War threads are exhausting

April 3, 2003 11:50 PM

Tired of war-related threads? Yes. Tired of non-war threads that feel the need to make reference to the fact that they are not war-related? Yes again.
posted by nthdegx to Etiquette/Policy at 11:50 PM (33 comments total)

I almost stuck this in the bugs category. It bugs me. Certainly, I was unable to find as many examples of this as I had the impression of there being. Perhaps I'm seeking validation with my first snarky comment. Anyway: - I'm aware this is not a big deal. Is this the first friday-fun MeTa post? I'm off to make a USS Enterprise out of a floppy disk.
posted by nthdegx at 11:55 PM on April 3, 2003

Now I know why the pancake meme started.
posted by mischief at 12:41 AM on April 4, 2003

Thread derailed in one comment. By the poster.

Gotta be a record, or something.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 12:58 AM on April 4, 2003

There are other, older threads in metatalk about this sort of metacommentary. It's lame in whatever form it takes, and in the past I've taken to deleting parts of posts featuring people talking about their post, why they posted it, or warning others to go easy on their first post.

Don't talk about your post within your post, just freaking post something good and be done with it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 1:16 AM on April 4, 2003

Case closed
posted by Eirixon at 1:51 AM on April 4, 2003

Oh, so it turns out it *is* actually quite serious. The self-derailment stems from my pathological need to preempt criticism. Many apologies.
posted by nthdegx at 3:28 AM on April 4, 2003

Actually, nthdegx, I was going to make the same metatalk post, sort of. It bugs the hell out of me too, the Invasion is the new "it vibrates". Feh.
posted by signal at 4:56 AM on April 4, 2003

...the need to make reference to the fact that they are not war-related...

*sniff* I resemble that remark.
Damned if you post war, damned if you don't (and say so).
Somebody tagline that, eh?
posted by Shane at 6:35 AM on April 4, 2003

I've never seen this place in such dire need of a mental margarita.
posted by MrBaliHai at 6:45 AM on April 4, 2003

Or maybe, rather than taglining my comment above, somebody say, "We'll bitch loudly about any and every microscopic detail because uncomfortable things have crawled up our asses and we're just pissy."

Then somebody else tagline that.

No offense, nthdegx : )
posted by Shane at 6:46 AM on April 4, 2003

I've never seen this place in such dire need of a mental margarita.

Let's just have a big fight instead. Come on, I've been spoiling for one for minutes.
posted by walrus at 7:00 AM on April 4, 2003

MetaFilter: Just freaking post something good and be done with it.

I've never seen this place in such dire need of a mental margarita Maalox.
posted by Ufez Jones at 7:14 AM on April 4, 2003

Let's just have a big fight instead.

Shut up, jerk.
posted by rocketman at 7:16 AM on April 4, 2003

Metafilter: Taken Way Too Seriously Since July 1999...

"I'm aware this is not a big deal. Is this the first friday-fun MeTa post?"
posted by nthdegx at 7:33 AM on April 4, 2003

Let's just have a big fight instead

Nah. Hugs and oral sex. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
posted by MrBaliHai at 7:57 AM on April 4, 2003

"We'll bitch loudly about any and every microscopic detail because uncomfortable things have crawled up our asses and we're just pissy."

I've really been thinking lately that this is the whole point. We'd like to deny it. We know it's not *suppose* to be the reason we enjoy the site. But seriously, don't we all enjoy the site because it allows us to scowl and roll our eyes and tsk-tsk? Isn't this really just an elaborately disguised and over engineered kvetch.com?
posted by y6y6y6 at 8:08 AM on April 4, 2003

MetaFilter: an elaborately disguised and over engineered . . .

Nah.
posted by yhbc at 8:14 AM on April 4, 2003

Tired of splitting hairs? No. Tired of splitting teeny tiny hairs? Nuh-uh. Tired of splitting hairs plucked from a dust mite's leg under an electron microscope with nanobot laser scalpels? No. No. No.
Tired of being easily irritated? No.... Hey, fuck you buddy!

Tried of complaining?

Never.
posted by y2karl at 9:33 AM on April 4, 2003

Complaining is the new Rock.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:50 AM on April 4, 2003

Drunk is the new Happy.
posted by FreezBoy at 10:07 AM on April 4, 2003

Grey background is the new blue background?

(i.e. "Hmm. I better take this to MetaTalk.")
posted by padraigin at 10:44 AM on April 4, 2003

Stupid is the new dumb.
posted by elwoodwiles at 12:12 PM on April 4, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld is the new Robert McNamara.

(Sorry, I just wanted to piss off the people endlessly whining about Iraq threads.)
posted by mark13 at 12:49 PM on April 4, 2003

Somehow I knew, when I went to bed at 5:30AM, that this thread, despite it's obvious logical death after Matt's comment, would continue to receive more input.

I know it's not big deal, so maybe I shouldn't even be commenting on the issue at all--or maybe my commenting is furthering what I'm commenting against, in an ironic entanglement of good intent and poor execution!--or maybe this is an example of Friday-Fun-MT commenting. Maybe I shouldn't have posted this at all?! What am I doing? WHO AM I? WHY AM I HERE?!

/existential crisis.
posted by The God Complex at 1:50 PM on April 4, 2003

Thank you, Admiral Stockdale!

Give our best to H. Ross Perot--whose name anagrams to Short Poser. *rimshot*
posted by y2karl at 1:53 PM on April 4, 2003

scratch that apostrophe
posted by The God Complex at 1:55 PM on April 4, 2003

What am I doing? WHO AM I? WHY AM I HERE?!

Once in a while,
I'm standing here, doing something.
And I think,
"What in the world am I doing here?"
It's a big surprise.

-- D.H. Rumsfeld
posted by homunculus at 2:21 PM on April 4, 2003

Donald Rumsfeld is the new Robert McNamara.

McNamara was marginally nicer to people around him.
posted by matteo at 3:05 PM on April 4, 2003

This is the new that.
posted by Hildago at 3:26 PM on April 4, 2003

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right?...Am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?

Rumsfeld is the new David Byrne.

Same as it ever was.
posted by wendell at 3:41 PM on April 4, 2003

Hildago wins!
posted by elwoodwiles at 4:08 PM on April 4, 2003

I'd unravel any riddle
For any individd-el
In trouble or in pain
With the thoughts I'd be thinkin'
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain
posted by y2karl at 9:10 PM on April 4, 2003

MetaFilter is the new Pinkerton's Detective Agency.
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 9:59 PM on April 4, 2003