# If it's midafternoon, GQ must be dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 29, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172 "2000-03-29T21:25:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/1 "2000-03-29T21:25:00Z")
Maybe the solution is to go to 21 hour days and simply not have 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Central Time. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/2 "2000-03-29T22:28:00Z")
I hate this! Every afternoon, about this time, I find myself getting into arguements over in the Pit and GD. I think you’re right, Tom. It’s probably best just to consider this board closed for siesta and take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/3 "2000-03-29T23:17:00Z")
It’s odd. The cursor goes into waiting mode, and the page loading doodad at the bottom of the window slowly climbs to 39% and stays there. You’d think it would time out, but I went to get a beer and pretzels, and it was still waiting on 39%. Is this still a hangover from the hackervandals? * * * AskNott "Measure twice, cut once. Dang! Measure again, cut again. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/4 "2000-03-29T23:50:00Z")
I’ve been wondering about that 39%. What happens sometimes at other sites is that it takes a couple of minutes to get to that percent, then the “page cannot be displayed” page appears. * * * “No,” he replied, and smiled seraphically, as was his wont. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2000, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/5 "2000-03-30T05:14:00Z")
Now that it has been mentioned, I have noticed for a while that the loading freezes at 38%. * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/6 "2000-04-04T05:27:00Z")
Here we go again. ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/7 "2000-04-04T05:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by tomndebb: > Now that it has been mentioned, I have noticed for a while that the loading freezes at 38%. You’d be lacking your “1%” then tomndebb, 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/8 "2000-04-03T23:51:00Z")
It’s actually 38.500000000036481298632875124%, but the other machines are rounding up and mine is truncating. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-its-midafternoon-gq-must-be-dead/1172/9 "2000-04-04T00:25:00Z")
Well, at least you didn’t lose a long, well crafted Topic you posted…fucking POS message board.