Thursday, June 25, 2015

If You Think YouTube Doesn't Hate Us, Explain This

The initial frame should be enough of a clue.  You really, really should not click the play button.  You have been warned as you will not be able to purge the memory and some part of your mind may continue to wonder WTF for some while.




Sure, it's funny ... but what if he's serious.


If ever there came a video the people of Westboro Baptist Church should see twenty-four hours a day, this is the one.

2 comments:

Kannafoot said...

No idea why, but the video section in your blog posts are showing up for me as completely blank. This has been true for a couple of weeks at least. There's no link, there's no broken image icon, there's nothing, just a huge blank area. In this post, I see a bar that shows current time (and hovering it says "clock provided by timeanddate.com". I then see a blank area that looks to be about 30 or 40 lines deep. The next thing I see is the text, "Sure, it's funny ... but what if he's serious." There's nothing at all to indicate that there's a video in between the time and that line.

Note that I'm running the latest version of Firefox - I haven't tried it on Chrome or IE - on a Windows 7 box.

Unknown said...

Here's the HTML for the embed code from YouTube:

iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WIVu1aXjuHM" width="480" /iframe
(Brackets removed to permit showing syntax)

That's consistent for almost all video on the blog as the vast majority comes from YouTube.

One thing not causing it is my hatred for Adobe FLASH as nothing on the blog uses it.

There's possible debug value in installing Firefox on this system but it's thin since this is not Windows. In fact, that's the fastest thing I can do when I have no other information so ...

Firefox 38.0.5, regrettably, does not fail on my system ... but that also doesn't give up a whole lot of information. The intro video from Firefox worked and the ones here on the blog display correctly.

It appears all video is processed via QuickTime Plug-in 7.7.3 which comes with Firefox.

Coming up dry at the moment, I'm afraid. (That's one of my favorite Brit puzzlements in expression: afraid of what, matey??)