@jsh139 I don't think so. Even if you solved all of the captchas (like I did, it was a pita) you still might have not scored one if you weren't one of the first to order.
@juststephen It seemed to me that they wall of captchas didn't come down until a few moments after midnight. I came to the site immediately after the tweet went out and there were no captchas. I even pulled up the site on my phone and another browser and they weren't there. After I ordered and refreshed, they showed up.
@jsh139 This is not true, I was watching the time via www.time.gov and at 10:00:02 MST (I waited 2 seconds to give everything time to sync) I refreshed the meh homepage and I was met with a wall of captchas.. but the thing is, the wall of captchas appeared on the headphones page complete with description about the headphones, black background and everything. I didn't realize this until I was halfway done with the captchas and refreshed again and this time got the yellow background with the right item and description and another wall of captchas. I was still able to complete and get mine ordered in time but I just wanted to point out that some people must have just gotten lucky as I was met with captchas before the page even changed to the fuko.
@jsh139 I was going by my watch which syncs to the atomic clock every single night. Refreshed both my phone and my computer (having the feeling my phone may not play well with whatever fuckery they were sending our way) a split second after it hit midnight and still got the robot killing wall. Alas, I clicked the living crap out of it and landed my second Fuko.
I was here right at midnight. I got all the I am not a robots. I did not get a Fuko. I am not angry or whining. I just didn't get one. Most people won't. That's how this works.
I plowed through a shitload of those motherfuckers. But I got my fuko fucko, goddamnit. I make absolutely no claims about what this might suggest about me or about meh or karma or life or whatever. I am grateful, FWIW.
I pity those who dealt with that shit and got nothing but a headache.
I fucking hate April Fools. There are enough fools and liars and deception in this fucking world. The last thing they need is their own fucking holiday. Fucking fuckers. Did I say, "fuck!"? Because fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck.
@joelmw My husband doesn't do special days. At all. He tried, but once we were married, anniversaries, birthdays, hannukah, Kwanzaa, christmas, all went out the door. Yeah, he remembers his mom (I make her a card since they're so much nicer than storebought) at Christmas, her birthday and Mother's Day). Obviously April Fool's day means nothing.
But I was raised in a home with a prankster father and every. Single. April Fool's Day, he would change out the sugar in the sugar bowl for salt. Every time. And my mother ALWAYS fell for it. I like these happy memories....
@lisaviolet See, I grew up on puns and silliness. That probably explains a lot about me. I have some horror stories about practical jokes too--and honestly, associate them with bullying (which I don't think they necessarily are; that's just what I associate them with).
I'm getting ice cream as a condolence prize.
Ginger Molasses Cookie ice cream.
@mamawoot where do you find that? It sounds marvelous.
@regnowsin
@cinoclav Oh dear lord. I see a trip to the store in my future.
@mamawoot
Some damn video made me walk into Walgreens and buy post-Easter discount peeps.
Crying in my peeps. Beyond pathetic.
@regnowsin I found it cheap at The Grocery Outlet.
It was heaven.
or the fact the fing captchas didnt work for some people and just gave you the code for the captcha instead of unlocking the buy button. aholes
@msujp Hey that has been my problem on the last 3 or 4 fukus - refuses to admit I am not a robot even though I do what it wants me to do...
Grumble. Grr.
I didn't see any major issues. It did bypass about 1/3 of the captchas. If I slowed down it probably would have skipped more.
I thought you were supposed to bypass them. All that mattered were some captcha and voting the survey?
I went to it on my phone at 11:05 (Nexus 5 running Marshmallow) and all I got was the MEH button. I figured they were just farking with us.
I think it was intentional to allow people to order without doing all of the CAPTCHAs. The description says:
@jsh139 That explains why I didn't see them when I ordered.
@jsh139 I don't think so. Even if you solved all of the captchas (like I did, it was a pita) you still might have not scored one if you weren't one of the first to order.
@juststephen It seemed to me that they wall of captchas didn't come down until a few moments after midnight. I came to the site immediately after the tweet went out and there were no captchas. I even pulled up the site on my phone and another browser and they weren't there. After I ordered and refreshed, they showed up.
@jsh139 This is not true, I was watching the time via www.time.gov and at 10:00:02 MST (I waited 2 seconds to give everything time to sync) I refreshed the meh homepage and I was met with a wall of captchas.. but the thing is, the wall of captchas appeared on the headphones page complete with description about the headphones, black background and everything. I didn't realize this until I was halfway done with the captchas and refreshed again and this time got the yellow background with the right item and description and another wall of captchas. I was still able to complete and get mine ordered in time but I just wanted to point out that some people must have just gotten lucky as I was met with captchas before the page even changed to the fuko.
@jsh139 I was going by my watch which syncs to the atomic clock every single night. Refreshed both my phone and my computer (having the feeling my phone may not play well with whatever fuckery they were sending our way) a split second after it hit midnight and still got the robot killing wall. Alas, I clicked the living crap out of it and landed my second Fuko.
@mehybe @cinoclav Weird. I guess I just got lucky. I also used my laptop because I figured there would be some sort of game or weirdness afoot.
I was here right at midnight. I got all the I am not a robots. I did not get a Fuko. I am not angry or whining. I just didn't get one. Most people won't. That's how this works.
Um...
I plowed through a shitload of those motherfuckers. But I got my fuko fucko, goddamnit. I make absolutely no claims about what this might suggest about me or about meh or karma or life or whatever. I am grateful, FWIW.
I pity those who dealt with that shit and got nothing but a headache.
I fucking hate April Fools. There are enough fools and liars and deception in this fucking world. The last thing they need is their own fucking holiday. Fucking fuckers. Did I say, "fuck!"? Because fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck.
@joelmw My husband doesn't do special days. At all. He tried, but once we were married, anniversaries, birthdays, hannukah, Kwanzaa, christmas, all went out the door. Yeah, he remembers his mom (I make her a card since they're so much nicer than storebought) at Christmas, her birthday and Mother's Day). Obviously April Fool's day means nothing.
But I was raised in a home with a prankster father and every. Single. April Fool's Day, he would change out the sugar in the sugar bowl for salt. Every time. And my mother ALWAYS fell for it. I like these happy memories....
@lisaviolet See, I grew up on puns and silliness. That probably explains a lot about me. I have some horror stories about practical jokes too--and honestly, associate them with bullying (which I don't think they necessarily are; that's just what I associate them with).
@lisaviolet I think we need to flood you with happy cards.. you make everyone else beautiful cards!
@mikibell Thank you!
If I ever have to look at another "Recreational Vehicle" or "Body of Water" again...
@danlo Grass, trucks, limousines, mountains, trees...
@lisaviolet you forgot flowers...
@danlo waffles, pancakes, ice cream, candy...
@katylava @Kidsandliz @lisaviolet @danlo rivers, street signs, food, apartments, houses, skyscrapers . . .
We're actually out for waffles right now because those captchas gave us cravings
Why?? Why??? Why??? Why didn't I remember it was April Fools Day????
@smilingjack Alzheimer's?
Here you go