helopticor posted:

If you just need to see a page or two to confirm something it says, e-mail me.

hooah posted:

For some reason, I can't read io9 articles on my laptop, in either Firefox or Chrome. I either get a blank page, or it tries to load only article headlines between now and (apparently) the beginning of time. I just tried on my phone, and it's fine. What could be a cause of this?

TLG James posted:

Click the eyeball in the corner and go to blog view.

Or is it just io9? Since the layout change I've had problems on most of the gawker sites like lifehacker and deadspin.

hooah posted:

It seems they all do that. However, io9 is the worst - I can't even load the front page correctly. What did they do? Are there any greasemonkey scripts that can fix it?

hooah posted:

It seems they all do that. However, io9 is the worst - I can't even load the front page correctly. What did they do? Are there any greasemonkey scripts that can fix it?

Pyrolocutus posted:

I have a shirt that has a small website address under the main design. The design/lettering is white printed onto a dark red cotton shirt. Would it be possible to scrape off the website address, possibly with a razor, without damaging the shirt?

Xandu posted:

What extensions do you have running in firefox and chrome?

Xandu posted:

Maybe one of the flash extensions or something you're adblocking is messing it up? Have you tried loading it with no or only some extensions running?

It loads fine for me in chrome, although sometimes it (and other gawker websites) will randomly freeze up and require reloading the tab.

ChubbyEmoBabe posted:

Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers (google). See if that resolves it.

thelightguy posted:

Hahaha, no. Dear god no. You're like an order of magnitude off. Your hands, which are probably about 80 degrees are not going to break a thick glass bottle that's at 16 degrees.

Ridonkulous posted:

Every now and then I get a DNS error for my internet connection.
All I have to do is unplug the modem and router for 10 seconds and let it reboot and it works fine but why does this happen.

The internet will work fine for days but then (probably when we are putting a lot of traffic through it) it may messy up a few times in a day.

Is this normal? Is there something I can do to stop this? I there something we are doing to cause this?

JDanielS posted:

What's up with GBS right now? To be more specific, anyone know about the reddit mocking going on?

Psalmanazar posted:

The fact that this forum's a little lovely sometimes while Reddit's just poo poo also contributes.

Jerry Manderley posted:

Why do comedy club stages always have brick walls? How did that tradition start?

quote:

She's a brick----house
Mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick----house
The lady's stacked and that's a fact,
ain't holding nothing back.

Omgawd posted:

Here's an odd question that probably doesn't deserve its own thread.

For the first time in my life, I'm without a dishwasher. Or in other words the dishwasher is my hands. The method I'm using right now is to rinse everything off, clean the debris out of the sink, stop the sink, fill halfway with soapy water, let everything soak for at least 5 minutes, rinse each item off while rubbing it with my hand to make sure nothing is stuck, dip it down in the soap once more, rinse, set up to dry. For cups, plates, and silverware that have nothing visible and are clean to the touch, i usually skip the 2nd dip. If its something greasy and gross that water just won't polish, I'll take a paper towel and wipe until I see no more residue on the paper towel.

This takes me a while. My roommates do it much faster, but their style makes me a bit worried. They wet and soap a sink sponge, wipe dish, rinse dish. I've seen studies showing how sink sponges are the most germ-infested item in the average house, and ours looks like its covered in dog hair to boot.

Am I doing it correctly, incorrectly, or overkilling it? I haven't said anything to my roommates about the way they wash dishes. When I first moved in they mentioned how they both work in an old restaurant so they're accustomed to washing dishes by hand. I haven't gotten sick yet either, as far as I can tell (recently discovered what I think is a pretty icky egg allergy though).

Any thoughts?

Omgawd posted:

Am I doing it correctly, incorrectly, or overkilling it?

Noni posted:

Noni posted:

Besesoth posted:

Hope that helps!

Noni posted:

Bricks were once a symbol of exposing yourself, both emotionally and physically. In US history, brothels usually had a master room, which wasn't necessarily large, but long. When new customers would come in, the prostitutes would be lined up against the wall, ready to be picked. They had labeled paintings on the wall as well, so customers would just say that they wanted to buy an hour with Daisy or Petunia (Pictures were often of flowers). However, in some of the rowdier brothels, they decided to separate customers from the girls so that customers couldn't get free access to the goods.

Brothels were also typically attached, directly or indirectly, to neighboring bars. It became usual for madams to retrofit a brothel's master room or part of the bar by building a brick enclosure for showcasing the girls. This was a long, covered brick hallway with either thick windows or a chain fence facing the master room. Above the windows were sheets of plywood, hinged so that they were ready to close like storm windows at a moment's notice. This was useful if there was a raid or extremely unruly customers. It also helped in the presentation, as the barrier would be raised like an opening curtain.

