RückseiteÜberraschung
Everything I chanced upon on the Internet today was funny (well, not this or this. Three guesses as to why we don’t hear more about tainted food).
Instead! BBC reports on condom size problems in India and South Africa. And WTF, Comcast? More substantively, Pareene has the last word on Whole PaycheckFood’s John Mackey in possibly my favorite Gawker post this year.
Then there’s this. After almost two decades of the web, do we have a term yet (besides ‘distraction’ or ‘procrastination’) for the wonderful, terrible, scabby, or NSFW unexpectedness on the far side of a link? Call it far side surprise, or RückseiteÜberraschung, like in SF when a ship’s crew has to suddenly figure out where the heck they’ve woken up or jumped to, and all familiar bearings are gone (This happens a lot).
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