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Click on "My Profile". Click on the number to the right of "Favorited by others:". Click on the word "Popular". Copy and paste the top result into this MeTa thread (with hyperlink).
This post was deleted for the following reason: Poster's Request -- loup
This comment got 89 favorites - but it was just a C.S. Lewis quote, so he gets the credit.
This one with 76 favorites is all mine.
Much to my surprise, my Square Foot Gardening post got 69 favorites - twice as many as any of my others.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:41 PM on June 25, 2009
This one with 76 favorites is all mine.
Much to my surprise, my Square Foot Gardening post got 69 favorites - twice as many as any of my others.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:41 PM on June 25, 2009
Love the title, by the way.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:42 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Joe Beese at 7:42 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
if you ever find yourself trying to decide between two people you aren't ready for either of them.
posted by nadawi at 7:48 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by nadawi at 7:48 PM on June 25, 2009
I'm a lightweight, but I have this one.
The comment I made immediately afterward, which was the point of the story, was almost completely ignored.
posted by mrmojoflying at 7:49 PM on June 25, 2009
The comment I made immediately afterward, which was the point of the story, was almost completely ignored.
posted by mrmojoflying at 7:49 PM on June 25, 2009
The most I've gotten is 20 favorites for seventy space elevators.
posted by hattifattener at 7:49 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by hattifattener at 7:49 PM on June 25, 2009
"You know, MeTa is not so that we can have Nerd Thunderdome. If you have an issue with one specific person, your options are email, MeMail, getting over it, pie, hugging a tree or something I'm sure I haven't though of...."
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:55 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:55 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
I've gotten 33 for this story about an acquaintance whose baby died at birth.
posted by not that girl at 7:55 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by not that girl at 7:55 PM on June 25, 2009
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Accounting
posted by velvet winter at 7:56 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by velvet winter at 7:56 PM on June 25, 2009
jessamyn: ""You know, MeTa is not so that we can have Nerd Thunderdome. ... "
In fairness, you owe a lot of those favorites to me being so unpopular.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:57 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
In fairness, you owe a lot of those favorites to me being so unpopular.
posted by Joe Beese at 7:57 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
From the post about Obama's racism speech (135)
It was also the first time I posted a comment to the blue; I was too nervous to say anything for a while after I finally joined.
posted by Nattie at 7:57 PM on June 25, 2009
It was also the first time I posted a comment to the blue; I was too nervous to say anything for a while after I finally joined.
posted by Nattie at 7:57 PM on June 25, 2009
"Here's the thing: it's not the inexperience--experience as such is not necessarily dispositive--she's not accomplished. She's not a policy wonk; she does not have academic credentials; she has virtually no legislative experience of any kind;..."
posted by kosem at 7:58 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by kosem at 7:58 PM on June 25, 2009
G*******t, I swear too f***ing much.
My favorite response to the post came from thejanna. Struck by lightning? In a bank robbery? Three kids? Still swears? Dude, he has ENOUGH POINTS.)
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:58 PM on June 25, 2009
My favorite response to the post came from thejanna. Struck by lightning? In a bank robbery? Three kids? Still swears? Dude, he has ENOUGH POINTS.)
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:58 PM on June 25, 2009
In a huge and cool thread on "womyns lands".
posted by Iteki at 7:59 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Iteki at 7:59 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
That was a darn good comment indeed, Iteki.
posted by not that girl at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by not that girl at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
This limerick. If we had an edit feature, I'd change the third line to "war is nasty and gory" I reckon.
posted by Abiezer at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Abiezer at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
My top rated post: Free First Person Shooters for All! with 140 favorites at time of writing.
My top rated comment: Should we care about Carl Lundström's xenophobia? 52 faves at present.
Of course, favorites aren't the best indicator of popularity, I think. Flagging would be a better indicator but I think those stats are available to the mods only. I'd love if flagging stats were made available for all to see, if only so I could see what my most 'Flagged as Best Post/Comment' was. I daresay there would be some disparity between my most favorited post and my most flagged post.
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
My top rated comment: Should we care about Carl Lundström's xenophobia? 52 faves at present.
Of course, favorites aren't the best indicator of popularity, I think. Flagging would be a better indicator but I think those stats are available to the mods only. I'd love if flagging stats were made available for all to see, if only so I could see what my most 'Flagged as Best Post/Comment' was. I daresay there would be some disparity between my most favorited post and my most flagged post.
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:01 PM on June 25, 2009
"This article was devastating to read. It's a phenomenal piece of journalism, but mostly I'm sitting here imagining the snap of a sniper's bullet going right past my ear."
posted by scrump at 8:02 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by scrump at 8:02 PM on June 25, 2009
Meet my parents. Who will be voting Democratic in this election and voted that way in the Primaries after a lifetime of voting Republican. (And they did, too. I was so proud.)
posted by jeanmari at 8:04 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by jeanmari at 8:04 PM on June 25, 2009
That was a darn good comment indeed, Iteki.
It was and was pleased to see I'd had the sense to favourite it at the time.
posted by Abiezer at 8:05 PM on June 25, 2009
It was and was pleased to see I'd had the sense to favourite it at the time.
posted by Abiezer at 8:05 PM on June 25, 2009
(Oh, and since it doesn't crop up until much later in the thread, the 'Forgotten?' thing is now on the Wiki: Shadowy Back Alleys)
posted by carsonb at 8:06 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by carsonb at 8:06 PM on June 25, 2009
In My Language is the huge outlier in my posting history. I found a great YouTube video, posted a link, and went back to work. It's the discussion and the extensive participation of silentmiaow herself in the thread that make this one.
posted by maudlin at 8:06 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by maudlin at 8:06 PM on June 25, 2009
You know, it's quite a strange thing. The single most common adjective applied to Mister Rogers in this and other thread is the word 'creepy'?
posted by Pastabagel at 8:11 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Pastabagel at 8:11 PM on June 25, 2009
MeTa is not your facebook.
posted by klangklangston at 8:11 PM on June 25, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by klangklangston at 8:11 PM on June 25, 2009 [3 favorites]
The Straightener likes this.
posted by The Straightener at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by The Straightener at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
Is this something I'd need to be in a pissing contest to understand?
Very well. This divorce-prevention comment was favorited 38 times.
posted by The Deej at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009
Very well. This divorce-prevention comment was favorited 38 times.
posted by The Deej at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009
This thread is shaping up to be nifty. Hopefully more than 182 people will favorite it, just for maximum meta value.
My contribution: the constant risk calculations that come with being female.
posted by fermion at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009
My contribution: the constant risk calculations that come with being female.
posted by fermion at 8:12 PM on June 25, 2009
i'm not posting my result because it has a typo.
posted by lester at 8:13 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by lester at 8:13 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
This comment with a Chris Rock quote was favorited 60 times. I take all credit.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 8:14 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 8:14 PM on June 25, 2009
Talking Heads, Rome 1980, and the links are still good!
posted by Meatbomb at 8:16 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Meatbomb at 8:16 PM on June 25, 2009
Classic Animation Remixed -- still the most favorited post of all time (although Ambrosia Voyeaur's delicious Indian cooking post is very close). Most favorited *post*, btw -- Pastabagel's Mr. Rogers restrospective has nearly double the favorites, and Astro Zombie's Pixar story has more than 800.
Still... my obsession with childhood ephemera is so vindicated. *goes to watch cartoons on YouTube*
posted by Rhaomi at 8:16 PM on June 25, 2009
Still... my obsession with childhood ephemera is so vindicated. *goes to watch cartoons on YouTube*
posted by Rhaomi at 8:16 PM on June 25, 2009
Top rated post: Learn About the Stock Market While Wasting Time Online
Top rated comment: I got married in an alley, next to a dumpster...
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:18 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
Top rated comment: I got married in an alley, next to a dumpster...
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:18 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
MeTa is not your facebook.
painquale likes this.
posted by painquale at 8:20 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
painquale likes this.
posted by painquale at 8:20 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
Bah, The Straightener beat me to the obvious joke. Should have previewed.
posted by painquale at 8:21 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by painquale at 8:21 PM on June 25, 2009
The Recently Deflowered Girl
If you actually wanted to read the subject matter of the post, the best you can do is here. Or I might have the whole thing saved at work, I can't remember.
posted by peep at 8:22 PM on June 25, 2009
If you actually wanted to read the subject matter of the post, the best you can do is here. Or I might have the whole thing saved at work, I can't remember.
posted by peep at 8:22 PM on June 25, 2009
Apparently the erratically-punctuated tale of a fluky game of pool as some strained metaphor for the Star Wars series struck a chord with lot of people.
A quick look at my profile also reveals that the second popular thing I have ever written here also involved Star Wars. My posting history does not, I think, reveal an obsession with Star Wars but these two posts account for about 10% of all the favorites I have ever garnered.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:25 PM on June 25, 2009
A quick look at my profile also reveals that the second popular thing I have ever written here also involved Star Wars. My posting history does not, I think, reveal an obsession with Star Wars but these two posts account for about 10% of all the favorites I have ever garnered.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 8:25 PM on June 25, 2009
For me it's a dead heat right now between (a) that time that I put a tremendous amount of work into researching, writing, annotating, composing, arranging, and recording a Mefi-centric parody of a well-loved indierock tune and (b) that other time that I banned someone.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:26 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:26 PM on June 25, 2009
Motherfucker, I can't even get my own shit straight. The 88 Lines thing was what I was thinking of, but the actual tied thing there is the time that IRFH put in the pile of writing work, and my brother sat through the recording work, and there was very little annotating, and, basically, I think the key thing here is that if I were going to pick a thing to be the most-favorited thing I ever did it would not be the thing that is actually the most-favorited thing I did.
And I suppose that's a sentiment that extends to a fairly broad spectrum of human experience as far as how effort and reward align, or fail to do so.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:29 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
And I suppose that's a sentiment that extends to a fairly broad spectrum of human experience as far as how effort and reward align, or fail to do so.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:29 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
Bookhouse: "I'm not proud of mine."
