Will keep this brief, because Adam’s post below is far more important than this, but I wanted to keep you all up to date.
1.) We are going to darken the whiteness of the screen a little bit, and make the text a little bit darker. We will do it slightly, but we can not tailor the site to every individual person and we do not want to run into accessibility issues.
2.) If you have noticed, there are no ads running right now. This is because we were informed by the new ad provider (different from the old one) that we have been flagged for objectionable content. The two posts that flagged objectionable content were, hysterically, ones by Cheryl and Tamara, two of the LEAST offensive front pagers. I went through the posts, and what got flagged was ***NOT*** the actual post by either of those two, but you assholes going off in the comments. Superb work, folks. We are handling this in two ways. First, we are looking for an ad provider with different standards, while we are also going through and replacing all 245,435 instances of the word “fuck” with “f#ck.” Similarly “objectionable” words will receive the same treatment. Never a dull moment with you people. Regardless, ads should hopefully reappear in a few days.
3.) While reading some of the complaints in recent threads, I thought it would be perhaps helpful (although I doubt it), if I once again noted that the website is not built for YOU and YOU alone. It’s built to serve the needs of the vast majority of people. Submitting tickets and endlessly posting about things you don’t *like* is not the same as posting about things that don’t *work*. The former is just a pain in the ass, the latter is actually helpful. Also, you codgers, *different* does not always mean *worse*. It just means different. Yes, I know pudding night was on Tuesday night on the old version of the site, but for a myriad of complex reasons, pudding night is now on Wednesday. Please bear with us.
Finally, I highly recommend f.lux for everyone. It makes your screen sync to the time of day, changing the brightness and warmth of the screen. I use it on every device I own. It’s outstanding.
Mary G
Going off in the comments is one of the chief benefits of the site. Are we supposed to use f#ck from now on too?
ETA: I do love the new features now that I am used to them. Congrats to WaterGirl and you, and I hope you find new advertisers soon. If not, I will pay monthly if I have to to contribute to keeping the door open.
Baud
Fixed.
Baud
Can we replace fuck with duck instead?
MisterForkbeard
I would like to register a bug that pudding night isn’t happening on both Tuesday AND Wednesday, thank you.
ETA: All joking aside, the new site design is lovely and I like the amount of white and whitespace. I’ll deal with any other minor annoyances. Except for Pudding Night.
Central Planning
Can’t believe ad providers will be cramping my f#cking style.
Since I’m generally clueless to the ad serving business, are you saying that the ad providers are monitoring the sites where their ads go? And that they watch/care about f-bombs?
James E Powell
Outrageous! What kind of world are we living in?
Just Chuck
What, just because we’re the #1 google hit for “skull fuck a kitten”?
Josie
Well, what if we just don’t like pudding?
Baud
@Josie:
Who doesn’t like pudding?!?!?!
NotMax
The gelatin lobby will be in contact shortly.
PJ
Since this is an open thread: Julian Castro is 98% of the way to getting enough donations to participate in the next debate. If you think he is an important voice which should be heard at the debate (and I think he has been notable in bringing up poverty issues), please consider sending a few bucks his way. https://twitter.com/JulianCastro?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
NotMax
@Baud</a.
Cripes, weren't we just admonished NOT to talk about things we like or don't like?
:)
chopper
oh fuck that fucking shit.
terben
@Baud: Any attempt to replace fucks with ducks will be resisted. This is a duck friendly space.
The Dangerman
There’s really less than a quarter million uses of the f bomb on the site?! Step it up, people!
NotMax
@terben
We could make mock of Facebook by using zuck.
Two birds with one stone.
;)
The Pale Scot
Well Fucking A
Perhaps you can replace profanities with emotie images of the trump balloon
Josie
@Baud:
It was sort of a rhetorical question. I actually do like banana pudding.
seefleur
As a daily lurker, I have to say that this is fucking ridiculous – ANY blog site of this caliber should be allowed as many fucks as it’s followers have to give. And for the record, I really like the new site. Not that my opinion counts for even half-a-fuck, but I felt the need to put this out there in the land of the jackals. So there. Two thumbs up for this place/space and its’ minions.
patrick II
I know what Bunk and McNulty would say about this.
Baud
@seefleur:
Can’t tell if insult or compliment.
NotMax
efgoldman would be very, very, very sad.
different-church-lady
Well shit, that fucking sucks.
