Be careful what you post, kids, for your reputation.

October 29, 2001 12:15 AM

careful what you post, kids, you never know what single thread will gain you a permanent reputation.

i swear i'm not an anti-SUV crusader

i guess i should have taken it to metatalk in the first place, so here i am.
posted by palegirl to MetaFilter-Related at 12:15 AM (27 comments total)

So, would you say that you're on a pro-trippy background campaign?
posted by sylloge at 12:52 AM on October 29, 2001

Hmmm... Interesting. And quite true and very unfortunate. But human stupidity and single-mindedness favour stereotyping something awful. You could quite easily become Not-Anti-SUV-Crusader-Person. People need quick tags for identification purposes. We can't take everything in; we're severely limited. We know of far too many people. Keeping track of them all makes us severely simplistic and hopelessly addicted to facile mnemonics, So I guess it's up to each one of us to keep trying to confuse and complexify the labels people stick on the back of our necks. You've certainly confused me!
Between you and me, palegirl - a permanent reputation for anything is quite difficult to acquire. Non-entities have it much worse. And, besides, I had no idea about the SUV thing. It's not at all obvious, to say the least. So your reputation is fine by me and all the other thousands of non-insiders. :-)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 1:12 AM on October 29, 2001

People will automatically try to put you inside an idealogical lockbox based on a few (or more) statements, and damn if you somehow step outside that "box". I consider myself center-left, fiscally conservative/socially moderate-liberal. This opens me up to attacks from both sides of the aisle. The liberals call me some sort of sell-out when I say they spend money on things stupidly, while conservatives call me a liberal/socialist/commie when I "have the nerve" to say the government should take some of their money. When you don't toe the line with whatever group they've lumped you in with, it starts some sort of fracas (see The Current Situation, my support of it).
posted by owillis at 1:19 AM on October 29, 2001

That's a great idea, Oliver - I myself would say I was a centre-right, fiscally socialist/socially moderate/culturally radical liberal with an anarchistic but strictly non-libertarian bent. Or a Jewish, conservative, big government, caviar-loving, guilt-ridden Hegelian with too many left-wing friends. Or just an indecisive jerk.
Perhaps all this should go into our user profiles so we all know where we stand.

Aaron? :-)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:36 AM on October 29, 2001

I claim the label "He Who Defies Labels." Please spell it right when you use it.
posted by rushmc at 6:21 AM on October 29, 2001

I'm quite enjoying the way you're completely overreacting here. One person (as far as I can tell) makes a single obscure reference to a thread everyone's forgotten, and you're behaving like there's some conspiracy.

And you were only being accused of not liking SUVs, not of child molesting or supporting gun control, so there's really no need for all this fuss.
posted by MarkC at 7:16 AM on October 29, 2001

I claim the lable, "He Who Defies Rushmc". Please address me as such from now on.
posted by gd779 at 7:29 AM on October 29, 2001

I claim the label, "The New Kottke." Or, if that's already taken, "The New New Kottke."
posted by kindall at 7:56 AM on October 29, 2001

palegirl, you think that's bad?
everyone thinks i'm a slut now.
posted by moz at 8:28 AM on October 29, 2001

When did "slut" become a pejorative?
posted by anapestic at 8:45 AM on October 29, 2001

The Current Situation

Are we talking about MiguelCardoso?
posted by daveadams at 9:06 AM on October 29, 2001

[MC] [I have a] strictly non-libertarian bent

Damn commie.
posted by daveadams at 9:08 AM on October 29, 2001

I'm glad I'm not stuck with a rep.
posted by sudama at 10:18 AM on October 29, 2001

I'm glad I'm not stuck with a rep.

*snickers*
posted by Avogadro at 10:24 AM on October 29, 2001

I'm glad I'm not stuck with a rep.

Sudama, you're only 16 -- you don't have a rep yet.
posted by snarkout at 10:46 AM on October 29, 2001

Sudama, you're only 16 -- you don't have a rep yet.

"You go to school to learn, not for a fashion show."
Snarkout just don't understand.
posted by ljromanoff at 11:38 AM on October 29, 2001

If the video of my friend and I lip-syncing to that song in 7th grade ever got around, I might get a rep.
posted by sudama at 11:52 AM on October 29, 2001

Did you play the part of Jeff, or the Prince?
posted by jpoulos at 12:42 PM on October 29, 2001

We were both Will Smith, it was like a Doublemint commercial.
posted by sudama at 1:06 PM on October 29, 2001

fwiw, I took his comment, palegirl, as a gentle tease, maybe as an olive leaf. "I recognize you! and we had that little difference a while back, but it doesn't really matter, does it? I kind of like you!"

that's how I read it.

sudama, will you post a link to that in your user profile? please?
posted by rebeccablood at 6:59 PM on October 29, 2001

No, no way. Uh-uh. Forget it.
posted by sudama at 8:01 PM on October 29, 2001

I've still got the tape of my friends and I doing "Sweet Child Of Mine"--complete with pyrotechnics via can of hair spray and a bic lighter.
posted by jpoulos at 9:10 PM on October 29, 2001

But why is palegirl so anti-SUV?
posted by andrew cooke at 1:52 AM on October 30, 2001

Who knows? It's like some kind of obsession with her, Andrew.
posted by rodii at 5:11 AM on October 30, 2001

I claim the lable, "He Who Defies Rushmc".

It's not you I'm watching out for; it's the guy with the label "He Who Defiles Rushmc"....
posted by rushmc at 6:16 AM on October 30, 2001

Calling The Palegirl...come in, Palegirl, do you read me? We have a thread in need of your support...
posted by moss at 9:11 AM on October 30, 2001

But why is palegirl so anti-SUV?

Check her gonzo ranting post about it back in May.
posted by ljromanoff at 3:14 PM on October 30, 2001