Does anyone remember an AskMe thread July 25, 2005 11:36 AM Subscribe
Does anyone remember an AskMe thread about people who sleep with their feet sticking out of the covers? My searching skills are failing me...
Yep, I remember it too, even though I didn't comment. I sleep that way, summer or winter, everyone I know thinks it's weird.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:54 AM on July 25, 2005
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:54 AM on July 25, 2005
It started with, "Why am I so hot in bed?" and inside someone was complaining about false advertising.
posted by dual_action at 12:02 PM on July 25, 2005
posted by dual_action at 12:02 PM on July 25, 2005
This is it? Couldn't track it down on Google but typing hot in bed into the AskMe search found it.
posted by jessamyn at 12:19 PM on July 25, 2005
posted by jessamyn at 12:19 PM on July 25, 2005
I was trying to help, but I got distracted by this gem.
posted by Plutor at 12:25 PM on July 25, 2005
posted by Plutor at 12:25 PM on July 25, 2005
My searching skills are failing me...
I would like to give you a sincere "thanks" for not using the term 'google-fu." I have come to hate that phrase so much, that thoughts of punching people who use it are pretty much my favorite sexual fantasy right now.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:41 PM on July 25, 2005
I would like to give you a sincere "thanks" for not using the term 'google-fu." I have come to hate that phrase so much, that thoughts of punching people who use it are pretty much my favorite sexual fantasy right now.
posted by Mayor Curley at 2:41 PM on July 25, 2005
Mayor Curley, man, you've gotta download some Veronika Zemanova (NSFW) pron if you're popping wood while fantasizing about punching people for saying google-fu. I get your sentiment but man, you've gotta find healthier turn-ons!
Back on topic, I can't sleep with my feet covered either.
posted by fenriq at 4:14 PM on July 25, 2005
Back on topic, I can't sleep with my feet covered either.
posted by fenriq at 4:14 PM on July 25, 2005
Ugh. If you don't cover your feet tighly and completely, a spindly green arm or maybe even a tentacle could reach up and grab your ankle!
posted by CunningLinguist at 4:55 PM on July 25, 2005
posted by CunningLinguist at 4:55 PM on July 25, 2005
That or you could wake up with some creepy old bearded Chinese guy licking your foot and brushing naughty calligraphy on it with soy sauce.
posted by loquacious at 5:22 PM on July 25, 2005
posted by loquacious at 5:22 PM on July 25, 2005
Anyone remember the old Far Side with the kid and the snorkel under the blanket?
That shit is true, man.
posted by hototogisu at 5:40 PM on July 25, 2005
That shit is true, man.
posted by hototogisu at 5:40 PM on July 25, 2005
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothing seems to fit
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:14 PM on July 25, 2005
Nothing seems to fit
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:14 PM on July 25, 2005
Naw, it's all about head temperature. I'll even have the window open in the winter, if I can, so long as it means a cool pillow and air in the room -- but warm under covers.
Hot summer nights, as these are, I'll rarely use a sheet at all, and just aim that fan -- I'm not settling for 1/4 of some oscillation range.
Ugh. If you don't cover your feet tighly and completely, a spindly green arm or maybe even a tentacle could reach up and grab your ankle!
Naw, that only happens if you allow your arm to dangle off the bed... (shudder)
posted by dreamsign at 10:30 PM on July 25, 2005
Hot summer nights, as these are, I'll rarely use a sheet at all, and just aim that fan -- I'm not settling for 1/4 of some oscillation range.
Ugh. If you don't cover your feet tighly and completely, a spindly green arm or maybe even a tentacle could reach up and grab your ankle!
Naw, that only happens if you allow your arm to dangle off the bed... (shudder)
posted by dreamsign at 10:30 PM on July 25, 2005
I would like to give you a sincere "thanks" for not using the term 'google-fu." I have come to hate that phrase so much, that thoughts of punching people who use it are pretty much my favorite sexual fantasy right now.
