It’s worse than the Holocaust, the Khmer Rogue, and Obama’s Presidency (that one being the worst, of course) combined! You need to let David Brooks design your logo!!!
10.
Donut
That is very calming. Much like the comments sections of each and every post.
11.
lamh35
your last line made me think of the Mens Warehouse commercial…”you’re gonna like the way you look” tagline.
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Tonal Crow
So does the new look include working multi-paragraph blockquotes and the ability to spell “soshulist” correctly without getting kicked into moderation? Or only bolder stripes? Not that bolder stripes are bad, at least if you’re a mouse and the stripes are on the tabby that’s stalking you.
I don’t know if it’s too late to bring this up, but I happened to think of it earlier today. When I’m reading the comments, and one comment is an answer to an earlier one, when I put the cursor over the link to the first comment, it’ll give me a number like 2910488 or something, and if I want to see what the first comment was, or if I’ve forgotten what it said, I have to go up through all of them, looking at the “link” thingies, before I can find it. Is there a way to have the link in the followup comment tell what number on that thread the earlier comment was? It isn’t a big deal, but it would be helpful.
Also, Daaling is an asshole and should fuck off forthwith.
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Comrade Mary
Looks pretty nifty!
(So will the balloon change colours depending on your mood, John?)
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Bondo
@Wannabe Speechwriter: Good point. The logo should be Tunch eating at the Applebees salad bar.
Yeah, well, I’ve often wondered why you people who clearly hate this site spend so much time here whining about how awful it is. If you think you could do it better, then have at it. Go start your own site. Now, maybe I’m not that smart–and I wouldn’t bet against it–but it’s hard for me to see what you’re getting out of this.
When I’m reading the comments, and one comment is an answer to an earlier one, when I put the cursor over the link to the first comment, it’ll give me a number like 2910488 or something, and if I want to see what the first comment was, or if I’ve forgotten what it said, I have to go up through all of them, looking at the “link” thingies, before I can find it.
Are you saying that you can’t just click the hyperlink to the previous comment and go right to it? Like clicking your (hyperlinked) name in this comment takes you to the comment to which I am replying.
And, pro tip, if you want to come back from there to this comment, just press the backspace key.
In Chrome, at least, you don’t have to scroll & search. Just click on the name in the reply link. This takes you to the comment that’s referenced. Then click the back button to go back to the comment you were reading before checking out the link.
I thought this should have been mentioned on the earworm thread. Every time I see that phrase, then I have that stupid tune in my ears the rest of the day, whatever that Beach Boys song was, Kokomo or something, only with these disgusting lyrics.
I hate change too. But as long as nothing big changes, I guess it’s okay.
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Legalize
The new header is worse than Bush. Your move, Cole.
@Steeplejack: fuckin’ A, all this time and I did not know about the damn backspace button! Thank you. (Now the rebuild will probably disable that function, but whatever).
@TBogg: I thought since Colorado made the Balloon Boy famous everyone knew what Jiffy Pop was, once again. (Still available at grocery store. Also. Too.)
In otherwords. I think people like Cole are the problem. Very dumb where it counts…at the polls.
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JoyousMN
Hey John, like the new design. But dont forget about those of us on mobile, android and tablet. The site is pretty good,but I’ve had some issues switching to desktop versionwhen on a tablet. If you designer is testing the user agent for mobile, tables gets lumped in with smaller screens. I find myself switching to desktop but it works and looks better on table. But I’m getting a site not found when I click the link at the bottom of the ballon juice page.
53.
JoyousMN
Hey John, like the new design. But dont forget about those of us on mobile, android and tablet. The site is pretty good,but I’ve had some issues switching to desktop versionwhen on a tablet. If you designer is testing the user agent for mobile, tables gets lumped in with smaller screens. I find myself switching to desktop but it works and looks better on table. But I’m getting a site not found when I click the link at the bottom of the ballon juice page.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet people like Cole ARE the problem. Very dumb when it counts. On election day. Then spend the next 12 years pissing and moaning about it.
