Jesus fucking Christ, what happened here?
Wow, the blog looks even worse now I fucked around with the template under "New Blogger". Does that massive great Soviet-style all-caps title piss you off? It makes my eyes hurt. I think I'm gonna keep it.
There is an economic rationale for this - I am exacting a psychic cost on all my readers with this dreadful design, in order to provide a signalling equilibrium, so that my comments box will only get readers who are interested in the subject. It's like a bar that puts on a band and then sticks a cover charge on - the idea is not so much to make money off the door, as to screen out people who aren't prepared to pay five bucks.
Update: No, it was just too fucking painful for me too.
Ow. My eyes!
ReplyDeleteYou better make it worth it, now.
Now we know the truth -- your whole site is written by bruschettaboy!
ReplyDeletea) Why would the bar want to screen people out who don't want to pay five bucks? Seems like they'd spend more time listening to the band and less ordering drinks.
ReplyDeleteb) What happened to the pies?h
Thank god
ReplyDeleteradek
Gah, my comment was backward. The people who are willing to pay five bucks will spend more time listening to the band and less ordering drinks, and if anything you'd figure the bar would want to screen them out. All this has no connection to the original analogy and is moot now anyway.
ReplyDeleteNot really. If you have a band and a cover charge, you might attract a small number of music fans, but this is more than compensated by the fact that you screen out everyone for whom five bucks is a lot of money. An alternative strategy is to have bouncers on the door to manually screen out the riffraff.
ReplyDeleteAh, that makes sense. Obviously the solution is to have a band with no fans.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that exacting a psychic cost on potential visitors will have the effect you want. You'll end up with a comments box stuffed with people who have plenty of disposable psychic energy, and such people are not famed widely for their reasonableness.
ReplyDeleteA better plan would be a design that's hard to think through, to keep out stupid people.
"FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else" cannot be taken away! I imagine the sentence starting with a bluster and trailing off.
ReplyDeleteArchives are broken too.
ReplyDeleteahh yes thanks I have now sort of fixed them.
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