Comments on: Please kill my thread

Please kill my thread

Lord_Pall — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:39:55 -0800

Hey can someone kill my thread?

Not to be a pain, but it went over like an anvil. I don't particularly want to debate methods of incarceration or whatever, and all it's going to do is engender ill will. Tonally, it's not even vaguely appropriate for a real discussion of incarceration and public safety. As thus, any chance to get it expunged?

By: amro

amro — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:41:59 -0800

Why didn't you just memail the admins?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:42:24 -0800

Sure, you can just email us next time.

By: Lord_Pall

Lord_Pall — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:45:49 -0800

Ah. good to know.

Note to JohnMC if you read this:

I was polite, civil and reasonable and you turned it into a "you need to be rehabilitated because you are retarded" personal attack.

You were way out of line, especially within the context of what I tried to keep a very civil and polite discussion.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:49:10 -0800

If you want jonmc to see this, it might make the most sense to drop him an email, at which point just discussing it with him over email would probably be better anyway.

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:50:34 -0800

Turnaround from "Hey, I can memail people!" to "Why don't I castigate someone in public rather than in memail": three lines of whitespace.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:51:11 -0800

Just be happy you didn't mention anything about music, the 80's, or 80's music. Then he'd have really let you have it.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:52:25 -0800

Note for the future:

Threads, while started by individual posters, do not belong to individual posters, and as such one ought not attempt to control them or steer their direction.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:52:27 -0800

Dukakis is a Finn!

By: sciurus

sciurus — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:52:29 -0800

This can probably be closed then, right?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:54:41 -0800

You were way out of line, especially within the context of what I tried to keep a very civil and polite discussion.

I find people who think triple murders being released to be 'funny,' offensive. Forgive me.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:55:26 -0800

shakespeherian, this is not the purpose of MetaTalk. Please MeMail everyone who will ever post a thread on MetaFilter if you want to tell them something.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:55:45 -0800

But we need to discuss Dukakis!

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:58:05 -0800

why, did the doctor diagnose you with it?

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:59:35 -0800

But we need to discuss Dukakis!

I'm against letting him out of prison.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:01:24 -0800

You can't really call it murder - killing the democratic party was more like a mercy killing.

By: rtha

rtha — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:02:00 -0800

There have been heated discussions about whether or not people who have been caught with minor amounts of drugs should be arrested, let along jailed, and you're surprised that your post was creating discussion on who should be locked up? Come on.

Tonally, it's not even vaguely appropriate for a real discussion of incarceration and public safety.

There is no tone in cyberspace.

I take it you were expecting a series of "Oh, wow. *dark chuckle*" comments? Good luck with that.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:02:29 -0800

I wish someone would write a Greasemonkey script to auto-insert a rimshot after specific MetaTalk comments.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:03:01 -0800

jonmc, having read it.. I think what he was trying to convey was 'funny-peculiar' not 'funny-ha ha'.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:04:06 -0800

Either way, it was a stupid post.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:06:16 -0800

Oh, wow.
*dark chuckle*

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:07:38 -0800

Fact: Dark Chuckle was Alice Cooper's second-best album.

Discuss.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:08:04 -0800

roll truck roll, I am now extremely embarrassed because you called me out publicly instead of MeMailing me. Please do not address me directly ever again.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:08:57 -0800

Would somebody please tell mr_crash_davis that I'm not speaking to him?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:10:04 -0800

*talks to the hand. of justice*

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:11:40 -0800

*rimshot*

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:19:07 -0800

Well I'm no longer talking to any of you. Except right now when I'm telling you I'm not talking to you. And maybe later to remind you that I'm still not talking to you.

Unless I forget.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:20:47 -0800

Will some please tell me to pass the salt? I'm no longer talking to myself.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:24:05 -0800

mr_crash_davis: cortex isn't speaking to you.

By: Pants!

Pants! — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:25:51 -0800

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:27:19 -0800

Please delete Pants!'s comment, and the next comment after this one.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:27:50 -0800

(Not this one)

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:28:06 -0800

I'm going to give Mister_A one million dollars!

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:30:15 -0800

So I was out at a fancy Mother's Day Brunch with dear ol' mom on Sunday.
I needed salt for my eggs.
So I asked her to pass the salt, only it came out as ...
"YOU RUINED MY LIFE YOU MEAN OLD &^%&%$#%#%#@!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:35:42 -0800

You missed the whole setup for the joke!

By: quin

quin — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:41:00 -0800

Lord_Pall, in your now deleted thread, you said:

Don't think so. He just runs off from prison. And that one hostage situation.

I love this line. Seriously love it. Because, I read it as a completely earnest effort to explain why the post was not meant to be a dark look and the failings of incarceration, and instead was a sort of wry nod towards "hey, this guy keeps escaping, and they keep letting him out, weird!"

But what's great is that ending to the sentence; the sort of off-handed, 'oh yeah, there was that one thing...' is perfect.

I'm totally going to steal it.

"Yeah, I just quit my job. No big deal. Well, other than the fire... and the beheading."

By: stubby phillips

stubby phillips — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:41:22 -0800

shouldn't it be "Pants'!"?

just sayin'.

By: R. Mutt

R. Mutt — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:46:02 -0800

I figured everyone knew it...

