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14 June 2005

MeCha has become the dating game →[More:]So, Bachelor Number 1, "...what's your favorite color?"

Bachelor Number 2, "If you were a cleverly marketed entertainment package, what would be your theme song?"

Bachelor Number 3, what is "your favorite 'Go to the doctor, dammit!' AskMe post"?

Bachelor Number 4, "If you were a book in Farenheit 451, which book would you be?"

Bachelor Number 5, "So, do you ever get too hot to eat?"

Bachelor Number 6, if you were going to write your own personals ad, how would you fill in the blanks: "blank is looking for blank who can blank like a blank while blanking blank on a blank--"?

Bachelor Number 7, "Who would you pick for a celebrity caged death match?"

Yeah, I realize this isn't MeFi, but I don't know... there seem to be an awful lot of chatty ChatFilter posts.
post by: Doohickie at: 22:40 | 57 comments
What's wrong with that? Isn't this place called MetaCHAT? I don't see a problem, personally. It's not my site though.
posted by iconomy 14 June | 22:42
It isn't MetaTalk either you motherlover.

Just kidding. Really.

It seems like a slow night, and even though there was a brief period of the runs earlier, less runs means more time on MeFi.

I really like it here, though. There is less hustle and bustle here, which does my old Appalachian heart good. Ok, not really, I'm not old, or Appalachian, and nothing can help this heart.
posted by omiewise 14 June | 22:44
I'm not sure there is a problem with it. I guess "what's your favorite color?" seemed a bit over the line of banality and felt compelled to to bitch about it. If I get blasted I guess I will have learned something.
posted by Doohickie 14 June | 22:46
I'm OK with it. No blasting, I hope. Beatings, yes, but no blasting.
posted by puddinghead 14 June | 22:47
Doohickie-Seriously, I was just riffing off your "it isn't MeFi" line. I wasn't being serious, although I don't have a problem with it.
posted by omiewise 14 June | 22:48
Gawd. I just realized that that MeFi has destroyed my soul.
posted by Doohickie 14 June | 22:51
Listen, on the interenet, people flirt. Because we're all invisible, the stakes are lower, and even if we're taken, we like to know that we're still attractive. Get over it.
posted by jonmc 14 June | 22:52
Hickiedoo - the "favorite color" bit was only posted because mathowie mentioned that as an extreme example on MeFi itself.

Read. Comprehend. Then comment.
posted by yhbc 14 June | 22:52
Okay, what is Metachat, if not the place where it's okay to admit that you have a life outside of the internet, and that you have a personality separate from your online posturing?
posted by mudpuppie 14 June | 22:53
But.... no one flirts with *me*.....
posted by Doohickie 14 June | 22:53
MeCha was started because we couldn't be banal and chatty anywhere else, so to complain that it's banal and chatty seems a bit silly, Doohickie. But still, I must agree with puddinghead...beatings are in order.
posted by iconomy 14 June | 22:53
Ok, beatings followed by make-up sex. Lots and lots of make-up sex. With YOU.

Better?
posted by iconomy 14 June | 22:54
Gawd. I just realized that that MeFi has destroyed my soul.

*decides not to go for a groovy weekend in Cabo with Doohickie, picks Bachelor #3 instead*
posted by amberglow 14 June | 22:55
No, dammit, we must have a ritual sacrifice! With pitchforks, and torches, and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and cries of the infidel as he realizes his errors and screams his confessions to a merciless throng ...

Wait, there's going to be make-up sex?
posted by yhbc 14 June | 22:57
iconomy: I should probably finish up with the break-up sex before starting in on the make-up sex...

Shit, have I had this backwards forever?

*wanders off into the corner and sucks his thumb*
posted by Schyler523 14 June | 22:58
Schyler523, that's not your thumb!
posted by iconomy 14 June | 23:06
i remember sex. vaguely.
posted by quonsar 14 June | 23:10
Do you at least remember who gets tied up?
posted by yhbc 14 June | 23:11
Yay! yhbc gets parody. Front of the make-up sex line for that guy.
posted by melissa may 14 June | 23:11
No, dammit, we must have a ritual sacrifice! With pitchforks, and torches, and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and cries of the infidel as he realizes his errors and screams his confessions to a merciless throng ...

I volunteer.


Wait, there's going to be make-up sex?

And again, I volunteer.
posted by mudpuppie 14 June | 23:14
Parody only works with context. I didn't see the context. So lambaste me. Get it over with. I can take it.
posted by Doohickie 14 June | 23:16
Oh, I'll lambaste you all right. With lots and lots of butter. Did you ever see Last Tango in Paris?
posted by iconomy 14 June | 23:18
Clickee the linkee and all will be revealed.

