I hope no one hates me after this post. I’m on a mission to make the entire planet like me, so that could really set me back a bit. But I gotta get a couple of things off my chest.
First, CAPTCHAS. You know, these things:
I hate them. If you use one on your blog, I’m begging you, take it off. Don’t be afraid of spam comments. I don’t use a CAPTCHA and I’ve never received even one spam comment that made it past the filter already in place. For the love of your readers (and especially my sanity) just take it down. If you need help, e-mail me. I will spend my whole weekend helping all ya’ll taking your CAPTCHAS down. I will. I hate them that much.
Second, spoilers. I hate a lot of things. People who wait for my parking spot at the store before I’m even in my car. Coconut. Yogurt with fruit chunks. People who stand too close to me. But when you ruin a book or movie for me, that trumps everything else. Please hear me, if you’re going to reveal major plot points from a movie or book, warn people about that crap first. Don’t just be all like “Oh so-and-so dies. It was so sad. Aren’t you sad about that?” Hell yeah I’m sad. Because you ruined the whole book for me you jerk.
How about the time I was about sit down and watch The Sixth Sense, **WARNING** SPOILER AHEAD (you see how I did that?) and some boob says to me “Can you believe Bruce Willis was a ghost the whole time?” And that person was never seen again. I’m kidding. Maybe.
My main point is, stop irritating me. And for the love of God, stop making Haley Joel Osment cry. Get rid of your CAPTCHA. Keep your big spoiler-filled mouth shut.
I appreciate your cooperation in this matter. (also I love you please don’t hate me)
P.S. Apparently Blogger changed their settings when I wasn’t looking and I actually did have a CAPTCHA on my comments! You can only guess how much of a dope I’m feeling like right now. But really, it’s Blogger’s fault and not mine. Divert blame whenever you can, I always say. Like that time I threw up on the self-serve drink machine. Not my fault. Why’d they put that thing in the way of my vomit anyway?
And just to make me even more insane, nothing I do can make the CAPTCHA go away. I turn it off, save my settings, and it doesn’t do a thing. Obviously the CAPTCHA demons have it in for me. I need a Catholic with some holy water, pronto.
I am so with you on the catcha thing!!! I hate it! For my own blog it was a pain because blogger kept changing the setting. But good lord I hate that word verification crap.
I don’t hate you – I laughed all the way through this. If CAPTCHA has to be a thing (and I don’t think it does) couldn’t they at least make the words short? I can’t concentrate on fifteen letters’ worth of fuzzy nonsense.
Ha ha! I hate them too – especially when I didn’t get it right the first time!!
I do hate them and have fixed it so that mine doesn’t do it, but honestly I can only hope Blogger hasn’t changed things up again
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I blogged once about the captcha and then realized it was on mine too. Ha! I deleted it the moment some blessed soul told me about it. Blah!
Keep Shining,
Meghan
I hate those captcha things! I don’t think I have one on my blog! Let me know if I do, then I can jump off a cliff! Ha!
Ha! This post made me laugh! I hate those stupid captcha’s too! So not worth it!
Fiesty little Trish…I like her! haha
You’re not the only one that hates those captcha things, they’re SO annoying! Parking spot stalkers are super annoying but I have to disagree with you on the fruity chunk yogurt cause I LOVE it. Yummy!
I’m with you on coconut and word verification!! Omg! Will be there soon with the holy water.
Haha the captcha gods are out to get you! i cannot stand when people just sit there and wait for my parking spot when i haven’t even started my car. so i like to take extra long just to piss them off
I simply changed my settings to moderate the comments – no stupid words to type in (except the comments you leave). The moderation is super easy – you can delete the spam if you want too.
I’m convinced that Captchas were invented by the devil himself.
And I think I might be guilty of the spoiler thing, even though I try to be very mindful not to do that!
And what the crap?? Where did the stupid word verifications come from? I have them on my blog now too. I’m mad!
been thinking this for.ev.er. yuuuuuuuuuuuuuucky stupid captcha.
Hmmmm, I’d better check to make sure my settings don’t have captchas in them now too. Sometimes I’ll write a great comment and then get so annoyed by a captcha I just close it. Half the time they’re so squiggled I can’t even tell what the hell letter it is any ways! Plus once I got one that said “retard bev” and I was mad.
