Are all of you crazy or in jail?

August 12, 2004 9:52 AM

Sometimes I wonder just how many MeFites write from mental hospitals or incarceration of various kinds (acutely confining job, marriage, jail, etc.). Not that there is anything wrong with that, just that the anger and the obsession quota seems to be quite high, and destructive.
posted by semmi to MetaFilter-Related at 9:52 AM (48 comments total)

There's a weird inverse Bell curve to this: things that are really important or really trivial incite peoples' passions. I would put the anger here down more to human nature than the fact that a one-week bit in solitary makes me want to shank the fucker in the bunk above mine.
posted by yerfatma at 9:57 AM on August 12, 2004

*stares up at the bottom of semmi's bunk, fidgets with shank*
posted by quonsar at 10:12 AM on August 12, 2004

The interactions are so savage because the stakes are so low.
posted by luser at 10:16 AM on August 12, 2004

You know what really pisses me off, semmi? The number of times you use words with the letter "E" in them. You're doing it just to piss me off. I swear to God I'm going cut you good!
posted by Mayor Curley at 10:17 AM on August 12, 2004

a one-week bit in solitary makes me want to shank the fucker in the bunk above mine.

Reminds me of an old joke - graffiti chalked above a urinal in an Oxford pub: 'Who is Armitage and what is shanking?'
posted by dash_slot- at 10:18 AM on August 12, 2004

Apparently, quonsar is a semmisexual.
posted by speedo at 10:18 AM on August 12, 2004

What the fuck are you talking about, huh? You're ALWAYS out to get people on this, especially me. You think you can control my mind with your littel JavaScript agents but I say FUCK YOU. My special validation helmet protects me. DIE MILKFACE!
posted by scarabic at 10:36 AM on August 12, 2004

Every time I get annoyed over other people's passions (for instance the grand importance of the em-dash), I just remember that I once uttered this outraged sentence:

"WHAT?!? The Urusei Yatsura TV show is so representative of Mamoru Oshii's work!"*

and suddenly feel very humble.

*If you understand this sentence, you have problems. If it made you angry, you have my kind of problems.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 10:44 AM on August 12, 2004

semmi: At least 95% of that 'anger' is grandstanding.
posted by mischief at 10:48 AM on August 12, 2004

That's what your momma said last night, you pribbling unwash'd bugbear!
posted by dhoyt at 11:01 AM on August 12, 2004

You know, for a site-wide callout with not even a single example to help make its point, this thread manages to do extraordinarily little to alleviate the problem it describes. Pointing out people's shitty marriages and mental illnesses can only fail to do wonders for the general tone, here. Unless... of course, you're offering yourself up as some kind of sacrifice, semmi, a magnet for all that verbal violence. hmm?

Where's Akeem with the broom handle when you really need him....
posted by scarabic at 11:06 AM on August 12, 2004

I can tell you from personal experience that internet access in mental hospitals is very limited.

Uh, no I can't.
posted by wendell at 11:12 AM on August 12, 2004

Spend some time on Usenet Semmi. This place is mild.
posted by Mitheral at 11:20 AM on August 12, 2004

The interactions are so savage because the stakes are so low.

Ah, just like grad school!
posted by scody at 11:25 AM on August 12, 2004

look, many people here think you're a dick, semmi. there's no need to get back at them (us?) posting a MeTa thread like "you guys are so nasty you must be in jail or in the loony bin or generally losers".
just grow a thicker skin.
;)
posted by matteo at 11:55 AM on August 12, 2004

Ummm...because it's the friggin' Internet?!!

I mean, seriously--I don't like all the huffing and puffing any more than you do, but the main reason most folks frequent this place is because it's like a bastion of reason and sanity compared to most of the rest of what's out there.
posted by LairBob at 11:55 AM on August 12, 2004

um. why did you decide to now post a question that's in your profile?
posted by Stynxno at 12:10 PM on August 12, 2004

Waitwaitwaitwait. MILKFACE, scarabic?

What kind of cockamamie pieceashit half-thought-out uninsulting insult is that supposed to be?

Or are you just jealous because semmi's milkface brings all the boys to the yard? Nyehhhh!

BTW and FWIW, I am not currently, touch wood, a shut-in or otherwise incarcerated.
posted by chicobangs at 12:12 PM on August 12, 2004

If someone really were confined, and this really was their only outlet and companion,
I think they would have gone insane a long time ago.
posted by milovoo at 12:26 PM on August 12, 2004

Think about it, semmi. Metafilter keeps us off the streets. Otherwise, we all would be in mental hospitals. Welcome to the club. Now get your bashing on!
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 12:29 PM on August 12, 2004

After reading semmi's profile:
"If MeFi represents a virtual macrocosm of society, then I find we are moving toward a police-state mindset."

