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03 June 2005

Metafilter is unwell It's got the Jruns again
post by: Tarrama at: 07:20 | 104 comments
Catastrophic Success!
posted by gsb 03 June | 07:35
it's only sleeping
posted by dhruva 03 June | 07:37
I need an automatic frustration comment generator.
I'll settle with "Fuckkkk"!
posted by peacay 03 June | 07:39
Where can I buy a "I paid five dollars to join MetaFilter and I got was this lousy Server Error" t-shirt?
posted by Slack-a-gogo 03 June | 08:25
sufi's gate. must remember sufi's gate.
posted by quonsar 03 June | 08:30
*shits violently*
posted by languagehat 03 June | 09:04
Quickly nurse, more bedpans! He has the JRuns!
posted by dodgygeezer 03 June | 09:15
it's only sleeping
If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it'd be pushing up daisies!
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 09:16
Do I even have to say it?
posted by iconomy 03 June | 09:31
Slack-a-gogo, quick, set up a cafepress shop!
posted by dabitch 03 June | 09:32
*drops pants. whipes*
posted by mr.marx 03 June | 09:45
I think matt does this on purpose. I can just picture him sitting there with his kid saying "Watch daddy make 25000 nerds go apeshit!"
posted by jonmc 03 June | 09:46
Server Error
The server admin has taken your money, ran, and was unable to complete your request.

Could not connect to JRun Server.
posted by Mean Mr. Bucket 03 June | 09:57
hurry up and fix it before my life comes back !
posted by sgt.serenity 03 June | 10:01
* squirms *

IT IS AN EX-PARROT!!!

Dammit, you do NOT just leave something like that hanging.
posted by yhbc 03 June | 10:02
Sorry.

And now for something completely different: The MoFi discussion of MeFi's JRuns.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 10:04
What? No FRIDAY FLASH FUN!?!??!?

*faints*

posted by papercake 03 June | 10:09
Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
Could not connect to JRun Server.
Please deposit another $5. It won't bring the site back, but it will make Matt happy.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 10:14
This is choice (from Mofi):
I dislike Mefi because it is full of pedants, frequently dull, always repetitious (you can predict thread responses within the first few posts in most cases), and bogged down by egos. Mofi may be lightweight in many respects, but it is certainly more fun (thus more of the Buddha-nature) and swings widely between posts about nothing at all or blather to serious, hard discussions about tendentious issues. Mefi is a coffee-klatch limited in its focus, Mofi is more a coffee shop frequented by a wide variety of loons.
posted by jrun 03 June | 10:16
MetaFilter: Full of Pendants, Frequently Dull, Always Repititious.
posted by jrun 03 June | 10:16
MetaFilter: Full of Pendants, Frequently Dull, Always Repetitious. Full of Pendants, Frequently Dull, Always Repetitious. Full of Pendants, Frequently Dull, Always Repetitious. Full of Pendants, Frequently Dull, Always Repetitious.
posted by papercake 03 June | 10:17
I found a cool streaming site with a large library. "Tonight There's Gonna Be A Jailbreak" followed by "Theme From An Imaginary Western," and "Don't Fear The Reaper," is a great wake-up block, although my air-drum playing is freaking out my cubemates.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 10:18
MonkeyFilter: Swings Widely, Buddha-In-Nature, Tendentious in issues.
posted by jrun 03 June | 10:18
When Metatalk comes back up, if someone links to this thread and the mofi thread about this thread, they will have completed the much coveted and sought-after trifecta of meta-ness, and all the riches of the heavens will be bestowed upon them.
posted by iconomy 03 June | 10:21
Every time I see "jrun" that damn song goes through my head again. Stop the madness!

j run run run run, j run run run.
posted by mygothlaundry 03 June | 10:24
jonmc - you can't just talk about those kinds of things without links, my friend.