Baud
@NotMax:
Good point. We have to stop this. Efgoldman would never say f#ckem.
different-church-lady
@NotMax: Come sit next to me.
Kattails
Oh no being a good Democrat I feel I must apologize for boldly using the f-word without asterisks and whatnot on the new site. Now I feel bad. Thankfully I don’t have to apologize for using the word Baron or Barron in any context whatsoever. oh oops
chopper
@Baud:
fuck a duck, man.
chopper
@NotMax:
“fudge em” just doesn’t have that…zing.
different-church-lady
@Josie: Then we don’t have to eat our meat!
Mary G
There appears to be another mass shooting at the base on Pearl Harbor:
So fucking tired of this.
chopper
i’ll have a whiskey for pudding.
seefleur
@Baud: Both?
NotMax
Maybe, just maybe, Comstock & Bowdler aren’t the right fit when it comes to partnering with an ad service.
Martin
Oh, fuck.
The fuck?
Fuck yeah!
Oh fuck. Er, fück.
fuck
Yarrow
@Baud: Tick Tock, Motherduckers just doesn’t have the same ring.
low-tech cyclist
Speaking of the absence of ads, is there any way to enable us jackals to pay for an ad-free experience here?
I’m aware of two sites that offer such an option. One is TPM which you all know. The other is, of all things, a message board running on software left over from the early 2000s. (The Straight Dope Message Board, if anyone wants to look it up. Started off in life as an adjunct of Cecil Adams’ weekly Straight Dope columns that appeared in alternative weeklies, but took on a life of its own.)
My thought is that if the Dope (as denizens of that board call it) can manage this feat with its ancient software, it can’t be that tough, right? And it might well raise more money for BJ than ads would.
Elizabelle
What did they expect from a pack of vicious, vitriolic jackals? That’s actually the funniest news I have heard all day.
Do we need ads? With all the fucking $$$ jackals pony up, why don’t we just do some rotating fundraisers and live without the ads?
Mo MacArbie
Man, we finally free the penis, and now this? #YWP
Gin & Tonic
@low-tech cyclist: The host has always been against this.
Amir Khalid
@chopper:
In Malaysia we don’t say fudge, we say fish. Fish is a much healthier food.
I agree that banning profanity runs counter to the spirit of Balloon Juice, which has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate. I hope you find a cussing-friendly ad provider.
The Dangerman
@Amir Khalid:
I spy with my little eye a fucking rotating tag.
Chris Johnson
Pretty sure we could use the ol’ socialist dodge. Fuck! (sticking a bit of formatting in there so FYWP and/or ad servers don’t get wise to my nefarious plans)
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: Speaking just for myself, not having talked with Cole about this…
I would say if anyone wants even a chance at that being a possibility, everyone who can afford to, and cares to, could pony up what they can – to show John what might be possible in terms of funds that could be raised in lieu of ads. If it’s a goodly amount, it might get John’s attention, and if it is not, then it’s completely unlikely that that could ever be a solution, and at least that idea could be taken off the table entirely.
Of course, timing is everything, and this is the holiday season, so this might be the worst possible timing for something like that. It’s up to each person to decide.
P.S. I don’t believe there would ever be an “I can afford to subscribe so I get an ad-free site but you can’t afford that you so get stuck with ads” solution. But if everybody pitched in what they could, without subscriptions, who knows?
Shantanu Saha
I have no more fucks to give.
But I could throw in a few bucks to get rid of the ads.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: What about ‘spuck’?
ETA – “Woo hoo! Tamara made an open thread about her fucks. I ducking love these posts!” Hehe
frosty
@The Dangerman:
So nominate it! We can do that now and WaterGirl said there were only three in the queue, a little while back.
dmsilev
Somewhere, buried deep in the server, is a site fuckmeter, and the numbers are spinning by so fast that they’re just a blur right now.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Suddenly reminded of a recurring name now and again mentioned on the old Vic And Sade radio show, the gentleman discussed always being referred to as “Rishigan Fishigan from Sishigan, Michigan.”
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Zuck Mark Fuckerberg.
WaterGirl
@frosty: We are up to 8 now!
Roger Moore
@low-tech cyclist:
Linux Weekly News also offers an ad-free option. I don’t know how well it would work here at Balloon-Juice, though. All those sites require accounts on the system to control who has access to the ad-free content, and John has always been against having any kind of account system.
