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Oh wait, I had MetaFilter upside down.

michaelh — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:02:47 -0800

I object to this deletion since the double was Welsh and calling an Asda, not Belfast Irish calling what presumably is not an Asda. It would be ideal to post both in one thread as a compilation of pizza complaints but each is enjoyable to hear in its own way.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:05:33 -0800

They're identical jokes, aren't they? Guy with accent calls pizza place and complains that he asked for topping on one side, got toppings on the other side. Am I missing something?

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:06:59 -0800

Thank god I'm not a mod. How do they put up with this nonsense?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:07:15 -0800

It was a pretty meh post anyway.

By: It's Never Lurgi

It's Never Lurgi — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:07:26 -0800

It would work fine as a comment in the original post. It doesn't need it's own posting.

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:08:12 -0800

Both deserve deletion.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:09:12 -0800

They're different accents, jessamyn! Different accents!!!!!!11!1!1!eleven

By: michaelh

michaelh — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:13:43 -0800

I just think they're different conversations even though they have the same punchline, and yes, I like hearing the Belfast accent. Obviously neither are super serious posts, but it seemed like enough for some light Sunday afternoon fun with some jokes and sharing of personal anecdotes to follow. Not a big deal, though.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:16:01 -0800

It's a meme now, so the variations all belong in ONE thread, right?

Now, where do I put my Gangnam Style parody?

By: Elmore

Elmore — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:16:10 -0800

See the boys drink boots of lager,
Fuck the car into the Lagan,
See the hoodlums scream and rock,
act like you don't give a fuck.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:17:16 -0800

The accent is part of the joke?

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:17:54 -0800

Old thread is two years old.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:19:29 -0800

The accent is part of the joke?

No, it's pleasant to listen to in addition to the joke, at least for this Midwestern American.

By: Dimpy

Dimpy — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:23:26 -0800

A SLYT mystery-meat post, linking to an unamusing, already-been-done prank phone call? "Double" was a very generous deletion reason.

By: donnagirl

donnagirl — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:24:45 -0800

It may not be a strict double, but it's weak sauce and deserving of deletion, Sunday or no, accent or no. Definitely not worth a weekend Meta.

By: Namlit

Namlit — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:25:37 -0800

What "an" Asda?
Sounds like "I sent a postcard to a Microsoft".

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:28:11 -0800

AN Asda because as a chain there are more than one of them?

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:30:09 -0800

What "an" Asda?
Sounds like "I sent a postcard to a Microsoft".

"An Asda" as in "a Wallmart".

By: Namlit

Namlit — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:31:45 -0800

I'd vote for closing this up (and turning it around to open it up on the other side).

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:38:00 -0800

Objection noted. Overruled.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:41:36 -0800

It may not be a strict double

So it's not a double.

It's not a post on a subject that already has an open post or a post on a subject MeFi has been flooded by posts on, either.

It's kind of a weak sauce deletion. Just my personal preference but I'd take the presence of possible weak sauce posts over weak sauce deletions.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:52:19 -0800

"An Asda" as in "a Wallmart".

Wal*mart only has one l. The other one turned into an asshole somehow.

So it's not a double.

It's pretty double-y. I feel like the issue here is more that "double" feels like a strict binary ("It's either a double or it's not!") whereas "eh, this is not very good and we've kinda done it before" doesn't, but if I'd been on the clock at the time I'd have written just that and meant precisely the same thing.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:00:07 -0800

/shug.

Again speaking purely persinally I'd sooner not be in the business of checking two years back for posts with thematic similarities every time I post anything.

By: vozworth

vozworth — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:01:00 -0800

There are only 10 types of people. Those that understand the strict binary deletion policy and those that don't.

By: Wordshore

Wordshore — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:11:07 -0800

(Searches around YouTube for Gangnam Style parody filmed inside a pizza takeaway) (Finds none) (Slinks away from MetaFilter without posting, disconsolately)

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:38:18 -0800

I was on my way to request a deletion-cause-it-was-a-double right before it was deleted, so datapoint.

By: michaelh

michaelh — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:00:41 -0800

The users must control the means of deletion.

By: mendel

mendel — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:10:28 -0800

Okay, now that we're sure this is a stunt meta, can we close it up?

By: klarck

klarck — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:12:44 -0800

I can't wait until the election is over and we don't argue about whether every new food delivery issue deserves its own fpp.

By: strangely stunted trees

strangely stunted trees — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:16:57 -0800

I blame the new mod, whoever that turns out to be, for this fiasco. Before they began applying for the position of moderator, this sort of thing never used to happen.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:19:39 -0800

IF IT'S NOT SCOTTISH - IT'S CRAP!!!

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:21:56 -0800

I blame the new mod, whoever that turns out to be, for this fiasco.

We need to build a huge wicker ScapeMod to ensure the fertility of the harvest.

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:24:35 -0800

Er, anyhow, when it is Sean Connery calling to complain about his pizza in the most overwrought Scottish accent he can muster, I will stand up and take notice. As it is, this is sort of like "Different hipsters do the same hipster thing so it's different, right?"

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:59:24 -0800

Go ahead and close this up once my snarky comment hits 5 favorites.