If the new logo doesn’t have wilifred’s dick in it, I’m not voting in November.
57.
JoyousMN
sorry for double post, was trying to correct. Meant to say “because desktop looks better on table”
58.
Ash Can
What, no free booze? Fuck this shit.
59.
hildebrand
Sure, change the logo and other things, soon enough Jane Hamsher, David Sirota, Tucker Carlson, McMegan and Glennzilla will be the frontpagers, and then where will you be. Hah!
60.
Oz, The Great And Powerful
I can’t come back … I don’t know how it works.
61.
A Ghost To Most
I for one welcome our new header overlord. I do miss the guy with the megaphone, though.
62.
Citizen_X
THIS PLACE HAS GONE TO HELL! PATHETIC, COLE, PATHETIC!
Ok, actually, I like it.
enormous, mendacious, disembodied anus
Is there a better tagline anywhere? I’m half-tempted to have that put on my tombstone.
No, actually, you started trolling this site when most of the people here didn’t automatically believe that Rep. Weiner wasn’t sending pictures of his penis to people.
And you never forgave us for being right.
Now make like a good bag lady and start incoherently screaming that I’m your “groupie”, or whatever your fillings are telling you to say today.
I would have gone with an enormous, mendacious, disembodied anus myself.
Cole’s left the Republican party, praise goddess.
68.
Ozymandias, King of Ants
Need moar Hayekian Modesty.
69.
Kiril
Bah! The new header makes me angry! A thousand poxes upon you all! Martial law is imposed! Tariffs and taxes on everything! All fruit is banned! I am angry! So, so angry!
>ht giblets
70.
irregardless
Why do keep getting the mobile site on my laptop?
71.
taylormattd
Ooh, it’s pretty. Like.
I’m crossing my fingers that the fucking mobile site will be wiped from the face of the earth. :)
Like I said, I have a problem with this site because I basically think Cole is retarded. He voted for Bush twice and has shown he can be persuaded by libertarian ideas at times. He claims he is all better now and it was all stupid youth or whatever.
However, less than a year ago he got all messed up on Libya and I think the record is pretty clear just how back asswards wrong he was on that.
So say bullshit to talk he changed. You cannot fix mental retardation. People can learn to cope with it better and not partake in certain types of activities but it never goes away.
If this were 1940’s Germany he would be a brown shirt convinced that all Jews must die.
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A Humble Lurker
@Daaling:
So you don’t think Cole has voted Democratic since?
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Sloegin
So this fixes the 3 different site layouts that I randomly get on my desktop browser? Dat would be nice.
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WaterGirl
Cole, can we please have a link to reload the current thread at the bottom of the page on the mobile version? I can’t recall whether it’s on my iPhone or iPad, but you have to scroll all the way tot he top to refresh the page for new comments, and then you have to scroll down until you find the spot you were in before.
I will say, based on this tiny preview, I’m going to miss the mildly steampunkian aesthetic you currently got goin on.
78.
WaterGirl
Cole, before the last site rebuild, we could search on comment numbers. That was very useful in situations where someone doesn’t use the reply button and just refers to comment 15 (or whatever).
Now we can’t, and I miss it.
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dance around in your bones
Oh rats. I always really liked the old-fashioned guy in the topcoat, swinging his cane and either smoking or shouting through some megaphone – and the balloon full of juice escaping, rope dangling.
I guess you won’t bring back those beautiful curvy grey numbers either that made the site look so elegant. I have complained about that every chance I got, but my lone cries in the wilderness fall on deaf ears.
Oh rats.
80.
kansi
Is it wrong that I love all the hate?
81.
boss bitch
The balloon isn’t doing anything. Its just sitting there like…a balloon. All stiff, well-behaved and generic. This blog isn’t any of those things.
