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One big reason why I don’t post new topics or comment on other topics much anymore is that it often takes me so f*(#*@#$ long to navigate simple things on this site. 

For example, I was looking at my digital clock while on my computer, and I thought “Why don’t I check out the Beatles Bible now and spend a while enjoying myself, perusing new comments, poking about here and there on old topics… sounds fun!”

Well, it’s been like 35 minutes later and I’m exhausted from waiting several minutes for various normal things that normally should take 10 f*(#*@#$ seconds.

At approximately 2:40 I successfully posted my new topic on “passing chords” and it didn’t take me but five minutes (most of it in composing and typing).  Great.  Something happened normally on Beatles Bible, for a change.  Okay, then I noticed someone had commented on an old thread about “hardcore Beatles Biblers”.  I noticed that topic had 30 pages, so thought it would be neat to browse back to page one, then randomly pick out pages after that (page 5, page 17, etc.), just to see what people were saying and how far back in time it goes.  Well, 20 f*(#*@#$ minutes later, at about 3:04, I still can’t jump from page to page.  I get all these signals that my computer is having to fend with some massive complex Queen Mary trying to turn around in the harbor or some such.  My blue ball starts spinning, my screen looks frosty white because it’s burdened by 1,000 cookies (just conjecturing here), my tab up top shows another spinning wheel, this one green, saying at odd moments, “Connecting…”, then a couple of times I get this pop up message saying that “a script is busy or is taking time responding” so I have to click that out of the way. 

So after 20 f*(#*@#$ minutes of this intolerable crap, I close out my browser completely and re-open, come back to BB.  Now it’s somewhat faster, but still intolerable. I re-tried to browse in the “hardcore Beatles Biblers” topic at 3:05, and at like 3:17 it finally seemed like I might be able to post a comment; but then it slowed down again.  But 3:05 to 3:17 — that’s 12 minutes — is way too long just to hop from page to page.  It’s ridiculous.  Imagine you wake up in the morning and begin pottering around to start your day.  Every time you flip on a light switch, you have to wait 2 minutes for the light to come on, and the time varies wildly, but it’s always way longer than it should be.  Same for all your appliances.  You turn on the stove, and it’s not getting hot even 5 minutes later.  Etc.  You wouldn’t tolerate that when it shouldn’t be that way (forget the “First World problems” inanity; it’s still intolerable).

So here it is, 3:26.  Finally I’m posting my comment, and I’m exhausted and don’t feel like browsing further among the comments. Just feel like having a coffee and brandy and recovering under a blanket, my left eye twitching, my lip quivering, sweat on my brow, my nurse on the way to administer medication for my trauma…