Holy shit... Almost 1,600 posts about McCain postponing the debates?
We sure were all excited by that election.
posted by Joe Beese at 8:36 PM on June 25, 2009
Holy shit... Almost 1,600 posts about McCain postponing the debates?
We sure were all excited by that election.
posted by Joe Beese at 8:36 PM on June 25, 2009
No time for games, spouses to deal with...
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:40 PM on June 25, 2009 [3 favorites]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:40 PM on June 25, 2009 [3 favorites]
Help break a 3-way tie!
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and other mnemonic devices wanted.
You run away Not screaming, like a 12 year old girl.
Oh, so you're a [insert profession here]! How [insert whacky generalization and misguided curiosity here]?
posted by iamkimiam at 8:41 PM on June 25, 2009
In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and other mnemonic devices wanted.
You run away Not screaming, like a 12 year old girl.
Oh, so you're a [insert profession here]! How [insert whacky generalization and misguided curiosity here]?
posted by iamkimiam at 8:41 PM on June 25, 2009
No time for games, spouses to deal with...
posted by Brandon Blatcher
Yeah, I'm feeling neglected.
posted by The Deej at 8:43 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Brandon Blatcher
Yeah, I'm feeling neglected.
posted by The Deej at 8:43 PM on June 25, 2009
It's the Ferris Bueller Fight Club Theory, of course.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:43 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:43 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
Expanding Ritchie's perceptive comment about why Jon Stewart's take down of Cramer was so successful: Stewart pins Cramer down for one of his lies...[] Which is what a journalist or a reporter is supposed to do, for Christ's sake. Plus it had that nifty quote about journalism being something that someone doesn't want reported.
posted by harriet vane at 8:45 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by harriet vane at 8:45 PM on June 25, 2009
She loves you like she loves Big Macs, roller coasters and lizards.
19 faves.
posted by sunshinesky at 8:50 PM on June 25, 2009
19 faves.
posted by sunshinesky at 8:50 PM on June 25, 2009
Context: therapy to cure the gay.
"This subject never fails to make me sad. It just brings me immediately back to being a kid and wanting so much to just be normal that I would do ANYTHING. Pray? Sure. Take these pills? Absolutely. Hate myself? Happy to! Cry myself to sleep? You bet.
Thankfully, the only thing that was "just a phase" was the self-loathing."
Originally here.
posted by greekphilosophy at 8:54 PM on June 25, 2009
"This subject never fails to make me sad. It just brings me immediately back to being a kid and wanting so much to just be normal that I would do ANYTHING. Pray? Sure. Take these pills? Absolutely. Hate myself? Happy to! Cry myself to sleep? You bet.
Thankfully, the only thing that was "just a phase" was the self-loathing."
Originally here.
posted by greekphilosophy at 8:54 PM on June 25, 2009
"Why do these Christians only obsess over sexual issues, like gays, masturbation, birth control, sex ed? Why do they never seem to obsess over the over-full prisons, or fairness to the poor, or adequate health care, or government torture? The..." [more]
favorited 181 times
posted by orthogonality at 8:56 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 181 times
posted by orthogonality at 8:56 PM on June 25, 2009
roll truck roll: "sigh"
I still can't get over the fact that Google took that database down (previously). Such a fascinating resource, wasted.
posted by Rhaomi at 9:01 PM on June 25, 2009
I still can't get over the fact that Google took that database down (previously). Such a fascinating resource, wasted.
posted by Rhaomi at 9:01 PM on June 25, 2009
I've never understood the appeal of morphine, in any form I've had it,
THAT'S GREAT I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT CAN I HAVE YOUR LEFTOVER MORPHINE PLEASE
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:02 PM on June 25, 2009
THAT'S GREAT I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT CAN I HAVE YOUR LEFTOVER MORPHINE PLEASE
posted by infinitywaltz at 9:02 PM on June 25, 2009
My sole claim to MetaFame:
MeFi post: Good grief!
favorited 146 times
posted by evilcolonel at 9:07 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: Good grief!
favorited 146 times
posted by evilcolonel at 9:07 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: So crescent fresh!
favorited 113 times
posted by not_on_display at 9:08 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 113 times
posted by not_on_display at 9:08 PM on June 25, 2009
"I am a boring dork" - 17 favorites. Really, though, you should scroll down and read grumblebee's response with 401 favorites.
posted by selfmedicating at 9:09 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by selfmedicating at 9:09 PM on June 25, 2009
I stopped listening to Cortex's "mathowie's community blog" after the bit about celebrity pederasty. even though it was recorded in 2006, today, it is too soon.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 9:12 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Cold Lurkey at 9:12 PM on June 25, 2009
Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustrations: 38 favorites
posted by thomas j wise at 9:13 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by thomas j wise at 9:13 PM on June 25, 2009
1. "Gosh, neo-Nazis are dumb."
2. "Gosh, San Francisco is dumb."
3. "Gosh, Sarah Palin is dumb."
4. "Gosh, rich people are dumb."
5. "Gosh, Japan is dumb."
6. "Gosh, cancer patients are dumb."
7. "Gosh, mathowie is dumb."
8. "Gosh, fat people are dumb."
9. "Gosh, Darth Vader is dumb."
10. "Gosh, David Sedaris is dumb."
What can I say? They're not my favorites.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:14 PM on June 25, 2009 [6 favorites]
2. "Gosh, San Francisco is dumb."
3. "Gosh, Sarah Palin is dumb."
4. "Gosh, rich people are dumb."
5. "Gosh, Japan is dumb."
6. "Gosh, cancer patients are dumb."
7. "Gosh, mathowie is dumb."
8. "Gosh, fat people are dumb."
9. "Gosh, Darth Vader is dumb."
10. "Gosh, David Sedaris is dumb."
What can I say? They're not my favorites.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:14 PM on June 25, 2009 [6 favorites]
Here's mine:
MeFi post: Afterlife and the Mind
favorited 81 times
posted by amyms at 9:15 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: Afterlife and the Mind
favorited 81 times
posted by amyms at 9:15 PM on June 25, 2009
My little Reagan rip off. no I'm not giving him any credit<>
posted by nudar at 9:16 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by nudar at 9:16 PM on June 25, 2009
Loved that post, frobozz. +1 favorite.
This is a cool thread! Lots of great stuff I missed before. More please!
posted by velvet winter at 9:19 PM on June 25, 2009
This is a cool thread! Lots of great stuff I missed before. More please!
posted by velvet winter at 9:19 PM on June 25, 2009
Yeah, I'm feeling neglected.
Call the front office and set up an appointment.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:23 PM on June 25, 2009
Call the front office and set up an appointment.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:23 PM on June 25, 2009
My most favorited is this comment about living with borderline personality disorder. Which I'm happy about. BPD remains a reviled and misunderstood illness, and I wish more people knew something about what it's like to suffer from it, instead of just knowing how terrible borderline people can be.
posted by bookish at 9:32 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by bookish at 9:32 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
*opens freezer*
The key to making the best possible banana-based smoothie, see, is to freeze the bananas ahead of time...
posted by mediareport at 9:45 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
The key to making the best possible banana-based smoothie, see, is to freeze the bananas ahead of time...
posted by mediareport at 9:45 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
"The unscrupulous have the command of much of this kind of knowledge without our aid"
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 9:48 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 9:48 PM on June 25, 2009
Had favorites existed in 2005, I am convinced that this post, on Cute Overload, would have garnered the most.
But as it stands, it looks like it's this MeTa comment, which cannot be reproduced here due to techno-philosophical shifts among the administrators since then. Plus, on top of that, even clicking through won't display properly in everyone's current browser of choice unless you've switched to Chrome (PC) or stuck with Safari (Mac). I think I may have reached obsolescence.
As it appears on the favorites page:
"|| || | O| || | | | || | ^| || | 5 | || | 7 8 | || | (this has been in preview on a hidden tab at work for four days now. with everyone gone, i might as well post it)..." [more]
posted by nobody at 9:49 PM on June 25, 2009
But as it stands, it looks like it's this MeTa comment, which cannot be reproduced here due to techno-philosophical shifts among the administrators since then. Plus, on top of that, even clicking through won't display properly in everyone's current browser of choice unless you've switched to Chrome (PC) or stuck with Safari (Mac). I think I may have reached obsolescence.
As it appears on the favorites page:
"|| || | O| || | | | || | ^| || | 5 | || | 7 8 | || | (this has been in preview on a hidden tab at work for four days now. with everyone gone, i might as well post it)..." [more]
posted by nobody at 9:49 PM on June 25, 2009
MeTa comment: "Oh, and you gotta try this: Spicy Roasted Cauliflower 1 head cauliflower, cut into florets 1 or 2 tablespoons olive oil ½ teaspoon brown mustard seeds ½ teaspoon ground coriander ½ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon whole cumin seeds ¼ teaspoon..." [more]
favorited 26 times
It's a recipe I posted in Metatalk of course, I think I'm getting tired of playing this game, I need a new gimmick.
posted by zinfandel at 9:50 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 26 times
It's a recipe I posted in Metatalk of course, I think I'm getting tired of playing this game, I need a new gimmick.
posted by zinfandel at 9:50 PM on June 25, 2009
My tribute to the animation of Don Hertzfeldt (77)
posted by filthy light thief at 9:53 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by filthy light thief at 9:53 PM on June 25, 2009
If 500 people favorite this comment, I'll delete my account.
posted by hermitosis at 9:56 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by hermitosis at 9:56 PM on June 25, 2009
Sometimes a find just has your name on it:
MeFi post: Chronophage
favorited 61 times
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:58 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: Chronophage
favorited 61 times
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:58 PM on June 25, 2009
40 favorites for armchair-analyzing the armchair analysts.
posted by aquafortis at 10:00 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by aquafortis at 10:00 PM on June 25, 2009
If you like that, you may also enjoy this, from here.
posted by interrobang at 11:20 AM on May 3, 2008 [56 favorites +] [!]
posted by interrobang at 10:04 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
posted by interrobang at 11:20 AM on May 3, 2008 [56 favorites +] [!]
posted by interrobang at 10:04 PM on June 25, 2009 [2 favorites]
Had favorites existed in 2005,
Don't play that game, you'll make Joe Beese cry.
posted by mediareport at 10:05 PM on June 25, 2009
Don't play that game, you'll make Joe Beese cry.
posted by mediareport at 10:05 PM on June 25, 2009
Mine is pithy and short.