I’ll miss the anachronistic little man with the cane, top hat, striped pants, tails, and barker’s horn.
Every time I see that barker’s horn it looks like a big misshapen cigar to me. Smoke and everything. So I’m okay with changing things out.
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SiubhanDuinne
@dance around in your bones: Where have you BEEN? I’ve missed seeing you, in fact was going to ask at the next opportune moment if anyone had heard from you. How are you doing?
No, seriously! Long story, but end result is I snapped the ball right off the top of my femur and had to have surgery to get it all screwed back together (writing about this sounds vaguely dirty, no?)
So I am recuperating. I’m always here, lurking. Just haven’t felt like commenting much. Humping around on a walker tends to make me grumpy – though I do still have my sense of humor, which tends toward the blah ….haha!
Thanks for asking :)
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Jim Pharo
I HAVE A VERY STRONG OPINION ON THE LOGO!
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Schlemizel
Here is what I don’t get, someone invoked the name of a specific troll early in the thread for no apparent reason. Of course said troll had to respond & it semi-hijaked the thread in pointless bickering. Its like that other troll, the one that can’t let a thread go by without dredging up the name of a lemon that had fortunately moved on.
Whats the point? Trolls gonna troll why invite them? They add nothing of value to the site & have proven unworthy of attention. They are like any 3 year old throwing a tantrum for attention, ignore them & maybe they will go away.
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Schlemizel
@dance around in your bones:
About 11-12 years ago I broke my pelvis into 3 pieces (fell maybe 4 feet maybe a bit less). The recover to pretty mobile & mostly OK took a year but it was probably a good 5 years before I could actually run any amount on even soft surfaces without days of pain. I still don’t run (bike & use elliptical) but I have jogged short distances (100 yards) with no pain. Hang in there the recovery is a PItA and really takes a while but you should eventually be OK
89.
dance around in your bones
@Schlemizel: I’ve heard pelvic fractures are REALLY painful and take longer to heal.
I’m hanging in there, I just really dislike being semi-immobile. And the pain was…..intense. It’s getting better, slowly. I’m trying not to gobble up all the Percocet too quickly, but using a walker makes OTHER parts of my body hurt. Mostly I have to try and follow the doc’s advice, which is to take it slow and not try to do too much just now. “Walk like there’s an egg on the ball of your foot, and DON’T BREAK THE EGG!” Ha!
I get confused with all the Jens, but you are the Jen who lives in Champaign-Urbana, right? Are you voting for David Gill? I have gotten 2 polls for the past 2 days, just on that race. I wonder if that means it’s close.
@WaterGirl: That’s me. I still haven’t decided how I’m voting. Gill seems like a firebagger and Goetten seems like his heart is in the right place but he’s very unprepared. I’m not crazy about our choices.
@TooManyJens: I thought that was you. I would love to hear why you think Gill is a firebagger. I think he’s clearly the better choice, and I think he’s the only one of the two who can actually beat Tim Johnson (R-vile & disgusting) in the fall. Plus, I don’t think the other guy is nearly as good on women’s issues.
I have already voted, but still, I hate firebaggers, so I would love to hear your thinking in case there’s something I’ve missed.
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Nicole
Pretty! Like very much.
MikeJ
That looks really nice, but I feel like I should complain about it or you wouldn’t know you were reading the right site.
Irving
I pefer to put my heckling in the hands of experts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14njUwJUg1I
Zam
I DON’T LIKE CHANGE!
Daaling
So basically the same non functioning site with the same crappy theme…but hey we got a new logo. The balloon has stripes n shit now. Wow!
Amir Khalid
You laid off the guy standing on the line? How could you!
jwb
For the left it’s daylight and “green balloons,” whereas for the right, all is in shadow. Nice allegory.
Raven
Rock on Dawg.
Wannabe Speechwriter
It’s worse than the Holocaust, the Khmer Rogue, and Obama’s Presidency (that one being the worst, of course) combined! You need to let David Brooks design your logo!!!
