Boston Globe to Blogger — "Stop Using Opera"

PetManimal writes "Mac Daniels of the Boston Globe weighed in on a prickly debate involving the updated local mass transit website. The Globe's advice to one complainer named 'derspatchel': Stop using Opera. Derspatchel's response is to go medieval on Daniels' ass, and ask the question: Why should Opera users give up their browser? Quoting: 'I don't give two whoops about the "percentage of the Internet population" or whatever. I don't care if a website works on someone else's choice of browser; I care if it works or not on my choice of browser. It's a modern browser, it's in active development, and it's free. Once dev stops on the Opera browser and the last version becomes outdated and unable to support newer Web innovations, then I'll "stop using it." How's that, Chuckles?'" After a day the transit authority took the new site offline to "improve performance," reverting to the old version.

Re:Weird response. Weird summary too.

[Anonymous Coward]

Which browser are you using?

Re:Wow

[AndroidCat]

It seemed much more recent than medieval. More like "going post-modern" on them.

Re:So let me get this straight

[bunions]

> You'd think there would be some kind of a filter to prevent stuff like this from happening.

That's a pretty good idea, actually. I mean, we're never going to get something like actual human editors who could actually inspect the articles before they were posted, so some sort of automated solution to cull out the obvious crap would be a good first step.

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[Isotopian]

Can too. Jesus did it for that one guy.

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[Jesus_666]

The GP's right, I did. Man, those were the days where you could cure someone without getting arrested for performing improptu eye surgery without having any medical training...

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[Hal_Porter]

He wouldn't need a gas card though. If he can turn water into wine, ethanol or crude oil shouldn't be a problem.

Plus he could do Force Lightning [wikipedia.org] too, IIRC.

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[Joebert]

If he can turn water into wine, ethanol or crude oil shouldn't be a problem

Unless you're in the middle of the Desert.

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Re:Not Opera

[pla]

That's it. I've heard it 5 too many times only TODAY: I've never used Opera and I couldn't care less if it exists.
Fixed.

No, not fixed - completely rephrased to mean something similar that you like better.

He had it right in the first place - That phrase uses a highly technical linguisitic device known as "sarcasm", wherein the speaker says exactly the opposite of what they mean. (The clever bunny might notice I used the same device for illustration at the start of that sentence, as one wouln't normally call sarcasm "highly technical")

The GP's particular use, unfortunately, has spawned off something of a holy war, in that the vocal inflections used to frame the sarcasm totally vanish. But even though it doesn't translate well to the written word, you can't call actually call it an error... Just a poor choice of phrases for this medium.