rant? mild-mannered me?

I am afraid that I have to announce that I will not be commenting in anyone's "customised" journal. It is just too tedious.

There seems to be a new trend going round that not only the LJ itself is customised (no problem: if I want to see it, I visit it; if not, I stick to my Friends page) but also the comments page. So when I innocently click on the lj-cut link or on the 'comment here' link, I am zapped into some godforsaken alien zone with unfamiliar lay-out and, most irritatingly of all, *download times of up to seventeen millennia*. And there is no choice about it.

Nope. Am not doing it. You want comments? Stick to standard. *Please*.

*winks at lazulus who first introduced her to this horror phenomenon*

EDITED TO ADD: Apparently there is no choice about customising, is this true? If you customise your LJ, your comments page automatically customises along with it?

Anyway, I have emailed the people who run LJ about it. *keeps fingers crossed*

how to do away with customised comment pages

It can be done! The wonderful cherry_glitter gave this advice:

There *is* a way to keep the old comments page with a new style:

If you go to Customize, then click the "Edit Customizations" button at the bottom, you can then choose to edit your presentation options (the tab at the top). Then choose yes for "Enable to use the old comment page instead of the newer style specific view."

At least, that's how I did it for my S2 tabular indent layout.

Poll: Who's the geekiest Lotr man?

[Poll #163395]

( Who did you choose, and why? )

Billy play?

At some point today, somebody on Lj or in email (and I can't remember who! Was it msilverstar??) linked to an interview with Billy Boyd that included info on the play he is going to be doing in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Play is "San Diego".

I want to go to this play! Help! Where is this interview link? I can't find it now!

I need to go to Edinburgh anyway to do rl research and hah, then I imploded.