Moratorium: SUVs, Iraq war, I/P, DC Sniper

January 21, 2003 11:41 AM

Stop the madness!! Enough SUV threads, enough Iraqi war threads, enought I/P threads, enough threads about the D.C. sniper!!!

Seriously, how bout a sidebar moratorium? Or some call out on the posting page?
posted by jonson to Etiquette/Policy at 11:41 AM (64 comments total)

and someone put an I/P link in a patent thread. kudos for innovation!
posted by quonsar at 12:04 PM on January 21, 2003

Jonson is having a very bad, terrible, no-good day! C'mere, you...

*hugs*
posted by luser at 12:20 PM on January 21, 2003

Calm down jonson. Here's a nice thread to wind down with.
posted by eyeballkid at 12:28 PM on January 21, 2003

Oooh, that hug might have been a mistake. I just noticed that on his user page jonson opines that Shane "seems very cool, although he might be gay."

How about those Cubbies!! Looking good this year, yessir!

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posted by luser at 12:29 PM on January 21, 2003

Sorry, that was shane, among other errors.
posted by luser at 12:32 PM on January 21, 2003

Just having a joke with Shane, who knows I am a fan of his. It's a link to his reaction about Stan's lesbian catfight post.

As for eyeballkid, I know, I'm so MAD!!! Damn it, people!!!!
posted by jonson at 1:05 PM on January 21, 2003

In Soviet Russia, madness be stopping YOU.
posted by yhbc at 1:05 PM on January 21, 2003

shane's not gay? But he's so pretty!!!
posted by WolfDaddy at 1:09 PM on January 21, 2003

Hmm, due to a comment about an episode of Star Trek, I have been changed from "seems very cool" to "seems cool/might be gay"? I'm not following. Unfortunately, due to past experiences with extreme PC liberals (and theatre folks), I feel uncomfortable and unable to assert my heterosexuality without sounding anti-gay.

What a predicament! Would it help if I linked to gratuitous pictures of women in french maid costumes? Or is that overcompensation? jonson, now I'll never pick up chicks on MeFi! (On the plus side, I guess I can flirt with Wolfdaddy now.)
posted by Shane at 1:13 PM on January 21, 2003

"On the plus side, I guess I can flirt with Wolfdaddy now."

Back off, you hussy. He's mine.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:16 PM on January 21, 2003

Wait, I get it--I dissed a TV ad with a hot catfight in it. Is it that good? Maybe I should watch more TV.
posted by Shane at 1:29 PM on January 21, 2003

Jeez, can't a guy even make a private joke on his own user page. Sheesh. Okay, your heterosexuality is restored, as far as my goofy list page is concerned. hama7, however, is still completely fucking nuts.
posted by jonson at 1:38 PM on January 21, 2003

God, I have a guilt complex. I feel like I've dissed gays now! I should have just left my sexuality up in the air. I mean, it was good press for Mick and Bowie, right?
posted by Shane at 1:39 PM on January 21, 2003

for some of us lucky ones, this tuesday is like a monday, but worse, and we just want our headaches to go away.
posted by yeahyeahyeahwhoo at 1:40 PM on January 21, 2003

shane, your sexuality goes up in the air every time your legs do.

~snicker~

I don't feel dissed. You and crash continue to fight over me, I'll be fine.
posted by WolfDaddy at 1:55 PM on January 21, 2003

I'm troubled by the lack of chick representation on your user page, jonson. Aren't any of the women around here interesting enough to warrant their very own mini-scrutiny? Don't any of us make "defining comments"? Do you really hate us that much?
*fights back tears*
posted by iconomy at 1:58 PM on January 21, 2003

*slaps iconomy*

Calm down woman!
posted by eyeballkid at 2:15 PM on January 21, 2003

eyeballkid: potentially abusive.
iconomy: whiner.

This is fun, jonson! Thanks!
posted by yhbc at 2:22 PM on January 21, 2003

And I just know my epitaph will one day read:

yhbc: is not quite as clever as ColdChef.
posted by yhbc at 2:24 PM on January 21, 2003

Shane's a guy??? But he didn't like the hot fightin' chix commercial. I'm confused.


