Re: NY's FOX5 newsanchor - Do WHAT to WHAT??

Dano wrote:
Dave Searles wrote:
David wrote:
On 17 Sep 2009 16:36:15 GMT, Patty Winter <patty1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <h8toal$6i2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dave Searles <searles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
David wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFKPTPn800g
Anyone else getting annoyed at these kinds of bait-and-switch
posts? Subject line designed to get you curious, and body consists
of nothing but some stupid web url rather than containing anything
worth reading that can be read without a copy, a paste, waiting
ages for a browser to start up, and a bunch of other hassle.
I think David likes to post links to cute videos without giving away
what they show, but yeah, I don't bother following such links unless
there's some description to help me judge whether it's worth my
time.
I think "newsanchor saying something" IS a description. It's no
different than a description of a movie or tv show. Anything more
would take you longer to read than the actual video, and give away
the joke.
Perhaps you could just POST THE JOKE?

Perhaps you could simply ignore the whole deal? Sheesh...people will make a big deal out of anything!

I saw a post headline and wanted to know what the newsanchor said. But when I clicked it I did not see text stating what the newsanchor said. Instead, apparently I have to click a link, wait ages for the browser to start up, risk enabling Flash and getting who knows what viruses, and then wait for some interminably long video to a) load and b) get to the point, with forward seek no doubt not working (not that I'd have any clue where to seek to).

It would take me ten minutes, versus ONE minute (or even less) if David posted the text of what the news anchor said that he found so shocking. (Two minutes for the browser to start up and become responsive, another few poking around in its guts to turn on the flash plugin, an estimated four minutes of video playback stuttering and breaking up and randomly pausing and restarting itself, and at the end of it all, another couple of minutes to turn off flash again and shut the browser window.)
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