The Internet's a Weird and Funny Place

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:06 pm

MsMary wrote:We do stuff.

I want to work there!

Post by **MsMary** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:53 am

High Lord Tolkien wrote:
MsMary wrote:We do stuff.

I want to work there!

Cause then you could be a "new-age e-mover."

They have "lots of shiny espresso machines, and all of our new-age eMovers (that's our cool way to say "consultants," remember?) drive to work in VW Beetles. Appearance is everything to us, because we'll get more of your money by looking cool than we will by doing quality work."

Post by **DLH** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:39 am

I'm not quite sure.

Post by **CovenantJr** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:15 am

DLH wrote:I'm not quite sure.

Never link anyone to that ever again. The rage. Oh, the rage.

Post by **thefirst** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:21 am

I knew there was a reason I hadn't tried that link - that's positively criminal :whip:

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:57 pm

I'm glad I wasn't doing anything important when I clicked that...

Post by **Reave the Unjust** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:35 pm

EXPLETIVES AND MORE EXPLETIVES!

Thanks for that mate.
It took me ages to get rid of it from my screen, then my head!

May send it to some unsuspecting people though.....

Post by **MsMary** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:49 am

DLH wrote:I'm not quite sure.

That was just evil.

Post by **Chrysalis** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:54 am

DLH wrote:I'm not quite sure.

I should have learnt by now not to click random links at work...

Post by **DLH** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:48 am

holy crap I got 6, no, 4? of you, and maybe a few lurkers.

I will now post an innocent youtube video. no, its not mister rick astley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=53tq9g35kwk&feature=related

Post by **thefirst** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:36 pm

I wouldn't dare click on that, just to be on the safe side.

Post by **Sorus** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:52 pm

The worst is when you come onto the thread late, and know it's gonna be bad, but have to see what the fuss is about anyway.

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:13 pm

The worst part is, I recognised the URL, but didn't remember what it was until I'd clicked...

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:22 pm

DLH wrote:holy crap I got 6, no, 4? of you, and maybe a few lurkers.

I will now post an innocent youtube video. no, its not mister rick astley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=53tq9g35kwk&feature=related

The trust is gone, DLH.

Post by **magickmaker17** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:29 pm

Sorus wrote:The worst is when you come onto the thread late, and know it's gonna be bad, but have to see what the fuss is about anyway.

I know exactly what you mean. Luckily, I'm fast with the mute button, followed by the Alt + F4, and when the lyric boxes started popping up, I just Ctrl + Alt + Delete'd the sucker. But I'm sure it'll still be stuck in my head for a while...where's my iPod?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:39 pm

Yeah, but with some modern browsers it's worse: Firefox uses tabbed browsing, meaning that link opens in the same window as everything else I'm doing, and when it traps you with the popups you can't shut it down without closing all of them (and Restore Session brings back the one you were trying to get rid of along with everything else, so it's useless).
I didn't even have the sound on--and I don't really find a Rick Roll that annoying anyway. It's just when stupid tricks like the pop-up trap ruin things for you that it gets annoying.

Post by **magickmaker17** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:09 pm

yeah, I was using Firefox, luckily, the only other page I had open was the watch, and I could afford to just close both pages. However, you can turn off the tabbed links, change it so links open in a new page.
You can also right-click, and then select open in new window instead...although, it doesn't really work if you don't know what you're clicking on before you click on it.

Post by **Chrysalis** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:52 pm

Actually, if you let it play out you can save yourself from closing all windows in Firefox. Or at least I didn't need to close everything.

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:56 pm

Murrin wrote:Yeah, but with some modern browsers it's worse: Firefox uses tabbed browsing, meaning that link opens in the same window as everything else I'm doing, and when it traps you with the popups you can't shut it down without closing all of them (and Restore Session brings back the one you were trying to get rid of along with everything else, so it's useless).
I didn't even have the sound on--and I don't really find a Rick Roll that annoying anyway. It's just when stupid tricks like the pop-up trap ruin things for you that it gets annoying.

Yes, this was my problem.

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:59 pm

Chrysalis wrote:Actually, if you let it play out you can save yourself from closing all windows in Firefox. Or at least I didn't need to close everything.

My other problem was that moving things on web pages make my fans run like crazy and that was really annoying. So I had t quit my browser, and then remember what pages I was working on when I re-launched.

It just got me at a time when I really didn't have time to deal with it.

If I were to post it anyway else, I would do so with a warning not to click on it unless you have some time to kill and are not working on anything important in another tab of your browser.

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