I don't stop by often, and this is why. See you around. October 1, 2004 12:38 PM   Subscribe

"the point of this thread is for these people to jerk themselves off and cum all over each other" I don't stop by often, and this is why. See you around.
posted by plexi to Etiquette/Policy at 12:38 PM (50 comments total)

Who is this 'plexi'?
posted by mischief at 12:40 PM on October 1, 2004


Plexi's gone. Everybody can get their Bibles back out now.

It's tough pretending to be secular down here in the catacombs.
posted by luser at 12:45 PM on October 1, 2004


bye bye.
posted by tranquileye at 12:46 PM on October 1, 2004


Are you bailing because of witty being catty, or because of the original thread, which I will admit is pretty weak, esp considering there was already a thread about the debates from last night?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:51 PM on October 1, 2004


Oh man, you're leaving because of a silly comment from witty?!???*%&^?! Plexi, you are one confused little puppy who obviously has not had the pleasure of reading witty's witty little comments. If this is why you're not coming back. . . uh, well, okay then. Good luck in the real world, buddy, where "witty" lurks around every corner.
posted by ashbury at 12:52 PM on October 1, 2004


"It's tough pretending to be secular..."

You know this earthling ... er ... human?
posted by mischief at 12:55 PM on October 1, 2004


hold on.

anyone have a tissue?
posted by Stynxno at 12:59 PM on October 1, 2004


Wait...should we be jerking each other off? Is that why he's mad? Should Mefi be more pro-reacharound?
posted by ColdChef at 1:05 PM on October 1, 2004


You can borrow some of my lotion, plexi.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 1:13 PM on October 1, 2004


A milky way shoots into my jockey shorts - OHHHHHHH! - what's for fucking breakfast?
posted by scarabic at 1:20 PM on October 1, 2004


Plexi's pissed because now he has to eat the cookie...
posted by naxosaxur at 1:33 PM on October 1, 2004


maybe because some people don't always jibe with the temperment or want to become involved enough to get the shorthand/tendency/jokes
maybe because many people who cruise the links don't look at the comments/agendas and are taken aback when they do just to bookmark all the hydralinks and don't want to be involved in the pissing matches
maybe because no matter what, shorthand/in jokes happen when people know each other and some people feel excluded/rebuked for whatever reason
maybe because lots of people don't try to understand each other and just want clean polar viewpoints and dry info regurgitation
maybe i need more coffee in my sedalina
posted by ethylene at 1:34 PM on October 1, 2004


I'm not seeing why this is necessarily a bad thing. Why can't people just skip posts that they aren't interested in?

No one is forcing anyone to read any posts here. No one is being forced to read the comments.

The link referenced above was interesting but could have been linked to in the other thread on the debate.
posted by fenriq at 1:45 PM on October 1, 2004


I don't come in here as often as I used to because there's not enough funny posts like that one. Y'all just ain't as funny as yew used to be. Git more brash and crack jokes about one another's bodily functions or I'll be seein' ya's around too! Now git crackin'! Y'all are supposed to be posting so as to entertain me. (or so as to not offend Plexi, depending on your perspective).

Come on. Gross me out. Make me laugh. I'm waiting.
posted by ZachsMind at 1:59 PM on October 1, 2004




Why can't people just skip posts that they aren't interested in?

Little-known fact: I get a nickel every time someone says this.

I'm a skazillionaire.
posted by ook at 2:43 PM on October 1, 2004


The link referenced above was interesting

With the understanding that 'interesting' is different for different people, how can a link to a poll in a canadian paper be considered interesting? Should we link to every poll? Best of the web? Hardly.
posted by justgary at 2:53 PM on October 1, 2004


Aww. We'll miss you.
posted by xmutex at 3:46 PM on October 1, 2004


plexi thought he/she would get ass-patted for this call-out because it was witty who made the comment.

plexi was wrong.

This is the reason why I keep coming back to MeFi. Just when common sense goes out the window, a strange draft blows it back in again.
posted by SpaceCadet at 4:07 PM on October 1, 2004


Thanks for the honest criticism... YOU ASS!
posted by Hildago at 4:12 PM on October 1, 2004


I'm a skazillionaire.

amberglow ook
Mr. amberglow ook
Mr. and Mr. ook
amber glow-ook
amberook
the ooks
...

: >
posted by amberglow at 4:23 PM on October 1, 2004


If I was really annoyed by it, obviously I'd be long gone, but sometimes, it seems like people are actually trying to use the crudest possible metaphors. I understand scatalogical humor for the sheer fun of it, but sometimes it goes too far overboard. And I'm not surprised it drives some people off.
posted by weston at 4:37 PM on October 1, 2004


That's okay, honey, you can keep your maiden name...

