Don't Go Nuts

February 8, 2002 1:52 PM

Yes, I know I have gone nuts on the Ronald Reagan thread. No I did not mean to. Yes I am calling myself out. Yes I have gone up on my meds. Yes the thread is too chatty. If Matt wants to pull the thread, he may.
You got a problem with that?
posted by bunnyfire to Etiquette/Policy at 1:52 PM (53 comments total)

Normally I prefer to not post on my own links. I broke my own rule today, and now you see why i have the rule in the first place. So shut up already- I have spanked myself before you got the chance.
posted by bunnyfire at 1:54 PM on February 8, 2002

What about Metatalking your own posts to your own links and then commenting on your own MeTa of your own comments on your own link?
posted by daveadams at 1:57 PM on February 8, 2002

You think its fun to have scrambled brains? I am totally serious. You try being on Topomax for awhile.
posted by bunnyfire at 2:03 PM on February 8, 2002

I am totally serious, too, bunny. You are obviously aware that you went a little overboard in the Reagan thread. I'm just pointing out that it looks like you're just continuing that here. I tried to do so in a lightheated manner, but I'm not making fun of you.
posted by daveadams at 2:05 PM on February 8, 2002

I guess I need to add a breathelizer and blood workup to the posting page, if you're over the limits, you can't post.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:05 PM on February 8, 2002

really bunnyfire, i'm crazy too, but i take responsibilities for my actions. just because you say it first doesn't make it not true.
posted by goneill at 2:13 PM on February 8, 2002

I guess I need to add a breathelizer and blood workup to the posting page, if you're over the limits, you can't post.

So long Clavdivs!
posted by ColdChef at 2:19 PM on February 8, 2002

So the post footnote would look like:

posted by john at 2:28 PM PST on February 8 while on caffiene feeling goofy

Just two more fields per post...


posted by john at 2:27 PM on February 8, 2002

Damn! Now they'll find out I'm all hopped up on Scrubbing Bubbles.

Man! That's some gooood toilet cleaner!
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:30 PM on February 8, 2002

I guess I need to add a breathelizer and blood workup to the posting page, if you're over the limits, you can't post.

In the vein of Sportsfilter, can we have DrunkFilter, where you can have incoherent ramblings after a long night out? I'd find it usefull.
posted by Ufez Jones at 2:30 PM on February 8, 2002

where you can have incoherent ramblings after a long night out?

Don't we already have that?
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:36 PM on February 8, 2002

coldchef, if you where click-ish, youd know i abhore alcohol. but that dont matter. i fell the same way about texas based snarks. (kaf is huffing O2 again....)
posted by clavdivs at 3:01 PM on February 8, 2002

*removes half-dead psychedelic toad from mouth*

What's happening, here, now?
posted by dong_resin at 3:49 PM on February 8, 2002

Does anyone have an animated gif of a bunny hopping around with a bottle of Jack Daniels on its head?
posted by aaron at 3:52 PM on February 8, 2002

By the way Bunnyfire, your posts in that thread are a tad disjointed and non-sequiterish, maybe, but don't really stand out as particularly BAD or anything. Besides, given that half the responses in the thread are nothing but one-line Reagan-bashing, and most of the other half are just discussion of Peggy Noonan, your posts melted perfectly into the morass.
posted by aaron at 3:55 PM on February 8, 2002

i totally agree with aaron. your comments aren't rabid or anything....don't worry about it.

talking about reagan is a refreshing change from bush/clinton/gore. perhaps we should all do some research and meet back here next week to talk about Hoover?

posted by th3ph17 at 4:17 PM on February 8, 2002

you mean people post here sober?
posted by jcterminal at 4:18 PM on February 8, 2002

that half the responses in the thread are nothing but one-line Reagan-bashing

you say that like it's a bad thing.
posted by jpoulos at 4:19 PM on February 8, 2002

Reagan would say something like that, `cause he's insane with the brainworms.
posted by dong_resin at 4:25 PM on February 8, 2002

Damn that Millard Fillmore!
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:29 PM on February 8, 2002

And don't even get me started on on that Chester A. Arthur guy!

What a joke! Sycophantic whiny little whig-ass mofo.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:29 PM on February 8, 2002

oh crap. That link is on drudge report.......

i need ice cream and i need it now.......
posted by bunnyfire at 4:55 PM on February 8, 2002

Heh.
This is quite a media niche we're carving for ourselves here at MeFi.

