Comments on: Death of Reagan observed on Metafilter

Death of Reagan observed on Metafilter

vacapinta — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:11:59 -0800

The Media will be inundated (if it isn't already) with retrospectives on Reagan. I don't need Metafilter front page posts help me find them. Thank you.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:30:23 -0800

We in turn will be inundated.

Can we try to keep it all in one thread, for those of us (yank and non-yank alike) who tend to avoid said newsfilter-y hagiographics/iconoclastics (geys a bit polar, dunnit?).

No ban. Just self restraint.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:34:24 -0800

A simple "Discuss Reagan Here" link on the sidebar should do the trick. It worked, sort of, when the DC sniper story was all over the news.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:44:41 -0800

An FPP I made a week ago kinda joked about David Dark's attempt to post a link solely as a "response" to an earlier link he didn't like (FPPing a Bush transcript after not liking a Gore speech.) I'm not going to do it again, but I'd just like to point out this is now the second time David Dark has posted an FPP essentially for the purpose of making Metafilter his personal pissing match.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 04:51:25 -0800

Reagan FPP's should be comprised of information that is obscure.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:15:47 -0800

I really have nothing against PoliticsFilter or NewsFilter but OpEdFilter & LazyFilter ain't good.

skallas was lazy & David Dark childish. The more some members (on all sides of the political compass) involve themselves in little pissing matches, the less their actual ideas & opinions will matter. They all get lost in the shower of pee.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:16:00 -0800

By: i_cola

i_cola — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:16:56 -0800

Oops. Spot the edit ;-)

By: GhostintheMachine

GhostintheMachine — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:30:38 -0800

The first one was better, i_cola.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:32:48 -0800

I have to. I mustn't. I can't stop myself.

Metafilter: A Shower of Pee.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:11:30 -0800

No, it's Metafilter: Getting Lost in a Shower of Pee.

I'm with those who say we need only one Reagan thread, if that.

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:27:20 -0800

skallas could have linked the Juan Cole thing in the first "Reagan Is Dead" thread -- even if 400+ comments threads take forever to load, but maybe it's my computer/browser/connection's fault.

David Dark's tantrum, though, was immensely funny.
NeenerNeenerFilter indeed. and it's not even the first time.
I just hope he really is a 12-year-old and not an adult who acts like one

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:34:09 -0800

when is bush dying? can't he hurry it up a bit?

By: octobersurprise

octobersurprise — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:49:30 -0800

This Reagan, he vibrates?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 06:54:34 -0800

Not anymore, apparently.

Not anymore.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:14:23 -0800

David Dark has posted an FPP essentially for the purpose of making Metafilter his personal pissing match.

Or he's posted his opinion. Or one he finds interesting. The fact that it's not the majority one, dosen't make it a crime against MeFi. Regardless of what one thought about Reagan, his death is a major story and there'll be plenty of dissection, pro and con, about the man's impact. Why exactly should we not participate?

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:17:17 -0800

I just read the blue, and I don't recall a Reagan FPP.

Have I become so accustomed to skipping those links in which I have no interest that I no longer remember them? Could others benefit from doing so as well. Yes, they certainly could. ;-P

You gotta admit: ReaganFilter beats 'no workable links for unregistered users'-Filter anyday. (Yes, I'm pointing at you, Keyser! (2x) ;-P )

By: leotrotsky

leotrotsky — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:35:50 -0800

chico: beautiful

By: fvw

fvw — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:38:56 -0800

MetaFilter isn't a place for posting your opinion, it's a place for posting the best of the web. I think some MeFi posters would be wise to add a smattering of Wikipedia's Neutral Point of View policy to their posts.

google cache link, Wikipedia has been imitating Reagan in both his current state and his recent state the past 24 hours

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:40:22 -0800

MetaFilter isn't a place for posting your opinion,

Uh, dude, that ship sailed a loooong time ago, whether we like it or not.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:40:58 -0800

Or he's posted his opinion. Or one he finds interesting. The fact that it's not the majority one, dosen't make it a crime against MeFi.

Bullshit. He commented how he was angry about the Juan Cole link, implied that it "gives him the right" to post whetever he feels like, then, as he did once before, deliberately looked for a contrary opinion to post for his self-centered "gotcha" snipe. He didn't go looking for the "best of the web;" he went looking for a ruler and a camera and then zipped open his pants.

By: fvw

fvw — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 07:42:18 -0800

So did the "do unto others as you would have others do unto you" thing, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to fight my damnedest for it anyway. Lost causes are fun, or something like that.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:26:11 -0800

Not anymore.