Exactly what I came into this thread to say. Well, you know, except the sexual fantasy part.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:34 PM on July 25, 2005
Exactly what I came into this thread to say. Well, you know, except the sexual fantasy part.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:34 PM on July 25, 2005
Does the AskMe search assume that you are searching for the exact phrase, rather than keywords? Searching for hot in bed finds the thread, but hot bed does not.
posted by grateful at 6:10 AM on July 26, 2005
posted by grateful at 6:10 AM on July 26, 2005
Exactly what I came into this thread to say. Well, you know, except the sexual fantasy part.
Ditto.
posted by rafter at 11:19 AM on July 26, 2005
Ditto.
posted by rafter at 11:19 AM on July 26, 2005
I just added some tags to the thread so it should be easier to find next time.
posted by Coffeemate at 12:37 PM on July 26, 2005
posted by Coffeemate at 12:37 PM on July 26, 2005
"Exactly what I came into this thread to say."
Do most people ever grow out of this? I mean, I did (mostly). Like most intelligent people, as a teenager I was a bundle of irritation and disdain for the minor foibles of others and very intensely watched for anything I could consider a social faux pas that I could rationalize as an example of why I was cool and most everyone else was not. Nowadays, at middle-age, I mostly couldn't give a fuck.
There's a handful of mefites--some popular, some less popular--who can be counted on to jump into a thread to make the sort of comment like "I want to hit anyone that uses the expression 'google-fu'". All have an attitude about others and the word that is, on balance, notably more negative than positive; all quite notably present themselves as straight-talking non-bullshitters with a low-tolerance for the inanities of others; all have tendencies to sarcasm. All remind me of myself as the smart-ass, super-bright, underachieving teenager who sat slumped in the back of the class and waited for opportunities to make fools of other students and, most especially, teachers I didn't like. I have a certain fondness for that version of myself, and that version still exists as a part of myself; but I don't mistake it for anything other than the emotionally and intellectually adolescent hubris that it is.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:55 PM on July 26, 2005
Do most people ever grow out of this? I mean, I did (mostly). Like most intelligent people, as a teenager I was a bundle of irritation and disdain for the minor foibles of others and very intensely watched for anything I could consider a social faux pas that I could rationalize as an example of why I was cool and most everyone else was not. Nowadays, at middle-age, I mostly couldn't give a fuck.
There's a handful of mefites--some popular, some less popular--who can be counted on to jump into a thread to make the sort of comment like "I want to hit anyone that uses the expression 'google-fu'". All have an attitude about others and the word that is, on balance, notably more negative than positive; all quite notably present themselves as straight-talking non-bullshitters with a low-tolerance for the inanities of others; all have tendencies to sarcasm. All remind me of myself as the smart-ass, super-bright, underachieving teenager who sat slumped in the back of the class and waited for opportunities to make fools of other students and, most especially, teachers I didn't like. I have a certain fondness for that version of myself, and that version still exists as a part of myself; but I don't mistake it for anything other than the emotionally and intellectually adolescent hubris that it is.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:55 PM on July 26, 2005
Yes, yes, Ethereal Bligh. You don't like my style. I don't care for yours, either. So what?
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:24 PM on July 26, 2005
posted by Mayor Curley at 3:24 PM on July 26, 2005
Do most people ever grow out of this? I mean, I did (mostly)...I don't mistake it for anything other than the emotionally and intellectually adolescent hubris that it is.
