Savage Love May 5, 2020 at 3:35 pm

Amazed and Confused

JOE NEWTON

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The "highlight box" in a.g.'s comment @63 consists of: a HTML "pre" opening tag, "code" opening tag, a lot of spaces, the text "What to do about a gag, gag, gag reflex?", "code" closing tag, "pre" closing tag. All the other paragraphs are normal "p" tags.

Hard to reconstruct at this point whatever what was actually typed in the comment box got converted to those tags, but I'm pretty sure that it's not supposed to happen, and it must have been due to some bug in the commenting system.

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Glad to hear the Beetle is out of hibernation, Grizelda, and ready to get you to the water. Hope you’re staying safe.

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@105 griz
Should I understand from your reply that when you said "hit "Align Right"" you weren't referring to something you know how to do (that is, can replicate), but instead to something that happened mysteriously?

@109 Registered European
Thank you very much for that! I hadn't thought to go into the webpage "source", where I saw exactly what you described.

In naive hope I pasted exactly what we saw in the source into a new test comment...and it didn't work at all. So exactly as you said the input was something that somehow got converted into those tags. Perhaps as you say due to some bug...which is gonna be pretty difficult to exploit unless someone someday posts a Comment that triggers the bug and still has the text they entered. (Which sometimes I actually do, since I use Notepad to create comments in.)

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I can't recall Ugg ever being in, but I do live in the back.

Mizz Liz @78 - Not only are you right about how difficult it can be to determine who's on/the top, but people can be take roles a lot farther, and in ways one might not expect. Some time ago, I saw a thread elsewhere in which a more-progressive-than-thou type insisted that the initiative in the top role was not just sexual (an iffy enough position) but also social. She could have been her conservative grandmother insisting that women couldn't ask men for dates.

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@111
curious2, it is so frustrating to be ^deprived^ of even the simplest html. In any case, I have Slog in I.E. (used to be in Firefox IIRC but the browser would not allow me to enlarge the font size so I switched). Unfortunately, by switching, I lost the ability to stay logged in, so for every damn comment I am forced to log in. ::growls in aggravation::

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@113 Helenka
Since I arrived here after the loss of HTML, I can only imagine how disappointing a change that was.

I know the login frustration since I if I delete cookies on Chrome I need to login for a couple weeks too. Not that it's all that bad since my password manager (lastpass) auto-fills the fields for me.

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HaaC @113 "(used to be in Firefox IIRC but the browser would not allow me to enlarge the font size so I switched)."

? Weird. I use Firefox and I have no problems enlarging the font. Slog is standard at 125%.

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Helenka @101, Curious @103: If you look at the underlying HTML in the box that Griz created @63, it's a "code" block within a "pre" block, which I suspect was caused by the word "coda" being autocorrected along with some special character(s).

I tried a bunch of variations, and came up with nothing. If Griz doesn't remember what she typed... I'm stumped.

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Uggs being in, Mr Venn? Always here in a country which used to be known for living off the sheep’s’ back.

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@116 fubar
I subscribe to your excellent theory that it was "coda" that ended up as "code"!

I love me good theories.

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@75 At what point does a preference or desire become a "fetish", and why is being "fetishized" necessarily a bad thing if it works for both parties? I'm an older gay man who gets a lot of "daddy" interest. I suppose that's a fetish. It works for me ;)

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Ms Lava - Is this when one would say "fair dinkum"?

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Anyway, I have just encountered a world-class Freudian slip.

I was having a civil discussion in a thread with someone trying to take what I was calling anti-gay to be simply what was non-gay. The other party seemed someone of a skittish sort, the type to equate gay disagreement to a charge of homophobia (in addition to doubling down on the "fear" definition, to which I responded only that my post had not contained the H word). The other party's final post was basically:

"This is just what I do and how I live my life. How other people lose their life is their business."

That was just glorious, and made the whole discussion worth the engagement.

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Venn @121: Priceless. That should be on a T shirt.

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@121 venn @122 fubar
On the official T-shirt of the 2020 Trump campaign.

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@123 p.s.
I admit that was too on the nose, since "Live and let die" is a staple at Trump rallies.

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Harriet @76, the fact that LOADS does not feel they need to specify their own gender reveals het privilege and yes, is more evidence that she is female. Dadddy's response indicated to me that he had read LOADS as female, re-read the letter, still reads LOADS as female for the reason he gives, and thinks Mr LOADS is a closeted gay man.

Griz @91, this is an open forum and people are entitled to go off topic as much as they want. But they are not entitled to responses. If you think this is a good place to share your song parodies, go for it! But please don't take lack of praise as "offense." I'm not offended by your song parody, but neither am I necessarily interested in reading a song parody. Just as it's your right to write them, it's my right to skip them, as I'm sure some people skip many of my posts. And, it may surprise you, there are a great many posts I do read but don't comment on. In other words, your parodies don't bother me, but your "humble apologies" when you don't get as many reactions as you hoped to do. Hope you're doing ok!

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@109 Registered European: Thank you for further tech clarifications.
@110 LavaGirl: Thank you. My beloved Love Beetle and I took a lovely drive down Chuckanut Drive (more our speed than the nearest freeway, Interstate-5) into Skagit Valley. The weather this last weekend was gorgeous.Sending big hugs--hope you and your family enjoyed a lovely MOther's Day weekend. :)
@111, @114 & @118 curious2: Oh--so THAT was it! No, I really did mean to type 'Coda" only damn Autocorrect made it "Code"? It figures. Damned AutoCorrect!
@116: fubar: You nailed it. AutoCorrect must have freaked out about my typing Coda at the end of the song. I don't know if that's hilarious or creepy about turning it into "Code". That makes me think of the 1986 sci fi film, Short Circuit starring Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy, particularly regarding Johnny 5, the robot: "Input, Stephanie, input! "
Johnny 5 is ALIVE!
@125 BiDanFan: Good enough. When I didn't get any responses from anyone for a while before curious2 commented, I thought maybe I had offended some people.Thus my comment (@91). To be fair, I don't read every comment, either.

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Griz @126: Yes, exactly. And the parodies may be funny but another thing they are is long, and when people are pressed for time it's the long ones we're more likely to skip. And yes, damn autocarrot and not having an edit button! Glad you're doing well -- I think on the whole, this ordeal has been much easier on people who are used to living alone. Hugs and beeps back!

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BiDan@127~ "Autocarrot" ? :-)

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Sorry, skimmed through the 100+ comments, might be repeating something someone has already said.

Why did Dan bring up pissing on her in the tub?! She didn’t mention that as his kink, she just said he had a higher libido than her.

I have a higher libido than my gf, but I don’t think peeing on her is the answer...

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Whatif, Dan suggested that she pee on him. Would it help you if your girlfriend peed on you while you choked the chicken? It wouldn't occur to me to suggest peeing on my partner, but more often I'm the higher libido partner wanting to get off.. I think I'd rather get pissed on and get myself off that way than nothing. I liked it when my partner peed on my leg while we were kissing. I just don't have much experience but I think it would be better than nothing.. I think I'm more generous when I want to get off I don't mind giving oral or just kissing while I get myself off, if my partner isn't interested in intercourse.

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@127 BiDanFan: We are living in strange times, indeed. Although I do not have have paying performance gigs, I works from my home. Our building is eerily quiet these days although I do play at home when my back is not hurting (long story).
@128 DonnyKlicious: Uh-oh! Auto correct strikes again! Dwat that wascally wabbit!


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