Can’t tell you how unimpressed I was to find somebody down south had turned off the comments at the Geek this morning. Especially after I asked everyone on twunter to RT the post.
Which they did.
My thanx to the production crew at BT who did their best to try and retrieve a rather epic fail.
With comment box.
I wont have access to the publishing software while I’m away, so I’ll comment in thread.
Once I calm down.
I’ll also leave comments open here.
Grrrrrr.
You’ll notice this geek uses the nasty new Blunt interface. Be assured its a one-off to deal with the comment box fiasco.
here, have an early chrissy pressie on the house .. hands over a box of cartia with “the purple ones birmin’am” scrawled in capslock on all sides before you bust a valve or sometin’.
sorta dark irony playin’ it’s hand.
Sure sounds to me like JBs really pissed someone of at the deathstar.
“Make us work overtime will ya, jugger-author ?…Oh, look! The comment switch! This’ll fuck ‘im !”
Exactly what I was thinking Drej. Seems like a power play by Fairfax.
Also, I doubt we will be returning to the old Geek format next week. It would be very un-Fairfax.
To answer JBs question on Weary Contempt vs Insensate Fury
FURY FURY FURY
Make those Fuckers pay JB! Embarrass them, humiliate the tech department by outing the names and emails of those behind this travesty. Shake the Fairfax skeletons out of the cupboard. Load your rhetorical cannons and fire a broadside right into their fucking faces!
Unless you do this it is you who is being treated with weary contempt. Believe me, I know contempt from Fairfax when I see it and right now they are giving it to you by the bucketload. Do not tweet quietly into the night.
LOL!
Gees Lobes and I thought that carton of old prawn heads that I sent them would cover it.
Said it before, will say it again. Is Big Harto hiring at News Very Limited?
True enough, do not go gentle into that good night, rage rage…
( last time I quoted Dylan Thomas at blunty somebody called me “matron” LoL)
Would it help if your commentariat emailed to complain (as you know JB, we’re very good at expressing indignation; moral outrage; 100 shades of venomous humor, or just venom)
Seriously, that doesn’t sound good. It’s unprofessional for one thing…
Got to wonder about some tech who’d put a blog up with comments turned off, sort of like a car without wheels, a book without words, a computer without a display, a tech without a job.
Oh, good, I see it is the new format, which means that hell will freeze over before I can make any comments.
I think I hit the spam wall. Hard.
Ow, and ow, and ow.
The change in format was an emergency measure that swainy, the grizzled old BT sub, and I put in place on our own initiative, just to get a few fkn comments up. We will be back to old skool next week, even though the geek will go national.
I feel pretty dumb. I thought the comment turn off was intentional, to get people to stop talking about it and take action.
As a side note I can’t get the literal image of a head boiling water out of my mind now. Makes me think Anthony Hopkins is using your head to get his pasta on or something.
Actually, Jen, you weren’t far off the mark. When I realised what had happened I suggested just leaving it as it was, for that very reason. But Swainy wanted at east some comments because of all the traffic the original twitter link generated.
Sometimes, I tells ya, I wonder why I bother. Then I remember the money and the bunnies.
Jen, I had the same thought. JB is after all on hols with the kids and it seems reasonable to get a break from work occasionally.
Then I remembered JB generally tells us if he’s AWOL and for how long and I figured it was another Fairfax Fuck up.
happy st nicks day one and all. hope you all remembered to wack yer smelly slippers (i put both boots out) outside the front door last night.
and so begins yet another silly season, take care on the roads guys (there’s nothin’ quite like makin’ someones day in an unusual and courteous way whatever your doing) drink and eat responsibly, smile a lot and remember, fknsanta is watchin’ ya.
Thanks, fknsanta!
I like your style – love each other, play nice, look after yourselves and remember I’m watchin’ with a big FKN stick if you don’t!
What is this St Nick’s day anyway?
My boots were firmly tucked away inside…
Jen, that’s a great picture – “Head boiling with a side order of rage”.
Love it.
The Pacific Highway-
THIS CALLS FOR CAPS LOCK-
IF YOU’RE DRIVING ON THAT GODFORSAKEN DEATH TRAP THIS CHRISTMAS, PLEASE WATCH OUT FOR YOURSELVES AND STAY SAFE.
(sorry for the rantrum but it’s s dangerous! We’re driving up there as far as Scots Head and it’s not *too* bad around there, but as you drive up to places like Bellingen and Coffs Harbour..oh the joy of evading crushed passengers as a truck whooshes past at speed. People drive too fast on that road for its size. Crazy!So all you Queenslanders, I know there’s a reasonable chance you’ll be on that same highway- godspeed.
sorry, not “evading”, “avoiding ending up with..”
there’s nix about a big fkn stick up anywheres my boy.
St Nicks … wiki it …. goes way back when, one of me original relo’s i do believe, not a pretender like these other blokes you see ringing bells outside of ungula corporation buildings.
scotts head huh … rubbin’ shoulders with the rich and famous are we?
one of my best eva mates lives down at grassy, chainsaw artist by trade. swing by, i’m sure she’ll give you a demo :)
pz.v.
Your friend is at Grassy Head? There you go. Great spot.
We’ve got a cottage at Scots , so we always base ourselves there.A few shark attacks and nr attacks in recent years, so am a little cautious!
A “chainsaw artist”? hmm, curious.
True fknsanta, I did make up the big stick bit. I can see now it’s watching with a benevolent caring all-seeing eye… no hint of a threat there at all. :)
Travel safe with those fkndeliveries, fknsanta…
I hope Moko doesn’t mind …
http://mokoreturns.blogspot.com/
Good work mate, absolutely brilliant.
So the Tweeter posts were like ‘raw data’ were they JB. Well then, I’ll keep an adjusted version of them and then throw them out. So in 100 years time your researcher can see what I said the posts said. After all, it’s not like I’d adjust those posts to suit my own ends. Problem solved.