my wife tried to look something up on you tube and it wouldn't let her unless she signed in

[diabeticman]

or register a google/gmail account.


WTF?!

[Logical]

1. Any adult only content is usually blocked without a login. nt

[diabeticman]

6. she was trying to find videos on how to pan fry smelts. She just put it in the search bar

[packman]

12. Smelts----

Boy that brings back memories. My mother would dip them in an egg wash, lightly flour them (guess you could add garlic powder, pepper, whatever) and fry them up in a skillet with about 1/2 inch or so of veg. oil. Cook till browned and crisp, drain on paper towels and lightly salt them while still hot. Heinz ketchup (we were from Pittsburgh area) as a dip. Good eating. We had them as a New Year's treat

I'm assuming they are gutted and cleaned already, if not gut them and snip off their heads - fins aren't a problem, but a few snips with scissors if you're so inclined.

I've been trying to get them in NE Florida and no one carries them. Do you have a source?

[diabeticman]

15. we live south of pittsburgh

[Generic Brad]

35. Whoever smelt it, dealt it

So I guess you have to deal with this.

[TeeYiYi]

2. That happens...

...when you try to view 'adult' videos on youtube. She 'musta' been lookin' fer pron...

TYY

[diabeticman]

7. didn't know pan fried smelts was considered porn

[branford]

20. You never know what those young kids call things nowadays . . .

It was probably just a Youtube error.

[NuclearDem]

22. Depends on how good those smelts are.

[TeeYiYi]

24. H..E..L..L..O...!11!1!!!11!!...

Pan fried smelts!!! EVERYONE know what THAT means!! 111!!1!!1!!!!!1!!!!1! ...

...or not.

TYY

[Posteritatis]

25. Stuff gets misflagged from time to time

And there's the occasional moron flagging totally innocuous stuff just to mess with people.

[Volaris]

34. Your coming dangerously close to issuing a challenge to the validity of Rule 34...

Which has NEVER been proven false.
please, think of the children...

[zappaman]

3. Adult content requires that.

Care to share what she was trying to access?

[diabeticman]

8. didn't know pan fried smelts was considered porn

[zappaman]

11. Well...

It certainly sounds sexy!

[Brother Buzz]

4. Adult content - borrow a twelve-year-old's account password and bypass it

All twelve-year-olds figured out how to get around that nuisance protection thing years ago

[diabeticman]

9. didn't know pan fried smelts was considered porn

[Brother Buzz]

23. Cooking fried smelt in HD

[Warpy]

31. This one, too No egg, just crumb

[Brother Buzz]

36. Ah, but mine had scissors kung fu decapitation and disembowelment...

and decapitation and disembowelment is considered pornography in some twisted circles.

Why smelts, not smelt? Is it a cultural/regional thing? Proper English? On the West Coast, if I fried a single one, or a whole pan full, I would say, "I'm frying trout".

[Warpy]

37. Here, you'd be frying truchas but they'd better not be wild caught

since wild caught fish here are likely to be contaminated with heavy metals from a couple of centuries of old mine tailings.

In New England, people said "smelts." I suppose it was because a lot of the salt ponds near the shore smelt so bad.

[Brother Buzz]

38. How do you keep a fish from smelling?

Put a clothes-pin on its nose!




Years ago, when fish routinely turned belly up from pollution in Allegheny river, the fishermen created a new dish called "Allegheny Pine fish". They would nail their 'catch of the day' to a pine board and bake the Hell out of it. Then they would peel the fish away and eat the board.

"Stated to me for a fact. I only tell it as I got it. I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything." - Mark Twain

[House of Roberts]

5. I've had that happen before.

I wasn't looking up anything adult either.

Close the window and reopen it. It might take a few tries. It eventually works like normal.

[diabeticman]

10. didn't know pan fried smelts was considered porn

[daredtowork]

13. Beware Google+

I stopped commenting on youtube years ago when they started forcing people tovattach their gmailcaccount. I use my gmail account for business, and I want to keep my business and entertainment/politics separate.

Finally the temptation overcame me. I just had to make a comment. This forces me to register for Google+. I did it thinking I could somehow keep this separate from my email. However the silly name I chose for issuing my video comments instantly became attached to my gmail account. The screenname remained on my gmail even after I deleted the Google+ account and swore never to attempt to comment on youtube again. When I finally found the obscure place in my gmail profile that stores this screenname, I could not delete it - only change it. I couldn't just put in spaces, either. I could only change it to something I could accept on my email. (not my real name, either - sometimes I use that email to register for stuff anonymously).

What an ordeal! How could Google so epically fail to understand that email users have privacy needs and thus it's a bad idea to chain it to random pop culture fan activity? This seems obvious.

Or perhaps in its struggle to force Google+ to happen, Google really did become evil.

[Warpy]

32. I must have grandfathered out

because my ancient login, unconnected to anything Google, still works when I feel compelled to comment on one thing or another, like twice a year.

[daredtowork]

33. won't let me :(

I get a pop up that forces me to register for Google+

[pinboy3niner]

14. I remember smelt

It's what we used for bait.

[Brother Buzz]

17. Is it any good for getting scrod?

A businessman arriving in Boston for a convention found that his first evening was free, and he decided to go find a good seafood restaurant that served scrod, a Massachusetts specialty. Getting into a taxi, he asked the cab driver, "Do you know where I can get scrod around here?" "Sure," said the cabdriver. "I know a few places... but I can tell you it's not often I hear someone use the third-person pluperfect indicative anymore!"

[pinboy3niner]

18. LOL!

For getting scrod I think you need to use greenbacks.

[olddots]

16. the brain police noticed something ..........

Fishy ! Ah sorry .......our net crashed 3 times tonight ...merry Christmas crashes I guess ....hope it sorted it out for you .

[Renew Deal]

19. Start a new post on DU, but don't submit it...

Copy the URL to the message box and hit preview. You can now watch the video without registering or hitting post.

[edgineered]

26. very nice !!!

[msongs]

21. i just tried search for pan fried smelts and there was no prob finding videos. hmmm nt

[diabeticman]

28. anytime she types it in she is directed to that sign in page

[brooklynite]

27. "pan-fry smelts"...is that what the kids are calling it now?

Seriously, I was able to do a search without any trouble.

[diabeticman]

29. it seems anytime she types that phrase on her laptop on the youtube site she gets redirected to the

sign in page

[cwydro]

30. I'm able to pull up a dozen recipes lol.

Laughing that youtube is probably being inundated with pan fried smelt searches!

I've never had to sign in at youtube for anything.

[TransitJohn]

39. Try this at google.com

Pan fry smelts site:youtube.com