AskMe is awesome

May 29, 2004 2:42 PM

Ask MetaFilter has been a fantastic part of my life, and I look forward to growing old with it by my side. Of course it will mature, and I'm sure that it will never be anything less than an elegant jem. However, I sincerely hope that, no matter what, there will be a way to view it exactly as it is now. Also, we've taken countless bookmarks together, I hope those will always be in the same place so that I can look back on the memories.
posted by TurkishGolds to feature requests at 2:42 PM (32 comments total)

For $59.99 mathowie will send you an entire year's worth of Ask MetaFilter for your local browsing pleasure on a high quality Tayo Yuden DVD.
N.B. The above is completely untrue.
posted by riffola at 2:55 PM on May 29, 2004

yes, the $59.99 part is untrue: with only $34.99 you can get the AskMeFi DVD, your personal 40G @metafilter.com email account (gmail suxxxx!), a Kung-Fu-Mathowie action figure, 2 edible MeFiBlue thongs and an autographed naked picture of ColdChef: all part of the MetaFilterPro Package!
posted by matteo at 3:24 PM on May 29, 2004

I like to go to smoothie king on days when I'm not feelin' so great.
posted by mcsweetie at 4:25 PM on May 29, 2004

Jem is excitement!
oooooh Jem
posted by ODiV at 5:18 PM on May 29, 2004

Seriously, what the fuck is going on here?!?
posted by Cyrano at 5:59 PM on May 29, 2004

The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.metafilter.com
posted by Space Coyote at 8:07 PM on May 29, 2004

I think he's saying, he has a lot of bookmarks and he hopes that they'll still point to the right place when AskMe is out of beta. I don't think he need fear. Assuming the archives are kept, changing all the paths would be kind of pointless.
posted by Grod at 9:21 PM on May 29, 2004

No, the real question is, what the fuck is going on here. People typically react with outrage when members post inquiries into questionably-legal practices like the circumvention of network proxies or the distribution of films via the Internet, yet "Which prescription stimulants should I illegally acquire and inject into my rectum" gets a pass? The mind colon reels.
posted by Danelope at 9:24 PM on May 29, 2004

PURPOSE OF THREAD AS YET UNCLEAR/ELOQUENT PHRASING. B++.
posted by The God Complex at 10:59 PM on May 29, 2004

Truly outrageous! Jem! Jem! Jemmmm!
posted by scarabic at 12:00 AM on May 30, 2004

I need a website to grow old with. Is there a section of Salon Personals I can use?
posted by PrinceValium at 12:03 AM on May 30, 2004

Danelope: yet "Which prescription stimulants should I illegally acquire and inject into my rectum" gets a pass?

You need to reread that thread. The OP doesn't mention prescriptions or legality or rectum in his/her question. I suggested 2C-D, which is not a scheduled chemical in the US. What's the beef?
posted by Gyan at 3:59 AM on May 30, 2004

Kudos for gracefully sidestepping the phrase "where's the beef," which would have only lead to the most obvious, scatological remarks. Would have, at least, if I saw them before anyone else.
posted by mmcg at 4:19 AM on May 30, 2004

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scatological scatological

I just like the word.
posted by ashbury at 6:15 AM on May 30, 2004

You are the very model of a modern scatalogical.
posted by cortex at 8:31 AM on May 30, 2004

The OP doesn't mention prescriptions or legality or rectum in his/her question.

It was a deliberately facetious statement based on the resulting content on the thread. Allow me to restate:

"Which potentially (though perhaps not explicitly) illegal and medically/scientifically-unproven chemical substances should I consume in order to maintain energy and focus?"

In which case, the answer is obvious: Red Bull.
posted by Danelope at 9:18 AM on May 30, 2004

a fantastic part of my life... growing old with it by my side... never be anything less than an elegant jem...

two possibilities:

a) you are really really really gullible and easily impressed by carbon copy sites in different colors.

b) you are really really really gullible and easily impressed by carbon copy sites in different colors.
posted by quonsar at 11:00 AM on May 30, 2004

Danelope,

in any case, what's to be outraged about?
posted by Gyan at 11:07 AM on May 30, 2004

I am not outraged, Gyan, but Ask MetaFilter threads involving matters of questionable legality have typically been frowned upon by the community, for the purpose of not exposing the Site Owner to potential legal ramifications and/or burning rectum.
posted by Danelope at 11:37 AM on May 30, 2004

Again, what's the questionable legality here?

The chemical is openly available and easily findable on the net. The DEA certainly knows who all have been selling it, in the US, for the past few years. The Federal Analogue Act exists. If these drugs were a significant concern, the DEA would have shut all these labs down. The fact that they haven't, means one of two things

1)The Analogue Act doesn't apply or the DEA can't find a way to shut them down.

2)The DEA doesn't care enough to shut them down. In which case, it doesn't matter. The law matters only if it is enforced. There are hundreds of silly antiquated laws, still on the books. They don't matter.
posted by Gyan at 12:10 PM on May 30, 2004

After a lot of reflection and soul-searching, I'm gonna have to go with b). Final answer.
posted by trondant at 12:22 PM on May 30, 2004

@metafilter.com email addresses is a ridiculously compelling idea
posted by mr.marx at 2:06 PM on May 30, 2004

So, what would you swap for an @metafilter.com e-mail address?
posted by dg at 4:53 PM on May 30, 2004

My virginity?
posted by mr.marx at 8:36 PM on May 30, 2004

The location of the explosives?
posted by Pretty_Generic at 8:53 PM on May 30, 2004

I just ate a cheese bento. I would have traded it for something, though.
posted by lkc at 8:56 PM on May 30, 2004

Ooh, an email address that's down half the time and complains to the sender if they send you an email containing information you had already been sent. Sounds like a winner.

Now an @metatalk.metafilter.com email address...
posted by fvw at 9:19 PM on May 30, 2004

Eactly fvw. You could have infinite repitition with a MeTa email address...

Speaking of which, does anyone know why there isn't a link to AskMe on the front page?
posted by kaibutsu at 11:29 PM on May 30, 2004

Or when new user signups will open again?
posted by lkc at 3:53 AM on May 31, 2004

kaibutsu: Yes.
posted by fvw at 4:04 AM on May 31, 2004

Forget email addresses. I want a MetaFilter postal box.

Dr. John Evans
Box #14353
MetaFilter, COM
Some Guy's Closet
209.10.108.201
posted by DrJohnEvans at 6:30 AM on May 31, 2004

To be honest, in the photo, I have all of my clothes on. But I was naked when I autographed them.
posted by ColdChef at 11:09 AM on May 31, 2004