Incidentally, I'm now at 999 favoritings, and I'm looking forward to the little certificate for 1000.
posted by Tomorrowful at 10:13 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
Incidentally, I'm now at 999 favoritings, and I'm looking forward to the little certificate for 1000.
posted by Tomorrowful at 10:13 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
posted by Four-Eyed Girl at 10:15 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Four-Eyed Girl at 10:15 PM on June 25, 2009
Since my Pixar comment has already been mentioned, and since it is really about how awesome Pixar is, and how awesome my girlfriend is, I'll mention my next most popular comment, in which I compliment Colin Powell not only for repudiating the standard that Obama is Muslim, but for reminding us that, even if he were, it shouldn't matter.
My next most favorited is my theory that even Sam Jackson doesn't remember a lot of the films he makes, and it still makes me laugh, at least.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:17 PM on June 25, 2009
My next most favorited is my theory that even Sam Jackson doesn't remember a lot of the films he makes, and it still makes me laugh, at least.
posted by Astro Zombie at 10:17 PM on June 25, 2009
Why to I have to do what you say?
I don't.
I don't have to go through your series of clicks. So I won't.
posted by longsleeves at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2009
I don't.
I don't have to go through your series of clicks. So I won't.
posted by longsleeves at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2009
46 for making fun of ColdChef.
posted by Captain Cardanthian! at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Captain Cardanthian! at 10:30 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
114 wonder if "I Saw U" ads in The Stranger really work.
posted by maxwelton at 10:32 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by maxwelton at 10:32 PM on June 25, 2009
Reacting to an article that offered instructions on "How To Deal With Negative People" and how one might become more Positive, I suggested that, rather than aiming for either end of the battery, one should instead strive for accuracy.
posted by Clay201 at 10:40 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by Clay201 at 10:40 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: I like to watch.
favorited 317 times
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:42 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 317 times
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:42 PM on June 25, 2009
96 favorites, probably because it was sidebarred soon after I posted it (to my shock) -- I give you the tale of the eyepatch scrapbook.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:54 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:54 PM on June 25, 2009
So when everyone recently was arguing about obesity, and whether people really can claim that it's due to some sort of condition, and why don't fat people just stop eating so much, and doesn't everyone know that being overweight is just asking to die? I offered my experience about the conditions that led me to gain weight, the reasons why I didn't just stop eating so much, and how I'm pretty dang healthy anyway thankyouverymuch.
Lots of people seemed to like my post, but it had almost no effect whatsoever on the argument taking place.
That sort of thing happens a lot.
posted by Ms. Saint at 10:56 PM on June 25, 2009
Lots of people seemed to like my post, but it had almost no effect whatsoever on the argument taking place.
That sort of thing happens a lot.
posted by Ms. Saint at 10:56 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi comment: "Google should deliver the data on floppies." [more]
favorited 74 times
posted by emelenjr at 10:57 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 74 times
posted by emelenjr at 10:57 PM on June 25, 2009
Fun stuff. I too have a pretty close tie between Shoes For Butho and Getting Rid of Yourself (from a deleted thread, no less). Post with most favorites: Why are you talking at me?
posted by allkindsoftime at 11:13 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by allkindsoftime at 11:13 PM on June 25, 2009
Sigh... Fire protein torpedos!
I've been commenting here for years and that's my most popular :(
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:19 PM on June 25, 2009
I've been commenting here for years and that's my most popular :(
posted by BrotherCaine at 11:19 PM on June 25, 2009
It's actually kind of sad how proud of this post I am and how happy it made me.
MeFi post: Comic Sans.
posted by GuyZero at 11:22 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: Comic Sans.
posted by GuyZero at 11:22 PM on June 25, 2009
Also, while this back-patting-fest is fun, you could have done this in half an hour with the infodump and a little SQL. Just sayin'.
posted by GuyZero at 11:25 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by GuyZero at 11:25 PM on June 25, 2009
Also, I get another fave on that post every couple months. I think there's been maybe another 6-10 favouritings in '09. For whatever that's worth.
posted by GuyZero at 11:27 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by GuyZero at 11:27 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: Images of unknown provenance
favorited 130 times
*sigh* adds 'brokenlink' tag - myspace.
posted by tellurian at 11:29 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
favorited 130 times
*sigh* adds 'brokenlink' tag - myspace.
posted by tellurian at 11:29 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
Mine is an Ask Me answer that was pretty much just me paraphrasing my friend Chris.
posted by lore at 11:30 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by lore at 11:30 PM on June 25, 2009
But happily my second still works:
MeFi post: They carried the joys and sorrows of those living with the sea
favorited 94 times
posted by tellurian at 11:33 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: They carried the joys and sorrows of those living with the sea
favorited 94 times
posted by tellurian at 11:33 PM on June 25, 2009
Ask comment: "I think you need to learn how to communicate." [more]
favorited 75 times
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:34 PM on June 25, 2009
favorited 75 times
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 11:34 PM on June 25, 2009
Is there still any MeFite who believes Favoriites are "just bookmarks"?
posted by Cranberry at 11:39 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Cranberry at 11:39 PM on June 25, 2009 [1 favorite]
I don't make posts, and am usually way too late in the thread to get any attention. The exception that proves the rule -- my most favorited comment was a crappy frist post snark. I'm much more proud of my second; barrowed in the limericks thread. And the one I put the most effort into got a measly 5 favorites. That's what you get for trying to stop an alphabet thread.
posted by team lowkey at 11:42 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by team lowkey at 11:42 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: This is what normal human genitalia look like.
posted by cybercoitus interruptus at 11:52 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by cybercoitus interruptus at 11:52 PM on June 25, 2009
*bookmarks Cranberry's comment*
posted by brundlefly at 11:52 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by brundlefly at 11:52 PM on June 25, 2009
MeFi post: James Burke does Youtube.
The original youtube user is gone and replaced by the one I have linked here.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 11:58 PM on June 25, 2009
The original youtube user is gone and replaced by the one I have linked here.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 11:58 PM on June 25, 2009
Mine is also from the "McCain wants to postpone the debate" thread: "when a loss is inevitable, all moves are equally rational." Like others here, it's far from my personal favorite.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 11:59 PM on June 25, 2009
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 11:59 PM on June 25, 2009
"Masturbation is OK but masturbating into someone's eyes is rather impolite at best."
posted by doctor_negative at 12:11 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by doctor_negative at 12:11 AM on June 26, 2009
the absurd part is that I'm offering advice to someone who's wondering how to avoid getting divorced ...
the inevitable part is that I'm sort of lying.
posted by philip-random at 12:11 AM on June 26, 2009
the inevitable part is that I'm sort of lying.
posted by philip-random at 12:11 AM on June 26, 2009
"Masturbation is OK but masturbating into someone's eyes is rather impolite at best."
This might be dealt with in the relevant thread but I'm too lazy to pursue it. Is there anywhere in the Gospels where Jesus actually condemns masturbation, even abstractly? He always struck me as a sort of "whatever-gets-you-through-the-night" kind of savior.
posted by philip-random at 12:16 AM on June 26, 2009
This might be dealt with in the relevant thread but I'm too lazy to pursue it. Is there anywhere in the Gospels where Jesus actually condemns masturbation, even abstractly? He always struck me as a sort of "whatever-gets-you-through-the-night" kind of savior.
posted by philip-random at 12:16 AM on June 26, 2009
"Media: for crying out loud, ignore these edicts and go on in. Stop lining up at the I-45 blockade. Stop hanging out near the FEMA hut. Go take a rubber dinghy across West Bay in middle of the night. Get in there and get some Pulitzer material...."
posted by crapmatic at 12:26 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by crapmatic at 12:26 AM on June 26, 2009
My top favorited things are:
Indian Food
Audio Books
Rock Music
Necromancy
Pussy
Tits
and
Cauliflower (Aloo, for redundancy.)
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:27 AM on June 26, 2009
Indian Food
Audio Books
Rock Music
Necromancy
Pussy
Tits
and
Cauliflower (Aloo, for redundancy.)
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:27 AM on June 26, 2009
My comment about sexism got 53 favorites, and was mentioned in a presentation jessamyn gave at sxsw, which, no offense, was way cooler than getting the favorites in the first place.
posted by supercrayon at 12:34 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by supercrayon at 12:34 AM on June 26, 2009
Unhip to the hip hip hop. I'm still using it for reference, 14 months of music later.
posted by carbide at 12:39 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by carbide at 12:39 AM on June 26, 2009
At the top:
I just favorited every comment that was adjacent to 0 favorites, and then unfavorited every comment that had a favorited neighbor.
The one I'm proud of, so underappreciated I want to cry, the text is by never used baby shoes making fun of jessamyn:
Then I saw the qanda, creeping through the green,
Cutting through the tangle with jessamyn its queen
Save yourselves a click, comment links here.
posted by dirty lies at 12:45 AM on June 26, 2009
I just favorited every comment that was adjacent to 0 favorites, and then unfavorited every comment that had a favorited neighbor.
The one I'm proud of, so underappreciated I want to cry, the text is by never used baby shoes making fun of jessamyn:
Then I saw the qanda, creeping through the green,
Cutting through the tangle with jessamyn its queen
Save yourselves a click, comment links here.
posted by dirty lies at 12:45 AM on June 26, 2009
Not my best, but apparently you all feel differently.
posted by chillmost at 12:50 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by chillmost at 12:50 AM on June 26, 2009
Anonymous posted to AskMe saying...
