Choose Some Food And We Will Guess Your Zodiac Sign

Your destiny is written in the stars. Or is it in the pizza?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleybe24/pick-some-food-and-well-guess-your-zodiac-sign-5ae25u4kjh

My internet is fucked up and 80s music

Bad weather may be to blame for shitty internet reception in my part of the North country of the U.S. 

While I am trying to get my internet working properly, as in not stalling every 30 seconds, I am listening to 80s music. 

It's like the on-hold line music. What do you think of when you hear, "80s music?" 

Were you alive in the 80s? What 80s songs represent the 80s for you?

For me, the 80s were a mixed bag from punk to funk, to hard rock to pop-rock. 

1984...."Like a Virgin" by Madonna 

The entire "Footloose" soundtrack.....

Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy [Footloose 1984]

The anthem of my life in the 80s.......

Prince "Let's Go Crazy"....

Impulse - Ep 1 "Pilot"

I've just come across this show on Youtube. It's on the premier channel but the 

episodes are free,it's one of the best shows I've seen for a long time,absolutely 

gripping,I'm on Ep.5 at the moment.

President Trumps Speech to U.N.

Trump has definitely put the cat among the pigeons with this speech.

FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN

Disco till you die....

Thanks to Thomas for the inspiration for the 70s Disco thread. 

A still from Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees, You Should be Dancing) John Travolta HD 1080 with Lyrics. 

Do you remember Disco? Did you want Disco to die? Did you rollerskate to Disco music? Post your Disco stories. 

QUESTION TIME.

1.Why are all the candidates for the leader of the Democrat party so rubbish and does this
mean Trump is a certainty to win the next election?
2.Why are people so obsessed with ER, are they secretly jealous of her?
3.Is the Premier league title race between Manchester City and Liverpool again?
4. Have any new people come to the blogs that were not on the channel system?
5. Will Michiko ever come back now she has left for the 300th time.
6.Which type of threads would people like to see on this blog?
7.Why doesn't God get his finger out and try and save the planet?
8.Why has the cheese woman banned every one from the remaining disqus channel?
9.Is war with Iran inevitable?
10.Should JJ be given another chance or should he be consigned to history?

How the hell can I get this attention whore to stop humping my leg?

For years a commenter known as Shep has been stalking and harassing me on Disqus. He is the worst attention whore online. The moron can't take a fucking clue that I don't like him and I don't want anything to do with his obsessed pathetic ass.

For years he has followed me and stalked me on Disqus. I have told him for years to stop stalking me and stop following me on Disqus. He can't take a hint and when I blocked him he made several sock accounts and a Disqus channel to harass me.

I told him to stay the hell away from me and he keeps posting stupid shit to me. For real, he is obsessed.

You can look for yourself at this thread, https://disqus.com/home/discussion/thegreatoutdoorsman/a_chat_with_mat/

World's first vagina museum to open in London

Hey Paul, are you going to check this out? “Vagina Museum to open in November” story from, https://www.ktvz.com/news/national-world/worlds-first-vagina-museum-to-open-in-london/1123247075

(CNN) - The first museum in the world dedicated solely to the vagina will open in London in November, after a crowdfunding campaign raised almost £50,000 (about $62,000).

The Vagina Museum will educate visitors about vulvas and vaginas while challenging the prevailing stigma surrounding them, development and marketing manager Zoe Williams told CNN.

Founder Florence Schechter developed the concept for the Vagina Museum after discovering a museum dedicated to penises in Iceland, the Icelandic Phallological Museum, but no counterpart for vaginas. Schechter and her team subsequently launched a campaign on Crowdfunder, initially aiming to raise £300,000.

"As this is the world's first bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy, we didn't quite know what to expect in terms of interest, and were delighted with the £50,000 we raised," Williams said.

The museum will open on November 16 in a temporary location in London's Camden Market, with an exhibition entitled "Muff Busters: Vagina Myths and How to Fight Them." The exhibition will challenge "pervasive myths" about the vagina and vulva, Williams said, "such as that vaginas and vulva need to be cleaned through the use of bespoke feminine cleaning products; however, the vagina is completely self cleaning."

Comedy and theater events, craft workshops and educational talks will take place at the museum, she said, which will help to raise funds for a permanent location. The museum's mission statement asserts that it will also "act as a forum for feminism, women's rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community," "challenge heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour" and "promote intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values."

"We want to give everyone the confidence to talk about a perfectly normal part of the anatomy," Williams explained, citing a study from cancer research charity The Eve Appeal that found 65% of young women and girls in the UK struggled to use the words "vagina" or "vulva."

"There's nothing shameful or offensive about vulvas and vaginas," she said. "They're a part of the body that should be celebrated!"

This is some unbelievable shit

I get this comment in my Disqus feed, 

This commenter, https://disqus.com/by/ilovehorses22/, blamed me for her comments being removed. I didn't remove her comments but she is so flakey that she thinks I did it. It's impossible because I am not a moderator at the site her comments were removed. I had nothing to do with it but Jessica is so angry and hateful she blames me for something I had nothing to do with. 