Donut
That is very calming. Much like the comments sections of each and every post.
lamh35
your last line made me think of the Mens Warehouse commercial…”you’re gonna like the way you look” tagline.
Tonal Crow
So does the new look include working multi-paragraph blockquotes and the ability to spell “soshulist” correctly without getting kicked into moderation? Or only bolder stripes? Not that bolder stripes are bad, at least if you’re a mouse and the stripes are on the tabby that’s stalking you.
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
I don’t know if it’s too late to bring this up, but I happened to think of it earlier today. When I’m reading the comments, and one comment is an answer to an earlier one, when I put the cursor over the link to the first comment, it’ll give me a number like 2910488 or something, and if I want to see what the first comment was, or if I’ve forgotten what it said, I have to go up through all of them, looking at the “link” thingies, before I can find it. Is there a way to have the link in the followup comment tell what number on that thread the earlier comment was? It isn’t a big deal, but it would be helpful.
Also, Daaling is an asshole and should fuck off forthwith.
Comrade Mary
Looks pretty nifty!
(So will the balloon change colours depending on your mood, John?)
Bondo
@Wannabe Speechwriter: Good point. The logo should be Tunch eating at the Applebees salad bar.
Clime Acts
Purty.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Amir Khalid:
Cole likes firing pixel people.
Tonal Crow
@Wannabe Speechwriter:
You need to let David Brooks guest-write here. Really. He desperately needs to experience the evisceration skills we’ve honed on E.D.K.
Daaling
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): Awww, thanks for the shout out bro. Always appreciate it when my groupies express their devotion.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@MikeJ: That was pretty much what I was going to write.
dmsilev
Those stripes make the blog look fat.
Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)
@Daaling:
Yeah, well, I’ve often wondered why you people who clearly hate this site spend so much time here whining about how awful it is. If you think you could do it better, then have at it. Go start your own site. Now, maybe I’m not that smart–and I wouldn’t bet against it–but it’s hard for me to see what you’re getting out of this.
cathyx
@MikeJ: We have Daaling to do that.
cathyx
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): He’s doing that to rile people like you up and to hijack the thread. Congratulations. You made him successful.
Steeplejack
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
Are you saying that you can’t just click the hyperlink to the previous comment and go right to it? Like clicking your (hyperlinked) name in this comment takes you to the comment to which I am replying.
And, pro tip, if you want to come back from there to this comment, just press the backspace key.
burnspbesq
@Bondo:
“The logo should be Tunch eating
atthe Applebees salad bar.”FTFY.
Smiling Mortician
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.):
In Chrome, at least, you don’t have to scroll & search. Just click on the name in the reply link. This takes you to the comment that’s referenced. Then click the back button to go back to the comment you were reading before checking out the link.
Redshift
@Steeplejack: Or you can Ctrl-click to open it in a new tab, if you want to easily see the referenced comment without losing your place.
TBogg
John Cole’s Jiffy Pop! I like it!
Someone explain this to the kids…
Spaghetti Lee
I would have gone with an enormous, mendacious, disembodied anus myself.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Spaghetti Lee:
I think you need permission from Getty Images before you post pictures of Tom Friedman.
gogol's wife
@Spaghetti Lee:
I thought this should have been mentioned on the earworm thread. Every time I see that phrase, then I have that stupid tune in my ears the rest of the day, whatever that Beach Boys song was, Kokomo or something, only with these disgusting lyrics.
I hate change too. But as long as nothing big changes, I guess it’s okay.
Legalize
The new header is worse than Bush. Your move, Cole.
Egg Berry
Where will the rotating tag lines go?
RSA
I must register the complaint that since up until late 2008 (sample: http://web.archive.org/web/20080814135408/https://balloon-juice.com/) we were getting a full balloon of juice, but since then the balloon has been only half-full.
cathyx
@TBogg: John knew this new logo was appealing to him for some reason. Movie night with the folks.
