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Sandbox – please post some nonsense here

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Chums of the Afterword!
I am testing some functionality. Could you help me out by creating some posts in this thread? Maybe you’d like to use this thread as an opportunity to practise the new method of posting pictures. Or maybe you’d like to share your favourite sandwich recipes. Or poems you have written. Anything, really.

Cheers,
Hx

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  5. Some random facts:
    1 My son has started making his own butter. In Stoke Newington. Really.
    2 The Welsh word for microwave is popty ping.
    3 My son (the same son) bought me a 600g exile’s tub of Marmite for Christmas.
    4 Er…that’s it.

    • I reduced the amout of space around comments and made avatars a bit smaller so as to take less screen space up – not sure what’s making the highlight on the OP but I think its quite handy!

      • I’m getting more and more curious about how this place looks to everybody else (on good computers/smart phones).
        A lot of the things that others mention are things that I can’t see or sees very differently!
        I’m probably getting the bare minimum of graphics etc because my old PC can’t handle any unnecessary finesses.
        Not complaining about it, just curious! I’m beginning to think that the entire internet looks a lot more sophisticated than I’ve ever seen it…Matrix style!

        • @locust Most websites, including ours, won’t look or function properly if you’re using an outdated web browser, particularly Microsoft Internet Explorer. I recommend installing Firefox or Chrome, even if your PC is very old you should be able to run the current versions – you might find it runs faster as well.

  12. “Then I was walking in Memphis, my feet 10 foot off of Beale”

    My GLW and I had our honeymoon in Memphis and took the amtrak to N’Awleens… I’d like to go back to both again..

    BTW has anyone heard of Nils Frahm… I like what I’ve heard but no nothing about him?

  14. If anyone remembers, in the old place, I started a thread on acupuncture 🙂

    I went in October. The guy told me some guff about ‘realigning the pain pathways’. (If you haven’t spotted, I was a sceptic.) Then, he stuck about 12 needles in my leg & set fire to 4 of them!! ;-/

    I could barely walk. I went home & slept six hours. The next day, I was a bit dodgy. The after that, the pain was gone!!!! :-8~ It’s still gone. I can run up & down stairs and everything.

    I’d post a picture but that is simply beyond me!

  24. Game recommendation for mobile devices: Alto’s Adventure.

    Just out, and it’s most entertaining.

    (I have no formal or financial connection with either Alto or his adventure!)

      • Hi
        To post an image it’s best to have a direct URL for the image. This should usually start with a “http”, and end with .jpg or sometimes .gif, .png etc depending on the type of image.

        You’ve added HTML tags to your post but there is nothing to display – you’re just adding a link to the location where your photo is saved.

        You’re using photobucket, which will create a direct link to your image. Look for the box that says “Share and Links”, and the option “direct”. Click it and it will copy and you can then paste into your comment

        and here is what happens if I post it:
        http://i875.photobucket.com/albums/ab313/cookieboymonster/DSCN0580.jpg

        • By god he’s go it!
          This is some kind of wizardry.

          When I did it I saw a code then it disappeared when I clicked submit

          By the way the photo is the forecourt of the biggest shopping mal in downtown Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei at 7.30pm on a Friday.
          The folks all seemed to be heading to that golden building in the middle. Don’t know what that’s about.

    • @minibreakfast You can add Mixcloud links to comments but as you can see it won’t show the cover image. There is a perculiar hitch with Mixcloud which makes the image huge – (this isn’t limited to our site) – so unfortunately for now we get these boring text links!

      • We can host the pics ourselves, and indeed we do with Reviews/Nights in etc. However, I’ve not permitted that for blog posts or comments as we’d use vast amounts of disk space, and also use up more bandwidth which is expensive. It’s better for pics to be hosted externally – unfortunately how easy (and sucessful) that is depends on the website you use to share the image.

        I have to strike a balance between making things easy to do, while maintaining a site that doesn’t chew up loads of resources and cash.

    • In YouTube under the video, there is a bar. On the left, it has the number of views (eg 12k). On the right, there is a flag. Next to that, is a figure of math meaning less than (to paraphrase Soul Coughing). < to be specific. Plonk your finger on that & a box comes up headed "Share this video". Just below the heading is the URL in blue. Copy that & paste it here. You'll notice a dot in "tube", thusly"tu.be".

  58. The Slow Show were live in session on Dermott’s Sat afternoon BBC R2 show.
    There’s a Joy Division doc thingy on Friday at 9pm on BBC4.
    Now the Beeb has taken over Salford, is Manchester taking over Auntie?

