A look at the neo-hippy-dippy Portland Kraut Collective. Of course The Man killed the print version — we all know what happens when the proletariat seizes the means of kraut production … yeah, we end up with signs of a libertine society in decline like this:
At first there’s talk of separating nightshades (tomatoes, chiles, eggplant…) and some of the more pungent ingredients such as garlic, ginger and onions so that they can be added sparingly at the end but that’s overtaken by a more festive approach as folks clear their boards with abandon into buckets and crocks.
Charles Murray is not happy with this approach, and frankly neither am I.
(OK, I confess: one summer in college, I played water organ for the Portland Kraut Collective. But that was in my wayward Krautskyite days; today I’m a Krautssian neo-preservative.)
you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
Do they only have “so much” internet or…?
I kinda liked what the hippies did with the kraut…
I started with sauerkraut, but soon I was fermenting everything–artichokes, hams, tuna sammiches, my dog…it’s like I couldn’t stop. I started robbing liquor stores in order to pickle more things…
I started out on
burgundysauerkrautBut soon hit the harder stuff
They came for the sauerkraut makers, but I didn’t speak up because I didn’t ferment cabbage. Then they came for the picklers, but I didn’t speak up because I didn’t pickle. Finally, they came for those of us who distilled pure vinegar into crack-like rocks and smoked it…and there was no one left to speak up for me.
Besides, I was high as HELL!
Pasteurizer Niemöller, I presume.
Hey, something in today’s Grill is now autodirecting my browser to “MyBookFace.net”, anyone else having that problem?
Yep, mine too.
me three
Me four – I had a quick look at the page source but didn’t immediately see anything suspicious.
That’ll teach y’all to piss off xbx.
Again.
I think I just fixed it … is it working for others now?
Works for me, too. What did you change?
It’s really fucking weird.
I had added a comment to the Grill about the fact that the full body airport scanners also violate UK laws on child p0rnography. But apparently if you include the phrase “child p0rnography” in a comment, that page then auto-redirects to whatever this MyBookFace place is.
Thanks for fixing that. That is really weird.
Is MyBookFace anything like showing her you “o” face?
No, mybookface is the face that LB makes when he reads Joyce. It’s kind of like an o face.
it’s tough to read such a big book one-handed.
O face
No, that’s more like mybukkakeface.
BFF!
Very very strange. Nothing I did (afaik). Maybe oblique has thoughts.
I wonder if it’s a wordpress thing, or a host thing.
Fortunately “clown pornography” is perfectly safe.
If it’s a host thing I actually sort of think that’s awesome.
It is certainly not a wordpress thing.
Well, I’m late on the draw, and have been far more absent than I’d have liked. But, that’s really weird….
(and I haven’t made any changes to the sites yet; I’ve gotten as far as making a backup of the dev area, which is not particularly far!)
Google searches say that apparently these redirects show up pretty frequently. But I was afraid to put our offending phrase into the search terms from work….
Here’s a theory:
Apparently when our hosting company suspends an account, all the pages redirect to MyBookFace.com, according to this link.
So, perhaps the hosting company automatically screens for certain offending phrases on specific pages, and “suspends” those by redirecting them as well?
That would certainly make sense, although it’s a blunt tool for prevention. My guess is that primarily they don’t want to show up on searches for the offending term.
Yep. And, given that they offer a ton of space/bandwidth/etc for $0, I don’t mind them doing that.
Can they have $0?
Works now. Thanks, gso.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got 217 comments to
slog throughcatch up on.slacker.