God bless the goddamn Onion

"If this fails, I'd honestly rather The New York Times not exist in a world where people are unwilling to pay the price of a fucking movie ticket for a monthly online subscription."

& then you can just refresh & keep reading?, idk

5 pages per month, then it pops up a "cough up or fuck off" screen blocking everything on the page

I just clicked on 8 or 9 pages on onion.com in a row and it hasnt done that to me.

it happened to me

it's already been mentioned upthread, but opening onion pages in incognito mode will get you around the "cough up or fuck off" screen

how might one do that?

put on trilby, dark glasses, turn up coat collar

it's a browser option. Start Private Browsing in firefox.

(it's even been advertised on the tv, at christmas as part of the windows 7 thing, a bloke using private mode to order wife's christmas presents)(also known as Porn Mode)

or you can block onion cookies

how might one do that?

what browser/os do you use?

safari

i don't think you can block cookies by site in safari

i would just stick to porn mode ("private browsing" under the safari menu)

thankig u

or after you've reached your 5 article limit, preferences > security and then search for "onion" and delete anything that comes up. that's a bit tedious, but it should reset the count.

oh great now only nerds will read the onion!

idk im OBVIOUSLY not a nerd bc i had to ask my lab partner to explain it to me

it's the same trick that works with the NYT

presumably someone will make it more user friendly with something like http://euri.ca/2011/03/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit/

this is part of a new initiative to combat massive email traffic resulting from exasperated aunts forwarding Onion articles they think are real news.

lol: http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/

for the final punchline
http://www.theonion.com/articles/circus-train-wreck-not-funny-investigators-emphasi,21252/

http://www.theonion.com/articles/aide-interrupts-event-to-inform-bush-about-10th-an,21330/

ongoing twitter congressional hostage crisis is p lol

TheOnion The Onion
Reports from those who know Congress say the legislative body had seemed desperate as of late #CongressHostage
1 hour ago

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/09/29/don_t_panic_capitol_police_investigating_onion_stunt.html

Note to Capitol Police,Jim Demint, etc...:

If you don't get satire, it's 'cause you are fucking idiots

http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-h,26183/

this is brilliant

Protip: paywall can be avoided by using Opera or whichever other browser you use that disables stylesheets on command. I disable when the ad comes up, can read full article.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-sure-is-a-spooky-time-for-the-economy,26442/

http://www.theonion.com/video/celebrity-chef-ted-allen-cooks-his-favorite-preten,26571/

is it just me or has the website itself (not the content) gone totally to shit? i'm not just annoyed with the out-of-US paywall, but stuff like headlines on the front page that lead to pages like this:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/harleydavidson-jack-daniels-to-collaborate-on-felo,26569/

feels like some SEO/efficiency "expert" has taken over the site or something

i mean that is just pointless and looks like garbage

http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-it-all-some-kind-of-sick-joke,26592/

xpost: some headlines are just telex style one-liners, that's the "newswire" section

The magazine is consistently my favorite thing in the Onion.

Man Breaks Neck, Both Arms In Attempt To Take Off Jacket In Car

lol i nearly did that an hour ago

http://www.theonion.com/articles/biden-pins-up-guitar-lesson-flyers-on-white-house,27148/

another hesher biden bit

Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?'

http://i.imgur.com/CQorc.png

and more

yes!

http://www.theonion.com/video/joad-cressbeckler-immigrants-who-survive-arizona-d,27376/

Next politics thread should be named "Congrass: A Rancid Cunt"

got more american in em than these quimboys in congress

http://www.theonion.com/articles/spike-lee-tweets-wrong-george-zimmermans-address,27797/

third one

http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-goodell-tells-junior-seaus-family-to-throw-b,28157/

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/drilling-down/2012/05/houston-pr-pro-contemplates-the.html?page=all

When a colleague forwarded a story to me under the headline, “Fracking Industry Now Largest Employer of Recent PR Graduates,” I was intrigued, mostly because the oil and gas sector isn’t known for its proactive public relations strategies.

Perhaps such an embrace wouldn’t be a bad idea, but it turns out it’s not one rooted in reality. Scrolling down to find the source of the story, I saw that it was The Onion, a parody news site.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/physicists-discover-our-universe-is-fictional-sett,28429/

this may be some kind of first?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nude-man-who-locked-self-out-of-house-delivers-mov,28439/

2nd pic on this, in the print version: penis

Luvvvv

http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-year-volunteering-as-a-teacher-helped-educate-a,28803/

onion otm