Go fuck yourself, Bligh, you wordy, presumptuous, pretentious twat. I'm so tired of your bullshit, honestly.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:47 PM on July 26, 2005
Go fuck yourself, Bligh, you wordy, presumptuous, pretentious twat. I'm so tired of your bullshit, honestly.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:47 PM on July 26, 2005
No, you're a cool kid, really. Don't be mad.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:21 PM on July 26, 2005
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:21 PM on July 26, 2005
Metafilter: Go fuck yourself, (insert name here) you wordy, presumptuous, pretentious twat. I'm so tired of your bullshit, honestly.
posted by amberglow at 9:31 PM on July 26, 2005
posted by amberglow at 9:31 PM on July 26, 2005
Well, on the lighter side of things, I thought I could link to a classic Miguel quote (from Plutor's link above):
In fact, I'm convinced farts are wastefully released on their own - their purpose is to rocket-launch and expedite defecation. - link
Gave me a chuckle, anyway.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 10:07 PM on July 26, 2005
In fact, I'm convinced farts are wastefully released on their own - their purpose is to rocket-launch and expedite defecation. - link
Gave me a chuckle, anyway.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 10:07 PM on July 26, 2005
For the record, that 'go fuck yourself' was most assuredly not avuncular this time.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:03 PM on July 26, 2005
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:03 PM on July 26, 2005
Hit a nerve, did I?
What amazes me is that someone who refers to themselves as a "drunk poet" would call me "pretentious". I mean, Christ, you should just fucking kill yourself now. I'm sure there's a half-full bottle and some pills around your house somewhere. You'll be sneering while you choke on your own vomit and, as a bonus, you may even forget that you have a tiny little dick, were laughed at in gym, and that day you whacked-off to the smell of your mother's shoe.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:17 PM on July 26, 2005
What amazes me is that someone who refers to themselves as a "drunk poet" would call me "pretentious". I mean, Christ, you should just fucking kill yourself now. I'm sure there's a half-full bottle and some pills around your house somewhere. You'll be sneering while you choke on your own vomit and, as a bonus, you may even forget that you have a tiny little dick, were laughed at in gym, and that day you whacked-off to the smell of your mother's shoe.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:17 PM on July 26, 2005
Hit a nerve, did I?
One is forced to suspect that you (didn't you admit once that you live in your mother's basement, or was that someone else doing the same kind of wishful-thinking dickwavery about you that you're doing now?) are guilty of precisely the things of which you spuriously accuse me. Amusing, if in a pathetic littleman kind of way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:53 PM on July 26, 2005
One is forced to suspect that you (didn't you admit once that you live in your mother's basement, or was that someone else doing the same kind of wishful-thinking dickwavery about you that you're doing now?) are guilty of precisely the things of which you spuriously accuse me. Amusing, if in a pathetic littleman kind of way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:53 PM on July 26, 2005
Actually, no to everything.
Here's the deal: about 75% of your contributions to mefi in the last year have been pissy little posturing comments like your me too "google-fu" one above. And you're one of those fuckwits who thinks he's a romantic character in some novel who doesn't realize he's pretending to be a middlebrow cliche. For one reason or another, possibly that you're drunk, you occasionally post some intemperate comment like "go fuck yourself" to someone who's annoyed you. Then, about two days later, you're Mr. Nice Guy. The rest of the time, you never say anything very interesting, and you mostly gossip like an old woman in metachat. I'm supposed to care that you really, sincerely mean "fuck you"? That I know you're not being avuncular?
Everyone else reading this doesn't give a shit that I don't like you. They don't give a shit that you don't like me. As a matter of fact, they don't give a shit that you don't like people who use the expression google-fu, either.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go whack-off to the smell of my mother's panties.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:31 AM on July 27, 2005
Here's the deal: about 75% of your contributions to mefi in the last year have been pissy little posturing comments like your me too "google-fu" one above. And you're one of those fuckwits who thinks he's a romantic character in some novel who doesn't realize he's pretending to be a middlebrow cliche. For one reason or another, possibly that you're drunk, you occasionally post some intemperate comment like "go fuck yourself" to someone who's annoyed you. Then, about two days later, you're Mr. Nice Guy. The rest of the time, you never say anything very interesting, and you mostly gossip like an old woman in metachat. I'm supposed to care that you really, sincerely mean "fuck you"? That I know you're not being avuncular?
