Fuko Captchas

@f00l Do not like that gif. Wish to unsee.

@OldCatLady I think you can only blame yourself for seeing that.

That kid’s so adorablfhfgghc… WTF!!!

@OldCatLady
Oh shit, I didn’t look at what was on the flag

@Thumperchick, can you fix this?

@f00l i’m on it

@hollboll
Thx thx thx
Much better

@hollboll
As long as you’re paying attention:

I can’t load my profile page. Ok this is my own fault, and @OldCatLady’s.

I tried last night on multiple iOS and android phones using multiple programs.

The. I tried on a Chromebook. Then on Windows. FF and Chrome.

Crashed or locked every browser. Every time

Because of the page licking or crashing, I can never get to the FILTER button to set a few less choices to be viewable.

Halp!!! Can you set my profile filter to show nothing? Then I could try carefully adding in one thing at a time to see if it’s usable.

Is this possible?

PS I was doing all this fucking around last night at 11pm CT. So it’s Meh’s fault I didn’t get a fuko.

I spoze, therefore, you owe me one. Or I owe you one. Or something.

So HALP!!!

@f00l try going to my profile, set your filter preferences there, then check yours.

@Thumperchick
I did that w yours.
Limited to comments, replies, mentions. Made sure to save.
Still crash and burn when I try to do mine.

@f00l weird. I can get to yours no problem.

@Thumperchick
Does changing my view settings when I look at yours change my view settings when I look at mine?

What filters do you have checked?

If I may ask, what kind of computer or device, and which browser? Lots of tabs or only a few?

Thx.
Oh, btw:
Does viewing my profile possibly work for you because @PuppyCat helps with sweetness sprinkles and snot sprinkles?

@f00l I can’t load your profile page because you have a gazillion gifs on it.

@Barney
Am evil that way.
Will try to focus on higher incidence of purple items.

@f00l Good luck with the focus part.

@Barney
Thou knowest moi.

/image purple beauty

@f00l Aw, I love purple.

@f00l man, now i want to know what it is i cannot see on the flag

@Yoda_Daenerys
B/W
a cute little girl (likely pre-school age) was holding a mostly furled flag. If you looked at it for more than a nanosecond, you saw portions of a swastika on the edges of the flag. Pure Nazi. And quite disturbing.

@f00l using Chrome mobile on an android phone, only have comments added and topics created selected. That said, I cannot get to your profile now, through Chrome, on my laptop.
Also, even when I was ridiculously active, my damned profile page worked. My question to you is now:
/giphy what did you do

@Thumperchick
/giphy I was bad

@f00l I can’t get to your page right now. We’ll look into it.

@hollboll
/giphy thanks

@DrunkCat
It’s meh that is impervious.

@DrunkCat The captchas are definitely keeping some non-robots from buying.

@goaliemelvin I’m sure there are other reasons that cause it to pop up with further verification, but from my use on this site and other sites, the normal causes for me are being in Incognito Mode (at work) and just doing too many CAPTCHAs in a short amount of time (like FUKOBUKURO 2: THE UNLUCKIER BAG).

@goaliemelvin everyone will get a captcha on fuko days.

@Ignorant Not everyone will have to verify images though. Many will just need to click the box once and that’s it.

@kyanostiger correct

@kyanostiger Except for April Fools day. Everybody had to suffer then, and I didn’t get one. Not that I’m still sore.

@OldCatLady Right, because you had to do too many in a short amount of time. The first few went by just fine for me, then it started throwing the challenges at me. I still got one though.

@Ignorant i only got the I am not a robot checkbox, then scored (at 8am ET)

@OldCatLady I didn’t have to do a bunch of captchas on April Fool’s. Just the one.

@Cirrius Try cut and paste.

@Stumpy91 You can’t cut and paste the Captcha words since they appear as an image.

@cinoclav You are talking about the several character images that spell possibly real words. I was talking about the captchas I saw for the April Fool’s Day Fuko that had a page of text that you had to cut and paste and then verify.

