,









jerx.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:16 PM on June 26, 2007


#@!*%@!!!
posted by yhbc at 5:18 PM on June 26, 2007


TINY TOY TUBAS
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:29 PM on June 26, 2007


I hate all of you needle dick lock picking bug fuckers.

Sure, you say that now. But just wait until someone has to break your ass out of the ol' Roach Motel. Then you'll be all, "Where the Hell are all the needle dick lock pickers?! And we'll be all, "Fucking bugs. Get your own ass out!"
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:34 PM on June 26, 2007 [3 favorites]


Are insults really kosher in MetaTalk?

It depends on how you kill them, Captain Bugfuck.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 5:34 PM on June 26, 2007 [2 favorites]


Well sugar! there is so much by gosh and golly bad language in this thread that my sensibilities are all aflutter.

I mean, people calling each-other such foul things as scat-nozzles. I think I might just faint.
posted by quin at 5:51 PM on June 26, 2007


*blinks*

That was weird. Any of you cunts just hear an really annoying high pitched whine? I think I might have blacked out there for a moment. Prolly one of you pig fuckers roofied me.

*shakes head to clear it*

Fuck all you fucking fuckers.
posted by quin at 5:54 PM on June 26, 2007


CRITIC!!!
posted by Divine_Wino at 6:07 PM on June 26, 2007


quin I can't believe you used the c-word, I gave up using it some time ago, nowadays I spell it kunt.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 6:33 PM on June 26, 2007


I'm confused: don't the Nights of Malted have something to do with this?
posted by davy at 6:51 PM on June 26, 2007


Is this the right room for an argument?
posted by wendell at 7:03 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Your mom is kosher in MetaTalk.
posted by boo_radley at 7:19 PM on June 26, 2007


Yeah. She was. Not so much anymore.
posted by quin at 7:20 PM on June 26, 2007


Is this the right room for an argument?

I told you once.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:35 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Shut your festering gob, you tit!
posted by the other side at 8:01 PM on June 26, 2007


I'm sorry–is this a single insulting exchange, or the full thread dust-up?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:42 PM on June 26, 2007


I will not get suckered into this crass collection of unimaginative insults, you assholes.
posted by Astro Zombie at 8:43 PM on June 26, 2007


Are insults really kosher in MetaTalk?
You could fit the entire contents of MetaTalk that doesn't revolve around one kind of insult or another on the point of a pin. Dickwad.
posted by dg at 8:44 PM on June 26, 2007


*checks to see if wendell has a black eye*

I mean, ROU_Xenophobe did tell him once already...
posted by quin at 8:57 PM on June 26, 2007


Actually wendell, I believe arguments are down the hall. This room is twits wildly throwing potty mouth language at eachother for supposed comedic effect.
posted by miss lynnster at 9:10 PM on June 26, 2007


I got your supposed comic effect right here, lady.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:20 PM on June 26, 2007


No flameout? Lame.
posted by chunking express at 9:22 PM on June 26, 2007


what'd I miss?
posted by docpops at 9:26 PM on June 26, 2007


*calls everyone in this thread a doodyface*
posted by amyms at 9:44 PM on June 26, 2007


Is that "supposed comedic effect" in your pocket or are you just happy to see me, cortex? ;)
posted by miss lynnster at 9:58 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


He means his penis.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:15 PM on June 26, 2007


Yeah, it was a little joke.
posted by dg at 10:18 PM on June 26, 2007 [1 favorite]


Are you saying cortex's penis is little? That's kind of an insult, right?
posted by miss lynnster at 10:20 PM on June 26, 2007


Only if you think having a small penis is a bad thing.

*sniggers*
posted by dg at 10:27 PM on June 26, 2007


Small penis, or really huge balls?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:34 PM on June 26, 2007


Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up Enzyte...

It's quite the dick-measuring contest in here. Wait. How did miss lynnster come in fourth place?
posted by wendell at 10:46 PM on June 26, 2007


Oh, have we got onto discussing penis size now? EXCELLENT.

Because my penis is quite large.
posted by Meatbomb at 10:51 PM on June 26, 2007


Yeah yeah meatbomb, we know. It's been flagged numerous times.
posted by miss lynnster at 10:55 PM on June 26, 2007


Yeah, I wanna respect your meat, but every indication suggests that it's a bomb. Not The Bomb, but just A bomb.

