i've already noticed a few changes as a result of the change of fforum fformat, so I reckon it'd be useful if anyone noticing any little quirks or having any tips dropped them in this thread so we can all use them!


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HTML - doesn't work. Not even in old posts that we wrote years ago. Via judicious use of the 'preview' button I've discovered that the various tags used in other boards don't work either, so don't even try. This does raise interesting questions about the point of the 'preview' button - or is there more to come?

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URLs and really long words - be aware that long strings of letters make the box go wider than the browser window - meaning lots of annoying scrolling about. If you write something that has more than abpout 35 consecutive characters then it all goes pear-shaped. It's probably best to bung a space in if it does this, but warn us, please? otherwise chasing URLs will be impossible.

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Profiles

Profiles are a pretty cool addition - for example everyone can now grb contact details for MSN and suchlike. To view anyone's profile, click on their name above a post and it'll give you the details they've made public, and also tell you how many posts they've made - so I can no longer hide my addiction to posting, it seems. You can also choose to have a picture of yourself or anything else off the web (unfortunately you can't upload stuf, so my favourite picture remains unviewable).

How to add a nice picture of yourself or anything else already on the web to your profile -

1: Search the web for a good picture (google images is pretty useful) and copy the url of the picture (hint - it should have a .gif or .jpg extension, normally - you need to get just the picture showing - try right click and select 'view picture'. As an example mine is [www.jediman.free]- online.co.uk/childrenstv/MrBen.jpg)

2: On the fforum, click on 'My Profile' at the bottom of one of your posts or the bottom of the index page

3: Then click 'Edit Profile'

4: Finally, in the box marked 'Image URL' paste the url of your desired picture.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Use small photos...big images take a long time to load in this format (and I have broadband, so anyone with dialup must really be hating it!)

Create a link on your browser's toolbar so you can avoid the "all posts are marked as new" problem. If you see that happen after you've just posted something, simply hit your browser button. (or do as PSD did, make the Fforum your homepage! sad sad sad! LOL)

If anybody wants to stick their mugshot on their profile, but has no suitable url in which to stick it, they can always send a pic to me, and I will put it on the thursdaynextians site with the noodle pictures. Then they can quote that url for the purposes of their profile. Does that make sense?

Of course anyone taking advantage of this service and not subsequently subscribing/contributing to 'Whatever Next' will have their pic replaced by the ugliest orc I can find.



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Mystic PSD's prediction - Jon's next post will read as follows.

"re sig

No, it is not nun-related in any way. It just made me laugh."



Post Edited (02-09-03 17:30)

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re sig

No, it is not nun-related in any way. It just made me laugh.



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Amazing how I do it, really.


(This is a roundabout way of saying "If you edit a post try to be careful not to boojum the next post by making it irrelevant....")



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

erm .... why can we edit posts anyway? .... I mean .... isn't that a bit SO-12, going back into the past to make what you actually did say sound better than it in fact was? All right, this would I concede be a useful facility generally - 'and anyway, you can stuff your job' - 'of course I love you' - 'I bet Waddle misses this penalty' .... but doesn't it strike you as a bit unethical?



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Depends how you use it. If it's to claim Septic Peg style lottery predictions, then yes. Sorting out typos caused by insisting on typing bent over a guitar, then no.



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

I've got a tiny niggle (but I've got some pills which I'm assured will help...) about the phorum..

when viewing a long thread (surely not, not here?), you used to have the various options: 'New Topic'; 'Go to Top'; Go to Topic' etc at the bottom of the thread, now you don't, so have to scroll back up to the top.

boo.

apart from that, it's grand. What are these pics everone keeps talking about tho? Can't see any...

To get the picture, click on the person's name above their post. (Mine is just a stopgap thing at the mo), oh, and I can see from your sig, you've looking at thinkgeek, easy way to spen money that.

I want everyone to witness this - some weird geeky computer thing that I haven't mentioned...

fuzz wrote:

> To get the picture, click on the person's name above their
> post. (Mine is just a stopgap thing at the mo), oh, and I can
> see from your sig, you've looking at thinkgeek, easy way to
> spen money that.

And indeed, don't even understand.



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i loke thinkgeek, i have a "i love my geek" t-shirt from there

er, saw the sig somewhere other than thinkgeek, but have seen it since there too. I want a glow-in-the-dark boba fett t-shirt...

the corollary is
select * from management where clue>0
0 Rows returned.

(for the non-geek amongst us, it's a statement in SQL, a query language for computers. It says 'give me everything from the group of stuff known as 'management', where clue is greater than zero, and the result is that there's nothing in there. Or, in english, management haven't got a clue)

My other favourite is:
You can have it fast, you can have it @#$%&, you can have it good.
Choose any 2.
attributed to Red Adair, famous oil-fire-putterer-outerer.

AAC's Marx quote (and how did he ever come up with both Das Kapital and a Night At The Opera?) reminds me of another piece of dialogue from the Brother's Marx that I like, although I can't remember which film.

Reading a contract -

"Whatsa that?"
"That's the Sanity Clause"
"You can'ta fool me! There ain't no such thing as Sanity Clause!"



PSD

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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Re Marx bros

'Sanity Clause' is from 'A Night at the Opera', IIRC.

"Why, I'll fight for Mrs. Teasdale's honour to the last drop of her blood, which is more than she ever did, and another thing, goodbye."

- Groucho, 'Duck Soup'.



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okay, I'll admit it, the Groucho quote I have came from a magnet an old roommate of mine had on the refrigerator. It just stuck with me. In all actuality, I'm not a huge Marx Brothers fan nor am I a Three Stooges kinda girl, either. I understand the draw and know why people think they're funny. They just don't appeal to me. Kinda like, why do the French like Jerry Lewis.? It's totally beyond me!

I'm fond of making people's jaws drop occasionally by saying very seriously, "Well, as Marx said... whatever it is, I'm against it." Then I give them a few minutes for the expressions of total horror to develop nicely on their faces before sweetly adding the clarification, "Not Karl, you understand. Groucho!"

Oh, dear, I'm such a naughty girl... lol!



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Of course the Jerry Lewis mystery is down to whatever the opposite of French Revisionists are .... how to fool an entire nation into laughing at Jerry Lewis ... that paid 'em back for Jacques Tati!



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Hmm, I never revised so I guess I'm the opposite of a revisionist. Not sure if I'm entirely antipodean to all things French though, they do have some good wines.

Other things to blame on anti-French Revisionists:

Johnny Haliday
The belief that Eurovision matters
The World Cup 2002 (revenge for 1998 - which was obviously the result of an FR cell)
"French" Cricket - despite being nominally faster and with the prosepct of a result in the same month as the game started, it still manages to be more tedious
The Academie Francais
Dog turds in Paris
Stripey Jumpers and strings of onions
The belief that the tour de France actually matters
The deeply unimaginative TGV - it sounds like a cough medicine.

That'll be enough to go on with...



PSD

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poetscientistdrinker wrote:

> The deeply unimaginative TGV - it sounds like a cough medicine.

Yes, but it *goes* like sh1t off a shovel, and I wish we had some!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty