There's something wrong with the world today

[venta]

[Poll #422132]

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Hey! Badgers aren't mad!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Apologies to venta for the mad answer to the question. It was really Firefox's answer, but once it suggested it the idea suddenly appealed.

Apologies to venta's readers for what's happened to her entry titles. It wasn't my idea !

[venta.livejournal.com]

As opposed to boxes of hair, which are well known for running naked through the streets, and often have to be confined to lunatic asylums ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

I know where that bee came from :)

Do you let Firefox (or any software) autocomplete for you ? I find that feature unbelievably irritating, and can't wait to get it switched off when I load new software. I don't think it'd ever occurred to me that people might, like, use it.

It wasn't my idea !

Indeed, no blame attaches to bateleur for the current crop of subject headings.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I think, insofar as I've tried to make it make sense at all, I've interpreted that as meaning "As mad as [the idea of] a box of hair". But really I just like the phrase. :-)

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Oooh I dont know about that....

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I don't let it autocomplete per-se, but it offers a drop-down menu of suggestions as I type.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

And... at the close of play on friday we can see that it's frogs and spoons vying for the finish, neck and neck with three votes each closely followed by another tie for 3rd/4th place - being march hares and fish, although the judges aren't sure about that one as one person voted for both, which would mean only a 1.5 score for each of them, leaving only an assortment of other strange animals and for some reason a wig all trailing with a single vote each... but it's the home straight and as far as can be seen it's definitely frogs or spoons coming for a photo finish... [and breathe....]

[venta.livejournal.com]

And the badgers (all two of 'em) are demanding a re-count!

Re-count now! Don't anger the badgers, or you'll get to find out why "mad as a badger" is so appropriate.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, I find that very annoying too. Mostly because it has no discrimination, and suggests blue bees when you least expect them.

Mind you, when I reinstalled Firefox recently I'd only filled in one form, so it kept suggesting the correct thing... and I still found that annoying. I can't justify this :)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Because it's distracting - when you're typing, you expect the letters to appear one at a time in an orderly fashion. If the UI is flickering drop-down lists at you that get shorter as you type, or whatever, then there's a chance that you'll pay the faintest bit of attention to them. At which point you're wasting effort that could have been spent typing. If you manage not to pay the faintest bit of attention to them than you can just about break even.

That said, I find auto-completion quite useful when typing urls. It's just useless for forms, because the only things I type repeatedly into forms are usernames, which are short enough that I can type them in one go - I don't need auto-completion.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Sorry, no. London bod, not really a goth, and didn't know about it anyway ;-) Y'all have a great time though!