WaterGirl
@frosty: Of course, this might be the wrong week to place a bet on John approving that one! :-)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: And probably very, very, very fucking mad.
Amir Khalid
While we’re all focusing our attention on this one naughty word, let’s have some appropriate music.
Roger Moore
@dmsilev:
And I thought Balloon-Juicers were all out of fucks to give!
artem1s
gotta say, I’m skeptical of content police that object to f-bombs. Generally the fundagelical types who get their panties in a twist over language and what they consider to be ‘family friendly”, but who don’t have a problem with gun fetishists or misogynistic advertising in general, don’t impress me as the type of advertisers who can relate to the branding of this jackal infested blog. Can we find an advertiser who encourages F-bombs and flags grammar police instead?
FelonyGovt
You win the Internets for today.
Raven
WTF-K?
dmsilev
@Roger Moore: Still plenty of fucks left to sell though.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: Whadda ya think this place is? Wonkette?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev:
It must be in Ukraine, all servers are in Ukraine.
Amir Khalid
@artem1s:
Now wait one damn minute there.
WaterGirl
I would like to poke my head up for a second to say that nearly all of the site feedback submissions have been respectful and constructive and helpful, so I hope you will all continue to use that in the same way that you have been.
I might, however, have to agree with John that repetitively posting about things you don’t care for isn’t necessarily any of the things I listed above.
TaMara (HFG)
It was my dick post wasn’t it? You post one dick instead of duck and all hell breaks loose. That’s ducking ridiculous.
WaterGirl
I ❤️pudding, but it has to be homemade, from scratch. And by from scratch, I mean no boxed pudding, and no pudding from the dairy case.
I will eat homemade pudding
any day of the weekevery day of the week.Martin
Oh, this should make a fun news cycle.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Well look at you! Being a pudding snob with no recipe to back it up. :)
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I am a pudding snob! I never thought about it that way, but I really am.
I just use the standard Betty Crocker recipe – ha (!) I wrote Betty Cracker at first, without thinking!
milk
egg yolks
salt
sugar
cornstarch
chocolate (or not, depending)
DanR2
The entire mainstream internet uses a f#cking white background. Why? Contrast = legibility. A WHITE background it not an issue on a website. I watched you torture yourselves with the last modifications to settle on some weird gray background. People have the ability to turn down the brightness of their browsers/devices. Why do you let — what, one, two?–complainers with their screens jacked up to surgery-level brightness dictate readability for the rest of the world? Gray = Less contrast. Don’t do it. It’s good.
Make the text a bit heavier, sure. That’s never a bad plan, but you’re well within the realm of readability as it is.
You’ll never please everyone, but this new refresh is looking pretty damn good, IMO.
Martin
In case anyone forgot what a complete fucking asshole looked like
Suing for $100M.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
On the other hand it’s a handy and ready way to gauge whether any others share those opinions/tastes/preferences (or may experience them as functional shortcomings), not an attempt to impose them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Don’t most OS’s come with a night mode built in?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@DanR2: Look, when you’re doing surgery you need surgical level brightness on your monitor. //
WaterGirl
@NotMax: outside agitator!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: Discovery should be a hoot.
Doug R
Might as well get this out of my system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgmO8VNyU
Martin
@DanR2: With a little bit of effort, people can tweak the site styles in a local stylesheet on most browsers. Set the background, font size, font style, etc. however you want.
Every time you come back, your local styles will override the site settings. That’s basically how adblockers work.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: Great. Now we will be flagged for prostitution.
WaterGirl
@DanR2: I agree with most of what you said. I feel compelled to mention, though, that the current color is not actually WHITE.
kindness
The people who sell digital advertising have standards for the comments in a blog?
I’ll be damned.
Ohio Mom
I am still having lots of trouble commenting and also, getting to edit function to work. And the back arrow doesn’t work for me. I have an ancient iPhone 5 though, so maybe that’s the problem.
I can manage but I do worry that we are losing commentators who aren’t as determined as I am to deal with the new quirks. Oh well. It’s still nice not to have to type my Nym in constantly.
randy khan
Well, at least it wasn’t my fault.
But it is time for me to toss a few shekels in towards upkeep.
Tim C.
