Comments on: NSFW FPP.

NSFW FPP.

orthogonality — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:38:18 -0800

1. Please delete my FPP. Unbeknownst to me, the link contains NSFW ads. 2. Even after filling out the captcha on the contact admins page, I get "Couldn't send your message. Please go back and make sure you fill out the captcha before you send your message." I checked out the linked pages with adblock turned off and javascript turned on, and didn't see anything untoward using FF. My apologies to anyone who got a surprise.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:41:22 -0800

1. Just added an above-the-fold NSFW to the post. Good morning!

2. Weird. Someone else mentioned captcha difficulties yesterday, I think. I guess we need to check it out. Anybody else having any trouble with it?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:06:40 -0800

I just removed the three or four "OMG NSFW!" comments too so maybe the discussion can be nicely rerailed.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:28:16 -0800

Anybody else having any trouble with it?

I had captcha problems a few months ago, but that was on my attenuated BlackBerry browser.

By: fatllama

fatllama — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:29:54 -0800

He's a robot, burn him!

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:34:05 -0800

I'm a robot and a philosophical zombie.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:45:38 -0800

Hey Jess, you also removed a couple of comments that weren't about NSFW (ones about how folks looked different than they do now).

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:52:36 -0800

Specifically, at least thse:
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059540
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059541
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059543
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059659

By: dyoneo

dyoneo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:53:05 -0800

Hey Jess, you also removed a couple of comments that weren't about NSFW (ones about how folks looked different than they do now).

I do believe she's being diplomatic; there were three straight middle-of-the-night Historical Hot or Not meditations that were cumulatively kind of offensive and dumb.

By: Malor

Malor — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:53:49 -0800

Well, I just tried the contact form, and it seemed to work -- but only after allowing scripting for recaptcha.net. Without that, I didn't get the captcha form, and it wouldn't submit.

By: onalark

onalark — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:06:03 -0800

I tried the contact form, and I didn't allow recaptcha.net, but it seemed to go through fine... Perhaps whatever the problem was has been fixed.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:10:32 -0800

Yeah, we've received a couple test messages successfully. Hey, orthogonality (and others, for that matter), any recent browser changes? I know FF 2.0.0.13 just dropped recently, and I can't imagine why exactly that might cause a problem, but as a who-knows ferexample...

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:20:55 -0800

The other comments were someone trying unsuccessfully a few times to post a link to an image on shorpy's that was busted. I dropped him a MeMail about that and suggested he repost since the thread was not really moving off swiftly without him.

One of those comments also included the astute observation that all women before Marion Davies were "potato-headed unfuckable sea hags" and I said that while he was re-writing that comment he might want to consider that a comment like that dropped early into a thread ran a good chance of totally destroying any discussion the thread might have about anything but his own assessment of fuckability of all women prior to, say, the 1920s. It's up to him what he would like to do about that.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:25:33 -0800

ReCAPTCHA.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:32:25 -0800

yeah, blue_beetle, that's what we're using on the contact form, ReCAPTCHA.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:57:59 -0800

"potato-headed unfuckable sea hags"

At the risk of allowing others to speak for me I'm just going to quote the alt-text of the most recent Achewood:

Oh baby they got companies that gather garbage but why ain't they got companies that gather men?

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:31:43 -0800

One of those comments also included the astute observation that all women before Marion Davies were "potato-headed unfuckable sea hags" and I said that while he was re-writing that comment he might want to consider that a comment like that dropped early into a thread ran a good chance of totally destroying any discussion the thread might have about anything but his own assessment of fuckability of all women prior to, say, the 1920s.

Frankly, all women born prior to, what, 1908 (as a ball-park) are pretty unfuckable. Also, men.

Because they're dead.

Also, I was having this discussion with my girlfriend about how some people's faces just seem to come in and out of fashion—like, especially with guys, you'll notice these weird high foreheads or eyes that are too close together, and, like, everyone has 'em for a while. Then they're gone. I think I saw this mentioned in a book once too, but I can't remember which book.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:38:38 -0800

Oh Klang, you can have sex with a dead person, you just can't make 'em love you.

By: EarBucket

EarBucket — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:06:02 -0800

On the plus side, it only requires one consenting adult.

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:13:44 -0800

That's the problem. You seem okay with it when you talk to yourself about it, but in the heat of the moment you wuss out.

By: the other side

the other side — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:17:42 -0800

Speak for yourself.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:56:11 -0800

I wouldn't describe the moment as heated.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:35:55 -0800

Re-heated, then.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:43:58 -0800

This is no time to get cold feet. Set your sights higher.

By: middleclasstool

middleclasstool — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:01:28 -0800

That's a weird goddamn page to put porniness on.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:11:46 -0800

cortex writes "any recent browser changes? I know FF 2.0.0.13"

Yeah, I'd just upgraded to 2.0.0.13 when this happened.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:21:22 -0800

I'm mildly fascinated by this sea hag thing. Other than her having been Popeye's nemesis whenever they decided to give Bluto the episode off, I have no cultural context for "Sea Hag" other than as the name of chowdery pubs and the like. A bit of Googling turns up fairly broad usage: poetry, metal bands, flickr sets... what. the. fuck? Hag, I understant, but why the nautical specificity?

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:43:22 -0800

The Sea is wicked scary and unknowable.

By: jtron

jtron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:28:56 -0800

Klang: I do believe the quote is from Watchmen.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:15:08 -0800

For some reason I thought it was from Wisconsin Death Trip, but that seemed unlikely.

By: jtron

jtron — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:20:22 -0800

Dammit, now that you say it, maybe that's where Moore got it.