TIA

By: dontjumplarry

dontjumplarry — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:05:03 -0800

Any discussion of Asda is not complete without the awesome One Day I Went To Lidl (... One Day I Went To Asda).

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:09:16 -0800

We need to build a huge wicker ScapeMod to ensure the fertility of the harvest.

NOT THE FLAGS!!!!

By: GenjiandProust

GenjiandProust — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:22:11 -0800

It's kind of a weak sauce deletion.

If you turn it over, you find the stronger sauce. And you can have it in multiple "comedy" accents!

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:29:35 -0800

The only way that second post might have stayed up is if it had been posted by uosuaq. That would have been (meta-)funny.

By: Blasdelb

Blasdelb — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:48:01 -0800

michaelh [Poster]: "The users must control the means of deletion."

OOO This sounds fun!

The theory of Metafilter may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all moderation.

From each according to his favorites, to each according to his metawhining.

MetaTalk repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Users of the MetaFilter unite; you have nothing to lose but this helpful service quietly editing out all of the embarrassing shit you say.

Grar/hoppitamoppita is the opium of the masses

If anything is certain, it is that I am myself not a Mefite

For the moderator, the website is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

A cortex deletion reason appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

The moderators will do anything for the users but get off their backs.

Moderation has always existed, but not always in a moderate form.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:50:41 -0800

I flagged it because it wasn't very good, not because it was a double.

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:54:27 -0800

We need to build a huge wicker ScapeMod to ensure the fertility of the harvest.

It's not going to bring your deleted threads back.

By: that's how you get ants

that's how you get ants — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:59:34 -0800

I don't care about whether or not this post was deleted, but SPEAKING OF funny youtube videos linked on metafilter, I watched this Whose Line video that was recently linked in an AskMe. In the comments to that video, there was a link to a 27 part Best of Whose Line youtube playlist that everyone should know about. I wanted to link to it in the original thread, but the question was not about your favorite legendary 4 hours worth of youtube viewing.

So.

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:09:26 -0800

Oh God Not The Bans, Not The Bans!!!!

By: strangely stunted trees

strangely stunted trees — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:48:41 -0800

because it wasn't very good, not because it was a double.

Wait, are we talking about the post now or the Nicolas Cage version of The Wicker Man?

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:10:26 -0800

Thank god I'm not a mod. How do they put up with this nonsense?

Like they say, "always drink in moderation"

By: Jehan

Jehan — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:26:28 -0800

Somebody should open a bar called "Moderation". Lots of folk would drink there, I'm sure.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:39:46 -0800

It's slowly dawning on me that this somehow isn't a prank MeTa.

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:52:38 -0800

Walmart is officially just "Walmart" now. They got rid of the center glyph last year and sent out a press release and everything.

Also, I like Mitchell and Webb's parodies of Lidl ads.

By: maryr

maryr — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:01:51 -0800

MetaTalk repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Spot. On.

By: dubusadus

dubusadus — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:06:19 -0800

I object that they took Vonnegut's asshole out of Wal*Mart.

By: El Sabor Asiatico

El Sabor Asiatico — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:29:46 -0800

Metafilter: Abolish all moderation.

Sorry, it had to be done!

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:04:24 -0800

Did we really need a MeTa for this? Contact form still works doesn't it? *Humph*

By: reprise the theme song and roll the credits

reprise the theme song and roll the credits — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:20:49 -0800

MetaTalk repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Sometimes within a single thread.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:17:52 -0800

arcticseal writes "Did we really need a MeTa for this? Contact form still works doesn't it? *Humph*"

You better test it arcticseal; maybe with a question about why a meta hasn't been closed/deleted.

By: double block and bleed

double block and bleed — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:14:16 -0800

No true ~~Scotsman~~ ~~Welshman~~ ~~Irishman~~ ~~MeFite~~ moderator would have let that post stand.

By: Wordshore

Wordshore — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:23:54 -0800

I object to this deletion

By: Blasdelb

Blasdelb — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:39:06 -0800

I just can't help myself,

You are horrified at our intending to do away with moderation. But in your existing society, moderation is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of moderation, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any freedom for the immense majority of the website.

By: Blasdelb

Blasdelb — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:42:48 -0800

Moderation decisions are always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Bellyachers of the world UNITE!

By: Blasdelb

Blasdelb — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:44:25 -0800

Favorites are a crystal formed of necessity in the course of the exchanges.

By: His thoughts were red thoughts

His thoughts were red thoughts — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 05:38:29 -0800

I rotated my iPad 180 degrees, but that was still a crappy one joke post, and this is still unadulterated whining.

By: Decani

Decani — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:47:10 -0800

Seriously, I think that prank is at least as old as the internet. Not a good post, double or not.

By: obscurator

obscurator — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:04:17 -0800

"Pablo honey, come to Scotland..."

By: mullacc

mullacc — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:22:42 -0800

So did they deliver a new pizza?

By: ActingTheGoat

ActingTheGoat — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:34:38 -0800

(Searches around YouTube for Gangnam Style parody filmed inside a pizza takeaway) (Finds none) (Slinks away from MetaFilter without posting, disconsolately)

I'm sure there's a dubstep remix that you can post instead.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:16:19 -0800

Like they say, "always drink in moderation"

Moderation is true Temperance.