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Testing on Network 23 . . . :roll: Twenty minutes into the future; but almost tolerably quick to load :-? Still needs some work, guys, but its getting better :) of course, it does depend on how loaded the forum server is right now :cry: Regards, Muttley 8) (and a special booby prize for the most gra...

It has taken me this long to get the board to stay up long enough to get a response posted :cry: Some looking around gives me the following snapshots: a phpbb v1.4.4 10-response thread is 26K a phpbb v2.0.0 2-response thread (this one) is 108K and loads in 5 minutes an Ikonboard 2.2 b5 11-reply thre...

Since swearing and taboo words are socially-defined, the taboo status of a word can, I suppose, only be defined in its social context. It is complicated (for English) by the wide spread of the language into many different continents, lands and societys. In the UK I would say that damn is not regarde...

The size of the page containing my "swearwords" thread on the Fans forum is 163 KB, of which 118 Kb is associated with the Keenspace Forum Index link and the Jump To dropdown. The page is ten times the size of a similar page on an EZ board. I suspect this has a lot to do with the abysmally poor perf...

The size of the page containing my "swearwords" threead is 163 KB, of which 118 Kb is associated with the Keenspace Forum Index link and the Jump To dropdown. The page is ten times the size of a similar page on an EZ board. I suspect this has a lot to do with the abysmally poor performance we are ex...

:o It let me post! It actually let me post!! Only took ten minute too... :-? You learn somethhing new every day . . . I had no idea that "damn" would be regarded so widely as a taboo word. If you would indulge me further, is there a regional aspect to this i.e. are there areas of North America where...

I'd better preface this with "sorry for any inadvertent offence I may cause . . ." Posting in another forum, I finished with "praising with faint damn's" to indicate wholehearted approval. Next day I go back to find that a moderator had edited the post to read "praising with faint darn's" and had ad...

Just read in my newspaper that Damon Knight died on Sunday. A Hugo winner for his criticism (In Search of Wonder, 1956), I remember him most for his Orbit anthologies, which were significant at the time (along with Ted Carnell's New Writings ) in that they contained only new stories. He was one of t...

Steve; I'm 50, Kate's - a little younger. We both remember Thomas Covenant from first publication. I'm not offended by Donaldson, but I won't waste any more time on his books because they are dull . Flaming great doorstops, trilogies you could build a house out of, and not an interesting moment to b...

Vitriol wrote: Stephen Donaldson's 'Thomas Covenant' is probably the best example of an anti-hero I've ever found. Good series, too. Aaarrgh! Not the actively unreadable Stephen Donaldson! (attempts to throw monitor across the room: strains back; sits down carefully). Sorry, but for me that sequenc...

Nice to have some mainstream recognition, though I'm not a great Bradbury fan. Reading: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (the collection includes All You Zombies and - And He Built A Crooked House, two of Heinleins best shorts); Shadow of the Hegemon; and Landscape Detective (non-fic, abou...

Czhorat wrote: I'm sorry, but "You're lucky that your wife is dying" is just SUCH an offensive remark that, especially from a member who's already offended just about everyone else. There DOES have to be a line somewhere. I believe that Stu crossed it. Look at it another way; in front of Alisin, St...

As I've said a couple of times already, I vote he stays, with an explanation of why his attitude is unacceptable and a warning to change or find another hobby - - -

Muttley

It is important to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

SteveB wrote: I'd love to know whether you have current or older episodes of, say, "Law and Order" or "ER." L&O episode this week: Entrapment ER: Supplies and Demands "24," for instance, is a brand new show, just premiered last fall. "T.J. Hooker," on the other hand, ran on American TV from 1982-19...

Just in case my vote is unclear, I vote he stays. On sufferance, and with a warning and a clear explanation of why his conduct is unacceptable. If he continues to offend after that, then he has to go. But really, as yet we have only seen one side of him. Of course, that may be the only side - - - Mu...

It is very early to take this kind of action on a new member of the club. None of them really know him yet; there are grounds for "disciplinary action", a stern warning in private, from Will maybe. But kicking out is too extreme at this stage. All of his actions so far will count against him in any ...

FrustratedPilot said: Those gentle posters in the non-U.S. world? What American shows are being shown in your countries now? I have no satellite dish, so can only comment on terrestrial broadcast TV. Skimming through this week's Radio Times I can spot the following, that I know are American or are ...

Frustrated Pilot said: I never saw Blake's 7, but I have one of the novelizations. Servalan strikes me as being the very model of a modern skiffy major...I think you know the next word. :smile: Ah, Servalan. She was never military, more the cold-hearted administrator, prepared to use anyone or anyt...

Blondlot wrote: and now the Queen of England is dead. Well, nearly: it's actually the Queen Mother who has died (at the age of 101). She had been getting quite frail recently, and we more or less expected this news soon. BBC news has more details ( http://news.bbc.co.uk ) Muttley <font size=-1>[ Th...

What is it about Stu that makes him such a target for our ire? For me, it's his selfishness. The only person he cares about is Stu; Stu first, everyone else nowhere. This separates him from the rest of the Club, who have all shown that they care about each other. Stu's not dumb, and I think he knows...