Everyone else reading this doesn't give a shit that I don't like you. They don't give a shit that you don't like me. As a matter of fact, they don't give a shit that you don't like people who use the expression google-fu, either.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go whack-off to the smell of my mother's panties.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 3:31 AM on July 27, 2005
You're lucky because your mum's panties get that spicy, tandoori oven quality from the southwest heat. My mother's just smell swampy.
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:31 AM on July 27, 2005
posted by Mayor Curley at 4:31 AM on July 27, 2005
You tweaking me for being self-involved up here on the shared stage is truly the icing on the bullshit cake, tinkerbell.
Whether I'm any of the things here on MeFi that you accuse me of being, I leave others to decide. I think you're full of shit, but then, lots of folks seem to be of that opinion. Odd, that, but then there are a fair few who think the same of me.
But, unlike you, until now I've not made any attempts to pull random insults out of my ass, to diss you, or to otherwise suggest anything about your actual real (and by the sounds of it, from what I've gathered in the past, lonely and unenviable) life.
The fact that you, on the other hand, have said things like:
you should just fucking kill yourself now
I'm sure there's a half-full bottle and some pills around your house somewhere
You'll be sneering while you choke on your own vomit
you have a tiny little dick, were laughed at in gym, and [...] you whacked-off to the smell of your mother's shoe
you're one of those fuckwits who thinks he's a romantic character in some novel
after offering such a trenchant analysis of my character in your initial colossal wank of a comment despite the fact that you have never met me and know nothing about my (rich, regret-free) life except what I've said here (or at my site, which you haven't read, presumably, because some of the stories I've got to tell about that life would melt the snatch hairs off a snivelling little melvin like yourself (or, more properly, the one you play on Metafilter)).
I'm aware that you're aware that you're playing to the crowd. I'll let our words speak for themselves. I told you to go fuck yourself, you came back with venal insults, things that (internet tough guy ahoy!) I'd kick your ass for if you said to me in person. Fair enough. It's all performance art anyway, something you don't seem to grasp very well.
I thought my slap at you was perfectly justified, after you, you humourless little man you, took both Mayor Curley's and my joking comments seriously, and used them to springboard yourself into one of your customary masturbatory soliloquys, larded with a heavy helping of utterly unnecessary insults.
If you said the kind of shit to me in person that you said upthread, I'd also have told you to go fuck yourself, just as prettily, if perhaps more persuasively. There was no call for it. Unfortunately, here, you're just going to keep on coming back. Ah well.
about 75% of your contributions to mefi in the last year have been pissy little posturing comments
One man's pissy posturing is another's goodhearted japery. I leave others to decide. You, I don't care about, much, although you have made me type far too much already, which is good practice if nothing else. I do wish I had more worthy opponents than you, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:46 AM on July 27, 2005
Whether I'm any of the things here on MeFi that you accuse me of being, I leave others to decide. I think you're full of shit, but then, lots of folks seem to be of that opinion. Odd, that, but then there are a fair few who think the same of me.
But, unlike you, until now I've not made any attempts to pull random insults out of my ass, to diss you, or to otherwise suggest anything about your actual real (and by the sounds of it, from what I've gathered in the past, lonely and unenviable) life.
The fact that you, on the other hand, have said things like:
after offering such a trenchant analysis of my character in your initial colossal wank of a comment despite the fact that you have never met me and know nothing about my (rich, regret-free) life except what I've said here (or at my site, which you haven't read, presumably, because some of the stories I've got to tell about that life would melt the snatch hairs off a snivelling little melvin like yourself (or, more properly, the one you play on Metafilter)).
I'm aware that you're aware that you're playing to the crowd. I'll let our words speak for themselves. I told you to go fuck yourself, you came back with venal insults, things that (internet tough guy ahoy!) I'd kick your ass for if you said to me in person. Fair enough. It's all performance art anyway, something you don't seem to grasp very well.
