Why do these exist? January 17, 2006 5:17 PM Subscribe
Because nobody's deleted them?
Flag it as noise and move on.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 5:18 PM on January 17, 2006
Flag it as noise and move on.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 5:18 PM on January 17, 2006
A long time ago, far far away, someone named Matt Haughey started a website....
posted by mischief at 5:19 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by mischief at 5:19 PM on January 17, 2006
They are, apparently, the best of the web.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 5:21 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by Baby_Balrog at 5:21 PM on January 17, 2006
Complaints are never as self-evident as you think they are.
posted by smackfu at 5:32 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by smackfu at 5:32 PM on January 17, 2006
Because they are?
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:35 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:35 PM on January 17, 2006
(er ... in response to the original question)
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:35 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 5:35 PM on January 17, 2006
Personally, I found 50% of those very interesting.
posted by panoptican at 5:36 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by panoptican at 5:36 PM on January 17, 2006
Microsoft exists to tear out my soul and disuse it as a cloth diaper for an incontinent Ba'al.
posted by loquacious at 5:38 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by loquacious at 5:38 PM on January 17, 2006
And thus the reason we need comment editing.
posted by panoptican at 5:44 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by panoptican at 5:44 PM on January 17, 2006
Most of them are lame, some have some ok conversations going so I left them. I took down the dumbest ones.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:47 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:47 PM on January 17, 2006
The landlord one was the most hilarious thing I've read all day. I'm not sure why it's grouped in with all the mainstream news-source posts.
posted by transona5 at 5:51 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by transona5 at 5:51 PM on January 17, 2006
The last one is at least a talker and the landlord one is isn't that bad.
posted by my sock puppet account at 5:52 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by my sock puppet account at 5:52 PM on January 17, 2006
panoptican: "Personally, I found 50% of those very interesting."
Seconded. MetaFilter is not The TwelveTwo Blog. GYOB if you only want stuff that's interesting to you.
posted by Plutor at 6:41 PM on January 17, 2006
Seconded. MetaFilter is not The TwelveTwo Blog. GYOB if you only want stuff that's interesting to you.
posted by Plutor at 6:41 PM on January 17, 2006
The landlord one was funnyish. No contest to the other ones.
posted by Count Ziggurat at 8:30 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by Count Ziggurat at 8:30 PM on January 17, 2006
mmmm.... chocolate...
posted by I Love Tacos at 8:56 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by I Love Tacos at 8:56 PM on January 17, 2006
Why do I exist?
posted by thirteenkiller at 9:02 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by thirteenkiller at 9:02 PM on January 17, 2006
At least you DO exist, thirteenkiller. Some of us aren't so lucky.
posted by luftmensch at 9:25 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by luftmensch at 9:25 PM on January 17, 2006
They exist for me to poop on.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:34 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:34 PM on January 17, 2006
The New Orleans post was just pointless, and the ensuing conversation was uninteresting, offensive, idiotic, and very arguably racist. It was almost enough to make me write off MeFi as yet another Fark, so I haven't really read the other ones.
posted by dsword at 11:44 PM on January 17, 2006
posted by dsword at 11:44 PM on January 17, 2006
TwelveTwo, at this point, it may be helpful to focus upon a particular inference and a particular posting theory.
Suppose that we assign the following semantic values to posts in the following way. Post P and post Q stand for atomic sentences, which have either the value true, or the value false, and never both values. The symbol "~" when followed by a symbol which stands for an atomic sentence has the opposite value of the value of that atomic sentence. The symbol "(x v y)", where x and y are replaced by symbols which stand for atomic sentences has the value true when at least one of those atomic sentences has the value true. Otherwise, it has the value false. Next, we consider the following argument:
1) (P v Q)
2) ~Q
Therefore P.
To validate this inference, we must show that if 1) and 2) are true, then the conclusion, P, must also be true. If 2) is true, then Q is false. If Q is false, then if 1) is true, it must be in virtue of the truth of P, since if both P and Q were false, 1) could not be true. So we must suppose that post P is true, and that is what we were trying to demonstrate.
posted by Otis at 6:18 AM on January 18, 2006
Suppose that we assign the following semantic values to posts in the following way. Post P and post Q stand for atomic sentences, which have either the value true, or the value false, and never both values. The symbol "~" when followed by a symbol which stands for an atomic sentence has the opposite value of the value of that atomic sentence. The symbol "(x v y)", where x and y are replaced by symbols which stand for atomic sentences has the value true when at least one of those atomic sentences has the value true. Otherwise, it has the value false. Next, we consider the following argument:
1) (P v Q)
2) ~Q
Therefore P.
To validate this inference, we must show that if 1) and 2) are true, then the conclusion, P, must also be true. If 2) is true, then Q is false. If Q is false, then if 1) is true, it must be in virtue of the truth of P, since if both P and Q were false, 1) could not be true. So we must suppose that post P is true, and that is what we were trying to demonstrate.
posted by Otis at 6:18 AM on January 18, 2006
I said that, but he wouldn't listen.
posted by NinjaPirate at 6:43 AM on January 18, 2006
posted by NinjaPirate at 6:43 AM on January 18, 2006
We don't need no hateration in this dancerie.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:09 AM on January 18, 2006
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:09 AM on January 18, 2006
I found 3/4 of them interesting. I was pleasantly surprised that MeFi had a bunch of links that I really wanted to read (several more than the three above).
What's that saying? Oh, yeah, "flag it and move on."
posted by deborah at 7:23 PM on January 18, 2006
What's that saying? Oh, yeah, "flag it and move on."
posted by deborah at 7:23 PM on January 18, 2006
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posted by TwelveTwo at 5:18 PM on January 17, 2006