I genuinely think I'm an intelligent and capable person, but I'm so profoundly unmotivated that it hardly matters. I need serious change in my life and I'm not sure how to effect it.
I responsed...
...with a bizarre, but apparently helpful metaphor about fish people which has brought my Markovfilter results to new levels of awesome.
posted by the latin mouse at 1:06 AM on June 26, 2009
I genuinely think I'm an intelligent and capable person, but I'm so profoundly unmotivated that it hardly matters. I need serious change in my life and I'm not sure how to effect it.
I responsed...
...with a bizarre, but apparently helpful metaphor about fish people which has brought my Markovfilter results to new levels of awesome.
posted by the latin mouse at 1:06 AM on June 26, 2009
tinyurl / gianturl infinite loop
also unicode sailboats: ⏅
posted by ryanrs at 1:36 AM on June 26, 2009
also unicode sailboats: ⏅
posted by ryanrs at 1:36 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi post: Can I Eat It?
at least it got more than Palin
posted by starzero at 2:26 AM on June 26, 2009
at least it got more than Palin
posted by starzero at 2:26 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited comment: A catholic guilt joke
Most favorited post: Custom Letters
posted by minifigs at 3:08 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited post: Custom Letters
posted by minifigs at 3:08 AM on June 26, 2009
MeTa post: He ain't Ralph.
favorited 29 times
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:26 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 29 times
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 3:26 AM on June 26, 2009
this reminds me of something my little brother said one time. i like to play games. board games, not video games. trivial pursuit was a particular passion for a while. my brother isn't much of a game player, but he's a good sport & i used to harangue my family into playing games when we'd get together. after one session where my brother's pie was especially empty, he looked at me & said, 'sometimes i think these things are designed to show just how much i don't know.'
so i guess i'm just hoping that this isn't, y'know ... some wanky kind of self love fest.
posted by msconduct at 3:36 AM on June 26, 2009
so i guess i'm just hoping that this isn't, y'know ... some wanky kind of self love fest.
posted by msconduct at 3:36 AM on June 26, 2009
MeTa post: He ain't Ralph.
favorited 29 times
More importantly, how many spouses that one get you?
posted by gman at 3:41 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 29 times
More importantly, how many spouses that one get you?
posted by gman at 3:41 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi post: It's not dead, it's just resting (about the talk Privacy is dead - get over it).
posted by bjrn at 3:46 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by bjrn at 3:46 AM on June 26, 2009
80 Favorites for a vitriolic takedown of "values-inspired" doctors and pharmacists.
72 Favorites for an Ask answer that is basically early snark.
posted by explosion at 3:54 AM on June 26, 2009
72 Favorites for an Ask answer that is basically early snark.
posted by explosion at 3:54 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask comment: "Speaking purely as a layman, it's my personal observation that most men have an emotional range from 20x to 100x what is socially acceptable in day to day American society. ..."
favorited 123 times
posted by paulsc at 4:02 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 123 times
posted by paulsc at 4:02 AM on June 26, 2009
Your current president's prayer would've probably read like a letter to Santa.
Damn. A cheap swipe at Bush is my legacy.
posted by slimepuppy at 4:28 AM on June 26, 2009
Damn. A cheap swipe at Bush is my legacy.
posted by slimepuppy at 4:28 AM on June 26, 2009
57 - First person to suggest Nickelcreek gets smacked with a Fiddle
posted by empyrean at 4:29 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by empyrean at 4:29 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited post: Our Thing, my Kevin Costneresque mafia FPP.
Most favorited comment: Why hate crime laws aren't "criminalizing thought".
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 4:34 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited comment: Why hate crime laws aren't "criminalizing thought".
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 4:34 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited (in a deleted thread):
In the presence of spammers, the banhammer glows blue. Spammers hate and fear it, and call it "Beater" in their vile tongue.
posted by Jorus at 4:36 AM on June 26, 2009
In the presence of spammers, the banhammer glows blue. Spammers hate and fear it, and call it "Beater" in their vile tongue.
posted by Jorus at 4:36 AM on June 26, 2009
how quickly the land-walkers forget
we are waiting...
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:36 AM on June 26, 2009
we are waiting...
posted by Potomac Avenue at 4:36 AM on June 26, 2009
Damn. A cheap swipe at Bush is my legacy.
A little less harmful than his.
posted by gman at 4:38 AM on June 26, 2009 [2 favorites]
A little less harmful than his.
posted by gman at 4:38 AM on June 26, 2009 [2 favorites]
I feel really small now. My most popular comment had 9 comments...
"It'll be the first rule of my benevolent dictatorship - If you didn't bother voting, you're not allowed to moan about the result. Of course, it'll be a dictatorship by then, so it won't make much difference, but it's the thought that counts"
posted by twine42 at 4:46 AM on June 26, 2009
"It'll be the first rule of my benevolent dictatorship - If you didn't bother voting, you're not allowed to moan about the result. Of course, it'll be a dictatorship by then, so it won't make much difference, but it's the thought that counts"
posted by twine42 at 4:46 AM on June 26, 2009
I am the very model of a modern libertarian
Bonus points for it getting called out in a MeTa thread that tried to give me credit for it, when it's actually shamelessly stolen from an unknown author. Double bonus points for Cortex closing the MeTa thread before I could cop to it. So, um, an extremely late mea culpa for not citing properly.
posted by Mayor West at 4:47 AM on June 26, 2009
Bonus points for it getting called out in a MeTa thread that tried to give me credit for it, when it's actually shamelessly stolen from an unknown author. Double bonus points for Cortex closing the MeTa thread before I could cop to it. So, um, an extremely late mea culpa for not citing properly.
posted by Mayor West at 4:47 AM on June 26, 2009
My experiences as an employee at the Denton State School for the Mentally Disabled
posted by orville sash at 5:02 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by orville sash at 5:02 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited silly comment: throwaway comment referring to our recent enspousenating spree.
Most favorited serious comment: Pixar is not your bitch.
posted by elfgirl at 5:06 AM on June 26, 2009
Most favorited serious comment: Pixar is not your bitch.
posted by elfgirl at 5:06 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi comment: oh thank god another rich person who fucked up her life is here to tell me what to do
favorited 129 times
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:17 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 129 times
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:17 AM on June 26, 2009
This is a pirated MP3 of the smallest violin in the world playing for the record industry.
(109 favourites)
posted by The Card Cheat at 5:40 AM on June 26, 2009
(109 favourites)
posted by The Card Cheat at 5:40 AM on June 26, 2009
Post: This is phenomenal. A directory of nearly 200,000 online papers in philosophy.
Comment: How to become good at crosswords. Which evolved into my runner-up post.
posted by painquale at 5:42 AM on June 26, 2009
Comment: How to become good at crosswords. Which evolved into my runner-up post.
posted by painquale at 5:42 AM on June 26, 2009
Winner: A sixcolors response.
Runner Up: Your girlfriend and your Playstation.
posted by jerseygirl at 6:03 AM on June 26, 2009
Runner Up: Your girlfriend and your Playstation.
posted by jerseygirl at 6:03 AM on June 26, 2009
On medical AskMe advice. Which is of course pretty low-hanging fruit to mock, but economically speaking, cheap shots are bargains.
posted by Drastic at 6:07 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by Drastic at 6:07 AM on June 26, 2009
My most favorited comment is instructions for a silly waiting game to be played with pals. It is a pretty good game. I hope some new people out there are actually playing this game, and not just favoriting the instructions.
posted by that girl at 6:12 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by that girl at 6:12 AM on June 26, 2009
Xanadu limerick
Eastwood sonnet
(An English degree is useless? I think not.)
posted by bibliowench at 6:23 AM on June 26, 2009
Eastwood sonnet
(An English degree is useless? I think not.)
posted by bibliowench at 6:23 AM on June 26, 2009
I tried to explain how the new mefi.us static domain helps with performance, and somehow that got 22 favorites. Amazingly, this was nearly twice as popular as a comment being snarky about marketing departments.
As for getting this information out of the Infodump:
posted by FishBike at 6:23 AM on June 26, 2009
As for getting this information out of the Infodump:
- The Infodump is currently around 6 months old, so it would be out of date.
- You'd only get the post and comment IDs, which you'd then have to look up yourself to find out what they said.
- There's no way to tell who wants their most-favorited item posted in this here thread right here.
posted by FishBike at 6:23 AM on June 26, 2009
Can a young man with a knife defeat a grizzly bear?
posted by Kwantsar at 6:30 AM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by Kwantsar at 6:30 AM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
ReadMe: a collection of askmes of the form "Recommend a book."
I need to bring this up to date
posted by shothotbot at 6:32 AM on June 26, 2009
I need to bring this up to date
posted by shothotbot at 6:32 AM on June 26, 2009
Why I hate independent bookstores and love Metafilter
tied at 24 favorites with
a Robert Smith joke
Yeah, I love this site.
posted by marginaliana at 6:33 AM on June 26, 2009
tied at 24 favorites with
a Robert Smith joke
Yeah, I love this site.
posted by marginaliana at 6:33 AM on June 26, 2009
All time favorite comment post is my most favorited.
posted by cjorgensen at 6:35 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by cjorgensen at 6:35 AM on June 26, 2009
Sadly, following the assassination of George Tiller, I guess I can keep trotting this one out Well, I bet the guys who killed the freedom riders voted Democrat once. And Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. QED traitorous liberals. Go back to Canada.
