Wipe Your Feet
As you can see, we have new digs. Told you I was busy.
Work is still ongoing and, inevitably, there will be things to tidy or hammer into shape. Or at least cover with a rug. If you spot anything scandalously up-buggered, do let me know. I’ll add it to the enormous list.
While I faff and tinker, and grumble about plug-ins, by all means pass the time by poking through the Reheated series.
Do make yourselves at home. And oh yes, open thread.
Who wore it better?
Our ruling class has become chillingly creepy.
Nice avatar. 🙂
Well, classy setting, same old clientele, and the atmosphere has a subtle hint of something in the air…vaguely, well, floral perhaps ? Like that giant water flower that flowers every 5 years or something. And sorry not to contribute yet, deleted the PayPal account no app recently over their “trick” of threatening to remove $2.5K from your count if you said things they didn’t like. Not that I ever had anything much like that in my account.
so what is the best alternative absent Amazon purchases ?
I’ve been using Ko-Fi without any difficulty.
Forget that; right now he’s suing the movie crew.
Nice place. Like what you’ve done with the curtains. Very *now*.
Agreed. The Queen looks like the Queen Mum and in what universe is or was Charles ever that good-looking?
The first three episodes were a snore. It only got interesting when they started telling Dodi’s back story. Haven’t seen episode 5 yet. Hoping it doesn’t go back to the banal.
For the love of all that is holy lose the up/down vote crap, I have never seen a place where it didn’t devolve into utterly petty, pusillanimous, and puerile squabbling over bragging about up votes and butthurt over down votes.
As an aside, having the comment box at the top instead of a logical place like after the last comment is not exactly logical, French, maybe, but not logical.
I find Dolores Umbridge as HMtQ a little off-putting, as well – and the High Septon as Phil the Greek.
Limited number of character actors of an age, I suppose,
Sorry, first two episodes. Just started watching episode 4 tonight. I think going back to the past in the Dodi episode is what made it interesting, including Edward and Wallis again.
[ Returns from condominium board meetings. Utterly spent. ]
Bartender, what would you recommend for a medicinal tonic?
I wouldn’t put it that strongly, but I do think up/down vote buttons are a bad idea.
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You had a setup that worked very well, David. Best not to mess with it too much.
As Captain Jack Aubrey would say, innovations are what the French do.
Dad moves.
https://youtu.be/ekESZIn4y18
Thank you Mr Ream, as long as it doesn’t involve helicopters I should give it a go…
As it goes on, it does pick up a little. The episode Gunpowder is quite good. Though so far there’s been nothing to match the high points from earlier seasons – say, Assassins, Marionettes, or Aberfan.
Heh. The up/down voting is clearly a bar fight waiting to happen and has therefore been deactivated. But I did want to check that all the new toys work. So many shiny things.
[ Resumes tinkering. ]
You know, this is a comment which deserves an upvote…
Today’s word is definitely ‘swanky’…
Well, it’s a work-in-progress, as you can see, but at least the new set-up should be more reliable than Typepad, which has rapidly become a joke. And not the funny kind.
Faffing about with the comments plug-in has reminded me of the extent to which the comments are the guts of what goes on here.
So, er, group hug.
I’ve resigned my HOA president position effective at our annual meeting come January. As I’ve been away in GA most of the summer and preferring to play poker on my Wednesday nights rather than remotely attend the last three board meetings, I’ve also been slowly stepping back on my handling of things. We arrived back in town last week and, on top of the recent minor hurricane, a number of things from Ian have still not been addressed. Broken gates to retention ponds, ground subsistence issues stemming from the volume of water that has passed through the area, broken street lights, potholes. Then there are the two on-going absurd legal issues that necessitate some degree of a firm hand in leadership. Dealing with lawyers, cry-baby residents, and the idiot city workers and police (whose leadership, thanks to the hurricanes, has been shown to be severely lacking such that half the city council was voted out last week), etc. will be someone else’s problem. If all goes as planned we will be selling this place come spring. Going forward I plan to have as little to do with other people as is possible.
We might need some kleenex…
https://youtu.be/4EeG8P4btqs
Meanwhile at the Metropolitan Rozzer Terror Squad, – https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-11-13/ex-south-wales-police-boss-wont-apologise-for-wearing-menopause-vest
You can just paste in the link. No tags required.
Speaking of faffing about
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-11-13/ex-south-wales-police-boss-wont-apologise-for-wearing-menopause-vest
So, yet another fatuous time-filling distraction.
OK, so this doesn’t like proper HTML, what is the magic to make proper links, seeing as how the silly button doesn’t do anything to make one?
Again, you can just paste in the URL, or, if you want to embed a link in specific text, highlight the piece of text you want to link, then click the link icon and paste the URL into the box that appears.
Yes, but not a proper link where one has [url ] wry comment [close url ]
IOW make something simple complicated…
Meanwhile in the world of diversity
However, thanks.
IOW make something simple complicated…
I think it’s more that you can now do pretty much everything in the comment box, while seeing how it looks in real time. No prepping (or knowledge) of HTML needed, which, for most commenters, is probably much easier. No more unclosed italic tags, for instance.
Ouch. My sympathies.
By comparison, my problems are trivial.
Sounds like a challenge…
Test
test 2
After testing, I see that if I use the bubble, my comment (“test 2”) appears at the top of the page but if I “reply” it appears nested below the one I replied to. Using Chrome on Windows
More from the Glorious and Corruption-Free World of Diversity:
“YaBoiZach was watching TikToks from laid-off Facebook employees, and he says that almost none of the laid-off people had any technical skills of any kind— they’re all in ‘soft’ stuff like ‘climate,’ ‘human rights,’ recruiting, ‘diversity officer,’ morale boosting.”
(via AoS blogger Arthur Kimes)
Hey look! Another improvement: I was able to post a comment with two hyperlinks and not get stuck in the spam filter! Hooray!
I do like the term human bloatware.
Yeah, I don’t know what I did but now it’s also showing up in previously sent GMails.
I see the activist-wanker caste, mentioned here, is still showing us all the way.
Your “just-posted” comment will appear at the top of the list – for you only – everyone else sees it at the bottom of the page.
The comment is then shown at the bottom next time you refresh the page.
I suppose it means the page doesn’t have to scroll top to bottom to show you what you just posted.
Gay dad moves. Are there no gay people who can dance gay? This would have been more funny/amusing were Craig not trying so hard lately to be “woke”. I have a hard time picturing Sean Connery doing that. Roger Moore, maybe.
Anyone know if I use Ko-Fi am I secretly funding the New World Order? I abandoned PayPal years ago when they boycotted North Carolina.
Double meaning of bloat: (1) Morbidly obese. (2) Toxic as pufferfish.
The “way” that I see is to deny these wankers all access to heat, electricity, food, and transport. Allow them nothing but what they can produce with their own muscle power.
Related: “Police force is ‘running out of vegan meals’ because they arrested so many Just Stop Oil protesters during M25 protest”
Solution: Peanut butter sandwiches.
French history lesson.
Bread and water works also.