it's already been mentioned upthread, but opening onion pages in incognito mode will get you around the "cough up or fuck off" screen
― peter in montreal, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
how might one do that?
― creatively bankrupt newish posters whose dns are just lil b puns (history mayne), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
put on trilby, dark glasses, turn up coat collar
― ledge, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
it's a browser option. Start Private Browsing in firefox.
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
(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)
― koogs, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
or you can block onion cookies
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
what browser/os do you use?
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
safari
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:38 (twelve years ago) link
thankig u
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
oh great now only nerds will read the onion!
― Kerm, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
idk im OBVIOUSLY not a nerd bc i had to ask my lab partner to explain it to me
― some jock-bully out to take down the hipsters (history mayne), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― caek, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
this is part of a new initiative to combat massive email traffic resulting from exasperated aunts forwarding Onion articles they think are real news.
― Kerm, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol: http://www.theonion.com/articles/failing-us-economy-no-reason-at-all-to-stop-invest,21251/
― sktsh, Friday, 2 September 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
for the final punchlinehttp://www.theonion.com/articles/circus-train-wreck-not-funny-investigators-emphasi,21252/
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 September 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/aide-interrupts-event-to-inform-bush-about-10th-an,21330/
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 11 September 2011 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
ongoing twitter congressional hostage crisis is p lol
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 September 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
TheOnion The Onion Reports from those who know Congress say the legislative body had seemed desperate as of late #CongressHostage1 hour ago
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2011/09/29/don_t_panic_capitol_police_investigating_onion_stunt.html
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Note to Capitol Police,Jim Demint, etc...:
If you don't get satire, it's 'cause you are fucking idiots
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/historians-politely-remind-nation-to-check-whats-h,26183/
this is brilliant
― Dios mio! This kid is FUN to hit! (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/this-sure-is-a-spooky-time-for-the-economy,26442/
― wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/video/celebrity-chef-ted-allen-cooks-his-favorite-preten,26571/
― bear has little fear of hades (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
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
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
i mean that is just pointless and looks like garbage
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― StanM, Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
The magazine is consistently my favorite thing in the Onion.
― pass the duchy pon the left hand side (musical duke) (Hurting 2), Thursday, 10 November 2011 21:47 (twelve years ago) link
Man Breaks Neck, Both Arms In Attempt To Take Off Jacket In Car
― caek, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
lol i nearly did that an hour ago
― summer sun, something's begun, but uh-oh those tumblr whites (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/biden-pins-up-guitar-lesson-flyers-on-white-house,27148/
another hesher biden bit
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
Scientists: 'Look, One-Third Of The Human Race Has To Die For Civilization To Be Sustainable, So How Do We Want To Do This?'
― You got to ro-o-oll me and call me the tumblr whites (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CQorc.png
and more
― radiant silverfish (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
yes!
http://www.theonion.com/video/joad-cressbeckler-immigrants-who-survive-arizona-d,27376/
― caek, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
Next politics thread should be named "Congrass: A Rancid Cunt"
― joygoat, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
got more american in em than these quimboys in congress
― caek, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/spike-lee-tweets-wrong-george-zimmermans-address,27797/
third one
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Friday, 30 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-goodell-tells-junior-seaus-family-to-throw-b,28157/
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
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.
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:36 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/physicists-discover-our-universe-is-fictional-sett,28429/
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
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
― goole, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
Luvvvv
http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-year-volunteering-as-a-teacher-helped-educate-a,28803/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
onion otm
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
reminds me of one of my favorites:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nigeria-may-be-a-developing-nation-but-it-is-rich,11539/
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/articles/in-1992-green-day-only-made-100-a-night,83005/
― kate78, Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
But...that's real.
Then again, this is definitely real:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/horrible-couple-really-wants-wedding-to-reflect-th,28924/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:47 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is so fucking OTM it kills.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 26 July 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link