Are you gonna pony up the $5 for me to get a new username and all if I volunteer? Or even a sockpuppet from which to build a bit of cred and then flame the fuck out? Sounds like a fun project. Then, you and languagehat and all the popcorn and beer bringers could have a party.

I thought DNAB was doing a fine bit of faking it, but then he went and apologized.

I know. It isn't as fun when it isn't for real. Hope your doing well in spite of the lack of flameouts!

When you do start a flame war, please call someone a malkin. Thank you.

I know. All this polite, reasonable adult discourse is driving me crazy too. It's been waaaaaay too long since a serious troll hit the blue & then flamed out magnificently on the gray. Isn't the world supposed to be getting more insane and tense and full of assholes? Why aren't they on Meta where they belong, going down in buckets of tar & feathers?

mygothlaundry, I have this fear that what we remember of the grey gone by—fabulous, unselfconscious flameouts, particularly—were the product of an obsolete physics. That, like some theorized Big-Bang-infant universe, the rules were just a bit different back them, the system more endothermic, irony not yet dead and resurrected.

No one wants to be the token flameout, really; and with the word "flameout" on everyone's tongue, everyone a bit too eager, shouting for it at the first whiff of blood, well—the genuine, uninflected article will be hard to come by. It will take a very special person. A sort of messiah, if you will.

Until that day, we can only pray, and wait, and sharpen our pitchfork tines.

I'd really like to help you, but since I don't have a MeFi account, there's not much I can do.

What we need is the Platonic ideal Meta thread, which doesn't involve any beloved members (I hate watching people I like, like DNAB, get all upset) or even extremely familiar ones (except bevets - a bevets flameout would be AWESOME) but instead features
* an unrepentant self linking batshitinsane guy
* who hates us all
* and wants to show us the errors of our ways
* in misspelled, grammatically incorrect
iambic pentameter.
That would ROCK.

PS. loquacious, you remember that picture you took of me with matildaben's camera? well, my grandfather loved it so much he printed it out and framed it and put it in his living room. Thanks! It made him really happy!

I was tempted to flame out over the whole 2-week thing.

But then I didn't.

It's just so stupid!!

PS. loquacious, you remember that picture you took of me

Actually, I don't remember that at all but I was pretty drunk. :) But hey! Yay! :)

I'm good at candids, though, and I strongly believe it's the way photography should be done. What I do is basically try to be as annoying as I can be with the camera and flash, and as many as 4/5 shots will come out awesome, but it's usually like 1/5.

You're welcome.

I honestly believe that this could have become the flameout for which we have all been waiting so long. But the bastards had to go and close the thread. I almost cried.

But instead, I decided to make my OMG! First Metachat Comment Evar! to whine about it.