That post literally made me sing out loud the opening song from the South Park Movie.
Which is now 21 years old.
Damn….
NotMax
Thread demands a dollop of Nilsson.
:)
WaterGirl
@FelonyGovt: Someone should definitely nominate that one.
How many hundreds of times have we all written “I nominate this to be a rotating tag”, and now that we can actually do it, there have only been 8 nominations. it’s shameful! :-)
WaterGirl
@kindness: That’s just their day job. At night they are all vying to be president of their respective HOAs.
frosty
@WaterGirl: I see the confusion. He suggested this and I thought he should nominate it:
Omnes Omnibus
OT: I am waiting for Indian food to be delivered (although I am sure it is not authentic enough for s_c) and I found that I have lost over 10 pounds since I joined a gym in September. So there.
WaterGirl
@Ohio Mom: I promise you, those are all on the list and have not been forgotten.
Ruckus
You want me to not say f#ck you are going to have to get rid of trump.
Because every day I wake up and that shit is not locked up the first word out of my mouth or keyboard is f#ck. And typing # really doesn’t make my day better. F#CK.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: Haha
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I am doing my best.
Raven
@Ruckus: fuckina
mrmoshpotato
Glad it wasn’t me always calling Dump a Soviet shitpile mobster conman. ?
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl: so, can we reverse the “comments” and “post + comments” buttons? When I get to the “post + comments” button, I’ve already read the post and I just want to read the comments!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Hope it’s not Gym Jordan’s gym.
WaterGirl
@frosty: Well, shit. I went to the list of nominations and was going to publicly shame you in good fun :-) for not having submitted a nomination, but you were the first. Triple shit, actually, because I saw that I had submitted two of the 8, and they will, sadly, probably never be approved by Cole now:
“Trump is going to draw a dick on that dog with a Sharpie before this is all over, isn’t he?” (Betty Cracker)
“Fuck these fucking interesting times.” (Omnes!)
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: No. Dear god no.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Always a good tune to hear.
F#CK.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
mmm…maize
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Ahem.
WaterGirl
@Steve in the ATL: Sadly/amazingly, you are the second person to ask for that. It took me awhile to figure out what the first person was asking for, but I got there eventually.
Unless you submitted site feedback under and assumed name???
Amir Khalid
@frosty:
I just nominated it myself, because
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: What are you Ahem-ing about? :-)
edit: I actually thought that might have been you, but I didn’t want to credit the wrong person, in case I didn’t have it right.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
Balloon Juice, which has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
This is why I’ve been coming here for so long. My f#cking speech is finally accepted some place besides the navy.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: And there it is! Good job.
edit: did you read the “thanks for submitting that” message on screen?
Omnes Omnibus
You kids play nice. I am off to eat my food and watch Inspector Lynley.
Percysowner
@WaterGirl: I try to remember to throw some money Cole’s way. I just set up a recurring payment to help out. It makes me feel better about using adblock here.
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl: I also post under the names “BillinGlendaleCA”, “Amir Khalid”, and “MomSense”
WaterGirl
@Steve in the ATL: ha!
was that a serious request above, or were you kidding?
WaterGirl
@Percysowner: Much appreciated!
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
Only after submitting my own self-nomination.
Ruckus
First, we are looking for an ad provider with different standards, while we are also going through and replacing all 245,435 instances of the word “fuck” with “f#ck.”
All that for just my last months comments?
Steve in the ATL
@WaterGirl: dead serious request
Ruckus
@Raven:
Doesn’t convey the same pent up rage as the original.
Fuckina.
Fuck.
Nope, not really the same concept.
NotMax
@Raven
May as well get one in while you can.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: That reminds me of the movie Heaven Can Wait, where Warren Beatty is an athlete who was taken from his body prematurely by a rookie angel who thought Beatty was going to die– and a more experienced angel is working with Beatty to find another body that he can go into.
At some point, after Beatty rejects one great body after another, James Mason, the older and wiser angel, says something like: “I’m not suggesting that you lower your standards, so much as broaden them.”
We don’t need advertisers with lower standards, just broader ones.
Mary G
I don’t even want to know about Dowd’s brother.
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Serious requests from Steve are delivered by a process server.
WaterGirl
@Steve in the ATL: yep, the other person, also. I will have to ponder that one.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Good one!
Ruckus
@Martin:
Now that’s an asshole.