Can't believe Jessamyn didn't have something with 10x more favorites.
posted by allen.spaulding at 6:42 AM on June 26, 2009
Can't believe Jessamyn didn't have something with 10x more favorites.
posted by allen.spaulding at 6:42 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask comment: "Is there a difference between "discover your passion" and "discover what you want to do"? I ask because I hear people talk about their Passion (with a capital P), as if everyone has one whether they know it or not. As it it's a..."
posted by grumblebee at 6:52 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by grumblebee at 6:52 AM on June 26, 2009
First Place: 'zines v. 2.0
Second Place: Metafilter anti-Sexism Bingo card
Third Place: Aliens didn't cause my son's autism and neither did vaccines.
posted by FunkyHelix at 6:59 AM on June 26, 2009
Second Place: Metafilter anti-Sexism Bingo card
Third Place: Aliens didn't cause my son's autism and neither did vaccines.
posted by FunkyHelix at 6:59 AM on June 26, 2009
That time I got drunk and started rambling on and on about my dog and barbecue. I don't know what that's all about, but it happens about twice a month at the bar.
posted by gordie at 7:06 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by gordie at 7:06 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi comment: ""great" with the 8 in the middle [gr8]. For certain definitions of "middle"." [more]
favorited 33 times
That's right - a language snark.
posted by owtytrof at 7:06 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 33 times
That's right - a language snark.
posted by owtytrof at 7:06 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi post: Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggggglllllllllle
favorited 83 times
posted by ocherdraco at 7:07 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 83 times
posted by ocherdraco at 7:07 AM on June 26, 2009
Photo albums of German soldiers. 63 favourites.
posted by chunking express at 7:08 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by chunking express at 7:08 AM on June 26, 2009
My most popular comment is a book recommendation.
My most popular post is a question about dancing.
I kind of wish I linked my second-most popular comment instead, but truth being what it is, I gotta go with number one.
posted by breezeway at 7:09 AM on June 26, 2009
My most popular post is a question about dancing.
I kind of wish I linked my second-most popular comment instead, but truth being what it is, I gotta go with number one.
posted by breezeway at 7:09 AM on June 26, 2009
Mass inside nuclei acts differently than mass in anything else in nature.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 7:22 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 7:22 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask post: Lev. 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
favorited 81 times
posted by mds35 at 7:23 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 81 times
posted by mds35 at 7:23 AM on June 26, 2009
Currently my "Show me your desks" MeTa is at 61 favorites.
posted by absalom at 7:23 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by absalom at 7:23 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask comment. "What do you suggest? Nose plugs?"
A paltry 21.
Maybe I should get angry more often.
posted by bz at 7:24 AM on June 26, 2009
A paltry 21.
Maybe I should get angry more often.
posted by bz at 7:24 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi Post: Why do Asian-American students achieve higher grades than Latino-American students?
A whopping 20 favorites!
posted by jabberjaw at 7:37 AM on June 26, 2009
A whopping 20 favorites!
posted by jabberjaw at 7:37 AM on June 26, 2009
Counterintuitively, 63 people liked my advice on how to have sex. (Which was my second-most-favorited, but I refuse to take credit for a comment that was literally me just quoting somebody on another message board. It wasn't even that good a quote.)
posted by ook at 7:37 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by ook at 7:37 AM on June 26, 2009
Nick Cave, the Black Crow King, is fifty today
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 7:43 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by the_very_hungry_caterpillar at 7:43 AM on June 26, 2009
108 favorites for my advice on whether or not to get married. I'm sadly and inappropriately proud of this comment. :)
posted by DWRoelands at 7:44 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by DWRoelands at 7:44 AM on June 26, 2009
I'm clearly pitching on the wrong field, since my only comment that's drawn significant favorites was about--of all things--baseball.
posted by kittyprecious at 7:47 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by kittyprecious at 7:47 AM on June 26, 2009
Mine is snark about 'grilled cheese'.
These are fascinating to browse through.
posted by graventy at 7:47 AM on June 26, 2009
These are fascinating to browse through.
posted by graventy at 7:47 AM on June 26, 2009
It has now been
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/ _ \
| | | |
| | | |
| |_| |
\___/
days since the last
stupid MeFi callout
Think Safety!
(link)
posted by chrisamiller at 7:50 AM on June 26, 2009
mediareport, I made your smoothie last week based on that comment.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:00 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:00 AM on June 26, 2009
Most popular comment, an Abe Lincoln quote.
Most popular post, about what to do with Altoids tins when the Altoids are gone.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 8:03 AM on June 26, 2009
Most popular post, about what to do with Altoids tins when the Altoids are gone.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 8:03 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask post: Upgrade Me! -- benefited from a perfect storm of exposure, as it was mentioned in the podcast about a week after it was posted, then linked on kottke.org a couple days later, all during the Christmas shopping season. As someone whose self esteem is derived entirely from insignificant numbers that appear next to my screen name, I'll admit I enjoyed that. Now if people will start unfavoriting it I might be compelled to contribute something worthwhile.
posted by Balonious Assault at 8:04 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by Balonious Assault at 8:04 AM on June 26, 2009
"How did you get started in your career as an arcade attendant?"
posted by infinitewindow at 8:13 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by infinitewindow at 8:13 AM on June 26, 2009
My Ask Mefi post about Grilled Cheese and Sock Puppet Parties got 58 favorites, but more importantly, inspired five grilled cheese parties and one sock puppet party.* I don't do it for the favorites; I do it for the parties. Andrew W.K. style.
*that people either posted about or MeMailed me to thank me for, at least
posted by Juliet Banana at 8:17 AM on June 26, 2009
*that people either posted about or MeMailed me to thank me for, at least
posted by Juliet Banana at 8:17 AM on June 26, 2009
"I've been doing it wrong this whole time. I knew I shouldn't have listened to that singing platypus dressed as a hooker."
posted by JeffK at 8:34 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by JeffK at 8:34 AM on June 26, 2009
Great - I'll have "Party Hard" in my head the rest of the day now.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:36 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 8:36 AM on June 26, 2009
Obama: Oh, there's something I ought to tell you.
McCain: Tell me.
Obama: I'm not left-handed either.
posted by quin at 8:58 AM on June 26, 2009
McCain: Tell me.
Obama: I'm not left-handed either.
posted by quin at 8:58 AM on June 26, 2009
We, here in America, are not all right. We are not a nation of peace and prosperity. We are an increasingly impoverished nation entrenched in an endless war. If McCain is elected, I look forward to eight more years of this ... or worse. Bread lines. Dead sons and daughters, killed defending -- what? You support the war but you can't tell me what we're fighting for or against. People freezing to death in their own homes because they can't afford the oil. More people who have to choose between food and rent and prescription drugs. I don't think this is hyperbole. My mother was a child during the Great Depression. We've seen this kind of America before, within her lifetime. [122]
My really long, moderately embarrassing rant about how much my own life sucks and rebutting the argument that "no matter who grabs the brass ring in November, the world won't come to an end."
posted by anastasiav at 8:58 AM on June 26, 2009
My really long, moderately embarrassing rant about how much my own life sucks and rebutting the argument that "no matter who grabs the brass ring in November, the world won't come to an end."
posted by anastasiav at 8:58 AM on June 26, 2009
Also, I personally think we should all go back and favorite dear old Post 19 in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the site.
posted by anastasiav at 9:01 AM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
posted by anastasiav at 9:01 AM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
If you ever need to come up a name for some conference rooms, I have you covered. I am so proud.
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 9:01 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 9:01 AM on June 26, 2009
MeTa comment: "To be fair, stop having [too many] babies is actually a correct answer." [more]
favorited 32 times
posted by Grither at 9:09 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 32 times
posted by Grither at 9:09 AM on June 26, 2009
My most recent FPP is also the favorite: Introverted Traveler for 44, Alex!
posted by kimdog at 9:15 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by kimdog at 9:15 AM on June 26, 2009
anastasiav's idea of everybody marking 19 as a favorite is so, so great I don't even know what to say. If we could get two or three thousand favorites on it, that'd be spectacular and a fitting oddball tribute with just the right amount of off-kilter 'Filter for my tastes.
posted by cgc373 at 9:28 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by cgc373 at 9:28 AM on June 26, 2009
#1 comment: michaelehline actually knows far more about Obama's communistic plans than I think you can imagine.
posted by dunkadunc at 9:29 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by dunkadunc at 9:29 AM on June 26, 2009
MeFi comment: "The server at trial.thepiratebay.org is taking too long to respond. Too bad they don't have some sort of system to distribute the content to many different users quickly, and allow new users to get the content from those first users, their peers...."
favorited 59 times
A lovely bit of snark. Although my personal favorite comment, an askme answer, only received 2 favorites, as the question was already off the first page.
posted by borkencode at 9:31 AM on June 26, 2009
favorited 59 times
A lovely bit of snark. Although my personal favorite comment, an askme answer, only received 2 favorites, as the question was already off the first page.
posted by borkencode at 9:31 AM on June 26, 2009
That little man will go home tonight, sweaty and hoarse, and have fantastic sex with his hot hot wife.
I am so proud of him.
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:48 AM on June 26, 2009
I am so proud of him.
posted by cowbellemoo at 9:48 AM on June 26, 2009
Neighborhood of Make-Believe. It has nothing to do with me though; it's all Mister Roger's fault.
posted by oneirodynia at 9:51 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by oneirodynia at 9:51 AM on June 26, 2009
Countdown to Ecstacy.
Probably my proudest moment on the blue, too.
posted by pxe2000 at 10:08 AM on June 26, 2009
Probably my proudest moment on the blue, too.
posted by pxe2000 at 10:08 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask post: Magic, incarcerated
Ask Metafilter, it turns out, is great at finding magic items.
posted by MrVisible at 10:12 AM on June 26, 2009
Ask Metafilter, it turns out, is great at finding magic items.
posted by MrVisible at 10:12 AM on June 26, 2009
I'm, not embarrassed, not disturbed, by metaphorically stomping on those who would only trust a professional white background, but I take it as motivation to get something more positive up to the top of the list, somewhere along the line, إن شاء الله.
posted by peacay at 10:14 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by peacay at 10:14 AM on June 26, 2009
Sixcolors banned. I didn't even know.