Outstanding.

*giggle*
posted by dong_resin at 5:01 PM on February 8, 2002

no,no,no,I meant Peggy Noonan's...that's how rumors get started....
posted by bunnyfire at 5:06 PM on February 8, 2002

Drat.
posted by dong_resin at 5:14 PM on February 8, 2002

Okay, now people are busting themselves to Metatalk?
posted by Charmian at 5:34 PM on February 8, 2002

On behalf of Bunnyfire, I wish to decry the fact that Bunnyfire is becoming all meta-police-ish. For petes sakes Bunnyfire, give Bunnyfire a break why don't 'ya?
posted by lucien at 6:06 PM on February 8, 2002

It's okay now....a bowl of fudge ripple can be a wondrous thing.

Time to turn off the computer.......
posted by bunnyfire at 6:25 PM on February 8, 2002

I guess I need to add a breathelizer...

Oh, God, no....anything but that!
posted by jonmc at 6:53 PM on February 8, 2002

*cries*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:53 PM on February 8, 2002

Now see what you've done?
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:55 PM on February 8, 2002

Esme: Stop it, my golden dog.

posted by y2karl at 9:41 PM on February 8, 2002

As I sit here with my straight up scotch and small water back I don't think the breathelizer thing is a good idea.
posted by bjgeiger at 9:54 PM on February 8, 2002

...pours jigger of Red label, (no spillage) emergency van passes-'WHAWAHNWAHNwahwahnwahaaahn... two stubby fingers push, almost drag the jigger toward the man in the fedora whose Cigar rests in a crystal ashtray (from belguim 6 euros wholesale)

Clavdivs: "go ahead, bottoms up, Fes will be here soon, he will have the leather. (diamonds) attempts to lite up a Dunhill with a pack of airforce-one matches (carter administration)

Clavdivs: "got a light?"...thanks...ever tell you how I hide in the ground floor bathroom at the white house during the Reagan years?...

Waiter:(brings phone to Miguel) sir, a Mr. Resin is calling.

Miguel: "Cie?, hello"
Clav: "hung up didnt he"
Miguel: "Cie"
Clavdivs: "he does that. hey, know why them gangsters in films and cartoons talk through thier teeth"
Migeul:"No"
Clavdivs:" In prison, in the yard, if one wanted to converse in secret, he needed to learn to talk through his teeth, ya know, with out the lips moving...'she, wheres your god now she'...enough chit-chat...this Braganza...you thinks its an Aquamarine...wanna find out?"
posted by clavdivs at 7:08 PM on February 9, 2002

DrunkFilter

Why, that's DruFi!
posted by iceberg273 at 8:24 PM on February 9, 2002

clavdivs = greatness.
posted by Optamystic at 8:44 PM on February 9, 2002

(swarm of DEA agents viciously kicking and pounding dong_resin)

Ow! Quit it!
He's not my "connection!" He's just this guy! I put in him my profile pic as a lark! I don't know what his deal is! Just gimme my phone back, you jack booted thugs, and he'll explain ev-

(hideous beating resumes)
posted by dong_resin at 9:20 PM on February 9, 2002

I'm just waiting for ClavFi.
posted by jpoulos at 9:41 PM on February 9, 2002

Dong's waitin for Miguel
twenty six dollars in his hand

Mig's never early
he's always late
first thing you learn
is that you always gotta wait

for...uh...
Portuguese cult novelists
posted by Kafkaesque at 9:57 PM on February 9, 2002

*removes half-dead psychedelic toad from mouth*

Class.
posted by Frasermoo at 12:26 AM on February 10, 2002

Beware one-eyed Bible salesmen....and git that toad-frog outta your mouth!
posted by bunnyfire at 3:39 AM on February 10, 2002

i have a letter, found in a book at one of those stall places, anyrate, it had a letter addressed to one william Lohman. the letter was one stationary from a bible press. seems our mr, Lohman was getting the push off 'cause his convassing' wasnt cuttin it in Buffalo. (circa 1896?) It is truly ironic and i often think perhaps Miller owned this book. then i wake and i see parisparmus is paris wqith henry miller, getting frida kahlo drunk. (letter is true, id like to post it but that is minutia)
posted by clavdivs at 8:47 AM on February 10, 2002

If anybody cares, I am feeling much better, by the way.....
posted by bunnyfire at 12:52 PM on February 10, 2002

buther bether, orth thummmph-
waith a mithuth...

