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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #101 on: August 02, 2009, 11:01:49 PM »

err......
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY
" I agree with everybody" !
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #102 on: August 02, 2009, 11:03:28 PM »

Theo has posted 1202 more times than me!
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #103 on: August 02, 2009, 11:04:41 PM »

been tilling the soil today with me trusty old Howard Gem. Left hand has to keep up a steady rythmn on the clutch as the tines bind up in the clay, whilst the right hand is dancing about all over the place engaging forward or reverse or knocking the drive off the tines in a hurry as another s*dding great lump of flint surfaces.  
Travel on the controls is far too much and not very precise but its not chinese.

Actually  i said to the mussus this is just like playing the melodeon but she looked blank and said no its not, it sounds much better and is doing something useful.

Sometimes I just don't know where that woman's coming from.

To be fair though she was on song and did sound rather fine, (the gem not the missus).
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #104 on: August 03, 2009, 10:59:07 AM »

The mother-in-law has a damn fine 'Iron Horse' of one sort or another. Twin cylinder diesel - Sunbeam S7/S8 style. It very nearly got attached to the front of my Dniepr gear-box(with reverse). But I bought a 1200 Sportster instead!
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #105 on: August 03, 2009, 11:00:46 AM »

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tilling the soil

Hmm...'tilling the soil' as a euphemism for playing with my box has potential ;)
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #106 on: August 03, 2009, 11:51:32 AM »

does anyone understand the icons alongside each thread in the second column of the forum contents page?
When someone begins a new thread he is asked what icon he wants to be shown for his thread.
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #107 on: August 03, 2009, 12:23:38 PM »

does anyone understand the icons alongside each thread in the second column of the forum contents page? (I assume we all see the same.) In most cases it depicts a couple of sheets of paper, but currently there is "thumbs up" for one thread, a light bulb for another, and a mobile phone for a couple more. I guess the explanation appears somewhere on the site but I thought it might be easier just to ask, and this is clearly the thread in which to do so.
when I post from my mobile there's a mobile icon

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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #108 on: August 03, 2009, 01:59:23 PM »

Sorry to go 'off topic', but does anyone know why the French navy have numbers on their hat-bands?
Never mind any numbers, what's that red pom-pom all about?

Like the ones on this post card, dancing to some kinda squeezebox? (Sorry to go off-topic...  ;))

Dunno, but highlanders wear them on their headgear too, and that's supposed to be because originally highland bonnets were either knitted or crocheted, starting with the headband at the bottom and finishing by tying off the threads into a knot on top - when those cut-off threads spread, they formed a pom-pom, which then became a tradition...

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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #109 on: August 03, 2009, 04:32:57 PM »

sometimes you can never always tell what you least expect the most...
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #110 on: August 03, 2009, 04:56:32 PM »

I would like to cut the Gordian knot and return all this thread drift back to topic...how are we doing in the Ashes?
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #111 on: August 03, 2009, 05:01:32 PM »

Of course, lately I'm particularly fond of Persian cats and pleated khaki shorts.
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #112 on: August 03, 2009, 05:06:48 PM »

Personally I think we all ought to congratulate ourselves that we have all restrained ourselves from posting in Miki's  'Eric Martin' thread - it has shown great maturity!  >:E  :||:  :-*
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #113 on: August 03, 2009, 05:15:03 PM »

Personally I think we all ought to congratulate ourselves that we have all restrained ourselves from posting in Miki's  'Eric Martin' thread - it has shown great maturity!  
Well you have to be a lot more careful what you get up to in that Instrument Makes and Models forum. Altogether a much more serious and respectful place. A bit like being in church.
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #114 on: August 03, 2009, 05:32:47 PM »

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Well you have to be a lot more careful what you get up to in that Instrument Makes and Models forum. Altogether a much more serious and respectful place. A bit like being in church.

Amen!
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #115 on: August 03, 2009, 05:42:03 PM »

I was once driving through West Virginia when the local radio played a song called "Shagging on the broadwalk" I thought that the USA had suddenly lost it's prudishness but was later informed by the American half of my family that "shagging" is a dance......
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #116 on: August 03, 2009, 05:53:25 PM »

I'll have you know it's the state dance of South Carolina.  I once shared the shuttle bus back to the airport from a conference in Hilton Head with a charming young lady who turned out to be a cheerleader for the err, Eagles?  Having just read the abovementioned factoid in some leaflet I figured she'd be likely to know so I asked how one did it and she was kind enough to explain all about the dance.  A very innocent exchange but my British colleague looked like he was going to require CPR when he heard me ask.

Sorry, we've drifted again, haven't we.  Oh well, we may not have the most focussed threads, but we don't have much trolling or flaming either.
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #117 on: August 03, 2009, 06:05:52 PM »

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we don't have much trolling or flaming either.

This internet malarky is a bit strange!! What is trolling and flaming? I know that a troll is a Scandinavian mischievous spirit and that flaming is a mild British expletive. How does one know that one has "trolled" or "flamed"?
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #118 on: August 03, 2009, 07:11:17 PM »

What is trolling and flaming?

I haven't come across the expression 'flaming' before but I've seen lots of trolls on other forums. They join a forum and then just post rubbish all over the place, they generally know nothing of the subject matter of the forum in question. Mostly they get banned fairly quickly by the admin and go off to cause chaos elsewhere, best thing to do is to ignore them completely and report the posts. Do not respond to a troll, that's what they get off on!
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Re: Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments
« Reply #119 on: August 03, 2009, 07:53:19 PM »

What is trolling and flaming?

See the thread "Too many spoiled threads because of irrelevant comments."
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