I thought my slap at you was perfectly justified, after you, you humourless little man you, took both Mayor Curley's and my joking comments seriously, and used them to springboard yourself into one of your customary masturbatory soliloquys, larded with a heavy helping of utterly unnecessary insults.
If you said the kind of shit to me in person that you said upthread, I'd also have told you to go fuck yourself, just as prettily, if perhaps more persuasively. There was no call for it. Unfortunately, here, you're just going to keep on coming back. Ah well.
about 75% of your contributions to mefi in the last year have been pissy little posturing comments
One man's pissy posturing is another's goodhearted japery. I leave others to decide. You, I don't care about, much, although you have made me type far too much already, which is good practice if nothing else. I do wish I had more worthy opponents than you, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:46 AM on July 27, 2005
What amazes me is that someone who refers to themselves as a "drunk poet" would call me "pretentious".
I'm going to have to address this, come to think of it, since so many of your less raving insults seem to have been based on it.
You got the phrase from my profile here, I assume, since I have never, ever called myself a poet, online or in real life, anywhere else, ever.
First : as my profile has said since day one, it was 1992. A long, long time ago. Past tense, doofus.
Second: Rick (who, as my profile made clear until I somehow borked it one day, and that I haven't had the heart to rewrite, was the same Rick who died in the Bali bombing, and for whom so many MeFites expressed their grief and support) was a poet, I wasn't. I wrote, as I always have, but never poetry. I'm on the record in many places, including MeFi, saying such unclever things as 'fuck poetry'. Ah well, no takesy-backsies. It was easier and scanned better to say 'poets'.
Third: The Mumbles Walk was where Dylan Thomas used to drink. The reason I said 'the drunken poets we were' was not, as you seem bent on suggesting for what would seem to be no other reason than to find a way to insult me, that I considered myself a poet. Far from it. The whimsical suggestion is that because we were drinking in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas, somehow we might be imbued, at least for that one night when death brushed by us, with some of the Poetical Nature. But of course not, because, as I say 'We went back to drinking.'
No poets, us.
You fucking hammer. The fact that you're not clever enough to get that is embarrassing enough for you, I'd hope. Worse still if you did get it, but decided to twist shit around to try to insult me with it anyway.
This lengthy, unnecessary explanation aside (I await friend y2karl to come and tweak me for it (again)), you're so not worth my time, either way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:03 AM on July 27, 2005
I'm going to have to address this, come to think of it, since so many of your less raving insults seem to have been based on it.
You got the phrase from my profile here, I assume, since I have never, ever called myself a poet, online or in real life, anywhere else, ever.
First : as my profile has said since day one, it was 1992. A long, long time ago. Past tense, doofus.
Second: Rick (who, as my profile made clear until I somehow borked it one day, and that I haven't had the heart to rewrite, was the same Rick who died in the Bali bombing, and for whom so many MeFites expressed their grief and support) was a poet, I wasn't. I wrote, as I always have, but never poetry. I'm on the record in many places, including MeFi, saying such unclever things as 'fuck poetry'. Ah well, no takesy-backsies. It was easier and scanned better to say 'poets'.
Third: The Mumbles Walk was where Dylan Thomas used to drink. The reason I said 'the drunken poets we were' was not, as you seem bent on suggesting for what would seem to be no other reason than to find a way to insult me, that I considered myself a poet. Far from it. The whimsical suggestion is that because we were drinking in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas, somehow we might be imbued, at least for that one night when death brushed by us, with some of the Poetical Nature. But of course not, because, as I say 'We went back to drinking.'
No poets, us.
You fucking hammer. The fact that you're not clever enough to get that is embarrassing enough for you, I'd hope. Worse still if you did get it, but decided to twist shit around to try to insult me with it anyway.
This lengthy, unnecessary explanation aside (I await friend y2karl to come and tweak me for it (again)), you're so not worth my time, either way.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:03 AM on July 27, 2005
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posted by grateful at 11:37 AM on July 25, 2005