  59. That was interesting about the red box if the person who wrote the OP posts again.

    I will go and try it and once. Some of my more obscure posts with a study in scarlet. Once I get interested in a topic, I just post away.

    Now’s let try a Tube clip.

  62. I saw The Decemberists last night. Cracking night. I took a photo and wasn’t lynched. Hopefully this link works.

    [IMG]http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a618/Phil_Pirrip/c2e4bdafe26e7ac0af0e03f0711bbff8_zps00bb25fa.jpg[/IMG]

  72. This is meant to be a reply to Tiggers post above, but am not confident it will appear immediately below it.

    did post a video of Richard Hawley further up, but just to prove to myself it wasn’t a fluke here is the wonderful Frazey Ford

    • How could anyone resist?

      Muriel – what a name for a manufacturer. Also, odd that you get ‘About’ 5 in the packet for 25 cents. 4? 4 and a half?

      Taschen do a series of books of adverts from various decades full of great ads like that.

  91. Will there ever be preview again?

    I wanted to link some words in my post on another blog, but couldn’t see how in the FAQ. Some of the links in that aren’t quite finished – i.e. “INSTRUCTIONS HERE”.

    Could it be that standard WordPress coding works?

    i.e. Linked words here

  92. An idiot seeks advice:
    I posted a pic easily enough from Photobucket (benefiting from a read through everyone else’s nightmares) but I deliberately chose a small one as I couldn’t see how to re-size a larger one. I notice now even on the front page the illustrations (which I seem to recall were always squashed down to uniform dimensions) are of different sizes.
    So, how do I make my pic nice and small? Can I do it in Photobucket or do I have to do it before I upload it there?

    • In Photobucket click on the pic in question. You should then see five icons in the top-right corner (you may have to hover your mouse around a bit). Select the one that looks like a little paintbrush – this takes you to the edit suite where you select ‘Resize’. Change the width to something smaller and the length will take care of itself. Hur, hur. You can then save it separately or as an additional image.

      Hope that makes sense – I’m in a hurry, for me tea has just arrived 🙂

  95. Rigid Digit cracked it for me somewhere in the thread on how to post images. First sign up to Photobucket if you havent already. Upload photo to your account from your own image library. Then select it and copy the Direct link which is under the list of ‘Share links’. Paste it here et voila…

    thrhttp://i1294.photobucket.com/albums/b611/Molesworth1/image.jpg1_zpsogylgla1.jpg

  98. Blue Boy – yep that’s exactly what I tried – Tinypic worked brilliantly for me on the old site – no signup or login etc. Sigh. Will try Photobucket – hold on to your hats folks

  119. Random.

    Trying out a few bits and pieces in html, coded
    in Sea Monkey.

    Let’s see if it works

    Lino-related coccyx injury
    Womble-based ghost dominatrix
    Saveloys in theguardian

    Senseless waste of bongos
    Off the peg Fall review

    Crabstick Postcodes
    Ketamine Nachos

  121. Photobucket woes 18/9/2015, iMac booted from 10.6.8 vol, Safari 5.x.x

    Share links

    Email/IM
    http://s1060.photobucket.com/user/GCU_Grey_Area/media/flounce-slider_zpsnnrrscmh.jpg.html

    Direct
    http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/flounce-slider_zpsnnrrscmh.jpg

    HTML

    IMG
    [URL=http://s1060.photobucket.com/user/GCU_Grey_Area/media/flounce-slider_zpsnnrrscmh.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1060.photobucket.com/albums/t449/GCU_Grey_Area/flounce-slider_zpsnnrrscmh.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    • More importantly, who saw Celebrity Big Brother? Angie was told the news of her ex’s death. She couldn’t keep it secret & told a dippy young girl, Tiffany, that David is dead. Tiffany thought she meant David Gest, another of the inmates. It was car-crash telly for a good half hour. i have a feeling Bowie would have found it hilarious.

  134. I have made a discovery today, and thanks to Thread Reviver Mooche this seems as good as place as any to pass it on.

    In Switzerland there a place called Wankdorf, where plays a team called Young Boys. Wankdorf Young Boys seems like a team worth a follow.

    This is true.

  137. My partner is in Orkney at present, and reports that the village of Twatt no longer has any signs saying such, due to hurr-hurr induced theft.

    I can report that the sign for ‘Gobblecock Cottage’ near Woodbridge in Suffolk no longer stands.

    No news yet on ‘Crazy Mary’s Hole’ near Lowestoft…

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