I disagree with that action so strongly, and yet the 176 members who favorited that comment are almost all among my Metafilter elect, the people who make this place worthwhile for me. All right, if those people found her that annoying, I guess she had to go.
posted by jamjam at 10:38 AM on June 26, 2009
I disagree with that action so strongly, and yet the 176 members who favorited that comment are almost all among my Metafilter elect, the people who make this place worthwhile for me. All right, if those people found her that annoying, I guess she had to go.
posted by jamjam at 10:38 AM on June 26, 2009
She wasn't banned for being annoying.
If we banned people for just being annoying, MeFi would be a lot sparser than it is.
posted by ook at 10:41 AM on June 26, 2009
If we banned people for just being annoying, MeFi would be a lot sparser than it is.
posted by ook at 10:41 AM on June 26, 2009
Warning: epic post ahoy! I've tried to respond to most of watercressprincess' points, insofar as I understand them...
A nerdy comment in which I go on at excruciating length about why HIV really does cause AIDS, no matter what some people would like you to think. That comment accounts for a full 1/3 of my favourites, despite my breaking the embedded links.
Also: Can we get some recursion going in here? We should pick someone with a low "most favourited" number, and all favourite something they've posted in here.
posted by metaBugs at 10:44 AM on June 26, 2009
A nerdy comment in which I go on at excruciating length about why HIV really does cause AIDS, no matter what some people would like you to think. That comment accounts for a full 1/3 of my favourites, despite my breaking the embedded links.
Also: Can we get some recursion going in here? We should pick someone with a low "most favourited" number, and all favourite something they've posted in here.
posted by metaBugs at 10:44 AM on June 26, 2009
I disagree with that action so strongly
To be sort of a mod bummer briefly for a moment, she was not in any way banned just because she was annoying. She was banned because she had a bunch of tendencies to do things here that ran consistently counter to being a decent community member, we'd talked to her about these things repeatedly, politely, and at great length, and we never really noticed any change or attempt on her part to sort of figure things out here.
There are a lot of quirky personalities here but for the most part most of them act like this is a place they'd like to be and we get the sense that they make that decision to be here understanding how the place works. It was unclear, for a solid year, whether sixcolors understood how this place worked. Her interactions with the site were bizarre, often incredibly contentious and frequently difficult to even understand. It's possible she lives a truly strange life that often confuses her and those around her, but at some point -- a point which was after an awful lot of "let's try to make this work" from the entire mod team -- her presence here was taking up so much mod time that it was affecting our ability to do other things on the site. The fact that she was also becoming a running joke, though not part of our decision-making process, was also a pain in the ass that wasn't her fault specifically but still within the "what we had to deal with" realm.
This has only happened maybe a handful of times in the history of my working here and it's always a shame. At the same time, we're responsible to all members of the community and there aren't very many of us.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:48 AM on June 26, 2009 [3 favorites]
To be sort of a mod bummer briefly for a moment, she was not in any way banned just because she was annoying. She was banned because she had a bunch of tendencies to do things here that ran consistently counter to being a decent community member, we'd talked to her about these things repeatedly, politely, and at great length, and we never really noticed any change or attempt on her part to sort of figure things out here.
There are a lot of quirky personalities here but for the most part most of them act like this is a place they'd like to be and we get the sense that they make that decision to be here understanding how the place works. It was unclear, for a solid year, whether sixcolors understood how this place worked. Her interactions with the site were bizarre, often incredibly contentious and frequently difficult to even understand. It's possible she lives a truly strange life that often confuses her and those around her, but at some point -- a point which was after an awful lot of "let's try to make this work" from the entire mod team -- her presence here was taking up so much mod time that it was affecting our ability to do other things on the site. The fact that she was also becoming a running joke, though not part of our decision-making process, was also a pain in the ass that wasn't her fault specifically but still within the "what we had to deal with" realm.
This has only happened maybe a handful of times in the history of my working here and it's always a shame. At the same time, we're responsible to all members of the community and there aren't very many of us.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:48 AM on June 26, 2009 [3 favorites]
My mom's a hell of a cook, but you wouldn't want to try my cheesecake.
posted by JaredSeth at 11:03 AM on June 26, 2009
posted by JaredSeth at 11:03 AM on June 26, 2009
65 MeFites were grateful for an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of Moby Dick. Or maybe they just appreciated being tipped off to the fart joke in Chapter 1.
posted by Quietgal at 12:08 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by Quietgal at 12:08 PM on June 26, 2009
We actually didn't need the douches as much as I thought.
posted by vito90 at 12:24 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by vito90 at 12:24 PM on June 26, 2009
(Late to the game...)
Most popular post: tell me about food to cook in large quantities and then frozen
Most popular comment: let me tell you about that time I almost killed myself in an airplane
posted by backseatpilot at 12:30 PM on June 26, 2009
Most popular post: tell me about food to cook in large quantities and then frozen
Most popular comment: let me tell you about that time I almost killed myself in an airplane
posted by backseatpilot at 12:30 PM on June 26, 2009
jessamyn : There are a lot of quirky personalities here
Look, I thought I already explained this: I didn't set the fire, I was just standing there watching it. I wasn't completely naked; I had on my boots, and I have no idea where that badger came from or why it was duct taped to that skateboard.
Can we just drop this now?
posted by quin at 12:48 PM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
Look, I thought I already explained this: I didn't set the fire, I was just standing there watching it. I wasn't completely naked; I had on my boots, and I have no idea where that badger came from or why it was duct taped to that skateboard.
Can we just drop this now?
posted by quin at 12:48 PM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
My snarky summary of a snarky article:
21 faves. Then something about me and my cat.
posted by lysdexic at 12:59 PM on June 26, 2009
21 faves. Then something about me and my cat.
posted by lysdexic at 12:59 PM on June 26, 2009
The Headstone Reads - Victim of the Beast 666
13 favourites
I'll refrain from mentioning how many total favourites I should have.
Oops.
posted by deborah at 1:06 PM on June 26, 2009
13 favourites
I'll refrain from mentioning how many total favourites I should have.
Oops.
posted by deborah at 1:06 PM on June 26, 2009
Look, I thought I already explained this: I didn't set the fire, I was just standing there watching it. I wasn't completely naked; I had on my boots, and I have no idea where that badger came from or why it was duct taped to that skateboard.
First off, those were my boots. You peed into them before putting them on. The badger, skateboard and duct tape were also mine. And damn it - that wasn't duct tape, it was my favorite black fabric gaffer's tape. That shit is expensive. And my badger was seriously annoyed that you were going to attach a bunch of giant bottle rockets to the skateboard and fire him off in some kind of drunken rocket sled experiment. It was most irregular. You didn't even install any dataloggers. What were you going to do? Interview the badger and ask him to estimate what he thought the G forces were?
I started the fire because you were claiming you were a witch, and since you were standing there naked rubbing your anointed nethers on a broomstick I figured I should be obliging and help you out. The plan failed because - big surprise - I was out of gaffer's tape with which to bind you to the stake.
You ran off waving that broomstick and wearing my boots, screaming something about the sordid, disgusting sexual habits of self-transforming machine elves. We later found you hanging upside down from a neighbor's tree like bat wearing a yellow rain slicker with honeysuckle blossoms shoved in every hole in your body. Upon morning's greetings and salutations your only reply was - and I quote - "I like my eggs runny. When's breakfast?" which is why we turned the hose on you to wash you out of the tree. That and you smashed all the eggs in your hair last night.
This is the last time I let you mix strawberry Quik into banana-chocolate Yoohoo and pour it over a bowl of Crunchberries.
posted by loquacious at 1:18 PM on June 26, 2009 [2 favorites]
First off, those were my boots. You peed into them before putting them on. The badger, skateboard and duct tape were also mine. And damn it - that wasn't duct tape, it was my favorite black fabric gaffer's tape. That shit is expensive. And my badger was seriously annoyed that you were going to attach a bunch of giant bottle rockets to the skateboard and fire him off in some kind of drunken rocket sled experiment. It was most irregular. You didn't even install any dataloggers. What were you going to do? Interview the badger and ask him to estimate what he thought the G forces were?
I started the fire because you were claiming you were a witch, and since you were standing there naked rubbing your anointed nethers on a broomstick I figured I should be obliging and help you out. The plan failed because - big surprise - I was out of gaffer's tape with which to bind you to the stake.
You ran off waving that broomstick and wearing my boots, screaming something about the sordid, disgusting sexual habits of self-transforming machine elves. We later found you hanging upside down from a neighbor's tree like bat wearing a yellow rain slicker with honeysuckle blossoms shoved in every hole in your body. Upon morning's greetings and salutations your only reply was - and I quote - "I like my eggs runny. When's breakfast?" which is why we turned the hose on you to wash you out of the tree. That and you smashed all the eggs in your hair last night.
This is the last time I let you mix strawberry Quik into banana-chocolate Yoohoo and pour it over a bowl of Crunchberries.
posted by loquacious at 1:18 PM on June 26, 2009 [2 favorites]
See? I don't remember any of that shit. The thing with the rocket sled sound right though. Did I put goggles on the badger? That seems like something I would do.
Wait, that's not true; I do remember the egg thing! I thought I had lice and I figured that I would drown them, but I couldn't find any water so I grabbed what I could out of the fridge.
Man, I've really got to stop huffing paint thinner.
posted by quin at 1:25 PM on June 26, 2009
Wait, that's not true; I do remember the egg thing! I thought I had lice and I figured that I would drown them, but I couldn't find any water so I grabbed what I could out of the fridge.
Man, I've really got to stop huffing paint thinner.
posted by quin at 1:25 PM on June 26, 2009
Man, I've really got to stop huffing paint thinner.
Well that explains what you were anointing your nethers with. I thought it was Vick's Vap-o-Rub.
By the way, the nice neighbor lady who owns the tree you were in wants you to call her. I tried apologizing but she refused. Apparently you have a fan.
posted by loquacious at 1:33 PM on June 26, 2009
Well that explains what you were anointing your nethers with. I thought it was Vick's Vap-o-Rub.