Sorry sir, your name suggests that you need to lose.
posted by quin at 11:01 PM on June 26, 2007


You people are too easy.
posted by wendell at 11:16 PM on June 26, 2007


That's what your momma said last night, wendell.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 11:30 PM on June 26, 2007


Sorry, if you want to insert momma jokes, you're going to have to go through channels. You'll need to submit Form 18URMA to Mayor Curley, and he'll get to it just as soon as he can. (Your momma says he has a backlog.)
posted by taz at 11:45 PM on June 26, 2007


She did mention that one of her clients had shat his pants, now that I think of it.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 12:00 AM on June 27, 2007


Well, at least that's better than him shitting her pants.
posted by philomathoholic at 12:29 AM on June 27, 2007


I'd like to see an insult thread (like this one) on MetaTalk with no overtly foul language in it. I don't think you clodhoppers can do it.
posted by chuckdarwin at 2:31 AM on June 27, 2007


Is covertly foul language okay? fucker
posted by aubilenon at 2:41 AM on June 27, 2007


aubilenon just said "fucker". Who do I report that to?
posted by Meatbomb at 2:54 AM on June 27, 2007


none of you has any brans
posted by Sparx at 3:39 AM on June 27, 2007


I came in here with the intent of saying something nasty, and I can't bring myself to.

fuckers

ok I lied.
posted by exlotuseater at 5:37 AM on June 27, 2007


I'm with stupid.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 5:56 AM on June 27, 2007


干脆是一群傻屄
posted by Abiezer at 6:22 AM on June 27, 2007


Abiezer

I got the "simply a group of silly ....."

I can't seem to translate the last character, which annoys me no end, you good for nothing cock knocker...
posted by the_epicurean at 6:35 AM on June 27, 2007


So, vaginas/cunts eh...

Thanks shitnose
posted by the_epicurean at 6:38 AM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]


Ебена мать! Идите в пизду на переплавку!
posted by languagehat at 6:39 AM on June 27, 2007


Fuckin' commie!
posted by OmieWise at 7:00 AM on June 27, 2007


OK, I just added "waffle stomping" to the ever-growing list of things-I-learned-at-MetaFilter-that-I-didn't-want-to-know. It's right up there with tubgirl. Thanks, asswipe.
posted by RussHy at 7:11 AM on June 27, 2007


OK, it was funny for a minute or 2, but the insults have gotten out of hand, you shitheads.
posted by The Deej at 7:21 AM on June 27, 2007


Could you all stop insulting me please? That whole "Yo Momma" thing was never very funny, and it's really sexist. thanks, you unwashed, cerebrally-challenged, self-exalting, bobbleheaded, dog-faced goons. Thou art baser than a cutpurse.
posted by Mom at 7:35 AM on June 27, 2007 [3 favorites]


He started it!
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:02 AM on June 27, 2007


Mom always liked you better.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:05 AM on June 27, 2007


You lower your voice!
posted by shmegegge at 8:12 AM on June 27, 2007


Don't make me pull this website over!
posted by OmieWise at 8:13 AM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]


Mom FTW.
posted by chuckdarwin at 9:11 AM on June 27, 2007


Mom did you work last night? Or did you stay at home and rest your snatch? I noticed the crotch of your pants is beginning to look like Jiffy Pop.
posted by dios at 9:15 AM on June 27, 2007


Had a good look while you were down there, huh?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:48 AM on June 27, 2007


Someone ate a bag of dicks in here. I smells it on their breath.
posted by Bageena at 11:50 AM on June 27, 2007


Oh. I thought they were free samples.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:56 AM on June 27, 2007 [1 favorite]


CONSARN YOU ALL.
posted by everichon at 12:54 PM on June 27, 2007


CUMBARN POO BALL.
posted by jefbla at 1:33 PM on June 27, 2007


Anda la puta que te pari, pendejo.
posted by dios at 2:04 PM on June 27, 2007


I don't...like you.
posted by Catfry at 2:10 PM on June 27, 2007


If ever a thread needed inline images back, this is it.
posted by davejay at 4:46 PM on June 27, 2007


CUMBARN POO BALL.

If ever a thread needed inline images back, this is it.

You. Sick. Fuck.
posted by spiderwire at 1:03 AM on June 28, 2007


It depends on who you the person being insulted is, when they became a member, how well-known they are, which of the admins is reading the thread, the insulter's personal reputation or lack thereof, and the phases of the moon.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:44 AM on June 28, 2007


I'll phase your moon, you sonofa...
posted by OmieWise at 6:33 AM on June 28, 2007


And whether or not they were being just completely out of line. Don't forget that one.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:41 AM on June 28, 2007


CORTEX IS OPPRESSIN ME
posted by spiderwire at 1:31 PM on June 28, 2007


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