Amir Khalid
@TBogg:
Oddly enough, I know what Jiffy Pop is, having heard Agent Mulder refer to it in the first X-Files movie.
WyldPirate
@Spaghetti Lee:
Stop staring into the mirror you narcissist.
Maude
I think the text should go up higher. The J breaking the line is odd.
Then again, what do I know?
Anya
I want my Balloon Juice back!
TaMara (BHF)
@Steeplejack: fuckin’ A, all this time and I did not know about the damn backspace button! Thank you. (Now the rebuild will probably disable that function, but whatever).
Raven
White Freightliner Blues
TaMara (BHF)
@TBogg: I thought since Colorado made the Balloon Boy famous everyone knew what Jiffy Pop was, once again. (Still available at grocery store. Also. Too.)
/ashamed for my state
photo: http://www.notthelatimes.com/assets/photos/jiffy3.jpg
Jewish Steel
No one is reminded of the hat that is worn by a character in the Mario world? I don’t know the character’s name. Not a gamer.
General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
I just hope it comes with a built in clown cannon. It was my one and only request, and doesn’t seem all that unreasonable .
Nix
That’s great, let me file that with the other things in the world that do nothing for me.
pragmatism
@dmsilev: Vertical stripes are slimming. It is tunch who makes the blog look fat.
David Koch
oNLY rON pAUL cAN bRING bACK dA jIFFY pPOP
pAUL/gLENN 2012!
JGabriel
John Cole:
Nooo! I’ll miss the anachronistic little man with the cane, top hat, striped pants, tails, and barker’s horn.
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General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero)
@efgoldman:
Is the clown the projectile, or the target?
I see no reason why it can’t be both, depending on price, of course/
Daaling
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): Well lets see. It helps me cope with the fact someone like Bush could be elected TWICE by just the sorts of people like the one that runs this site. Besides, it’s cheaper than cable.
In otherwords. I think people like Cole are the problem. Very dumb where it counts…at the polls.
JoyousMN
Hey John, like the new design. But dont forget about those of us on mobile, android and tablet. The site is pretty good,but I’ve had some issues switching to desktop versionwhen on a tablet. If you designer is testing the user agent for mobile, tables gets lumped in with smaller screens. I find myself switching to desktop but it works and looks better on table. But I’m getting a site not found when I click the link at the bottom of the ballon juice page.
JoyousMN
Hey John, like the new design. But dont forget about those of us on mobile, android and tablet. The site is pretty good,but I’ve had some issues switching to desktop versionwhen on a tablet. If you designer is testing the user agent for mobile, tables gets lumped in with smaller screens. I find myself switching to desktop but it works and looks better on table. But I’m getting a site not found when I click the link at the bottom of the ballon juice page.
Daaling
@Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.): Well lets see. It helps me cope with the fact someone like Bush could be elected TWICE by just the sorts of people like the one that runs this site. Besides, it’s cheaper than cable.
In case you haven’t figured it out yet people like Cole ARE the problem. Very dumb when it counts. On election day. Then spend the next 12 years pissing and moaning about it.
scav
@General Stuck (Bravo Nope Zero):
Both please, simultaneously, I’m looking for change under the couch.
WeeBey
If the new logo doesn’t have wilifred’s dick in it, I’m not voting in November.
JoyousMN
sorry for double post, was trying to correct. Meant to say “because desktop looks better on table”
Ash Can
What, no free booze? Fuck this shit.
hildebrand
Sure, change the logo and other things, soon enough Jane Hamsher, David Sirota, Tucker Carlson, McMegan and Glennzilla will be the frontpagers, and then where will you be. Hah!
Oz, The Great And Powerful
I can’t come back … I don’t know how it works.
A Ghost To Most
I for one welcome our new header overlord. I do miss the guy with the megaphone, though.
Citizen_X
THIS PLACE HAS GONE TO HELL! PATHETIC, COLE, PATHETIC!
