22/01/09 Don't get it

[Zethriel]

"TL;DR" is hardly obscure. Not knowing what it means is almost as bad as not knowing what "LOL" means. >.>

[AlohaJoe]

Lying on logs?

[sorakirei]

Reading through the comments I found this one particularly amusing

Quitting smoking will likely extend your life - but your headline reads that quitting "Cuts Risk of Death." The risk of death is 100% for all of us and smoking doesn't change it one bit.

I totally agree with tl;dr

[Technobuilder]

Browsing in Firefox 3, I at first thought they'd pulled the Comments section as it was grayed out.
Upon loading it in Google Chrome however, everything worked fine...

What did I do to Firefox 3 to make that happen, This is like the 3rd time I've had issues loading content with Firefox and there's this really annoying bug that occurs sometimes when I click the "Bookmarks Tab" it saves the current page as a Bookmark (Just the word, nothing seems to be wrong with the Star Function )

Any clues?

[collegestudent22]

That's not why MST3K isn't funny. It's not funny cuz it's stupid.

I say we cook Tom and eat his brain.

Seconded.

[TopCat]

Browsing in Firefox 3, I at first thought they'd pulled the Comments section as it was grayed out.
Upon loading it in Google Chrome however, everything worked fine...

You probably have NoScript installed or JavaScript disabled. Worked fine in my Firefox, but I noticed the comments loaded after the rest of the page, as if javascript was placing them there (which is very bad form).

[Pseudowolf]

See? Confusing acronyms ENRAGE people, including the moderators at NPR! You may as well be dropping f-bombs!

What the hell does "NPR" mean??

YOUR STRANGE ACRONYM ANGERS AND CONFUSES ME!!!

[adciv]

NPR stands for:
National Public Radio
National Palestinian Radio
Nepalese Rupee
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
National Performance Review
National Partnership for Reinventing Government
Nuclear Posture Review
Non-Photorealistic Rendering
Permutation
National Percentile Rank
Noise Power Ratio
Nail Polish Remover
Nevada Public Radio
No Purchase Required
Naval Petroleum Reserves
No Prior Record
Northern Pacific Railroad
New Production Reactor
NASA Procedural Requirement
Noise Preferential Routes
Northern Plains Railroad
Nozzle Pressure Ratio
Net Patient Revenue
Non-Payroll
Nominal Protection Rate
National Professional Resources, Inc
Net Protein Retention
Net Profit Ratio
Number of Problem Reports
Noiseless Portable Reflex
Naval Plant Representative
National Program Review
Nose-Poke Response
Nature's Perfect Remedy
Neutron Production Reactor
Network Process Engineering
Non Public Release
Normal Priority Request
Non Photorealistic Renderer

[Scotty]

after i had posted this morning and gone to work, it occured to me, i was pretty certain that one time greg made a rant about the use of TL;DR which at the time baffled me even more as to why he would then do what he openly loathed. after reading mav's post and greg's confirmation, it does make alot more sense

[Mae Dean]

You're thinking of jarrod. I think tl;dr is hilariously dickish.

[Deacon]

You probably have NoScript installed or JavaScript disabled. Worked fine in my Firefox, but I noticed the comments loaded after the rest of the page, as if javascript was placing them there (which is very bad form).

That's exactly right. I fucking hate so many web developers who use the wrong tools for the job. We can at least be glad these same shmucks didn't just make the whole thing a Flash site.

[Lizzegirle]

Ben's right - this is, technically, HIS joke. He was surprised to find that you could comment on a number of news stories. We worked up this plan to "internet" a big long, important news story.

I beg your pardon, good sir. I believe it was *I* that said Ben should do it to a Yahoo News story. He was saying how people were commenting with "first" and "second" and then I said it would be hilarious to say tl;dr.

MY joke.

MY JOKE.

MY JOKE!

[adciv]

Oh god. /. has spilled over to the rest of the internet.

[collegestudent22]

Huh? You have confused me now....

[Mae Dean]

Ben's right - this is, technically, HIS joke. He was surprised to find that you could comment on a number of news stories. We worked up this plan to "internet" a big long, important news story.

I beg your pardon, good sir. I believe it was *I* that said Ben should do it to a Yahoo News story. He was saying how people were commenting with "first" and "second" and then I said it would be hilarious to say tl;dr.

MY joke.

MY JOKE.

MY JOKE!

In the interest of maintaining relations, I hereby retract my previous statement and reassign credit for the joke to Liz, where it belongs.

Furthermore, ben sucks cocks. There, I said it.