@grum I’m pretty sure that after @shawn reads your post above, the CAPTCHA timestamp verification will be fixed if it isn’t already fixed.

But I too could be terribly wrong.

@baqui63 Can’t help you there, but feel free to opine on margraves and similar entities in 18th century Saxony, with details of the War of the Austrian Succession. I could use some clarification.

@OldCatLady no one expects a spanish inquisition!

@OldCatLady
Yeah I could use help w The War Of The Roses. I get the later parts of it well enuf kinda sorta, Henry V onwards. But who the fuck was John of Gaunt again? And which ones were sorta illegimate? And what about Margaret Beaufort again?

And how many of the nobles switched sides because either opportunistic or insulted? I have trouble keep track.

@Yoda_Daenerys Ha. Ha. Ha.
/giphy "spanish inquisition"

@f00l I rely heavily on novels. My knowledge of those people is based entirely on http://www.historicalnovels.info/Katherine.html, which I read at a very young age. Fortunately Anya Seton was a diligent researcher, because I went on to read most of her books.

@OldCatLady
Much thx for link.

Audible is having a Philippa Gregory historical Tudor novels audiobooks sale:
7 books, $4.95 each
Started today.
Sale ends September 18, 2016, at 11:59 PM PT (US).
http://www.audible.com/mt/GregoryAuthorSale/ref=a_hp_c2_2?ie=UTF8&pf_rd_r=1MEA1RTM6N2XMFFQFYKC&pf_rd_m=A2ZO8JX97D5MN9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=5000&pf_rd_p=2614748682&pf_rd_s=center-2

Also worth a read or listen:

The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey (Author), Robert Barnard (Introduction)

https://www.amazon.com/Daughter-Time-Josephine-Tey/dp/0684803860/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474048413&sr=1-1&keywords=the+daughter+of+time

This is a modern (between the wars) mystery, in which a hospitalized and bored detective investigates the disappearance around 1483 of the Princes in the Tower - Edward V of England and his younger brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York.

The trad villain is the hunchback Richard III (actually scoliosis); but there’s no clear proof of who did or ordered the deed, and Henry VII had plenty of reasons to want the guilt to be pinned on his predecessor.
Anyway, Shakespeare gave the villainous Richard III great lines, they found his bones under a car park and gave him a king’s grave, and he was the last English king to die in battle.

Tey’s research was excellent for that time, but, lots of modern research has come into play since. They’re still arguing.

Anyway, excellent light mystery with plenty of serious history in the mix, very well written.

An audiobook recording exists, but digital rights have not been sold in the US, so audible.com doesn’t have it. It exists on cd tho, and your local library could certainly get it thru inter library loan, if you like audiobooks. One minor prob w narration: one of the modern characters is American, and the narrator, the otherwise superb Derek Jacobi, did a terrible American accent for this book. I found that flaw easy to overlook.

For more:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_in_the_Tower
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England

@f00l That book caused me to challenge the spiel of the Beefeater (Yeoman Warder) who was conducting our tour. He was talking about the two skeletons found under the stairs. I could have been more courteous.

@OldCatLady
Was the Beefeater doing the trad “Richard III: guilty guilty guilty” routine?

I spoze the Beefeaters can’t be blamed for their orientation training. Various societies of “Richardists” exist: heroically defending his innocence and promoting their own research. I personally rather like the “Henry VII: guilty” idea, since he was such a murderous total asshole in every possible way, and the boys had to be dead for him to claim the crown.

I truly love that there’s no answer and the arguing just goes on. And people get so passionate that I would not be entirely shocked if someone produced faked evidence.

Some of those “playas” are my relatives, according to Always-Right Grandmother. I should get to know them better. But then, she may have faked the evidence.

@OldCatLady @f00l I find this thread almost amazing.

@baqui63 Good, bad or hilarious?

@OldCatLady Not exactly good, but certainly not bad or hilarious. Just fascinating how a random comment (my 6th century BC poetry) can lead to something completely different.

@ELUNO
Thanks for the link.