;)
posted by ook at 5:05 PM on October 1, 2004


mwahhh!
posted by amberglow at 5:18 PM on October 1, 2004


I'm starting to tilt more and more toward the boyzone callout people. It's a shame it takes some so long to grow up and develop a little class.
posted by rushmc at 5:33 PM on October 1, 2004


I'm happy to make circle jerk jokes in mixed company. But this may relate to that fact that I live with a woman who, when asked "Honey, where's the salt shaker?" replies, "It's in my pussy," instead of "I don't know." Call me crazy. I love her.

Anyway, as the English have proscribed, you can't develop class; you can only be born to it. Forgive me, gentle lord, for my blood is as common as it comes.
posted by scarabic at 5:39 PM on October 1, 2004


Plexi's pissed because now he has to eat the cookie...

We always played with a cracker, but I can see the advantages of a cookie. I have to admit, I've never seen icing on a cracker.

scarabic said "comes". Heh.
posted by rocketman at 7:21 PM on October 1, 2004


"I live with a woman who, when asked 'Honey, where's the salt shaker?' replies, 'It's in my pussy,' instead of 'I don't know.' Call me crazy. I love her."

"In my pussy" should just be synonymous with "I don't know" in your house.

But, yeah, if you're crazy, so am I. (That's probably not reassuring.) I, too, find that quite charming.

Last summer at a family vacation, my ten-year-old cousin, who's really more like a niece to me, was looking for something and asked me where it was. "Did you check your butt?" I responded. Which of course, made, the ten-year-old girl giggle furiously. My sister turned to me and asked, "Why are you such a freak?". But she asked it with a smile.

And, hell, I'll be forty next month. We old guys aren't supposed to be silly or stuff, are we? Maybe it's partly because I haven't done the white picket fence thing with kids like many of my high school friends have, but I sure don't feel like the serious, "mature", humorless grown-up I imagined I'd be by the time I was turning forty.

Every woman I've been serious with has been the type of personality who'd say things like "It's in my pussy", either straight-faced or with a smirk. I can't imagine being with someone that would find that inexcusably vulgar or whatever.

Personally, I'm still trying to get a handle on Witty's personality. But I sorta like him more for letting loose and being so damn vulgar. He seems to sort of be experimenting with the boundaries of his personality, or expression. And he was right, too. The post was an invitation to a circle-jerk, nothng more.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:27 PM on October 1, 2004


Witty's whole problem is his lack of wit, as is continually pointed out. If he'd simply wrapped his imagery in an innuendo, he could have made the same point more effectively, in better humor, and we wouldn't be sitting here talking about my gf's pussy. Instead, he had to blurt out a raw vulgarity like "cum all over each other," and piss off the folks here who can't read that kind of thing without washing their hands.
posted by scarabic at 8:02 PM on October 1, 2004


I am immensely amused by the fact that plexi posted this and has yet to respond to all the cutsey replies. And EB, my wife is not at all vulgar but fortunately for me similarly humored.
posted by billsaysthis at 8:04 PM on October 1, 2004


plexi left. this is just another opportunity for these people to jerk themselves off and cum all over each other", no? ; >
posted by amberglow at 8:39 PM on October 1, 2004


Oh, relax. It's good for your skin.
posted by octobersurprise at 8:46 PM on October 1, 2004


Is this the time to link to the site where a male and female tried using semen as a facial cream for a week? I would do it, but I have no idea how to Google for it.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:59 PM on October 1, 2004


amber, down boy!
posted by quonsar at 9:04 PM on October 1, 2004


just trying to keep my Kleenex stock up : >
posted by amberglow at 9:18 PM on October 1, 2004


"I don't stop by often, and this is why. See you around."

see ya, but I don't understand why a single user's fascist-bukkake fantasies should keep anybody from visiting a site that often manages to be an interesting read
posted by matteo at 12:16 AM on October 2, 2004


Plexi's pissed because now he has to eat the cookie...


I hear in Britain it's the biscuit, but I'm confused because I'm not sure if biscuit over there is cookie over here. Maybe a crumpet is a biscuit and a biscuit is a cookie?

Bye plexi, whoever you are.
posted by WolfDaddy at 5:07 AM on October 2, 2004


Perhaps plexi's way of making this site better by fighting the remarks that displease him is by leaving?

/overanalysis
posted by sciurus at 6:58 AM on October 2, 2004


Witty's whole problem is his lack of wit, as is continually pointed out. If he'd simply wrapped his imagery in an innuendo, he could have made the same point more effectively, in better humor, and we wouldn't be sitting here talking about my gf's pussy. Instead, he had to blurt out a raw vulgarity like "cum all over each other," and piss off the folks here who can't read that kind of thing without washing their hands.