I don't lambaste. I'm too busy thinking of the 5 colors I would NOT, under any circumstances, want with me on a desert island.
posted by melissa may 14 June | 23:18
This is flirting? Hot DAMN!! I'd forgotten!
posted by puddinghead 14 June | 23:19
*realizes what he is sucking*

So long folks...don't need anyone else for a while. ;>
posted by Schyler523 14 June | 23:26
Don't worry, Schyler, you're not the only one. I figure at this point my best defense is to just go away and hope everyone forgets who started the thread...
posted by Doohickie 14 June | 23:31
*points at Doohickie, does Invasion of the Body Snatchers screech*
posted by amberglow 14 June | 23:33
doohickie: i seriously doubt the seriousness of this pile-on...er...orgy. Hey, get that thing outta my eye!
posted by Schyler523 14 June | 23:50
Yeah, I realize this isn't MeFi, but I don't know... there seem to be an awful lot of chatty ChatFilter posts.

Jesus Christ.
I just came from here to learn what about what the Chatfilter version of MeFi is like. It's more complaining about appropriateness?
posted by dreamsign 14 June | 23:59
Well, that's why we're lambasting, dreamsign.
You prefer olive oil or butter?
posted by yhbc 15 June | 00:01
No, no, dreamsign, there's been a punishment and it won't happen again. Welcome to a kinder, gentler Internet. We have bunnies. And whips, but more about that later.

posted by puddinghead 15 June | 00:03
dreamsign: It's my fault. You see, I have Cyberasberger's Syndrome and often miss the point. Totally.
posted by Doohickie 15 June | 00:04
*hugs Doohickie, punches him on the shoulder, buys him a beer, looks around for matildaben*
posted by mlis 15 June | 00:12
i have a rapist wit.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 15 June | 00:15
"You prefer olive oil or butter?"
Either way do it on the night before your days off. Stuff takes to days to wash out.
posted by arse_hat 15 June | 00:21
*pepper sprays weretable's rapist wit, then stabs it with a long skinny sword*

Yep, it's just for silly, and hopefully fun, chat, doohickie.
posted by taz 15 June | 00:38
It was a good day on MeCha, and there was no tsunami in California. G'night, all.
posted by puddinghead 15 June | 00:40
Metachat: where the fun is hopeful. aargh
posted by taz 15 June | 00:40
Sorry, I was actually having a real life for a couple hours there. No more of that nonsense. Back to the computer.
posted by matildaben 15 June | 00:56
Egads. (just finished playing Five Finger Fillet)

Ah, alright. I'll stick around awhile.
posted by dreamsign 15 June | 00:59
... it's okay to admit that you have a life outside of the internet, and that you have a personality separate from your online posturing?
*Cries*
posted by dg 15 June | 01:31
I think there's just something in the air for it today. My whole day's been like metachat.
posted by frecklefaerie 15 June | 01:58
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
DOOHICKIE?

*rolls up newspaper* BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD DOOHICKIE! BAD DOOHICKIE! LICK UP YOUR MESS! BAD! LICK IT!

Yeah, you've been punished, but it needed to be said.

Please tell me we're not going to see a MetaTalkChat any time soon. But if we are going to see one soon, please warn me so I can save up my poo, for flinging.
posted by loquacious 15 June | 02:30
Sorry, but someone will have to make another site for metatalkchat. It could be for "Critical discussion of the MetaChat chattering about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter, that may not belong on MetaChat".

≡ Click to see image ≡

The mascot could be a naked mole rat.
posted by taz 15 June | 02:39
The chatty conversations are the main reason I come here. If I were a marketing executive, I'd say they were the sites Unique Selling Point.

Actually - Reasons why MeCha is fantastic.
- Chatty threads.
- Default behaviour is "nice"
- silliness is encouraged.

This isn't metafilter. It's a place to hang out and talk that's slower than IRC and less serious than MeFi.
posted by seanyboy 15 June | 03:08
*takes off pants, lounges casually*
posted by loquacious 15 June | 03:25
*gasps, applauds; sets up easel.*
posted by taz 15 June | 03:31
*hands loquacious a drink*
*puts arse_hat's mecha mix on the stereo*
posted by Schyler523 15 June | 03:32
*gasps also, asks loquacious where his old scar has gone*
posted by seanyboy 15 June | 03:53
Aha! So that explains it.

Hey! Where'd that pod come fr
posted by taz 15 June | 04:09
The real question is whether this kind of thing will bring the admin the kind of fame and fortune that Haughey enjoys. If not, I say we quit our chatting and get to work.
posted by omiewise 15 June | 09:03
Ah. So. On MeFi, one is disciplined with derisive humiliation. On MeCha, one is disciplined with silliness and a rolled up newspaper. I get it now.
posted by Doohickie 15 June | 09:07
We flirt?

MetaCha-Cha, maybe.
posted by safetyfork 15 June | 09:10
there was no tsunami in California

is that what we were aiming at? i wondered why everyone had to jump up and down at the same time.
posted by andrew cooke 15 June | 09:59
Where do we line up for the beatings? Recieving that is, not giving...
posted by deborah 15 June | 12:47
uh...actually, where are both lines?
posted by Schyler523 15 June | 16:42
The real question is whether this kind of thing will bring the admin the kind of fame and fortune that Haughey enjoys.


On that note...
posted by mudpuppie 15 June | 17:57
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