Ok, actually, I like it.
Is there a better tagline anywhere? I’m half-tempted to have that put on my tombstone.
JGabriel
@Daaling:
Didn’t you vote for Bush fils too?
Not rhetorical, I’m asking in true puzzlement — I thought you were friends with wingnuts for the first 5 or 6 years of this millenium.
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Chyron HR
@Daaling:
No, actually, you started trolling this site when most of the people here didn’t automatically believe that Rep. Weiner wasn’t sending pictures of his penis to people.
And you never forgave us for being right.
Now make like a good bag lady and start incoherently screaming that I’m your “groupie”, or whatever your fillings are telling you to say today.
David Koch
I can’t believe it.
This logo is bullshit! Bullshit!
It doesn’t contain the public option!
pseudonymous in nc
@Citizen_X:
You know the backstory for that one, right?
Anne Laurie
@Spaghetti Lee:
Cole’s left the Republican party, praise goddess.
Ozymandias, King of Ants
Need moar Hayekian Modesty.
Kiril
Bah! The new header makes me angry! A thousand poxes upon you all! Martial law is imposed! Tariffs and taxes on everything! All fruit is banned! I am angry! So, so angry!
>ht giblets
irregardless
Why do keep getting the mobile site on my laptop?
taylormattd
Ooh, it’s pretty. Like.
I’m crossing my fingers that the fucking mobile site will be wiped from the face of the earth. :)
Daaling
@JGabriel: ahhhhh…that would be a no.
Daaling
@Chyron HR: Okey dokey. If you say so.
Like I said, I have a problem with this site because I basically think Cole is retarded. He voted for Bush twice and has shown he can be persuaded by libertarian ideas at times. He claims he is all better now and it was all stupid youth or whatever.
However, less than a year ago he got all messed up on Libya and I think the record is pretty clear just how back asswards wrong he was on that.
So say bullshit to talk he changed. You cannot fix mental retardation. People can learn to cope with it better and not partake in certain types of activities but it never goes away.
If this were 1940’s Germany he would be a brown shirt convinced that all Jews must die.
A Humble Lurker
@Daaling:
So you don’t think Cole has voted Democratic since?
Sloegin
So this fixes the 3 different site layouts that I randomly get on my desktop browser? Dat would be nice.
WaterGirl
Cole, can we please have a link to reload the current thread at the bottom of the page on the mobile version? I can’t recall whether it’s on my iPhone or iPad, but you have to scroll all the way tot he top to refresh the page for new comments, and then you have to scroll down until you find the spot you were in before.
thanks.
slag
I will say, based on this tiny preview, I’m going to miss the mildly steampunkian aesthetic you currently got goin on.
WaterGirl
Cole, before the last site rebuild, we could search on comment numbers. That was very useful in situations where someone doesn’t use the reply button and just refers to comment 15 (or whatever).
Now we can’t, and I miss it.
dance around in your bones
Oh rats. I always really liked the old-fashioned guy in the topcoat, swinging his cane and either smoking or shouting through some megaphone – and the balloon full of juice escaping, rope dangling.
I guess you won’t bring back those beautiful curvy grey numbers either that made the site look so elegant. I have complained about that every chance I got, but my lone cries in the wilderness fall on deaf ears.
Oh rats.
kansi
Is it wrong that I love all the hate?
boss bitch
The balloon isn’t doing anything. Its just sitting there like…a balloon. All stiff, well-behaved and generic. This blog isn’t any of those things.
SiubhanDuinne
@JGabriel:
Every time I see that barker’s horn it looks like a big misshapen cigar to me. Smoke and everything. So I’m okay with changing things out.
SiubhanDuinne
@dance around in your bones: Where have you BEEN? I’ve missed seeing you, in fact was going to ask at the next opportune moment if anyone had heard from you. How are you doing?
SmoovP
Love the balloon. Wish y’all would fix the typography.
dance around in your bones
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, I just broke my hip, is all.
