A spaceship landed in my yard and my son was abducted, how do i repair the burnt grass? September 27, 2008 2:12 PM Subscribe
just thought it was funny
posted by muddylemon at 2:25 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by muddylemon at 2:25 PM on September 27, 2008
It's not that he spent a night in jail, it's that he can't Use The Internets to find information as basic as declaring a string array in the most-used language of all time.
posted by 0xFCAF at 2:41 PM on September 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by 0xFCAF at 2:41 PM on September 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Call a lawyer and make sure the hispanic gentlemen repairing your lawn have the appropriate documentation.
posted by TedW at 2:41 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by TedW at 2:41 PM on September 27, 2008
just thought it was funny
Huzzah, now we can close this garbage up. Don't mock people just because their honest question has some easily-ignorable irrelevant bits in it; it makes you look like a shitheel and discourages people from using the resource.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 3:51 PM on September 27, 2008
Huzzah, now we can close this garbage up. Don't mock people just because their honest question has some easily-ignorable irrelevant bits in it; it makes you look like a shitheel and discourages people from using the resource.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 3:51 PM on September 27, 2008
It's only similar to that jokey advice column if you consider his having trespassed and been in jail to be the major problem he should be addressing. Which it doesn't necessarily have to be... it could have been a one time thing, entered a plea of guilty, and served his time. Case closed.
He could have mentioned it here because he doesn't want to ask his prof or classmates, and have to answer the "So... why weren't you there when we covered this?" questions.
posted by CKmtl at 4:03 PM on September 27, 2008
He could have mentioned it here because he doesn't want to ask his prof or classmates, and have to answer the "So... why weren't you there when we covered this?" questions.
posted by CKmtl at 4:03 PM on September 27, 2008
Huzzah, now we can close this garbage up. Don't mock people just because their honest question has some easily-ignorable irrelevant bits in it they found something funny that you didn't; it makes you look like a shitheel and discourages people from using the resource.
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:15 PM on September 27, 2008 [4 favorites]
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:15 PM on September 27, 2008 [4 favorites]
This is a lame callout and not particularly funny.
Any educator knows that *everyone* has different learning styles: kinesthetic, visual, experiential, etc. In this case, the OP probably has a verbal learning style - he has to talk it out, rather than looking for something he doesn't even know he should looking for (how do you do that?) on teh Intertubes.
Perfectly reasonable use of AskMe.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:17 PM on September 27, 2008 [5 favorites]
Any educator knows that *everyone* has different learning styles: kinesthetic, visual, experiential, etc. In this case, the OP probably has a verbal learning style - he has to talk it out, rather than looking for something he doesn't even know he should looking for (how do you do that?) on teh Intertubes.
Perfectly reasonable use of AskMe.
posted by KokuRyu at 4:17 PM on September 27, 2008 [5 favorites]
UbuRoivas, if I objected to the call-out because I thought the AskMe's wording wasn't funny and everyone who thought so was a bad, bad person, I would have said that. While you're completely entitled to respond to something I've said, I'll send you a MeMail if I ever need you to speak on my behalf. I apologize for my cranky tone, but that FTFY shit is annoying even when it isn't being used to completely misrepresent what the quoted person said or to paint them as a humourless prig.
My point stands; this is inappropriate, pointless and nonconstructive, and while I don't think muddylemon's intention was malicious, it's still a crap MeTa posted at the expense of someone who didn't do anything wrong.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 4:54 PM on September 27, 2008
My point stands; this is inappropriate, pointless and nonconstructive, and while I don't think muddylemon's intention was malicious, it's still a crap MeTa posted at the expense of someone who didn't do anything wrong.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 4:54 PM on September 27, 2008
I have nothing to add.
posted by doctor_negative at 5:21 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by doctor_negative at 5:21 PM on September 27, 2008
Alvy, forgive my crankiness, too. Tired & hung over here. I just thought muddylemon didn't deserve to be jumped on.
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:30 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:30 PM on September 27, 2008
Yeah, I should have toned down my first comment - not hungover, but very tired here. Sorry about that, muddylemon.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 5:38 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 5:38 PM on September 27, 2008
I missed this AskMe the first time around because I was making pizza. I put on sausage, fresh tomato, olives and banana peppers all topped off with grated Monterey Jack. So thanks for the link.
posted by DU at 5:41 PM on September 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by DU at 5:41 PM on September 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
This seems a little like a callout and I'm not really sure what's callout-worthy if you're not sort of making fun of the guy, so okay if I close this up?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:49 PM on September 27, 2008
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:49 PM on September 27, 2008
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by puke & cry at 2:18 PM on September 27, 2008