(not to you air-drumming -- the streaming site)
posted by papercake 03 June | 10:24
Gah! Then I scrolled up and got infected by Don't Fear the Reaper! *shakes fist wildly*
posted by mygothlaundry 03 June | 10:26
What's the longest MeFi's ever been down?
posted by peacay 03 June | 10:28
keep it on the DL....here. MGL, do not dis my beloved BOC.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 10:29
MetaFilter -- An Irresistible Urge to Defecate on the Server
posted by matteo 03 June | 10:33
shit! jonmc, that's a kinghell site!
posted by peacay 03 June | 10:42
jonmc - This is just between you and me. Gracias.
posted by papercake 03 June | 10:43
...and peacay. Between you, me, and peacay.
posted by papercake 03 June | 10:44
Well shit, so much for my 30 sock puppet Battle Royale in MeTa.
posted by KevinSKomsvold 03 June | 10:45
in your honor, I fire up T-Rex's "Children Of The Revolution."

Last time I heard that song I was high on vicodin watching Dogtown & Z-Boys and dreamed I was Jay Adams.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 10:45
Blue Oyster Cult? I thought it was Kansas.
posted by mygothlaundry 03 June | 10:45
Blasphemer.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 10:48
WHOA!!! CHECK OUT THAT SITE!!! NOW I GOTS ME SUH'UM TA POST TA METAFILTER AND SLASHDOT AND ALL DEM BOARDS I VISIT AND USE THREE EXCLAMATION POINTS, DAMMIT!!!

INTARWEB FAME, HERE ME CUM!
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 10:48
Also from MoFi:
MeFi's mean and snarky. It kinda reminds me of usenet back when I was trying out the web in Junior High. It was like a pit of snakes! Junior High and usenet. heh. MoFi is like a beach, a nude beach, with umbrella drinks and backrubs and flying poop.
Don't forget the sunscreen!
posted by jrun 03 June | 10:50
When Metatalk comes back up, if someone links to this thread and the mofi thread about this thread, they will have completed the much coveted and sought-after trifecta of meta-ness, and all the riches of the heavens will be bestowed upon them.

Since I've been cross-polenating MeCha and MoFi, call dibs!
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 10:53
Oh, that's nuts, MeFi is much beachier and nuder than MoFi.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 10:54
Doohickie - you got it! Go for it!
posted by jrun 03 June | 10:54
Don't forget the sunscreen!

They didn't.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 10:55
interesting to see the "sense of entitlement" thing starting to grow now that people have problems after paying $5. this was predicted, but there was some argument that it wouldn't actually happen - what was it?

/dull pedant discussing the repetitious comments of newbies.

oh, and "buddah nature"? wassat?
posted by andrew cooke 03 June | 10:56
I dunno. I'm a Presbyterian myself.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 10:57
Wasn't it someone here who said: "MeFi goes down more often than a two-dollar whore on lumberjack payday."? Or did I dream that? Because I thought that that was right succinct but if I dreamed it, I really am going to finally have to get a life. MoFi.


posted by jrun 03 June | 10:58
Don't forget the sunscreen!

Live in MeFi once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in MoFi once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Hang out in MeChat indefinitely, until you have to go back work.
posted by papercake 03 June | 11:00
MeFi returns! Doohickie ... cross pollenate!
posted by jrun 03 June | 11:02
Why does MonkeyFilter continually retreat toward and take pleasure in references to projectile feces? I understand the genesis of the site and the fact that such a reference, as a joke, may have been funny for a couple of minutes, but if, indeed, MonkeyFilter users belong to a polite, earnest, intelligent community -- as they all seem to claim -- why do they keep making poo jokes?
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 11:02
I cringe at that too longnameinbutt.
posted by peacay 03 June | 11:06
MonkeyFilter is that group of kids that was never cool lucky enough to get into the "in" group, so they formed their own group just to talk about how superior they are and how lame the "in" crowd is while doing everything possible to replicate the "in" crowds behavior.
posted by dios 03 June | 11:07
SHUT UP DICKHOOIE
posted by quonsar 03 June | 11:08
The cliche, of course, being them saying "I didn't want to be in their stupid club anyhow."
posted by dios 03 June | 11:08
MeFi returns! Doohickie ... cross pollenate!