Howdy!

My problem is lack of wit? No, YOU'RE problem is my perceived lack of wit, wound up in your tendancy to disagree with whatever I say. Secondly, I HAVE to be blunt and crude and rude, etc... not always of course, but when I want to make a point in a thread like that one. I don't need to bark the loudest if we're discussing say, puppies! But in a crap ass thread like that one... why not? A mean a post that says, "Hey look everyone, here's a list of people that agree with us... what do we think?" Gimme a break.

I can't believe after all the Metas we've had about this kind of stuff, that people still get away with it. Matt lets it ride. The collective won't dare call it out because it's a thread for "their guy" and "their side". I'd shit myself if y2karl or nofundy or whoever commented in a thread like that and said, "Hey man, I'm with you here but uhh... this post sucks. Matt, please delete." It's pointless to call-out threads like that in the gray... as proven by Seth's many attempts (say what you will about Seth). Matt rarely holds this place to a certain standard anymore. So why bother? It's not the fact that it's a pro-Kerry post. I'm an undecided voter. It's the fact that the thread is completely loaded and without thought or direction.

I want to read good, quality political discourse around here as much as anyone else. Personally, it's not a matter of skipping those kinda of threads because "I don't like them". I DO like them, mostly for reading, occassionally commenting. They DO interest me because this election is just as important to me as it is everyone else. So I'm going to click on them and see what's going on... see if I can learn something. When I see bullshit like that, then I have no problem chiming in and contributing to the bullshit.

Why is it that you think my comments would be more "acceptable" by crafting them with the abundant use of metaphors, personification and other literary devices. Are you holding everyone to that standard? Not hardly. How about some examples of how my post could have been better said... because "jerking themselves off" and "cum all over each other" pretty much works for me.
These should be good. :)
posted by Witty at 7:08 AM on October 2, 2004


Nuance!
posted by darukaru at 7:25 AM on October 2, 2004


Haha :) Well said.
posted by Witty at 7:31 AM on October 2, 2004


My problem is lack of wit? No, YOU'RE problem is my perceived lack of wit

My new problem is your apostrophe.

KIDDING! Seriously, Witty, I don't give shit about this kind of language or whatever, as I said above. But you did take the fast track to offending the prudish folks, which is all I meant. Do you care about that? I doubt it. Nor do I. But if you *do* want to avoid senseless callouts from prudes, you could take a less vulgarian approach to protesting a thread.

I tend to agree that the thread itself was a joke, but I never crap in threads I don't like anymore (I may have snapped and relapsed at some point, I dunno). I was spanked for doing that one too many times, so I don't anymore. It pisses people off, including Matt, especially if you do it in a flagrantly gross or pointedly aggressive way. Which you did.

Why is it that you think my comments would be more "acceptable" by crafting them with the abundant use of metaphors, personification and other literary devices. Are you holding everyone to that standard?

No, just members whose usernames promise such rhetorical fireworks. I want my money back! Kidding, kidding! I like you Witty, and not least because you stir it up sometimes. Say what you please. You're not going to offend me, I promise you, and plexi's now gone.
posted by scarabic at 9:46 AM on October 2, 2004


I, for one, think there should be more ejaculatory metaphors in every thread.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 10:37 AM on October 2, 2004


No one is forcing anyone to read any posts here. No one is being forced to read the comments.

Actually, mathowie, quonsar, and Tim Berniers-Lee all take turns holding a gun to my head and forcing me to read each and every post and comment on Metafilter. It's awful.

So please, for my sake, post only things that I personally find fascinating.
posted by stet at 12:11 PM on October 2, 2004


Are you sure it's a gun, stet?
posted by shoepal at 4:24 PM on October 2, 2004


I feel another ejaculatory comment coming on. Oh, oh, wait...it's gone. Damn prozac.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 6:35 PM on October 2, 2004


eb ... i'm sure a picture of kerry will help with that

witty ... you were right
posted by pyramid termite at 7:08 PM on October 2, 2004


Oh, let me check. pause Nope, the picture of Kerry doesn't help. I'm just going to have to go with the old standby, Lusty Teenage Cheerleaders Sit on my Face!

W00t!

The Kerry image could still be useful.

"Not, yet, not yet!"..."Kerry, Kerry, Kerry..."

/Shields & Yarnell
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:15 PM on October 2, 2004


But you did take the fast track to offending the prudish folks, which is all I meant.

I hear ya.
posted by Witty at 5:43 AM on October 3, 2004


matt, what are the numbers currently for "members who make a noisy exit and then sheepishly return a while later"? i seem to recall a few who were quite blatant about their intention to leave, but keep coming back.

(or is this account really canceled?)
posted by caution live frogs at 2:32 PM on October 4, 2004


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