MetaTalk posts tagged with iraq

National Lampoon's Palestinian Vacation

WCityMike — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:56:50 -0800

Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.

IraqFilter Really Sucks.

Slap Factory — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:51:08 -0800

IraqFilter Is Awful. Is there some wide swath of MeFi users who derive a lot of enjoyment or benefit out of posts like this, which seem to surface whenever somebody pens an op-ed that criticizes the Iraq war (i.e., fairly frequently)? Here's the pattern: (1) op-ed is published; (2) op-ed is copied to MeFi; (3) posters say how bad President Bush is; (4) a poster or two will defend the administration; and (4) posters will attack the defenders until they no longer respond. Am I the only one who thinks that is tedious?

Sidebarred comment about Intentional Instability Model is a conspiracy theory

russilwvong — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:31:24 -0800

I see that jefgodesky's summary of Jeff Vail's "Intentional Instability Model" has been linked to the sidebar. I suppose this is somewhat subjective, but I'd describe it as a conspiracy theory backed by no evidence whatsoever, not really the best of MetaFilter.

The historical description of British policy also seems completely bogus to me. The British regarded the Middle East as their lifeline to India. It makes no sense for them to have deliberately set up Iraq to fail.

Did ParisParamus really join the Army?

eustacescrubb — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:17:52 -0800

Did ParisParamus really join the Army?

Tired of bush/iraq/war/terror posts

sjvilla79 — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:29:18 -0800

Could someone skilled in JavaScript please compose a script for the Firefox extension Greasemonkey that will remove any FPP with "Bush", "Iraq", or "War on Terror" appearing in the text? It would also be great if this script could allow custom word filtering.

MetaFilter Members In Iraq

Mo Nickels — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:30:16 -0800

Are there any members who are serving or have served in Iraq? Any members who live, or have constant contact with someone who lives, in Iraq? If you're willing, I have language-related questions, both about American military usage and colloquial modern Iraqi Arabic. Email me at the address on the web site linked in my profile.

What neverending ax grinding?

If I Had An Anus — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:26:55 -0800

uh, what neverending ax grinding? More inside.

Memories...misty water-colored memories...

amberglow — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:56:13 -0800

Memories...misty water-colored memories...

ahhh--it takes me back to the olden days in the blue. good times, good times. ; >

Too graphic for the front page?

specialk420 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:01:45 -0800

too graphic for metafilter?

Consequences of FPP'ing a blog of someone in Iraq

insomnia_lj — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 06:19:39 -0800

I dislike it when friends of mine in Iraq are accidentally FPP'ed, when I know for a fact that they could potentially get in trouble for even having a weblog and depend upon "anonymity through numbers" to get away with it.

1> Could this link be fixed to point to the true link?

2> Can we establish some kind of method to quote/reference content that cannot, for security reasons, be linked to? Could a few trusted individuals, for example, check out sources/links of material privately?

For instance, I regularly read things in soldier's private journals that I cannot and will not link to because it could get the people in question into serious trouble. I would like to share such things, but if the links become public, then the sources face having their lives destroyed.

New policy on election/iraq/political posts?

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:22:34 -0800

So, I notice there's a link in the sidebar to Devoter, and I was just wondering: is there a new policy about election/iraq/political posts? Should they be moved over to Devoter? Are you going to start deleting political threads here, Matt?

Dangerous precedent?

jammer — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:28:58 -0800

Am I alone in thinking that this thread could be setting a dangerous precedent? I spend more time reading the green than the blue these days, because it is 99.4% apolitical. ISTM that questions like that, which are clearly attempts to produce support for an exisiting agenda, rather than an actual request for knowledge, are just a stonesthrow away from the craptacular mess that the blue becomes alot of the time.

Sloppy journalists fall for fake news

PenDevil — Wed, 26 May 2004 10:43:14 -0800

Did Rumsfeld ban cameraphones in Iraq?(Follow up to this thread) Seems sloppy journalists fell for fake news from the web. Again.

Dances, sings, quips, shoots Americans on sight

clavdivs — Sat, 01 May 2004 10:09:27 -0800

*dances, sings, quips, shoots Americans on sight*
This strikes me as a bit over the top. (MI)

IraqFilter, I/P, staying on topic

BlueTrain — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:30:38 -0800

Re: Iraq.
Kinda playing off of what stavros was hinting at a couple of posts ago. More inside.

Please no Iraq posts

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:28:32 -0800

As ineffective as the injunction against Iraq-related threads on the posting page was, maybe something similar might be a good idea to head off what is certain to grow into an onslaught of suboptimal posts like this one over the coming months.

sidebar link broken; what was it?

clavdivs — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:37:56 -0800

'Dec 21
MetaFilter in Iraq. Thanks Jeremy!'

From the front page side bar. Is the link broken or down?

What were we talking about again?

Happydaz — Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:28:37 -0800

I'm a big fan of IraqFilter, but when we post new developments like this thread by Postroad, can we provide a little direction about what's supposed to be discussed? Perhaps it might lessen the flamewars/snarkyness that ensues. [more inside]

No longer impending

armoured-ant — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:23:45 -0800

From here:
If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider, as the topic has been discussed previously many times.
Um. Impending?
I know - a minor quibble.

Different thread, same topic

monju_bosatsu — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:55:04 -0800

Surely we don't need another thread on the Hussein boys so soon, do we?

Update text re Iraq

jonson — Sun, 01 Jun 2003 22:30:41 -0800

Just a quick quibble - as the war in Iraq is no longer "impending", can we (well, you) edit the Post a Link page to either remove or update the warning to potential warfilter posters?

the I-word

specialk420 — Thu, 15 May 2003 09:02:38 -0800

is "I" word off limits from this point forward?

Iraqulence - a simple notion for screening Iraq posts.

troutfishing — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:58:02 -0800

Iraqulence - a simple notion for screening Iraq posts. What is Iraqulence? Well, obviously, it is like flatulence in that it's smell can drive many from the Metafilter "room", while those who stay become irritable and fling invectives around.

Iraqulence tends to involve posts about stories which are divisive and could be perhaps framed in a less inflammatory way, yes, but it is also NewsFilterish, tending towards stories which might very well prove - the following day - to have been unfounded ("The US thinks it may have killed Saddam in a bombing attack (but maybe not) or have questionable significance and lack scope - or both ( perhaps "Exclusive Middle East sources have tracked down top Iraqi leader's bolt Hole?" - Not to point fingers too accusingly, as I've broken all these principles many times myself ).

Metafilter is like totally Iraqfilter and stuff

Ljubljana — Sun, 30 Mar 2003 07:28:57 -0800

Hey, have you noticed that Metafilter is like totally Iraqfilter and stuff? Of course you haven't. But this guy has. Over and over and over and over and over and over again! Maybe it's time to put Metafilter=Iraqfilter on the sideglob, so as to save people the time of typing it in every post?

The very worst kind of IraqFilter thread

Space Coyote — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:03:04 -0800

This is an example of the very worst kind of IraqFilter thread. Grabbing the first news story on a subject, a Fark-style minimal headline and people getting out the popcorn for a surely ensuing flamewar.

Can we please not have anymore crap like this on MeFi? There are many other places to get information like this.