OK both of them are assholes, zimmerman and his lawyer.
Mike J
This is hilarious because the main reason I don’t read Chuck Pierce is that he doesn’t know how to spell the word fuck.
WaterGirl
@Mike J: And here I thought it was the bean counters who rule the world! Only to find out that it’s the fucking advertisers.
WaterGirl
@Mike J: Don’t go away mad! Don’t go away at all.
delk
Kind of funny but ever since I had my hip replaced in August I have been using the word ‘fudge’. Sort of went with having to use a cane.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, with Robert Montgomery and Claude Rains.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Yep. Though it’s hard to top James Mason.
WaterGirl
@delk: That’s kind of sad. Will you get to ditch the cane?
dexwood
Or, you know, you could just not have fucking ads leading to censorship. I’m not alone in my willingness to make a regular donation to this wonderful fucking site. Fuck me, John, but does this mean you’ll be moderating your fucking language? Your place, though, fully understood, but it’s a real haven for many.
delk
@WaterGirl: it’s been ditched. About three weeks ago it stopped being a cane and started being a crutch. I’ll miss getting a seat on busy public transportation.
WaterGirl
@dexwood: For what it’s worth, that’s why I wrote what I did at #43. Money talks. Or so they say!
WaterGirl
@delk:
“started being a crutch?”
James E Powell
@Martin:
No doubt he was put up to doing this in order to animate the racists for the 2020 campaign.
Barbara
@Mary G: I think she has several, and I honestly haven’t read her for years, but I remember her mentioning one named “Kevin.” Who very well might be a Trumper by the way she described him.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, where can you get Inspector Lynley?
WaterGirl
Before I sign off, I wanted to mention that the deadline for photos for the BJ Pet Calendar is coming up very soon.
For details, check out the link to Pet Calendar Info, right under the balloon guy in the header.
delk
@WaterGirl: as in relying on it too much.
Don K
I try, in my comments to blogs, to moderate my language based on the usage of the frontpagers. No fuck from the posters, then no fuck from me. I took John’s effusive usage of the word to mean that he didn’t give a fuck and that fuck was AOK. Oh well, then f*ck it is, I guess.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: Thanks. Didn’t see it because I dropped to the bottom to comment after reading John’s post. Catching up now. I realize contributions would be unequal, and, possibly drop off over time. Worth a try, maybe, if an ad provider that doesn’t censor content can’t be found.
trnc
One of my favorite instances of dubbing an R rated movie for tv was Die Hard. “Yippee kai yay, Mr Falco.” So I’ll just start going with that.
Pete Mack
1. F#ck 2. F#ck 3. F#ck…
Man it is going to take a while to get to 245,000.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: John needs to tell those bon of a stitching fum duckers to go back of in their own jackyard.
Jay
smike
Is this why The Rude Pundit cleaned up his act so much? Ads?
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA: With serious hosting fees, this blog isn’t going to pay for itself
Jay
debbie
I apologize for my language. I know how to write around forbidden words. I also apologize to those who may be offended by my workaround. I will now use ? in place of naughty words.
Manxome Bromide
I don’t have a lot to add to this thread other than to note that f.lux is in fact the business and I have it (or the “Night mode” equivalent) on every device I own as well. It’s done wonders for my sleep schedule.
Steve in the ATL
@Manxome Bromide: alas, some of us are iPhone users….
Betsy
@NotMax: I believe you mean “two cakes in one oven.”
Another Scott
There’s always “FCUK” if JC was serious about a replacement. (It’s a clothing store.)
Any ad server that has a dictionary of bad words can be similarly gamed so it seems like a stupid policy for them to have.
Oh well, we’ll live with whatever is necessary I guess.
Cheers,
Scott.
John Revolta
So lemme see if I got this straight. John fucking Cole is complaining because We, the Jackals, are saying “Fuck” too much in the comments? ‘Cause statistics show that at least 60% of all the “fucks” in this joint come outta Cole hisself!
Just fuckin’ sayin’.
P.S. At LEAST!
joel hanes
@Baud:
IMHO, we should use “joke” in place of “fuck”.