*removes now fully-dead psychedelic toad from mouth*

Better better, or Meredith Baxter at the bittersweet end of the Lifetime afternoon movie better?
posted by dong_resin at 1:50 PM on February 10, 2002

dr, you are my hero...
posted by goneill at 1:58 PM on February 10, 2002

Now you've done it. I get to go see the pdoc tomorrow whilst thinking of dead psychedelic toads, which in no conceivable universe is ever a good idea.

But to answer your question, better better.

Now go brush your teeth, you got toad breath.
posted by bunnyfire at 3:37 PM on February 10, 2002

half the responses in the thread are nothing but one-line Reagan-bashing

As appropriate for an article that, content-wise, was little more than one-line Reagan-worshipping.
posted by daveadams at 3:51 PM on February 10, 2002

Dave, that anti-hijack hurt my brain. Gimme some warning next time, 'k?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:21 PM on February 10, 2002

bunny I think you need to quit calling so much attention to your various mental illnesses. If it's something you're trying to work out, that's cool, but you're going overboard with prefacing every thread (including this one) with something about your mental illness. I for one don't think it's healthy for you. As others have noted, your comments are not insane-sounding, they're pretty normal-- except for the inordinate amount of time you spend talking about how crazy you are and what medications you take. I know I am not your doctor, but I realize you want to be honest about it, but we get it already.
posted by chaz at 1:01 AM on February 11, 2002

that's what happens when it starts to kick up. If you were to check my posts since i have been around you wouldn't see any thing about it till recently. That is because things were stable till recently. When i am hypomanic I type way too much and too stupid, and i think I am funnier than Robin Williams. And most if not all personal boundaries fly out the window.

then on a morning like today, when things are again settling down and i am a rational human like most of the planet, I get left with the debris i have made of my life while things were unsettled.

I wonder how much Matt would have to be bribed to do a bit of judicious deleting.....

But I still think d.r. should brush his teeth regardless.
posted by bunnyfire at 3:58 AM on February 11, 2002

Lest you think that this is directed entirely at bunnyfire, let me correct you right away: it is not.

I cannot tell you how many posts I have aborted right after hitting preview. Certainly, there are many more comments that I have left unsaid than those that I have committed to the archive. That's one reason that the "preview" button is there, because it allows us to take a look at what we wrote and consider whether it is good enough to be read by thousands of others.

Show some restraint. If you are too drunk/tired/high/low or otherwise impaired to post, then don't post. If you do not have the self-control to not post something that you will later regret, then don't even read MeFi that day. Do not ask Matt to pull a thread or a post and become your surrogate conscience.

Now this is directed at bunnyfire. Bunnyfire, out of personal experience, I understand that mental illness is a difficult thing with which to deal. However, it is not a crutch, nor is it a free pass on your actions. When you are having difficulty, you should avoid activities that are not helpful. If you are looking for MeFi to provide some sort of therapy (and I apologize if I am drawing an assumption), then this is a poor place to do it, simply because most of the folks here are not familiar with mental illness, and you will probably not get the support that you want. I know (as does everyone else here) that you frequent other forums to get this support, and that is a Good Thing.

I wish you the best.
posted by Avogadro at 5:27 AM on February 11, 2002

Nope, not looking for therapy here. (not THATcrazy.) Now, let me just correct a small misunderstanding, and we can all be happy. The previous week's postings were symptomatic of my illness. I do get my support elsewhere, and fine support it is, too. To ask a bipolar in a flareup to show restraint is ridiculous. to ask a bipolar in a flareup to take her meds or go have some icecream is a little more reasonable. Now that i am in my right mind so to speak, I can now set up my own strategy to prevent what just happened from happening again; I do that all the time in other areas in my life out of necessity.

I enjoy metafilter because like the rest of you I am a curious and intelligent individual, and this place feeds that place in my head....the part of me that ran nuts this week is only a small part of who i am, and as soon as i can wrestle that part back into the attic (don't worry: the attic is fully furnished, has cable and internet access) I should be able to blend back into the MeFi community without attracting undue attention.

But I still may make a wisecrack once in awhile.
posted by bunnyfire at 5:53 AM on February 11, 2002

Now that i am in my right mind so to speak, I can now set up my own strategy to prevent what just happened from happening again...

That's all I am asking. Thank you.
posted by Avogadro at 6:05 AM on February 11, 2002