Gahhh!!! - A Geek's Lament

[yakalskovich]

I see why photobucket.com needs to place advertising on every page when you upload and so forth; they have to get the money back from somewhere for the great service they're providing.

But this is going too far: there's this totally obnoxious rich media ad haunting my bucket where this  badly animated chick that looks like one of those Japanese combine-them-yourself icons lurks for you to touch her with your mouse cursor, to start squawking in the most jarring American accent, "Hi, my name is Tina, and in the next thirty seconds..." yadda yadda yadda.

I long to reply: "Hi, you name is nothing, you stupid cow from Arizona, because you don't bloody exist! Get that into your nonexistent head!"

I am avoiding her like an electric cattle fence, but I don't always succeed.

ETA: ("For the loan of a flagpole and two dozen cups" and all that.) Please be warned that There Be Spoilers for Going Postal  in the comments; they just turned up by themselves.

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[rev-oats.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but do you realize how long I've been dying to read this discussion?

Anyway, I don't think there was a real problem here. I _always_ thought, even before _GP_, that what Ankh-Morpork had was a very informal messenger-service system rather than a proper post office. Haven't there been references to things like handing a letter to someone who happens to be going in the right direction and hoping that it somehow gets there? And _GP_ makes it clear the "mail coaches" were not really the Postal Service, just a coach-for-hire service using the old Post Office equipment. Therefore canonicity is saved and the universe does not explode, QED.

[yakalskovich]

Yes; we have become very all right with it all since then. Morgan mailed some things to her friends in Llamedos, and the Captain got a letter with stamps on from Teppic. And then some.

I am especially keen on Clacks Tower 181, the personnel of which has two scenes, because that's said to be near enough to Bonk that people go there on their day off. So I've been mentioning it a few times in passing already.