Comments on: Globe and Mail turns celebrity photos slideshow into commentary on Quebec protests

By: Shinkuhadoken

Shinkuhadoken — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Mmm. I love the smell of fresh snark in the morning. Here’s to Quebec!

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:35:00 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I’ve spent a fortune watching women in traditional Polish costume folk dancing and wondered what all the fuss was about. Now I feel a little foolish.

By: 5alo

5alo — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:29:00 +0000

Well, the song was about pole-dancing. The kind where men throw money at girls who take their clothes off.

By: Richard Dagenais

Richard Dagenais — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:51:00 +0000

Too much Twitter. You forgot to read past 144 characters.

“the rest of the slideshow is of celebs holding fancy handbags” [...] ” interspersed with protesters getting forcibly taken down and arrested in Montreal, creating an imaginary dialog with the celebs”

By: 3lbFlax

3lbFlax — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:29:00 +0000

Change the link from https to http and those warnings will melt away. All or many of the images on the page are being pulled in via http, which contributes to the 200 or so warnings Chrome generates.

Since you’re using Chrome, you can check the errors by pressing F12 and then clicking the little yellow logo with an exclamation mark in the bottom right. You can do this without responding to the security warning. It’s boring reading, but it’ll show you what’s bothering the browser.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Truly awesome.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:36:00 +0000

Were you planning on typing your credit card details in there somewhere?

By: eselqueso

eselqueso — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:10:00 +0000

Paris Hilton may just be too slitty for Chrome.

By: mat catastrophe

mat catastrophe — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Um, the rest of the slideshow is *NOT* just celebrities.

Caption for 13 of 19:
Zac, this is a bad person with misguided values. According to some, this Quebecker is no better than a Greek person who lost his job and isn’t gracious enough to be pleased that his unemployment is helping Wall Street recover from the 2008 recession.

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:21:00 +0000

Seriously, it’s one of the highlights of my week. Last week was all about the Eurovision contest: “Trackshittaz. That is the name of the band representing Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest: Trackshittaz. Furthermore, their song is called “Woki Mit Deim Popo.”"

WOKI MIT DEIM POPO, PEOPLE!!!

By: mat catastrophe

mat catastrophe — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:06:00 +0000

It’s their CSS

By: Susan Carley Oliver

Susan Carley Oliver — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:05:00 +0000

Chrome is just commenting on the self-esteem problems all those celebrities have. It shouldn’t affect you, unless of course you have body image issues.

By: ElectroDruid

ElectroDruid — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:40:00 +0000

Chrome says: “This page has insecure content”.

I guess I’ll pass on all that insightful caption-based commentary, then.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:38:00 +0000

Brilliant. Mainichi Shimbun used to have an English translator who made every article a pleasure to read. And then somebody ratted him out to the editors, he was fired, comments were closed for months and every translation was done by a robot programmed to maximize tedium. I wonder if this person will keep his/her job after this.