The trainwreck of trolls is bitching about this, https://disqus.com/home/discussion/covert-paul/covert_paul_banned_from_the_only_channel_remaining_disqus_disqus/#comment-4622005653

I have never seen such a group of delusional paranoid losers in one space before.

This is funny as fuck. Geezus and his group of crony bitches and whine ad nauseam about downvotes, when they are the ones downvoting. You can't get more fucked up than this.

For real, why are these people so fucked up? 

Is Disqus dying?

Are blog owners and commenters moving away from Disqus? Today, I've been having problems viewing comments on Disqus. A real fucking pain in the ass.

An interesting article on why people are switching away from Disqus,  Switching Away from Disqus Review – Increased Comments by 304%

We switched away from Disqus about 2 months ago. Many of you noticed this change and asked us to write a Disqus review explaining why did we switch. After using Disqus for about a year, we noticed several drawbacks that forced us to switch back to WordPress comments. In this Disqus review, we will highlight the reasons why we switched and how it helped increase our comments by 304%.

We started using Disqus in April 2014. We switched away several months ago. We really appreciate your patience and our apologies for taking so long to write about this. We know several of you have been asking about why we switched away from Disqus, so here goes our final Disqus review.

Why Did We Switch away from Disqus?
There were several reasons why we switched away from Disqus.

Inserting Affiliate Links without Permission

Disqus offers publishers ability to earn little extra $$ if you enable Promoted Discovery which shows sponsored stories in the related posts section that Disqus can add.

Since we didn’t want any advertisement from them, we had all the settings unchecked.

However we accidentally ran into what they called a “bug” where Disqus was inserting affiliate links in our blog post content without our permission.

Basically Disqus has a partnership with Viglink which looks through your content and change any link that they’re partnered with to an affiliate link.

We caught this when we noticed Viglink referring sales to OptinMonster from our site WPBeginner. How ironic since both of them are our sites. Hmmm.

After looking into it, we reported the problem to Disqus which they fixed and called it a “bug”.

We were quite disappointed in the way this was handled. We’re not sure how much money Disqus made through this affiliate-injection bug, and how widespread was this. There was no public disclosure announcement about this, and we definitely didn’t get any $$ credit for advertising that they were placing on our site for who knows how long.

That just left a bad taste in the mouth.

For more details on the bug, you can see our video here.

Sponsored Comments

We learned about this through our friend Michael Hyatt when he noticed sponsored comments showing up on his site without his permission.

He reported that you can’t opt-out without assistance from Disqus Support team.

So we reached out to Disqus for an official response regarding this issue.

They confirmed that there was no easy way for an individual to opt-out without reaching out to their support team. Since there were specific criteria for Sponsored Comments, most users will not be affected by this.

Great! As if fighting spam comments weren’t hard enough already, now we have to keep an eye out for Disqus and quickly reach out to them if they enable sponsored comments on our site. No thanks.

Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress sums it up the best in his response to the Disqus announcement: “It’s not comment spam if we’re getting paid for it!”

Note: during this sponsored comments fiasco, we discovered a setting that’s auto-enabled for cookie tracking. It’s located in the “Advanced” settings tab. Make sure you disable it if you’re using Disqus.

Significant Decrease in Comment Engagement

When we enabled Disqus, few readers complained that Disqus makes it harder for guest commenting. Since Disqus was being widely used across several top sites, we didn’t pay huge attention to those complaints.

Overtime, our comment engagement dropped significantly. After disabling Disqus, we saw our users starting to leave more comments. Since the change, we’ve noticed our comments increased by 304%.

Moderation Interface

We were quite excited about the new moderation interface when we switched, but as we used it more, it wasn’t something our editors liked.

Note: This is completely a personal preference, and we’re there are other users who love the Disqus interface.

What we will miss about Disqus?
While we didn’t like some of Disqus’ business practices, there were few things we will surely miss about the platform.

Scalability and Site Performance

Comments are very resource intensive. If you have a lot of comments on a post, then it will take a long time to load.

If a lot of users are leaving comments at the same time, then it would also impact your server load. The advantage of using a third-party commenting system like Disqus was that you shave that server load off from yours and send it their way.

Even if your site is getting attacked by a malicious user, it won’t impact your server because it has to go through Disqus first. (Note: This is only true, if you have disabled Comment Sync).

Redundancy

The best part about Disqus was that comments were stored on a third-party database which is extremely helpful with redundancy. We’ll definitely miss this.

For now if we ever have to do fail-over, we will simply disable comments until our main servers are back. Although not ideal, this is the simplest option that we have.

What’s Next?
For now, we’re using the default WordPress comments interface. In the past, we’ve tried Disqus and Livefyre, but we have made our way back to WordPress comments because it just seems like the best overall option available.

We’re definitely considering using De:Comments, a WordPress commenting plugin that we reviewed earlier.

The other option is to power up the native WordPress comments with a suite of other functionality plugins like Subscribe to Comments, Reply Notifications, Simple Comment Editing, and possibly few more.

We hope this review explained why we switched away from Disqus. We really appreciate your patience and our apologies for taking so long to write about this. We know several of you have been asking about this change.

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