Yes, but a self-policing police state, with a benevolent dictator! Unlike the real society (Patriot Act and all).
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 12:34 PM on August 12, 2004

fuck you
posted by bob sarabia at 12:51 PM on August 12, 2004

chicobangs - it's a reference to The Jerk. Remember the crazy mofo sniper who tried to take down Steve Martin, the gas attendant? Oh well. My Coming to America reference withered on the vine too. I'll stop bringing lame humor to this lame thread.

Hi bob! [waves] Fuck you too!
posted by scarabic at 1:02 PM on August 12, 2004

Everyone's a tough guy behind a keyboard.
posted by ChasFile at 1:18 PM on August 12, 2004

"I believe the carpet sweeper is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the consuming public."
On the contrary, I think it's the leaf blower.
posted by semmi at 1:40 PM on August 12, 2004

fuck you

that was my first reaction too.
posted by Stynxno at 1:58 PM on August 12, 2004

I have all sorts of problems, but I don't take them to MetaFilter. I mean, what the fuck is your problem ass cracker?
posted by tr33hggr at 1:59 PM on August 12, 2004

Does living in the United States count as incarceration?
posted by swift at 2:17 PM on August 12, 2004

um. why did you decide to now post a question that's in your profile?
Stynxno: My profile gets revised, as in today, it's my blogger without an archive.
posted by semmi at 2:52 PM on August 12, 2004

"Someone is trying to kill these cans!"

What's everyone's feeling on the Streetsweeper? Hoax or must have for every household?
posted by yerfatma at 3:17 PM on August 12, 2004

Hey, an anti-leeching script...
posted by inpHilltr8r at 4:18 PM on August 12, 2004

best post evar
posted by cohappy at 4:43 PM on August 12, 2004

+1, Best MetaTalk Troll Ever
posted by wackybrit at 5:41 PM on August 12, 2004

*fucks the kitten in the ass*
posted by bargle at 5:42 PM on August 12, 2004

DIE MILKFACE!

Best The Jerk reference evar. A 10 from the Russian judge.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:50 PM on August 12, 2004

Reading these postings
Makes me want you to choke on
A bucket of cocks
posted by Krrrlson at 9:34 PM on August 12, 2004

i ♥ chicobangs. the whole thread was worth semmi's milkface brings all the boys to the yard!
posted by quonsar at 9:50 PM on August 12, 2004

My department could pass for a mental institution. Does that count?

(PS. All the other flâneurs will mock you if you forget the circumflex.)
posted by octobersurprise at 6:04 AM on August 13, 2004

Has anyone actually determined how many cocks go into the average bucket?
posted by Jart at 6:54 AM on August 13, 2004

42.
posted by darukaru at 8:34 AM on August 13, 2004

23

/fnord
posted by papercake at 9:06 AM on August 13, 2004

Sometimes I wonder just how many MeFites write from mental hospitals or incarceration of various kinds...

I resent that remark.

(This comment was rough drafted in crayon on the floor on accounta this white tuxedo jacket, then the final, painstakingly-revised, spell-checked comment was typed on the keyboard with my toes.)

Also, WILL SOMONE PLEASE PHOTOSHOP A BUCKET-O-COCKS ALREADY!? C'mon, it's begging to be done. Or if someone has multiple dildoes, just toss 'em in a plastic bucket and snap a photo.
posted by Shane at 10:07 AM on August 13, 2004

Happy now?
posted by Krrrlson at 10:59 AM on August 13, 2004

*chuckle*
posted by Shane at 11:12 AM on August 13, 2004

nice one, Krrrlson! That's a Martha-worthy bucket o' cocks if such a thing can exist.
posted by scarabic at 11:49 AM on August 13, 2004

Box-O'-Cocks might've been a better meme; it rhymes. Not quite the same visual impact, though.
Yeh, nice photoshopping, Krrlson.
posted by Shane at 12:16 PM on August 13, 2004

*101st Keyboard Division advances on semmi's outpost. Prepares to fire bucket o' cocks.*
posted by haqspan at 1:57 PM on August 13, 2004

Wow, you must have caught Wendell on his day off.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 6:10 PM on August 13, 2004