Done. I'm sure I'll get hammered for some of my comments about MeFi. Whatever.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 11:08
/me snickers at q
posted by dios 03 June | 11:09
In fact, looks like narquos has already started.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 11:11
I want to like Monkeyfilter, and it is nice to go there and see some of the old MeFi exiles posting... but I get sort of creeped out by the constant self-congratulation. I don't know.
posted by cobra! 03 June | 11:11
oh, and "buddah nature"? wassat?

Apparently the Buddha likes all the huggy-poopy-monkey baby talk. Bleh.
posted by Armitage Shanks 03 June | 11:12
cobra!- I think it is a reaction to the constant swipes MeFites take at each other. Neither community is perfect, just like no person is perfect.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 11:13
Yeah, dios, that's absolutely true. That's why monkeyfilter was formed and that's why we just slavishly imitate metafilter and act just like the mefites. Uh huh. Whatever makes you happy. Because, like, we totally can't post on metafilter or metachat: the cool kids won't let us! I hate that!

We were never cool enough to get a job in a record store, and if we had we wouldn't want you anymore.

/refreshments, /sarcasm
posted by mygothlaundry 03 June | 11:15
Yeah, but I can't imagine adhering to an in-joke about feces for so long and still considering it funny. In-jokes are, by nature, the funniest kind of jokes, but excrement humor is, by nature, limited in scope. There are not many iterations one can make to maintain the joke's power.
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 11:17
excrement humor is, by nature, limited in scope.

Actually excrement humor, is by nature, quite fertile.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 11:24
"but I get sort of creeped out by the constant self-congratulation. I don't know."

False humility is the worst form of conceit.


I never wanted to be in that fucking 'club'. Never applied to Metafilter, laughed at the $5 fee. So, by the critics logic, my denegration of Metafilter is unbiased.

I LIKE CHEESE
posted by That's Mr Chyren 03 June | 11:40
*bestows all the riches of heaven upon doohickie*

*tunnels out a little airhole so that he can breathe*
posted by iconomy 03 June | 11:44
I LIKE CHEESE
posted by That's Mr Chyren 03 June | 11:40

I noticed this in the Monkeyfilter thread and this one.
Is this some sort of Monkeyfilter inside joke? Or is it a minor league quonsar imitations?

Or when I said above... "while doing everything possible to replicate the "in" crowds behavior"... maybe I should have added the modifier "poorly" before replicate...
posted by dios 03 June | 11:46
Probably kind of like "I like pancakes."

But with cheese.
posted by iconomy 03 June | 11:47
I thought it was a reference to pancakes... as in
"I like pancakes. Does anyone else like pancakes?"
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 11:48
or what iconomy said
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 11:49
So now that MeFi broke again, I looked at the MoFi thread. And I remembered why, even though I've had an account there forever, I never post: I like meanness, I like snark, and someday I will use my lightning crankiness to take out the monkeys. It will be when they least expect it. But then niceness will be eradicated and my withered heart will beat with vindictive joy once more.

Is that wrong?
posted by dame 03 June | 11:57
False humility is the worst form of conceit.


I am now a blistered, smoking pile of wreckage. If only fifty people could post about how they're handing me bananas.
posted by cobra! 03 June | 12:01
dame, as long as you follow up with a flip, irreverent reference to excrement, you'll be fine.
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 12:01
Wait -- bananas, monkeys, ha! I get it.

Le mot juste!
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 12:06
'I like cheese' is *my* catchphrase that I've uttered for no apparent reason since I started using the internet about a decade ago.

Not everything in this world is an homage to your precious, wonderful little metafilter, sorry to burst your bubble.

