Another ask site

July 7, 2007 8:23 PM

Another Ask site appears: Fluther. Fluther. I'm sure it is no AskMe.
posted by k8t to MetaFilter-related at 8:23 PM (29 comments total)

Barf...

Tapping into our collective is like extending your entire network of knowledge. And Fluther lets you share your massive brainpower with others.
posted by k8t at 8:25 PM on July 7, 2007

I messed the link up. Sorry!
posted by k8t at 8:34 PM on July 7, 2007

While Googling earlier in the day, I discovered a question site called AnswerBag.com. Now I know that Clinton Kelly is, in fact, gay.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:43 PM on July 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

I don't care about that, but I need another site for Internet drama. Metatalk is a little slow sometimes.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 8:45 PM on July 7, 2007

Sex with jellyfish. It will surpass AskMe and Yahoo by Q4 2007.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:45 PM on July 7, 2007

sexwithjellyfish.com is available. ya know, just in case.
posted by puke & cry at 8:48 PM on July 7, 2007

Jellyfish look really good with glasses. They should wear them more often.
posted by iconomy at 8:49 PM on July 7, 2007

I don't know, it seemed ok to me. One of the questions was actually really helpful. Not the Jellyfish one. A decent place to go to ask that second question after you've used you one around here.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 8:49 PM on July 7, 2007

"Clinton Kelly is, in fact, gay."

"Shut up!"

(I had to look up who he is, then his co-star, to find a quote from her; I wish WNTW would make ME over, though it'd require major surgery.)
posted by davy at 8:53 PM on July 7, 2007

This isn't really quite worthy of a mefi post, but here's something for you.
posted by Burhanistan at 8:54 PM on July 7, 2007

Please don't let her get me.
posted by davy at 9:04 PM on July 7, 2007

Straight out of Resident Evil.
posted by puke & cry at 9:12 PM on July 7, 2007

I don't care about that, but I need another site for Internet drama. Metatalk is a little slow sometimes.

Agreed. Or maybe we could have more flameouts and huge horrible arguments here? I don't ask for much.
posted by blacklite at 9:13 PM on July 7, 2007

Tapping into our collective is like extending your entire network of knowledge. And Fluther lets you share your ...

FAILS TO ANSWER THE QUESTION!
FLAGGED FOR DELETION!

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 9:33 PM on July 7, 2007 [3 favorites]

Fluther? Sounds like something that you do do with Santorum after hot, gay, sex.
posted by delmoi at 9:51 PM on July 7, 2007 [3 favorites]

"It took me 3 hours to fluther the Santorum!"

"Honey, will you please fluther up the Santorum? I did it last time."
posted by k8t at 9:55 PM on July 7, 2007

I happened across Ask Me via Google for the first time the other day. It felt warm and fuzzy ...and like a frozen pea in my finger. Ask says it's a ganglion.

Anyway, we've got the jump on those flutherbutts. flutherknuckles? Must devise derogatory term...


A fluther is a group of jellyfish, like a gaggle of geese (or a taint of tilapia)

Yeah, I want guidance from a group of jellyfish, or something like a taint.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:14 PM on July 7, 2007

heh, they only have a collective - we have a whole damn hive ... with a mind.
posted by madamjujujive at 6:07 AM on July 8, 2007

I put "Red Shoe Diaries" in the answer box, and there's no post button. What a crock.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 6:13 AM on July 8, 2007

Must devise derogatory term...

Fluthermuckers? "English, fluthermucker! Do you speak it?!"
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 8:19 AM on July 8, 2007

Or maybe we could have more flameouts and huge horrible arguments here? I don't ask for much.

blacklite, you fluther!!! How dare you demand such a thing!
posted by yohko at 9:34 AM on July 8, 2007

Fluther? I don't even KNOW her!
Ba-dum-bum.
Thank you, don't forget to tip your waitresses.
posted by miss lynnster at 12:07 PM on July 8, 2007

Let the age-old debate be put to bed: bear vs monkey?
posted by meehawl at 12:45 PM on July 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

Yeah, I saw this site a while back and put in in my Flickr stream and ranted a little about it - the cofounder responded to me, which was nice to do. My frustration isn't so much with them but with any startup which thinks they can take on established players without having anything particularily new to offer. It's the same thing in the video sharing arena - you've got to be offering a lot more to go up against YouTubeGoogle, no? And nine times out of ten they don't really have anything different. Ah well... what can ya do. Me, I came to MeFi for the knowledge and ended up staying for the snark (and the knowledge, and the users), amongst other things.
posted by rmm at 5:51 PM on July 8, 2007

Could this site compete with askme? Nothing could be Flurther from the truth. Ah ha-ha.
posted by boo_radley at 8:49 AM on July 9, 2007

Brand loyalty is silly.
posted by Burhanistan at 9:08 AM on July 9, 2007

Also, did anyone else catch the yahoo APIs loading on fluther?
posted by Burhanistan at 9:09 AM on July 9, 2007

"Jellyfish look really good with glasses. They should wear them more often."

But they don't look good in hats.
posted by youngergirl44 at 8:04 PM on July 9, 2007

Dude... I had no idea who Clinton Kelly was, other than knowing that I had a high school classmate of the same name. Being nearly 24, I freaked out a little, thinking that all of my former classmates are going on to do fabulous things while I sit here, poor and degree-less. It was a relief to find out that the Clinton Kelly referenced is, in fact, 38, and not 24.
posted by po at 5:35 PM on July 10, 2007