By the way, the nice neighbor lady who owns the tree you were in wants you to call her. I tried apologizing but she refused. Apparently you have a fan.
posted by loquacious at 1:33 PM on June 26, 2009
Everybody knows this already, but I think this one (#2) is actually my own personal favorite because someone might use it to his/her advantage in the future.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 2:32 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 2:32 PM on June 26, 2009
"When I clicked on 'I'd like to publicly thank MeFi user mattbucher for helping make last night a wonderful experience,' I didn't think the more-inside would involve Freemasonry."
posted by box at 2:50 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by box at 2:50 PM on June 26, 2009
Mine is an askme question: "How do I learn to be as comfortable around guys as I am around girls?"
I did want to say that since that post I have made tremendous strides in that area. I've been looking for a way to acknowledge just how wonderful and life-altering the advice I received has been for me. Since so many people favorited it maybe there are others with similar concerns and I want them to know that I was able to change my life thanks to a lot of the principles expressed in that thread. I did post a mini-update when the thread was still open but a lot has changed on a more fundamental level since then. I wanted to take the time to ackowledge all of my best answers (some of which I have only recently marked) because they really made a difference, even if it took me a while to understand them. I am sure I will still be marking best answers from that thread in the times to come because I am still changing.
1. When Trevyn said "This feeling of being scared to do something but steeling yourself and plowing through it is indeed exactly the feeling you need to start chasing," something clicked for me immediately and I haven't gone back. I now recognize that feeling regularly in my life and I have learned to embrace it. A few years ago I was an extremely fearful person. I had been diagnosed with social anxiety, agoraphobia, all manner of scary things. I was very easily startled and sought safe, comfortable spaces. I was pretty much confined to my own room, and it was still hard to fall asleep at night because I was so scared and tense all the time. While I had made a lot of progress with fear prior to the askme, I still wasn't mindful of my own strength. That advice really helped me and I still remember it on a regular basis. Thanks to "chasing that feeling" I can say that I have had a number of rewarding experiences and I am no longer afraid to be afraid.
2. Skwirl's comment about creating reality is something I had heard before but it took a long time for me to know what it meant. Changing the way I see myself and using my imagination to change my reality has helped me to change the way I feel about myself and about others.
3. Foobario was one of many who stressed the importance of being happy and the beauty that comes from happiness. This has probably been the most significant thing I could take from all of the advice. I am a joyful person now, and it shows. I am not bouncing off the walls or consumed with the pursuit of pleasure, rather, I have a comfort and confidence in the beauty of existence that I have never had before. I credit a lot of things, including medication for my bipolar, therapy, life coaching, and above all a renewed connection with my spirituality. However, I had never connected joy with beauty before. Wow, it's really true! I know I am prettier now just getting out of the shower and looking at myself in the mirror, before makeup or clothes or shoes or having my hair done. I smile a lot more now than I used to and I know that the change in my spirit has sparked changes in the way people react to me, definitely including men.
4. Okay, loiseau and thinkingwoman basically put together a how-to guide for gaining confidence in my physical expression. I wear makeup when I choose, heels, and buy clothes that make me excited to wear them. I have looked really good and received compliments and looks. Most importantly, I have felt like I could hold my head up high. And I know that I am pretty in ways conventional and not. I went through a period when I couldn't stop looking at myself in the mirror, after years of ignoring mirrors altogether. I did worry about becoming vain and I've balanced quite a bit now, but the confidence and security I feel with my physical carriage and looks has made a huge difference. I remember buying a Grecian gown because I think I'd always wanted one and feeling so dignified and strong.
I am still short, fat (a little fatter I think), and quiet. And I have been one of the prettiest girls at the ball, and I have danced with men and with women and happily by myself. I went to Atlanta to an outdoor concert and I actually got up in front of the stage and danced, having so much fun that a very dapper man came up and danced with me. I have had suitors and there are men right now that I could call and connect with if I wanted to do so. Strangely enough, I am very happy to be single and I am enjoying different kinds of relationships with men, more and better than I had before. I still try to remember to be me, confident, and most of all kind. I still have my printout of the answers and have had the blessing of sharing some of the advice with others.
posted by Danila at 4:18 PM on June 26, 2009 [3 favorites]
I did want to say that since that post I have made tremendous strides in that area. I've been looking for a way to acknowledge just how wonderful and life-altering the advice I received has been for me. Since so many people favorited it maybe there are others with similar concerns and I want them to know that I was able to change my life thanks to a lot of the principles expressed in that thread. I did post a mini-update when the thread was still open but a lot has changed on a more fundamental level since then. I wanted to take the time to ackowledge all of my best answers (some of which I have only recently marked) because they really made a difference, even if it took me a while to understand them. I am sure I will still be marking best answers from that thread in the times to come because I am still changing.
1. When Trevyn said "This feeling of being scared to do something but steeling yourself and plowing through it is indeed exactly the feeling you need to start chasing," something clicked for me immediately and I haven't gone back. I now recognize that feeling regularly in my life and I have learned to embrace it. A few years ago I was an extremely fearful person. I had been diagnosed with social anxiety, agoraphobia, all manner of scary things. I was very easily startled and sought safe, comfortable spaces. I was pretty much confined to my own room, and it was still hard to fall asleep at night because I was so scared and tense all the time. While I had made a lot of progress with fear prior to the askme, I still wasn't mindful of my own strength. That advice really helped me and I still remember it on a regular basis. Thanks to "chasing that feeling" I can say that I have had a number of rewarding experiences and I am no longer afraid to be afraid.
2. Skwirl's comment about creating reality is something I had heard before but it took a long time for me to know what it meant. Changing the way I see myself and using my imagination to change my reality has helped me to change the way I feel about myself and about others.
3. Foobario was one of many who stressed the importance of being happy and the beauty that comes from happiness. This has probably been the most significant thing I could take from all of the advice. I am a joyful person now, and it shows. I am not bouncing off the walls or consumed with the pursuit of pleasure, rather, I have a comfort and confidence in the beauty of existence that I have never had before. I credit a lot of things, including medication for my bipolar, therapy, life coaching, and above all a renewed connection with my spirituality. However, I had never connected joy with beauty before. Wow, it's really true! I know I am prettier now just getting out of the shower and looking at myself in the mirror, before makeup or clothes or shoes or having my hair done. I smile a lot more now than I used to and I know that the change in my spirit has sparked changes in the way people react to me, definitely including men.
4. Okay, loiseau and thinkingwoman basically put together a how-to guide for gaining confidence in my physical expression. I wear makeup when I choose, heels, and buy clothes that make me excited to wear them. I have looked really good and received compliments and looks. Most importantly, I have felt like I could hold my head up high. And I know that I am pretty in ways conventional and not. I went through a period when I couldn't stop looking at myself in the mirror, after years of ignoring mirrors altogether. I did worry about becoming vain and I've balanced quite a bit now, but the confidence and security I feel with my physical carriage and looks has made a huge difference. I remember buying a Grecian gown because I think I'd always wanted one and feeling so dignified and strong.
I am still short, fat (a little fatter I think), and quiet. And I have been one of the prettiest girls at the ball, and I have danced with men and with women and happily by myself. I went to Atlanta to an outdoor concert and I actually got up in front of the stage and danced, having so much fun that a very dapper man came up and danced with me. I have had suitors and there are men right now that I could call and connect with if I wanted to do so. Strangely enough, I am very happy to be single and I am enjoying different kinds of relationships with men, more and better than I had before. I still try to remember to be me, confident, and most of all kind. I still have my printout of the answers and have had the blessing of sharing some of the advice with others.
posted by Danila at 4:18 PM on June 26, 2009 [3 favorites]
Post: I read until my eyes exploded 50 favs but a response to die for.
Comment: I am the very model of an educated liberal 24 Favs. I was kinda pleased with it at the time though.
posted by Sparx at 4:45 PM on June 26, 2009
Comment: I am the very model of an educated liberal 24 Favs. I was kinda pleased with it at the time though.
posted by Sparx at 4:45 PM on June 26, 2009
I have no idea whether you really want me to link this or whether you're just saying so to be polite.
posted by tangerine at 5:02 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by tangerine at 5:02 PM on June 26, 2009
mediareport, I made your smoothie last week based on that comment.
Awesome. Please tell me you included the vodka.
posted by mediareport at 5:09 PM on June 26, 2009
Awesome. Please tell me you included the vodka.
posted by mediareport at 5:09 PM on June 26, 2009
In which I instruct someone to buy a new computer, just because I wanted one. I got one for Chrismannkuah, too. :)
posted by brina at 5:53 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by brina at 5:53 PM on June 26, 2009
MeFi post: How do you say "wipe out" in French?
favorited 35 times
posted by schyler523 at 5:56 PM on June 26, 2009
favorited 35 times
posted by schyler523 at 5:56 PM on June 26, 2009
It is. Has anybody seriously suggested that it isn't? There is a biological theory out there that is sometimes protected by law, and in those cases some people can be legally punished for questioning it...
Though really I'd rather it was the one in second place:
I was saving that for later, you asshole.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:19 PM on June 26, 2009
Though really I'd rather it was the one in second place:
I was saving that for later, you asshole.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 7:19 PM on June 26, 2009
My Palin impersonation. 193 favs.
The funny thing is, I didn't even consider it to be one of my better/funnier posts.
posted by Avenger at 8:14 PM on June 26, 2009
The funny thing is, I didn't even consider it to be one of my better/funnier posts.
posted by Avenger at 8:14 PM on June 26, 2009
The things are think are going to get favorited are the things that are never favorited.
posted by The Whelk at 8:34 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by The Whelk at 8:34 PM on June 26, 2009
Wait, what if your most popular comment was the link to your post popular comment.
