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Marmite is one of those things you either love or hate. There is no in between. Here we see a typical exchange of ideas between two average consumers (or not consumer in one case).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I believe it was Evelyn Waugh who wrote the timeless lyrics:
Evelyn Waugh (probably): Marmite! Eugh! No!
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It was Reginald D Hunter that said:
"Marmite tastes like there's a naked man with hairy legs in your kitchen and every now and again, you take a plate with some toast and you walk under his butt and you go, "Okay, Fred! 'Do what you do best!"
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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On QI, no less, so it must be true!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You have to remember that Mark is from the country that invented spray-on cheese! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes, but even they have limits
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OriginalGriff wrote: You have to remember that Mark is from the country that invented spray-on cheese!
I believe that Mark is a mis-placed Pom.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Thanks: I'm a hybrid or mongrel - take your pick. Made in the US, raised in the UK, back in the US.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: Thanks: I'm a hybrid or mongrel - take your pick. Made in the US, raised in the UK, back in the US.
I knew I remebered you being in England. No idea on the rest, except <Cartman>Joo</Cartman> thing, I remember that from many a thread.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'm with you on that.
Never eat something designed to be driven on... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Speaking as a Dane: YUCK!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Pretend you go to an online store, the UX is decent (well I designed it so decent is being nice, its probably bad), you add to cart, you are happy and satisfied so you click Checkout and you are redirected to another domain with a similar but different UX ... would you Bounce?
Background, naively I signed up for Shopify. They stubbornly refuse to let you edit the shopping cart experience. Not to mention that they use their own SSL certificate on their own domain for most plans so they have to redirect. So it is a one-two punch. Ugh.
I am a little committed now because I have let the project go on so long without finishing but after I get it up and running; high priority is to dump them. Not worth it!
Actually, the experience has taught me a lot. All shopping carts suck. They all have their own language to learn, they all want you to do things in their predecided form, and they all have limits that any programmer could blast past.
Kind of makes you wish there was a shopping cart solution that did not offer any UX whatsoever. Just a collection of easy to use JS API's to call from your host.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: would you Bounce?
Darn tooting I would. I would assume, at this point, that there was a scam or phishing attack going on here and leave.
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I'd probably bounce, yes.
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Bounce, yes.
OT: for the sake of readability, when using terms such as UX, spell out what it is the first time, then use the short form in the rest of the original post. While it may be common practice to use short forms, not all users necessarily understand all of the short forms used.
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Know your audience. This a programming forum after all. Besides if I bothered to adhere to A.P. or Chicago style guides I would never write anything. Personally I hate going to 5 from 1. I think from 1 to 5 is so much better.
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What did you mean by "OT"? You might need to spell this one out!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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 Well played!!
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Probably most of us would bounce...
But would your audience? Non tech people don't know the difference between the https and http in the url... and they don't know why public computers are dangerous places for inputing credit card details.
So, go ahead and find another solution, but don't let that scare you from finishing the project (unless there really is a security hole).
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Doesn't bother me these days, because it's so common.
In fact, if I went to a small vendor website and I saw they were trying to roll their own shopping cart, I'd be more likely to bounce because of a fear that they wouldn't secure my CC details properly.
Lots of folks send you to another site for the actual shopping cart. First one that springs to my mind is Jetbrains. And yes, the shopping cart looks like ass.
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With the exception of a pay with paypal (or amazon or google) button I'd bounce.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That happened to me recently. I bailed, did some research, figured out what they were doing and finished my purchase. However, had the item in question been readily available on Amazon or New Egg, I would have paid a little more instead.
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I Have No Idea What You Are Talking AbouT
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I don't worry as long as they have the magic PayPal bullet.
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I would bounce.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what is used to.
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