Here's where I officially announce my mefi crush on chicobangs.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 09:22:11 -0800

don't be fooled, CL, chico's bald-head is actually a toupee.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:08:04 -0800

Here's where I officially announce my mefi crush on chicobangs.

Yep...I too have joined the chicobangs fan club. And now, for my squeal of girlish glee: *Squeeeee!*

By: matteo

matteo — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:13:35 -0800

what XQUZYPHYR said.

DD whined about skallas' fpp, went looking for some pro-Reagan (I mean, Margaret Thatcher? hello?) crap, and exactly 30 minutes later posted his ultra-lame fpp just to spite his perceived enemies

neener-neener

By: BlueTrain

BlueTrain — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:05:44 -0800

He didn't go looking for the "best of the web;" he went looking for a ruler and a camera and then zipped open his pants.

I thought you were boycotting the term "best of the web"?

DD was obviously trying to make a point. Was it right? Meh, probably not. But so what? MeFi is a personal pissing match for a bunch of posters here...there are plenty of folks here who abuse the front page; I don't think making David Dark the poster boy for a campaign to clean up grudge matches is likely to amount in anything but additional urine.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:10:01 -0800

Oh, Sweet Creamery Elvis in Graceland. Today I am the dog that caught the firetruck... of MetaLove!

Bless you, dejah. I've been admiring your work since the late seventies. Sadly, though, jon's right. I have a false dome. the real one is just underneath. It's got a tattoo of a bullfighter across the back. Quite fetching, actually. But still.

(And Miz Linguist, you had your chance at the meetup to ply me with drink. Actually, maybe you did. Parts of that day are fuzzy. And who has my pants...
Sarge!)

By: daveg

daveg — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:11:41 -0800

I'd like to add my weight to the anti-NeenerNeener FPPs (I say delete them as double posts).

More importantly I'd like to join in with the chicobangs worship.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:16:57 -0800

what XCUZ and matteo said, and it's not the first time.
About this time is where Matt will probably insert a "Bravo, David Dark" maybe?

and chico's ok, but he doesn't look as good in a skirt as sgt. ; >

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:29:16 -0800

I'm enjoying all the space in which to challenge the steaming heaps of hagioshitography the mass media is shovelling out to commemorate Reagan's timely demise :

"Reagan ended the Cold War, instituted Federal fiscal responsibility, restored American pride, and got tough on crime. When he died, a bright comet streaked through the sky towards the town of his birth, and a small herd of Palominos in Montana raced off a cliff in an act of apparent patriotic mourning."

[ Not to mention the death squads. ]

It's a lot to refute this tidal wave of hooey, so I'm happy for the plethora of DeadReagan posts - It's not much, but it's somethin'

They'll be gone soon enough.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:37:29 -0800

I have a false dome.

False or genuine, things are looking up for dome-wearers.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:43:00 -0800

Or he's posted his opinion. Or one he finds interesting.

he could have done a little digging rather than pull the tired praise from thatcher referenced all over the web already ... lame post. lame president.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 13:59:39 -0800

Well, jon, that's great if you're in Montana, but then you gotta deal with all those pollution-causing trees.

I'll stay here in NYC, where the air is clean, ketchup is a vegetable, and baldies have no place on the fishing licenses of the populace.

By: Wulfgar!

Wulfgar! — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:02:50 -0800

False or genuine, things are looking up for dome-wearers.

Montana ... you gotta love this state.

By: marsha56

marsha56 — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:52:57 -0800

Maybe three fpp's was too many, but thank God I could come here and hear some sensible counterpoint to the non-stop media Reagan dei-ification.

I know the intent of MetaFilter isn't political discussions, but that's the main reason I come here.

Somehow I've spent my whole life surrounded by too many people too far to the right, and coming to MeFi, and getting to hear from a majority of lefties is what keeps me sane and soothes my chronic feelings of crying-in-the-wilderness.

Yeah, sometimes the flame-fests get just a little out-of-hand, but on the whole, I find the discussions here much more entertaining and sensible than anywhere else.

And I really (heart) amberglow !!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:23:47 -0800

aw, thanks hon : >

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 22:10:09 -0800

False or genuine, things are looking up for dome-wearers.

My cali drivers license has HAIR: BAL on it. Now unless they have a time-machine set to the late 80s, and BAL stands for Brown And Lanky, it's not just Montana.

Mmmm, whipping floss!

By: i_cola

i_cola — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:51:42 -0800

It's gonna be a riot when Walter Mondale croaks...