No, seriously! Long story, but end result is I snapped the ball right off the top of my femur and had to have surgery to get it all screwed back together (writing about this sounds vaguely dirty, no?)
So I am recuperating. I’m always here, lurking. Just haven’t felt like commenting much. Humping around on a walker tends to make me grumpy – though I do still have my sense of humor, which tends toward the blah ….haha!
Thanks for asking :)
Jim Pharo
I HAVE A VERY STRONG OPINION ON THE LOGO!
Schlemizel
Here is what I don’t get, someone invoked the name of a specific troll early in the thread for no apparent reason. Of course said troll had to respond & it semi-hijaked the thread in pointless bickering. Its like that other troll, the one that can’t let a thread go by without dredging up the name of a lemon that had fortunately moved on.
Whats the point? Trolls gonna troll why invite them? They add nothing of value to the site & have proven unworthy of attention. They are like any 3 year old throwing a tantrum for attention, ignore them & maybe they will go away.
Schlemizel
@dance around in your bones:
About 11-12 years ago I broke my pelvis into 3 pieces (fell maybe 4 feet maybe a bit less). The recover to pretty mobile & mostly OK took a year but it was probably a good 5 years before I could actually run any amount on even soft surfaces without days of pain. I still don’t run (bike & use elliptical) but I have jogged short distances (100 yards) with no pain. Hang in there the recovery is a PItA and really takes a while but you should eventually be OK
dance around in your bones
@Schlemizel: I’ve heard pelvic fractures are REALLY painful and take longer to heal.
I’m hanging in there, I just really dislike being semi-immobile. And the pain was…..intense. It’s getting better, slowly. I’m trying not to gobble up all the Percocet too quickly, but using a walker makes OTHER parts of my body hurt. Mostly I have to try and follow the doc’s advice, which is to take it slow and not try to do too much just now. “Walk like there’s an egg on the ball of your foot, and DON’T BREAK THE EGG!” Ha!
WaterGirl
@dance around in your bones: This has definitely not been your year.
Ron Beasley
When companies are in trouble the first thing they change is the logo. Does the same thing apply to blogs?
dance around in your bones
@WaterGirl:
Ha! You can say THAT again! It’s been Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.
TooManyJens
@dance around in your bones:
Oh, I miss those.
Nylund
COMPLAINTS! I am making them. About something! Maybe the logo change!
I am drunk. Also too.
WaterGirl
@TooManyJens: Me, too. Beautiful. And searchable!
I get confused with all the Jens, but you are the Jen who lives in Champaign-Urbana, right? Are you voting for David Gill? I have gotten 2 polls for the past 2 days, just on that race. I wonder if that means it’s close.
WaterGirl
@dance around in your bones: It’s time for you to catch a break, I think!
dance around in your bones
@WaterGirl: heh, bad phrasing there, Watergirl!
But I understand what you mean…..I keep wondering what I did to piss off the karma machine.
joel hanes
@pseudonymous in nc: Boy, do I miss The Editors at The Poorman Institute.
And Max Speak (you listen)
And Billmon
And Jon Swift
TooManyJens
@WaterGirl: That’s me. I still haven’t decided how I’m voting. Gill seems like a firebagger and Goetten seems like his heart is in the right place but he’s very unprepared. I’m not crazy about our choices.
Anne Laurie
@joel hanes:… and Steve Gillard…
Thor Heyerdahl
@Anne Laurie: RIP Steve Gilliard – and FTFY!
WaterGirl
@TooManyJens: I thought that was you. I would love to hear why you think Gill is a firebagger. I think he’s clearly the better choice, and I think he’s the only one of the two who can actually beat Tim Johnson (R-vile & disgusting) in the fall. Plus, I don’t think the other guy is nearly as good on women’s issues.
I have already voted, but still, I hate firebaggers, so I would love to hear your thinking in case there’s something I’ve missed.