Seriously, the page is just something dumb I put together on Saturday for my own reference, so that I could keep various users's comments in context ("yeah, he seems cool, but remember, that's the same guy who wanted to kill all the kittens in that other thread"). Honestly, I got nothing against women. Especially if they are silly hot & prone to catfighting.
posted by jonson at 2:26 PM on January 21, 2003

eyeballkid: potentially abusive.
iconomy: whiner.
yhbc: bitter.
posted by dg at 2:47 PM on January 21, 2003

Wow, the world of MetaFilter is a bizarre and scary place when viewed through jonson's eyes. Does anybody else imagine a real world analog where dozens of notebooks are filled with little notes to help him keep people straight?

Mail Carrier - Seems cool, but he keep looking at me funny. I think he may be stealing my European porn.

Mrs. Crabapple - Third Grade Home Room Teacher - when she bends down you can totally see down her blouse and she doesn't wear a bra - GROSS!!
posted by willnot at 3:00 PM on January 21, 2003

willnot: makes me shoot Mountain Dew Code Red out of my nose
posted by eyeballkid at 3:03 PM on January 21, 2003

eyeballkid: Has fizzy-clean nostrils and poor taste in soda.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:10 PM on January 21, 2003

Your fault for drinking that crap. :)

me3dia: fond of the hit and run.
posted by me3dia at 3:12 PM on January 21, 2003

willnot - secretly on to me. must kill.
posted by jonson at 3:15 PM on January 21, 2003

jonson: the wellspring of many recent double entendres.
posted by eyeballkid at 3:20 PM on January 21, 2003

Well, this thread is good and derailed. But seriously, do we NEED three Iraq posts in the past 24 hours, and yet another SUV post? I mean, regardless of whatever crap I've got on my user page, isn't this place more interesting than polarizing news debates?
posted by jonson at 3:27 PM on January 21, 2003

I think we all agree with you jonson, so there's not much else to say?

Except to say shane really is very pretty. And crash's ass is really very hot.
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:34 PM on January 21, 2003

jonson - No and yes.
posted by dg at 3:51 PM on January 21, 2003

You should read more of my posts johnson.

I hate a lot of things.
posted by SweetJesus at 4:36 PM on January 21, 2003

An Amish woman was driving her buggy to town when a highway patrol officer
stopped her. "I'm not going to cite you,"said the officer. "I just wanted to
warn you that the reflector on the back of your buggy is broken and it could
be dangerous."

"I thank thee", replied the Amish lady. "I shall have my husband repair it
as soon as I return home."

"Also," said the officer, "I noticed one of your reins to your horse is
wrapped around his testicles. Some people might consider this cruelty to
animals so you should have your husband check that too."

"Again I thank thee. I shall have my husband check both when I get home."

True to her word when the Amish lady got home she told her husband about
the broken reflector, and he said he would put a new one on immediately.
"Also," said the Amish woman, "The policeman said there was something wrong
with the emergency brake.
posted by Mack Twain at 4:38 PM on January 21, 2003

Now that's more like it, jonson. And funny as hell. Everybody keeps asking me what I'm laughing at.

eyeballkid - prone to violence against women

yhbc - fantasy football guy. Funny. Not coldchef funny, but who amongst us is?

willnot - Thinks he's joking, but is secretly on to me. must kill.
posted by iconomy at 5:16 PM on January 21, 2003

i/p links = intellectual property? help.
posted by donkeysuck at 5:34 PM on January 21, 2003

israel/palestine
posted by andrew cooke at 5:40 PM on January 21, 2003

and someone put an I/P link in a patent thread. kudos for innovation!

[alf] ha! [/alf]
posted by eddydamascene at 7:10 PM on January 21, 2003

jonson, obviously i haven't annoyed you sufficiently. this will be corrected.
posted by quonsar at 7:30 PM on January 21, 2003

Isn't anybody pregnant? Those threads are always fun.
posted by Hildago at 7:40 PM on January 21, 2003

Shane is kickass. He should be treasured. Of course, I've never met him in real life--he could be a total asshole in person. But I doubt it.
posted by vraxoin at 8:36 PM on January 21, 2003

*feels left out*

(on preview: maybe that's a good thing, being left out of jonson's user page.)
posted by Vidiot at 9:05 PM on January 21, 2003

*feels left out, too*

Here Jonson, let me write my description for you. Octobersurprise: Brilliant, profound, and sexy. Will surely win a Nobel prize by 2010.
posted by octobersurprise at 11:51 PM on January 21, 2003