I am so fucking high right now.
posted by The Whelk at 8:35 PM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
I am so fucking high right now.
posted by The Whelk at 8:35 PM on June 26, 2009 [1 favorite]
The Whelk you are a pretty hot guy we should have sex.
I am a guy too I hope this doesn't bother you.
posted by Avenger at 8:39 PM on June 26, 2009
I am a guy too I hope this doesn't bother you.
posted by Avenger at 8:39 PM on June 26, 2009
I am so fucking high right now.
Oh Whelk... Just for that I upgraded you from spouse/muse/crush to spouse/muse/crush/date/sweetheart.
posted by dogmom at 8:57 PM on June 26, 2009
Oh Whelk... Just for that I upgraded you from spouse/muse/crush to spouse/muse/crush/date/sweetheart.
posted by dogmom at 8:57 PM on June 26, 2009
What are your favourite ways to avoid waste in the kitchen?
posted by orange swan at 9:10 PM on June 26, 2009
posted by orange swan at 9:10 PM on June 26, 2009
My long (surprise!) response to "Are some more worthy than others?" in MetaTalk:
Calling Christians "stupid" or "ignorant" is just, well...that. And it should be flagged, and it should be deleted as if the person were attacking any other religious group. But what I'd really like to say is this:
While I am on my soapbox...I am so sick of these fragile flowerfeminists Christians who get the vapors when a guy nonbeliever goes into boyzone Christian-bashing behavior. I respect myself. You should respect me, but if you don't, that's your problem, not mine.
The real world is filled with guys atheists who say incredibly stupid, hurtful andsexist anti-Christian things about women Christians in the aggregate. If I let that get to me, I'd be nothing but a shrieking harridan. I would much rather simply laugh and point at them, and go about my business. I don't like it when they stare at my butt denounce my faith, but I'm not going to have a nervous breakdown about it.
And I am certainly not going to take the"boyzone" LOLXTIAN stuff here seriously, as most of what is termed such is just humor and goofing around from people who aren't jerks at all. I mean, what is wrong with "sweater puppies" LOLXTIANS? I save my indignation for real problems.
posted by SassHat at 9:29 PM on June 26, 2009
Calling Christians "stupid" or "ignorant" is just, well...that. And it should be flagged, and it should be deleted as if the person were attacking any other religious group. But what I'd really like to say is this:
While I am on my soapbox...I am so sick of these fragile flower
The real world is filled with guys atheists who say incredibly stupid, hurtful and
And I am certainly not going to take the
posted by SassHat at 9:29 PM on June 26, 2009
This sadly apt quote about losing a friend.
I cannot take credit, of course.
I wish that wasn't my highest.
posted by aclevername at 12:53 AM on June 27, 2009
I cannot take credit, of course.
I wish that wasn't my highest.
posted by aclevername at 12:53 AM on June 27, 2009
The Whelk you are a pretty hot guy we should have sex.
I am a guy too I hope this doesn't bother you.
-- I heard, I heard what you were saying. You, you know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
posted by The Whelk at 5:29 AM on June 27, 2009
I am a guy too I hope this doesn't bother you.
-- I heard, I heard what you were saying. You, you know nothing of my work. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
posted by The Whelk at 5:29 AM on June 27, 2009
I'd like to issue a hearty fuck you.
All I can say now is Rick Perry WUT? See S.C. for how it's done, Mr. gov.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:13 AM on June 27, 2009
All I can say now is Rick Perry WUT? See S.C. for how it's done, Mr. gov.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:13 AM on June 27, 2009
In fairness, you owe a lot of those favorites to me being so unpopular.
I don't care what they say, and yes, you've done a lot of bumping into sacred china cabinets as you've flailed your way through the maze of Metafilter culture, but Joe Beese, you're my favorite new guy of the year.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:21 AM on June 27, 2009
I don't care what they say, and yes, you've done a lot of bumping into sacred china cabinets as you've flailed your way through the maze of Metafilter culture, but Joe Beese, you're my favorite new guy of the year.
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:21 AM on June 27, 2009
Cake Vandals Suck! Can I have that recipe?
Oh, god the cake-ruiner-person thread. That triggers my PTSD! *twitch*
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:24 AM on June 27, 2009
Oh, god the cake-ruiner-person thread. That triggers my PTSD! *twitch*
posted by Devils Rancher at 6:24 AM on June 27, 2009
We were on our own resources, and we knew it. And that's what this business is all about. Partly about the northern end of the Appalachian Trail, but mostly about the Torngat mountains.
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:43 AM on June 27, 2009
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:43 AM on June 27, 2009
"Please to tell me about your recent favorite international hip hop acts."
(please to tell me? was i stoned? wtf?)
posted by jammy at 7:04 AM on June 27, 2009
(please to tell me? was i stoned? wtf?)
posted by jammy at 7:04 AM on June 27, 2009
Water water everywhere but way too boring to drink (all the time)
Just in time for summer!
posted by Deathalicious at 7:26 AM on June 27, 2009
Just in time for summer!
posted by Deathalicious at 7:26 AM on June 27, 2009
Hi I'm Hitler. What should I name my cat? Mr. Bojangles Aryan Nations Campbell
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:34 AM on June 27, 2009
posted by InfidelZombie at 9:34 AM on June 27, 2009
That's your average newscast's stage set, folks. That's who's guarding the televisual fort.
Lots of us love to hate TV talking heads, apparently.
posted by gompa at 11:03 AM on June 27, 2009
Lots of us love to hate TV talking heads, apparently.
posted by gompa at 11:03 AM on June 27, 2009
Wonderful. A dirty joke. At meatbomb's expense, no less.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:39 AM on June 27, 2009
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 11:39 AM on June 27, 2009
My FPP on Race discussions in gaming is the top post I've got, with
my snark to "Yay Lynch Mob" as my top comment.
posted by yeloson at 1:18 PM on June 27, 2009
my snark to "Yay Lynch Mob" as my top comment.
posted by yeloson at 1:18 PM on June 27, 2009
My most favorited comment is one describing the approach used by a guy who broke up with me; I was recommending it as a solid breakup approach.
This comment has taken on a life of its own, and continues to resurface in my "favorited by others" despite the fact that it's getting pretty old. I suspect that people randomly searching "breakup" find it regularly, because it rises to the top of my recent activity every month or so. It's kind of miserable, because I'm cruising along, enjoying life, and when I pop in to my profile to see what's happening, I get to relive this breakup yet one more time. And again. And again.
My other recurring favorite-grabber is my prescription for stocking your pantry.
So there you have it: my most highly-valued contributions to MeFi. How to dump someone so they won't hate you, and how to eat your way out of the ensuing misery.
posted by Miko at 7:37 PM on June 27, 2009
This comment has taken on a life of its own, and continues to resurface in my "favorited by others" despite the fact that it's getting pretty old. I suspect that people randomly searching "breakup" find it regularly, because it rises to the top of my recent activity every month or so. It's kind of miserable, because I'm cruising along, enjoying life, and when I pop in to my profile to see what's happening, I get to relive this breakup yet one more time. And again. And again.
My other recurring favorite-grabber is my prescription for stocking your pantry.
So there you have it: my most highly-valued contributions to MeFi. How to dump someone so they won't hate you, and how to eat your way out of the ensuing misery.
posted by Miko at 7:37 PM on June 27, 2009
Whoops, I screwed up the link to the actual breakup instructions. Here it is.
posted by Miko at 7:40 PM on June 27, 2009
posted by Miko at 7:40 PM on June 27, 2009
Wait, you got more favorites for your how to stock a pantry comment than for your how to make the perfect breakfast comment? Five times more favorites? WTF?
I guess this is proof that MeFi doesn't really love bacon.
posted by the latin mouse at 4:49 AM on June 28, 2009
I guess this is proof that MeFi doesn't really love bacon.
posted by the latin mouse at 4:49 AM on June 28, 2009
A commentary on the hipster question, although I really personally prefer my second place.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:07 PM on June 28, 2009
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:07 PM on June 28, 2009
Oh, and my number one post is about DMT. Mefites plus illegal drugs equals lotsa favorites.
posted by zardoz at 6:32 PM on June 28, 2009
posted by zardoz at 6:32 PM on June 28, 2009
Most favorited Askme post: What made your happy child memories happy? (98 favorites).
Most favorited comment: NortonDC and I are not really flag wavers; we are usually more of a quietly patriotic sort. You know, patriotic on the inside. (42 favorites).
posted by onlyconnect at 10:03 PM on June 28, 2009
Most favorited comment: NortonDC and I are not really flag wavers; we are usually more of a quietly patriotic sort. You know, patriotic on the inside. (42 favorites).
posted by onlyconnect at 10:03 PM on June 28, 2009
Update: Over the weekend I made a post on geek feminism that has become my most favorited post. It also contains a comment, scenes from my nerd girl past, that received almost double the favorites of the one I originally posted in this thread.
MeFites certainly do seem to love reading personal anecdotes.
posted by velvet winter at 9:54 AM on June 29, 2009
MeFites certainly do seem to love reading personal anecdotes.
posted by velvet winter at 9:54 AM on June 29, 2009
Far and away my highest number (139!), a reminder that every one likes a good cheat for everyday drudgery.
posted by stormygrey at 1:34 AM on June 30, 2009
posted by stormygrey at 1:34 AM on June 30, 2009
oh and, since the thread's still alive, I seem to have topped myself in the last few days with this dollop of early morning (for me) wisdom concerning the strange plethora of celebrity deaths over the past few days.
posted by philip-random at 10:13 AM on June 30, 2009
posted by philip-random at 10:13 AM on June 30, 2009
Like philip-random, I just beat my previous record while this thread was still active. If it had been by a nose, I wouldn't mention it, but my previous record of 57 favorites was just blown out of the water by a post that has already gotten 96 favorites in less than 24 hours. It is a comparison of my life today with my life from a year ago - just before I got sober.
posted by greekphilosophy at 11:01 AM on July 2, 2009
posted by greekphilosophy at 11:01 AM on July 2, 2009
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