Because joke them if they can’t take a fuck.
joel hanes
In the before-time (Usenet), it was customary to use the name of the file system check program in place of the vulgar imperative.
fsck
(((CassandraLeo)))
@trnc: That’s great, but first place definitely goes to:
Here you go, Larry. You see what happens? You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens? This is what happens, Larry! You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps? This is what happens! You see what happens, Larry? You see what happens, Larry? This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs! This is what happens, Larry! This is what happens when you fool a stranger—
And I can’t decide whether second place goes to the Die Hard line or to:
Enough is enough! I have had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!
I am 100% against censoring “fuck” on this blog, because as others have noted, efgoldman would not have typed “f#ckem” or “f*ckem” or even “fu¢kem” or similar. I’m now curious if “fuсk” with a Cyrillic с (which is actually pronounced s) would would fool the advertisers’ searches, though. (A more accurate transliteration would be фук… moderately, since I’m not really sure what the correct vowel sound is.)
If we have to censor ourselves and the Cyrillic letter won’t suffice, I’m also in favour of using fsck, as joel hanes suggests.
Ceterum censeo factionem Republicanam esse delendam.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: You may need your snark-o-meter re-calibrated, or I need my snark generator reconditioned.
OTOH when your advertisers are dictating content, you do need new advertisers. I don’t really give a f*ck about using four letter words, but your advertisers need to be reasonably well aligned with the content they are supporting. The analogy to platforms banning content because of nation state restrictions is just as apt for capitalist enterprises as well. Will problems arise with support for H#ng K#ng if our advertisers are doing business there?
FlipYrWhig
@trnc: One of my favorites was, I think, from the censored version of the movie Quick Change: “Are you out of your Vulcan mind?”
JaySinWA
@Betsy: Zuck is having twins?
JaySinWA
@FlipYrWhig: We are going to need a euphemism generator addition to transcode comments into advertiser approved terms. What can we do with Free Tibet?
joel hanes
Cole skrev :
Excellent.
Thank you.
Villago Delenda Est
Objectionable words? F&ck that sh#t.
JaySinWA
@JaySinWA: Too clarify, I don’t
give a Sh*tcare much if John wants to restrict some forms of swearing on his blog. It isn’t something I normally do. But I am concerned that advertisers language police can become restrictive in ways that can kill this blog. What other speech is going to trigger them? The fact that this came as a surprise makes me think there are other landmines in this advertisers contract that we may not understand yet. Are reproductive rights a problem? Uyghurs? Crimea? Fracking? Vaping? FaceBook? Historic Nude Portraits?John Revolta
@(((CassandraLeo))): Mayor Daley (the REAL Mare Daley) always said that the film of him at the ’68 Convention showed him yelling “Fake” and “You Faker” at Sen. Ribicoff.
mrmoshpotato
@(((CassandraLeo))): Find a stranger in the Alps. ????????
orchid moon
I was enjoying the site without adverts. Rather rare in the Intertubes these days. Love the new site, fucks and all.
Just One More Canuck
From Johnny Dangerously– “You cork sucking bastiges- you farging iceholes “
sherparick
Apparently back to the seven words one cannot we cannot write on this blog, eh. Fortunately there are lots of effing ways around that and will just call on to be more creative as we spread the manure around this site. Hope this link does not get the blog red flag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvLTJfYnik
P.S. John, thanks for the suggestion about f.lux.
Avalune
I don’t like this post.
Am I doing it right? Where shall I submit my ticket?
Nancy
@JaySinWA: You raise good points, thanks for thinking big picture. I was stuck in remembering the time some duckin’ guy wrote, f*ck s*ckity f*ck f*ckin f*ck.” What was his f*ckin name again?
Probably didn’t give duck enough of a try out this time. Maybe it would grow on me.
And I like the new site.
Nancy
@joel hanes: Agreed.
mere mortal
I want to say something nice.
The button that expands the post on the main page is quite excellent. In the previous version, I often had to scroll down because twitter captures were bigger than the site understood.
Good on your tech team, and I do try to pass through your link whenever I shop Amazon (unless I get there by one of the bargain alert sites).
mere mortal
@Just One More Canuck:
Deported to Sweden, though he protests “he’s not from there”.
xjmuellerlurks
Goldarnit Cole,
of all the things you had to change on this blog you chose pudding night! What the H-E-double hockey sticks??? Tuesday wasn’t good enough was it? Now I’m stuck with both pudding and spaghetti on Wednesdays. F#ck that stuff!!!!
leeleeFL
@NotMax: like this very much