It means nothing, it is assinine, childish and stupid. And gloriously so.
posted by That's Mr Chyren 03 June | 12:13
iconomy: you like pancakes with cheese?

I like mine with peanutbutter, myself.

On preview: woah Mr Chyren, calm your self. I mean, cheesewiz, we're just joshin' around here.
posted by papercake 03 June | 12:14
You people need editors.

Prolix = bad.
posted by That's Mr Chyren 03 June | 12:14
SHUTUP

/drool

/hemorrhage

that's difficult to spell
posted by That's Mr Chyren 03 June | 12:16
* blows air kisses *
posted by whatnot 03 June | 12:16
I like cheese' is *my* catchphrase that I've uttered for no apparent reason since I started using the internet about a decade ago.

Smells like AOL.
posted by Armitage Shanks 03 June | 12:17
"Hey, do you guys have a broadband connection at your place?"

"Um, what?"

"The Internet. Do you have a computer?"

"Um, no, we have AOL."

*self-immolates*
posted by goatsetubgirlknifebutt 03 June | 12:20
Excellent! Somebody sweep up those ashes, 'k?
posted by fish tick 03 June | 12:24
" Somebody sweep up those ashes, 'k?" Can't we train a monkey for that?
posted by arse_hat 03 June | 12:25
Excellent, excellent...MC already has a crotchety but lovable curmudgeon.

*prepares unwieldy postage-due package of AOL CDs to be sent to That's Mr Chyren*
posted by iconomy 03 June | 12:30
mygothlaundry: Relax. He just thinks he's in an "in-crowd" for once. He just doesn't know that there isn't actually an "in-crowd". There really isn't a spoon. I figure if we allow him this simple self delusion, he won't explode and explode explody knives everywhere and make our blood come out of explody knife holes.

Caterpillar piles
so many to climb up
here, there, everywhere
all going nowhere
at all
posted by loquacious 03 June | 12:33
papercake, try peanut butter AND strawberry jam....MMM
posted by iconomy 03 June | 12:35
"explody knives everywhere"
posted by peacay 03 June | 12:47
That's Mr Chyren sounds as unlikable as that Optimus Chyme fella.
posted by quonsar 03 June | 12:51
iconomy - now you've done it. I've gone and drooled all over my keyboard.
posted by papercake 03 June | 12:53
The worst part is getting a reply all primed and not being able to submit it.
posted by Mitheral 03 June | 12:58
Optimus Chyme claims to be American. Say no more.
posted by fish tick 03 June | 13:00
*uses papercake's drool to moisten the address sticker to be affixed to the unwieldy, postage-due package of AOL CDs to be sent to That's Mr Chyren*
posted by iconomy 03 June | 13:07
I never wanted to be in that fucking 'club'. Never applied to Metafilter, laughed at the $5 fee.


That's Mr Chyren, if you didn't want to be in the club, what're you doing hanging out in the auxillary clubhouse?

I LIKE IRONY.
posted by melissa may 03 June | 13:48
I EAT IRONY.
posted by loquacious 03 June | 14:00
I IRON EATERIES.
posted by jonmc 03 June | 14:03
IRON CHEF EATS GHEE.
posted by loquacious 03 June | 16:55
loquacious, did you spend the whole three hours trying to come up with that?
posted by arse_hat 03 June | 16:58
and it's down again.
posted by amberglow 03 June | 17:15
Such bitterness I sense in this That's Mr Chyren. Lead to the blue side of the force, this will.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 17:46
I TAPE "GOOD EATS".
posted by wendell 03 June | 20:50
Such baiting I sense of this TMC.
posted by fish tick 03 June | 20:56
arse_hat: Err, yes. Of course. Why do you ask?
posted by loquacious 03 June | 21:53
Just curious yellow is all.
posted by arse_hat 03 June | 21:59
Paraguay
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 22:28
Belgium?
posted by loquacious 03 June | 23:03
All-Bran (Extra Fiber).
Period.
posted by Doohickie 03 June | 23:11
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