I ? you too, vraxoin. I ? many, except those that I ?. VRAXOIN: he's not a xenophobe, he just plays one on TV.
(If this message looks asinine, it will have been because my HTML codes for hearts and clubs didn't work aces.)
posted by Shane at 7:30 AM on January 22, 2003

Heart = ?, dammit! Foiled again...
posted by Shane at 7:38 AM on January 22, 2003

my ♥ works just fine. maybe you should see a cardiologist.
posted by quonsar at 7:42 AM on January 22, 2003

Thanks, quonsar--I looked at the src code. I guess I goofed it up when I previewed it. ♥!
posted by Shane at 7:50 AM on January 22, 2003

"jonson, obviously i haven't annoyed you sufficiently. this will be corrected."

jonson is the new Miguel - Annoyingly ubiquitous, attention driven, and fluff-prone.
posted by y6y6y6 at 10:59 AM on January 22, 2003

What's up with the Old Miguel? For somebody defined by his ubiquity and need for attention, it's fascinating that he of all people could quit cold turkey.
posted by luser at 11:28 AM on January 22, 2003

MetaFilter: fluff-prone.

"Hey, f*** you, okay? I have ODD and I'm fluff-prone. Okay, f**k-o?

"F***. Just don't f***in' fluff me."
posted by Shane at 12:13 PM on January 22, 2003

Quonsar is generous enough to share his ♥ with everyone.
posted by Lynsey at 12:33 PM on January 22, 2003

Not only that, he ? his dog, too.
posted by yhbc at 12:37 PM on January 22, 2003

?
posted by yhbc at 12:38 PM on January 22, 2003

Oh, forget it. SPADE.
posted by yhbc at 12:39 PM on January 22, 2003

the dog and i both deny that.
posted by quonsar at 12:40 PM on January 22, 2003

Annoyingly ubiquitous, attention driven, and fluff-prone.
spoken like a true fluffer.
posted by quonsar at 12:52 PM on January 22, 2003

y6y6y6 - did I say something to upset you? How am I annoyingly ubiquitous - I'm only a 1.7 on the cont. index. As far as being attention driven, yeah, as guilty as the next guy, I suppose... But fluff prone, I don't even know what that means. Are my front page posts too lightweight for your tastes? Or are you referring to my penchant for keeping male pornstars penises hard between money shots?
posted by jonson at 1:01 PM on January 22, 2003

I'm running through your posts here. Top to bottom.

"As for eyeballkid, I know, I'm so MAD!!! Damn it, people!!!!"
"Sheesh. Okay, your heterosexuality is restored"
"Shane's a guy??? But he didn't like the hot fightin' chix commercial."
"If my member went missing, the last thing I'd......"
"Dude, the 14K club is supposed to be......"
"Hey - ain't nothin' wrong with a little Bump and Grind!!"
"I personally suffer from RDCNBD"

Pure chat.

Sure, others are quite chatty here, but I guess their chat/substance ratio is a bit better. Just my opinion. I don't know why anyone would give that any credence.
posted by y6y6y6 at 1:53 PM on January 22, 2003

My bad, I guess I won't. For the record, I liked Miguel, so I'm not too offended by the comment, although I feel like those are bigger shoes than I could fill.
posted by jonson at 2:16 PM on January 22, 2003

Smoking jacket. It's still too early to be talking about "replacing" Miguel, but when and if the time comes the proper metaphoric thing to "fill" will be a smoking jacket.

(/chat)
posted by yhbc at 2:41 PM on January 22, 2003

Jonson: chatty fellow.

Glad nobody's looked at my chat ratio yet.
posted by Shane at 2:47 PM on January 22, 2003

I miss Miguel!
posted by timeistight at 2:51 PM on January 22, 2003

Following jonson's brilliant and fun example, I have just completed my own list of MeFites in my profile.
posted by Shane at 3:18 PM on January 22, 2003

Boooourns.

Now I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic when you say "Brilliant and fun". At first, I took it on the level, since it is, undeniably fun, although far from brilliant. Now, I question...

Shane: makes fun of me?
posted by jonson at 3:26 PM on January 22, 2003

No sarcasm!
posted by Shane at 3:28 PM on January 22, 2003

Shane: back in my good books.
posted by jonson at 3:33 PM on January 22, 2003