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:49:57 -0800

How many Vietnam veterans does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

YOU DON'T KNOW YOU WEREN'T THERE

By: stubby phillips

stubby phillips — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:51:09 -0800

Kill my thread. Please.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:52:49 -0800

damn, deleted before i could add the obligatory anal rape joke.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:05:46 -0800

Which would have gone well with my "What's the closest thing to a fish's asshole?" joke.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:06:38 -0800

a bicycle.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:20 -0800

Dr-Baa: "I wish someone would write a Greasemonkey script to auto-insert a rimshot after specific MetaTalk comments."

Will this do? via

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:09:48 -0800

Yesterday my 10 year old niece came running into the room and breathlessly asked "What has four wheels and flies?"

"A garbage truck," I said.

"Aww, you've heard it."

"What's black and white and read all over?" I asked her.

"It's either a nun in a blender or a nun with a spear through her," she replied.

I've never been so proud.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:26:38 -0800

*dark chuckle*
posted by Floydd
------
Fact: Dark Chuckle was Alice Cooper's second-best album.

Dude! Dark Chuckle was by the Floydd!!!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:27:48 -0800

Hey Pink! No personal checks; I just got one for $360,000,000,000 that bounced.

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:16 -0800

Ed McMahon's gonna pay for that one, Mister_A.

I was going to hit you up for new sneakers...

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:45:37 -0800

McMahon has surrendered his 'favorite son' crown to Jack Kerouac.

The last I heard, Dukakis was serving out his term as a professor in Hawaii.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:47:13 -0800

MetaFilter: any chance to get it expunged?

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:51:02 -0800

If you find the original FPP post about a convicted mass-murderer funny, this may give you the giggles, too.

By: tkolar

tkolar — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:01:24 -0800

I didn't find the mass-murderer one funny, but I passed that Japanese one around to friends this morning. That was great!

By: psmealey

psmealey — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:10:07 -0800

Metafilter: Maybe you need rehabilitation. For brain damage.

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:20:36 -0800

Fact: Dark Chuckle was Alice Cooper's second-best album.

Second best invisible album, maybe. First best was School's Out because it had Blue Turk on it. I played that song over and over, because I wanted to learn a bass riff that was something other than the vastly overplayed Smoke on the Water. Blue Turk was way better.

Anyway: Lord Pall, not funny. And I would love it if I posted an FPP and people discussed it - you can't control the discussion after it's posted.

JonMc: I agree.

Also: dried cranberries and sun-dried tomatoes taste weird together in salad. FYI.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:33:24 -0800

Weird-funny or weird-weird?

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:37:36 -0800

Weird-al, with shades of weirding-way.

By: soundofsuburbia

soundofsuburbia — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:40:26 -0800

That is weird. That's mama weird all crazee now-weird.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:45:49 -0800

shakespeherian: "Note for the future:
Threads, while started by individual posters, do not belong to individual posters, and as such one ought not attempt to control them or steer their direction."

Agree 100% - threads should not be deleted because they are not going the way the poster intended. If that conversation was nasty enough to offend anyone, this is the wrong place for them. By a long shot.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:03:12 -0800

Yeah, to put this into context, we've had occasions where a poster asked us to remove a post that they thought was going badly or problematic and we've checked it out and seen everything as being pretty a-okay and talked them out of it.

In this case, it seemed like the thread was kind of going to pot, so deleting it wasn't something that needed a whole lot of second-guessing, but it is something we think about before letting the axe fall.

I don't know what to make of the fact that we use axes on threads and comments, but hammers on users.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:05:38 -0800

Users are more of a blunt-instrument kind of problem.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:12:57 -0800

sun-dried tomatoes taste weird together in salad

A deli near where I used to work advertised (and I quote) 'Sun-Dried Chicken Salad.' Must take a long time to sun dry an entire hen.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:20:20 -0800

Was it a Mexican deli? There actually is such a thing as carne seca de pollo.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:26:56 -0800

Korean.

By: nola

nola — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:34:59 -0800

Yeah, they can keep the sun dried poultry. I'm open minded about food but I've also seen a ckicken farm, I want my chicken cooked with hot oil and served with a biscuit and a glass of sweet tea.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:36:33 -0800

Users are more of a blunt-instrument ~~kind of problem~~.

FTFY.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:39:13 -0800

FTFY.

T!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:44:59 -0800

stfuyapd.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:45:41 -0800

I don't know what to make of the fact that we use axes on threads and comments, but hammers on users.
You're apparently some sort of clerics.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:46:13 -0800

*dries self in sun*

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:47:18 -0800

I don't know what to make of the fact that we use axes on threads and comments, but hammers on users.

Those aren't axes, they're sickles. They're COMMUNISTS!

By: Phire

Phire — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:59:41 -0800

Either that, or death itself.

I like death.

By: nonmerci

nonmerci — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:13:58 -0800

It seems that jonmc has no idea what "ridiculous" means, let alone its origins or literary function. I for one am shocked.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:15:56 -0800

I'll live. and I know what 'ridiculous,' means. I just found the post stilted, smug and obnoxious.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:26:05 -0800

So can we kill this thread now?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:31:16 -0800

yeah, let's.