Snopes

[Chickenhead]

I hate those fucking midi files on the Snopes web site. The people who run the site seem to be intelligent. They should get rid of those midi files, which rape my ears.

[Suo_Na]

Do you see the little “off” button on your speakers? They work wonders.

[Eutychus]

I think there are quite a few women who would take exception to your using the word “rape” to describe what is probably at best a minor annoyance.

[Flymaster]

*Originally posted by Eutychus55 *
I think there are quite a few women who would take exception to your using the word “rape” to describe what is probably at best a minor annoyance.

And there are quite a few women who should check a dictionary. Words have more than one meaning. Although, in this case, I would tend to agree with you.

From http://www.m-w.com:

Main Entry: 3rape
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a
person by force
2 a : sexual intercourse with a woman by a man without her consent
and chiefly by force or deception – compare STATUTORY RAPE b :
unlawful sexual intercourse by force or threat other than by a man with
a woman
3 : an outrageous violation

                 Main Entry: 2rape
                 Function: transitive verb
                 Inflected Form(s): raped; rap·ing
                 Etymology: Middle English, from Latin rapere
                 Date: 14th century
                 1 a archaic : to seize and take away by force b : DESPOIL
                 2 : to commit rape on

Certainly, his ears were despoiled.

[Flymaster]

Although, in this case, I would tend to agree with you.

That is, I agree that the word, while being used in a grammatically and syntacticly proper sense, is also being used in such a way as to weaken its meaning.

[AM_PM]

*Originally posted by Chickenhead *
**I hate those fucking midi files on the Snopes web site. The people who run the site seem to be intelligent. They should get rid of those midi files, which rape my ears. **

There’s lots of sites that pull that now. My ISP runs sound ad for Cisco everytime I log on.
If I’ve been listening to music, they come on at twice the volume and split your ears before you can find the knob.

[wolfman]

I have to agree with you on that one. Ocasaionaly when I get a stupid e-mail an work , my first response is to jump on snopes, grap the rebutal and reply before anyone can get too taken in. Suddenly, my good intensions are interupted by that loud, annoying music, and it is clear to anyone within 50 ft that I’m not busy with company business.

[Satan]

Quit acting so niggardly, Euty…

fleeing

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[Eutychus]

Why … you … I orta …

[threemae]

Satan, it does not readily strike me that you are using the word niggardly correctly.

It is one thing to use a word correctly and have people be offended yet quite another to throw a word in incorrectly for no apparent reason beyond using a word that sounds like nigger.

Unless you can manage to explain to me how Euty is with a sparing or pauperly manner, I am going to have to guess the latter.

[Satan]

*Originally posted by threemae *

Satan, it does not readily strike me that you are using the word niggardly correctly.

WHOOOSH

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[Flymaster]

*Originally posted by threemae *
Satan, it does not readily strike me that you are using the word niggardly correctly.

Damn language Nazis…

[RussellM]

Chickenhead

I hate those fucking midi files on the Snopes web site.

Have you also posted a message there about something you don’t like on this site?

RussellM

[Mojo]

My beef is that the MIDI’s autoload every freaking time, which not only causes the page to take forever to load but often crashes my Netscape browser a third of the time. Ugly wallpaper + frames + MIDIs = crapy page, even if I do like the content.

[iampunha]

*Originally posted by Eutychus55 *
**I think there are quite a few women who would take exception to your using the word “rape” to describe what is probably at best a minor annoyance.
**

Some men as well.

Mojo, why not just set preferences to ask you before loading any files?

[ATTGuy]

*Originally posted by Suo Na *
**Do you see the little “off” button on your speakers? They work wonders. **

This is true, but when I’m on my computer, I’m usually listening to streaming audio from Winamp (not an advertisement, really). It’s very disconcerting when I’m listening to my favorite Chili Peppers song and I Heard it Through the Grapevine starts blaring in my ears in annoying MIDI tones over the top of Californication

[occ]

*Originally posted by wolfman *
**I have to agree with you on that one. Ocasaionaly when I get a stupid e-mail an work , my first response is to jump on snopes, grap the rebutal and reply before anyone can get too taken in. Suddenly, my good intensions are interupted by that loud, annoying music, and it is clear to anyone within 50 ft that I’m not busy with company business. **

Seriously, do they really NEED that music? Nobody likes their web-surfing being interrupted by a loud, obnoxious midi file that they weren’t ready for. Sure, you can mute your speakers, but the damage has already been done. Does anyone who goes to SNOPES actually leave the music on? Sheesh. I thought people had gotten wise to the fact that slapping a midi file up on a webpage is NOT a good way to enhance a piece of html. Oh well.

[DavisMcDavis]

http://www.snopes.com/ulindex.htm

At least, I think this is the no-music link. At the very least, you can click on the little No Music button on the bottom.