Why the elaborate walls, windows and fencing, you might ask? Well, prevaudevillian entertainment featured the tradition of throwing things at acts that weren't entertaining. Theater owners and entertainers were sick of hard objects being thrown, so rather than hire bouncers or stop selling booze, they decided to sell softer ammo: rotten vegetables, mud balls, eggs, and some things at the higher end of the ammo cost spectrum that were called "milk balls." These were putrid, reusable sacks of whatever was available (often, piss or animal scat). Performers, obviously, got a cut from being hit by one of those suckers.

Hell, some of the most lucrative entertainers were purposely groan-inspiring because they knew that customers wanted excuses to throw things, and the entertainers themselves made more money if the theater sold more ammo. That's why we sometimes see representations of these guys in films and wonder how anyone ever thought they were entertaining. It's because they were acting cheesy on purpose to bait you into buying things to throw at them.

As a side note, the upper classes would participate in this new tradition by throwing popcorn in their upper-crust theaters. Hard-boiled eggs were sold as concession food, but popcorn wasn't so much sold as food, but insulation. You'd buy your hard-boiled eggs in a basket or bucket. Like the modern equivalent of Easter eggs in that fluffy plastic green grass, eggs were laid in a bed of popcorn. Therefore, these classier folks would throw fistfuls of popcorn into the air when an act wasn't deemed entertaining. Eventually, they ate the popcorn as well, but that was only after someone figured out how to make popcorn fluffier (a maize strain was specifically cultivated) and tastier (with butter and herbs).

In short, popcorn was originally cheap confetti for people too classy and clean to throw tomatoes or milk balls.

Okay, let's finally get back to the subject of brick walls.

Here's a basic fact of brothels: Whores were often pretty ugly. Like any good retailer, there was a scale of prostitutes. Sometimes, the cheap ones merely existed to make the other girls look better, and made their money partially by the hot prostitutes sharing their tips. It's like in restaurants when you look at the wine list and there's a huge gap between the cheapest wine and the second cheapest wine. Nobody wants to look like a cheap bastard, so they get the second-cheapest option if on a budget. It's a nice little sales trick.

But the uglier whores would get pelted by things. Brothel madams couldn't simply sell softer ammunition, especially because girls would get hit from 5 feet away as compared to theater performers who stood a chance at dodging things as they were separated from their audiences by a decent distance. Western customers were also drunk, horny, and generally pissed that they were forced to leave their weapons at the door, so asking them politely to not throw things wasn't an option.

The solution was to put up barriers to protect the girls. Bricklayers got paid in sex, obviously, so it didn't cost anything more than materials to the brothel; the girls would screw out for free if it meant not getting hit by things and not being freely groped by nonpaying customers.

Finally, that brings us to the song by The Commodores:


The saying that a girl was "built like a brick house" has existed, in one form or another, for 150 years. The "brick house" was the term used for that enclosure inside of brothels. If, in the 1870s, you said that a girl was a brick house, it meant that she was a sexpot behind an impenetrable barrier. She's hot, she knows it, but like the hottest girl in a brothel, you aren't getting your hands on her without shelling out a lot of cash.

Back to your question about comedy clubs, brick walls are in comedy clubs because comedy clubs grew out of strip clubs and brothels, where comedians and singers would entertain the crowds between lineups of the girls. The entertainers, too, made use of the brick houses to protect themselves from being pelted by things.

Omgawd posted:

Washing dishes

Loopyface posted:

Make sure you do your math correctly, because whichever way nets the server more is the one that's getting entered.

Noni posted:

Gravity Pike posted:

I've got a mesh dome filter covering the fan above my stove, and it's gotten pretty gross. Where can I get a new one? Do they have those at, like, a grocery store? A hardware store?

Besesoth posted:

According to what I was taught, you've almost got it, but your roommates are underdoing it (and wasting water, to boot).

First, you don't want a sponge; if you must use a sponge, make absolutely sure that it's only used for dishwashing. (Ignore FCKGW and stubblyhead, using a household sponge for dishes is loving disgusting.)

thehandtruck posted:

How do I save a word file in two places at once in Word 2007? What I want isn't quite what the AutoRecovery feature does. I just want to hit Ctrl+S when I'm typing have it go to two different folders/files as if it were one file.

thehandtruck posted:

How do I save a word file in two places at once in Word 2007? What I want isn't quite what the AutoRecovery feature does. I just want to hit Ctrl+S when I'm typing have it go to two different folders/files as if it were one file.

Farecoal posted:

Do you have to activate a Vanilla Visa gift card before using it? I tried using it on Steam, but its been rejected multiple times now. I went to the Vanilla Visa website, and my card information worked there, but for some reason Steam won't accept it. I made all the numbers were right and that I have enough on the card.

Red_Fred posted:

I think people need to realise that it is the hot water that actually kills the germs and bacteria on your dirty dishes not the dish washing liquid. The liquid just helps to remove stuff, although some claim to have anti-bacterial stuff in them.

TLG James posted:

If you're really paranoid about losing some data, have you thought of using dropbox? A copy will stay on your computer and it'll automatically upload to their servers, and you can access it anywhere you have an internet connection.