HTML needs fixing

June 29, 2004 4:57 AM

This date-rape thread is broken.
posted by Irontom to Bugs at 4:57 AM (21 comments total)

hahaha!

I still fucked it up.

Well, sorry about that. The point remains, the thread is broken.
posted by Irontom at 4:58 AM on June 29, 2004

Matt's really basically the landlord, inn't he? He's not around all that much, doesn't add much to the discussion when he's here, he just kind of owns the architecture, but occasionally you scream 'THE PLUMBING'S BUSTED IN 102 AN' THERE'S WATER ALLOVERDAPLACE!' and you just hope he shows up.
posted by Shane at 5:42 AM on June 29, 2004

Here's another one: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/21859
posted by Irontom at 5:48 AM on June 29, 2004

He's not around all that much, doesn't add much to the discussion when he's here

But its nice that you are here to set a better troll example, eh?
posted by the fire you left me at 7:00 AM on June 29, 2004

When was the last time you paid your rent here, Shane?
posted by fuzz at 7:04 AM on June 29, 2004

fuzz, he was kidding
posted by ashbury at 7:14 AM on June 29, 2004

Okay, fine:

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I expect you to follow suit right now, if you haven't already, fuzzy and fizzle you left me.

T'ain't much, but it all adds up. Who's next?
posted by Shane at 8:11 AM on June 29, 2004

Bet you can't do it again.
posted by brownpau at 8:17 AM on June 29, 2004

MeFi's great, but I wanna eat this week, brownpau. Not actually eat the week, as if it were food, but more like eat food during the week.
posted by Shane at 8:21 AM on June 29, 2004

Weird, i get that error when I click metatalk in logged out mode.

BTW - I'm having to log in everyday these days, why is that?
posted by dash_slot- at 8:30 AM on June 29, 2004

* one-upped by Shane, sheepishly retracts snark and makes another donation
posted by fuzz at 8:38 AM on June 29, 2004

Cool, fuzz. Seriously, I think maybe I'll do this a few times a year. It's only fair, and it'll make me feel better about my snarky trollish kidding comments. Then I can bitch about the lack of heat under the bridge in the sub-basement in December.
posted by Shane at 8:45 AM on June 29, 2004

Landlord Matt needs to hire a Super. I hear quonsar's available.

*ducks*
posted by wendell at 8:54 AM on June 29, 2004

Mmm... tasty weekburgers.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 9:27 AM on June 29, 2004

Whatever happened to Skippy? Isn't this his department?
posted by gleuschk at 9:43 AM on June 29, 2004

Landlord Matt needs to hire a Super. I hear quonsar's available.

nown, whatjd id ido withn tharts broolmn?

*ducks, runs...*
posted by quonsar at 10:28 AM on June 29, 2004

Both have been fixed. This happens when people post bad HTML, then when the page goes into the one month old archive, it gets rendered as a flat HTML file.

For one reason or another, a really awful chunk of non-standard HTML chokes the flat file parser thing and you get these malformed files saved.

I fixed the offending comments and re-rendered the old archive pages.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:39 PM on June 29, 2004

"flat file parser thing?"

Jeezus, Matt. Some of us ain't all high-falutin ee-lectronic types. All t'at jargon's gone give grammaw a haddock. Could you dumb it down jes' a tetch more, use the side of a goat or somethin?

Ahhhhhh. You're too good to us, Matt. Get on back to New York so's we can buy you some more vittles and whatnot. Heavy on the whatnot.

(Mheh heh. Shane said t'ain't.)
posted by chicobangs at 2:59 PM on June 29, 2004

Another thread broken:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/20005
posted by Blue Stone at 3:53 PM on June 29, 2004

fixed.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:26 PM on June 29, 2004

another:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/26401
posted by NortonDC at 6:53 PM on June 29, 2004