And spoilers are one of my biggest pet peeves. My father-in-law is constantly loaning us a TV series on DVD and when we say we’re at such-and-such part he’ll say something super pivotal like “It’s so crazy when he comes back. It’s like, what?! He was dead! He’s back?!” and then my husband will say “Gee, thanks Dad.” He almost always says, like clockwork, “I’m just speculating.” And then of course it happens because he’s already seen the show 50 times and the element of surprise is gone for us.
Poor us. Poor, poor us.
I really do hate captcha as well
and that parking thing too… really irks me!
Ugh captcha! I agree 100%. And OMG I hate it too when people sit and wait for the parking space when you don’t even have one foot in the door yet. So irritating!
oooh I hate captcha! sooooo annoying. And I hate it when people stand too close to me, don’t they understand what “personal space” means? It’s like I can feel them breathing down the back of my neck. rawr. hehehehe. But the worst thing that could happen is someone standing too close for comfort and they have really bad body odor. tsk tsk.
AHH I HATE CAPTCHAS! I def need to try and take it off myblog. visit myblog for my giveaway =)
I am only momentarily annoyed by captchas- but it doesn’t stick for long. Spoilers, though? No. Tolerance. That is the worst thing someone could do, ever!
LOL, Great post. I hate those things! I took mine off a long time ago; never had a spam comment to this day.
xoxo,
taylor
taylormorgandesign.blogspot.com
I took off the word verification a long time ago, but I found I got spam. Usually it was on older posts, so now I have the Must be approved thingy on any posts older than 5 days. That seems to have pretty much taken care of the problem for me.
I just stopped by from SITS to say hello; hope you return the visit!
Well, I can’t promise you holy water, but I can certainly commiserate with you on captcha codes. Also, I can’t believe someone spoiled Sixth Sense like that for you. I still remember my reaction when finishing the movie for the first time. Thanks for stopping by on my SITS Day yesterday!
I HATE captcha codes. I agree, I don’t use them and I’ve never had a spam comment before. What’s the big deal anyway, you would just delete it! Ugh, they are so annoying and take up way too much time.
lol!! too funny!
Captcha is the DEVIL! And a kid in my art class RUINED Sixth Sense for me, too! Love your blog – found you through Fill-in-the-Blanks Friday!
SPOILERS!!!!! ***Shakes fist at ceiling***
I know what you mean…there has to be a better way and half the time, I can barely read those Captcha letters anyway! Happy SITS Day!
I hate captcha and spoilers, too. Ick! Hate them a lot. Glad to see you finally got them to go away, the captchas not spoilers. Now if you could only find the button to mute spoilers we’d be all set.
I’m not a fan of spoilers (unless I’m looking for them – like to see who signed contracts after the NCIS finale) and Captcha – now I’m paranoid that WordPress is using them on my site. Will have to go triple check.
Happy SITS Day Miss Trish!
haha! I hate captcha too. I’m on Blogger and I noticed the same thing. After I turn it off, it mysteriously is back on again. Of course AFTER I’ve been ranting about people having captcha on their blogs. Oops!
I loathe captcha. But I’m the queen o spoilers. Everybody hates me some days. I promise never to review a book you might read on my blog. (Obviously, I’ll know which one, because I’ll be psychic.)
Whenever I see the captchas, I immediately want to slam my face into my laptop. Another one that kills me is the no-reply commenters
Because I don’t pay attention, I’ll go on and on with a big response to someone and then BAM—no reply.
Anywho, coming over for your SITS day! Hope it’s great for you
Since you crack me up, I’m gonna follow along now, k? 
You are hilarious! I hate captchas!
stopped by from sits
Bwahaha. I LOATHE CAPTCHAs as well. Somewhere in my blog (um, early last year I think…I may have to re-hash this subject) I have a post about it.
I look at it as people being too darn lazy to moderate their blogs on their own. Maybe I’m wrong but I’d bet (hey, I live in Vegas I can place bets) the rent I’m not. Down with CAPTCHA!
Stopping by from SITS.
*Lol* great post. I think we all hate the captcha. I had one on my blog for awhile but only because it seemed like all the “cool” kids did it. When I realized how annoying it was, I took it off. At least I think I did… I better go see.
Stopping by from SITS. Happy SITS day!
Totally hate them too! (and even funnier that it showed up on your blog) Love you blog! Bookmarking to come back to regularly!!
I hate them too. I don’t mind the checkbox or the math problem if people must have something. Happy SITS Day!
Funny post. I hate them too
I hate captchas too but like you, i keep thinking that they are turned off and then they come back!! come tell me if they are on or off on my blog!!
Captchas are annoying! I’m glad wordpress doesn’t have a thing where they can get auto turned on.